Chapter 16: Making a Fortune
Soon, the three dishes and soup on the table were swept away.
The eldest sister was also full of joy when she saw everyone's cleaning action, and quickly packed up the dishes and chopsticks and took them to clean!
Song Xiaoyue is now more and more fond of this family, and she doesn't have any feeling that she can't fit in, once she accepts this family, she wants to contribute to this family.
When she woke up one night, she found that she hadn't remembered the first era she had traveled through for a long time.
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But now she can't go back, Song Xiaoyue took a deep breath.
The next day, after dinner, it was still early, Song Xiaoyue couldn't sit still, and she didn't want to go to sleep, so she walked around the house.
Suddenly, there was a "chirping" sound outside. Ah~ It's crickets.
Song Xiaoyue was happy and hurriedly called her younger brother, although it was only a halfway blood relationship, but everyone in this family was very kind, and they would not be like the sisters in the previous life, so Song Xiaoyue and Song Hao had a very good relationship, and they made trouble together on weekdays.
Song Xiaoyue told Long Hao to take him to catch crickets, and the latter hurriedly agreed, it was better to be happy alone than to be happy.
Song Xiaoyue filled half a bucket of water with a wooden bucket, Song Hao found a small tin box with candied fruit at home, and the two went out one after the other.
Her home was originally at the foot of the Foggy Mountains, and there was already a lot of grass. The two of them had to push through the grass to find them, and it was not difficult to find crickets, but it took a little effort to find a high-quality one with a large body and a loud voice.
Song Xiaoyue also grew up in the countryside, and it is very common to play crickets: "White is not as good as black, black is not as good as red, red is not as good as yellow" and there are crickets to make money, but the crickets caught today are really not good, and this kind of professional crickets can't be looked down upon, let alone go to the competition.
The head of the fierce cricket should be big, the cry should be loud, the color should be pure, and the variegated color is generally not bad. Moreover, the cricket is bitten with its teeth, so the teeth should be wide and long, the neck should be wide, and the shape of the wings should be like a sword, and the closer to the tail, the sharper the wings become. If you can find such a cricket, you will basically win!
Song Xiaoyue found the cricket hole, asked Song Hao to drink a sip of water, and then sprayed it into the hole, slowly filling the hole, and then stared at the hole quietly.
Good guys, this cricket is not small. The head is round, the chest is broad, the teeth are long, and it is male. Fighting crickets, Song Xiaoyue's folic acid is a good hand: the wings have obvious concave and convex patterns for males, and the wings with straight patterns are females. This purple cricket has a distinct concave and convex pattern on its wings, and the male cricket is aggressive. Therefore, most of the fighting crickets use males to fight!
Seeing that her sister actually caught such a big cricket, Song Hao's eyes were full of admiration, and he followed up again!
Song Xiaoyue carefully moved the bricks and stones on the side of the road, and sure enough, she saw another one. Crickets are withdrawn by nature, generally live independently, and are never allowed to live with other crickets, if they have to be together, there must be a death and an injury, as long as people who understand crickets will never be hasty.
Song Xiaoyue made persistent efforts to catch it again, this is a pure black male cricket. It was big and loud, and it had wings like a sword. Broad and long teeth with well-developed jaws. At first glance, he is a fierce and aggressive master.
The two of them were looking for crickets everywhere at full speed, and caught several good and bad, strong and weak crickets.
The two are back in triumph!
Dad Song was training the two to go around and couldn't play at home, but after seeing the crickets, they also became interested.
He asked Song Hao to bring two dog-tail grasses, and then personally found two boxes, and the crickets had to fight in the wooden box to be interesting. !
Song Xiaoyue took the lead in picking the black cricket with sword wings and named it "Black General".
Dad Song picked the purple cricket and said, "Since your name is 'Black General', then I'll call you 'Purple Dashuai', let's see if your general is powerful, or my handsome"!
The two of them each put the crickets into the jar and held the dog's tail grass in their hands.
Song Xiaoyue gently stimulated the whiskers of the "Black General" with the tail end of the grass, and the "Black General" immediately grinded his teeth and shook his feet, stepped on his forefeet, and took the lead in rushing towards the "Purple Marshal".
Not to be outdone, the "Purple Marshal" jumped back and flexibly dodged the first round of the "Black General's" offensive.
The two crickets slowly circled in the jar, glaring at each other, and the battle was at the touch of a button.
Dad Song gently touched the tail hair of "Purple Dashuai" with grass, which made "Purple Dashuai" very disgusted, and he kicked back with the shin of his hind foot to show resistance.
Dad Song stimulated the beard of "Purple Dashuai" with grass again, and "Purple Dashuai" accepted the encouragement of Song Dad, and came desperately towards the "Black General".
The "Black General" did not retreat but advanced, and the two crickets bit together.
The two crickets are competing with each other one bite at a time, biting you to the death.
And Song Dad and Song Xiaoyue were also very nervous, and the two stared at the crickets in the jar tightly, for fear of missing a moment of wonderful competition.
There is also an unwritten rule for fighting crickets, that is, the owner of the cricket cannot make a sound, otherwise it will affect the tactics of the cricket
Gradually, the "Purple Marshal" was bitten back step by step by the "Black General", and his spirit was sluggish, and he almost died down!
And the "Black General" is becoming more and more courageous, pressing step by step, watching the "Purple Marshal" retreat, and immediately spread his wings and roar!
The victory and defeat have been divided, and the "black general" has won. Song Xiaoyue smiled like a villain, put away her "black general", and went to sleep satisfied!
Song Xiaoyue usually plays, but she still wants to make money, whether it is the previous era or the current era, all she wants is to become a rich person, money is not everything, no money is absolutely impossible.
Song Xiaoyue decided to start with fish farming, at least now all she can get is fish. She has no money and no strength, don't think so much about the others, go to the Foggy Mountains to get some fish into the space to raise and see.
The fish pond in the village is the collective property of the brigade, and every year it is handed over to the commune after fishing, and the rest is collective, and anyone can go to fish, and now some of the fish that have slipped through the net are growing well.
Song Xiaoyue got up early in the morning, went into the kitchen, and asked the eldest sister to help her spread a few corn tortillas.
"What do you want tortillas for, where are you going today?"
"I'm going to go around the Foggy Mountains today and see if I can get some good things back. Anyway, I'm idle at home, and going to the mountains is even to pass the time! I don't plan to come back at noon, so I'll go around the mountains more!"
"Don't go there all the time, be careful that you can't come back when you encounter a wild boar!"
"You know, I will climb trees, I'm not afraid of wild boars, you tell Abba and Grandma, don't let them worry. ”
After saying a few words to the eldest sister, Song Xiaoyue prepared tools.
She took out the basket and got the hoe, the sickle, and the shovel. After thinking about it, he went to pick up a small barrel, a rope, and the most important small fishing net, and threw them all into the small back basket.
Before eating, she had already prepared her tools.
What surprised her was that in addition to the tortillas, there were also steamed buns, which were different from wowotou, and they were softer to eat.
"Yo, what day is there a white-flour steamed bun today?"
"Didn't you say that you won't come back at noon? This white noodle was exchanged by my parents on the black market last time, make you some steamed buns to eat, don't tell Xiao Hao, otherwise you will have to make trouble again."
After speaking, the eldest sister brought a clean cloth bag and put the five white noodles in it.
"Sister, why are you pretending to be me, leave some for your parents and Hao'er!"
"It's okay, my parents don't do farm work today, and besides, there is food at home, so you have to be careful when you go into the mountains alone." ”
Song Xiaoyue had no choice but to give up, took a bowl with a bowl of brown rice porridge, and took a corn tortilla to eat.
After breakfast, seeing that her parents and little brother hadn't gotten up yet, Song Xiaoyue put on a small basket on her back and took a white-flour steamed bun, put on a straw hat, said hello to her eldest sister, and went out!
When she went out, it was still foggy all around, because it was a farming slack time, so there was no one on the road, and she felt like she was in a fairyland.
Suddenly, Song Xiaoyue stopped, only to see that in front of her, a colorful pheasant was leisurely foraging with a group of chicks.
Song Xiaoyue approached quietly, the pheasant sensed the enemy, and protected the chicken to retreat, it could easily run into the grass by itself, but so many chickens couldn't protect it.
Song Xiaoyue doesn't have any psychological burden, whether she catches a chick or a wild hen, she is happy.
When the brave meets on a narrow road, this brave man is, of course, Song Xiaoyue. The wild hen and fifteen chicks were thrown into the small back basket by her, and when she saw that there was no one around, she went into the space.
I haven't been in the space for so long, but the space has changed a little, the peach trees around the bamboo house are full of peaches, and the peaches are big and red, which leads to water.
Song Xiaoyue was not surprised, she had already learned the growth ability of space countless times.
After putting the pheasants in the pasture behind the spring, they ran to the peach grove by the bamboo hut and climbed up to pick peaches!
I picked a few, took it to the spring and washed it, and quickly took a big bite, the mouth was full of fragrance, juicy and crispy, delicious and delicious!
Song Xiaoyue ate three in one go, and finally had a full burp!
The peaches are big and sweet, and every bite is tender and crispy, so Song Xiaoyue can't stop eating!
Song Xiaoyue walked on the mountain road with a small basket on her back, look here, look there, she also found wild bananas, wild bananas are not better than artificial planting, dry and small, they are all harvested by birds.
There are several new small banana trees next to the banana tree that bears bananas, banana trees are like this, the lifespan is generally one year, a banana tree only bears bananas once, it takes eight months from the buds to the buds, and generally when the bananas are born, new small banana trees will grow next to them. When the bananas are ripe, the old trees are cut down so that the new ones can grow with nutrients.
Song Xiaoyue used a small hoe to dig out the small banana trees, a total of six. Song Xiaoyue hugged the six little banana trees and entered the space again.
He planted banana trees on the bare hill behind the bamboo hut and poured some spring water with a bucket.
I went to the pasture again to see the pheasants, which were leisurely catching insects on the grass to eat!
Song Xiaoyue took out a small basin to store water for the chickens to drink.
After finishing the work, Song Xiaoyue went out again.
Song Xiaoyue went to the fish pond, this fish is still a good business, people in the city can't eat it, and people in the countryside don't realize that it can be sent to the black market to sell.
Taking off her shoes, taking on fishing nets and wooden sticks, Song Xiaoyue walked down the lake step by step. After getting the fishing nets, Song Xiaoyue started fishing!
Today's luck is also very good, although the good fish have been handed over to the commune, but as long as these fish fry enter the fish pond in his space, they will not worry about not growing up, and Song Xiaoyue will not pick any fish, and her favorite is grass carp.
After a few trips back and forth like this, the harvest was quite rich, and the wooden barrels were full, so Song Xiaoyue had no choice but to carry the wooden barrels into the space.
Pouring the fish into the pond on the left side of the spring, the fish were relieved and ran away in all directions, and disappeared at once.
Song Xiaoyue walked back to the Lingquan, and the Lingquan was also taken by Song Xiaoyue, just now.
I picked up the spring water and washed my face, drank a few more sips, and suddenly my fatigue was relieved a lot.
After resting for a while, Song Xiaoyue went out again!
If you don't fish now, when the village puts fish fry in the village, the things in the fish pond will be collective, and when the time comes, you will have to go down to Donggou and go to the commune to participate in a study class.
Xiadonggou is to tie up the people who have made mistakes in the village, and the village cadres can beat and scold, and the villagers do not feel that there is anything wrong.
ran into the space, entered the bamboo house, took out the white flour steamed buns, and ate them. I ate four in one sitting, and I felt full.
When you have eaten and drunk enough, you lie down in a rocking chair and fall asleep. When she woke up, she said that it was bad, and she didn't know what time it was, but she felt like she had slept for hours. It's going to be dark!
Song Xiaoyue was afraid that her family would be in a hurry, but when she got out of the space, she found that the sun was shining outside, and it seemed that it was only ten minutes later, and she quickly figured out that the space that can quickly blossom and bear fruit may not be the same in time.
Yes, the peach blossoms will bear fruit in less than a month, and if it is outside, it will take at least three months! If this is calculated, then the time and space of the first month outside is three months, which is simply amazing!
Song Xiaoyue caught more than a dozen fish and put them in a wooden barrel to take them back to her home, and when she came out all day, there was nothing, and her family would be suspicious.
Put the fish into the space and put it out, and then take it out when you go down the mountain, so that you can save worry and effort, and the space is good.
Song Xiaoyue went to the fish pond to wait for the rabbit again, and caught a thin wild duck that had fallen behind, the thin wild duck couldn't keep up with the team, couldn't eat, and was either eaten by other creatures outside, or starved to death.
Song Xiaoyue put them all into the space, put the bird's nest next to the fish pond, and put a male and a female wild duck into the fish pond, and the remaining male duck tied his feet with a rope, put it into the bamboo house, and took it home to open meat at that time.
I climbed up the peach tree again and picked half a frame of peaches, clapped my hands with satisfaction, and flashed out again.
Look at the sky, it's already afternoon, Song Xiaoyue plans to go down the mountain!
I don't know if I was lucky or what, she met the rabbit again, and the little rabbit in this nest was so big that it was placed on the grass by the side of the road, so that no one took it away.
I really wanted to come to something, and I saw a big white hare looking left and right with a carrot in his mouth, could this be the mother rabbit.
Song Xiaoyue cautiously approached the hare, took off her straw hat, and pounced on it, just covering it, Song Xiaoyue was overjoyed, and said that today's character broke out, and good luck was repeated!
He took the nest of hares into the space and put them in the pasture.
Now the space is already very rich, there are a lot of livestock, as well as the buds and corn that were planted before, but Song Xiaoyue is not satisfied, she still wants to continue to plant a lot of things, anyway, the space is large.
Song Xiaoyue then walked out of the space again, sang the happy "Little Apple" in her mouth, and went down the mountain.
When she walked to the foot of the mountain, the sun had already set, Song Xiaoyue found a remote and uninhabited place, walked into the space, and took out the fish and half a frame of peaches in the wooden barrel, as well as the male duck and the bird's egg.
With a peach on his back, a small wooden bucket in one hand and a wild duck in the other, he walked happily towards his home.
The family has been waiting for a long time, after all, such a young child is wandering around, the family will always be worried, and the family is stunned to see so many things.
Mom and Dad looked at the things on the ground in disbelief, while estimating how much silver they had made!
Song Xiaoyue scooped out the bird's eggs, gave them to the third brother, and poured the peaches into the basket.
"Where did these peaches come from!" "The soil here is not suitable for growing peaches, Dad Song thinks it is very strange, how can you pick something out of thin air?
"Hehe, I'm lucky, no one found this peach tree, it can grow so ripe and so big, you can taste it, it's so delicious!"
"This fish is alive, raise it first, mother, you will take it to the town and sell it tomorrow, we will stew this wild duck, you see, so fat, it must be delicious!"
"Eat what you eat! Take it and sell it together! It's so fat, it's sure to sell it for a good price." ”
In the future, children will have to go to school in the town, and one person in elementary school will need three yuan, and in junior high school and high school, he will have to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees, and a child will have to pay nearly seven or eight yuan.
The two of them thought clearly, they couldn't have a child reading and the rest of the dry eyes to watch, if they wanted to read all three, they would read both.
"Leave a few of these peaches for you to eat, and sell the rest tomorrow. It's a waste to keep all such good peaches at home!"
Ouch, my God, this was originally kept for my own food, and I went to exchange it for money.
Early the next morning, Song's mother took the fish, wild ducks, peaches and fifteen eggs she had saved to be sold in the town.
Song Xiaoyue pitifully begged to follow, but Song's mother had no choice but to agree.
Song's mother is carrying a bamboo basket, and everything she wants to sell is in the bamboo basket, not to mention that no one will know what it is.
Song Xiaoyue helped carry the wild duck, and the two walked to the road to the town and waited for the ox cart.
After waiting for a while, I waited for the ox cart, paid two cents, and sat down with the barrel!
There were also three women and two girls sitting on the ox cart, one of the girls turned out to be Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan was very happy to see Song Xiaoyue, and the two of them chattered.
Now the traffic is not developed, everyone to the city is sitting in an ox cart, some people smell the fishy smell, and look at the back basket is so heavy.
"What's in it, it can't be meat, right?"