Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 12

An Dalang's mobility is very powerful. The next day he was very obedient and went to cut bamboo. By the way, he also made a few more bamboo tubes with great heart. Of course it is useful for giving away, but he also needs it for himself. !A few days ago, he just cut out a few holes in the stone wall of his cave. He originally thought that he could set a torch to illuminate the house at night. Now that he thinks about it, this single hole is not very convenient. If it is stuck on a bamboo tube, it may will be better.Everything in the cave is good, it is big, there is no air leakage, and you don’t have to worry about collapsing. It is much safer than those thatched houses, but there is one disadvantage, that is, it lacks windows, and the lighting is poor, so you can only use more torches made up.Fortunately, the most indispensable thing on the mountain is firewood. By the way, I am afraid that more firewood will be used at home this winter. It is a heated kang and a big stove. I should prepare it now!

What's more, there are fewer things on the stone platform at home. Make a few bamboo bowls for your wife to put ginger and wild onions in it!I really don't know how my daughter-in-law knows so much. It's really good to drink this ginger after the rain!The daughter-in-law said that this thing can drive away the cold and cure fever. Hey, speaking of it, my own mother died of a cold when I was ten years old. If I knew this at the time, I am afraid that my mother would not have passed away so early. .

While doing work in his own yard, An Dalang was thinking about what his family needed this winter. He thought about going to the Lin family tomorrow. What kind of grocery store can't tell, so naturally the white rice has to find a better source, it's best to solve the future problems at once, so as not to cause any trouble, relying on the relationship between my family and the Lin family and the Yue family, In the future, I am afraid that the rice delivery will not happen once or twice.

On the other side, Zhao Yiyi looked at the only 51 yuan left in the grocery store and sighed. She wanted to make a set of clothes for her stepmother and younger brother. She originally thought that she only needed to buy three pieces of cloth, black and green. , blue, stitching each other, make a set of black stitching green clothes for the stepmother, and blue stitching green clothes for the younger brother. In this way, not only the clothes can be made looser, but also for the younger brother to leave room for the next year when he grows taller. With the free space, the remaining cloth can make two pairs of shoes for An Dalang, but when the cloth was bought, she suddenly realized that it was already autumn, and winter was coming soon, so it was hard for her to do it. Unlined!
Although people at this time don't know if they are used to the cold, and they can all resist it very well, but no matter how they can resist it, it is impossible to not have a few clothes in winter, but what about at home!At the beginning, she pawned all her winter clothes to buy medicine for her father, so if she really wanted to treat them well, it would be most suitable to make a set of winter clothes, but to make winter clothes, she needs cotton, so an old cotton coat worth 30 yuan is not bad, but No matter how she thought about it, it was not worthwhile. After a long time of calculation, she still needed to buy an old quilt.

The old cotton-padded quilt was 50 yuan, which seemed to be nearly twice as expensive as the old cotton-padded clothes, but the quilt was made of five catties of cotton. It might not be too expensive to disassemble this quilt and fill it with cotton into two sets of cotton-padded clothes. It’s thick and heavy, but you don’t have to worry about keeping warm. If you’re making a cotton-padded jacket, it’s not enough to use these three pieces of cloth. With an old quilt, it’s just right to use the fabric of the quilt as the lining, so as not to run out of fabric, but she After doing the calculations like this, I couldn't help but want to take a breath in my heart. In this way, she only had 1 yuan left in the grocery store, and she was back before liberation!It's too miserable!
"Da Lang, Da Lang!"

"What's wrong?"

"There is no money in the shop, and we will be busy making money tomorrow. I was thinking of buying all the books on eating wild vegetables and Chinese herbal medicine! If I can buy these two books, no matter what wild vegetables or herbs are in the future. Use it, or sell it to the shop, or the pharmacy in the town, which is the bulk of our money. Tomorrow you have to be more diligent, ouch, thinking about it makes me feel distressed, why is there no money! It’s too fast to use it a little bit."

Zhao Yiyi felt a little unhappy, and couldn't help but act like a baby to An Dalang, even she didn't realize that getting along with this ancient man is getting more and more comfortable now.And An Dalang enjoys the days like this very much, looking at his daughter-in-law's painful face, he couldn't help but smile and said:

"That's it! Why don't we try selling the freshly made bamboo bowls to the shop first? See if the shop wants it. If it wants this, then we can get rich. There are a lot of bamboos on the mountain, as long as you work hard, It can be made, even if the price is lower, it’s good, the little adds up! I can make a lot of it even if I sit on the bed at night!”

Originally, An Dalang was just joking, but Zhao Yiyi's eyes immediately lit up when she heard it, she is so stupid!Handmade products in this era are worthless, but in modern times, these so-called environmentally friendly and handmade products are all expensive!Even a coaster made of bamboo costs two yuan!What is the price of the bamboo bowl made by Dalang?
Be it wild vegetables or medicinal materials, each of these things is seasonal, and even the number of these wild things is limited. If it is true that collecting herbs can make a fortune, wouldn't every herb collector in this world Became a millionaire?On the contrary, there is no limit to this handicraft, just like what Da Lang said, as long as you work hard, as long as you are diligent, you can keep making it.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yiyi couldn't bear it anymore, jumped out of bed in a hurry, walked quickly to An Dalang's side, picked up the bamboo bowl that was just made and put it away in the grocery store, and saw the top coming out quickly a line
'Bamboo bowl, handicraft 20 yuan'

God, as expected, I guessed it right, such things are more valuable!In other words, this golden finger is actually the most glorious advocate of labor!How much time does it take to pick a pound of mushrooms, and how much time does it take to make a bamboo bowl!How many days can mushrooms be harvested!How much can a bamboo bowl do!After such a calculation, the fool also knows how cost-effective this handicraft is!Oh, if this is the case, can my rattan box, those dustpans, and straw sandals be sold for money?
Thinking of this, Zhao Yiyi hurried into the cave again, pulled out her dowry box, and took out a pair of straw slippers that she made herself, which she planned to wear in summer, and put them in the grocery store:
'Grass slippers, handicrafts 30 yuan'

Sure enough, this is also possible, at this moment Zhao Yiyi really wants to burst into tears!I am a fool!What a fool!If I had known this, I could have earned a lot of money when I was not married, so I wasted so much time in vain!

And An Dalang, who was watching his daughter-in-law nagging, followed Zhao Yiyi closely at this time. He followed Zhao Yiyi since Zhao Yiyi made the bamboo bowl disappear. He seemed to understand something, with an expectant look on his face. asked:

"Daughter-in-law, what do you say! Could it be possible that this can really be sold for money? God, this, this is worth so much? Daughter-in-law, you are telling me! How much? If you can have 1 yuan, it will be good. Do it A few can buy a piece of cloth, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law?"

An Dalang was frightened, because his family was always a bit shy, and his daughter-in-law, who had to put a pillow between him and him when sleeping, suddenly jumped into his arms, but he was not as frightened as his own daughter-in-law said later:

"Dalang, I'm such a fool, a fool, a big fool, your bamboo bowl can sell for 20 yuan, 20 yuan! And this straw sandal, it's 30 yuan, it's 30 yuan, not 3 yuan, tell me, if you knew it earlier, How many things can we save, how many mushrooms can be left to dry and eat in winter!"

An Dalang was stunned, staring blankly at the strange-looking shoes in his wife's dowry box that didn't even have a back, couldn't help scratching his head, and said stupidly:
"Does this fairy have some quirks? Why are the things he likes so out of tune!"

(End of this chapter)