Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

After making things clear, he asked Lin Mei to help escort Jie Chunlei out of the village. Then, as he watched the two figures turn the corner, Lin Shu withdrew his gaze and went back into the house.

I checked the balance in the system. Yesterday, I sold medicinal herbs and purchased supplies. After deducting the 550 yuan I gave to my family and the 180 yuan I spent on a bicycle, plus some miscellaneous expenses, the balance is only 260 yuan.

He had thousands of dollars in his hands yesterday, but now he is back to being extremely poor.

"It seems that as long as people live in this world, there is no time to really lie down. Reality forces you to work hard all the time."

For example, she only has more than 200 yuan left now. If she doesn’t work hard, she will end up living a life of idleness.

Check the tools in the basket, put on the straw hat and prepare to go up the mountain.

Let’s talk about Lin Mei, who sent Jie Chunlei out of the village.

Walking on the path out of the village, Lin Mei thought for a moment and finally asked, "Brother Chunlei, how did you talk to my cousin? Is she willing to accept you again?"

Xie Chunlei looked at the people working in the distance and sighed in his heart. After several years of guarding, he thought that they would eventually come to fruition, but he didn't expect that the one who was hindering him the most was his mother who gave birth to him and raised him.

"Brother Chunlei?"

Xie Chunlei was sad and shook his head, "She gave up, gave up the relationship we had for several years."

Suddenly, he stopped, turned around, looked at Lin Mei and asked, "If Lin Shu marries me, she can live with me in the dormitory of the township supply and marketing cooperative, and she won't have to work in the fields anymore. With such a good marriage, do you know why she wants to regret it?"

After hearing what he said, Lin Mei secretly curled her lips. Since they were not engaged, it couldn't be considered as breaking off the engagement.

However, on the surface, she still acted as if she felt the same as Jie Chunlei, frowning with worry, "I don't know what my cousin is thinking. She doesn't want to marry a man as outstanding as Brother Chunlei, what kind of man does she want to marry? Does she prefer a man like the educated youth who can't lift or carry anything?"

"Are you saying that the reason why Lin Shu broke off the engagement with me is because she fell in love with a young educated youth at the educated youth point?" Xie Chunlei looked at Lin Mei in shock. When he heard the news, his first feeling was that he was being cheated on.

Lin Mei met Jie Chunlei's incredulous look and waved her hands, "I don't know, it's just a guess."

Xie Chunlei suppressed his anger and nodded, then said "oh" and walked out of the village again, "Just send me here, Comrade Lin, you don't have to send me anymore, I will go back by myself, please stay."

"Okay, then I won't send you off any longer. Brother Chunlei, take care."

Xie Chunlei didn't even look at Lin Mei and walked away without looking back.

"Meizi, has Chunlei left?" Li Xiu came over from the ridge of the field carrying a basket of pig feed.

"Well, I'm home."

Li Xiu glared at her in dismay, "Why didn't you invite him to your home to have a cup of tea before leaving?"

Lin Mei lowered her head and took the basket from Li Xiu's hand. "Brother Chunlei has something else to do at home, so he is in a hurry to go back this time. I will invite him next time he comes to our village."

Li Xiu pursed her lips and frowned slightly as she looked at the figure in the distance. This son-in-law was a good choice, but he was too uncontrollable. She didn't know if he and her daughter could succeed.

......

It usually takes half an hour to get from Xiaohe Production Team to Jiejia Production Team. Jie Chunlei was anxious to go home to find out what was going on, and he arrived home in twenty minutes.

"Where did you go just now? You disappeared after breakfast, and your father wanted you to carry the grain to the millet mill."

As soon as I reached the door of the house, my mother, who was hanging clothes to dry, spoke in dissatisfaction.

Xie Chunlei walked into the house without saying a word, poured a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. Seeing Xie's mother following behind him, he asked straight to the point: "Mom, Lin Shu and I are not young anymore. Shouldn't you find a matchmaker and go to the Lin family to discuss marriage?"

After hearing this, Jie's mother was slightly stunned. "Why did you suddenly think of this? Did the Lin family urge you to do this?"

Xie Chunlei denied it, "No, I want to start a family."

Jie's mother obviously didn't believe it. "I was wondering why you disappeared after breakfast. Did you go to the Xiaohe Production Team?"

Xie Chunlei said nothing.

Jie's mother was so angry, "I was wondering why you suddenly got mad, it turns out that the girl from the Lin family can't wait any longer. When we wanted to get married before, they made trouble, now they are anxious."

"In my opinion, we should also take advantage of Qiao to let them hang out and make them anxious. Don't think that it's great to have a daughter and expect the boy's family to coax them and accommodate them. There is no such good thing in the world."

Xie Chunlei looked at his mother in shock, who was confusing right and wrong. It was as if he had never known her. When did his mother, who used to be gentle and kind in his mind, become so mean?

"mom!"

Jie's mother was startled by her son's cry of grief and anger, "Why are you shouting so loudly? You scared me."

Xie Chunlei's eyes were full of disappointment. "Mom, I went to the Lin family today and learned from them that they never mentioned any request to keep Lin Shu at home for a few more years!"

"......" Jie's mother felt a little guilty.

Then she thought that as long as she didn't admit it, her son couldn't do anything to her, so she pointed her finger at him and said, "Why do you believe whatever the Lin family says? Are you my son or their son?"

"They say that a man forgets his mother when he marries a wife. You and your elder and second brothers are the same kind of people, all without conscience! The girl from the Lin family has already alienated the relationship between us mother and son before she even married into the family. What will happen after she marries into the family? Our Jie family cannot afford such an immoral daughter-in-law!"

Xie Chunlei listened to the crackling output from Xie's mother and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Mom, it's not that our Xie family can't afford it, it's that the Lin family doesn't want to jump into our fire pit."

"What do you mean?" Jie's mother's eyes widened. "The Lin family doesn't want to jump into our fire pit? You mean our family is the fire pit? Did the Lin family say that or did you say that?"

Xie Chunlei frowned: "Don't worry about who said it. The Lin family has already cancelled the verbal engagement as you wish."

"The Lin family canceled it?" Jie's mother was overjoyed, but...

"Who are the Lin family? How dare they look down on our family? They have delayed you for several years, causing you to still not get married at the age of 22. They can cancel it if they want. I don't agree with this. Just wait, I will go meet them now!"

Having said that, Jie's mother stood up hastily and prepared to go out.

"You know the right and wrong of this matter best. If you go over and make a scene now, do you want everyone in the neighborhood to know that I was dumped by Miss Lin?"

Hearing her son's calm tone, Jie's mother paused as she was about to step out of the door, turned around and asked, "Just let them go like this? Can you swallow this?"

"What else?" Xie Chunlei asked back coldly.

Mother Jie stepped back, and faced her son's cold face, and smiled flatteringly: "Since the Lin family canceled the verbal agreement, it is their loss. Since it is impossible for you two to be together now, why don't I ask a matchmaker to help you find a good girl? Then you can take some time to look at her. If you like her, we will hold the wedding this year, and then the Lin family will be mad to death!"

Xie Chunlei glanced at his mother, stood up and went into the room. After a moment, he walked out the door holding a package.

Mother Jie was anxious when she saw this and stepped forward to stop him: "Third brother, where are you going?"

Xie Chunlei walked out the door without looking back: "The unit will be very busy recently, so I won't go home for the time being."

"You've just come back for one night and you're leaving. You say you're busy, but you're kidding!" Jie's mother yelled at the figure who couldn't wait to leave.

Looking at his son who left without mercy, his face turned red with anger.

It turns out that vixen from the Lin family is not a good person!

Even if they break up, it will still affect his son.

......

Lin Shu, who had entered the mountain at this time, did not know the situation of the Jie family, but he had already expected that the mother and son would have a quarrel.

When she reached the middle of the hillside, the system reminded her that the surrounding area was full of black plums.

Gynostemma pentaphyllum is a perennial vine of the grape family, called sow vine in some places. It looks very similar to Gynostemma pentaphyllum, and it is easy to confuse them if you don’t know them well.

The entire plant of Gynostemma pentaphyllum is completely green, while every node of Gynostemma pentaphyllum is reddish, and the tips of the branches are even more reddish.

The whole plant can be used as medicine, which has the effects of cooling blood, detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling, but pregnant women should not use it.

Similarly, the collection of black plum is purchased by kilogram, at 10 cents per kilogram.

Although the price is cheap, this plant grows in many places. Moreover, the villagers in the village like to cut this sow vine to feed the pigs, otherwise it would not be called sow vine.

"System, are there any other herbs around here?"

[Most plants in the world can be used as medicine, but the host, this system will point out all of them, can you handle it? ]

"..."

Okay, that makes sense.

The system said that the whole plant could be used as medicine. Lin Shu's principle was to avoid digging the soil with a hoe as much as possible, so she only used a sickle to cut off the vines on the surface and sold them to the system.

Not to mention that although the system only gave ten cents per pound, the vines of the black plum grew lushly and it didn't take much effort to harvest them.

As bundles of black plums were thrown into the system, the system balance continued to rise.

One pound is ten cents, ten pounds is one dollar, and one hundred pounds is ten dollars. Lin Shu cut a total of one hundred and thirty pounds and sold them to the system, earning thirteen dollars. The balance showed 275 yuan.

Looking at the sun hanging overhead, Lin Shu decided to go home for dinner first and then go to the other side of the hill to take a look in the afternoon.

Walking on the path down the mountain, you can occasionally find a few mushrooms in the grass by the roadside, and sell them to the system for a few cents.

"System, the medicinal herbs in our mountains don't seem to be very valuable. If we go to Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, how do you buy the ginseng there?"

[There is no specific price. It mainly depends on the year and the quality of the medicine. In fact, there are many high-value medicinal herbs in the mountains here, such as Coriolus versicolor, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Polygonum multiflorum, etc. Instead of going far away, the host should go to collect herbs. As long as you can endure the hardship and fatigue of digging herbs, you will be rich in no time. ]

Lin Shu really wanted to get rich, but he didn't listen to its toxic chicken soup at this moment.

"I think getting rich by digging for herbs is definitely not as fast as getting rich by purchasing them."

It’s just that this era is not suitable for blatantly purchasing medicinal materials everywhere.

"The youngest!"

As soon as she reached the foot of the mountain, she heard someone calling her. Lin Shu looked up and saw Lin Gang running towards her happily, carrying a hoe.

"Why are you here instead of working? Are you trying to be sneaky and run away again?"

Lin Gang slammed the muddy hoe into the ground and said, "Who are you talking to? You are being disrespectful. And why do I hate what you said so much? What do you mean by sneaky and cunning? Why can't I leave work after I've finished my work?"

Lin Shu glanced at him, walked past him and went home: "Lazy people pee a lot, that's what I mean by people like you."

"Vulgar!" Lin Gang caught up with her and said, "Girl, please pay attention to your image when you speak. Who would dare to marry you if you are so vulgar? If you can't get married, you will be a burden to your family!"

"Lin Gang, you're looking for a fight!" Lin Shu raised his foot and kicked him.

Lin Gang jumped to the side cleverly and escaped. Seeing that she was still trying to attack him, he said, "Hey, hey, a gentleman should talk instead of fight..."

"I never believe in the words of a gentleman. If I see someone I'm unhappy with, I'll beat him up first!" Lin Shu used a sickle to cut a thin branch from the roadside and chased after him.

"Hey, don't do it!"

"You're just talking nonsense!" Lin Shu chased after him and slapped him on the back.

"Oh my god! Hiss!"

The sudden pain made Lin Gang jump up and down, "You youngest, are you really going to smoke?"

"When did you ever see me not being serious?"

When Lin Shu thought about the bad things this kid had done in his previous life, he wanted to spank him a few more times. How could he possibly show mercy?

Lin Gang was hit a few times and couldn't bear the pain. He decided not to play with her anymore, so he ran away as fast as the wind.

Lin Shu snorted. This guy just came to laugh at her. Last time he went up the mountain, he was lucky enough to pick up Coriolus versicolor. Today, seeing that she had no harvest, he dared to humiliate her with words, "I'll beat you to death!"

When they got home, Liu Xiao'e came out of the kitchen and glared at her, "You little girl, you really have the guts to do that to your third brother!"

Lin Shu was stunned for a moment, then his face changed slightly and he snorted coldly: "He deserves a beating!"

"You stupid girl, who do you think deserves a beating?" Lin Gang stood at the door of the hall with his hands on his hips, looking ferocious.

"I'm just talking to you, what's wrong?" If you don't agree, just fight!

The two siblings had fought since they were young, and after living for several decades longer, she didn't mind having another fight with him.

"What are you arguing about!" Liu Xiao'e said angrily, "Go wash up quickly, it's almost time for dinner."

Although exhausted after working for a whole morning, the brother and sister still had the energy to fight. It seemed that the work in the morning was too easy.

The lunch was a plate of stir-fried lettuce, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, a plate of aged salted vegetables, and sorghum porridge as the staple food. It can be said that these are the standard dishes on every rural household’s dining table at this time of year.

Lin Shu had been climbing the mountain and working for the whole morning and was already starving. Just as he finished his bowl of porridge, he heard firecrackers in the village.

She looked up, confused. What was the meaning of setting off firecrackers at this time?

But before she could ask, she noticed that the faces of the other adults in the family all changed.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shu was startled.

Lin Dashan quickly shoveled the porridge in the bowl into his mouth, wiped his mouth and stood up, "Big brother, come with me to help."

Lin Wei and Lin Guang finished the porridge in their bowls in a few gulps, then followed Lin Dashan out the door.

This speed...

"Mom, what happened in the village?"

"Eat your meal and don't ask too many questions." Liu Xiao'e scolded.

Lin Shu looked at his elder and second sister-in-law.

He Caiyun sighed and explained to her in a low voice: "The sound of firecrackers should be because an elderly person in the village has passed away. The firecrackers are set off to send off the deceased and to inform everyone. When the villagers hear the sound of firecrackers, they will all go to help without anyone notifying them."

Lin Shu frowned. It seemed that there was such a custom in the village, but it seemed that no one died at this time in the previous life?