Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 69: It’s not like I don’t know, but I’m shocked when I calculate it

"Big brother, I heard them call you Team Leader Li before. Are you an official now?"

More than half an hour later, Xu Dani and Li Guoqiang were using a sled to pull freshly ground wheat flour and corn flour towards their home. As they walked, she suddenly asked out of curiosity.

"Being an official?"

Li Guoqiang was slightly stunned, and then couldn't help but asked with a bit of a smile: "You little girl, do you know what an official is?"

"Of course I know!"

Xu Dani nodded seriously and answered, "My grandmother once told me that those with the word 'chang' in their titles are officials! Just like the captain, militia company commander, second captain, township head, bureau chief, factory director, and chief!"

"Wow! I didn't expect you actually knew that!"

Li Guoqiang felt a little amused when he saw Xu Dani acting like a little adult.

Then, before Xu Dani could show her proud look, he suddenly thought of a question about the address.

"By the way, Dani, why do you always call me big brother? Logically, I call you grandma and aunt, and you should call me uncle!"

Hearing this question, Xu Dani raised her head and secretly glanced at Li Guoqiang, then answered shyly: "Because... Because I think you are very beautiful!"

"???"

When Li Guoqiang heard this, a line of question marks instantly appeared on his forehead. He was a little confused about what the title of "big brother" had to do with his good looks?
Seeing Li Guoqiang's puzzled look, Xu Dani couldn't help stamping her feet, then blushed and explained, "Oh! Actually, I just heard people say that if the brother is good-looking, the sister will become as good-looking when she grows up!"

"Haha! So that's how it is!"

Li Guoqiang was instantly amused when he heard Xu Dani's explanation.

Then, he saw Xu Dani lowering her head with an embarrassed look on her face, and he quickly reached out and rubbed her little head, and said softly to comfort her: "Don't worry! You will be very beautiful when you grow up!"

"Ok!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Dani immediately raised her head and glanced at Li Guoqiang, then nodded happily in response, with a look of longing on her face.

Soon, two rows of footprints, one large and one small, were left on the snow behind them, moving towards a bright future.

It was noon in a blink of an eye.

When cooking, Li Guoqiang mixed the freshly ground wheat flour and corn flour in a ratio of 3:1 into a large dough, and then made it into steamed buns as big as a fist.

Since there were only about 16 pounds of wheat flour, I only added 5 pounds of corn flour according to the proportion, and added 1:1 water, which was equivalent to making 40 pounds of dough.

A fist-sized steamed bun requires about 2 taels of dough, so in the end he made a total of 200 steamed buns.

At the same time, there were 2000 steaming buns in the storage space.

Even if he ate two at a meal, three times a day, it would take him nearly a year to finish all the steamed buns.

Not to mention, in reality, there were 200 steamed buns, which Qu Yinfeng took to a large earthenware jar in the corner of the courtyard and froze them, leaving them for him to eat slowly later. Thinking of this, he looked at the remaining corn flour, and estimated that 160 jin of corn produced 112 liang of corn kernels, so 112 jin of corn could produce jin of corn kernels, that is, jin of corn flour.

Next, subtract the 5 kilograms just used, and there are 107 kilograms left.

If he boiled all 107 kilograms of corn flour into cornmeal porridge, he could make at least a thousand kilograms of cornmeal porridge, and he could also receive a reward of at least tens of thousands of kilograms of cornmeal porridge.

So, even if you can drink seven or eight kilograms of porridge a day, it will take at least three years.

This is something you really don’t know until you calculate it. Once you calculate it, you will be shocked!

Li Guoqiang was so surprised that he immediately lost the desire to continue to get food rewards. He didn't even worry about his food being cooked by Qu Yinfeng and Xu Dani. Instead, he wanted to exchange these coarse grains for fine grains from the production team.

Nowadays, for him, no matter how much coarse grains he has, it is of no use. Only fine grains are what he really needs.

If he could replace all these coarse grains with fine grains, and then find a way to make some side dishes, such as noodles, buns, fried rice, fried dough sticks, etc., he would be able to achieve complete freedom in staple food in the future.

Thinking of the wonderful life in the future, he immediately wondered where he should get side dishes, and then quickly thought of two options: winter fishing the day after tomorrow and hunting in the mountains.

After Qu Yinfeng's introduction, he knew that members who participated in the winter fishing the day after tomorrow would not only be able to earn work points, but also be able to get some small fish and shrimps after completing the planned fishing quota.

Therefore, he can use those small fish and shrimps to cook noodles or make them into bun fillings.

As for going into the mountains to hunt, it is not very realistic for the time being. At least he has to wait until his body becomes stronger and his hunting skills reach a certain level.

Soon, he planned what to do next, and after accompanying Qu Yinfeng and Xu Dani to finish their lunch, he began to act according to the plan.

First, practice health-preserving breathing methods and the True Five Animals Technique. Secondly, feed livestock to improve breeding skills. Also, ask Xu Guangshan for advice on hunting in the mountains. Finally, help Qu Yinfeng with housework such as chopping wood, fetching water, making fire, cooking, etc., and brush up on various life skills to obtain a little bit of meager attribute rewards.

He worked like this until the evening. After Xu Guangshan, with a bright look on his face, taught him the last bit of experience in hunting and collecting ginseng in the mountains, he successfully upgraded his hunting skills from L1 (32/100) to L2 (1/100), and was considered to have successfully entered the door.

Moreover, he had successfully unlocked the ginseng picking skill, and even upgraded the skill directly to L1 (56/100). Perhaps if he learned more from Xu Guangshan someday, he would be able to upgrade the ginseng picking skill to L2 and reach the level of a junior worker.

Seeing that it was getting late, he was not in a hurry and quickly returned to the south kang and crawled into his own bed to sleep.

In his dream, he dreamed that he went into the mountains to hunt, and suddenly ran into a tiger. Then, because he didn't have a hunting rifle, he was chased by the tiger all the way.

Just when he was dreaming that he was pounced to the ground by a tiger and was about to die, he suddenly heard Qu Yinfeng's rapid shouts in his ears.

"Qiangzi, Qiangzi, Qiangzi, wake up!"

He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly woke up from the tiger's mouth. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Qu Yinfeng shaking his body hard.

Then, before he could react, Qu Yinfeng choked up and urged, "Qiangzi, get up quickly. The old man is dying. He wants to tell you something!"

Hearing this, Li Guoqiang was slightly startled, then he quickly got up, jumped off the kang, and ran towards Xu Guangshan.

When he saw Xu Guangshan's face, which turned as white as gold paper and as white as wax under the kerosene lamp, he was instantly frightened.

(End of this chapter)