flstandardbreds Chapter 308 The intestines regret being green
Chapter 308 The intestines regret being green
Li Xiu was working in the fields when she heard villagers tell her that Lin Dashan had returned. At first she didn't take it seriously.
Between entertaining Lin Dashan and working, she chose to continue working. Rural people have no food to eat if they don't work, and she couldn't delay her work just to entertain Lin Dashan.
Things are different now than when we had a collectivist movement. If we don’t work now, we will have no food to eat.
In order not to entertain Lin Dashan, she worked for half an hour longer in the morning before going home.
As soon as I entered the village, I heard from the villagers that Lin Dashan had brought gifts to many elderly people in the village this time.
Li Xiu could no longer sit still. When he got home, he asked Lin Dahe, who had not even had time to drink a sip of water, to go and invite Lin Dashan home.
"Go and see where your eldest brother is now. He didn't come to his brothers' house after returning to the village, but gave a lot of gifts to other outsiders in the village. I think your eldest brother is stupid?"
Hearing her complain, Lin Dahe was filled with anger, "When others told you that my elder brother was back, I said I would come back to cook and invite him to dinner, but you said that the work was not finished. Now you are anxious?"
Li Xiu didn't want to hear him complain, so she pushed him out of the yard and said, "Stop talking so much, and go find someone. My brother is back, and it's not good to ask him to have his first meal at someone else's house."
Lin Dahe couldn't refute this.
After asking around, I found Lin Yuanchao's house and they were having dinner.
Lin Yuanchao was worried about not being able to find a drinking companion, so he got Lin Dahe to stay with him with just a few words.
Li Xiu finished cooking and waited for a long time but no one came back.
When she found Lin Yuanchao's house, the women had finished their meal and the men were already drunk, making Li Xiu so angry that she wanted to yell at them. But considering that this was someone else's house, she could only hold back her anger, walked into the house and pinched Lin Dahe.
"I asked you to go home with my brother for dinner, but you started drinking first."
Lin Yuanchao's wife, who was chatting with Lin Shu in the house, came out from the inner room when she heard the noise in the main room.
"It's Aunt Xiu who's here. Has she eaten yet? Or would you like to have some at my house?"
When Li Xiu heard the greeting from his niece-in-law, a smile immediately appeared on his face. "Yuan Chao's daughter-in-law, no need to bother. I just ate a few bites at home before coming here."
Then he glanced at Lin Dashan and explained, "I came back from working in the fields today and heard from the villagers that my eldest brother was back. I thought I would cook at home and ask Dahe to come out to look for my eldest brother. But he, a reliable man, actually drank at your house. I asked my family to wait for him."
After hearing what Lin Yuanchao's wife said, she couldn't help but twitch her lips a few times. If you really want to entertain guests, shouldn't you go home and cook early?
However, it was hard to say this directly, so we had to take it as the truth. She said politely, "We are all relatives, so it doesn't matter where we eat."
Lin Dashan was afraid that Li Xiu would embarrass Lin Dahe again, so he put down his wine glass and explained, "I ran into Yuan Chao before I entered the village today. After chatting for a while, he invited me to have a drink with him at noon. It's not Dahe's fault. Besides, the villagers are all brothers. It doesn't matter where we eat. Don't worry too much."
Li Xiu: “…”
So she is too calculative and petty?
Okay, let’s put this behind us.
"Brother, what are you going to do when you return to the village this time?"
"Second Aunt, my father and I came back this time mainly to buy medicinal herbs. If there are any medicinal herbs planted in the village this year, we can buy them based on their quality."
Lin Shu came out from the inner room and answered her question. When Li Xiu turned around in surprise, she probably didn't expect Lin Shu to come back.
"Second Aunt, how much did you plant this year?"
When asked about this, Li Xiu looked at Lin Dahe guiltily.
Years ago, Lin Dashan returned to the village to encourage villagers to grow medicinal herbs, but she didn't take it seriously and didn't plant any of them on a single acre of land.
It was in the spring of this year that Lin Dahe, seeing that others had planted some crops, started to plant five mu of land.
“Not many.”
Lin Shu knew that Li Xiu had never gotten along well with the first wife since she got married, and she would never obey anything the first wife asked her to do.
So I don’t have any expectations for her. It doesn’t matter whether she plants or how much she plants.
Lin Shu didn't ask her how much she had planted, and nodded: "My father and I came back this time to buy medicinal herbs. If you have planted any, hurry up and dig them up in the next few days. We will have to rush back after we have harvested the herbs."
Speaking of purchasing medicinal herbs, the villagers did not start collecting them this year. Some villagers had already started collecting them a week ago.
In the afternoon, some villagers came to line up at the door of the Lin family's old house, carrying the medicinal herbs they had collected in advance.
Aunt Niu was closest to the Lin family's main house, and she was also the first villager to line up.
Lin Shu cleaned up the main room and waited for Lin Dashan to find two young men from the village. He asked them to help carry the medicinal herbs and then started purchasing them.
Lin Dashan was in charge of weighing and reporting the number, while Lin Shu wrote down the total number in a notebook. To pay the bill, he had to wait until all the herbs in line had been weighed, and then he would go to each household to settle the bill in the evening.
Aunt Niu and Liu Xiao'e have a good relationship. When Lin Dashan came back and suggested that they grow medicinal herbs, she was very courageous and planted medicinal herbs on the five or six acres of sloping land in her home.
This spring, I asked the men in my family to open up three acres of wasteland and plant pinellia.
I planted eight or nine acres of land in total, and only harvested three acres today.
However, there is a lot of Salvia miltiorrhiza in the three acres of land. It takes a lot of time to weigh tens of thousands of kilograms of Salvia miltiorrhiza on a 50-kilogram scale.
Those villagers who only cultivated a little land began to envy and jealous.
As soon as he opened his mouth, his tone was inevitably a little sour: "Sister Niu, why did your family bear to give up the land at home to grow medicinal herbs instead of crops? Did Dashan tell you privately before the New Year? Otherwise, how dare you be so bold?"
"That's right, Sister Niu, your land is next to mine, why didn't you remind us when we were planting in the spring?"
"Aunt Niu, there are a few thousand kilograms here, right? How much can they be sold for?"
The younger generation was quite polite in their words.
As the last bag of Salvia miltiorrhiza was weighed, Lin Shu wrote down the number, calculated the total number under the expectant gaze of the villagers, and then multiplied it by the unit price.
"Lin Shu, how much can my salvia miltiorrhiza be sold for?" Aunt Niu looked expectant.
Lin Shu calculated it again, confirmed it was correct, wrote down the number, raised his head and looked around at everyone, "The salvia miltiorrhiza planted by Aunt Niu this year is of high quality, and the unit price is 8 cents per catty. The total amount of salvia miltiorrhiza picked today is 12,600 catties. At 8 cents per catty, the total is 1,008 yuan."
"Sigh~"
When everyone heard this number, they gasped.
You have to know that in this era, the salary for a worker in the city was only 30 or 40 yuan, and an apprentice earned only 20 yuan.
Medicinal herbs from three acres of land can be sold for more than a thousand yuan.
That is equivalent to the total annual salary of three workers.
The villagers who planted more medicinal herbs this year were very excited.
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For example, Lin Yuanchao's family did not feel so deeply when they learned the purchase price in the morning. But now when they heard the amount reported for Aunt Niu's family, they truly felt that this money could be put into their own pockets.
Those who planted less felt regretful and slapped their thighs.
"Why are medicinal herbs so valuable? Why didn't I hear Dashan tell me the purchase price before the New Year?"
"If I had known the purchase price would be so high, I would have planted eight or ten acres of land no matter what."
"Dashan said the purchase price depends on the quality, but he can guarantee that growing medicinal herbs is more cost-effective than growing grain. You didn't listen to him. Isn't it too late to blame others now?"
"Those who planted more this year are lucky. One year's income is enough to build a big house."
Ranked second is Lin Gan’s eldest brother. Because Lin Gan and his wife both work for Lin Shu, they trust the Lin family’s eldest branch more, so he also planted four acres of land this year.
"Aunt Niu, you can make a lot of money this year. We have only harvested three acres so far. The remaining acres should be able to sell for about one or two thousand yuan, right?"
Lin Gan's eldest brother weighed the herbs while talking to Aunt Niu.
"Not that much, not that much. You should be able to harvest a lot from your few acres of land this year."
Aunt Niu was laughing, but her smile was unnatural. She was feeling both happy and worried at the same time.
It’s a good thing that medicinal herbs are valuable, but not all of them have been harvested from the fields. Now that everyone knows they are valuable, will someone steal them from the fields at night?
No, while it’s still early, we have to work harder in the afternoon and go to the fields as a family to try to harvest more medicinal herbs.
Aunt Niu and Lin Shu agreed to go home to settle the bill in the evening, and then she hurriedly took her son and husband home.
Brother Lin Gan's family planted Pinellia ternata on four acres of land, and harvested a total of 4,100 kilograms. According to the quality of the crops, Lin Shu bought them at 25 cents.
Four thousand one hundred kilograms is one thousand and twenty-five yuan.
For rural people, this is also a huge sum of money.
Lin Dahe, who was standing behind Brother Lin Gan and watching the fun, felt very regretful.
Why did I listen to my wife and not plant more?
However, thinking about the fact that he had secretly opened up half an acre of wasteland, he more or less planted half an acre, which avoided having no harvest this year.
Half an acre of land should be able to sell for more than a hundred yuan, right?
Something is better than nothing.