Reborn Ugly Girl Farming to Support the Family

It was already dark after dinner, and the families chatted for a while before leaving.

After everyone left, Zheng Xiaoman returned to the house and saw her brother writing big characters on paper. She walked over and watched for a while before saying, "Brother, when you come home in the future, can you teach me how to write?"

She doesn't recognize many of the traditional Chinese characters here. When she went to the town and looked at the shop signs, she didn't recognize many of the characters.

"Okay, from now on, I will come back and teach you the characters I learned during the day at night."

Zheng Xiaoman responded happily. She could finally get rid of her illiteracy.

There are two people in the family who go to school, so the original two meals a day were changed to three meals.

There was an hour break in the school at noon, so Zheng Qingming and his classmates went home to eat.

A few more days passed, and today was the day for the school holiday.

Zheng Qingming went to the mountains to chop firewood early in the morning. The weather was getting colder and colder. The winter here is long and it snows heavily.

They need to stock up more firewood at home now, as they can’t come to the mountain if it snows.

Today Zhou Chunfeng found some soybeans at home and cooked a pot of them, planning to make some big sauce cubes.

Their sauce has been eaten up too quickly recently, and the remaining ones won’t last long.

Ever since the eldest daughter figured out how to make mushroom sauce and shrimp paste, their family has been eating several times more soybean paste than before.

Zheng Xiaoman took Lixia up the mountain today. They first went to the river to put down the basket, and then walked up the mountain with the basket on their backs.

This time she went up the mountain to look for hawthorn trees. The hawthorns are ripe now, and the fruits will rot in a few days.

Lixia watched his sister walking up the mountain without picking up any firewood that passed by.

He asked doubtfully, "Sister, aren't we going up the mountain to collect firewood?"

Zheng Xiaoman shook her head. "We won't collect firewood today. I plan to go to the mountains to collect some hawthorns. I'll make you candied haws during the Chinese New Year."

Lixia looked at his sister in surprise, "Sister, can you make candied haws?"

"Of course, your sister is so smart, I will be able to do it after watching it twice."

Lixia was extremely happy, but suddenly frowned again, "Sister, it's useless even if we pick hawthorns. We don't have sugar at home. Sugar is so expensive, mother will definitely not buy it."

A pound of sugar in the town costs 60 cents, which is enough to buy two pounds of pork.

Zheng Xiaoman touched his head and said, "When our pigs are sold at the end of the year, I will ask mom to buy some candy for us."

Her pigs have been eating acorns and sweet potato leaves recently, and they are gaining weight very quickly.

At this rate, by the end of the year, the pig in their family would be able to weigh more than 200 kilograms, and the pure pork would be about 170 to 180 kilograms.

In this day and age, this is a super fat pig.

If a pound of pork costs thirty cents, her family can sell a pig for about five taels of silver.

When the money comes from the sales, she will ask her mother to buy some candy.

Once she has sugar, she can make candied haws, mung bean cakes, and peanut candy.

These should sell well at the end of the year. She can make extra and take them to the market, and still make some money.

Lixia is now his sister's little fanboy, and he believes everything his sister says.

"Sister, you are so kind. I want to eat a whole string of candied haws by myself. No, I want to eat two strings."

Lixia happily held up two fingers.

"Okay, as long as you don't mind it."

Because of her sister's promise, Lixia was particularly active in taking Zheng Xiaoman to find the hawthorn tree.

Hawthorn trees are easy to find in the mountains. The two of them found a few after walking for about half an hour.

Zheng Xiaoman looked at the hawthorn tree in front of him. There were many red fruits hanging on the branches, but they were much smaller than the hawthorns of later generations.

She picked one, wiped it, put it in her mouth and took a small bite, then her whole face distorted.

Wow, this hawthorn is too sour.

She shook her head, and the sour taste in her mouth took a long time to disappear. She really couldn't eat sour things.

"Lixia, let's pick them here. I think the hawthorns on these trees are enough."

There must be hundreds of hawthorns on this tree, and several hundred in this patch. Even if they can't reach the fruits on the top, the ones below are enough for them.

"Okay, sister, then I'll pick the fruits from this tree." Lixia walked to a tree nearby and started picking fruits.

Zheng Xiaoman also chose a tree, and the two of them picked almost a hundred hawthorns before stopping.

"Okay, let's pick these today. We can't take back the extra ones. We can come together next time when Big Brother is on holiday."

Lixia still felt a little reluctant to leave, but he also knew his own weight and it was too heavy for him to carry back.

It took a lot of effort for the two of them to carry these back.

There were some catches in the shrimp basket today, but not much.

Zhou Chunfeng saw that they were carrying so many hawthorns and asked in surprise: "What are you doing with all these hawthorns?"

"Hey, Mom, don't ask yet. You will know when the time comes."

Zheng Xiaoman gave his brother a look that kept a secret.

Lixia nodded quickly and covered his little mouth to indicate that he would not say anything.

Zhou Chunfeng couldn't help laughing when she saw the mysterious look on the brother and sister's faces, but she didn't ask any more questions. The fruits from the mountains were free anyway, so she let the two children play with them.

The day passed quickly, and Lixia returned to school to attend classes the next day.

On the way home at noon, Lixia looked at the people standing on the side of the road and poked his brother with his finger.

"Brother, look, it's Sister Lamei again. You said she stands here every day when we get out of school. Is she waiting for us on purpose?"

Zheng Qingming also glanced at the girl on the side of the road, and then looked at Yang Shuhuai who was looking straight ahead.

He lowered his head and whispered to his brother, "Don't talk nonsense. If outsiders hear it, it will be bad for your sister Lamei's reputation."

La Mei is old enough to get married. If word gets out that she's waiting for a few men on the street every day, her reputation will be ruined.

Lixia nodded obediently, "Brother, I understand. I won't say it again."

Since Yang Shuhuai appeared, Wintersweet's eyes have been on him.

She bit her lips lightly and held the handkerchief tightly in her hand.

She was feeling very confused right now. Yesterday she accidentally heard her mother saying that she had found a boyfriend for her in town.

But she already had someone in her heart, and she didn't want to marry into any town.

She just wanted to marry the boy in front of her, and she didn't care even if her life would be hard in the future.

Yang Shuhuai frowned slightly. Although he had never given her any response, she always waited for them on the way home, which would still lead to gossip if people saw her.

If her mother heard it again, who knows how much trouble it would cause.

Although he is not afraid of trouble, he does not like trouble either.

When passing by Lamei, Yang Shuhuai suddenly looked at her, his eyes were frighteningly cold.

La Mei was very happy to see him turn around, but when she met those cold eyes, she was so scared that she couldn't help but take a step back.

"Brother, Brother Shuhuai." Zheng Xiaoman's voice suddenly came from not far away.

Yang Shuhuai's icy expression suddenly softened, no trace of the indifference from before.

Lamei's heart tightened and she turned to look at Zheng Xiaoman.

Zheng Xiaoman just went to give her grandmother some freshly made sweet potato cakes. Seeing that school was about to end, she walked over here, wanting to go back with her brother.