Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

The crops on the mountain were harvested over three and a half days. After the harvest was finished, Liu Fangmei secretly watered the land with well water.

Even if there is no rain next spring, we can still plant some crops on these lands, since they are close to the pond. Although the pond has not dried up yet, there is not much water left.

The captain had originally said he saw fish in there, but after searching for a long time, they only found a few palm-sized ones; the rest were just fry.

Everyone knows the principle of not exterminating all fish, so all the living fish fry were thrown back into the wild.

Only those weighing over a pound are caught. Although they are smaller, even a mosquito's leg is still meat. Eating too many sweet potatoes and potatoes can cause heartburn, so even a fish weighing around a pound is considered quite good by them.

Actually, considering the batch they caught a few months ago, the fact that these fish are this big now means they've grown very quickly.

What those people didn't know was that the fish were able to grow so fast thanks to the well water from their house. Before, when her mother went up the mountain to work, she never forgot to pour a bowl of well water from the space into it every day.

Actually, they initially just wanted to experiment to see if the water had any effect on the plants, and if so, on the fish in the water.

The effect is quite obvious. In three months, the smallest fish have grown to about a pound, and the largest is no more than two and a half pounds. However, such an effect in three months is already very good.

After harvesting the sweet potatoes, the village chief and brigade leader decided to distribute them immediately because they were worried that someone would come to steal them. There were only a few days left until the New Year. Due to the scarcity of supplies, the chickens, ducks and fish that were originally prepared were reduced to fish. No one made tofu because there were no soybeans.

Fearing heartburn from eating too much broth, they would gather anything edible in the mountains, whether it was wild vegetables, grass roots, or tree leaves.

In previous years, there would be some meat during the Lunar New Year, but this year there is no meat at all, and not even a single vegetable. Liu Fangmei and Xia Jixuan discussed it and realized that there was really a lot of stuff in the space, like chives that had been harvested one crop after another.

There were only five of them, and they couldn't possibly eat that much food. The couple sat down on the eve of the Lunar New Year to discuss it. They decided to take some of the radishes, cabbages, brown rice, and cornmeal from their storage space and sell them to the villagers.

"But I'm having a bit of a problem figuring out how to set a reasonable price..." Liu Fang didn't think this was the hardest thing. Although every household had some savings, they had spent almost all of them on buying grain over the past year, and now they probably didn't have much left.

He was afraid of arousing suspicion if he set the price the same as the grain store in town, but he would feel bad if he set it the same as the black market price.

They are not saints; they just want to save these poor people.

"Before the natural disaster, radishes and cabbages were one cent for two jin, and potatoes and sweet potatoes could sell for three cents or more. After the disaster, the prices of these things kept soaring, especially potatoes and sweet potatoes, which could fill our stomachs. They were selling for 5 cents a dollar. Rice, wheat flour, and enriched flour were even more outrageous, costing two dollars each. But as the disaster got more and more severe, food became scarce, and even on the black market, you couldn't find anyone selling food." Liu Fangmei had been to the black market before. Her family had a small stove in their house, which she used to secretly get some food for her children to supplement their diet.

However, the small stove and pot were too small; they could only make enough for one bowl. So, they secretly kept some high-gluten flour and white rice in the house to nourish the little girl.

She secretly bought all these things from the black market, so she was quite familiar with the grain prices in town.

"Wife, go see the village chief first thing tomorrow morning. The village's grain warehouse has sacks; the ones from Qingyuju here aren't suitable to take out. Borrow some from the village first, and when they want to buy, they can bring their own grain sacks. Also, just tie the cabbages and radishes together with straw rope, 5 jin per bundle, 10 jin per bundle, that way it'll be easier for everyone to buy. Call Shitou tonight, let's get some together." Radishes and cabbages. We can buy some. Don't bother with the high-gluten flour and white rice; those are too conspicuous and expensive.

They have brown rice and sorghum rice, and they also have corn flour here, the coarsest kind. Nowadays, people don't want to strain their throats; they just want to have enough to eat and survive. During the winter, they won't starve even if they only eat one meal a day.

“Okay, I’ll go to the old village chief’s house first thing tomorrow morning and tell him. How much do you plan to take out? In the villages around here, everyone has families and relatives…” If I don’t tell my relatives, I’ll feel guilty, but if I do tell them, I’m afraid we won’t have enough grain and won’t be able to buy any.

"We'll buy for three days. These nearby villages are only a few hours away from here at most. Three days should be enough. We'll sell as much as we can." Xia Jixuan doesn't have holidays, and some of the work has to be done by his wife and two sons, which makes him feel a little guilty.

"It's alright, three days is three days. After three days, it will be almost New Year's. We're just doing our best to help." Liu Fangmei was still thinking about how to send the grain out without revealing herself.

After all, a lot of trouble would follow once he was exposed, and he didn't want to change his current situation, so he didn't want any trouble.

"Isn't there an abandoned house at the village entrance? I'll go there tonight, and we'll fix it up and put that conveyor belt from the Jade Space at the entrance. We can have them put the full-price tickets and their items in the conveyor belt, have them transported in, get an appraisal, and then put their items back in and have them transported out." Of course, we need to talk to the old village chief or the brigade leader first, so that their two families can set an example for the villagers. That way, it will be easier.

"That's fine, but are you sure the conveyor belt can be deployed? And is it plugged in? How can it move?" This is a very serious problem; they still don't have electricity here. If there were electricity, the conveyor belt wouldn't be able to move at all.

"It can be done manually. You can have one of your sons stand next to you and crank it. It's not strenuous." She only learned about the workings of the conveyor belt and the large crank after touching it.

"Alright, alright, now that we've got nothing to worry about, tell the kids we're going to that dilapidated house." It needs some repairs; even though we'll only be staying there for three days, he doesn't want his wife to suffer.

"The roof of that dilapidated house was half collapsed, but the walls were still quite sturdy and stood there quietly." This house used to be where the old widow lived, and the area behind it was a place no one dared to approach.