After drinking a bowl of cold mung bean porridge, Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang felt much better.
In the days before refrigerators, villagers also had a trick to cool down. After serving the porridge, they put it into a basin of cold well water, so that the hot porridge would quickly become cold.
Gao Mingcheng ate two bowls of mung bean porridge and a bowl of dry rice.
Grandma Xi knew that they must be tired today, so she stewed the remaining yellow deer meat, and also fried chili and scrambled eggs. This dish was nutritious and good for rice.
After eating, Gao Zhuang felt pain all over his body and lacked energy. He said he wanted to lie down and left.
Gao Mingcheng also returned to the room where he lived temporarily, but instead of lying down to rest, he took out the money from his trouser pocket and put it with other money.
After his rebirth, he has been thinking about this ancient tomb. Now that the tomb robbers have been arrested, and the contents of the ancient tomb have been taken away by people from the Cultural Bureau, this matter is completely over.
The next thing he has to do is make money!
As the saying goes, you can eat mountains if you rely on mountains, and you can eat water if you rely on water. They are surrounded by mountains on three sides and have very little water resources, so the way to make money has to be in the mountains.
He currently has a large jar of honey that he has not yet sold.
He had harvested honey from the mountains before, but he didn't have a container to fill it, so he put it in a bucket. Later, when Grandma Xie found out about it, she found him a big ceramic jar. This big jar used to be used to store honey. The pickles are now washed clean by the fine grandma and filled with sweet honey.
But this is only a temporary transition. Next, he has to buy some containers for honey, preferably plastic jars, so that he can weigh them directly on the scale without removing the weight of the jar itself.
In addition, he plans to find a carpenter to build some beehives.
Harvesting wild honey is not very dangerous for him, but it is also troublesome.
If you build some beehives and place them in the mountains, and then go to the mountains to harvest honey every other month, it will be much more convenient and the output can be guaranteed.
Besides getting honey, it’s all about hunting.
He is now in good physical condition, can run fast, and can catch small prey with stones, but this is not enough. He has to find a way to catch large prey, but there is no rush, he already has a way to solve it.
Besides, the weather is still hot now. If you catch too many prey, you won’t be able to save them unless you sell them immediately.
In addition to these two, there are other treasures in the mountains - medicinal materials.
There are many kinds of medicinal materials, but some are precious and some are cheap. Cheap medicinal materials can be found everywhere, while precious medicinal materials are hidden deep in the mountains.
The mountains here are not very rich, so there are not many precious medicinal materials. The most famous ones are Ganoderma lucidum and Poria cocos.
It is now the beginning of September. By the end of September, we can go to the mountains to get these two medicinal materials. After they are dried, they can be taken to Zhangshu City, the medical capital, to sell.
Zhangshu City holds a drug fair every year, usually on the 16th and 18th of October. At the drug fair, you can see that there are densely packed stalls set up by drug dealers. All kinds of medicinal materials can be found at Found here.
In addition to those who sell medicine, there are also those who treat doctors and make pharmaceuticals. Anyway, you can find everything related to medicine here.
Gao Mingcheng didn't go to a drug fair in his previous life because he had never been involved in this industry, but later he met a drug dealer and heard what the drug dealer said.
So after his rebirth, he felt that since Qingshan had given away the treasure, it should not be wasted. Their village was too remote and no one came to buy the medicinal materials, but they could send the medicinal materials out of this small mountain village and send them to the medicine fair!
After running through all the things he had to do next, Gao Mingcheng knew what he wanted to do. He changed into clean clothes and went out into the mountains with an ax.
There are two ways to calculate money when looking for a carpenter to do work. One is that the carpenter provides the materials and the work is done, which is definitely more expensive. The other is that the carpenter provides the materials and the carpenter does the work, which is cheaper.
Gao Mingcheng plans to produce the materials himself.
Things like wood are available all over the mountains, so there is no need to spend more money.
However, the trees on the hills near the village are distributed to each villager, but the trees in the mountains are considered to belong to the state. In principle, trees cannot be cut down illegally, so Gao Mingcheng went into the mountains to cut down trees. Collect the country's wool.
Fortunately, as long as this kind of thing is avoided, no one knows about it, and no one reports it to the superiors, it won't be a big problem.
It was okay at the moment. He remembered that after the 1990s, it was once popular in the village to steal wood and sell it for money. A piece of wood four to five meters long and ten centimeters in diameter could be sold for thirty yuan. A piece of wood with a diameter of fifteen centimeters can be sold for fifty yuan.
This profit is quite good, so many people will go into the mountains to cut down trees secretly, and there are even people from outside secretly going to their mountains to cut down trees.
At that time, the life of the villagers generally began to improve, and most families had enough money to build houses. Building houses required a lot of wood, so the wood was easy to sell.
Gao Mingcheng avoided people and entered the mountain smoothly. He carried an ax and ran quickly in the mountains. The mountain wind seemed to blow on his body, blowing away the heat all over his body.
He kept running until he reached a place that was roughly inaccessible, then slowed down and began to look around, looking for suitable wood.
When making beehives, there are two types of wood that are very suitable, one is fir and the other is paulownia.
Fir has good corrosion resistance and does not breed insects. After being made into a beehive, it can be used for decades. If it is painted with a layer of tung oil, the service life will be extended.
Paulownia also has corrosion resistance and insect resistance, but it is not as good as fir. However, its texture is light and it is easy to move after being made into a beehive.
Gao Mingcheng was strong and did not value the lightness of paulownia wood, so he preferred fir, because this beehive was to be placed in the wild, and fir can be used for decades without any preservative measures. Obviously, its wood is better. good.
After searching deep in the mountains for a while, Gao Mingcheng found a suitable fir tree. He visually estimated that the diameter of this fir tree was fifteen centimeters. If he sold it, it could fetch fifty yuan.
Of course, although he was short of money, he had no intention of cutting down trees to sell.
If you only use the country's wool for your own use, it won't be a big problem, but if you sell it in large quantities, it will be easy for others to notice the clues, and you may get involved in the game.
After choosing the tree, Gao Mingcheng started to work.
There are no electric saws at the moment, so you have to rely on an ax to cut down trees. Cutting down a tree with a diameter of fifteen centimeters requires a lot of effort.
Fortunately, he was strong now, so he picked up the ax and chopped it down hard, leaving a small gap in the trunk.
He continued to swing the ax, and each cut hit the same part. The blade was very smooth, which showed that he had good hand-eye coordination and good control.
