Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 164 Buying Rice

The old woman said cheerfully, "They are free-range. Let them out in the morning and they return home in the evening."

"Go out and look for wild vegetables. They like to eat wild grass. Bring it back and throw it into the chicken coop."

"Once a chicken is well-trained, it will recognize its home and won't run too far."

Ji Wenhe nodded: "To be honest, Auntie, I also raise a few chickens at home. Wild vegetables are becoming less and less, and I am worried about what to feed them."

The old woman said, "I have heard of this before, but I have never tried it. If you have space at home, you can try this method."

"We have a cultivated field at home. We tilled the soil, sprinkled sorghum rice porridge on the ground, and cut fresh straw to cover it."

"After a while, white worms will keep growing inside."

She asked, "Does it have to be farmland? Can wasteland be used?"

The old woman shook her head: "I don't know. My family has never used this method. The land should be used to grow vegetables, so there is no room for raising chickens."

"But it should be possible. There are many insects and earthworms in the wasteland."

Ji Wenhe understood, counted the money and handed it to her: "Thank you, Auntie."

No matter whether the wasteland works or not, I have to give it a try when I get back.

He said to the two girls behind him, "Let's go to Zhou's rice shop."

Shen Rongshan should be waiting for them there.

When they arrived at Zhou's Rice Shop, Shen Rongshan was standing at the door of the shop.

Seeing them coming, he went up to them and took the basket from her hands.

"Boss Yang asked me to tell you to make it according to the materials she gave me."

Ji Wenhe nodded: "Brother Shen, have you bought the paper and meat?"

He nodded: "I bought it."

"Well, Brother Shen, I want to buy some sorghum."

“What do you buy sorghum for?”

She told him the method she had heard from the old woman.

"She said fields are best, but I think wasteland should work, but the effect won't be as good as fields."

"Boss Zhou has sorghum rice." Shen Rongshan turned and looked at the two girls. "Wait here for a while, we will be out soon."

Shen Suya responded: "I understand, Brother Rongshan, we are not in a hurry."

Boss Zhou was not in the shop, only two shop assistants were there.

Ji Wenhe walked in first and asked, "Hello, which one is Shumi?"

"This." The shop assistant pointed to a rice bucket, "Sorghum rice is also called sticky sorghum, kaoliang rice, yellow rice, and yellow glutinous rice in other places."

After a long time of searching, she found out that it was sorghum rice. She thought it was a variety she had never seen before.

"How much is this per pound?"

"Eighty wen a jin."

"So expensive!" Ji Wenhe opened his eyes wide in shock.

After spending this money, I don’t know if I can make it back by selling eggs.

The shop assistant smiled and explained: "The soil here is not suitable for growing sorghum. It has to be shipped from far away plains and cities, so the price is naturally higher."

"Madam, what are you going to use the sorghum for? It's usually used as medicine and for making wine."

They don’t sell much sorghum in their shop, and some families know how to make their own wine, so they buy some and take it home to make their own wine.

Shen Rongshan stood behind her. Seeing her distressed look, he said softly, "Buy half a pound and take a look at it."

Ji Wenhe turned around and looked at him: "But I'm afraid that if I buy it and the test fails, it will be wasted."

She was struggling. On the one hand, she was afraid of failing and wasting money, but on the other hand, she was unwilling to give up.

If they are not fed well, they will not grow well and will not lay eggs.

Forty cents, how many eggs would I have to sell to make a profit? It's not worth it.

But...the lady said that the chickens would keep producing white worms. If that was the case, the chickens would never have to worry about having nothing to eat.

Shen Rongshan did not urge her and waited quietly for her to think it over.

Seeing her looking back at him again, he raised the corners of his lips slightly: "Buy it. How do you know if it will work if you don't try it?"

"It's a waste, it's a waste. I can make the money back if I go out a few more times."

Then he said to the shop assistant, "Please give me half a pound of sorghum rice."

"Okay, I'll put it in the cloth bag in the shop and you can bring it over next time."

"Okay, thank you."

Ji Wenhe counted the coins with some pain in his heart.

Shen Rongshan comforted her: "Even if it's wasted, don't take it to heart, I'm here for you."

"Just buy whatever you want. Don't ask me. I won't blame you if you lose or waste money."

"So don't keep worrying about it. Money is earned to be spent. You can only get in if you spend."

On the way back, he talked a lot more.

"I once heard an elder say that money is like water. You have to let it flow and not hold it tightly in your hands. That will block your fortune."

Shen Suya was puzzled: "But the money is not in my hands. I have spent it all. How can I save money?"

Ji Wenhe took over the conversation: "What your elder brother Rongshan meant is that you should spend the money where it should be spent. When you spend the money, you should be able to see a return."

"Of course, sometimes you may not see a return after spending money. At this time, it depends on your vision, brains and luck."

However, for farmers, without a shrewd business mind, they can only save money by living frugally.

Sometimes when doing business, a big part of it depends on whether you are willing to take out all your savings and whether you can be willing to take it all out.

The two nodded thoughtfully.

Shen Qingdai turned her head and looked at the bundle in the car: "Sister-in-law, are all the things you bought here fabrics?"

"I didn't buy it. Boss Yang from Jinxiufang asked me to do her a favor."

Ji Wenhe changed the subject.

"I don't know what happened to Uncle Xiaoxian's leg. His family is poor. It would cost dozens of taels to go to town. I'm afraid it would be difficult to cure his leg."

"I didn't bring it with me. Last night I cried out in pain for a long time at home. I couldn't sleep because of it."

Shen Qingdai's house is next to Li Chunhong's, with two houses in between.

He screamed very loudly, and even though his leg was broken, he still had enough strength to curse.

Shen Suya whispered, "Uncle Xiaoxian, don't dare to hit Aunt Li and the others in the future."

"That may not be the case. His personality will not change just because his leg is broken."

Ji Wenhe didn't think that such people would change. If he was sensible, he should try to please them.

If it were her, she would torture him at home and make him suffer all the pain she had endured before.

No, if it were her, she would not tolerate this and would just confront him with a knife.

When they returned to the village entrance, Shen Rongshan dropped them off and went to return the donkey cart. Ji Wenhe and the other two ran into Shen Zhong head-on.

"Rongshan's wife, is your Rongshan okay? Let's..."

"The head of the village, he went to Zhaojia Village to return the donkey cart. He will be back soon to pick up some goods to sell in the village."

"Yuanshan came back yesterday and told us that he met hunters from Baiyun Mountain and asked them to go to Baiyun Mountain."

"Every household in the village is running out of black noodles. Seeing that we haven't been there in the past two days, they are all worried."

"It was the busy farming season, so they had no time to go to town to buy noodles. They told us to go to Baiyun Mountain."

"Yuanshan and Wenshan went to the villages near Zhaojia Village and Zhangjia Village. Baiyun Mountain is too far away, and they can't handle carrying hundreds of kilograms of goods."

"So he will be carrying goods to Baiyun Mountain soon and won't be able to help the headman's family. After all, we promised them first, don't you think so?"

Ji Wenhe said in one breath that he would never let Shen Rongshan help their family plant rice today no matter what.

If I've offended you, I can just go live in another village.