Koi baby helps his mother farm and becomes the richest man

Zhao Hu invited Uncle Chen Jiu to sit on the kang in the west room, poured himself a cup of hot walnut milk, and asked with a smile, "Master Jiu, you must have something to say. You're definitely not looking for me, but my sister, right?"

"You kid!" Uncle Chen Jiu pointed at him and laughed, "You're so smart! Yes, I'm here to look for your sister. Is she home?"

"Yes, yes," Zhao Hu stood up. "You drink some water first. I'll go call her."

Soon Qin Ying and Aunt Zhao came over with Zhao Hu. Qin Ying was carrying a basket with a lid on it.

Uncle Chen Jiu said to Aunt Zhao with a smile, "My niece, your family's life is getting better and better every day! You have raised such a good daughter!"

"Of course!" Aunt Zhao laughed from ear to ear. "Who has such good taste as me?"

"Master Jiu, please have some cake," Qin Ying opened the basket and placed the steamed cake on the table. "It's freshly out of the pot, still hot."

Uncle Chen Jiu was not polite either. He picked up the cake and took a big bite, squinting his eyes in satisfaction. "Oh, it's sweet. Did you add a lot of sugar?"

Aunt Zhao said quickly, "It's delicious. You can take some back later. It's soft and tender, so you don't have to worry about eating too much."

After eating the cake and drinking the walnut milk, Uncle Chen Jiu said, "I came here to ask Yingzi something."

Then he explained the purpose of his visit in detail.

Aunt Zhao didn't express her opinion and just looked at Qin Ying.

Qin Ying smiled and said, "Master Jiu, this is a good thing, how can I not agree? You can pick someone to come over, and I will teach you step by step. Seasoning is not a problem either. There are many good things in the mountains this year, and we have saved a lot, so we will have enough.

"When spring comes, I can lead people to look for it in the mountains, and we can all save some.

"The drought is over, and the products from our mountains will only get better and better..."

Uncle Chen Jiu smacked his lips and said, "This mountain of ours is truly a treasure trove. I originally thought that most of the trees were dead, but who would have thought that a trip into the mountain would yield such a rich harvest!"

"To be honest, I followed you into the mountains just to look for some mushrooms. Mushrooms grow on rotten wood after the rain.

"Who knew there were so many living trees? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it!"

Aunt Zhao said quickly, "If I were to ask you, Uncle Jiu, you are the one with foresight. Although we have found many living trees, the majority of them are dead. If you hadn't led the villagers to plant trees, it's hard to say what the future would be like!"

"The trees we planted will bear fruit in two years, and then we won't have to go deep into the mountains.

"Alas, the last few times I went into the mountains, I heard wolves howling. It was so creepy. If we weren't so many people, who would dare to go there?"

Uncle Chen Jiu nodded continuously: "That's right. In the future, I think we still need to plant more trees, especially more fruit trees.

"We are gradually building the road to the outside world. In the future, we can carry the fruits from the trees and sell them. We can at least earn some money for oil and salt, right?

"If there are too many trees, they need to be pruned. Twigs and branches make good firewood! It's a good deal no matter how you calculate it!

"It's these fruit trees... Just persimmons and dates alone won't be enough. I need to discuss with Lord Zhou if he can find some good fruit trees for us.

"There's no rush for this. We can't ask Mr. Zhou to both work and spend money. I'm thinking, let's pool our money and buy a batch in the spring. When we see the profit, we can buy more.

"Date trees bear fruit quickly, so let's plant more dates first. At worst, we can cut them down and plant something else later!"

"If the dates are ready, we can make a lot of money, right?"

Qin Ying nodded: "Even if we don't make much money selling them directly, we can still make them into candied dates, remove the pits and make them into crispy date slices, date cakes, etc. As long as we are willing to use our brains, there will always be a way."

"Right, right, right!" Uncle Chen slapped his thigh happily, "Otherwise, we still need to study! Our Yingzi is really smart!

"Yingzi, if you have any good ideas, tell Master Jiu. Don't worry, Master Jiu won't use you in vain!"

"Master Jiu, you're being a bit polite," Qin Ying said with a smile, "I'm from Tongshu Village too, so it's my duty to contribute to the village."

Uncle Chen nodded. "I won't say much else. Let's get down to business. I won't sit here any longer. The villagers are still waiting for my reply. I'll just take a look at your mushroom shed and then I'll be back."

There is a row of greenhouses next to the main house, which is lower than the main house and is an enlarged version of the mushroom house.

Now that I have a new house, I no longer grow mushrooms in the living room. There was no way to do that before.

Growing mushrooms in a house where people live will cause it to be too humid and people will feel uncomfortable if they live there for a long time.

Uncle Chen Jiu looked at the neat rows of shelves in the shed and the clusters of plump mushrooms on them, and smiled from ear to ear. "Niece-in-law, you have so many mushrooms at home...what are you planning?"

"We're thinking of selling some of them," Aunt Zhao said. "We definitely can't eat them all at home, so even if we make them into dried mushrooms... how much can we use?

"So my family and I decided to sell some of it. It would be nice to have some needlework for the family!

"That's right, you always say that everyone in the surrounding villages has learned to grow mushrooms, but we can't sell ours!

"Yingzi said that we can dry some of it directly, and make the rest into mushroom sauce or dried mushrooms of various flavors. I'm working on the recipe these days.

"Uncle Jiu asked this, what do you think?"

"What ideas can I have?" Uncle Chen Jiu smiled and shook his head, "I'm an old hand, and my brain isn't working very well anymore, so I still have to rely on these young people!

"Look at Yingzi's brain! How can ordinary people think of these things?

"I was just thinking, this mushroom sauce must have taken a lot of oil, right?

"Your family has so much rapeseed planted, so you don't have to worry about running out of oil. But other families in the village are having a hard time. So here's the way to make money. You can do it, but others can't!

"Alas, I was worrying about nothing! Now that the issue of mountain products has been resolved, the villagers can relax a lot.

"After that... after that, who can say for sure? As long as an old man like me is alive, I can help and worry about it. But when I die, I won't be able to take care of it anymore!"

Aunt Zhao hurriedly said, "What are you talking about, Uncle Jiu! May you live a long and healthy life!"

Uncle Chen Jiu laughed, chatted a few more words, and then said goodbye and left.

Other families don't have the courage like the Zhao family to build a separate place to grow mushrooms. No matter what the quality of the mushrooms grown is, it's good enough as long as they are enough for their own consumption. They simply can't spare any extra for other things.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier. Aunt Zhao was worried about Uncle Chen Jiu going back alone. At his age, if he fell, it would be fatal. So she quickly asked Zhao Hu to support him and send him back, and also to help clear the snow on the roof in the yard.

The sounds of An An, Zhou Qi and Zhou Mian playing came from the backyard. The snow was falling heavily, and it was a good time for children to play.

Qin Ying went back to continue making pastries, and Aunt Zhao helped her.

An An ran back to the house, holding Qin Ying's hand and shaking it: "Mom, go and see the snowman we built, it's so beautiful!"