The little girl from a farm family has a big wish to make a fortune by farming and picking mushrooms

"So that's how it is. I thought it was the old man who sent a message to the child in a dream." Zhu laughed. It seemed that she had misunderstood. It turned out that her daughter was so capable. As a mother, she was so proud!

Everyone was talking and laughing, and they were busy until it was time to prepare dinner before they closed their stall.

When Zhou Mingshu came home from work, she felt that her mother looked at her differently as soon as she entered the house. Was there a mixture of surprise and hope, and a bit of excitement in her anticipation? She kept guessing and couldn't quite figure out what her mother was thinking, so she simply stopped thinking about it.

The Zhou family’s dinner is always sumptuous.

During this period, Zhou Mingshu did not forget to put fish in the fish basket, but it was impossible for the Zhou family to cook fish every day.

So some of the fish were dried and kept.

Today, Mrs. Zhou caught a small carp and coated it with flour and fried it into fish pieces. In addition to the fish pieces, there were also a lot of fried shredded ginger, garlic slices and peppercorns on the plate. It can be seen that Mrs. Zhou put a lot of effort into preparing this fish.

In short, the taste was very good, and Mrs. Zhou’s hard work was unanimously praised by everyone. She listened to everyone’s praise and ate the meal contentedly.

After dinner it was time for Zhou Mingshu's class. What was different was that there were three more people at home today. It was Wang Youcai who brought his son and daughter to learn to read. They also had some wild fruits in their hands, saying that they were as tuition fees.

But Mrs. Zhou was so angry that she washed the fruit on the spot, put it in a bowl and shared it with a group of children.

"Youcai, if you bring things here again, I won't let you enter my house again."

"Aunt, I met it when I went up the mountain, and brought it here for the children to try. I said it was a joke, but you took it seriously."

Wang Youcai held old lady Zhou's hand and asked her to relax and not be so nervous.

"I don't care. No matter what you think, you are not allowed to bring anything with you when you bring your child to learn to read."

Seeing that Mrs. Zhou was so confident, Wang Youcai agreed.

A new student joined today, so Zhou Mingshu changed the characters he wanted to teach to simpler ones, starting with the surnames of the people in Lianglin Village.

The simplest surname is the "Wang" in Wang Youcai's name.

After counting the surnames in Lianglin Village, there are only seven or eight. They are easy to teach. It depends on whether these students can remember them.

Wang Youcai didn't learn much. This time he only learned the character "王". He is old, and he may not be able to remember it even if he learns more. He should learn his own name first. He has already learned one of the three characters. How could the remaining two be far behind?

After remembering his last name, he sat down with the Zhou family and talked, recounting what he had done and who he had met in the past two days...

After putting down the chalk, Zhou Mingshu took care of his own affairs and walked around the house to see if his pepper seedlings and loofah seedlings were still alive.

The pepper seedlings are still gathering strength and are now as long as her arm. It should only take a few days for them to bloom.

And the loofah grew as she expected. After the small yellow flowers withered, the loofah began to grow. Although it was very small, only the size of her little finger, this plant grew very fast, changing every day, and it would grow up quickly if you didn't pay attention.

There are many small loofahs on the loofah vine, each one is hidden under the leaves, and you can't find them unless you look carefully.

In two or three days, you will be able to pick a basket full of them. Then you can stir-fry the loofah with lard or eggs, which will be so tender!

Oh, she felt a little greedy just thinking about it.

The taste of loofah is just like its name, silky and slippery, so you don’t need to chew it too much. It is also delicious when cooked into soup.

The cucumbers next to him had also grown small cucumbers, with their tails sticking up. Most of them were crooked and cracked, and had small thorns all over them. Zhou Mingshu didn't dare to touch them.

It seems that the cucumber variety grown by grandma is not good. These cucumbers either have a big belly or a big tail, and are not straight at all. But let's see how they grow.

The beans on one side have already bloomed, some are white, some are purple, and some are pink. Butterflies fly by from time to time, and some of the ones that grow faster have already sprouted beans.

It looks like it won’t be long before there are fresh vegetables on the table.

After walking around the house, she saw that they were still working hard to trace the new characters. She didn't disturb them too much and went to do the washing up first.

The ointment at home has been prepared. Zhou Mingshu dried his hair, opened the lid, took a look, and smelled it. Although it has not completely solidified yet, it is almost there.

One thousand bottles of mugwort ointment can earn about ten taels of silver. Taking into account the remaining small amount of gardenia ointment, the income this month can be more than ten taels.

There is still so much rice at home. I don’t know how much it can be sold for. After paying off the debt, the remaining money should be enough to buy a donkey. I just don’t know if Old Mrs. Zhou is willing to do so.

If you want to make more money, you have to sell more mugwort paste, but Uncle Chen sells at most eighty bottles a day, and at least forty bottles. It will take at least half a month or more than twenty days to sell these one thousand bottles.

Seeing the soap beside him, Zhou Mingshu pinched it and found it was still a little soft. After calculating the time, it would take more than twenty days to finish.

After waiting for a while, it was too dark to continue recognizing words, so Wang Youcai ended the topic and left with the children.

Zhou Mingqin took the others to close the reading stall and started to prepare to wash up.

Zhou Mingshu came to the yard, sat with everyone, and scared everyone when he opened his mouth.

"Grandma, I want to buy a donkey, can I?"

Seeing that no one was talking, Zhou Mingshu listed in detail the various benefits that having a donkey at home would bring.

"It will be less than a month before the wheat harvest. With a donkey, it can help us transport the wheat and thresh it, saving us the trouble of threshing it..."

"When you go up the mountain to pick mushrooms, you can bring them home in carts. You don't have to borrow someone else's car to go to such a far place. It's too tiring to carry them back and forth..."

"It will be convenient for me to visit relatives in the future. I can just pull my own donkey cart and go, and come back the same day. How convenient..."

"It's much more convenient for us to go to the market and town. We can buy some eggs and go anywhere. If we are short of oil or salt at home, we don't need to borrow from neighbors. We can just pull the donkey to buy them..."

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As Zhou Mingshu listed the benefits one by one, many people in the family were tempted and looked at Old Lady Zhou, waiting for her to make a decision.

"If we buy a donkey, we will have no money. We still have a debt of nearly ten taels of silver to pay off. Even if we sell all the new grain, it won't be enough."

Old Mrs. Zhou was also very tempted. She was happier than anyone else to have a new livestock in the family, but her family situation did not allow her to buy the donkey within this month.

If I buy it next month, I will have more money, but I will miss the wheat harvest season, and I won't be able to buy the donkey in time for its actual use. Is it just for fun?!