The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Finally, under Chen Dahe's puzzled gaze, Chen Cui paid one tael and four cents of silver and packed up everything on the counter and took it away.

When the boss quoted the amount, he was afraid that she would think it was too expensive, so he explained very embarrassedly: "This is really the cost price, there is no extra money. If you don't believe me, I can show you the account book."

Chen Cui waved her hand: "No need, I believe you."

With just over one or two taels of silver, Chen Cui was able to harvest several kinds of seeds that were rare at that time. She felt it was worth it.

After saying that, Chen Cui asked Daha to pack all these things into a big bag and carry it on his back.

With these seeds, Chen Cui had no intention of walking around any further. She wanted to return to the inn quickly to observe them carefully and explore the possibility of planting them.

But Chen Dahe obviously hadn't walked around enough. It was his first time in the city and he found many things new to him. Chen Cui remembered that she had promised to invite him to have fish at noon, so she patiently accompanied him on the walk.

Although Chen Dahe visited many places, he didn't buy much. Even when Chen Cui gave him some silver, he waved his hand to refuse it.

"Sister, I don't have anything to buy. I just want to wander around and learn more. I gave the one or two taels of silver you gave me last time back to Suozhu's mother. She scolded me and said that I had only been helping you for a short time and had put in so much effort, and you had the nerve to ask me for so much money. She forbade me to accept it from you in the future."

Chen Dahe repeatedly refused the money that Chen Cui handed over, and Chen Cui had no choice but to take it back.

This is the Chen family that she has high hopes for. No matter whether it is the original body's brothers or brothers' wives, none of them are the kind of people who are blinded by money. That is why she is so confident in teaching them the method of charcoal burning without reservation.

Tired of shopping at noon, Chen Cui took her brother to a restaurant that looked mid-range.

This is what she found out from the owner of a roadside restaurant, a restaurant that is famous for its fish.

Before entering the door, Dahao suddenly hesitated. He saw that the restaurant was very neatly decorated and thought that eating in such a place should not be cheap. He regretted saying that he wanted to eat fish before.

"Sister, why don't we go to another restaurant? I don't want to eat fish right now. Let's just find a stall and have a bowl of noodles." Chen Dahe said.

Chen Cui could see what he was thinking. She knew he wanted to save money for himself, so she smiled and said, "Come on, we're already at the door, let's go in quickly. We just asked around, and they say that the big carp here is very authentic."

There is a Bailong River flowing through the territory of Wudu Prefecture. It comes from the northwest and goes to the southeast. It is said that it flows all the way to Guangyuan in Shu.

There are many kinds of fish in the river, the most famous of which is the fine-scaled fish, which has tender meat and delicious taste.

Unfortunately, this kind of fish is very rare. It is usually difficult to catch and it is expensive. Now it is winter, so it is even rarer. So what they are going to eat today is the more common carp.

Even carp is hard to come by in winter, so the price must be higher than usual. Chen Dahe knew this, so he retreated only when he reached the door.

Chen Cui pulled Chen Dahe's sleeve and pulled him in: "Even if it's expensive, how much can we eat? Sister still has some money for food."

As expected, money is a person's courage. If it were two months ago, when Chen Cui had just arrived here, with all her property amounting to only a few taels of silver, she would never have dared to say such a thing.

After the brother and sister entered, they sat down in a corner of the hall. Chen Cui ordered the dishes. In addition to the signature braised carp, she also ordered stir-fried cabbage and stir-fried winter melon, both of which were home-cooked dishes.

When the dishes were served, Chen Dahe discovered that his sister only ate the two vegetarian dishes and did not touch the fish. Then he remembered that it had not been a hundred days since his brother-in-law passed away, and she could not eat meat, so the fish was ordered just for him.

Chen Dahe was touched, but he couldn't say anything to thank her. He just kept putting food into Chen Cui's bowl: "Sister, you eat, eat more!"

"Hey, stop serving me fish. Eat your fish quickly. It will get cold and taste fishy."

The dishes in Chen Cui's bowl were piled up to the brim, and she couldn't see the rice underneath. She quickly stopped Chen Dahe from picking up more dishes.

Chen Dahe chuckled and finally stopped paying attention to Chen Cui's bowl of rice. Instead, he concentrated on dealing with the fish in front of him.

"Sister, this fish is really delicious, there is no fishy smell at all."

He had eaten home-cooked fish before, but no matter how it was cooked, it always had a fishy smell. The fish in this restaurant was different.

"Of course, otherwise how could it be their signature dish!" Chen Cui praised.

Although she didn't eat fish, she could tell from the taste of these two vegetarian dishes that the chef's cooking skills were quite good.

These two common vegetables, which can be cooked in a way that most people know how to cook, produce a taste that is hard to match with home-cooked dishes. This shows the chef in the kitchen's control over the heat.

After dinner, the brother and sister left the restaurant and returned to the inn to rest.

When she reached the door of the room, Chen Cui took the pile of seeds she had bought from Chen Dahe.

When Chen Dahe handed the bag over, he couldn't help but ask, "Sister, what are these? We spent so much money on them, what if they don't grow?"

This half bag of stuff weighs less than ten pounds, but it cost one tael and four cents of silver, which is dozens or even hundreds of coins per pound. What on earth is so precious?

Chen Cui smiled mysteriously: "You will know when the time comes. Go back and rest. We have to leave early tomorrow."

After closing the door, Chen Cui carried the half bag of seeds into the space.

At this time, the land in the space has completely changed.

Because tomatoes, beans and cucumbers all need to be supported by vines, Chen Cui built the vineyards early on with thin bamboo branches. Now they have all begun to climb along the vineyards, and the cucumbers have even produced small yellow flowers.

The eggplants are also growing well. Some have already produced purple flowers. After the flowers fade, they will bear fruit.

The branches and vines on this small piece of land add vitality to the entire space.

Chen Cui put down her pocket, sat on the rocking chair at the door of the wooden house, closed her eyes, and rocked gently.

As the waves swayed in a rhythmic pattern, she felt as if she were in a dream, returning to her old courtyard.

When the rocking chair stopped, she sighed and had to return to reality.

She resigned herself to her fate and stood up, picked up the bag, took out all the seeds inside, and began to observe and classify them carefully.

Corn seeds were the most numerous and the heaviest, weighing about ten pounds, while there was only a handful of watermelon seeds, estimated to be only half a pound at most.

Chili seeds are quite large, a bulging bag, but they are light and don't weigh much, only less than one pound.

Those pieces of grape vines looked just like the dead vines on the roadside. They had lost all their moisture and I didn't know if they could still survive if they were stuck in the ground.

As for the other two or three things below, Chen Cui really couldn’t recognize them. If she wanted to tell them apart, she had to plant them in the field and see what they looked like when they grew up.

However, the field is now full of tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and eggplants. Where should she plant?