Crossing the Unknown Country

Chapter 247 This is an era of salt shortage

The next day, Su He followed her father back to their home in Shili Village. They already had three homes, and there would be many more in the future. Wherever they went in the future, there might be a home, and Su He didn't know how many homes she would have.

When they returned home, Su He's mother said happily, "You are back. Our taro is growing well. We should have a good harvest this year."

Su He was so happy that she needed it to cook many of her dishes. Vermicelli, rice noodle skin, rice noodle skin residue, and starch starch all require taro. French fries, potato chips, and potato towers are all delicious because of it. Mashed potatoes, potato cakes, and steamed potatoes that can be steamed are also simple foods that require it.

She ran out in joy and went to her own field to look at the potatoes she had planted. In her heart, she still called them potatoes, which were her own unique memory in this world. Looking at the green potato seedlings, she resisted the urge to dig them up and take a look. In fact, if she dug them up now, they would only be some peanut-sized potatoes, so it was better not to look at them!

She looked at the large potato field, where she had found some new potatoes and planted them. She thought that they would be ripe and harvestable in more than three months, and her heart was filled with joy. She could ask every family in the village to plant some potatoes, and in a few years every household in the village would be able to eat potatoes, and they could also sell potatoes and potato products. She could open a workshop and ask the villagers to come and work to earn money, so that the villagers would have another source of income.

Su He went home with a big smile on her face. She greeted the villagers she met along the way with a smile. She was in a good mood today and everything she saw seemed beautiful. The wild flowers on the roadside were beautiful, the puppies in the village were cute, the birds in the sky were beautiful, and the uncles, aunts, uncles, aunties, and children in the village were all very approachable.

Everything in the village is getting better and better. The village is clean and tidy. The grandparents at the head of the village are not idle either. They are all weaving things with their hands. There are no idle people walking around. There are no idle people in the village now. They are all busy working. If they have nothing to do, they will make compost. Anyway, there is always a shortage of fertilizer in the fields. If the village chief sees someone who is idle, he will help him find something to do.

Now the village does not allow people to be idle. The village chief is very prestigious. If anyone disobeys his orders, the village will not take care of his family when there are benefits in the future. Who can bear this? The village chief is still very afraid of him. Who dares not to give him face?

Su He's family needed many small baskets to pack the preserved eggs, which were collected from every household in the village. The village head's wife was in charge of the collection, and they only had to pay the money, leaving her a penny in profit for every five baskets collected. This was quite a lot, and as long as Su He's family sold preserved eggs, they would have a steady income.

Su He's eldest and second uncles are very happy now. This business is doing well and there is no worry about not being able to sell it. His family is making a lot of money now, and the whole family is busy making money.

Su He's father brought these Songhua eggs back from the town. Some of them were sent directly to Fengyu City Fumanlou, and some were left waiting for Wang Xiaohu to come and take them away. Of course, Uncle Su He's store in the town also sells Songhua eggs, and the sales are also good.

Su He knew that the Songhua eggs in their area might become a local specialty in the future. Other places didn't have so many eggs, so it was really impossible to make so many Songhua eggs. If she hadn't seen that the eggs at home couldn't be eaten, she wouldn't have thought of making them.

Her family also pickled some salted eggs, but they didn't dare pickle too many because the salt here was too expensive. Salt in this world was something that ordinary people couldn't eat casually because it was too expensive. Although their family could afford it now, Su He didn't dare to eat it freely because her mother would nag her endlessly.

Su He wondered why she could never come across a saline-alkali land. Just scraping the salt off the rocks was enough to eat. She remembered hearing from a classmate in her previous life that when they were young, the salt they ate was the salt frost scraped off the mud wall of their yard. His grandfather secretly went to other places to sell the excess salt to others. Because at that time, personal trading was illegal.

She seemed to have heard that the land in their hometown was all saline-alkali land, and corn would not grow well in the land, let alone wheat. The family could only eat next year's food this year, and had to borrow food from the production team every year. That's why her grandfather wanted to sell some salt to supplement the family income.