Farming in another world to make a fortune

"Auntie, don't move." Yu Zhou said and quickly lifted the basket away.

His speed was too fast. Although Aunt Gui reached into the leaf-covered pannier, she only touched something slightly cool with her fingertips. Before she could feel what it was, the pannier had already been taken away.

"What's the matter?" Aunt Gui couldn't succeed with her attack, so she raised one eye and asked, "I bought something so good that my aunt can't even look at it?"

"Auntie misunderstood," Yu Zhou said with a serious expression, but he didn't let her have a chance to touch the basket at all. "It's covered with tickle weed seeds. I'm afraid the wind will blow on you after you lift it, and it will make you uncomfortable."

Then he asked again: "I see that your fingertips are a little red, didn't you touch them just now?"

It was Chen Feng who told Yu Zhou about itchy grass. They were working in Luofengpo for a few days and they stayed together for a long time. There is this itch grass, it is said that once a person touches the seeds, within half a day, a red rash will appear on the body and itching is unbearable.The plants can repel mosquitoes, and smashing the leaves and applying them on the places where mosquitoes bite is even more effective.

At that time, Yu Zhou thought that he could get some grass like this and plant it around the house, at most, just to watch it, and cut it earlier to prevent it from forming seeds.

Seeing Aunt Gui reaching out to touch the things in the back basket just now, Yu Zhou was so disgusted in his heart, and seeing her greasy hair and clothes not very clean, he suddenly came up with such a plan.

Fortunately, after he came out of the town, he folded some large leaves to cover the basket, otherwise he would not be able to bluff people.

Aunt Gui looked at Yu Zhou suspiciously, "Don't talk nonsense, what are you doing with itchy weed seeds?"

"Plants around the yard to prevent mosquitoes," Yu Zhou frowned, and asked falteringly, "Auntie, you really don't feel any discomfort?"

Aunt Gui didn't believe it at first, but she couldn't help being suspicious by Yu Zhou's attitude, especially at this moment, she felt a sudden itching behind her ears, and she really wanted to reach out to scratch it.

When they were talking, the three people behind also came over, and the woman among them asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Aunt Gui opened her mouth.

Yu Zhou would never give her a chance to talk, and immediately replied anxiously: "I got some itchweed seeds back from the town, and Aunt Gui seemed to have accidentally touched them just now."

"Then what are you doing here, go back and get some rice washing water to soak in it." The woman said anxiously.

Another man, who looked like Aunt Gui's husband, said, "Don't you put things like itchy grass seeds away properly?"

Yu Zhou couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, but since he chose a tactful way to deal with it, he couldn't reply loudly that it was her who put his hand into the back basket, so he could only curl his lips and say in a low voice: "I didn't expect that. Auntie's hand is so fast, she didn't have time to stop it."

"What are you talking about?" The woman who told Aunt Gui to hurry back just now asked Aunt Gui, "Did you touch anything in the basket?"

"It seems... touched a little bit." Aunt Gui recalled the feeling of her fingertips just now, and then scratched behind her ear uncontrollably.

The woman leaned over and took a look: "It's all red, go back and wash it."

When she said this, Aunt Gui felt that other parts of her body began to itch except behind her ears, so she didn't care about Yu Zhou anymore, and hurried back with her husband.

The couple who were with them naturally followed suit.

After they walked a certain distance, the woman who said to hurry back turned her head and gave Yu Zhou a meaningful look.

Yu Zhou looked back calmly.

After he could no longer see the figures of those four people, he picked up his backpack and continued on his way, but he didn't dare to go too fast for fear of catching up with those people and causing trouble.

With the exit on the road, even when entering the village, Yu Zhou took a detour that was less crowded.

When he got home, Jin Chuan was embroidering alone under the eaves. When he saw Yu Zhou coming in, he quickly put down the needle and thread in his hand and went to pick up the basket behind him.

Yu Zhou: "It's heavy, I'll just put it in the kitchen, pour me a glass of water."

"it is good."

After putting down the basket, he drank a glass of water poured by Jin Chuan and rested for a while before Yu Zhou started to organize the things he bought.

The leaves on the lidded pan were removed, revealing the top layer of ginger.

Originally, ginger and sweet potatoes should be placed at the bottom because they are stained with soil, and cotton cloth and a blank book of words should be placed on top.

It's just that when he was shopping in the town, Yu Zhou was afraid that someone in the village would want to see what he had bought, so he put the cotton cloth and the story book at the bottom, separated by a bag of rice in the middle, and put sweet potatoes and ginger.

Jin Chuan came over with a basket and picked up the ginger into the basket. Seeing that the basket was half full of ginger, he couldn't help but wonder, "Why do you buy so much ginger?"

"When frying meat dishes, put a little in there to make them more fragrant," Yu Zhou said, "cover the more with firewood ash, and plant them in the fields when the weather gets warmer."

There are sweet potatoes under the ginger, Jin Chuan frowned when he saw it for the first time, he hesitated to speak.

Yu Zhou asked: "What's wrong?"

"That..." Jin Chuan hesitated, "I've eaten sweet potatoes before, but those with sprouts won't taste so good."

Yu Zhou laughed, "I picked this one with buds on purpose, and I will plant it in the vegetable field in front later."

"Oh." Jin Chuan turned his eyes away uncomfortably, thinking to himself when he started thinking about eating everything he saw.

Yu Zhou took out the meat from the rice bag. The meat was wrapped in soaked dried lotus leaves. He didn't worry about getting his hands dirty. He handed a piece to Jin Chuan and kept one by his side: "I'll buy some more I bought two catties of meat, and I will send one catty to Aunt Chen's house later."

"It should be," Jin Chuan nodded. Aunt Chen's family has helped them a lot. Since he came here, he has brought a lot of food, not to mention that the fabric of the clothes he is wearing now is also made by Aunt Chen. Sent.

After taking out the rice, Yu Zhou gave the fine cotton cloth to Jinchuan, counted out 42 copper coins from his purse, and handed it over, "This is the money for selling the purse and handkerchief. After removing the eight coins of fine cotton cloth, there is still The next 42 texts."

"How come there are so many?" Jin Chuan opened his mouth wide in surprise.

Yu Zhou raised his eyebrows, "The store manager said that your stitches are different from ours, and I think special ones should be more valuable, so the handkerchief sold for fifteen yuan, and the purse twenty yuan."

Seeing Jin Chuan looking at him with glowing eyes after speaking, Yu Zhou couldn't help but wondered if his expression just now was a little too complacent, and he quickly raised a smile of approval, "So it's because you embroider well."

Jin Chuan laughed out loud, then shook his head and said, "Just keep the money."

"How can I do that?" Yu Zhou immediately said, "This is in exchange for the things you embroidered."

"But what I eat every day is also bought with money." Jin Chuan pointed to the meat on the stove, "There is also a lot of money to buy meat every time."

What he said was indeed reasonable, almost all the food they eat now was bought with money, if he had said that one day before, Yu Zhou might have taken some of the copper coins.

But today, since accepting the purse from him is related to a certain dignity of a man, facing these dozens of copper coins, Yu Zhou couldn't hold it, so he shook his head and said firmly: "You put it away first, wait I don’t have any money and I’ll ask you again.”

"I..." Jin Chuan hesitated for a moment, and wanted to say something else.

Yu Zhou sighed lightly, and resorted to his trump card, "Do you really want to distinguish me so clearly?"

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Jin Chuan immediately shook his head, blushed and took the copper back, not daring to look up into Yu Zhou's eyes.

Yu Zhou smiled, "Pour the rice into the rice jar, I'll go to Aunt Chen's house."

After speaking, he picked up a piece of meat and left the kitchen, fearing that if he stayed there, Jin Chuan's face would blush even more.

The two families got closer recently, Yu Zhou yelled at the door, and went into the yard by himself without waiting for someone from Aunt Chen's family to open the door for him.

As a result, I turned around in front of the house, but I didn't see anyone at home, not even Mrs. Chen, and no one answered my shout.

He was a little puzzled, but he didn't think much about it. Seeing that the door of the main room was open, he went in and hung the meat on the wooden nails on the wall. When he came out, Chen Feng just pushed open the door of the yard and came in.

The two looked at each other and were stunned.

Chen Feng: "What's the matter with you?"

"I brought some things back from the town just now, and I sent some to your house. I saw that there was no one in your house, so I hung them up in the house." Yu Zhou said.

"Oh, my parents should go to the field to pick vegetables, and grandma should feed the chickens in the back." Chen Feng didn't care too much.He wasn't worried about Yu Zhou's stealing. He used to be so lazy that he never stole every melon or fruit from anyone in the village, so he didn't have to worry about it now.

Yu Zhoudao nodded, "Then I'll go back first."

"Wait," Chen Feng called to stop him, "I passed by the village when I came back just now, and I heard someone say that you provoked Aunt Gui?"

Although he talked a lot, he would never tell any secrets that should be kept, so Yu Zhou didn't hide it from him, "She wanted to turn over my back pan, so I scared her into putting tickle weed seeds in the back pan."

Chen Feng was stunned for a moment, unbelievable, "Did she believe it?"

"Half-trusted."

"Don't tell me, I feel itchy when I hear the seeds of itchy grass, not to mention her sloppy appearance." Chen Feng shook his head, and then said, "But she might have to bear a grudge after making such a fuss. is you."

Yu Zhou shrugged indifferently, "Remember the grudge, just bear the grudge. The soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth. At that time, I couldn't just let her turn over my basket."

"That's right." Chen Feng waved his hand and was about to enter the room.

Yu Zhou thought of something, and quickly stopped him, "By the way, do you know where I can find dried mahogany?"

"What do you want to do with mahogany?" Chen Feng asked suspiciously.

"Naturally it is useful."

Chen Feng nodded thoughtfully, "My father cut down a dried peach tree and came back last winter. The branches were cut off and put away. How much do you want?"

"Seven or eight inches long, just about the thickness of the rolling pin," Yu Zhou said, "It should be straight."