Traveling through 70's wine

There was a creek outside the town. Wen Qing walked and looked around. When she reached the creek, she found that it was not wide but deep with a fast current. She said to Wu Qing, "Let's catch some fish to exchange for food." Wu Qing hesitated, "How do we catch them?" Wen Qing took the food for both of them out of the backpack and put it aside. Then she knocked the two backpacks over and put them into the creek, blocking the water. She broke off a branch with leaves on it and rushed towards the backpacks from upstream.

After chasing for a few times, the two lifted the backpack and found a 2-3 jin big fish and six palm-sized small fish in it. Wen Qing picked up the smaller fish and threw it back into the water. The two walked upstream for a while, found a turning place, sank the backpack into the water, and followed the same method to catch two big fish and ten small fish.

Wen Qing picked up the backpack, shook off the water, then spread leaves in the basket, strung the big fish together with reed leaves and carried it with her, and wrapped the small fish and put them in the basket.

After such a delay, there were more pedestrians on the road, so the two quickened their pace and finally arrived at the town before 8 o'clock. This town is called Shangyi Town, which has a long history. It was a town on the ancient Tea Horse Road. Many buildings were built in the Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than years. The white walls and black tiles, the ridges and deep eaves, and the stone slabs on the ground are polished smooth by the carriages and horses, which shows the prosperity of the past.

There were many people at the market, and the residents of the town used two long benches and a cool board to build a small stall in front of their houses. The people from the village could only find a place under someone else's eaves to display their goods, and of course they had to give the host two eggs or a handful of vegetables. Wen Qing and his companions didn't have much stuff, so they put down the backpack at the end of the town, spread the stall with leaves, and put the fish on the leaves.

Neither of them had eaten breakfast, so Wen Qing took out a small bag of wheat and walked around the area, mainly asking the townspeople if they were willing to exchange coarse grains for fine grains. The streets were crowded with people, so Wen Qing specifically asked those families with tall and neat houses, and finally exchanged 10 kilograms of wheat for 25 kilograms of aged corn. Wu Qing also sold the small fish, which she secretly showed to Wen Qing, and sold for 2 yuan.

Wu Qing took the money to buy breakfast, while Wen Qing was guarding the stall. After a while, an old lady came and looked at the things on the stall and asked, "How much are these fish?" Wen Qing said, "I caught them this morning, they are not dead yet, they are still fresh, one weighs 2-3 jin, only 2 yuan, cheaper than meat." The old lady hesitated for a long time, the fish should be more than 1 jin, less than 9 yuan per jin, not expensive, and bargained again, finally the deal was made at 2 yuan and 5 cents per fish, the old lady bought 8 fish, and the man passing by bought the remaining fish, earning a total of 10 yuan and cents. They also had a bag of jin of wheat to exchange for coarse grains.

Wu Qing bought four cooked sweet potatoes for ten cents, and the two of them ate them for breakfast. Wu Qing carried the basket on his back and asked prices along the street. He exchanged 5 kilograms of wheat for 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes and 5 kilograms of wheat for 15 kilograms of sorghum rice, finally completing today's task.

On the way back to the village, both of them were in a good mood and kept chatting. A young man came up from behind. He was not tall, less than 170 cm, and he was empty-handed. He took the initiative to greet Wen Qing and the others, "Wen Zhiqing, did you go to the market?" Wen Qing looked at him in confusion, and the man hurriedly said, "I am Lin Tianlu from Xiangyang Village, and my mother is Aunt Lin Er." Wen Qing nodded, without looking at him, and just chatted with Wu Qing. Lin Tianlu said, "I'll help you carry the backpack." As he said that, he reached out to take the backpack on Wen Qing's back. Wen Qing dodged sideways and said, "Comrade Lin, no need." Seeing that Wen Qing was determined to dodge, Lin Tianlu had to stop and walked away silently. He followed them and walked to the entrance of the village. Lin Tianlu waved to them and said, "Wen Zhiqing, goodbye." Wen Qing pretended not to hear and pointed to the Zhiqing with Wu Qing.

When they got home, they took out the things in the basket and put them on the table. There were 25 kilograms of corn, 15 kilograms of sorghum, 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and 50 kilograms of wheat left in the house. All this food would last until September or even the end of the year.

Wen Qing stayed in the attic in the afternoon. She was sleeping on the surface, but actually she was entering the space. The vegetables in the space were ready to be picked. Wen Qing planted local varieties, so it would not be a big deal to eat them. The rice seedlings had been grown. Wen Qing had sorted out the paddy fields of five mu in size and dug a ditch to draw water from the lake to irrigate the paddy fields. She planted the rice seedlings in the fields and was sweating from exhaustion. Wen Qing went to the bathroom in the bamboo building and let in the spring water. The water was slightly warm, and she took a comfortable bath.

She dried her hair, put on her clothes, and went to the study to practice. She currently felt that her physical condition was much better than when she first arrived. With time, it would not be difficult to recover to her peak state.

In the evening, Gu Hua called her outside the house: "Wen Qing, Wen Qing." Wen Qing came out and asked, "What's the matter?" "Let's go catch eels, do you want to go?" She also took out a flashlight. The sky was still bright in the evening. Wen Qing picked up a hoe and called Wu Qing. Wu Qing took a bamboo basket and a wooden barrel. Gu Hua called Luo Yixing too. The four of them went to the small ditch together and cut off the water first. The four of them groped in the mud for a long time and caught half a bucket of loaches and eels. The four of them then blocked the gap. Everyone returned home covered in mud. It was another busy period. Guo Jianguo and Li Wei were jealous.

Wen Qing is thinking about how to use the space to improve the current situation. You can't make money by growing vegetables. Now everyone is short of food, meat and daily necessities. What she lacks most now is start-up capital. She needs to buy grain seeds and piglets, and then collect grain and sell pork to realize the original accumulation of capital.

There was no other way for the time being, so Wen Qing entered the space to plant rice. She reclaimed another 5 acres of land, dug ditches, and scattered rice seeds in the seedling field, carefully covering the rice seeds with loose soil.

Wen Qing felt that the efficiency of cultivating the fields in this way was too low. She had to think about how to upgrade to mechanized farming. She went to a small peninsula by the lake and built a rabbit house there. Rabbits are good at digging holes and jumping, so they had to be built with stones. There were stones on the hillside of the space, and she carried them to the lake. The chicken coop was much easier to build. She cut down trees and bamboo and built a simple chicken coop. Then Wen Qing left the space.

The next day, Wen Qing told Wu Qing that she was going to the mountains to dig medicinal herbs and might be away for a few days. If there was anything, please ask for leave for her. Fortunately, they had just finished planting rice seedlings and there was not much farm work to do, so it didn't matter if she was away for a few days.

Wen Qing carried the backpack on her back and walked very quickly. In an hour they had already entered the deep mountains. Along the way they caught some wild rabbits and pheasants and raised them in the rabbit house and chicken coop. Wen Qing also caught some small fish and put them into the lake, and some big fish and put them into the pond beside the lake to facilitate future fishing.

Wen Qing did not go deep into the dense forest, but just walked a little further than most people. In the valley, she found some medicinal herbs such as Poria cocos, Dendrobium officinale, Polygonatum sibiricum, Gastrodia elata, and Angelica sinensis. Seeing that there was no one around, she entered the space and planted these herbs in the medicine garden.

She cooked fish soup and ate in the space.

At night, Wen Qing found a cave, mainly because she couldn't move when entering and exiting the space, and was worried about being discovered by others when leaving the space. She practiced and slept in the space, and came out the next day to continue exploring the forest.

There are many snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants in the forest in summer. Fortunately, she was a border guard here in her previous life and had a lot of experience in how to move around in the forest. She picked some medicinal herbs and made some anti-snake and insect medicine to sprinkle on her body. She tied her clothes tightly and put on a straw hat, so she could walk in the forest without any hindrance.

The next day, Wen Qing walked upstream along the stream again and suddenly found a stone beside the stream that was different from the others. She walked over to observe it carefully. It was a gray-green stone, about the size of a millstone. It was very similar to the jadeite raw stone she had seen at the border in her previous life.

She didn't have any tools to cut stones now, so she could only put the stones into the space. Along the stream, she found more than 30 such stones in the water and on the shore, which were probably washed here by the stream.

Wen Qing took out a pen and marked it on the homemade map. She walked to the source of the stream and found a cave. The water came out of the cave. She walked into the cave carefully and found some similar stones near the cave. Wen Qing put them into the space as usual. Since she didn't bring a torch, Wen Qing didn't want to go deep into the cave. She planned to be well prepared to drill the cave next time.

On the way back, Wen Qing shot a roe deer and a wild goat and put them into the space. This time she planned to sell them in the county for money, or directly exchange them for grain seeds.

It was dark at night when she returned home. Wen Qing washed the herbs she had collected and took them to the courtyard to dry. She also collected the herbs that had been dried before, preparing to go to the county town to sell them together. Wu Qing saw that she was very tired, so he urged her to eat, take a bath, and rest quickly. Wen Qing had to get up early the next day, so she didn't talk much. After doing all this, she went to the attic to sleep.

The next day, at daybreak, Wen Qing tiptoed out of the educated youth site. It was quiet all around and the fields in the distance were shrouded in mist. Wen Qing only carried a backpack with some worthless money grass, licorice and a few bags of mushrooms in it. He walked to Shangyi Town and took the first bus to Luchun County.