Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

Wang Qing'er stayed up all night to prepare more than five catties of dried tea. She only let Mu Xiao take three catties to sell. Anyway, she didn't lack money. She planned not to sell it in the future, but to keep it for her family to drink or give away.

She was confident that her tea would be presentable when she needed to bribe officials or give gifts in the future while she was in the soap business.

If the tea trees are successfully propagated through cuttings, it's not too late to consider selling them later when the scale is expanded.

Thinking this way, wouldn't I have many businesses in the future? Soap, tea trees, camellia trees, rapeseed oil, fruits and vegetables, braised meat business, and food profit sharing.

Although the braised meat business is currently only doing well, and there are a few varieties of vegetables that can be sold, if all the tea were sold, the monthly income could be around a hundred taels of silver.

As for the rest, they are still unknown, but there is always hope.

There's a saying that goes, "It can be in the fields of hope, or it can be in the forests of hope."

Later, Mu Xiao found another tea plantation. The boy saw that it was too far from home and inconvenient to pick tea leaves back and forth. Besides, the mountain wasn't his own property, so he took Zihao and Zixuan and dug them up and planted them on the back mountain.

Fortunately, they all survived. There are more than twenty old trees, and the rest are saplings, about forty or fifty in total.

Wang Qing'er led several girls to pick peach blossoms for more than ten days, and during that time they also picked magnolia flowers for two days.

We extracted over a hundred bottles of peach blossom hydrosol, most of which were dried into flowers, and the quality was quite good.

Wang Qing'er still makes more than two hundred scented soaps every day, with four different scents: mint, mugwort, peach blossom, and magnolia.

I also tried making some tea-flavored soap.

There are two types of tea-flavored soap: one is to grind roasted dried tea into powder and add it to soapberry juice, and the other is to add it to a cup of strong tea.

After molding and unmolding, both types had a faint tea aroma, but the mushroom powder version had a stronger tea aroma, so I'll make this one from now on.

Looking at the shelves full of scented soap, and thinking that she could start selling them in another month, she felt an inexhaustible energy.

The potatoes and other seeds planted later had a high germination rate, and the transplanted seedlings have all survived.

Also, although the survival rate of the trees propagated by Mu Nan is not high, it is still over 50%, probably because there is no rooting powder here, but it is still quite good.

Fortunately, she didn't have to do anything in the vegetable garden or with the cuttings herself; she only needed to give instructions, and Mu Nan would take good care of it.

The trellises for cowpeas, cucumbers, loofahs, and winter melons were all built using bamboo, just as she had instructed.

Since the previous cuttings had taken root, they had to continue taking cuttings. So Mu Nan took another batch of cuttings, this time mainly soapberry cuttings, since there were only a few camellia trees.

"Sister-in-law, let's go pick mint by the river today! The ones on the back hill won't grow for a few more days." Muqin suggested picking mint by the river since they didn't have to pick peach blossoms today.

“Okay.” Wang Qing’er also planned to go to the river to pick mint. Anyway, she didn’t need to pick flowers today. She would pick the camellias tomorrow, and the honeysuckle would be picked the day after tomorrow, which would keep her busy again.

As she was carrying her basket, she spotted a fish basket in the storeroom and casually put it in her basket, hoping to catch some fish. She then picked up a wooden bucket as well.

She had wanted to eat fish for a long time, but seeing that Mu Nan was busy every day and probably didn't have time to catch fish, she hadn't said anything.

The four girls each carried a basket on their backs to the riverbank. The other three also carried a basket, while Wang Qing'er carried a wooden bucket.

Wang Qing'er has been observing Wu Zihan's every move these past few days. Hmm! It seems she hasn't been deliberately looking for Mu Nan anymore. Has she given up? Or has she misunderstood?

The two have actually gotten along quite well these days, and they'll chat occasionally while picking flowers.

Wang Qing'er couldn't quite understand Wu Zihan's personality. Was it that Wu Zihan didn't like to talk, or that she didn't want to talk to her? Every time they tried to chat, Wu Zihan would kill the conversation after just a few sentences.

Muqin and Zitong, on the other hand, were always laughing and chatting, with endless things to say to each other.

No, I need to observe Wu Zihan more carefully.

During that time, Wang Qing'er and the others also came to the river to pick mint twice. The journey was a bit far, so Wang Qing'er didn't really want to come. There was more mint here than in the area behind the mountain.

I dug up a lot of plants to take back and transplant on my first two visits, since this place is quite far away and I was always in a hurry each time.

When Wang Qing'er arrived here today, she didn't rush to pick mint. Instead, she took out her fish basket and walked towards the river.

She'd been craving fish for a while, and now that she had time, she was determined to have some.

When Mu Qin saw her take a fish basket out of her backpack, she asked in surprise, "Sister-in-law, why did you take a fish basket? When did you take it? I didn't know."

"When I got my basket, I saw the fish basket, so I just brought it along and put it in the river to see if I could catch any fish."

"So you're using the bucket to hold the fish?"

"Ok!"

Mu Qin: "Huh?..."

Muqin was at a loss for words! Are fish really that easy to catch? Her sister-in-law was probably going to leave disappointed.

Wang Qing'er walked towards the riverbank, with Mu Qin following behind her. Zi Tong also wanted to go and see, but when she glanced at her sister, she saw that she had already started picking mint.

"Go if you want!" Zihan suddenly said as Zitong was about to squat down to pick mint.

"Then, sis, I'll go take a look too." Zitong's body moved faster than her mouth; before she could even utter a sound, she had already run far away.

"Sister-in-law, let's put the fish basket behind that big rock. There's a pond behind it with lots of fish," Mu Qin said, pointing to a large rock not far away.

"Okay." Wang Qing'er picked a few handfuls of wild grass that fish like to eat by the river, wrapped a stone with the grass, tied it up, and threw it into the fish basket.

She arrived at the big rock that Muqin had mentioned. After climbing up, she lay on the rock and looked down. Sure enough, there was a pool of water below, not very deep, and she could see many small fish swimming in it.

If the river water weren't still a bit cold, she would have liked to go right in and catch fish.

After putting the fish basket down for a while, she picked it up to take a look. There were indeed a few small fish inside. It seemed that she could catch fish. Small ones are fine! Making fried small fish would be good too.

"Sister-in-law, there's fish!"

"Sister-in-law, you're amazing! You really caught a fish!"

Both girls looked at her with adoration.

"Muqin, go fill the bucket with some water. We'll keep the little fish in it for now."

"Okay." Mu Qin slid off the big rock and filled a half-bucket with water.

She put the small fish into the bucket, then put the fish basket back into the pond, and tied the rope to a small tree. "Let's go pick some mint first."