Traveling through the farm, I just want to earn money by farming

The father and daughter entered the yard, and Chen Changjiang went to preheat the oven. He estimated that the mushroom pickers would be back soon and the bamboo fungus could not wait. Although the sky was not clear, fortunately the rain had stopped.

"Father, I'll go to the kitchen to help." Qingning said as he walked into the kitchen. Old Mrs. Chen and Qingzhu had already prepared a lot of dishes.

"Grandma, I'm back, second sister. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"No need, just sit there and play." Old Mrs. Chen was busy in the pot and said without raising her head.

Qingning giggled, moved a stool and sat next to Qingzhu, watching her make a fire.

"My eldest sister just took Uncle Wu and Uncle Qi to the town with some snacks. She said she also wanted to go and get to know them so that she wouldn't bother others all the time in the future." Qingzhu kept adding firewood in her hand and moved aside.

"Well, big sister is right. What do you like?"

"Me, I don't know either."

"I'm just thinking about making more money so that my family can have a life without worries about food and clothing, and then I'll work hard to make us all learn to read." The two sisters chatted with each other.

"Learning to read and write, how can a family like ours even dream about it? It really costs a lot of money." Qingzhu thought her younger sister was a little too fanciful. For most families, it would be a big deal to have one child who could read and write, let alone seven children, regardless of gender.

"I know it will cost a lot of money, so I work harder to earn money. I don't expect to be the top scholar. It's good to be able to read and understand some principles. If any of my brothers are good at studying, I will support him no matter what." Qingning said it seriously. Qingzhu was surprised. Even Old Lady Chen was shocked and slightly dazed when she heard it. The little granddaughter was right. If there was a son with the ability to study in the family, he would be supported no matter what.

"Grandma, the food in the pot is almost burnt." The two sisters were chatting when they suddenly smelled a burnt smell and called out to Grandma Chen. Grandma Chen was brought back to her senses by the sound and quickly turned the food over with a spatula.

The two of them sat back and continued to watch the fire: "You are right. If we can raise a promising scholar, it will be a great honor for our ancestors. We sisters will also benefit from it." Qingzhu chuckled a few times after she finished speaking.

"Sister, you are so smart. What if you are the one who is good at studying? Doesn't that mean our family will have a female teacher?" Qingning joked. Qingzhu glanced at her sideways, and they both laughed.

The three of them cooked the food for the ancestral worship, each in two portions. Since the brothers Chen Changhe and Chen Changjiang had separated, it was natural that the food for the ancestral worship at noon had to be separate.

"Second sister, why haven't I seen uncle?" Qingning asked in a low voice next to Qingzhu's ear.

"My uncle has gone to perform labor service. The time for this year's labor service has been advanced. It's because the embankment near the Li River in the prefecture has collapsed in several places due to years of impact. There has been a lot of rain this year, and the prefect was afraid that floods would wash away the crops of the villagers, so he issued a notice after the first month of the lunar year. My father was going to go too, but you happened to be seriously ill and my father couldn't bear to let him go, so the two families pooled money to exempt my father from this labor service, and my uncle went alone. I don't know when he will be back?" Qingzhu's mood became obviously depressed as he spoke, and he silently flicked the sparks in the stove. Qingning also fell silent for a rare time.

"Why don't you two little monkeys come out yet? Your mother is back with some good mushrooms, come and help." Old Mrs. Chen was in the yard, calling out to the two of them to help.

"Little sister, look, we have moved a lot of dead wood with fungi growing on it." Qingyu and Qingwu were carrying a piece of dead wood with a lot of fungi growing on it with great effort.

"And us, Sister Lianpeng." Several half-grown boys, carrying and hugging each other, entered the yard one after another.

"Wow, brothers, have you brought back everything from the forest?" Qing Ning was really shocked. The fighting power of more than ten boys was amazing.

"How could that be? We haven't been to the mountains before. Today we went deeper into the mountains. You don't know that after the rain, mushrooms are everywhere. We didn't dare to pick them because we didn't know which ones to pick. So we cut down the dead trees that grew mushrooms and brought some back as you requested." Qingsong put the things by the yard and helped others with it.

"And what about us, Lian Peng? Your mother said these mushrooms are sold at 20 cents per pound. Aunt Hua and I have worked very hard to pick them. Do you think our picks meet your requirements?" As she spoke, she found a bamboo flat plate and slowly spread out the mushrooms. The other aunts and sisters-in-law also spread out their things in the same way.

"Auntie Green Lemon, look at what I picked." A little kid came forward with a small basket, raised it above his head and handed it to him with effort.

"Oh, our little Sangye is so well-behaved. She can pick mushrooms at such a young age." The second sister Qingzhu stepped forward, took the bamboo from the little girl's hand with a smile, and touched her head.

"This child insisted on following me and her mother to pick mushrooms, so I had no choice but to take her with me." Aunt Hua smiled. Sang Ye embarrassedly hid in her mother Tao's arms.

Qing Ning now understood that this was Aunt Hua's granddaughter Chen Sangye, who was three years old.

"Well, let auntie take a look." Qingning took a look and said to the little girl, "It's okay. These are oyster mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. Not to mention oyster mushrooms, these morels are good stuff."

Little Sangye looked at the little aunt with excitement, looked at Junzi and then at her, and snuggled into her mother's arms like a wolf grandmother.

"Auntie, please buy these morels at 20 cents per pound, and these oyster mushrooms at 5 cents per pound, okay?" Qing Ning stared at Mulberry Leaf and said seriously.

When the people nearby heard this, they thought that this mushroom seemed to be a valuable and good one, and they thought to themselves that they should pay more attention to it the next time they pick it.

"Lotus pods, these are free and can be picked for children to play with. There aren't many of them." Although Aunt Hua was tempted, she still refused. If she didn't pick many, she might as well consider it as a favor. At least when you see someone else making money, the first person they think of is their family. She shouldn't be ungrateful.

"Aunt Hua, you can't say that. These are the mushrooms that Sang Ye picked himself, and they are good mushrooms. You can pick them and sell them to our family in the future for the same price as these mushrooms." After saying that, he prepared to ask his family to come over and weigh them without waiting for Aunt Hua to speak.

"Rui Niang, go ask grandpa to get a scale and paper and pen." Chen Wuyi knew that Chen Changjiang's family didn't have these, so he asked his daughter to go back and get them.

"Thank you, Brother Yi. You're the only one who can read, so I'm sorry for the hard work you put in helping with the accounting."

"Aunt Guihua, you are being too polite. This is nothing. We all benefit from your family. Just think of us when good things happen in the future." Everyone agreed after hearing this.

"Father, do you have any oilcloth at home?" Qing Ning looked at the mushroom strains he had brought back, feeling a bit overwhelmed. He had originally wanted to try to extract mycelium from a few of them, but he had already collected so many.

"Yes, but it's not big. What are you going to do?" Father Chen threw a piece of firewood, patted the ashes off his hands, stood up and asked.

"These dead wood mushrooms need to be stored first. I don't have space at home and the mushroom house hasn't been built yet, so I want to build a shed first."

"I'm afraid this is not enough. Can I clean up the warehouse and use it as a mushroom room?" asked Father Chen.

"Don't store grain in the warehouse." There are certain requirements for humidity and temperature for growing mushrooms. Don't ruin the grain.

"Okay, let's do it." Father Chen called a few boys to help tidy up the warehouse.

A short while later, Rui Niang returned, and the village chief also came over to take a look. After setting the table, the village chief helped with the accounting, and Chen Wuyi helped with the weighing.

The three people from the second master Chen Lin's family picked about six pounds and earned 120 coins, Aunt Hua's family picked about four pounds of mulberry leaves and earned 80 coins, the five people from the uncle's family picked more, about ten pounds, and earned 200 coins, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law from the village chief's family picked four pounds and earned 80 coins. In total, 480 coins were spent. Seeing that the money was wasted, Tan felt distressed again.

The families were very happy to receive the silver money. This was more money than what their men could earn from working. They were not in a hurry to go back and stayed to help with the cleaning and washing.