Jiang Zhi sighed in his heart, eight cents per pound is not low, and it is actually better than the crops with heavy farm work.
Before the Ming Dynasty, the output of tung oil had been very rare, and its production areas were only concentrated in the southwest and other regions, and there was no large-scale planting.
It was Zhu Yuanzhang who forced the planting of tung trees and cotton into legal regulations before they were planted in various places.
Finally, the matter of "planting tung trees to obtain tung oil" became a common traditional handicraft industry in China during the six hundred years of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and also became a trump card for China's precarious foreign trade exports.
Before 1937, China was the only tung oil producer in the world.
Because tung oil anti-corrosion is a necessity for Western machines, but where does tung oil come from? China!
However, although tung seeds are expensive, there are not many wild tung trees in the mountains now, and the number that can be picked is limited.
For food that can fill their stomachs, people prefer to focus on the fields.
Jiang Zhi has a lot to say about Youtongzi.
The tung flowers are very beautiful in May, also called May Snow.
In summer, when the tung fruit is still green, milky white juice will ooze out when picked, which can be used to stick paper fans.
If you accidentally get it on your hands and face, it will be terrible. After the milky white liquid dries, it will turn into a hard black color.
When the round peels turn from green to light brown and gradually begin to fall off naturally, it's time to start harvesting.
You only need to take these fruits back to a shady place and pile them up. When the green skin on the outside rots and falls off, you can pick out the tung seeds inside, dry them in the sun, knock off the outer shell, and sell them for money.
In the past, the manpower on the mountain was limited, so there was no picking in autumn. Now that the tung seeds have fallen on the ground, all you need to do is pick the tung seeds and knock the kernels, which saves the step of soaking.
Now when I go into town, I just ask about the prices of various items.
Jiang Zhi, Xiang Dejin and Wu Hongmao quickly walked around several main streets, including silver buildings, cloth shops, restaurants, tea shops, wineries, blacksmith shops, porcelain, pottery, and grocery stores.
There were many things to buy, but Jiang Zhi only picked the most necessary ones.
I first picked out two sets of earthenware bowls. There were more and more grains on the mountain, but the bowls were getting fewer and fewer. I didn’t dare to throw away the chipped bowls. Little Man even prepared to dig out wooden bowls to use.
Then I spent 50 yuan in a bookstore to buy a second-hand "Thousand Character Classic" and several manuscript copybooks abandoned by others. These are not expensive.
Xiang Dejin and the others were curious about how Aunt Jiang could buy books. Jiang Zhi said that they must learn to recognize the names of medicines, otherwise they would not be able to write accounts well in the future, which made the two of them in awe.
Then there was the grocery store. When they returned to the rouge shop, Xiang Dejin and Wu Hongmao were already full of money.
Xu Errui and Xiaoman were already waiting on the street. When they saw Jiang Zhi and the others coming, they hurriedly helped to take some things.
"Mom, what did you buy?" Xu Errui was very interested in the small paper bags, big and small.
Jiang Zhi put the paper bag away: "It's just some alkaline noodles, alum and distiller's yeast."
What surprised everyone the most was the pile of various sieve baskets of different thicknesses.
This is Jiang Zhi's most satisfying harvest. He got Panzhuzi from the medical shed and now has these baskets and sifters. He can finally process various medicinal powders in the future.
It was almost time to buy, so Jiang Zhi picked out a few more bags of preserved fruits and snacks, then asked Xiang Dejin to fetch the mules and horses from the inn, and they returned to Xujiacun.
Xu Errui and Xiao Man are also leaving.
The kang in the medical shed has been almost finished by others, and the only thing left is to smooth and patch up the mud, so there is no need for the two of them to spend time here.
To Jiang Zhi's surprise, in just one day, at least half of the refugees gathered outside the village were gone.
The remaining people no longer had much fear and sorrow on their faces, and most of them were packing their things and preparing to leave.
This is really a good sign.
It was almost dark again when they returned to the mountains, and they received the warmest welcome as soon as they entered the hospital.
Peppa Pig ran at the front, screaming and running wildly. It was the first time that Peppa Pig had left Jiangzhi for such a long time.
I didn't see anyone last night, so I struggled to find him in the middle of the night on the mountain, and finally came back after taking a big poop outside the shacks of the wounded soldiers.
Now that he saw the rightful owner, he screamed like the most aggrieved child.
Qiaoyun also hugged the child and complained: "Page didn't eat for a day and lost all the things belonging to Sister-in-law Chunfeng."
Jiang Zhi and Er Rui were not at home last night, so Chunfeng came to the cliff to keep Qiaoyun company.
Unexpectedly, the little wild boar thought that she was occupying the kang, so he took the shoes and the clothes he had taken off and threw them outside the door.
Jiang Zhi couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. The little wild boar already weighed dozens of kilograms and had the IQ of a 2 or 3-year-old child. No one could control it if it got into trouble.
She was a little moved, so she took the snacks she bought and gave them to the little wild boar to eat, and then she felt comforted.
All the things they bought were laid out, except for the pottery bowls, sieves, snacks, and sweet preserved fruits.
There is also a large box of skin care cream, which is for several women.
Working on the farm every day, their hands and face are very rough, especially since Qiaoyun and the others also have to spin and weave, so their hands need to be taken good care of.
Xiao Mannai and Chunfeng Qiaoyun were very happy. As long as they are women, no matter young or old, they all like these fragrant and greasy things.
When he got back to his home, Xu Errui took out what he bought, and found a small velvet flower, which was red.
Xu Errui was a little nervous: "Mom, Qiaoyun, she has always wanted a velvet flower. Mom bought this for you, and she still has twenty coins left."
He took out another forehead wipe from his pocket. There was a copper piece attached to the black velvet cloth, and he embroidered a few floral threads to fix the copper piece. The workmanship was not exquisite, it could only be said to be sparkling and dazzling.
The remaining twenty coins are placed next to it.
Jiang Zhi didn't look at the money. He took the forehead wipe and made a sign on his head: "It's been so cold these days that I have a headache. I just want a forehead wipe. Er Rui buys it. Just accept the twenty coins. From now on It’s also useful for going into the city.”
Seeing that his mother liked it, Xu Errui breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that his mother would scold him for buying something useless.
This was the first time he bought these things, and he was asked to buy them by the guy who sold them. He said that the old ladies in the city didn't wear headscarves, so they just used this.
Qiaoyun liked the velvet flower even more. It was the first time Errui bought it for herself.
She wore it on her head every day and was reluctant to throw it away until the color faded.
When he got up the next day, Chunfeng came up to the cliff. Jiang Zhi also knew what Xiaoman had bought.
He bought thirty coins of tobacco leaves for Mr. Man, and a small copper bracelet for Mr. Nini. The money was all gone.
"My father said that he spent money carelessly and used as much as his aunt gave him. He didn't know how to be more frugal!
Xiaoman was so angry that he didn't speak all night, and now he went out again before dawn.
Obviously... I touched those tobacco leaves all night and couldn't bear to put them down! "
Chunfeng frowned, Xiaoman bought a bracelet for Nini, and now she was scolded, which made her feel uncomfortable.
Jiang Zhi felt a little speechless.
Although Xiaoman ran out of money, he spent it on the elderly and children at home.
In order to save money after Xu Dazhu fell down, Xiao Manye stopped smoking and chewed an empty cigarette stick every day to enjoy himself. Xiao Man had long seen this in his eyes.
Nini is about to be four years old and does not have a longevity lock yet, so her uncle would like to give her a bracelet.
From ancient times to the present, elders have been ashamed to express their love in front of their children, and always find ways to suppress their true temperament.
It seems that I want to enlighten Xiao Manduo and not let the child go from one extreme to another.
