This year, because Li Bokang's filial piety period has not yet passed, it is still very normal, but the dishes are richer, but they are almost the same as last year's chicken, fish, and meat dishes.

After the first month, Li Bokang went to the school again, and she was thinking about buying piglets and chickens again, there were only three chickens left in the house, and she wanted to buy a few more to raise them, and she couldn't eat much anyway. There are also pigs, last year two pigs were sold for more than four taels of nearly five taels of silver, and they earned more than three taels of silver in addition to the cost of buying piglets, and there is still a pig at home that has not been sold. She is reluctant to give up such an opportunity to make money when she has land and time at home, and she is not tired of raising pigs, so she also wants to buy two little piglets back.

In addition to these, there is also her noodle business, which has not been completed due to the lack of time last year, but last year's sweet potatoes were almost all made into starch, so it is more convenient to experiment this year. What she thought in her heart was: vermicelli is made of starch, and now that starch and everything are available, it is much more convenient to make vermicelli. The vermicelli is made into a paste with starch, and then leaked into a boiling pot with a colander, and finally taken out to dry, the method is still very simple. But she didn't want to say that she could make it once she did, but it was only when she finally succeeded that she realized that it was not as simple as she thought.

Last year, because there were many sweet potatoes, there was more starch made, and the total was almost 170 catties, plus dozens of catties of potato starch, which was enough for her to do experiments.

She first went to the town's iron shop to make a large iron colander, and then she was doing vermicelli experiments for a month in February, wasting a lot of starch every day, and finally she made vermicelli after half a month of experiments. However, the quality of the noodles is not very good, but it also gave her a lot of encouragement, so she made it anyway, didn't it? Later, she revised and modified it for half a month, and finally achieved the vermicelli that she thought was qualified, and now she has wasted twenty or thirty catties of starch. Fortunately, the reason why she doesn't use much starch in each experiment can waste so little, and she only experiments with more than a pound of pounds every time.

After making sweet potato vermicelli, she began to experiment with potato vermicelli, and because of her previous experience, she quickly succeeded. In the end, it took her half a month to make almost all the starch at home, and she left a few catties of each and made all the others into vermicelli, making a total of more than 100 catties of vermicelli. After finishing it, she felt that she had done too much, and she couldn't eat it and couldn't take it out for sale, which was really a miscalculation. But fortunately, dry vermicelli can be put or eaten as rice, and it is not a waste.

After making vermicelli, she started to grow things again, and this year she still has more sweet potatoes like last year, and she is still counting on using them to raise pigs to save money. After planting the land, she went to buy piglets and chickens, or bought three little piglets and ten chickens, and she was ready to pull the big pig at home to sell, so she still only raised three pigs. As for the chickens, there is no such thing as wasting food on the mountain, and this year she also plans to buy chickens and eggs to save money.

Now that their family business is slowly increasing, it will not be good if they attract the attention of others in the future, and if others find out that they live on this mountain, there will be many more incidents. Now she wants to save money and buy this mountain, so that she can save a lot of money when everyone else thinks that this mountain is not good. However, she is also afraid that when the time comes, others will have bad thoughts about them after discovering that they live on this mountain, and people in this era are more superstitious. In addition, it is best that Li Bokang can make some achievements in the past two years, so that he can also get some shelter or some right to speak, but these are not in a hurry.

In April, she went to the mill in the town to grind rice again, and she still grinded 80 or 90 catties of rice for about 100 catties of rice. In mid-April, Li Bokang came back and said that Mr. Wu said that he could go to the exam to see, and she was very happy to hear it at that time, thinking in her heart: This is really what she wants, but then she thought that now Li Bokang's filial piety period has not yet passed, and he is not allowed to participate in the scientific examination according to the law, so he thought about it and precipitated and asked him: "Then what did you tell Mr. Wu?" "I just told my husband the truth, and told him that I can't take the exam in the filial piety period now." "Then what did Mr. Wu say?" "The gentleman didn't say anything, just continued to read." Li Bokang's tone was a little depressed. Thinking about it, she also knew what he was thinking, firstly, he thought of his deceased parents, and secondly, he also felt that he missed the opportunity and couldn't help her.

Indeed, Li Bokang thought so in his heart, he thought of the hope that he could participate in the imperial examination to change the life of his family before his parents died, and thought of the expectations of his parents for him when he was studying at that time. Now he can take the test, but his parents are gone. What's more, Sister Xue has now paid a lot of energy and money for her, and he can now have the opportunity to repay her, but he has to give up for some reasons.

After that, she said to him: "Bokang is fine, study for one more year and lay a good foundation next year, maybe the results of next year's exam will be better than this year, and I heard that the first place in the county can be rich, and you will take the best ranking next year, sister believes you." Don't be like this, brace yourself and study hard. "I know, Sister Xue, don't worry, I'll work hard." After that, he followed her to do the work at home, and almost all the corn in the family was threshed, so he helped her grind corn flour, mainly for feeding pigs, so there was no need to grind it too finely.

The days that followed were the same as before, as if it hadn't happened. However, she sold the big pig at home, and the price was cheaper than last year's New Year, and it was almost sold for more than two taels of silver.

The days passed uneventfully, and there was no such thing as a summer harvest, because when I first started renting the land, I said that it would be good to plant one season every year. Because in her heart, the fertility of ancient times cannot keep up, if the land is overplanted every year, the land will get worse and worse, and no matter how good the land is, it will slowly deteriorate in the future, and it may even become wasteland. This is not a modern era where there are all kinds of fertilizers, only plant ash and manure can be used as fertilizer, and if the ground is damaged, I don't know how many years it will take to make it back.

This year's autumn harvest has collected more than 2,000 catties of grain, and according to the current situation, it is still possible to save some money every year. Basically, everything doesn't cost money, except for Li Bokang's study and buying some oil, salt and spices, etc., there is no need to spend any additional money, and even there are a lot of fabrics at home. And she also raises some pigs and chickens at home, at least it doesn't cost money to eat meat, and you can also sell pigs, chickens and eggs to get money, plus sell some mushrooms or something, you can have a net income of three or four taels a year, which is also very good.