A good husband and fortune

Chapter 4

Lin Zhi didn't expect Lin Shi to cry. He hadn't coaxed the child before, so he was at a loss: "Don't cry, you are a little man and you can't cry."

Hearing the word man, Lin Shi really held back his tears and sniffled non-stop. After a while, he said aggrievedly: "Brother, what brother said is that I can't cry as a little man."

"That's right." Seeing that Lin Shi was so sensible, Lin Zhi felt that this younger brother was so cute.

But the troublesome problem right now is that the family has no money or food, and the 20 taels of silver was given to the old Orion. The two brothers have problems with food and clothing, so Lin Shi can't let Lin Shi go hungry with him, right?

After thinking about it, Lin Zhisi had an idea in his heart, since that's the case, he can only go to the jungle.

This village seems to be poor, but fortunately, it is relatively simple and the ecological environment is very good. You can go and find out if there are any wild vegetables that can be eaten.

As for the problem of figuring out the fertile land left by the original owner's parents for the two brothers, when he is full, he will naturally settle the score with the Lin boss's family, and they will have to pay back what they owe him bit by bit.

"When I was young, it's still early for you to go out for a walk with your brother." Lin Zhi was not familiar with this village, and he couldn't expose himself, so he had to let Lin Shi follow.

It's still early, Lin Shi is naturally willing: "Okay."

After talking, the two brothers went out one after the other. It is now the season of late spring and early summer, the weather is not too hot, and it is not yet the time to harvest winter wheat. There is no one busy in the farmland of Linjiagou, and there are not many people on the road. .

Lin Zhi told Lin Zhi everything he knew as he told Lin Zhi what he said.

It turns out that due to the war, the whole country of Great Rong Kingdom is relatively poor, and the government taxes are also very serious. The location of Linjiagou is not good. Most of the men in the city will go to the town to do coolies.

The normal annual expenses of a family in Linjiagou are no more than five liang of silver, and three liang of silver is enough for the poorer.

Lin Shi listened carefully, and at the same time he was shocked that the old Orion could come up with 60 taels of silver just to make Shen Yanchuan happy. Brother can't get married, he can only be a widow for the rest of his life, I'm afraid many people will marry him.

"Actually, those people in the morning didn't want to see a joke." Lin Shi looked up at Lin Zhi and said, "They are all waiting for Big Brother Shen to marry you off after Brother Shen divorces you."

"I know." Lin Zhi is not a fool, how could he not know, he is just pretending to be stupid.

That's why he didn't allow this opportunity to slip away from his hands. He, Lin Zhi, was not a little white flower, even if he was a prickly one.

The two brothers came to the riverside of the village as they said that. The original owner jumped into the river here. Looking at the calm water, Lin Shi was filled with emotion. If it wasn't for the low status of Brother Da Rongguo, Shen Yanchuan's life would have been hanging by then. On the first line, are there any parents to rely on? Grandma and uncle do this kind of thing for money, and there is no hope of living. The original owner should not commit suicide.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhi felt more sympathy for the original owner, and prayed silently in his heart.

Since I survived for you, I will definitely take good care of your relatives, and will not treat him as my own brother, so you can go at ease.

Lin Zhi had always been an idealist before, but after going through this incident, he believed that he had changed his view. After meditating in his heart, Lin Zhi looked down at Lin Shi.

"elder brother......"

"It's okay." Lin Zhi patted Lin Shi's head, "Brother won't do stupid things anymore."

"Yeah." Lin Shi's eyes were red again.

After sighing, Lin Zhi began to look around, looking for any wild vegetables.

The river in the village is quite wide. Except for the places where water is often fetched, the other places along the river are covered with aquatic plants. This kind of aquatic plants are not only inedible to humans, but also cattle and sheep.

Helpless, he had no choice but to continue walking. Suddenly, Lin Zhi found a tender green spike among the aquatic plants by the river. When he walked over, he saw that it was a lotus leaf that had not yet grown. The lotus leaves are just not so conspicuous among the aquatic plants.

"Brother, what are you looking at?"

"When I was young, why didn't you tell me that there are lotus roots here?" Lin Zhi looked at Lin Shi with surprise.

"What is lotus root?" Lin Shi looked at the lotus root with a blank face. He pointed to the lotus leaf and said, "Isn't this the June flower? Only the seeds that bear it can be eaten, and it can't fill your stomach. Brother, what do you want this for?"

"June flower?" Lin Zhi was also taken aback. It took him a while to realize that the lotus is indeed called the June Flower God. It seems that people in this world don't know that what the lotus can eat is actually the lotus root under the mud. .

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, brother just asked." Lin Zhi already had a plan in mind, but he didn't plan to talk to Lin Shi now.

Looking at the countless tender lotus leaves in front of him, Lin Zhi felt that the white flowers were already beckoning to him, and he did not let him go in vain after coming out today.

The river in Linjiagou is quite wide, but the water is not particularly deep. Lin Zhi walked downstream along the river, checking whether there were any fish in the water as he walked, and if he caught two, he would be able to fill his stomach.

"Will you know how to catch fish when you were young?" Lin Zhi thought that Lin Shi's age was just the age for fun, and he might be able to catch fish if he was a man.

"Yes, yes, but almost all the fish in this river have been caught." Lin Shi became depressed as he spoke, "There are only red pincers left that can pinch people but can't chew."

Lin Zhi grasped the crux of the problem at once. Hearing this description, he could pinch people but still not be able to chew, so it couldn't be a crayfish.

Lin Shi remembered that crayfish were an invasive species in the place where he used to live, but the situation was relatively miserable, and it would be extinct without artificial breeding.

"It's just red pliers, and you can't eat it." Lin Shi didn't notice the excitement in Lin Zhi's eyes, he squatted down and opened the dense aquatic plants, picked up a crayfish and handed it to Lin Zhi, "That's it."

Lin Zhi looked at the crayfish waving its big pliers vigorously at night, and was so happy that he wanted to take off on the spot. This is an indispensable good thing for many people's nightlife in summer.

"Are there a lot of these things?" Lin Zhi asked with the excitement in his heart.

"A lot." As Lin Shi said, he threw the crayfish into the water with disgust, "In summer, they are everywhere. Some people in the village caught them and ate them, but they were hard and fishy when cooked, and there was no meat. Time After a long time, everyone catches fish and ignores it.”

There are so many ways to eat crayfish, thirteen spices, spicy, garlic, it's really hard for boars to eat fine bran!Got rich, really got rich, Lin Shi wanted to cheer, but he still held back.

"You go home and bring a bucket when you are young. Let's catch some of this little one and eat it with red pincers. It's better than nothing." Lin Zhi pretended to be extremely calm on the surface and asked Lin Shi to go back to get the bucket, but he was already happy in his heart. .

Lin Shi also knew what was going on at home, so he thought about it and thought it made sense, so he went back to get the bucket, but when he left, he told Lin Zhi to stay away from the river.

"Don't worry, brother has a sense of proportion." Lin Zhi knew that Lin Shi was worried about him, and his heart was warm.

Lin Shi went home to get the bucket. Standing by the river, Lin Zhi felt as if he saw a golden mountain, with an unstoppable smile on his face.

He is a modern man and a boy. He grew up in the countryside when he was a child, and he has done a lot of things like catching fish, catching shrimp and stealing bird eggs.

Now that Lin Shi wasn't around, Lin Zhi couldn't bear it any longer. He took off his cloth shoes and went straight into the water. Like Lin Shi, he turned over the aquatic plants. There were so many crayfish under the aquatic plants that he could pick up a pot with his hands. the point.

This thing has a strong reproductive ability, and there are no natural enemies in fresh water, and no one eats it here, so it is not a flood.

Lin Zhi picked them up and threw them on the shore, not afraid of them crawling into the water again. Anyway, there were so many of them, and he just enjoyed the process.

During the process of picking up lobsters, Lin Zhi also found that there were snails, and they were huge, each one as big as half his fist, and the shells were covered with green hairs, which seemed to have lived for a long time.

"I'm going, I'm really going to get rich!"

When Lin Shi came over with the bucket, he saw Lin Zhi in the water, smiling happily while touching the inedible water stone.

"Brother, what are you doing touching this?"

"When I was young, we had a lucky meal today." After speaking, Zhi Lin put the snails he had found into the bucket, and asked Lin Shi to catch crayfish.

Lin Shi didn't know what Lin Zhi wanted to do, but he listened to his brother, and Lin Zhi did what he asked him to do.

April is not the fattest season for crayfish, so Lin Zhi picked out the black and red crayfish that were obviously meatless, and finally brought back a bucket of smaller, blue-colored crayfish.

On the way back, the two brothers were met by people from the same village. When they saw the crayfish and snails in the buckets of the brothers, there was sympathy in their eyes.

After Lin Zhilin walked over, the woman began to mutter.

"It's really a shame. Boss Lin's family is really nothing. What kind of things have they forced these two brothers into? They ran into the river to catch red pliers and ate them."

Back home, Lin Zhi found a wooden basin to raise the snails. The water quality of Linjiagou is very good, and the crayfish are not dirty. Lin Zhi simply cleaned the crayfish with straw, and was about to go to the kitchen to show off his skills and have a feast. Only then did I realize that there was no oil in the kitchen, no salt, and no other seasonings.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Lin Zhi finally understood why the people in Linjiagou felt that the crayfish was fishy and unpalatable. How could it be delicious without any seasoning.

What if his way of making money was cut off in an instant?

"What's wrong, brother?" Seeing that Lin Zhi was suddenly discouraged, Lin Shi walked into the kitchen and asked.

"When I was a child..." Lin Zhi was like an eggplant beaten by Shuang, extremely frustrated, "Is our family so poor?"

"Everything left by father and mother is given to grandma—" Lin Shi was still talking, but a knock on the door suddenly interrupted his words.