Chapter 43 1 Family Out
Chapter 43 1 Family Out
Had dinner.
Lin Dajiang is weaving straw mats.
For Lidong to play with, no need to be too sophisticated.
Li Taohua was washing and scrubbing in the kitchen.
Lin Jingzhe went to the foot of the mountain to pick wild grass and vegetables to feed the rabbits.
Lin Xiaoman followed him to the foot of the mountain to try his luck.
Lin Guyu went to feed her baby chickens.
Every family member is busy with their own things.
When he reached the foot of the mountain, Lin Jingzhe found that he had almost pulled out all the weeds.
There was no choice but for the two to slowly walk up the mountain.
There are fewer people on the mountain before and after the busy farming season, and the deeper you go into the mountain, the more you can see wild grasses and vegetables that you have never seen before.
Lin Xiaoman would throw anything he had never seen before into the space, and then see if he could find the space to exchange for points at night.
So far the system has been broken.
The wolfberry sprouts are basically gone, and you can only pick the tender sprouts on the top.
The gray vegetables are basically invisible, but large patches of purslane are crawling on the ground.
Lin Jingzhe didn't care and just grabbed it.
Lin Xiaoman knew that purslane was a wild vegetable that grew in patches and had very low requirements for the living environment. New sprouts would soon emerge after being picked.
Unfortunately, there are few wild vegetables and weeds in July and August. If it were March or April, when shepherd's purse and dandelions are growing abundantly, you would only need to prepare the meat to make dumplings.
After digging two large baskets of wild vegetables, Lin Xiaoman also found two rotten woods in the mountains.
The rotten wood was covered with black fungus, more than the one in the dilapidated house.
Although Lin Jingzhe was afraid, since Xiaoman wanted to pick the fruits, he had no choice but to pick them with her.
"Brother, what's that expression on your face?"
Lin Xiaoman didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Don't worry, it won't be a problem if your hand touches it."
Lin Jingzhe was still feeling frightened. Even though Xiaoman said it was not poisonous, he was still a little scared.
By the time they finished picking the black fungus, it was already dark.
The two hurried home.
Lin Jingzhe went next door to feed the rabbits, while Lin Xiaoman prepared black fungus.
Lin Guyu dug up a lot of earthworms and was feeding the chickens with great interest.
Half an hour later, it was completely dark.
The team that caught the long-bearded insects set out again in the dark.
As the weather gets hotter, there are fewer and fewer long-bearded insects.
An hour later, three members of the long-bearded insect team returned, each carrying half a backpack full of long-bearded insects.
The long-bearded worms in the three backpacks were poured into the basins, but none of the basins were full.
"Xiao Man, Dad caught two fish."
Lin Dajiang was smiling happily as he held two grass carps in his hands.
"Dad is so awesome!"
"Hehe!" Lin Dajiang specially found a deeper basin to raise fish.
"There's no need to dry these long-bearded worms. We can just keep them and eat them." Lin Jingzhe was a little discouraged. He thought he could keep catching long-bearded worms.
Li Erli took away some long-bearded insects, and the rest were kept at Lin Dajiang's home.
I actually have a lot of dried long-bearded insects at home, but the dried ones are not as delicious as the fresh ones.
Lin Xiaoman plans to go to the town tomorrow to reply to Manager Tong and buy some oil by the way.
The oil at home is fried by Li Taohua using lard.
It tastes delicious, but cooking and stir-frying onions and shrimps are more delicious with rapeseed oil.
I also bought two pounds of meat. I promised Xiao Guyu to make dumplings, and I couldn’t go back on my word.
When sleeping at night, Lin Xiaoman hid in the space.
I took a comfortable bath and exchanged the purslane and some unknown wild grasses I picked today one by one, increasing my points by more than 20 points.
One step closer to upgrading.
Lin Xiaoman turned on the air conditioner contentedly, snuggled into the soft quilt, and soon fell asleep.
The next day, Lin Jingzhe was awakened by the crowing of a rooster.
He woke up bleary-eyed and washed his face with cold water in the yard.
His mind suddenly became clear, he practiced a set of boxing without any method, and then he went back to his rabbit-raising business - pulling weeds as usual - with a refreshed mind.
Here, Lin Xiaoman goes to bed early and gets up early.
Not long after Lin Jingzhe left the house, Lin Xiaoman also flashed out of the space.
When I walked out of the room, Li Taohua was already busy in the kitchen, and Lin Dajiang was cleaning up the backyard.
Lin Xiaoman took out the second batch of fungus picked yesterday and put them on the oilcloth to dry, spreading them out evenly bit by bit.
Li Taohua saw this from the kitchen and shook her head helplessly.
Xiaoman is a child who loves to make noise for food.
Even Guyu was turned into a greedy little cat by her.
But then again, being able to eat is a blessing.
Xiaoman, this is good enough.
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Li Taohua made scallion pancakes, which were fragrant and crispy.
Accompanied by a bowl of thin rice porridge, the whole family ate with relish, which was something that old Lin's family could never have imagined.
After dinner, Lin Dajiang and Lin Jingzhe carried backpacks with six rabbits in them.
Li Taohua put Lidong in a backpack and went out with the backpack on her back.
Lin Xiaoman was holding an empty bamboo basket in his hand and walking in front with Lin Guyu.
He picked all the weeds and vegetables that passed by and put them into the bamboo basket, leaving nothing behind.
An hour later, Lin Xiaoman's bamboo basket was full.
While it was still early, the family went straight to Ruyi Tower.
Shopkeeper Tong was typing away on his abacus at the counter, his mouth curled up into a sunflower shape.
"Uncle Tong!"
Shopkeeper Tong looked up and saw Lin Xiaoman and his family. A smile immediately appeared on his face. He put down his abacus and came up to greet them.
"Finally you are here."
Lin Xiaoman looked at Tong, the shopkeeper, whose face was full of wrinkles as she smiled, and was startled by her enthusiasm.
"Have you made up your mind? If you have, follow me to the private room on the second floor."
Lin Xiaoman nodded, "Uncle Tong, the jelly business is good recently, right?"
"Yes, Miss Xiaoman, if you still have recipes like jelly, the boss said he will buy them as long as you want to sell them."
"Uncle Tong, you are such a joker." Lin Xiaoman's eyes sparkled. "This jelly recipe is an heirloom in our family. We are really poor, otherwise we wouldn't sell it."
As they were talking, the family followed Shopkeeper Tong up to the second floor, and Shopkeeper Tong closed the door of the private room.
"The Yingke Building is eyeing you closely and has sent several groups of people to find out how to make jelly. If you sell jelly in the market, you may get attacked by the Yingke Building."
After saying that, Shopkeeper Tong stretched out his hand to the Lin family and gestured a number. He offered ten taels of silver and hoped that Miss Lin would not sell jelly for the next two months.
Lin Jingzhe's jaw dropped.
He thought that he would at least have to bargain a little, and at least start with five taels of silver.
Unexpectedly, the other party directly bid ten taels.
"Uncle Tong, we are still relying on the money earned from selling jelly to build a house!" Lin Xiaoman said in a clear voice, "We still rent a house in the village."
Shopkeeper Tong remembered that his boss had given him the authority of fifteen taels, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Twelve taels, no more."
"Thank you, Uncle Tong, deal." Lin Xiaoman just tried it, but he didn't expect that he could actually add money.
Lin Dajiang touched his sweaty forehead and felt ashamed.
Xiaoman made thirty-two taels of silver from selling the jelly recipe.
These days, it is very difficult to save just two or three taels of silver throughout the year.
Thirty-two taels. If it were in Old Lin's family, the whole family might be able to save up the money by eating coarse food for seven or eight years.
After receiving the silver, Lin Dajiang felt unsteady on his feet.
An extremely unreal feeling, as if walking on cotton.
Six rabbits were sold for seven hundred and twenty coins.
I did nothing that day and earned twelve taels, seven hundred and twenty coins.
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