Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

She didn't throw away the seeds from lemons, loquats, or cantaloupes.

After processing, I buried them in the ground. The seeds from those cantaloupes from last time have already sprouted, but I don't know if they can be used to grow cantaloupes.

She had a lot of cantaloupes this time, and she dried some of the seeds to plant next year.

The next morning, Mu Nan delivered braised meat to town and returned with a cartload of potatoes.

After lunch, they went to pick up another truckload of potatoes before they finished hauling them away.

Most of the potatoes this time have sprouted, so they can only be used for planting.

More than 100 jin (50 kg) were carefully selected and can be kept for consumption.

Now that we have soybean oil at home, we can fry some potato chips for the kids, and most importantly, she really wants to eat them.

I really miss French fries and potato chips!

I don't know if it's because I often drink water boiled with loquat leaves.

It's because I drink a cup of water infused with loquat syrup every day.

She finally stopped coughing.

During this time, she stayed at home and made a lot of various scented soaps.

The floral water was also filtered and poured into a small porcelain bottle.

It smells of mint, and applying a little definitely makes it feel cool and refreshing.

Fortunately, they had found quite a bit of mint recently, and all the loose bits were dug up and planted in the yard, already covering a whole row. That night, Wang Qing'er lay in bed unable to sleep, constantly thinking about going up the mountain.

"Brother Mu Nan, I'm completely better now. Can I go out tomorrow?" Wang Qing'er nestled in Mu Nan's arms, pleading. She had been feeling really cooped up for a while and needed to get out and about.

"You can take a stroll around the back mountain."

"I want to go to mountains that are further away."

"No."

"Hmph!" Wang Qing'er angrily broke free from Mu Nan's embrace, turned her back to him, and seemed to be saying, "If you don't let me into the mountains, I won't talk to you anymore."

"Qing'er, I can find anything you need. Do you know how worried I was when you fell and got sick that day?" Mu Nan moved closer and pulled her into his arms again.

"Hmph! I don't want to talk to you!" Wang Qing'er threw a tantrum, trying hard to break free from Mu Nan. How could she find raw materials to make scented soap and run her business if she wasn't allowed to go up the mountain?

"Qing'er..." Suddenly Mu Nan turned her around and kissed her fiercely.

"Hmm..." Wang Qing'er struggled to break free, but Mu Nan was like a wolf that had been starving for a long time, holding her firmly in his arms and making her unable to move.

"Qing'er...is it alright?" Mu Nan's hoarse, deep voice reached her ears.

"Brother Mu, Mu Nan, you, you..." Wang Qing'er's voice was softer than a mosquito's buzz, but Mu Nan heard it clearly and couldn't help but smile.

The oil lamp in the room stayed on all night, and the wooden bed creaked incessantly, repeatedly sending the two people inside the bed curtains to the clouds.

The moon was so ashamed that it hid behind the clouds, and a light drizzle began to fall from the sky.

When Wang Qing'er woke up, she felt like she had just run a marathon, and her body was incredibly sore!

Recalling the passionate scene from last night, even she, a person from the 21st century, blushed and felt her heart race.

That man usually seemed honest and simple, but I never expected him to be so cunning.

"Awake?" A voice suddenly sounded from behind her, startling her.

Why is he still in bed? Isn't he always an early riser? Wang Qing'er wondered.

"Mu, Mu Nan, why aren't you up yet?"

"It's raining today." Mu Nan placed his hand on her waist, gently stroking her smooth skin.

He gently nibbled at her earlobe, and the atmosphere quickly became more intimate.

"Brother Mu, Mu Nan, stop! It's already daytime!"

"I know, honey! Kissing and hugging are still okay." After cuddling for a while, Mu Nan let go of her and got out of bed.

"Sleep a little longer, it's raining today."

"Okay." Wang Qing'er was really exhausted, so she closed her eyes and continued to sleep.

Anyway, she rarely leaves the yard these days, and with the rain today, she's even less likely to go out!

Why not just lie down and relax?

Now, the family's braised meat business is enough to support the family, and there's even some left over.

Wang Qing'er currently has over three hundred taels of silver, the majority of which is still from her braised meat business, and the rest is from selling vegetables, such as water spinach and red amaranth, and the quantity of green vegetables has also increased.

There were also wild vegetables from the mountains, such as wild celery, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, and brown sugar sold for over twenty taels.

The seeds we brought back that day were still the same ones; we planted all the ones that could be planted.

Wang Qing'er continued to give her family members monthly allowances, and the Wu brothers and sisters each received two taels of silver.

Mu Yan is now almost fully recovered and can help with chores, and she also receives a monthly allowance.

She worked hard every day helping Zhou with the vegetable garden at home, weeding and such.

There are no herbicides here; the weeds in the vegetable garden are all pulled by hand. The Mu family has a lot of land, and after one wave is pulled, the second wave grows back.

Since her family didn't have enough land, Wang Qing'er used her money to buy another ten mu of land.

There has been a lot of rain recently, and the sweet potatoes have already been planted. A total of ten acres of land have been planted with sweet potatoes, and the remaining land will be planted with chili peppers.

We hired someone to help plant the sweet potatoes.

The chili peppers were planted by her family. She didn't want others to know about the chili peppers, so she planted them in front of and behind the house, not too far from home.

Old Man Mu discovered that the soil in that peach grove was not compacted and was quite fertile.

The main reason is that in previous years, the peaches were left unpicked and fell directly to the ground to rot, which then fermented and became natural fertilizer.

So they went to the village and bought some more sweet potato seedlings, and planted sweet potatoes all over the open space in the peach orchard.

More sweet potatoes were planted one after another, and by this calculation, the sweet potato fields now cover dozens of acres.

My family has eaten dishes cooked with chili peppers before and knows that a lot of chili peppers are used. Since this is a unique dish, they agreed to use more than 20 acres of land to plant chili peppers, and also planted some in the peach orchard.

Wang Qing'er also asked them to buy some corn seeds and plant them in their own mountain.

It's not that we plant everywhere. For example, that sugarcane grove is very fertile, and if cleared out, it would be a good piece of mountain land.

There are also many flatter areas in the front of the mountain.

She didn't expect these corns to produce any kernels; she mainly needed the stalks and leaves to feed the cattle.

The dozen or so cows and sheep still need a lot of fodder to feed them.

Especially in winter, the wild grass in the mountains has long since withered and turned yellow, so the cattle have even less to eat.

Besides, some of the cows are already pregnant, so there will be even more cows next year.

Thinking that there will be milk next year, not only can my family drink it, but we can also sell some of it if there is too much.

The main thing I want to do is make milk-flavored soap.

The rain had stopped by lunchtime, and the sun was out.

After eating, Mu Nan and the others went to plow the fields. They now have two oxen at home, and Mu Nan and her father plowed the fields together. In a few days, they will start transplanting rice seedlings.