I sat at Zhang An's house for more than an hour, looking at the flowers, plants, and animals in the yard.
Especially Sanhu who came back from outside made Li Hongbin jealous. He actually also likes dogs, but because he doesn't stay home often, he doesn't have one at home, but it doesn't affect his love.
Especially how obedient Sanhu is.
He originally wanted to ask Zhang An if he could sell the dog, but Zhang An said he wouldn't sell it.
This made Sanhu grin a little when he looked at him.
He also knew that it was impolite to say this, so he settled for the next best thing. When Zhang An's dogs were bred and had puppies, he would leave one for him.
When the two finally asked to go back, Zhang An only stayed for a while and then stopped trying to stay. After all, they didn't have a deep friendship yet.
Before leaving, he not only took away the hares, pheasants and fish, but also took away the basket of fifty or so teal eggs. Of course, the silver rooster must have been taken away as well. It was Li Hongbin who held it in his hands, and Zhou Lan finally gave it to Zhang.
Ann left more than twenty large bills.
Zhang An even thought it was a bit much, but in fact most of the money was given to the silver chicken. If it could get an important customer, this little money would be nothing.
He also told Zhang An to remember to inform him of any strange things in the future.
Finally, Zhang An sent the two of them to the entrance of the village, and the other party also allowed Zhang An to go to their house to play. His family, Li Yao, liked Zhang An very much.
These words were not polite. It could be seen that Li Hongbin wanted to make friends with Zhang An, and Zhou Lan meant what he said.
Not long after teasing Sanhu in the yard, my parents came back from a visit.
He probably saw Zhou Lan and his wife coming back after seeing him send them away.
Although my mother didn't say anything, Zhang An knew it from her eyes.
I’ll give you a look and you’ll realize it for yourself.
I immediately counted three big tickets and handed them to my mother. My mother was happy and surprised at the same time.
"Why is there so much? Is it too much? Xiao An, I don't want to do anything for you if I give you so much."
Although money is a good thing, Wang Fang has not let it go to her head.
Those few prey animals are not worth so much money.
"What are you trying to do? Our family has nothing for others to take advantage of. By the way, they also bought our duck eggs. People from the city like these things. This little money is nothing to them."
This is also the reason why Zhang An did not give all the money to his mother, otherwise she would be frightened.
Wang Fang relaxed after listening to what Zhang An said, and happily put away the money. Her son had given her money several times this year, and it was enough to sell two pigs.
"It's okay. It's good to sell the duck eggs, and it saves us having to sell them in the town ourselves."
The life of Zhang An's family is much better now than before. Sometimes the fish brought back by Zhang An are cooked and eaten at home. And since the ducks have settled at home, they can basically pick up five or six eggs every day, which is a lot of money.
A lot of income.
Now the situation of the family is developing towards a better side. The big black horse in the family is strong and powerful, and is very obedient. The two pigs have become fat and strong recently. The ducks do not need to be fed every day and they can lay a few eggs for the family.
This is the so-called prosperity of the six animals in the door, right? In Wang Fang's mind.
The gifts Zhou Lan brought included wine, candies and cakes, and Zhang An handed them to his mother.
Wang Fang also took it and put it away. This can be used when visiting relatives.
While Wang Fang was away, Zhang An pulled out fifty yuan and handed it to his father.
Zhang Jianguo smiled from ear to ear. When Zhang An handed Wang Fang three hundred yuan just now, he thought Zhang An had given all the money to Wang Fang.
Although he was a little disappointed, maybe Zhang An couldn't stay because it was too tidy, so he didn't care.
Unexpectedly, he kept his son for himself. As expected, his son is still close to him.
Zhang An's previous life, Zhang Jianguo, was not in good health because he smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol for many years.
And even as I get older, my blood pressure is still very high, but I just can’t quit smoking and drinking.
So when Zhang An came back in this life, he persuaded his father to quit smoking some time ago.
I tell him every day about the dangers of smoking and how it is a waste of money.
Fortunately, Zhang Jianguo doesn't smoke much now, so he finally listened to Zhang An's advice and stopped drinking.
Moreover, he has been in good health recently because he uses the space spring water at home every day for food and drinks. However, Zhang Jianguo doesn't know this and thinks it is the benefit of quitting smoking and drinking.
Every time he goes out and the villagers get together to brag, everyone laughs at how he still looks like a man if he doesn't smoke or drink, and says he can't be the head of the family.
Zhang Jianguo also seriously advised everyone to smoke less and drink less, which is good for their health.
Until everyone saw that Zhang Jianguo was more able to do farm work than before. This made everyone think, is it really such a great benefit? Or should I quit smoking and drinking?
In fact, it’s not that helpful, but it’s not harmful at all. If it doesn’t do so much harm to the body, wouldn’t it be more harmful than anything else?
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Zhang An washed the gastrodia elata dug from the mountains and gave it to his mother for processing.
My mother is familiar with this matter, because my grandpa often goes to the mountains to dig up medicinal herbs, prepares them and then sells them in the town.
So my mother knows more or less.
After the preparation is completed, buy a few kilograms of wine and make a jar of Gastrodia elata wine to keep at home for emergencies.
Time passed day by day, and the rapeseed seedlings sown in the vegetable garden were ready for transplanting.
When sowing seeds and raising seedlings, Zhang An soaked the seeds in spring water.
Therefore, the germination speed is very fast, and when transplanting, you can find that these rapeseed seedlings are quite strong.
It took more than ten days to transplant the rapeseed seedlings into the fields and fields.
Due to the local staple food habit, there are actually very few families growing wheat, and only a few families do it.
Most people grow rapeseed or potatoes.
Potatoes now cost two cents per pound. Although they are cheap, potatoes are highly productive and do not require much management.
The same is true for rapeseed, but rapeseed does not have such a high yield.
Zhang An followed his family to transplant rapeseed. He first plowed the fields and dug up the rice roots and corn roots that were not dug up before and burned them.
Then we started planting rapeseed. Because we have horses at home this year, we didn’t need to plow the ground manually, which saved many days. So the sowing was finished very quickly.
Looking at the large field at the entrance of the village, every household is busy planting rapeseed.
When the rapeseed flowers bloom next year after the Chinese New Year, the place will be golden.
Golden new clothes are the favorite color in the mountains every year.
At that time, the hard-working bees were the happiest because there was endless pollen to collect.
After Zhang An's family was done with their work, he took the caravan to his second uncle's house and his third uncle's house to plow the land.
The villagers were envious and said that Zhang An was such a good boy.
Ever since Zhang An deliberately helped his two uncles' families, the relationship between the three Zhang Jianguo brothers is pretty good now.
Wang Fang and her sisters-in-law also got along very well, and nothing red-faced happened.
All this happened in later generations, even though Zhang An took his parents to the city.
But every year, the two uncles from my hometown bring some new year's goods to Zhang An's family.
This made Zhang An very friendly to his two uncles' families, so the only thing he could do to help him in this life was to live a good life together.