Chapter 24 Orion Sun Family

Lian Ze raised his head: "Sister, are you really going?"

Lian Fangzhou nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry! Didn't Sun Hunter come back well after so many trips? Where can he go, where he can't go, how far he can go in the forest, he must have a good idea in his heart. Qing! Follow him, nothing will happen!"

Lian Zejian couldn't convince her, so he let out a dull "Oh".

Lian Fangzhou looked around and found that in addition to the forest, there were also many wastelands with dwarf shrubs and weeds that were suitable for cultivation into crops.

Lian Fangzhou couldn't help but look at it for a while: After all, this is ancient times. If it is left now, let alone wasteland, I am afraid that the woodland will be reclaimed.

"There are so many wastelands, but unfortunately we don't have the strength. If only we could reclaim it! We can grow a lot of things!" Lian Fangzhou couldn't help but sigh.

"Sister," Lian Ze glanced at her and said with a smile, "How can it be so easy! To open up wasteland requires a certificate from the local government, to send someone to measure and estimate, and then to pay for it, and then go to the county government for the record. Once you get the title deed, that counts!"

"I want more money!" Lian Fangzhou understood, no wonder no one was reclaiming it!

"How much does it cost per acre?" she asked hastily.

"I don't know about this." Lian Ze shook his head and said, "No matter how much, we can't afford it now anyway!"

"That's what you said!" Lian Fangzhou smiled and said, "When we have money, we can give it a try. It's all mountains, not fertile fields, so it's not too expensive!"

It is also a good thing to spend a little money to get the title deed...

"Nevertheless, it depends on whether it's worth it or not," Lian Ze said again, "After this wasteland is reclaimed, taxes have to be paid every year! It seems like three hundred cents per acre of land."

"..." It turns out that there were so many types of taxes in ancient times! It would be great if there was a Hui Nong loan!

The four of them were busy for a long time and finally dug all the sweet potatoes. Lian Ze and Lian Fangzhou put them in baskets, each picked a small half of the basket, and Lian Fangqing and Lian Che also took a bamboo basket, each carrying a basket.

The four people moved back and forth three times like ants, and finally brought all these sweet potatoes back to their home.

In the past, they were stacked directly in the corner of a room, but Lian Fangzhou let them all stack up in the attic.

Drying in the attic, sweet potatoes will not rot, can be better preserved, and the water contained in sweet potatoes will slowly evaporate more, so that the sugar content in sweet potatoes will increase, and it will taste sweeter.

In fact, there are many ways to eat sweet potatoes. In addition to making sweet potato porridge and baking on the stove, you can also cook sweet potato syrup. You can remove the skin and cut it into slices, hang a thin batter, and fry it in the oil pan. It can be made into shredded sweet potato, which can be steamed and cut into pieces and spread out in the sun to make dried sweet potatoes. If it is ground into powder, it can also be made into cakes of various flavors, and it can be made into pulp and sweet potato flour. ...

However, considering the current economic situation of Lian's family, many ways to eat Lian Fangzhou can only be reviewed in his mind.

Sweet potato flour and sweet potato pastries are the farthest; boiled sugar water, what about sugar? How much oil does it take to fry in an oil pan, Lian Ze can eat her!

The only thing I can think about is to make some shredded sweet potatoes and dry them.

That's it, I can't do more, because although the taste is much better after this treatment, it is basically a snack category, and I can't fill my stomach! And they currently need this sweet potato to fill their stomachs!

So I can only make some toothpaste offerings, and save some to eat during the Chinese New Year.

After an early dinner, Lian Fangzhou forced Lian Ze to go with her to Sun Changxing's house at the head of the village to ask about going to Xianteng Mountain.

Sun Changxing's family is an outsider with no fields and only two or three mu of thin land. It is even poorer than the Lian family. They live in a thatched shack.

But what Lian Fangzhou admired the most was that Sun Changxing and his wife shrank their clothes and went on a diet and just gritted their teeth to send their only thirteen-year-old son, Sun Ming, to the school in the county. I heard that the grades are not bad, and he is one of the five people in the academy who is expected to be admitted as a scholar next year.

It is precisely because the couple has to pay a lot of money for this every year, so they have been unable to buy fertile land, and Sun Changxing has to venture into Xianteng Mountain again and again.

When Lian Fangzhou and Lian Ze came, the couple were sitting at the humble table having dinner.

On the table was a plate of green vegetables, a small plate of dark pickles, and two bowls of thin sweet potato porridge. The couple sat opposite each other.

When Lian Fangzhou smiled and called "Uncle Sun, Aunt Sun" to come in, both Sun Changxing and his wife Miao were stunned.

He responded with "Ah!", wiped his mouth, stood up a little surprised, and said with a smile, "Isn't this Fangzhou and Aze? You are here—"

Sun Changxing was a foreigner and was very polite to everyone in the village. But because he lived near the village, he basically had little contact with the villagers.

It's like at this moment, he can't think of when he has been in contact with the sister and brother of the Lian family?

His inquiring eyes couldn't help but look at his wife: Did you call them here?

Miao Shi was equally puzzled, and shook his head gently at him.

Sun Changxing smiled at them, and Mrs Miao also greeted them with a smile, "The house is too simple, I'm laughing at it!"

"Uncle Sun, Aunt Sun are welcome! But we disturbed you to eat! You should eat first, and it's not too late to talk about it later!" Lian Fangzhou smiled apologetically, and sat down beside Lian Ze.

Sun Changxing didn't know what they were coming for, so where else could he eat? Then he smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay, you talk, let's talk first!"

Seeing his confusion, Lian Fangzhou spoke bluntly and said with a smile, "That's it, I don't know when Uncle Sun will go to Xian Teng Mountain again. We want to go with Uncle Sun together."

"What?" Sun Changxing and Miao's eyes widened, stunned.

"What did you say?" Sun Changxing said in surprise: "You are going to Xianteng Mountain? What are you going to do?"

Suddenly there was a bit of vigilance in his tone: Could it be that the sister and brother also want to go hunting? But where are they actually? It's not that I want to share a good share with myself...

That's not enough, it's not enough!

"Of course we can't hunt, everyone has Uncle Sun's ability!" Lian Fangzhou laughed: "We just want to go and see if there are any mushrooms and other mountain goods that can be used for the New Year."

She added another sentence: "The situation in our family, you all know..."

Sun Changxing and Miao couldn't help but look at each other, both of them couldn't help but feel a little soft.

Although the specific circumstances of the two families are different, there is a saying that a happy family is equally happy, and an unfortunate family is unhappy in its own way.

Both of them belong to the unfortunate kind, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are sympathetic to each other. Lian Fangzhou's words naturally resonated with them easily.

Sun Changxing sighed softly, and was about to agree when Miao's heart skipped a beat, and said hurriedly: "How can this be possible? Fangzhou, your sister and brother are still young, can you take such a long mountain road? ,Too dangerous!"

Miao continued to wink at her husband.

What if something happened to Lian Fangzhou sister and brother? Their family is an outsider, and they have always been a man, so how can they ask for trouble?

Sun Changxing immediately understood what his wife meant, smiled "Haha", and was about to refuse, Lian Fangzhou hurriedly smiled and said: "Uncle Sun, Aunt Sun, in fact, just let Uncle Sun lead us to find a way, our sister and brother. It's not that ignorant child anymore, can you run around and cause trouble when you get there? And, just this time, just this time! By the way, wait a minute!"

Lian Fangzhou turned around and went out, bringing in a scoop of rice that was placed at the door. The so-called melon scoop is a thing that can be used to scoop water when the white melon is grown and cut in half from the middle, and the pulp inside is hollowed out.

"Our brothers and sisters are embarrassed to let Uncle Sun lead the way. After all, we are not familiar with Xian Teng Mountain. We have to ask Uncle Sun to tell us what we should pay attention to, and where we can go and where we can't go! This little rice is not respectful. , please don't dislike Uncle Sun and Aunt Sun..." Lian Fangzhou smiled shyly.

Sun Changxing and Miao's eyes lit up when they saw the scoop of rice.

For those who do not have paddy fields, rice is the most expensive and rarest thing. Seeing rice was even more eye-catching and heart-pounding than seeing silver. This is an obsession, an obsession to pursue.

Girls, where are the tickets!