Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Han Zhaozhao herself is not a childish person. As soon as she saw the cautious look of the middle-aged woman, she knew that she was worried.

That's true. After all, it was only the second time they met and they hadn't established trust with each other yet. If the person doing the transaction was an adult, people would be a little less wary, but the other party was a seven or eight-year-old child, so it was no wonder that people would be cautious and consider more.

It seemed that it was impossible to ask them to deliver the food to her door. But she was also afraid of trouble if she let the other party choose the transaction location.

In the end, Han Zhaozhao used the not-so-skilled deception skills he learned from Teacher Zhao in his previous life, and finally agreed with the middle-aged woman on a transaction location and time that both parties agreed to.

Han Zhaozhao heaved a sigh of relief after the grain purchase was finalized. Well, if this deal goes through, the family will have a source of grain in the future. If she passes on the responsibility, someone will take it over!

Han Zhaozhao was excited, nervous, and most of all, expectant.

After another round of wandering around the market, Han Zhaozhao bought two kilograms of onions, two kilograms of broad beans, a sunflower plate, and a bag of lotus root tips sold in piles.

These are all varieties that are not available in her space.

Seeing an old lady with yellow hair and a skinny body selling seeds in a corner, she felt very sympathetic and bought a small bag of vegetable seeds from the old lady.

Han Zhaozhao took a rough look and saw a dozen straw paper bags of various sizes in the cloth bag. The old lady told her that there were a total of more than a dozen kinds of melon and vegetable seeds in it, all of which were carefully selected by her herself, ensuring that each seed was full and had a 100% germination rate.

The old lady asked for 1.5 yuan for the vegetable seeds, which weighed about one and a half kilograms. Han Zhaozhao did not bargain and even gave her the new cloth bag he brought with him.

He counted out the money and handed it to the old lady. She took the money and stuffed it into the waistband of her fat trousers without even clicking her finger. Then she picked up the basket and left without looking back.

Seeing the old lady walking quickly on tiptoe with a basket on her shoulder, Han Zhaozhao realized belatedly that she had been cheated again!

Oh! How come in this era, not only the fruit farmers with thick eyebrows and big eyes are hypocritical and pretend to be simple and honest to deceive people, but even the weak and skinny old ladies with bound feet can pretend to be pitiful and deceive people? Could it be that they sew too many cloth bags in their daily life and can pretend?

Han Zhaozhao felt uneasy and was also very curious. How badly had he been deceived?

She found a corner and squatted down, untied the cloth bag she bought from the old lady, took out the items one by one, opened the paper packages and examined them carefully.

"This paper bag contains celery seeds, these are onion seeds, these are carrots, these are beans, these are kidney beans, cucumbers, loofahs, gourds, winter melons, and pumpkins. Huh?

These look like watermelons and melons, right? What kind of seeds are these? Are they castor beans? Why are they so big? "

castor bean

Han Zhaozhao now understood that there were a total of one and a half kilograms of seeds in the cloth bag, and castor seeds alone accounted for almost one kilogram. She had been cheated out of about one dollar!

The more valuable the seeds are, the smaller the quantity. For example, celery, onions, and carrots are wrapped in three or four layers of packaging. When you open the packaging like a treasure box, there are only a handful of seeds inside that can be pinched with two fingers.

"What a talent! What a talent! She has already understood the essence of over-packaging these days!!! The Russians use nesting dolls, but this old lady has used a bag for me!

You are so good at bagging, why don’t you go to the fruit farmers’ homes to help? Oh, I forgot, the fruit farmers don’t need your skills now! "

If the wrapping paper the old lady used was a little better, she would take it home and use it as toilet paper, but what the hell is this?

Why are you reluctant to use even waste newspapers? You really don't have a strong sense of environmental protection. What kind of paper is this? Why is it worse than fire paper? It will break if you touch it. What is this? What is this?

Throw it in the toilet and don't pick up a handful of poop when you need it? Yue... The picture is too beautiful, I dare not think about it!

Throwing it away is not a good idea either. It has become a habit not to litter. Han Zhaozhao can only take it home to see if it can be used to start a fire by stuffing it under the stove.

There was no other way. The packaging was all torn, so Han Zhaozhao had to put all the seeds into the space. Otherwise, it would be a waste to scatter them. After all, she spent a huge sum of one yuan and fifty cents to buy them.

You can't throw it away. There is still so much idle space and land. You can just throw some seeds and you will have a harvest.

She was not angry even though she was cheated by the old lady. On the contrary, she was very happy!

She found three more seeds she needed: watermelon, winter melon and castor bean!

Although castor beans are the least valuable in rural areas now, and can only be sold for 10 cents per kilogram, she still remembers that the production team in her hometown planted them when she was a child. It is said that castor beans have a very high oil yield and can be used to make lubricants and fuels used in the aviation and automobile industries.

castor

At that time, castor was a strategic material, and the country had always encouraged the people to plant it in large quantities. She still remembered that in the 1970s, school teachers would give each student a dozen seeds and ask them to sow them everywhere.

When she was a child, she and her friends roasted and ate castor beans. The taste...tsk tsk, to be honest, it had a weird taste and was not delicious at all!

The aunties and grandmothers in the village also use the young fruits to pickle pickles, which are said to be very delicious.

Later I heard that it’s fine to eat this thing when it’s cooked, but eating it raw is simply like hanging yourself - seeking death!

Seven pills for a child and twenty pills for an adult can be fatal. She didn't have any accidents when she was a child, she must have been very strong!

When she grew up, she rarely saw castor beans in rural areas. She heard that castor beans were highly poisonous, but she didn't know whether the whole plant was poisonous or just the seeds.

Anyway, the adults had told the children about this, but the children at that time didn’t take it seriously and would pick them and eat them when they were really hungry.

Think about the people of that era, they were quite bold. While the government encouraged its planting, it also publicized that castor beans were poisonous, warning people to be careful of poisoning.

I don’t know if it’s because most people are uneducated or they are just careless. They don’t seek to understand the details and don’t even care about how to avoid being poisoned by ricin.

It’s time to pickle pickles, pickle pickles; it’s time to light oil lamps, light oil lamps; it’s time to eat oil, eat oil. It is said that eggs fried with castor oil are quite fragrant and taste no worse than soybean oil or rapeseed oil.

But when she was old, she watched TikTok videos and realized that ricin is comparable to cyanide.

Only then did she remember that perhaps that was the reason why it was rare to see castor trees on the roadside after the 1980s!

Han Zhaozhao wants to plant castor oil plants!

Not only should we plant castor, we should plant it in large quantities!

Castor beans are good things! They are full of treasures!

Castor leaves can be used to raise silkworms and make cocoons, castor stalks can be used to make hemp and cotton cloth, and even the roots of castor have medicinal value. They can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and relieve pain. The leaves can relieve itching and swelling. The medicinal value of castor is even used to treat epilepsy and tetanus.

The whole plant is poisonous, but the toxin is mainly concentrated in castor beans and needs to be specially extracted.

However, the economic value of castor is so high that even the residue of castor oil can be spread on the fields as ecological fertilizer to promote crop growth.

The most important thing is that castor beans are easy to sell!

One cent per pound, the purchasing station is open to buy, and they will take as much as they can.

This thing does not attract attention like food, and it will not cause trouble even if it is planted in large quantities.

For Han Zhaozhao, it is simply the best tool to make a fortune at the moment.