The road to wealth of a peasant widow

After a while, Changping was the first to react. He wiped his face with his sleeves, sniffed, patted his two brothers on the shoulders and said, "Don't dawdle, hurry up and bundle the firewood. If you delay any longer, it will be dark by the time you get home."

Chen Cui let go of the boys and said in a casual tone, "Your eldest brother is right, get to work."

They brought several hemp ropes from home, which were used to bundle firewood. They first cleared a space, then laid the hemp ropes flat on the ground, and began to gradually pick up the firewood nearby and put them on the hemp ropes.

Chen Cui felt a little tired. In addition, Sui Sui was tied in front of her, so it was difficult for her to bend down and squat. Therefore, she did not do anything. She was observing the surrounding environment.

In fact, she had been paying attention to the places she passed by all the way to see if she could find anything.

Unfortunately, there seemed to be nothing, let alone ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum. Because it hadn't rained recently, even mushrooms were not found, which made her somewhat disappointed.

Yes, this mountain is so close to the village and people in the village often go up the mountain. If there were any, they would have been taken away long ago.

Chen Cui was thinking when she suddenly heard Chang Fu shout, "Mom, look, what is this?"

She walked closer and saw that there was a large patch of green climbing plants at the edge of the woods, with many light brown spherical bumps on it. Changfu curiously plucked one and scratched open the skin with his fingernails to see what was inside.

Although the skin of this thing is brown, the inside is white.

Chen Cui felt that this thing seemed familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

This looks like yam beans?

She was not quite sure, but she remembered that there was a candied haws stall at the exit of a large supermarket near her home. The business was very hot. There was a kind of candied haws made of yam eggs. It was a small string, with only six or seven pieces in total, and it cost five yuan a string.

This thing looks very similar to yam eggs, so it is very easy to tell whether it is a yam egg.

Yam eggs are the fruits grown on the yam plant. If this is a yam egg, then there must be yam growing underneath.

Chen Cui stopped Changfu from putting it in his mouth to taste it, and asked Chang'an who had gathered around to use a sickle to dig along the root of the vine to see if there was anything underneath.

"Mom, why are you digging down there? These are fruits on the vine!"

Changfu asked in confusion.

"Mom thinks this is a bit like something your dad told me before. As to whether it is true or not, we'll find out if we dig deeper." Chen Cui had to bring up the deceased Liu Eryong.

There was no way. Chen was just an ordinary peasant girl. She had never been to school, could not read, and had only been to the county town a few times in her life.

If she had any knowledge, it either came from her father, brother or husband. At present, her father and brother are still alive and well, so she can only use the dead Liu Eryong as a shield.

Although the sickle was not very handy for digging, the ground that Chang'an was digging was soft, and he quickly dug out what was underneath.

Chen Cui took the irregular rhizome which looked a bit like a branch and was covered with bumps. After careful observation, she peeled off the skin, broke it in half and looked at the cross-section.

After seeing the familiar mucus, she was sure that it must be yam.

In other words, the small bean just now is the seed of yam, yam bean.

However, perhaps because the yam is wild and has not been artificially cultivated, its shape is not as straight as those sold in modern vegetable markets and supermarkets, and it is not as good-looking.

But it doesn’t matter what shape it is, as long as it is confirmed to be yam.

Yam is an excellent tonic for the body. She and her children need some nourishment, so this is very suitable. Moreover, judging from the cross-section just now, the starch content of this yam should be quite high, so it can fill the stomach.

Although the family has not yet reached the point where they have no food to eat, and she is confident that she can lead a good life with her children, these children do not know this.

Today, when she was scooping noodles out of the jar, she saw Changping's distressed and worried expression. She knew that the child was worried about the family's food and future livelihood.

Now that we have found edible yams, it brings a little confidence to this family.

The three children gathered around this strange-looking thing, waiting for Chen Cui's explanation.

"This should be something called yam that your father told me about. The small beans on it are called yam beans. This thing can be eaten and can warm the body. Maybe you can sell it to a medicine store for money."

As soon as Chen Cui finished speaking, several children began to get excited.

They did not doubt the truthfulness of Chen Cui's words. Children always instinctively believed what their parents said.

Hearing that this thing can be eaten, nourish the body, and can be sold for money, the children temporarily ignored the firewood on the ground and started digging with the tools in their hands.

Chen Cui gave them some instructions on the digging method, asking them to be careful not to break the roots and to keep them intact as much as possible. She then slowly collected the firewood on the ground and sorted it out and tied it together.

By the time Chen Cui had tied up the three bundles of firewood, the yams dug out by the three Changping brothers had already spread all over the ground.

Seeing the three boys working so hard and sweating, Chen Cui quickly stopped them: "That's enough, stop digging. We only brought one backpack today, and we can't carry more."

Today we came to the mountain mainly to get firewood. I brought several hemp ropes, but only one backpack.

Hearing this, the three of them stopped with some regret, slightly de-mud the yams they had dug out, and put them into the backpack.

Chen Cui looked at the sky and felt that it would take a long time to climb the mountain, so she urged them to quickly carry the firewood and go home.

The quantities of firewood in the three bundles are different, some are more and some are less.

Changping first put the smallest bundle on Changfu's back, then put another smaller bundle on Changan's back, and finally, he weighed the largest bundle of firewood and the backpack.

"Mom, I'll carry the backpack and you carry the firewood." Changping said.

Chen Cui knew that the firewood was definitely not as heavy as the yam, and she had no intention of letting Changping carry the yam, but she still felt relieved that the child was so considerate.

Chen Cui said, "This bundle of firewood is too big. It's not easy for mother to walk with it on her back. It's more convenient and stable to carry it in a basket, and it won't affect Sui Sui."

Chang Ping said immediately: "Then tie Sui Sui to me too, and I will carry the backpack on my back."

Chen Cui smiled and said, "Okay, just do as mother says. Mother is an adult, stronger and more capable than you."

Before Changping could say anything else, Chen Cui hurriedly urged him, "Let's go quickly. It will be dark soon."

Seeing this, he had no choice but to carry the largest bundle of firewood on his back.

Chen Cui helped him organize the firewood on his back and make it firm, and then the group went down the mountain along the same route they came.