Chapter 8 Thinking of a way to make money
Chen Qi held a bundle of seedlings in each hand and walked slowly along the field stems. As a result, he lost his balance and slipped and fell into the paddy field again, covered in mud and water.
This caused a burst of laughter from other surrounding villagers.
In fact, the original owner should be able to farm, cut rice, and do farm work, but Chen Qi doesn't know how to do it now. In his previous life, his family belonged to the City-Xiaojiang District and had never farmed.
Especially this field terrier is so slippery that it is difficult to walk, let alone carrying something in the hand.
Chen Qi was going to help his elder sister go to the fields to plant rice seedlings. It felt very simple, just pull off a few seedlings and plant them into the soil.
It turns out that it's totally different when it comes to doing it.
The seedlings should be planted shallowly, so they will float; if they are planted deep, the seedlings are submerged under the water and cannot be seen at all.
Later, I finally revised and revised it again and again. After planting a few meters, I looked up and saw that other people's seedlings were straight and regular, while the seedlings he planted were lopsided and quite sloppy.
The villagers next door laughed at me for forgetting my roots after studying for several years.
Even a fool could hear the sarcasm in his tone. Who said he was the first technical secondary school student in the village? If he wasn't hit, who would be hit?
In the end, the silly elder sister advised him to take a rest. With him causing trouble, the rice transplanting work would be even worse.
Chen Qi's face turned red and he felt so useless. He sat on a field stalk and sighed. Suddenly he felt something on his calf. He lifted his foot out of Shuicheng and took a look. A huge leech stung his calf.
Vampire.
Chen Qi was so frightened that he jumped up and threw the leech away, but the blood still flowed out quickly.
This is rural life and this is the work of farmers. Chen Qi feels that he is not suitable for farming in this life, so he should just be his doctor honestly.
On the contrary, Chen Shu and Chen Hua, two little devils, began to plant rice seedlings skillfully. Even though they were only 13 years old, they were already half of the labor force.
After working on it for a long time, he is the most useless person in the whole family.
The sky is getting dark, and the moonlight in the mountain village is particularly bright, illuminating the surrounding fields very clearly.
On the first night after his rebirth in 1981, Chen Qi suffered from insomnia. He tossed and turned in bed unable to fall asleep, and the bamboo rafts creaked all night long.
There are worries about the future and nostalgia for the past life, and even more self-blame for being unable to help the family improve their lives now.
Early the next morning, the silly elder sister went to the brickyard early again.
After finishing a sweet potato breakfast, Chen Qi waved to Chen Shu.
"Brother, do you know where our peach grove and bayberry grove are?"
"I know, brother, do you want to eat?"
"Let's go, take brother with us and have a look."
The two brothers put on straw hats and set out from home barefoot.
My little sister won’t go. I’ve long been tired of eating these peaches and bayberry. How can pork be as delicious as this?
What Chen Qi didn't expect was that the road to the orchard was so difficult to walk. The road was covered with weeds, as if no one had walked on it for a long time.
It’s no wonder that now all households are jointly contracted. Of course, each family only cares about their own fields or works in the brick fields. Who is interested in climbing over several mountains and crossing several mountains just to pick a few peaches?
A ridge.
Chen Shu held a hatchet and quickly drilled into the mountain.
Chen Qi followed behind like a dead dog, feeling hot, tired and thirsty. The thorns from the weeds and trees on the road left streaks of blood on his hands and feet, making him miserable.
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"Brother, how far is it?"
"Come on, come on, we'll be there after climbing over this mountain."
"Damn, no wonder those bastards of the village cadres were so generous and gave our family an extra fruit grove. They would go to the mountains to do so."
Amid Chen Qi's scolding, the two brothers finally arrived at Taolin.
The peach forest is quite large, covering two full hills. Chen Qi stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up at the patches of peach trees and the peaches hanging on the branches.
Chen Shu moved quickly and picked two peaches: "Here, brother. The 50 peach trees here belong to our family."
The peach was very big, like an adult's fist. It felt soft when pressed lightly. Chen Qi used a grass root to poke two small holes in the peach and squeezed it with his hand.
Sure enough, two streams of juice spurted out from the peach, and I quickly caught it with my mouth. The peach juice was indeed sweet and fresh when it entered my mouth, and the peel could be peeled off easily.
Chen Qi comes from a later generation and has eaten all kinds of fruits and is knowledgeable, but this is really the first time he has tasted such a sweet and juicy peach.
In a few decades, it will be possible to wrap it up in exquisite packaging, put it in fruit shops, and sell it as high-quality fruit, so that little doctors like him can't afford it.
"Brother, let's go around the orchard and see if anyone steals the peaches. You go from the left and I go from the right."
"Haha, brother, who would come to steal peaches? Look, they are everywhere."
"Just go if you are told, why is there so much nonsense?"
"Okay, okay", after saying that, Chen Shu walked to the left for inspection.
Chen Qi also quickly got into the peach forest. He wanted to do an experiment to see if he could hold things in his mind space?
He picked a peach, looked around for a long time to make sure there was no one around, and with a thought, sure enough, the peach appeared in the open space outside the space operating room.
"It sure works!"
Chen Qi was excited, "It's hard to be underdeveloped now!"
For the sake of experiment, Chen Qi saw all the ripe peaches being collected into the space while walking. By the time he and Chen Shu met, hundreds of peaches were already densely packed in the space.
The peach was placed on the ground obediently, without any shaking or movement. I just don’t know if it has the function of keeping it fresh.
The two brothers then climbed two more mountains and came to the bayberry grove. The bayberry grove allocated to the Chen family was located at the highest point of the mountain. It was indeed another "feng shui treasure land" that no one wanted.
Although the bayberries on the top of the mountain are large and purple because of the abundant sunshine, when you put them in your mouth, the bayberry juice fills your entire mouth, very sweet.
However, it is more difficult to transport the bayberries from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. It takes at least half an hour to walk from here to the village, not to mention that they have to be transported outside the mountain.
Chen Shu didn't touch the bayberry because he couldn't stand the sour taste after eating it.
Chen Qi ate one pill after another. He was in a very happy mood now. The living expenses for the next semester, the tuition and textbook fees for his younger siblings, and the family expenses were now all covered.
Who says scholars are useless?
But you can't stop scholars from having cheating tools.
On the way back to the village, Chen Qi saw a golden eel swimming in the ditch and shouted:
"Brother, hurry up and catch the eel. This is a good thing. Hey, it's pure wild. This one weighs at least a pound."
Chen Shu curled his lips: "Brother, are you really stupid or are you pretending to be stupid? What's so delicious about eel? It's fishy and sticky. If it's so delicious, the villagers would have caught them all."Chapter completed!