An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

Chapter 250 Preparation for Departure (3)

"I have been working hard these past two days and I estimate that I can sell more than 50. After this batch is sold out, there will probably be fewer people who want to buy. I plan to sell them in the neighboring town later.

Flowers are needed to make lip balm. Now that the peach blossoms are in bloom, I can collect them after using them, but they are out of season. And I also want to use other flowers to make lip balm of different colors.

In order to solve this problem, I thought that the land price is cheap nowadays, so I can buy a few acres of land in the village to grow flowers.

I know a little bit about growing crops, but I've never grown flowers before. I asked my dad and his friends to ask around in town and find a few flower growers. I'll ask them to come grow flowers and I'll learn from them."

"Sister, please wait a moment. I'm going back to the house to get something." Li Weisheng went into the house.

Soon, he returned with a bulging purse in his hand, "Sister, this is the money I made from selling lip balm. You gave me the recipe and beeswax, so you should get 80% of it."

That means he wants 20%.

The other members of the Li family were not surprised by this, they all felt that this was the way it should be.

Chen Yuzhen took the opportunity to tell them that Xia Qingyue and Han Zhibai were going to Wuzhou soon and would bring poultry and honey with them to raise.

Li Weisheng's first reaction was shock, and then worry, "Or we can send you there and come back later."

Xia Qingyue told him not to worry and to just do what he wanted to do. "As for the money earned from making lipstick and lip balm, I think we should split it 70% and 30% respectively, 70% for you and 30% for me."

Li Weisheng felt that he had been given too much, his face became anxious and he wanted to say something.

She looked at him seriously, "Second brother, this is what you deserve. Carving bamboo tubes, making beeswax for lip balm, buying land to plant flowers, hiring people to pay for the cost, running around to sell them, none of them are easy tasks, and you have to do everything yourself.

So it makes sense to do this.”

Li Weisheng wanted to speak again, but when his eyes met her solemn and uncompromising expression, he finally nodded.

"I almost forgot. I haven't told you how to make beeswax yet. I'll tell you now and write down a recipe. Come, let's go to the main room and make it."

Li Weisheng was very smart and understood things quickly, and quickly understood the method of filtering beeswax.

At three quarters past noon, they packed up and headed for Datong Town.

After arriving in the town, Chen Yuzhen led the way and took them to the homes of various families who wanted honey.

After checking the quality of the honey, we found that there was no problem. The price was still 58 coins per liter, so every household paid for a few jars.

Chen Yuzhen gave all the silver she earned to Xia Qingyue.

Then they went to the market to have a look.

Xia Qingyue and Han Zhibai, who were about to set off on a journey, took inventory of the items in their home in advance. Most of the food and daily necessities were sufficient as they had them at home and did not need to be bought. What they needed to buy were some incense, candles, paper money and medicine. He said that there were many snakes, rats, insects and ants in the forest, and there was also poisonous fog, which ordinary medicines could not deal with. They had to buy medicine themselves and mix it.

Finally, they went to the pharmacy, where Han Zhibai talked to the clerk and bought a lot of medicine.

In the evening, they had dinner early and went back home to rest.

The next day, Xia Qingyue and Han Zhibai got up before dawn. After breakfast, they were going up the mountain as they had a lot of things to do.

After they washed up, they went over and found that the Li family members were all up and had prepared breakfast and were waiting for them.

After breakfast, Chen Yuzhen took out some of the things she had prepared in advance and put them on Xiao Hei's back. "I know you are going far away, so I prepared some light and durable dry goods that are easy to cook and eat."

"You said you had the other things, so I didn't get the same ones to save you the trouble of carrying them on the road."

After putting it on, she turned around, her eyes red and tears streaming down, "Good kids, don't worry about us, be careful on the road, and come home when you get back."

"Okay!" Xia Qingyue choked up, went forward to hug Chen Yuzhen, and then hugged Fang Xiaoyu who was crying.

After this separation, we won’t meet again until next year at the earliest, which is a whole year later.

Parting is always sad, but in the end, everyone wiped away the tears from their eyes, put on a smile, and said goodbye in a good state.

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valley.

When they got home, it was already noon and they made a simple lunch.

After eating, Xia Qingyue looked at the dried goods that Chen Yuzhen had given her. There were bamboo shoots, various mushrooms, air-dried chicken, duck, rabbit, pork, and dried fish. They were heavy, weighing dozens of kilograms.

In the afternoon, they collected some peach and pear blossoms and dried them. Then they went for a walk in the valley and found some wild vegetables and mushrooms and dried them so that they could take them away and eat on the road. They prepared a little and didn't take too much.

After dinner in the evening, Han Zhibai came to prepare the medicine, and Xia Qingyue helped him. It took them several hours to finish it.

Over the next two days, they used carts to transport the beehives in batches to the shelter where the Li family had previously lived, and placed several books on beekeeping and flower planting.

On the morning of the third day, prepare some offerings, incense, candles, and paper money and go to the tiankeng.

It had been several months since we last came to the tiankeng, and the pit had changed a lot. Weeds were growing everywhere, and there was no place to step, so the two of them cleaned it up roughly.

When he returned to his hometown, Heihei was extremely excited. He jumped and ran around everywhere, barking loudly, and Xiaobai couldn't catch up with him.

After lighting incense, candles and paper money, they knelt down devoutly, and after completing the three rituals, they supported each other and stood up.

She looked around, her mind abuzz with emotion.

Wild grass had grown in some places in the kitchen area, and there was a thick layer of dust everywhere. The wooden door of the cave was closed. She opened the door and walked in. It had been a long time since anyone had lived there, so there was a lot of dust inside, and the smell of dampness and mold filled her nose.

Looking at familiar things, memories of her living alone in the past automatically emerged in her mind, playing frame by frame like a movie.

Han Zhibai stood alone outside the door and did not go in to disturb her.

After returning to the valley from the tiankeng, they spent two days packing up at home and getting ready to go.

In the early morning, the sky is slightly bright, the grass is green, and crystal dewdrops slide down from the green leaves. The breeze blows gently, bringing flying petals.

Outside the fence, the branches of peach and plum trees full of blooming flowers and leaves trembled gently, making a pleasant rustling sound. The flowers fluttered in the wind and danced all over the sky like a curtain of rain. Some fell lightly, and some flew away into the distance.

Han Zhibai and Xia Qingyue each carried a backpack. He held her hand with one hand and Xiao Hei, who was carrying things on his back, with the other hand, as they walked out of the house. The two little ones followed them, jumping and skipping beside them.

The falling petals fell all over them.

She looked up and said reluctantly, "It's so beautiful, but it's a pity that I can't eat these fruits this year."

Han Zhibai slowly turned around, and his vision followed the circle, looking at the house from beginning to end.

"Let's go." He held her hand tightly, and the two of them turned their backs to home and walked further and further away.

They walked towards the forest on one side of the valley. It was a forest formation and was still within the scope of the valley.

After walking for two hours, Han Zhibai stopped abruptly and looked back.

Xia Qingyue understood immediately that this was the way to walk out of the forest formation and into the outside world.

Coming to an area she had never been to before, she was full of curiosity about everything. She walked fast as if the wind was blowing, and did not feel tired at all.

They walked for more than three hours in one go. In the afternoon, they chose a flat place to stop and rest. They brought a pot with them and cooked a pot of hot and sour noodles with dried meat and vegetables.

After eating, spread a blanket on the ground and lie down to take a rest.

After walking for more than two hours in the afternoon, as the sun was setting, they passed a stream and decided to camp by the stream. They set up their tent for the night and went to the stream to catch fish.

They took advantage of the natural environment and found several adjacent trees to use as supports. They strung together several corners of a large piece of tarpaulin with ropes and tied them to the trees. In this way, a tent with a rough shape was ready, but it was not completely set up.

Xia Qingyue entered the tent, folded the corners of the tarpaulin that were touching the ground, and secured them with heavy stones.

Outside, Han Zhibai took a bag of brown-green pungent powder and sprinkled it around the tent several times.