Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine
Chapter 76 Harvest

Chapter 76: 76 Harvest

The two of them lifted the box together and placed it on the small cart.

"Boss, sell me a big bag of salt."

Just like that, she pushed the cart back to Old Yang’s place.

His apprentices were eating, and being able to eat meat pies today was truly a pleasant surprise for them.

Old Yang looked at the locked box and knew that this girl had succeeded in buying it. That’s quite alright.

It’s not safe for a young girl to hold onto so much money; it’s better to buy things and hide them, as these will surely become valuable in the future.

"Uncle Yang, please prepare two large iron pots, some kitchen knives, scissors, and so on for me."

"Aren’t these things available anytime?"

Su Yuanyuan just smiled without saying a word.

Old Yang’s eyes rolled around, and he made up his mind about something.

"Girl, when shall we set off?"

"Uncle Yang. Should we wait until evening to go home?"

It’s too conspicuous in broad daylight. If Old Yang suggests going to the mountain for a look, it would be hard to explain. After a few days, even if he goes to look again, he probably won’t notice anything.

"It’s going to snow." Old Yang looked up at the sky.

"Better not snow, I still want to chop firewood, don’t I?"

"No firewood to burn?"

"Yes, but isn’t there too much of that stuff?"

"It’s okay, we’ll bring back a few bags of lumps of coal and coal dust today."

Su Yuanyuan shook her head, "No need, there’s no stove. I don’t know if others have one, and I don’t know if they will set up a stove."

"No problem, bring back a tin stove, but it’s dangerous to use at night, and there is a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning."

Old Yang took Su Yuanyuan to load a tin stove, a few sections of chimney, blocks of coal, fine coal, and honeycomb coal, filling up several bags, enough to fill the cart.

Scissors, kitchen knives, sickles, machetes, and axes, two of each were also taken.

"Uncle Yang, how much is this in total?"

"Just give me sixty, that will do."

"Is that enough?"

Old Yang nodded with a smile.

By four o’clock, it was almost dark. Old Yang and his two apprentices, along with Su Yuanyuan, left together driving the cart.

They reached Su Yuanyuan’s house by six o’clock. They drove the carriage directly into the yard.

Old Yang directed his two apprentices to carry all the things this girl bought into her room.

By that time, Su Yuanyuan had already released all sixteen. Luckily, there was a curtain.

The coal was placed directly in the woodshed. By this time, it was pitch-dark outside.

Old Yang lifted the curtain, looking at all the things on the ground, feeling it was an impressive sight.

His two apprentices were even more shocked but said nothing.

After an hour, they finally finished loading everything.

Old Yang had his two apprentices cover them with tarpaulin. He went inside to give money to Su Yuanyuan.

"In total, it’s two thousand seven hundred and twenty."

"Uncle Yang, I’ll take two thousand."

Old Yang shook his head. "Don’t worry, each one will give me ten bucks."

"That’s too little."

Old Yang shook his head, "Not too little at all. Girl, I’m leaving."

Su Yuanyuan wanted to slip five hundred yuan to Old Yang, but he wouldn’t take it.

After sending off the master and his apprentices, Su Yuanyuan finally started a fire.

She was thrilled; wow, she got over two thousand yuan for free. No way, she still needs to go up the mountain tomorrow.

Returning to the room, she stored everything bought today into her space. The tin stove was also put away; it shouldn’t be long before it needs to be donated for scrap. It was too conspicuous.

She drank a bowl of porridge and lay down to sleep once the kang was warm.

It was a night of sweet dreams, so she felt very good the next day.

Snowflakes were already drifting outside. Su Yuanyuan suddenly remembered that it was exactly this day last year that she transmigrated. It’s been a year already?

Returning indoors, she worked while thinking about how she managed last year when she first arrived here.

She fed the sheep, stuffed them with sweet potato vines, and then carried the basket to the mountain.

Today might be the last time to climb the mountain this year. If the snow falls heavily, it would be dangerous to go up the mountain then.

The snow fell heavier, and when Su Yuanyuan reached halfway up the mountain, she turned back.

From afar, she saw Hu Chunhua and her mother at the door.

"Aunt, I’m here."

Hu Chunhua scolded Su Yuanyuan, "In this heavy snow, what are you doing outside? Still thinking of going up the mountain?"

"I turned back halfway. Hurry inside."

The mother and daughter came to make shoes with Su Yuanyuan.

"Aunt, you two go on the kang first, and I’ll start the fire.

Sis, do you want some Winter Melon?"

"Yes, please."

Su Yuanyuan filled it with coarse wood, so it could burn slowly.

"Girl, your days are getting better and better."

"Auntie, I’m not lazy. Life will surely get better."

The three of them sat on the kang, stitching the soles of shoes. "Yuanyuan, I heard a carriage came to your house yesterday?"

Someone had indeed seen it.

"Yes, it was the blacksmith from the county town, I sold the corn to him."

The grain had been stored away. It was a good thing to say, but it required occasional lying.

"Sold it all?"

"No, I kept a thousand pounds as I still plan to raise pigs next year."

"Speaking of which, Peilin is slaughtering pigs the day after tomorrow. I’ve heard they haven’t booked much this year."

"What’s the price this year?"

"Fifty cents a pound, lean meat forty cents."

"Then I’ll buy some."

"Didn’t you keep any meat?"

Su Yuanyuan shook her head, "I’ll buy some more."

"You’re silly. Your pigs are very fat. It’s top-quality fat, why did you sell it all?"

Su Yuanyuan just smiled, thinking that keeping the money wasn’t very useful, might as well exchange it for food.

"Don’t buy any. Wait until we slaughter, and I’ll give you some."

"Aunt, that’s not necessary. It’s better to save the money to pay off debts."

"It’s okay, my brother’s family doesn’t need money right now either."

Su Yuanyuan knew Hu Chunhua was just saying that. How could such an honest and decent family be in debt? They must be quite anxious.

"Auntie, after the fifteenth of the twelfth lunar month, we’ll go fishing, try to clear your debts before the new year."

Hu Chunhua nodded with a smile, "That’s right, your uncle is counting on you. You’re lucky, last year when your uncle and I went to the reservoir, we didn’t catch a single fish overnight."

"Heaven took pity on me," Su Yuanyuan joked.

"Isn’t it? At that time, I worried you wouldn’t make it through.

Yuanyuan, there’s news about your parents. I heard that when they arrived there, the villagers were separated. Da Qiang wrote home saying your parents weren’t with them, heard they weren’t doing well. Your mother wanted to come back but was almost caught."

Su Yuanyuan raised an eyebrow, "Aren’t they supposed to be formal workers?"

"Yes, but they were relocated there. It’s currently under construction; they work daily and have to farm, too.

I heard from Da Qiang’s family that those who went together regretted it. It’s colder there than here, and the grain harvests aren’t great either."