The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Seeing the Qinggang wood in front of her, Chen Cui recalled that she had learned how to make charcoal using traditional methods in that village. As for the raw materials for making charcoal, they were also taken from Qinggang wood, which is the iron oak tree in front of her.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little excited.

The traditional method of charcoal making is very simple and easy to learn. Apart from wood and labor, it requires almost no additional costs. If you can make charcoal and sell it, wouldn’t it be a profitable business?

However, no matter how expensive or cheap this charcoal is, it is not used by ordinary farmers. At least Chen has never heard of any family using charcoal for heating in winter. At least only the wealthy families in the city will have this need.

Moreover, the winter in Yinping County is not that cold, at most only minus four or five degrees Celsius. As a village woman, Chen has no chance to go to the city, and she doesn't know whether people in the city will need charcoal in winter.

Chen Cui felt that she would have to go into the city in the near future to explore the options before deciding on her next move.

Continuing along the mountain road, they soon arrived at the place where they dug yams yesterday.

Chen Cui planned to get more this time. Except for keeping a small part in the ground, she would dig out the rest.

She plans to take some with her when she goes to the county town. It would be best if she could sell it, but if not, she can dry it and keep it for herself to eat slowly.

If there is a way to exchange money with good returns, she will open up a separate piece of land to grow some.

After digging for a while, we only dug out a dozen or so yams, and many of them were broken. The main reason was that these yams were irregular in shape, like tree branches.

Another problem is that the main tools are not powerful enough. Without something like a shovel, digging is difficult.

Chen Cui was tired from digging, so she slowly picked up firewood for a while to take a rest.

Seeing that she had almost finished digging and that it was her workload for today, she stopped, shook off the excess dirt on the yams one by one, tidied them up a little, and put them in a sack.

The firewood nearby has been almost picked up. If you want more, you can only climb up a tree to chop it.

The iron oak tree, also known as the Cyclobalanopsis glauca, has a high oil content in its bark, is relatively flammable and durable, and is a very good firewood.

But the trees were too tall. The trees she saw in the forest were at least seven or eight meters tall, and some were even more than ten meters tall.

Although she could climb trees in her previous life, and Chen also climbed trees with her brother when she was a child, but that was a long time ago. If she were really asked to climb a tree now, she would not dare.

Anyway, this mountain is very big and there is no firewood in this area, so we can just look for it somewhere else.

It's just a little troublesome and she needs to explore more. Although she doesn't know much about this mountain now, she has a hatchet and a sickle in her hands, as well as space protection, so she thinks there won't be any big risks.

Chen Cui looked around and then quickly threw the yam and firewood into the space.

What she planted yesterday remained the same as before, without any change. It seemed that her hopes were dashed. Neither the land nor the well water had any special effects.

Chen Cui carried a backpack and set off on the road lightly, continuing to move towards another forest.

By the way, there are so many bushes in this mountain that you need to use a hatchet to clear the way and cut off the branches blocking the way almost every two steps, otherwise you can't get through.

In fact, she was a little curious. Aren’t people in this village often go up the mountain? This place is not far from the village, so why is there no road at all?

In fact, Chen Cui had no idea that she had now deviated from the normal path taken by the villagers to go up the mountain and headed inside.

This mountain has also been the site of many harmful creatures, including wild boars, black bears, and iron-eating beasts.

Every few years, there would be incidents of animals harming people, so even if the locals went into the mountains, they would only look for firewood and some mountain products and would not go too far into the mountains.

This mountain is extremely vast, stretching for dozens of miles. There are only more than 400 people in the village, and most of them just wander around the periphery. Few dare to go inside, so this place seems to be sparsely populated.

At this time, Chen Cui did not notice anything unusual and was feeling happy that she had seen a pheasant.

Although this chicken looks a bit like the golden pheasant that she had seen on TV before, and is a Grade 2 chicken, Chen Cui now thinks that it is just her prey.

Yes, she had made up her mind to catch the pheasant.

There is no animal protection law now, so who cares whether it is National I or National II? In these mountains and forests, whoever catches it owns it, and it does not violate any law!

The seventh day after Liu Eryong's death is coming soon. According to custom, a sumptuous meal should be prepared on the table that night for the purpose of offering sacrifice.

Although there is no uniform standard for what is considered a "sumptuous" meal, it must at least include meat.

There are only three chickens left in the house. If we kill one more, we won’t be able to lay even one egg a day. What will the little girl eat then? How will these children grow? Are they going to rely on those coarse noodles?

This chicken’s tail is so long, it must be a rooster. We can cook it if we catch it!

In order to catch it successfully, Chen Cui had been lying in ambush in the bushes for a long time since she discovered it, just waiting for the sure hit to capture it in one fell swoop.

This pheasant had been wandering around for a long time. Judging from its leisurely posture, it should not have noticed anyone ambushing it, but it just didn't come towards Chen Cui. She was afraid of scaring it away, so she didn't dare to move.

Finally, the pheasant came towards Chen Cui in small steps.

She clenched the hatchet in her hand, ready to strike, waiting for the fatal blow!

It happened in a flash. When the pheasant entered Chen Cui's effective attack range, she quickly stood up, raised the hatchet, and chopped at the pheasant.

Although the pheasant was terrified, it had lost the chance to dodge and was hit on the back, immediately crawling on the ground.

Although the knife hit the creature, no blood was seen because the feathers on its back were smooth.

Upon seeing this, Chen Cui immediately stabbed the pheasant again on the neck, and the entire chicken head was immediately separated from the body. The golden crown feathers fell to the ground unwillingly, and this gorgeous pheasant suddenly became a headless chicken.

Although a lot of blood spurted out from the broken section of the chicken's neck, Chen Cui didn't care.

She looked at the colorful feathers on the chicken's back and belly with joy, thinking that she would pluck them and keep them carefully when she got home so that she could make a shuttlecock for the little girl Sui Sui later.

With such a beautiful shuttlecock, this girl must be the envy of all the little girls in the village!

Chen Cui disliked the fishy smell of the blood, so she picked up the pheasant's body and head and threw them into the space together, planning to take them out when she was almost home.

At this moment, she couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had her own space.

If it wasn't for the purpose of hiding from others, she wouldn't even need to carry the backpack and would walk lightly in the whole forest.

Just when Chen Cui was about to turn around and leave, something strange happened suddenly.

A figure rushed towards Chen Cui from behind. From the swift and unreserved posture, it seemed that he regarded her as his prey and was determined to get her!