freenovelworld Chapter 953 Bought a lot
Chapter 953 Bought a lot
When there was a river, Qian Duo would take his two brothers to fish and catch shrimps by the river, or pick wild mushrooms and dig wild vegetables in the woods, and stew them together with the prey hunted by the old man, which was also a very good meal.
People usually eat it all, even the bones.
Zhou Guo missed Heidadan very much at this time. If he were still here, not a single bone would be left.
I decided to take it with me next time I go on a long trip, so I can catch pheasants and rabbits on the way.
The old man has been getting more energetic these days and can eat an extra bowl of rice every day.
After hunting, they would clean up and roast the prey themselves. The aroma attracted everyone's praise. "Grandpa, I have been roasting meat for so many years and have eaten a lot of meat, but yours is still the best. Why can't I learn how to do it?"
Qian Duo sighed as he ate, thinking that he had spent a lot of time and effort on food over the years.
After finishing work every day on the farm, I would eat whatever I could, whether roasted or fried. I tried many delicious foods that I had never eaten in the first half of my life.
The old man said, "If you want to learn this well, you have to roast more. If you roast more, you will slowly be able to master the heat. You can tell how well the meat is roasted just by smelling it with your eyes closed. At that time, you can roast delicious meat even with your eyes closed."
The group smacked their lips in amazement. "How much meat would that take? I could have figured it out with my eyes closed."
They can't do it anyway.
Zhou Guo was no match for him. He was eating a lamb leg happily. He glanced at them and said, "Don't make it hard on yourself if you can't do it. It's just barbecue. Even if it's not that good, as long as it can be eaten and not taste bad, that's fine."
Not everyone has a talent for barbecue, and it is not easy to become a master at it.
The old man has been baking for a lifetime to master this skill.
Everyone nodded. "That's right. Although ours isn't as delicious as the one the gentleman baked, it's still edible. We won't make it hard on ourselves."
The old man was eating roasted wild sheep and asked Zhou Guo, "Didn't you say you wanted to get grassland sheep back? You said the meat tastes fresh and sweet when roasted. But there has been no progress in the past few years."
Zhou Guo said: "I do think so, but I have to have a chance. That thing can't be found outside the pass. I can't even get into the pass, let alone outside the pass. Let's wait for some time."
The old man was curious, "Will you be able to enter the gate after some time?"
Zhou Guo: "...Although we can't get into the pass, the border is long. This side is not okay. I don't believe that there is no place to find grassland sheep along such a long border. Sooner or later, I will catch two for you and raise them for you. As you raise them, they will give birth to lambs. The more you raise them, the more grassland sheep you will have. Then you will have an endless supply of grassland sheep to eat."
The old man frowned when he heard this, and immediately waved his hand and said, "Forget it. It's too dangerous. If I were caught, I would be blamed for my death. Don't mention this matter again."
Zhou Guo nodded obediently. In fact, he had come to terms with it. The north had been temporarily stable in the past few years, and the Hu people did not have the strength to make a comeback in the short term, so there was no need to worry too much.
Besides, she just wanted to catch a few sheep, so she only needed to take a few people, travel light, choose a few good horses, and then run away after catching the sheep. Who would go to the trouble of catching a few hunters? Besides, there were merchants going there every year to do business.
Is she dressed as a businessman?
This matter could not be accomplished in a short period of time, so she just thought about it in her mind and put it aside.
The old man glanced at her. He knew this girl. Once she had an idea, she might do it at any time.
I regretted my words so much. If this child really went outside the Great Wall and something bad happened...
In the following days, the old man kept an eye on Zhou Guo all day long. After several days, when he saw that she didn't mention it anymore, he felt relieved. Anyway, she was busy now and might not be able to go back home for the New Year, let alone go outside the Great Wall.
Thinking of this, I felt relieved.
How could Zhou Guo not know what the old man was thinking? He was so worried that he didn't even go into the mountains. He stayed by her side all day long, thinking that in order not to make the old man worry, he might as well not go.
At worst, I can ask my uncle to catch a few and bring them back. It will be the same.
After half a month of eating and drinking, the group arrived at Nanhe.
Before entering the city, Zhou Guo took the old man to Guancheng Mountain.
Pointing to the endless flat land stretching out from under his feet, he said: "Master, look, this is Nanhe, what a great place!"
The old man and his companions looked at the flat land and no one spoke for a while.
It was Qian Duo's first time to come to such a place. After a while, he asked, "There are no mountains here, where can we plant the fruit trees?"
Everybody looked over there.
Qian Duo was innocent, "You can't just plant it in the fields, right? Such good land should be used to grow food!"
He has always wanted to plant fruit trees, raise chickens and ducks, raise fish and crabs...
The income from a farm cannot be a single source. It must be developed in many aspects to prosper. Fruits make more money than grains, but you cannot just plant fruit trees and not grow grains. People still have to rely on those few bites of food to survive. Fruits can only be eaten as snacks, and you won't die if you don't eat them.
The old man shook his head. "I'm afraid you have developed a problem with farming. You want to grow fruit wherever you go."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Master, shall we go into the city to take a look?"
I haven't been here for several months, and I don't know if the city has changed a lot now.
The group stopped and looked for a while, then went down the mountain. Nanhe is indeed a rich place. It is hard not to be rich in such a place.
The old man asked Zhou Guo from the back, "How much land did you buy here last time?"
"what happened?"
"You have to buy more. This is much better than the northern land, and it's not salty or bitter. The more the better!"
Zhou Guo laughed, "Master, you also know that this land is rich, and I am not the only one eyeing it. Moreover, this land is good, but it is also expensive. I would like to buy more, but I only have so much money and limited strength. I can't compare with those big families."
The old man felt very sorry, "You have always wanted land, and you treated those salty and bitter lands in the north as treasures. Now you finally have good land, but you have no money to buy it."
Zhou Guo glanced at him and saw that he looked disappointed. He leaned over and whispered, "Actually, we've bought quite a lot. That's enough. Too much is not a good thing."
This time when she went south to buy land, she didn't plan to buy too much. She just wanted to manage a farm of several hundred or a thousand acres in each place, which would be enough to make fertilizer and store grain for the nearby area.
The old man frowned and thought for a while before saying, "I don't understand anyway. What you say is right is right. Since you don't plan to buy more, then are you going south just for fun this time?"
"That's about right. The task isn't too heavy. We don't need too many houses, shops, or farms. Just enough will be fine."
After she finished speaking, she thought of the two mountains in the village this year. After years of hard work, the two mountains are now almost fully opened.