Chapter 54: Cutting Down Trees

After drinking a bowl of cold mung bean porridge, Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang felt a lot more comfortable.

In the days when there were no refrigerators, the villagers also had a trick to cool down, that is, after serving the porridge, put it in a basin of cold well water, so that the hot porridge would soon become cold.

Gao Mingcheng ate two bowls of mung bean porridge in a row and another bowl of dry rice.

Grandma Xi knew that they must be tired today, so she stewed the remaining yellow muntjac meat, and also fried scrambled eggs with chili peppers, which was nutritious and delicious.

After eating, Gao Zhuang felt that his whole body hurt, and his body was weak, so he said that he wanted to lie down for a while, and the person left.

Gao Mingcheng also returned to the room where he lived temporarily, but instead of lying down to rest, he took out the money in his trouser pocket and put it with the other money.

After being reborn, he has been thinking about this ancient tomb, and now that the tomb robbers have been arrested, and the things in the ancient tomb have also been taken away by the people of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, this matter is completely over.

The next thing he has to do is make money!

As the saying goes, rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and rely on the water to eat the water. They are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there are very few water resources, so the way to make money has to fall in the mountains.

He currently has a large jar of honey that he has not yet sold.

Before he came back from cutting honey from the mountains, but there was no container to fill it for a while, so he put it in a bucket, and then when the fine grandmother found out, she found out a large ceramic jar for him, this large jar, which used to be used to hold pickles, is now washed clean by the fine grandmother, and filled with sweet honey.

But this is only a temporary transition, and then he has to buy some containers for honey, preferably plastic jars, so that he can be weighed directly on the scales without having to remove the weight of the jars themselves.

In addition, he plans to find a carpenter to make some beehives.

Cutting wild honey is not very dangerous for him, but it is also troublesome.

If you make some beehives and put them in the mountains, and then go to the mountains to cut honey every other month, it will be much more convenient and can ensure the output.

In addition to making honey, it is hunting.

He is now in good physical condition, he can run fast, and he can hit small prey with stones, but this is not enough, he has to find a way to hit large prey, but this is not in a hurry, he already has a way to solve it.

Besides, the weather is still hot, and if you hunt too much prey, you won't be able to save it unless you sell it right away.

In addition to these two, there are other treasures in the deep mountains - that is, medicinal herbs.

There are many kinds of medicinal herbs, but some are precious and some are cheap. Cheap medicinal herbs can be found everywhere, and precious medicinal herbs are hidden deep in the mountains.

The mountains here are not very rich, so there are not many precious medicinal materials, the most famous are two, one is Ganoderma lucidum and the other is Poria cocos.

It's already the beginning of September, and by the end of September, you can go to the mountains to get these two medicinal materials, and after they are dried, you can take them to Zhangshu City, the capital of medicine, to sell.

Zhangshu City will hold a drug fair every year, the time is generally in October 16-18 these two days, to the drug fair, as far as the eye can see, densely packed are the stalls set up by drug dealers, all kinds of medicinal materials, can be found here.

In addition to selling medicines, there are also medical and pharmaceutical companies, anyway, drug-related, which can be found here.

Gao Mingcheng had never been to the drug fair in his previous life, because he had never touched this industry, but he got acquainted with a drug dealer and listened to what the drug dealer said.

So after being reborn, he felt that since Qingshan had given the treasure, he couldn't waste it, their village was too remote and no one came to buy medicinal materials, but they could send the medicinal materials out of this small mountain village and send them to the medicine fair!

After thinking about what he was going to do in his mind, Gao Mingcheng knew it, he changed into clean clothes, and went out into the mountains with an axe.

There are two ways to calculate money when looking for a carpenter to do the work, one is that the carpenter works out of the material, which is definitely more expensive, and the other is to work by himself and the carpenter does the work, so that it is cheaper.

Gao Mingcheng plans to make his own materials.

There are such things as wood, which are all over the mountain, and there is no need to spend any more money.

However, the trees on the hills near the village are distributed to each villager, but the trees in the deep mountains are considered to be state, and in principle, trees cannot be cut down, so Gao Mingcheng went into the mountains to cut down trees, which is to gather the wool of the country.

Fortunately, as long as this kind of thing is avoided by some people, not known, and not reported to the top, it will not be a big problem.

Fortunately, he remembered that after the nineties, it was once popular in the village to steal timber and sell it for money, and a piece of timber four or five meters long and ten centimeters in diameter could be sold for thirty yuan. And wood with a diameter of 15 centimeters can be sold for 50 yuan.

This profit is quite good, so many people will go into the mountains to steal trees, and there are even people from outside who secretly go to their side of the mountains to cut down trees.

At that time, the life of the villagers generally began to improve, and most of them had the spare money to build houses, and building houses required a lot of wood, so wood was quite easy to sell.

Gao Mingcheng avoided people and entered the mountain smoothly. He carried an axe and ran quickly in the mountains, and the mountain wind blew on his body, blowing away the heat of his body.

He kept running until he reached about the inaccessible spot, then he slowed down and began to look left and right, looking for suitable wood.

There are two kinds of wood that are suitable for beehives, one is fir and the other is paulownia.

The fir wood has good corrosion resistance and will not produce insects, and after being made into a beehive, it can be used for decades, and if it is brushed with a layer of tung oil, the service life will be extended.

Paulownia wood is also corrosion and insect resistant, but it is not as good as cedar wood, but it is light and easy to move after being made into a beehive.

Gao Mingcheng has great strength and does not value the light texture of paulownia wood, so he prefers fir wood, because this beehive is to be placed in the wild, and fir wood can be used for decades without any preservative measures, obviously its wood is better.

After searching in the mountains for a while, Gao Mingcheng found a suitable fir tree, and he visually measured that the diameter of this cedar tree was fifteen centimeters, and if it was sold, it could be sold for fifty yuan.

Of course, although he was short of money, he did not plan to cut down trees to sell.

If you only use the national wool, it is not a big problem, but if you sell it in large quantities, it will be easy for people to detect the clues, and you may have to enter the bureau at that time.

After choosing the tree, Gao Mingcheng began to do it.

There were no chainsaws, and trees had to be cut down with axes, and it took a lot of effort to cut down a tree with a diameter of 15 centimeters.

Fortunately, he had great strength now, and he picked up his axe and slashed it down, leaving a small gap in the trunk.

He continued to swing the axe, each slashing at the same part, and the edge of the knife was unexpectedly flat, which showed that his hand-eye coordination and control were very good.