Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Two quarters of an hour later, everyone woke up from their nap and began to prepare their backpacks and machetes.

Let’s go back to the mountain where I used to collect firewood.

As soon as we got to the mountain, everyone started to work tacitly.

My grandparents were responsible for chopping wood, my sister and brother picked up fallen leaves with bamboo rakes, and my uncle pulled the chopped firewood sticks together.

Then he used the bamboo strips prepared in advance to bundle the firewood sticks of different sizes together. After tying two bundles, my uncle carried them home.

Suddenly, Anyue's bamboo rake was entangled by a dry vine.

An Yue put down the bamboo rake and prepared to squat down to untie it. When An Yue picked up the vine, she found that the vine and leaves looked very familiar.

At this time, An Yue's eyes were full of excitement, as if she had discovered a new continent. She followed the vines excitedly to find the roots.

An Nian looked at his sister squatting on the ground as if she was looking for something. He approached her curiously and asked, "What are you looking for, sister?"

"Niannian, bring the sickle from the backpack to your sister."

After hearing this, An Nian quickly got up and ran to get the sickle.

I remember that when I was a child in the 21st century, my grandfather would plant a lot of white peony and purple peony every year, and the vines of white peony and purple peony were very similar.

An Yue looked at the vines in front of her and found that they were very similar to the ones her grandfather had planted before. She decided to try digging deeper.

Soon An Nian handed the sickle to An Yue.

An Yue took the sickle and gently dug around the vine.

Soon, a little bit of the root was exposed, and An Yue became more and more excited as she dug.

The grandfather looked at the two children gathered together. He pulled the chopped firewood sticks and took a closer look. He asked, "Yueyue, what are you digging?"

An Yue replied while digging: "Grandfather, this is a treasure, called mountain peony, also known as yam."

At this time, part of the yam has been exposed.

Grandfather then asked: "What's the use of this?"

"It can be fried and eaten, and can also be used as medicine."

After hearing what An Yue said, Jiang Wuwen also became interested in this unprecedented thing.

He saw An Yue digging with great difficulty and wanted to help.

So he said, "Yueyue, let grandpa help you!"

An Yue quickly stood up and brushed the dirt off her hands.

She looked carefully at the vines on the ground and found that the foot of the mountain was full of these vines.

An idea suddenly occurred to her. She thought about waiting until after the Chinese New Year and taking some yams to the town's herbal medicine store to ask if they would accept them.

It’s okay if you don’t collect it, you can keep it and eat it.

The grandmother was standing on a hillside not far away chopping wood. When she looked back, she saw that all three of them were lying on the ground.

The scene was a little funny, so she couldn't help but joked, "Old man, why are you still lying on the ground playing like two kids?"

"You old woman, I'm helping Yueyue dig for treasures!"

When my grandmother heard that there was a treasure, her eyes lit up instantly, and she pulled the dead tree trunk she had just cut down and hurried over to them to take a look.

The deeper they dug, the more crooked the part they dug out looked. My grandfather even broke it off accidentally, and the other part was still in the soil.

The digging was already very deep, and without tools like hoes and shovels, it was difficult to dig, so we had to give up.

Afterwards, the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren had to continue chopping wood. At this time, the uncle carried the firewood home and put it away, and then came back.

An Nian saw his uncle coming and quickly pointed at the yam and said to his uncle: "Uncle, we dug up a treasure."

"Oh!? What treasure is this?"

The grandmother said to her son, "Don't ask me now. It's getting late. Hurry up and bundle up the firewood and get ready to go home."

My uncle didn't ask any more questions and hurried to bundle the firewood.

After a while, the grandparents and grandchildren were carrying baskets and firewood on their shoulders and walking towards home.

When I got home, it was not yet dark.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren washed their hands and went into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

After dinner, the family went to bed early.

Perhaps it was because of the long-term fatigue, or perhaps it was because this year, everyone no longer had to worry about money, the whole family slept particularly soundly that night.

The next day, today is New Year’s Eve.

As soon as the sun rose, the family began to get up one after another.

After An Yue got up, she rubbed her eyes and just walked out of the main house. She found two bitter bamboos that had just been cut down in the yard.

I guess my grandfather must have gotten up early and went to the nearby hill to cut the trees.

At this time, my grandfather brought a small stool from the house. He sat in the yard and shaved the bamboo branches off the bamboo trunk one by one.

Then the small bamboo branches with bamboo leaves are tied to the top of the bamboo trunk, like a long broom.

At this moment, An Nian also woke up.

He yawned, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Grandfather, what is the use of this bamboo?"

Grandfather smiled and replied: "Nian Nian has woken up! This bamboo can clean the roof and the beams and pillars."

An Nian hurried over and helped.

Grandma had prepared breakfast in the kitchen. An Yue set the table and the family ate breakfast together.

After breakfast, my uncle and grandfather began to move all the things in the main house to the yard and put them in order.

After moving everything, my grandfather and uncle started cleaning the roof and beams with brooms.

The house has been there for a year and there is a lot of dust and cobwebs on it.

My grandmother was in charge of covering and collecting various things.

The brother and sister were carefully scrubbing the round table, benches, low stools, as well as various wooden basins, barrels, pot lids and other utensils in the kitchen in the yard.

In this way, the family cleaned the main house inside and out in just one morning.

The only thing left to be cleaned was the kitchen, which was the dustiest place there, so it was cleaned last.

The brother and sister had already washed the tables, stools, basins and buckets, and planned to clean the windows and doors next.

Grandfather sat in the yard smoking a pipe, waving at the siblings and saying, "Niannian, Yueyue, come over and have a rest!"

He took a puff, puffed out smoke and continued, "Don't worry, take your time. Clean the kitchen in the afternoon, and then we can put up couplets, hang lanterns, and cook a reunion dinner together."

"Great! I want to help hang the lanterns every year." When An Nian heard about hanging lanterns, he was so excited that he jumped up and down in the yard like a monkey.

When An Yue saw An Nian like this, she couldn't help but think of her childhood in the 21st century. She was also looking forward to the New Year!

The round table and benches in the yard had been dried, and my uncle moved them into the main house one by one.

It was noon and my grandmother had already prepared lunch.

After a simple lunch, the family did not take a nap. Instead, they sat in the yard for a while and then started to busy themselves again.

Together they moved all the jars and pots from the kitchen to the yard.

My grandfather was sweeping the dust in the kitchen. The kitchen was dusty as we used firewood to cook all year round.

Uncle Jiang Chenghai was sweeping the yard with a bamboo broom, An Nian was clearing weeds in every corner of the yard with a sickle, and An Yue was wiping the windows with a coarse cloth.

The family was together, busy talking and laughing, and everyone's face was filled with a happy smile.