After being reborn, the young master returned to his village and led his wife and daughters to prosp

The three of them went into the mountains.

Based on his past experience, Lin Fan first led the two to a place where pheasants were known to roam, where he set up many traps.

Then he took two people to pick mushrooms.

Lin Fan taught people how to distinguish between tree mushrooms and chicken leg mushrooms, instructing them to only pick these two types and not to touch any others, especially those with bright colors.

Both men were used to physical labor, so picking mushrooms was a piece of cake for them. Once they mastered the technique, they picked mushrooms very quickly.

However, Lin Fan had already picked almost all the mushrooms in the nearby area closer to his home.

They could only venture further and deeper into the mountains and forests.

"Dad, go to the east!"

"Brother-in-law, when you go south, don't go too far, or you'll get lost!"

"Once the basket is full, return the way you came. Don't wander off!"

Lin Fan gave the two a few words of advice, and then the three of them went their separate ways.

As Lin Fan walked through the mountains and forests, the leaves under his feet crunched under his feet.

The weather has cleared up considerably in the last couple of days, the sun has started to come out, and the forests have become much drier.

Lin Fan could clearly feel that there were far fewer mushrooms!

He specifically looked at the shadows of the roots of dead trees, and once he found his target, he carefully squatted down, used a small shovel to dig away the soil around the mushroom roots, and then tried to pull the mushroom out with the roots and soil still attached.

This is a little trick: keeping the mushrooms with some mud and water will help them stay fresh longer. You just need to shake off the mud when weighing them.

Soon, the sun began to set in the west!

The basket on Lin Fan's back was already full, and judging from the weight, it weighed at least ten pounds.

He returned the way he came to the agreed meeting point, and after waiting for a while, Zhang Weihao and Lin Desheng also returned.

The two baskets were only half full, clearly because they had listened to Lin Fan's advice: if they didn't finish picking, they should come back when it got too late and not be greedy.

"That's good. The three of us together have caught at least 25 or 26 jin, if not 30 jin. That's enough. Let's go see if we've caught any pheasants!"

Lin Fan smiled and patted the dirt off his adoptive father's back, and then the three of them headed toward the place where the trap was set.

Today's luck was still good; four plump pheasants were caught in the trap with their necks in it, twitching every now and then, not yet completely dead.

With the pheasant strapped to their waists, the three of them descended the mountain with their bounty, returning home before it got completely dark.

……

The next morning.

Lin Fan got up, quickly tidied up and washed, then went into the kitchen, took out the earthenware pot, and prepared to brew medicine for Lin Shuying.

The eldest sister got up very early. When Lin Fan stepped into the kitchen, she was already busy starting a fire and cooking porridge.

"Big sister, are you having porridge this morning?"

Hearing the noise behind her, the eldest sister turned around and glanced at Lin Fan, then chuckled and scolded, "What, if you don't want porridge, what do you want to eat?"

Lin Fan scratched his head and chuckled, "Eating meat so early in the morning isn't really appropriate, let's just have some porridge instead."

After saying that, he went to the cutting board next to the stove, took out the cleaned ginseng, carefully cut a small piece, and then took out the medicine packet he had prepared from his pocket and poured them into the earthenware pot.

Add water, cover the pot, and place it on the small earthenware stove. Soon, the sound of the medicinal soup bubbling and boiling came from inside the pot.

Lin Fan fanned the fire with a palm-leaf fan and occasionally added firewood to the earthen stove.

"Xiao Fan!"

"I have something to ask you!"

Lin Shuhan, who was quietly cooking porridge for the whole family, suddenly spoke up.

Lin Fan looked up at his older sister with curiosity and said, "What's wrong, older sister? You can ask me anything."

Lin Shuhan, who is usually bold and outspoken, became coy at this moment.

She lowered her head somewhat embarrassed, pointed to the fertilizer bag in the corner of the kitchen, and whispered, "Take a look, can we sell the stuff in there?"

Lin Fan was slightly taken aback and subconsciously turned his head to look.

The fertilizer bags were bulging, and I didn't know what they contained.

He got up, walked over, opened the bag, and saw that it contained a large bag of wet wild vegetables.

It was obviously dug up yesterday, left in the bag overnight, and still has dew on it.

Seeing Lin Fan standing there blankly without saying a word.

Lin Shuhan quickly said, "Xiao Fan, don't misunderstand."

"I was just thinking that people would buy those wild mushrooms, but I don't know if anyone would buy these wild vegetables!"

After saying that, Lin Shuhan pursed her lips, a rare hint of embarrassment appearing on her face, and said, "Xiuying is not young anymore, I want to send her to study in the county town."

"Everyone says she's a money-loser, that studying is useless, but she's still my flesh and blood. I don't want her to live such a tiring life like me in the future!"

“If you study hard, you won’t have to toil in the fields for a living. You’ll be able to marry into a good family and have an easier life. Look, if those wild vegetables can be sold for money, help your older sister sell them. Every little bit helps.”

She seemed afraid that her words would put Lin Fan in a difficult position.

Lin Shuhan quickly added, "Of course, if we can't sell them, that's fine too. We can keep them at home and cook our own meals!"

Lin Fan looked up and stared intently at his eldest sister.

As the eldest child in the family, my older sister is already twenty-six years old this year.

When Lin Fan was first brought home, his eldest sister was only thirteen or fourteen years old and was already helping her adoptive parents with farm work to support the family.

Unlike Lin Shuying and Lin Fan, the eldest sister had never actually touched a book in her entire life.

It wasn't that the elderly couple were biased and didn't want their eldest sister to go to school; it was just that they simply didn't have the means at the time. By the time the family's financial situation improved and they could afford to support her as a student, she had already passed that age.

So don't be fooled by the fact that the eldest sister is quick-witted, eloquent, and often leaves others speechless when arguing; in reality, she is illiterate.

Although she was only in her early twenties, the eldest sister dressed like a middle-aged woman.

She wore a headscarf, a tattered black spring coat, dark blue jeans with several patches, and worn-out cloth shoes with floral patterns.

On that equally beautiful face, fine wrinkles had appeared at the corners of her eyes, and the exposed skin was rough and dry, bearing the marks of time.

At this moment, she looked at Lin Fan with some unease and nervousness.

She, who was usually generous and outspoken, was afraid that Lin Fan would laugh at her at this moment, laugh at her for being greedy, laugh at her for being ignorant, laugh at her for daydreaming and fantasizing about raising her chicken-like daughter into a golden phoenix.

However, when Lin Fan saw his older sister like this, he felt only heartache and shame.

The eldest sister is only in her twenties, but she has been working hard for this family and for her younger siblings for more than ten years.

When people talk about this family, they think of the contributions the adoptive parents made, but they often overlook the eldest sister who took on the role of the young head of the family at a very young age.