The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 8 I bought a field

When they arrived at Xiaocao's house, Xiaocao's family had been waiting there for a long time. They really didn't think that the black thing was so valuable. 15 taels!But it can cover their family's expenses for two years. The income in Huaxi Village is generally low, and the money they can save throughout the year is not even 10 taels.That's why the living standards of the big guys are so low.

When everyone arrived at the back mountain, the sun had come out completely. The sun shone through the leaves, leaving spots of light, and the breeze blew by, as if they could still smell the fragrance of the soil.

After Su Ling taught them how to distinguish edible mushrooms and fungus, he went into the woods alone, thinking to himself, everyone said that they rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water. Huaxi Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It shouldn't be that poor.It's just that people here don't know how to use the resources here.From Su Ling's point of view, this mountain is full of treasures!

After a while, Su Ling found the chili pepper here, you must know that this chili pepper is the best seasoning!Thinking of the Sichuan hot pot I ate in my previous life, especially the spicy one, it was really delicious.

Su Ling carefully dug up the roots of these peppers and planned to transplant them back to the yard.Su Ling found a large bamboo grove here, thinking that it is spring now, and it happens to be the season for bamboo shoots to grow. If they can dig up bamboo shoots and sell them, the family will have an extra income. One must know that shiitake mushrooms and fungus can't be harvested for long.

It rained a week ago, and it is spring, so it is relatively humid, so there will definitely be bamboo shoots.Su Ling ran to the bamboo grove and saw the sticking out bamboo shoots, wow, that is like a piece of white silver!For her.

I started to dig bamboo shoots, and the basket was filled in a short while.Su Ling called his parents, Uncle Li and Aunt Li, and dug up a large piece of bamboo shoots, about five or six hundred catties.

"Ling'er, this is bitter and astringent, do you want to sell it to someone?" Su's mother was worried that a day's work would be wasted.

"Mother, don't worry, don't you believe in your daughter's ability?"

Su's mother believed her when she thought that she could make pig offal so delicious, and mushrooms and fungus sold at such a high price.

"Then how can we take back so many bamboo shoots now!" Uncle Li asked.

"I have a solution. Let's pack the bamboo shoots in sacks first, and make a simple cart with two small trees in the ridge." Su Ling replied.

"Okay, I'll go home and get the sacks, and you guys dig more." After saying that, Father Su went down the mountain.

After more than half an hour, Su's father took five or six big sacks, and several sacks were full.Father Su and Uncle Li pulled aside, while Eldest Brother Li, Elder Brother and Su Dong pushed behind.

When I arrived in the village, I met people who had just returned from work, and someone asked: "Brother Li, Brother Su, what are you packing here! It's a big bag."

"Oh, these are bamboo shoots. If the child says he wants to eat them, he can dig more." Father Su replied.

"This food is bitter and astringent, and it consumes oil. What's delicious?" He looked at them very puzzled, "The children are playing around, and you are also playing around? Eh." After finishing speaking, he left.

Father Su looked at everyone helplessly.

Su Ling and his family made the bamboo shoots into various flavors such as dried bamboo shoots, sour bamboo shoots, and spicy bamboo shoots, and sold them to Tianyue Restaurant, signing a contract as well.This time, the dried bamboo shoots jointly produced by the two companies weighed about 200 catties, and there were 300 jars of sour bamboo shoots and 600 jars of spicy bamboo shoots.The price of dried bamboo shoots is 82 Wen per catty. After all, this kind of thing is common, but this method is difficult, and the bitterness and astringency must be removed.But not everyone understands this, only Su Ling, a future person, knows, so Shopkeeper Qian still has to continue to cooperate with her.Sour bamboo shoots and spicy bamboo shoots are bought for 41 yuan a jar.The ingredients for the sour and spicy bamboo shoots cost about one tael. This time, the two families earned about [-] taels, and each family got a total of [-] taels.

41 taels plus 39 taels left over from the sale of mushrooms and fungus last time. This time the mushrooms and fungus were also sold for about 20 taels, adding up to 100 taels.Mother Su looked at the white 100 taels of silver, and felt so emotional in her heart!The last time Su Ling fell asleep, he borrowed ten taels of silver from his uncle to buy medicine for Su Ling to see a doctor!At first I thought I didn’t know when I would be able to pay it off, but now that I have money, I can pay it back.

"Ling'er, our family now has 100 taels of silver, and your father wants to use it to buy fields." Farmers, only those who feel that they have fields have confidence, and everything else is false.

"Then buy a field! But how many fields can you buy with this 100 taels!" Su Ling asked.

"We still owe your uncle ten taels of silver, and we have 90 taels left after paying it back. Now the good land costs eight taels an acre, the lesser ones cost six taels an acre, and the wasteland costs four taels a mu. We originally wanted to buy Four mu of fertile land, if you buy five mu of lesser ones, you can grow it into a fertile land after two years, what do you think?" Mother Su said to Su He.

"Mother, it's up to you and dad to decide on buying a field. I haven't bought it before, so I don't understand." Su Ling said with a smile.

"Then it's decided. I'll ask your father to go to the village head to see if anyone wants to sell their fields. If there is a suitable one, they will buy it. It happens to be able to grow this season's wheat. We won't be hungry until this winter." Stomach." Thinking about it makes me feel good. "Father, you take the hanging meat you bought earlier, and go to the village head's house to ask, and I will pay back the money to his uncle's house." The two went out.

"Brother, you can go to class when the school starts! When you have learned it, come back and teach me, I want to learn too!" Su Ling said to Su Dong with a smile.

"Okay, then I will work hard, and I will teach you and Heer how to read when I come back." Su Dong smiled innocently, and was very excited at the thought of going to school. In fact, he had always envied people who could go to school, but he Knowing the conditions at home, he didn't dare to propose to study. Now that he can finally go to school, he will definitely work hard.

"His aunt, I'm here to pay back the money. Thank you for lending me the money last time, or...or my Ling'er may not be here." Su Mu looked at Su Ling's aunt Lin with red eyes. Speaking of.

"What are you talking about, Ling'er has been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child. I like it even when I see it. You are a blessed one, unlike me." Lin married the eldest of the Su family and gave birth to three daughters, but no son, so she was very happy. Grandma Su doesn't like to see her, Su Ling's uncle 1 is a weak master, and Lin's character is neither fighting nor grabbing, so he is very excluded in the old house.

"You are still young, and you will always have a son. Seeing how sensible the three Hua'er sisters are, you should relax." Mother Su advised Lin.

"I don't expect to have a son anymore. As long as Hua'er and the others can grow up safely and find a good husband's family, I will be satisfied after a lifetime. I don't want so much anymore." Lin clapped Su's mother's hand .

Su's father went to the village head's house, and just happened to learn that a family in the village was planning to move to the town, and sold the family's land, including three acres of good land and six acres of secondary land.Su's father immediately decided to buy it, and the two families had signed a contract and put their fingerprints on it.Su's father gave the village chief three taels of silver to settle in the yamen, and he had to take care of the name change. The village chief agreed with a smile and promised to help him implement this matter within two days.

(End of this chapter)