Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

After returning home, Lin Shu looked at the two large buckets of loaches and eels and asked, "You two have been busy for so many days, are you going to save these loaches and eels for your family to eat slowly?"

Lin Dongfa didn't care. It would be nice to leave some for his family to eat. He looked at Lin Gang. It was he who encouraged him to do this.

Lin Gang rolled his eyes at her and said, "How is that possible? We have enough small fish and shrimp at home to eat for a while. I am going to sell these loaches and eels to the store."

Seeing her going up the mountain to dig herbs to make money, isn't he envious?

Moreover, although he caught so many loaches and eels this time, he did not plan to sell them to the retail stores because the prices offered by the local retail stores were too low.

His ideal place to go is the county town, where there are many workers and he can sell some meat at a good price.

Lin Shu raised her eyebrows. Sure enough, it was just as she had guessed.

"Our village is not close to the township, more than 20 miles away. Can you carry these two buckets of loaches and eels over there?"

"......" Lin Gang turned his head and glanced at his strong nephew, "I can't carry it all by myself, but I still have my nephew, so he can go with me, and I'll give him a share of the money from the sales."

Lin Shu smiled and walked out of the kitchen, just in time to see Liu Xiaoe walking in from outside, "Mom, why are you cutting these palm leaves?"

Liu Xiao'e threw a few palm leaves under the eaves, took off her muddy straw sandals, walked past Lin Shu and walked into the house. "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming in a few days. I want to make some rice dumplings in advance so that your two sisters-in-law can bring some back when they go back to their parents' homes to celebrate the festival."

Lin Shu was slightly stunned, then he remembered that it was already June and the lunar calendar was already May.

People here like to use palm leaves to tie the rice dumplings, which is economical and environmentally friendly.

Liu Xiao'e thought for a moment and said, "Please pack more and send some to your two friends in the county. They helped your elder and second brothers find these good jobs."

Since they can have a say, it means they have power, and they should maintain good relationships with such people.

After hearing this, Lin Shu thought of Gu Jiu who dragged her to register last time. They haven't seen each other for more than a month, and she thought that boy should have lost interest in registering.

Lin Gang said sourly: "Little sister, since your friend has this ability, why don't you help me find a job? Part-time work is fine."

Liu Xiao'e coughed and said, "Hey, third brother, can you be as hardworking as your eldest and second brothers? If you can change your bad habit of doing things lightly and afraid of heavy tasks, I will shamelessly come to your house and beg you. Maybe I can really let the three of you brothers go to erect electric poles together."

Lin Shu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Lin Gang glared at Lin Shu and laughed in front of him. He didn't care about his face.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Lin Gang, if you can really change your ways, I can help you."

"Calling me by my name is disrespectful. You can't even call me Third Brother, right?" Lin Gang shouted with his face flushed.

Lin Shu: "I've been calling you by your name since you were little. Isn't it too late to have an opinion now?"

The brother and sister were at loggerheads when sisters Lin Xiaoyu and Lin Xiaoshuang came back from school.

"Grandma, aunt, we are back!"

Perhaps they heard the sisters’ shouts, Xiaojun and Zhuangzhuang, who went to play next door, also returned home soon.

After a while, the house became lively, with either the sound of children fighting or adults scolding.

The next day, sister-in-law He Caiyun washed more than ten kilograms of glutinous rice, as well as some mung beans, red beans, adzuki beans and other ingredients.

My second sister-in-law went out and cut a lot of yellow broom and burned it into ashes. Then she made it into alkaline water and mixed it evenly with glutinous rice. If you like to eat bean dumplings, you can add various beans.

"Mom, do you have some bacon left at home? How about cutting some and wrapping it in there?"

Lin Shu wanted to make some meat dumplings since he already had the bean dumplings.

There is no fresh pork belly, but it should taste good wrapped in bacon.

If she was going to eat it at home, Liu Xiao'e would never be willing to wrap bacon, but after hesitating for a while, she agreed.

Zongzi is not a good thing, but since they were going to give it to a small leader in the county, naturally giving them meat zongzi would show their family's sincerity.

Lin Shu went to the same forest yesterday to dig herbs this morning, and when he came back he brought some calamus and mugwort home.

Speaking of the Dragon Boat Festival, Lin Shu remembered an important thing. The village had a marriage relationship with the village on the other side of the Qingjiang River, and many people in the village married wives from the other side of the river.

On the fourth day of May, which was the day before the Dragon Boat Festival this year, two daughters-in-law in the village brought their children back to their parents' home to celebrate the festival. Lin Shu's second sister-in-law, Lu Yinhua, was also a girl from a village on the other side of the river.

Early in the morning of the fourth day of the New Year, several daughters-in-law took a ferry across the river. When the boat reached the middle of the river, a big fish floated on the surface of the river.

The big fish was facing up with its belly turned white and its mouth was still moving. The ferryman became greedy and tried to catch the fish with a hand scoop net.

It’s the Dragon Boat Festival now, so it’s a good opportunity to fish it out and add a dish to the Dragon Boat Festival table.

Just as the helmsman leaned out to catch the fish, the boat tilted slightly to one side with his movement.

It could be a coincidence, or it could be God's will.

Just as the boat was tilting slightly, a strong wind suddenly blew up on the river, causing the boat to tilt even further. The daughter-in-law and children who were returning to their parents' home on the boat were instantly panicked.

As the people on the boat moved around, the boat capsized due to the wind.

Not everyone who took the ferry across the river could swim, and those who couldn't swim struggled desperately in the water.

Those who can swim are frightened by the sudden incident, and their first reaction after realizing they have fallen into the water is to swim hard and away from the place where they fell into the water.

Because they were afraid of being caught by people who couldn't swim. If they were caught accidentally, then one life would become two lives, and everyone would report to the Dragon King Temple together.

Later, everyone in the village said that the wind was a demonic wind. Otherwise, why would the usually calm river suddenly become windy?

Can't explain clearly.

But when this incident happened, Lin Shu was cutting grass for pigs at Pear Tree Mountain, two miles away from Qingjiang River. She remembered that a strong wind suddenly blew, making the leaves of the pear trees rustle.

It was as if countless hands were applauding. She still remembered that she was so scared that the hairs on her body stood up. She picked up the basket and ran home without even asking for the pig feed.

Only when I returned to the village did I realize that something had happened.

Her second sister-in-law was also on the boat that day and she also fell into the water.

Fortunately, she did not bring the child back to her parents' home, so she was not a burden, and she could swim, so she stayed on the river until the boat nearby rescued her.

In the previous life, two wives in the village died in the Qingjiang River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Lin Shu wanted to avoid this, but it didn't happen. Even if she told others about it, no one would believe it. Perhaps the wives who were going to cross the river to celebrate the festival would think that she was cursing them to die a bad death.

The villagers turned into enemies in seconds!

Lin Shu hung the herbs outside and found that the two sisters-in-law were still making zongzi, so he went to the kitchen and said to Liu Xiao'e who was cooking, "Mom, the zongzi are ready today. How about I go to the county town to make the festival offerings tomorrow and let the sisters-in-law do the same?"

Liu Xiaoe stopped cutting vegetables and looked at her in confusion: "I didn't ask them when to go back. They can go whenever they want."

Lin Shu winked at Liu Xiao'e and said, "Mom, the family will be very busy during the Dragon Boat Festival. You can ask your sister-in-law and the others to go and send off the festival early. When they come back, they can help you with the work and you can relax."