Chapter 41: Making Money Plans
After Mrs. Tan left, the backyard became quiet again.
Evil people need to be punished by evil people. Yang Ruoqing curled her lips towards the kitchen in the front yard, turned around and continued to clean the nettles in her hands.
Mrs. Sun rolled up her sleeves and walked over, "Qing'er, please go and take a rest. Mother will take care of this biting grass."
"Mom, it's nothing, I'm almost done." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.
"Then the mother went to cook," said Sun.
"The rice has been cooked on the small stove. When it's cooked, we'll fry two vegetables." Yang Ruoqing said.
"Oh, my daughter is really good at handling these things. I just walked around your father's house, washed the wild vegetables, and cooked the rice." Ms. Sun looked pleased.
Yang Ruoqing grinned without blushing, carried the washed nettles into the kitchen, shook out a sack on the ground, found a cutting board and a kitchen knife, and chopped the nettles into pieces.
"Mom, I have a plan in mind. I want to make a plan with you." While chopping vegetables, Yang Ruoqing raised her head and said to Sun, who was handling wild vegetables next to her.
"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Sun rubbed away the bitter juice from the wild vegetables that Yang Ruoqing picked in the woods today, turned around and glanced at her daughter with a smile.
Yang Ruoqing bit her lip lightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "I want you to pay attention, mother, to see whose sow is about to give birth to piglets. Let's go catch two piglets and raise them at home."
As far as Yang Ruoqing knows, in this era, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are a huge burden on farmers.
Without the high-yield hybrid rice invented by Yuan Longping, and without new pesticides and fertilizers, it would be difficult for crops to grow well.
If the weather is unfavorable, floods, droughts, insect pests, or earthquakes may result in poor harvests or no harvest.
Exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes cannot be exempted, the whole family cannot lift the lid of the pot, and selling of sons and daughters often occurs.
"Qing'er, isn't our family allocated two acres of paddy fields and two acres of dry land? As long as we are willing to work hard to take care of it, the output of the fields will be deducted and handed over to the government. Our life will be harder, and the family will have a harder time."
It's not like drinking the northwest wind." Mrs. Sun also thought about Yang Ruoqing's suggestion seriously, "But our food is not enough for people to eat. Where can we have extra to feed the pigs? Even if it is not feasible."
"If your father's legs were not like this, we could rent a few acres of land from Mr. Zhao's house in the next village to do it, and maybe pull a piglet. Unfortunately, your father is like this, and our mother and I can't do it even if we rent it.
Ah." Mrs. Sun looked frowning.
Yang Ruoqing smiled slightly when she heard this and said, "Mom, don't worry, just go and pay attention to the little piglet. As long as you can catch it, I will take Da'an and Xiaoan to kill pigweed. No matter what, I will pull the little piglet."
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"Our family's land is barely enough to feed the five of us, but we don't have any living money in our hands." Yang Ruoqing then analyzed with Ms. Sun, "It costs money for dad to take medicine. If my two brothers have headaches and fever,
Everything, we have to get sick and take medicine. During the holidays, we visit relatives, and everything we buy all year round costs money."
"Mom, let's hold on and stretch out the two little piglets. After selling them for money, our family can still eat meat. It's going to be tough for now. If it's more difficult, it will be better in the future."
Mrs. Sun looked at the girl in front of her with bright eyes and an expectant look on her face, with mixed feelings in her heart.
Her daughter's words gave Ms. Sun hope. She also hoped that she could have some extra money to buy some decent clothes for her children and something to keep her third child healthy.
But this year it is definitely not possible. The cotton in the fields comes from Grandpa Gui Qing'er and the others, and I have almost left the house with three houses.
"Mom, believe me, if you bring two little piglets home, we won't lose anything." Yang Ruoqing's encouraging voice reached Sun's ears again.
Seeing her daughter's expectant eyes and determined smile, Mrs. Sun felt moved in her heart and nodded vigorously, "Okay."
Yang Ruoqing saw Sun's risk-taking look in her eyes and couldn't help but secretly want to laugh.
Isn't it just catching two little piglets? This is just the tip of the iceberg in her plan to get rich.
Yang Ruoqing spread the chopped nettles evenly on the sack, and then she and Sun moved them to the yard and placed them on a stone mill to dry in the sun.
The dried nettle grass will not go bad after being stored for a long time. This thing is the nutritional supplement she left for the two little piglets. It is natural and pollution-free.
After drying the nettles, the rice on the small stove in the kitchen gives off an attractive aroma.
Yang Ruoqing took two sticks of dried spicy seeds sent by Aunt Osmanthus, soaked them in water, took a cracked earthenware bowl, and grabbed two identical eggs sent by Aunt Osmanthus.
"Papa"
With two crisp sounds, two eggs were poured into the bowl. After stirring regularly with bamboo chopsticks, the golden egg liquid became thick and even.
I changed to a small cooking pot, put a little rapeseed oil on the bottom of the pot, and fried it with a crackling sound.
She picked up the dried chili pepper, chopped it into a puddle of pink chili mince with the knife in her hand, smashed a garlic with the back of the knife, put it into the egg liquid, sprinkled a little salt foam, stirred evenly, and poured in
into the oil pan.
With a cheerful "sizzling" sound, the egg liquid quickly formed on the bottom of the pot, transforming from the previous viscous liquid state to a solid egg cake at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Yang Ruoqing clung to the spatula and squatted beside the small pot, stirring the eggs in the pot quickly but carefully.
The umami flavor of the eggs blends well with the pungent spiciness of dried chili peppers, supplemented by the aroma of garlic. The three seem to have reached a contract when stir-fried at high temperatures, and the spicy aroma quickly fills the air, making people feel
mouth watering
Mrs. Sun looked on in shock. She was responsible for last night's dinner, and her daughter was the one cooking the dishes today.
Mrs. Sun couldn't believe her eyes. She sniffed the aroma of the vegetables in the kitchen and couldn't help but ask Yang Ruoqing, "My dear, you have never held a spatula handle before. Where did you learn this?"
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Yang Ruoqing used a spatula to chop up the chili egg pancakes in the pot. When she heard this, she turned around and grinned, "Have you never eaten pork and seen a pig walk? My mother used to cook, but I was watching from the side. I can even watch it."
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Mrs. Sun had no doubt that she had it, and she suddenly realized that her daughter was really smart, and her brain was very useful.
Yang Ruoqing put the fried eggs with dried chilies in a bowl, rinsed the spicy pot with water, poured it out and put it back on the small stove.
I stir-fried the handful of cabbage that Auntie Osmanthus sent me, and made a soup with the matsutake mushrooms picked yesterday and the fresh wild vegetables picked today, and finally sprinkled with a little green onion foam.
The mother and daughter brought the food to the stool next to Yang Huazhong's bed. Yang Huazhong had already woken up. Under Sun's service, he sat up with his coat on.
"A sneeze"
Chapter completed!