Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top

The dead dad is a brick, he can be moved wherever he is needed. It seems that there is nothing wrong with being a widow, he can be thrown out as a shield when needed.

Seeing that Taohua accepted new things, Yang Xiuying introduced them to her again.

"That treasure is only visible to me. Do you know how much food you can exchange for the wild mushrooms you picked yesterday?"

The wild mushrooms in the mountains are not valuable. Even if you take them to the city to sell, a pound of wild mushrooms can only be worth one penny at most. The entrance fee to the city is one penny. If you can't sell them, not only will you waste time, but you will also lose one penny. So no one will risk taking wild mushrooms to the city to sell them. Most people pick them and eat them themselves. Fresh wild mushrooms cooked together with wheat bran are a meal.

"And that 'cow dung'-like thing that Lao Si dug up yesterday is also priced differently from ordinary wild mushrooms."

Taohua nodded. That thing was used to feed chickens and ducks, so it naturally could not be compared with wild mushrooms.

Yang Xiuying was satisfied with Taohua's reaction. She did not keep asking questions, but listened carefully and analyzed. It seemed that she did not choose the wrong person.

Yang Xiuying continued, "The wild mushrooms you picked yesterday can be exchanged for about 35 kilograms of rice per kilogram. The stuff that looks like 'cow dung' is more expensive, about 280 kilograms of rice per kilogram."

When Taohua heard that one pound of "cow dung" used to feed the chickens could be exchanged for 280 pounds of rice, her mouth dropped open. Yesterday, the fourth child had dumped a basket of that stuff in the chicken coop. Was she pouring out "cow dung"? It was actually white rice!

She thought of her father again. It seemed that her father was an important official in heaven, otherwise why would he give her mother such a powerful magic weapon? She must keep this secret well, protect her father, and protect her sisters.

She must not let her mother down. Her mother told her this secret out of trust in her, and she must protect her mother.

The second son chopped a load of firewood and put it next to the stove so that it would be convenient to use when needed.

The children who went out to pick wild mushrooms have also returned. The older four and five children are cleaning the mushrooms they picked. They went with many people, and not only did they dig up some "cow dung", they also picked a lot of wild mushrooms.

The fourth brother piled the "cow dung" in the bamboo basket aside, then cleaned the wild mushrooms, put those of the same kind together, and then removed the leaves and weeds that were stuck to the mushrooms.

Then pick up the bamboo basket where the "cow dung" is piled.

Xiuying and Taohua asked at the same time: "Lamei, what are you going to do?"

The fourth child was very happy to hear her mother and elder sister calling her name at the same time. She liked being called by her new name.

"To feed the chickens. Mother asked us to dig so much to feed the chickens, didn't she? Mother, don't worry, I will definitely feed the chickens fat."

"Tomorrow I'll go a little further and dig up more. The chickens and ducks love it. By the end of this month, it will have grown until early March. Then I'll feed the chickens and ducks something else and make sure they don't go hungry."

Yang Xiuying's eyes lit up. The growth cycle of black truffles is short, only about one or two months. It is now February, which means there is not much time left.

Xiuying began to worry. She had to buy a cow for the April farming season, which cost twenty taels of silver. Right now, she only had the ten taels she'd received from Zhao's mother. Opening other categories in the mall would also require silver. The daily necessities section alone cost a thousand yuan. Other categories had even higher opening fees.

Taohua stepped forward and said to the fourth child, "The wild mushrooms you picked also contain cow dung. Mother wants to sell them."

When the fourth child heard that Xiuying wanted to take the food to the city to sell, he looked at her in shock and said, "Mother, is anyone going to buy food for the chickens?"

Even wild mushrooms may not be sold, so how could anyone buy these things to feed chickens?

Besides, it takes an hour for A Niang to walk to the nearest Nanyang Prefecture, and the entrance fee is one penny. People in the village will not go to the city easily. Why not do something else with that time and waste a penny?

Normally, when grandma wants to buy something, she asks my aunt to go to Yangliu Town. There is a market there every seven days, and people from nearby areas will bring their things there to sell. There is no entrance fee, but the things sold there are mostly chickens, ducks, geese, etc. Wild mushrooms and chicken feed can be seen everywhere. Can they be sold there?

The fourth child thought of the endless cow dung she had dug up on the mountain and asked, "How could the young ladies and gentlemen of rich families like to eat this black food used to feed chickens?"

People in this dynasty don’t know black truffles and only think of them as feed for livestock, but in the future world, these black things will be very valuable and only the rich can eat them, so the prices in the space mall will be so high.

Yang Xiuying looked at the anxious Old Four and said soothingly, "Lamei, don't worry. Mother will take it to Nanyang Prefecture to sell. There are many rich people there. Mother will not sell it in the market, where it cannot fetch a high price. Instead, she will sell it to restaurants in the city.

The wealthy people in the city have tasted all sorts of delicacies, but they crave things like this, things they've never seen or tasted before. They're willing to spend money on such rare items, selling them for five cents per pound. And then there's what you call 'cow dung.' It has a nicer name: black truffle."

Xiuying didn't dare to say it was too high, for fear of scaring the little girls.

Hearing that the chickens fed on weekdays could be sold for five cents, the fourth brother's eyes lit up. "A pound of black flour is only four cents, and eight pounds of black truffles can buy ten pounds of black flour. Today we picked up a total of twenty pounds of black truffles, which is twenty-five pounds of black flour. Let's pick up more before March, so we have food before the rice harvest."

Although black flour buns are not as delicious as white flour buns, at least you won’t go hungry. White flour is too precious to eat every day. Even grandma and the village chief eat black flour.

The fourth sister then said to her sisters who were going to pick wild mushrooms and dig black truffles together today: "Yingchun, Yinlian, Mudan, let's go to the mountains to dig black truffles early tomorrow morning."

In the past, she didn't like digging this black stuff, but now she can't wait to dig all the black truffles on the two mountains.

The second sister moved a large flat stone to the side. Last night, eight people, mother and daughter, were squeezed on the stone. She noticed that her mother's feet could not be straightened, so she found another stone and put it together with the previous one. Now, not only could her mother's legs be straightened, but her sisters could also sleep more comfortably.

"I'll go with you too. With more people, we can dig up more black truffles and pick some wild mushrooms."

Yang Xiuying promised her daughters, "After we sell the black truffles, I'll buy you some pork."

The daughters nodded happily, it turned out that what their mother had told them before about having pork to eat was true.