The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 297 Niu 3's Shirt Scythe

Make money! Make money!

To celebrate the perfect success of their first day of setting up a stall, the brothers and sisters were also super excited, and were persuaded by Shen Youyou to decide not to go back empty-handed.

What to buy? When this question came up, everyone had only one thought in their mind: "Meat!"

Of course, in order to continue making jam, you also need to buy some icing sugar. There are no stalls selling icing sugar in the market, but there are maltose shops on the street.

However, the first thing to do is to buy meat. Just think about it, apart from the meat buns they ate today, it has been a long time since they last ate pork. The people of the nine clans who worked at home didn't even have the meat buns.

At this point in time, the pork at the butcher stall had almost been sold out. When they walked over, the stall owner was bargaining with a middle-aged woman. Why?

The sister-in-law wanted to buy pig offal, which made Shen Youyou stunned. Isn’t it said that people in ancient times didn’t eat pig offal?

She was still thinking about getting a bargain, so why did someone get there first?

The sister-in-law said, "It's hot now, and the offal is smelly and fishy, ​​so it's hard to sell. Just give me five cents a pair, so you don't have to throw it away when you take it back."

The butcher said: "No, they are all 8 cents each. If you want it, take it. If you don't want it, forget it."

"Hey, you're so unreasonable. I only bought one pair at other times, but today I have two pairs. I can't keep them all. If you don't give me five cents, I won't take them."

The butcher said: "Don't bargain with me, it's the same price. If you take all at once, I'll give you some more bones."

The eldest sister-in-law looked at the bones and shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, you shaved the bones too cleanly, there is no meat."

Shen Youyou's eyes fell on the bones. Indeed, the shopkeeper had great skills and there was basically no meat on them.

The butcher saw Shen Youyou looking at the bones and the pig offal with sparkling eyes, and asked:

"Little boy, do you want some pig offal? Eight cents a pair. I'll give you two pairs and some bones."

Shen Youyou nodded. Although there was not much meat, it could provide calcium for everyone if it was crushed and boiled into soup, and the bones could still be chewed.

But the eldest sister-in-law was not happy and shouted, "Where did you come from, you kid? Why are you causing trouble? This pig's offal is very smelly. If you buy it back, be careful or your parents will beat you up."

Erhu and Dabao immediately stood up and surrounded Shen Youyou: "What are you doing? If you want to buy it, buy it. If not, we will buy it. Why are you yelling at us?"

"Hey, a bunch of young boys, what are you doing? Are you bullying the few with your numbers? Do you know what first come first served means?"

This sound was louder than before, and a few people passing by came over to watch the fun.

Shen Youyou smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, it's first come first served. You buy it, eight cents a pair. If you buy it, I won't buy it."

The butcher was also a little impatient with the woman: "Are you going to buy or not? If not, get out of the way. These guys are planning to buy."

The woman felt embarrassed. One pair was enough for several days, and she wanted to buy two pairs just to save money. When she heard this, she snorted coldly: "You let them buy them, they are so fishy and smelly that even dogs won't eat them."

After saying this, he twisted his body and walked away with the basket on his shoulder.

Shen Youyou doesn't care what she says, why would she buy the offal if dogs wouldn't eat it?

It was also good to go, as there were many people in my family, so we could finish not only two but even four.

"Uncle, I want both of these pig offal. What about your bones? Do you want to sell them to me?"

"These are the bones of two pigs. Most of them are here. Take them all for five cents."

Shen Youyou didn't respond: "How about pork? How much is one pound?"

The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect the kid in front of him to want more meat. He said, "There's not much left. Only five pounds. How many pounds do you want?"

"I'll take them all since they're cheap."

"How about this, the price of pork has gone up now. I usually sell it for 20 wen a pound, and I'll give you 19 wen, and I'll give you the bones too. How do you think?"

Shen Youyou nodded repeatedly: "Okay, uncle, then we'll take them all. Do you set up a stall here every day?"

"Yeah, I've been doing this for more than ten years, and the little guy is very unfamiliar with it."

Shen Youyou said that this was their first time setting up a stall today, and added that if there were any pig offal and bones tomorrow, they could be kept and she would want them too.

After all, they can't afford to eat meat if there are so many people, but clearing land and building houses is too tiring, so they have to find a way to let everyone eat some meat.

The total amount was one hundred and eleven coins, and the shopkeeper, Liu the butcher, took one hundred and ten coins.

After buying the meat, I also bought five pounds of icing sugar. The price of icing sugar had also gone up. The cheapest one was fifty cents, so I spent another two hundred and fifty cents.

I also spent ten cents to buy a small bag of maltose for the kids, which was probably enough for each of my younger brothers and sisters to have one piece each.

After dinner, Shen Zhiqiu and his friends went to the other side of the river to open up wasteland.

Logically speaking, this was only their first day of real land reclamation, but everyone inexplicably felt full of energy.

Although they started with a piece of land and had to work hard to build a house and farm, having land and a house meant they had a home again.

We travel thousands of miles, cross mountains and rivers, and go through countless hardships, isn't it just to have a stable home and live a peaceful life?

Besides, they are peasants. Even in their hometown, they are busy in the fields all year round.

In fact, the best and fastest way to reclaim wasteland is to burn it. Just clear the weeds at the foot of the mountain to create a circle of isolation zone. It only needs to clear three sides. After all, the east side of the wasteland is full of rivers.

But you couldn't just burn the wasteland whenever you wanted during the Daqing Dynasty, because the court stipulated that burning the wasteland was only allowed after the autumn harvest and before the spring plowing. Anyone who burned the wasteland at other times would be punished with a beating and spent several years in prison.

If the circumstances are serious, such as burning other people's fields or forests, the offender will be required to pay compensation or even be exiled.

So it’s not impossible to be lazy and burn the land, but you have to wait.

But Shen Zhiqiu and his friends didn't have the time. Besides, if they burned down the old mud house, what would they use to cover the roof?

His plan was to first clear out a piece of residential land. He chose to build the house opposite Tangjia Village and a little to the south.

If he were a normal person, he could actually move further north, which would definitely make it convenient for entering and leaving the village. But Shen Zhiqiu was not like that, so he moved towards the south. It seemed that the place where they built the house was almost facing the end of Tangjia Village.

The reason he chose to build houses here was not to avoid Tangjia Village. The main purpose was that he planned to build five rooms for his family.

There are four to five rooms in a row, with a passage in the middle. When we have enough money to build a brick house, we can demolish the south wall of this old house, open a door on the side, and directly convert it into a greenhouse.

Of course, this is a later story, and we still have to take it step by step.

Although only five sickles have been produced so far, it cannot stop everyone's enthusiasm for it. After all, a sickle can cut weeds very quickly.

But there are not only weeds in the wasteland, but also thorns, bushes, and large and small trees.

It was time to divide the work. Gao Shuangxi, the eldest of the Gao family, brought more than 20 men to clear the thorny bushes first. The big trees had also been cut down yesterday.

Of course, what we are talking about here is the area where they plan to build the house, and the more than 30 men who were cutting down trees followed Shen Mazi and continued to advance southward.

It was like clearing landmines in a war, everyone moved forward in unison and cut down any branches or trees.

The second wave was Gao Shuangxi and his group. They used the same method, but this time they cut down thorny bushes.

The rest are basically some straw, wild vegetables, and plants such as ramie.

Behind them were Shen Fugui, Shen Zhichun, Shen Wangfu, Shen Zhinan and Guo Laoer, each holding a newly made sickle.

When the team that was clearing the thorny bushes finished their work, they swung their sickles and began to cut the bushes fiercely. The sickle formed a graceful arc from right to left.

One sickle after another moved forward, accompanied by a rustling sound. The thatched grass, almost one person tall, fell down in unison and gathered to the left in an orderly manner.

From the morning dew that wets shoes and clothes, to the sun gradually rising and evaporating the dew.

Soaked with sweat again, a large stretch of wasteland quickly turned into a flat land.