Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

After climbing the mountain for a day and swinging the hoe for a day, Gu Jiu rode his bicycle to the county town. He was exhausted and finally arrived at his doorstep. The sky was already filled with the afterglow of the sunset.

"Brother Jiu, where did you go today? Why did you come back just now?" Xu Ting walked out from the neighbor's house next door.

As soon as Gu Jiu opened the lock of the gate, he heard Xu Ting's voice. He turned around to look at her, pushed the gate open, and pushed his bicycle inside.

Seeing that he did not answer her directly, Xu Ting looked at him and soon discovered that his shoes were covered with a lot of yellow mud.

"Brother Jiu, your feet are covered with a lot of mud. Did you leave the city?"

Gu Jiu parked his bike, turned around and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Xu Ting looked a little shy and smiled slightly: "Nothing, I just came to see you."

Then she looked around the room, "Where's Comrade Lin Shu? Did he go home?"

"She has gone home. I'm fine. It's getting late. You should go back quickly." After saying that, Gu Jiu went into the kitchen to boil some water.

When they were in the mountains, Lin Shu reminded him that after climbing the mountain and riding a bike, he must boil hot water to take a bath when he returned home, and not take a cold bath, otherwise it would affect the body's heat dissipation, which is called "bi sha" as the old saying goes.

He has a partner now, so he must be a man who listens to his partner.

Xu Ting then noticed that his white shirt was stained with many stains. "Brother Jiu, where did you go during the day? Why are there mud and grass stains on your shirt? Your shirt is made of Dacron, and it's not cheap."

What she didn't dare say was that the shirt looked about 90% new, and she didn't know whether the stains on it could be washed clean.

Doesn't he feel bad that a new shirt was ruined like this?

Seeing her follow in, Gu Jiu frowned and asked, "I'm just about to boil water for a bath. Are you sure you want to stay here?"

"I..." Xu Ting was a girl after all, with little social experience. She glanced at his tall figure and her face turned red in a moment.

Gu Jiu just kept staring at her, as if he would continue the confrontation like this if she didn't leave. Xu Ting was no match for him and she was defeated and fled in less than a minute.

"cut!"

Gu Jiu heard the footsteps running away, snorted, poured the hot water on the coal stove into the bucket, filled it with some cold water, and put the pot on the stove to continue burning.

Before taking a bath, lock the door of the ancestral home.

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, he didn't want to cook anymore, so he just cooked himself a big bowl of egg noodles, ate his fill, and lay on the bed to relieve his muscle soreness.

He had never done farm work since he was a child, and climbing the mountain to dig herbs today was a bit too physically demanding for him. In front of Lin Shu, he always maintained the so-called dignity of a man.

Now that he's back home and well-fed, he really can't hold on any longer.

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Xiaohe Production Team.

Lin Shu slept until he woke up naturally.

Liu Xiao'e and Lin Xiaojun were sitting in the corridor peeling broad beans. Zhuangzhuang was sitting at the table eating breakfast. He saw Lin Shu coming out of the room with sleepy eyes.

"Auntie, the sun is shining on your butt, and you just got up."

The two people sitting in the corridor heard Zhuangzhuang's voice and looked over.

Liu Xiao'e threw the peeled broad beans into the basin and said, "The breakfast is warming up on the stove. Wash up and serve it yourself."

Lin Shu smiled and nodded. When he passed by Zhuangzhuang, he reached out and rubbed the little brat.

Zhuangzhuang's head struggled out from under her palm and shouted in dissatisfaction: "Aunt, you are so annoying."

"Hehe..." Lin Shu pretended not to hear and went to wash up first, then brought out breakfast.

She sat opposite Zhuangzhuang and asked Liu Xiaoe, who was sitting on the porch peeling broad beans, "Mom, didn't you go to work today?"

"Your father and your brother told me to just stay at home and take care of the family, and I won't have to go to work anymore."

Seeing her smiling face, Lin Shu knew that she must be quite satisfied with this arrangement.

It’s not that Liu Xiao’e wants to be lazy, but she is genuinely happy to be cared for by her family.

Besides, doing housework at home and taking care of the family's daily life is no easier than going to work.

"You have to feed the whole family, take care of two pigs, a few chickens, and two acres of private land. Can you handle it all by yourself? I think working is easier than doing housework."

Cooking, fetching water and doing housework are really incomparable to the housework in later generations. They are even more tiring than going to work.

At work, you can be lazy if you are tired, but how can you finish the housework if you are lazy?

"Someone has to do the housework. If I don't do it, do you think your sister-in-law and the others will do it? If they really do it, the saliva of the whole village will drown them."

Liu Xiao'e told the truth, which daughter-in-law would rush to do housework and let her elderly mother-in-law go outside to bask in the sun?

As long as someone dares to do this, the gossips in the village will definitely say that so-and-so's lazy woman never goes to the fields and spends all day lazing around at home.

"Oh, by the way, Haiyan came to see you this morning and said she wanted to go to the mountain with you to look for mushrooms. I guess she saw that you hadn't gotten up yet, so she went up the mountain first."

"Well, I see."

Speaking of Haiyan, Lin Shu also wanted to know whether there was any follow-up to her last blind date, and whether Aunt Niu had arranged another blind date for her.

Zhuangzhuang raised his head from the bowl and said, "Aunt, did you bring us any candy when you came back yesterday?"

"No, you just said you hated me."

"At worst, I won't say it next time, auntie. I love you the most. Do you have any candy left?" The six-year-old Zhuangzhuang already understands the principle of being able to bend and stretch.

The three people present couldn't help laughing when they heard what he said.

Liu Xiao'e asked with a smile: "Are you going up the mountain again today?"

Lin Shu noticed Zhuang Zhuang's expectant look, but pretended not to notice it. "It's fine at home, so let's go to the mountains for a walk."

She came back late yesterday and forgot to buy candy from the system. She had given all the candy she bought to her mother for safekeeping. It was useless to stay there, so she might as well go up the mountain to earn some money for candy.

"Okay, there are a few steamed buns in the big bowl in the cupboard. You can take it with you so you can fill your stomach when you are hungry in the mountains." As she said that, Liu Xiao'e stood up and went into the bedroom. After a while, she took out some candies.

"Two per person, eat slowly, don't finish them all at once."

Zhuangzhuang, whose face was drooping just now because he had no candy, immediately smiled.

Lin Xiaojun is the same age as Zhuangzhuang. Although he appears to be more reserved than Zhuangzhuang, he can't wait to peel the candy and put it in his mouth, which shows that he also wants to eat candy.

Lin Shu filled the kettle with herbal tea, wrapped the steamed buns with oil paper, put the sickle, medicine hoe and other tools into the backpack, and most importantly, tied the cuffs of his clothes and trousers tightly.

"I won't be back for lunch at noon. I'll be back in the afternoon."

When I left home, I found that most of the villagers had either gone up the mountain or gone to work, and there were basically no people in the village.

There were quite a few villagers working in the fields. Lin Shu didn't want to attract too much attention, so he went up the mountain from a small path behind the village.

There are a lot of bullwhips on the roadside. When bullwhips are brewed, they are called "bianxu", which has very high medicinal value.

Although it is a roadside weed, it can be sold for two cents a plant on the system, which is one cent more expensive than plantain.

Lin Shu saw some bullwhip grass growing well on the roadside, so he squatted down and dug it with a hoe. Bullwhip grass was very tough, so it was easy to dig and not easy to tear apart.

Just when she was digging happily, suddenly, she seemed to hear the sound of hurried footsteps running on the mountain.

Then I heard someone screaming for help.

Lin Shu stood up, not even bothering to dig the bullwhip grass, "What's going on?"

Halfway up the mountain, there were cries for help and shaking branches. From where Lin Shu was standing, he could even hear the howling of wild beasts.

Of course, the cry for help was hysterical, and it came from halfway up the mountain, so the sound could be heard from far away, even by many villagers working in the fields not far away.