Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 170 The End of the Leisurely Days in the Village

After lunch, Aunt Song and her friends prepared to go home. Aunt Song packed up some things that everyone had given to them when they came to the wedding banquet, divided them into two portions and gave them to them to take home.

These things include leftover wedding candies and cakes, as well as bacon, pickled fish, dried vegetables, dried radishes, and pickled vegetables sent by everyone.

Although these are made by everyone themselves and are not worth much, they are all the thoughts from everyone.

Because there were too many and they didn't come back often, Song Ersao's family kept some for themselves to take back to the city to eat, and gave the rest to them.

When Aunt Song and her friends came, they also bought some cakes and some homemade dried fish and dried fruits. When they returned, my sister-in-law gave them so many things that they were all very happy.

Song Ersao also gave each of them two rolls of fine cotton cloth. They were originally intended to make autumn clothes, but Song Ersao and her friends rarely come back, and she didn't know when they would come next time, so Song Ersao gave them the cloth.

After all, they had helped her a lot in the past. Although they were married, they often went home before they broke up with Mrs. Song.

When they came back, they would persuade Mrs. Song to be nicer to Song Ersao, and sometimes they would secretly give money to Song Sanniang and the others. You know, they didn't have much money, so Song Ersao didn't have much on hand, so she could only give them what she had.

Li Xian and Han Changming stayed behind, and when they returned to the capital with Song Laoer's family, they wouldn't have to go back and forth.

Song Ergu and the others put the things on the ox cart, and then carefully instructed Li Xian and Han Changming to be obedient and work hard. The two agreed.

Song Lao Er told them that he would take good care of them. Song Ergu and the others also knew that their younger brother was a reliable person, so they were not worried. Han Zhuang drove the ox cart slowly away from Songjia Village.

The new home would only be popular and prosperous if someone lived there for the first three days, so Song Laoer's family planned to stay at home for four days. That afternoon, Song Sanniang took Qin Haodong and his two friends, Si Niang and Li Xian to the creek in front of the house to catch snails and crabs, as well as small fish and shrimps.

Qin Haodong and Qin Yuanyuan had never experienced such wild fun of climbing mountains and crossing rivers, and they seemed particularly excited.

Qin Haoxi had been there before, and seeing his brother and sister were so excited, he proudly shared his experience of catching crabs and talked about catching fish and crabs in the mountain stream.

That afternoon, Song Sanniang and her group played in the creek, catching fish and snails, and had a great time.

But the stream was formed by a mountain stream and there were no pebbles. Otherwise, Song Sanniang wanted to pick up some pebbles to take back.

In the upper right corner of the yard in front of their house, there is a small rockery and flowing pond, which is fed by river water, so the water is flowing.

However, there are no fish in the small pond. Song Sanniang wants to get some pebbles and some moss in it and raise a few fish.

Everyone returned home in the evening with a full load. Because Song Ergu and the others had gone home, only Song Ersao was working in the kitchen. When everyone returned home, Song Ersao was not in the kitchen.

She and Song Laoer were sitting on the swing on the second-floor terrace, looking so relaxed. They could see several children catching fish and shrimps in the river from the terrace. When they saw them coming back, the couple went downstairs.

Everyone brought the baskets to the kitchen. Rural children knew how to handle the fresh river food without being taught by adults. At this time, Mrs. Song and her husband came in, and everyone smashed the backs of the snails together.

Strength lies in numbers. Soon, half a basket of snails were processed. Song Ersao took them out for blanching, and then Song Sanniang and the others picked out the snail meat and cleaned it.

Mrs. Song started to process the crabs. There was no need to process the small fish and shrimps. They would be cleaned and fried with leeks.

For crabs, you need to remove the lid of their stomachs and get rid of the dirt inside. You can make crab soup and fried crabs, and for snails, you can make fried snail meat with basil.

Seeing that everyone had almost finished the work, Second Sister Song asked Third Sister Song to go to her parents' home to get some dried lychee mushrooms. The crab soup would be very delicious if some mushrooms were added, but it was too late to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Fortunately, her two brothers would also collect some dried goods when they went to collect grain.

Dried lychee mushrooms are a common type of mushroom. There are many places in Taoxianfu where lychees are grown. Some of them are on the hills of wealthy landlords, who hire villagers to guard them.

Some of the hills are shared by the whole village. Everyone takes turns to look after the lychees on the hills. The money from selling the lychees is divided equally among each household. This is also the reason why everyone has a strong sense of clan.

Litchi mushrooms grow under litchi trees. Sometimes when villagers go up the mountain and see fresh lychee mushrooms, they pick them. The good ones are sold, and the bad ones are dried. Some are eaten by themselves, and some are sold.

Song Sanniang immediately followed the order. Not only did she get a large bag of lychee mushrooms, but Grandma Chen also picked a lot of vegetables and fruits for her. She brought them back in a basket.

When Mrs. Song saw her coming back with a large basket of vegetables, she couldn't help but stroke her forehead and said, "Child, why did you just accept the vegetables your grandma gave you? We haven't eaten the ones your dad picked from the backyard of our old house yet, and you brought back so many more. How can we finish all the vegetables in the next two days?"

Song Sanniang had never thought about this, so she could only foolishly ask what to do. Song Ersao had already thought of the vegetable banquet that everyone would eat in the next few days.

So after eating this delicious river fish dinner, everyone ate vegetables for the next few days. Although there was meat, but so many vegetables, everyone looked pale. Qin Haodong and his friends had to go back to the county shop the next day to escape the disaster.

This made Song Sanniang sigh. It was indeed easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. In the beginning, they could not even eat meat, and they enjoyed porridge with vegetables every day. Now they had vegetables and meat, but there were more vegetables. Everyone was a little uncomfortable.

Anyway, time passed like flowing water, and soon a few days passed. Everyone tidied up their rooms, locked the doors, left Songjia Village, and returned to the city.

Everything in the city was new to Li Xian and his companions, but Song Sanniang and the others felt as if returning to the village was just a short dream from which they had just woken up.

She began to miss her life in the village. When she thought of the night view she saw on the big terrace at night, she felt the silence and the sky was so deep that it seemed to suck people in. However, the sky full of stars made her feel intoxicated.

Song Sanniang shook her head to get rid of these thoughts and began to accept the fact that she was back. It was like returning to work after a long vacation.

Feeling out of sorts, she quickly adjusted herself and began asking everyone about the recent situation in the store.