Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

"Chunhua, Xiaocao, come and help turn the grass over." Cui called her daughter and granddaughter.

The package was full of silk clothes and jewelry.

"Sister-in-law, you have bought several new clothes." Chunhua acted quickly and started to stir soon.

"Some of these clothes are for our mother and father, some are for you, and some are for Xiaocao." Wang said as she took out four pieces of clothes from the bag.

Cui looked at it coldly without saying a word, but Chunhua couldn't let it go.

"Hmph!" Xiaoru snorted coldly, and after being glared at by Wang, she lowered her head.

"What here belongs to you? How dare you distribute it with such a smug face? I remember all the junk you brought in. Apart from these, what else do you have to do with it?"

"Mom, I didn't say these are mine." Although Wang's smile was forced, she still looked like she was smiling.

Cui snorted coldly, bent down and turned the bundle on the ground upside down, packed up all the silk clothes and shoes, there were very few jewelry and no silver or money. Cui straightened up and stared at the unopened cabinet. She suspected that it was not the cabinet of Sheng Hong and his wife.

"Hua, bring my gray clothes and let her change into them." Cui called Chunhua.

Chunhua agreed and went out, and came back a little later with a set of patched old clothes, which were the coarse cloth clothes commonly worn by farmers.

"Hurry up and change your clothes and cook. Are you still waiting for us old people to serve you?" Cui scolded.

Wang changed her clothes and went to cook. Xu also came out to help, and she also changed into clothes for farm work. Wang was led around by Cui.

Xiaolan and her family were eating in the house, listening to Cui's scolding next door. They thought that every evildoer will be punished by his own evil. Wang was not a good person, but Cui was not an easy person to deal with either. They were both equally bad. It would be interesting to see the confrontation between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law in the future.

"The old man fell ill this time, and your grandma was scared to death. Now she hates your aunt-in-law." Zhang sighed.

Xiao Lan listened to what Zhang said and did not speak up for Wang. She knew that her mother had no sympathy for her at all and felt that it was Wang who instigated the Sheng Nuo family to do such a thing.

These things did not affect Xiao Lan's mood. She suddenly thought of the embarrassment of not being able to read a single word when Mr. Sheng handed her the house deed and the IOU, and she decided to learn to read and write.

Of course, she couldn't tell Sheng Xuan and Zhang about learning to read and write yet. Education costs a lot, and their family had just split up, and things were just beginning to improve. She didn't want to put pressure on her parents.

There was no private school in Shengjia Village. If villagers wanted to send their children to school, they would usually send them to the private school in the town. The private school did not accept girls, so if she wanted to study, she could only learn from Xiaowen and then send her back.

"Dad, let's not go out in the afternoon. Let's go into the mountains tomorrow." Xiao Lan is full of energy now. If she wants to study, she must make money first. Now she can only make money by selling game. When winter comes and she can't go into the mountains, she will think of other ways.

Sheng Xuan thought about it and decided that the old man’s condition at home had stabilized and he didn’t need to worry about it. Zhang would take care of the farm work, so he agreed.

"Dad, let's go get a shovel this time. I've thought of a trap, and we'll try it when the time comes." Xiao Lan continued.

Sheng Xuan nodded.

Xiaolan's family has been eating quite well during this period. Although her body looks thin, she is very strong, much better than the previous times she went up the mountain.

She was now strong enough to keep up with Sheng Xuan without even taking a breath, which really surprised her father.

Not everyone can enter the deep mountains, so Xiao Lan planned to take Sheng Xuan around the cave this time. When they arrived at the destination in the morning, Xiao Lan didn't explain much to her father, and asked him to dig four traps in a place with good visibility and few trees. The four traps were several miles apart. The traps were two meters deep. Xiao Lan was not idle either. She cut off the branches of the trees, selected the thick and strong ones, sharpened their heads, and filled the traps with them, and then covered the traps with branches and weeds.

Sheng Xuan saw that the branches and weeds laid by Xiao Lan were very thick, and that hares and pheasants could not fall out even if they jumped on them. He knew that this trap was not made for small prey, but for large and heavy prey.

But how could these big prey be so easy to catch? How could they run to such a place? Although Sheng Xuan was also confused, he knew that it was right to listen to Xiao Lan more when things happened. If it weren't for Xiao Lan, the family wouldn't be living so well. Even if these traps couldn't catch big prey, but after letting his daughter try, he felt that it was nothing to just spend some effort.

The trap was dug for a whole day. The father and daughter had a little snack at noon. It was not until the evening when the trap was set that they had time to boil some water and cook some food. Zhang cooked the dried chicken at home this morning and let the father and daughter take it with them. In the evening, they heated the chicken again and put the three-way flour buns they brought on the fire to heat them up. They ate half of it and saved the other half for tomorrow.

When Xiao Lan went to bed at night, her hands were shaking with pain. She had worn out her hands by sharpening the tips of trees today. Sheng Xuan must be very tired as well. Digging traps is not an easy job. She could hear his snoring before she fell asleep.

The final result was satisfactory. Early the next morning, the father and daughter went to check the traps. Two of the four traps contained prey, and one trap contained a large wild boar, estimated to be over 200 kilograms. The wild boar had thick skin and was not dead yet. It grunted and struggled from time to time, making the trap full of blood.

Sheng Xuan looked at the wild boar in the trap with surprise, as if he couldn't believe what he saw.

"Dad, next time I go into the mountains, I have to buy a bow. This pig will probably continue to twitch for a while, and we can't kill it." Xiao Lan said.

Sheng Xuan suddenly came to his senses and said, "I'll pull it out. This wild boar exhales more and inhales less, so the price of selling it alive is higher than selling it dead." After saying that, he knelt down, grabbed one of the wild boar's legs and dragged it up.

The father and daughter tied the two wild boar legs together with a rope and threw them into the grass.

A wild boar also fell into another trap not far from this trap. This one was a little smaller, weighing about 100 pounds, and was dead.

The other two traps have nothing.

"Xiao Lan, how do you know that wild boars can be caught here?" Sheng Xuan asked excitedly.

"Dad, you've heard the calls of wild boars many times at night, right?" Xiao Lan explained to Sheng Xuan as she tied the wild boar's legs to him, "Wild boars like to go to bright places at night, so I asked you to dig traps in open places. If you're lucky, you might encounter one."

After tying the pigs' legs, Sheng Xuan put the two wild boars together. Xiao Lan followed him and said, "We are lucky. There must have been some wild boars moving around in a group last night, so two of them fell down." Xiao Lan said with a smile.

Sheng Xuan was stunned by these words, and finally sighed, "Girl, how do you know so much?"

Xiao Lan smiled and said, "I heard it from someone in town. Dad, after we finish eating, we can dismantle the other two traps and go back."

Xiaolan and Shengxuan ate the half chicken and three-noodle buns left over from yesterday. They were both a little tired after working all morning. "Xiaolan, take a break. I'll go dismantle the trap."

After Sheng Xuan came back from dismantling the trap, he started making the raft again. He saw that his daughter was very tired, so he didn't let her do it.

"Dad, you dug so many traps yesterday, aren't you tired?" Xiao Lan wondered. She felt like her hands were crippled from carving wood yesterday, and today she felt weak all over, but her dad was so energetic.

"Dad is used to doing this." Sheng Xuan said.

Xiaolan had hidden the shovel in the cave early on. She stacked two empty backpacks together and put them on her back. Shengxuan pulled up the raft and set off.