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

During the slack season, women would not only do some needlework, but also pickle and dry vegetables, and find ways to store edible food. Even the milk fruit that children used as snacks could be dried, ground into powder, and mixed with black flour. It could not only be used to dissolve water, but also as a seasoning for soups and dishes.

The bracken is drained, dried and stored. During festivals, it is cut into pieces and wrapped in white flour with lard to make delicious wild vegetable buns.

In this era of low productivity and severe food shortage, people will not miss any edible food.

When the children have nothing to do, they go in groups to pick bracken and milk fruit.

Guangzong glanced at the child who was drying bracken and eating milk fruit under the old locust tree, and raised a mocking smile.

Only these people care about the interfering wild fruits, because their families are going to eat meat today.

The women waited until the four grandsons of the Zhao family were far away before they began to discuss.

"These guys have only been out for a short while, and they've already picked up so many wild mushrooms?"

"There must be about twenty pounds in that bamboo basket, right?"

"How did you pick up so much in just a short while?"

The four grandsons of the Zhao family have always been lazy and gluttonous. They picked up so much in a short time. Mrs. Wang looked at the backs of the four boys as they walked away in confusion. She always felt that these four boys were up to no good.

"Guangzong can't even catch a chicken, how can he catch a rabbit?"

"Yes, rabbits run faster than chickens."

"Maybe someone gave it to him."

"Who would give away a rabbit? I can't eat it myself."

"Guang Zong can't even catch his own chickens, so how can he catch a rabbit with his clumsy hands?"

"Perhaps after the family split up, the four boys, seeing that no one was doing the housework, would become more diligent. After all, housework still needs to be done, right? I think the four grandsons of the Zhao family can see what's going on. In the future, the Zhao family will still rely on them."

Mrs. Sun sighed as she was sewing the soles of shoes.

"Those guys are not young anymore. In a few years, they will be looking for girls. If they don't work hard, who would be willing to marry their daughters to them? The Zhao family is not bad either. They are also a wealthy family in the village. If those guys work harder, they will live a prosperous life."

Aunt Li, who has a daughter at home, disagrees with what Aunt Sun said.

"How did Tian Guilan treat the seven girls from Zhao Er's family? The youngest, Little Seven, was only four years old. At the Zhao family, she would go up the mountain to work before dawn with her sisters.

Those boys always went to work with empty bamboo baskets and returned with empty ones. The work of chopping wood and fetching water was all done by the maids from the second house. These maids lost their father, but Tian Guilan, their aunt, showed no pity at all.

When Aunt Li said this, she felt a little sad. Her daughter had a good relationship with the fourth child, so she knew more than the people in the village.

Thinking of this, Aunt Li felt sorry for Yang Xiuying again. Now that her husband had died, not only was there no support from her husband's family, but how would a woman with seven daughters live in the future?

Mrs. Sun was sewing a shoe sole in her hand and wiping the embroidery needle on her hair. She said casually, "Didn't you see the rabbit Guangzong is holding? The boys are mending it now. It will be fine slowly. The boys must have been spoiled a little too much.

Look at the Zhao family now. They not only have black noodles to eat, but also meat to eat. Guangzong is a capable boy, but he has seven maids around him every day, so even if he does something, it won't be visible."

Mrs. Sun sighed and said, "Let's hurry up and dry the bracken. The Zhao family is a wealthy family in the village, so it's not our turn to worry about them. After drying, the bracken will at least be a food during the lean season."

"I heard from the people in the next village that the masters and young ladies in the city like to eat things from the mountains. If I take bracken to the city, will anyone buy it?"

"There's nothing the young ladies and gentlemen in the city want to eat. I heard they love oranges. Each segment of the fruit is full of juice, and it tastes much better than this milk fruit."

"Young masters and young ladies in the city all love rice. Who would eat these? We eat anything as long as it's edible."

"It costs a penny to enter the city. For this wild vegetable that grows everywhere in the mountains, I spend a penny to enter the city and then walk for an hour or two. If no one wants it, not only will I be laughed at, but I will also lose a penny. It's not worth it. But the kids in the mountains love to eat it."

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"Ding, unpolluted wild bracken, 23 kilograms; unpolluted wild milk fruit, 5 kilograms. Selling?"

Yang Xiuying, who came with her daughters in a rage, paused.

"Auntie, what's wrong?"

The boss whispered in Yang Xiuying's ear.

Yang Xiuying definitely couldn't tell her eldest daughter now that there were so many people around. She looked at the woman standing under the old locust tree in the distance and said to her eldest daughter, "It's okay, it's just a leg cramp."

The time for picking black truffles is about to pass. She definitely cannot keep making money from black truffles. She needs to find new things that can be sold and make money as soon as possible. After all, she is short of money.

In China, bracken is sold at the same price as meat, and is basically cultivated artificially. Wild bracken is even more expensive, and when fried with bacon, it is a delicious delicacy.

The prices of fresh bracken and dried bracken are naturally different. Bracken is different from medicinal herbs. People like to eat fresh ones, and fresh ones are more expensive. Dried bracken loses its original freshness and is much cheaper.

Yang Xiuying transferred out of the mall

Fresh wild bracken costs 30 yuan per pound, while artificially grown ones cost 10 yuan per pound.

Nowadays, no one knows how to grow bracken artificially.

What she was worried about now was what reason she should come up with to buy the bracken from the women in Futian Village.

"Mother, why don't I take some of my sisters with me?"

The second brother saw that Yang Xiuying looked embarrassed and stepped forward to ask.

"No, let's go together."

Yang Xiuying came to her senses and realized that the most important thing now was to get back the wild mushrooms that the children had picked with great effort, and the rabbit that Lao Qi had caught. If she endured it this time, there would be a next time and countless times.

Besides, that is hard-earned money. I am in dire need of it right now, so how can I let others take advantage of it?

"it is good."

The daughters answered in unison, and the eight of them, mother and daughter, walked towards Tian Guilan's house in a threatening manner.

The women under the old locust tree looked at the eight mother and daughters, put down their work and stood up.

"Xiuying, what happened?"

The woman looked at Xiuying, her mother and daughter and the other eight people and felt that they did not seem to be here to reminisce about the past, but rather to seek revenge. In this village, only Tian Guilan and Xiuying were at odds. To be precise, it was Tian Guilan who had been bullying Xiuying and her daughter for a long time, but she did not see Tian Guilan go out today.

Aunt Li was worried that Xiuying would suffer any harm while bringing the other girls along, so she quickly advised, "If you have anything to say, talk it over nicely. Don't be impulsive!"