Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 6 Planning for the future
Farmers don't have many ways to make money these days, and catching weasels is one of the few allowed livelihoods.

Unlike the Northeast old iron lump, the Loess Plateau does not have so much awe of weasels.

Now the weasel skins are exported, and the purchase price offered by the supply and marketing cooperatives is also high. After frost, a piece can be sold for three to five yuan.Some of them are good in color and large in size, and can even be sold for ten yuan.

After Wang Manyin came to this world, he didn't intend to continue wandering outside to do small business like his predecessor.

However, in the short term, there is no benefit in terms of space, and we cannot just sit and eat empty mountains. It is best to find a way to get money.

Catching weasels is a good job, and it is aboveboard, and no one can sue for this kind of money.

One is five yuan, ten is fifty.

But Wang Manyin knew that he took it for granted, this thing is a ghost, and it will not be easy to take the bait.As Wang Manjun said just now, guarding for several nights may not necessarily catch one.

If it is so easy to catch, everyone in the village is busy.

In addition, catching weasels requires a cage, and I don’t have one at all, so I can only go back and find time to make one.

When we got home, it was already dark.

Wang Wang...

In a black gelao, a mangy dog ​​suddenly jumped out.

This guy... Wang Manyin was taken aback.

I didn't see it when I left Sun's house before, and thought it was lost, but I didn't expect to go home first.

He took the key out of his body to open the door, and fumbled to light the oil lamp.

Because the kerosene was mixed with water, the wick made a crackling sound, and the whole cave dwelling became much brighter.

The ground soft fried garlic sprouts at noon were delicious, and Wang Manyin planned to go to the space to pick up some more.

After entering it, he found that after a few hours of work, the planted water plants and reeds had turned green.

Wang Manyin is accustomed to this.

The active substances contained in the space spring water have a very good effect on plants.

After picking up the soft ground, Wang Manyin came to the deep pit where the chickens were stocked.

This is... an egg?
Seeing three eggs lying on the bottom of the pit, he immediately became excited.

I didn't say anything, I spread egg pancakes at night, and I happened to buy white noodles.

The three eggs are much larger than ordinary native eggs, and it is estimated that eight or nine eggs weigh one catty.

Soon, there was an oily smell in the cave...

Although the pancakes were mushy, Wang Manyin still ate them full of praise.

Of course, he didn't forget the mangy dog ​​outside the cave.

After eating and drinking enough, Wang Manyin continued to enter the space to dig water canals.

After being busy for a while, he briefly washed his body in the space and returned to the kang.

Not feeling sleepy for a while, Wang Manyin began to seriously think about how to go in the future.

The experience during the day made him slightly change his original thoughts.

Now that the fiery red era has just begun, I don't know about other places for the time being, but the Shige Festival Commune obviously does not strictly manage the Pigeon City.

And from memory, the Pigeon City in the original West County seems to be bigger.

If you have a chance, you can do another wave.

Just getting married and marrying a daughter-in-law cannot be done without hundreds of dollars.

I remember that in the original book, when the future brother-in-law Sun Shaoan got married (1975), the father-in-law Sun Yuhou borrowed 200 yuan for the wedding.If you count the dowry money (1975), it can be thousands of dollars (there is a lot of controversy about the thousand-yuan dowry, and the original text of "Ordinary World" is the main one. After all, this book is a fan. The original text is as follows "But what did he give How about marrying a child? Now, if you marry a daughter-in-law, even though the public is opposed to offering a dowry, who can lose a thousand or two or eight hundred? Alas, after all, it is not easy for a family to raise a daughter, so what is a thousand or two or eight hundred! His daughter can be like his orchids, thrown to bastards for nothing!").

This is not Wang Manyin's wild imagination, it is the same no matter in this era or later generations, the poorer the place, the higher the bride price.

Of course, that was seven years ago.

The market is not that high now, but the whole wedding, including the banquet and wedding supplies, is estimated to cost 200 yuan.

I definitely can't let my father-in-law help manage the marriage like the original body.In this way, not only will he not be able to lift his head in front of the Sun family for the rest of his life, but it will also be difficult for Lanhua to return to her natal family in the future.

In addition, the family needs daily expenses.

Wang Manyin currently only has more than 100 yuan on hand, and there are more than 20 catties of food stamps left.According to his way of eating, let alone marrying a daughter-in-law, he can't last until the New Year alone.

And after eating big meat buns, I feel that the corn nests are really hard to swallow.

I have space to exist, and it would be a pity not to use it.As long as you don't catch it while trading, you should be fine.

I remember that Wang Manyin was arrested in the novel, it seems to be a matter of seven years or so... There should be a short gap at present.

Wang Manyin guessed right.

In fact, starting from next year, the policy will start to become really strict, stipulating that "it is not allowed to go to the market or the rural communes to purchase items by themselves..."

All Wang Manyin can think of at the moment is to raise native chickens and sell eggs in the space.

I still have one hundred and ten yuan on hand, which can buy almost thirty native chickens.In the pigeon market, eggs cost 4 to 8 cents per egg depending on their size.

If you count thirty eggs a day, you can earn more than two yuan.It is equivalent to earning a chicken.

All that was invested was the green grass in the space.

The more Wang Manyin thought about it, the more he felt that this method was reliable... But the premise was that he could buy dozens of native chickens.

Now farmers have almost no way to get money. The daily necessities of the family, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, needles, threads, etc., all depend on selling eggs for money when the hens lay eggs.It is also known as the "chicken butt bank".

Before feeding the chickens in the morning, many people in the village have to touch them one by one to see if there are eggs in their stomachs.

If there is one, it is kept in a cage all the time.

Let the children at home stare at them, and release them when they finish laying eggs.

If one day the hen accidentally laid an egg outside, the family can search along the cliff for a long time.There were even quite a few people who quarreled over who's chickens laid eggs, making their faces blush and their necks thick.

So unless it is a last resort, few people will sell the laying hens.

The last time Wang Manyin was able to buy two native chickens at the Pigeon Market, he was considered lucky.

If you want to gather together as soon as possible, in addition to going to Shigejie Commune a few more times, you also have to go to a bigger pigeon market, such as Mijia Town.

Mijia Town is not under the jurisdiction of Yuanxi County, and it is about 30 miles away from Guanzi Village.Its geographical location is very superior, just on the main road leading to the grassland.

Usually, farmers in eight villages around Guanzi Village want to buy something important. If they can’t buy it in Shigejie Commune, they don’t go to Yuanxi County, but go to Mijia Town, which is closer.

As early as in the old society, Mijia Town was a relatively large commodity distribution center.Fur from the north, tea, silk and porcelain from the south are all traded here.

Even now, Mijia Town is far more prosperous than Shigejie Commune, and even the market sells goods from the Beijing and Tianjin areas, which is not even comparable to the original West County.

After making up his mind, Wang Manyin fell asleep.

When he was awakened again by the cry of magpies on the edge of the cliff, the sky was already bright.

There are too many pancakes at the latest, and there are five or six pancakes left.Wang Manyin didn't plan to cook in the morning, so he simply soaked cold pancakes in boiling water to fill his stomach.

As for the mangy dog ​​Rhubarb, just pour some cornmeal into the food bowl and throw half a pancake.

Rhubarb is Wang Manyin's new name for the mangy dog. As a member of the family, there is no name that is difficult to call.

After filling his stomach, Wang Manyin entered the space to check as usual.

When his eyes flicked across the pond, he always felt that something was wrong.

Wait...fish!

Staring carefully at the water surface for a moment, Wang Manyin finally noticed something unusual.

Yesterday he caught a dozen small fish from the Dongla River, and the biggest crucian carp was only four fingers long.

In just one day, he almost doubled in size.

Now it is almost as big as a palm, and it can already stew crucian carp soup.

As for the remaining small fish, their size also increased significantly.

Looking at the three native chickens in the pit again, they are in good spirits and their coat color is brighter than yesterday.

After carefully checking the status of Jiyu, Wang Manyin confirmed that his previous cognition was biased.This mysterious space is still useful to animals.

As for why Wang Manyin did not change after drinking the space water, it may not have any effect on humans, it may be too short a time, or it may be that the water lost its active substances after boiling.

Originally, Wang Manyin only wanted to raise some fish to eat, but now he has another way to make money, which is selling fish.

(End of this chapter)