How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

The firewood on the mountain is private and is not allowed to be cut. Fish in the water belong to others and are not allowed to be caught.

The area by the river has been turned into cultivated land and has been snatched away under various pretexts.

So, starting from this year, Chen Yixuan and his family could no longer grow hemp.

Chen Feiyan looked at the twine she had accumulated over the past few years and sighed helplessly.

"If I had known this, I wouldn't have sold the prepared linen clothes outside."

She regretted it endlessly, and the village chief Chen Qiliang was even more unhappy.

Because in order to make a fortune, his family directly gave four taels of silver to Chen Feiyan's family to buy the loom.

Although every year I also open up wasteland and plant hemp on the edge of the river beach. I also saved a lot of twine.

My daughter-in-law, son and daughters-in-law are all very diligent, sitting in front of the weaving machine all day long and weaving linen with imitation linen threads.

However, why are they not worried when this way of making money suddenly comes to an end?
Chen Qiliang was almost annoyed to death.

"...Hey~, if there is no twine workshop from now on, our annual income will be one or two taels less! Head, you said that our whole family needs to eat every day, drink water every day, and drink water every day." You have to sleep on the kang. What doesn’t cost money? We worked hard to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. When the government officials came, they got involved with landlord Zhang Da’s family. When they came to our place to take a look, they said we had opened it. Those wastelands belong to their government..."

"Hey, where should we, the whole family, go to reason?"

When Chen Qiliang heard about his mother-in-law, Ma, it was as if she was singing a big show. Frowning and wailing with a grimace on his face. He felt even more upset.

"What's the point? Tell me?"

"In front of those rich and powerful people, we people are nothing!"

"How dare we reason in front of them? That group of government officials are actually just bastards who bully the inferiors and hide the superiors. As long as they don't like you, they will beat you if they ask for it. How dare you not be convinced?"

"I wanted to kneel in front of them. You still want to come to them to reason? You don't want to live, but we do want to live."

When Ma heard this, he felt a little depressed.

It's too difficult, it's just too difficult.

"Head of the family, our whole family has worked hard for so many years and slowly accumulated a little bit of family property. We have these few houses and five acres of land."

"But how can we support our family of forty or fifty people on those few acres of land?"

Chen Qiliang's increasingly cloudy eyes glanced back and forth at his sons, grandchildren, especially his granddaughters.

Finally, he took a deep breath, made up his mind, and said to his sons seriously.

"If our family really comes to the point where it is almost impossible to survive, we will have no choice but to sell the two girls you raised!"

After hearing this, Chen Qiliang's sons immediately opened their eyes.

"Dad~, how can this be possible?"

"We have finally raised these two daughters. Didn't we agree at the beginning? We will use these two daughters to exchange for our sons' wives!"

"It's not easy to get a wife now. Unless our family is very lucky and others are willing to give favors, just like Shuanzi's family, they pick up the slack... and spend some money to marry the kind that others don't want. Those who are seriously ill, and those who are about to die of terminal illness. Just bet that they will survive..."

"For example, the daughter-in-law of Uncle Dazhu's family had to pay eight taels of silver as a gift! This took away all their family capital! The two brothers share the same daughter-in-law. No, they give birth to girls every year... "

When Chen Qiliang heard his sons say such words, he couldn't help but sigh. "It's true! If these two granddaughters are sold, our children will be single until they are fifteen or sixteen years old, or seventeen or eighteen years old when they want to marry a wife."

Rich people like Chen Yixuan's family are getting better and better. In order to establish a relationship with their family and form a real family, they keep in close contact with each other on weekdays, and the betrothal gifts they ask for are quite small. , some don’t even ask for money.

The conditions in a village like theirs are average, or even worse than theirs. Those who have daughters who marry their daughters usually ask for a very high dowry, as if it is a one-time transaction.

Perhaps they are all thinking that there is no need to have any contact with each other in the future.

Chen Qiliang frowned, thinking about how his family could overcome this predicament. After thinking about it, his sons stood up and spoke.

"Dad~, haven't our children been studying with Shuanzi recently?"

"They can already write more than 200 big characters, and they can also do an abacus. They also memorize the multiplication tables by heart. How about I take them to the county town for a walk in a few days to see if they can Looking for something to do?"

"If they can work as waiters in restaurants or hotels, or learn a craft from a master, they won't have to worry about eating in the future. They can make money outside and save a lot of money for their families. Expenses, what a great thing.”

Chen Qiliang's eyes lit up when he heard his eldest son say this.

"Son, you are right, this method is good, this method is good!"

"Our children can't stay in the fields all day long. We rented 20 acres of land from landlord Zhang. We have many men in our family, so it's easy for us to farm such a small amount of land. You guys Ah, I still need to go out for a walk and take a look."

“Maybe there will be an opportunity to make a lot of money in the future!”

……

Chen Yixuan felt that time was particularly urgent.

He thought to himself that he still had to continue studying.

If he could pass the exam earlier, many people from his family would come to join him in the future.

By then, the pressure in his life will never be as great as it is now.

Seeing that his wife was as tired as a spinning top all day long, busy with this and that, and snoring even at night, Chen Yixuan felt extremely ashamed.

He could only turn his grief and anger into motivation. When the weather was particularly good during the day, he would concentrate on reading and study hard.

He would keep it in mind if he had any questions that he didn't understand, thinking that the next time he went to the county town, he would ask his cousin for advice in person.

However, he also knew in his heart that there were not many opportunities for him to meet his cousin now.

My cousin took the provincial examination last August.

Although his reputation has declined, he has a good and famous master in Fucheng.

Under the guidance of the master, he said that he would continue to work in about three years and take the provincial examination.

When Chen Yixuan thought of the letter sent to him by his cousin, he still felt a little pain in his heart.

Sending such a letter, including the package he sent, must have cost a lot of money.

He really has to work harder.

If I don’t work hard, I don’t know how tired my wife will be in the future.