Chapter 2: Everything you talk about is nonsense, just find a way to make money!
The father and son chatted for a while, and soon they heard the sound of the mother pushing the wooden fence door at the gate of the yard.

Yue Feng got up and went out of the house when he heard the noise. He soon saw his mother, who was carrying a few oil-paper bags with a happy face, and his elder brother and sister-in-law following behind them.

“Mom! Brother, sister-in-law!” Yue Feng stood at the door of the north room and called out in a deep voice.

“Xiaofeng is awake! Go and lie down in the room!” When mother Meng Yulan saw Yuefeng wake up, she immediately came over, looked him up and down, and touched his forehead.

Yue Feng’s heart sank again as he felt his mother’s slightly rough touch on his cheek.

“Brother, how do you feel now? If you feel unwell, your sister-in-law and your eldest brother will take you to the town health center for a check-up when they are free! By the way, when you come back this time, your sister-in-law bought you your favorite rice cake!” Sister-in-law Chen Hong also walked up to Yue Feng and asked with pretended concern.

“Thank you, sister-in-law and brother. I’m fine now. I just need to rest at home for a few days! You must be tired after walking such a long way. Come in!” Yue Feng did not expose his sister-in-law’s “good intentions” and led the two of them into the north room.

There were only three adobe houses in the house, the kitchen was in the middle, and on the left and right sides were half-height kangs. Yue Feng led his brother and sister-in-law into the room where his father was recuperating. There was another round of greetings.

Why use the word “greetings” to describe it? In fact, what they said were all meaningless. Eldest brother Yue Shan was not good at speaking to begin with, so after he entered the room, it was mostly the talkative sister-in-law who put on the show.

Both of them are working and don’t have children. They only get 50 or 60 yuan in salary a month, but after returning home from a long journey, they only bought two bags of rice cakes at 25 cents per pound. This was even after they knew that their father had a broken bone and his brother was knocked unconscious and was recuperating at home.

Ever since his elder brother and his wife entered the house, Yue Feng has been extremely quiet.

My eldest brother and sister-in-law in my previous life have only contact with family during the New Year and other festivals since they moved to the city and started eating commercial grain. We hardly see them on weekdays.

The reason why Yue Feng had a bad impression of his sister-in-law was when he got married in his previous life.

According to the market conditions in the village at that time, an ordinary family would need a dowry ranging from 60 to 200 yuan. The family had just built a new house and did not have much spare money, so Yue Feng had to borrow money to arrange the wedding.

Seeing this, some people may ask, aren’t the eldest brother and his wife both working? My father has passed away and my mother is in poor health. The eldest brother is like a father. Logically, the eldest brother Yueshan should support his younger brother. After all, marriage is a major event in life.

But the reality was that brother Yue Shan only brought back 12 yuan. When Yue Feng asked about it, the eldest brother hesitantly explained that his eldest sister-in-law’s younger brother had just borrowed money to buy a bicycle and a sewing machine, and there was no money at home!

From this time on, Yue Feng saw through the personalities of his eldest brother and eldest sister-in-law. Although they were brothers at heart, the eldest brother was still the real eldest brother, but the eldest sister-in-law was not the real sister-in-law.

When he encountered problems in his life in later life, including a series of changes in the family such as his mother’s death, the attitude of his eldest brother and sister-in-law was as subtle as ever. When it came to money matters, his sister-in-law’s repeated performance did not disappoint Yue Feng.

The family had a meal at noon, and around three o’clock in the afternoon, my eldest brother and sister-in-law went back home for the day and did not even spend the night at home.

Yue Feng, who was lying on the kang after eating and drinking, was looking at the ceiling covered with newspapers, with a lot of thoughts in his head.

It is definitely impossible to get rich by relying on the small amount of work distributed by the production team. If you want to stand out, you must make changes.

Whatever you say is just bullshit, just find a way to make money!!

In the social context at that time, ordinary farmers actually had no channels to make money.

The entire Xing’an Village Brigade has a total of six production teams. The village collective’s main business is farming. A strong laborer works hard all year round, even if he works 360 hours a day, and each work is only a few cents, the year-end bonus can only be or yuan at most. In bad years, the grain harvest is not good, and after working hard for a year, he may even owe money or grain to the brigade.

Of course, since we live by the mountain and are close to Changbai Mountain, there are other ways to make money besides farming.

For example, the Xinghua Brigade at the foot of the mountain organizes villagers to go into the mountains to pick ginseng, mushrooms, fungus and other mountain products.

For example, in Kaoshantun, where the Manchus live together at the foot of the mountain, some people organize hunters to bring hunting dogs to the mountains to hunt, and bring down wild boars, bears and other prey from the mountains to improve their lives, or sell them to supply and marketing cooperatives to make money.

In that era, there was no wildlife protection law and no gun ban, and the wildlife resources in the mountains were extremely abundant. Every autumn, even in the farmlands at the foot of the mountain, wild boars and bears would come down the mountain to put on weight, and the villagers had to organize guard teams. It was almost common to see lynxes, wild boars, eagles, etc. at the doorstep.

The Yue family has a tradition of hunting since the great-grandfather’s generation. When it comes to Yue Feng’s father, Yue Lei, the family hunting skills have not been abandoned. During the slack season, Yue Lei goes into the mountains to set traps and catch mountain products such as roe deer and rabbits to supplement the family’s meat.

Yue Feng has been very keen on hunting in the mountains since he was a child. In his previous life, he not only knew how to train eagles, but also raised several hunting dogs. In the surrounding villages, he was also known as Yue Paotou.

In his previous life, Yue Feng was a good hunter, but his business ability was almost zero. Yue Feng was a very proud person, so no matter how close the relationship was with the villagers, when they saw Yue Feng killing wild animals in the mountains and dragging them home, they would come to help him in whatever way they could. When they left, Yue Feng would give them a piece of meat weighing one or two kilograms, or three or five kilograms, depending on the closeness of their relationship.

The family lived tolerably well because they went hunting in the mountains every autumn, but they did not save much real money. After a few years of marriage, they found that they could not have children. Yue Feng’s temperament changed imperceptibly, and he developed the bad habits of alcoholism and money-spending, and life became even worse.

Now, since God has given Yue Feng a chance to be reborn, he will definitely not follow the same old path in this life.

After sorting out his thoughts, Yue Feng got up from the kang, put on his coat and left the house.

“Mom! Where are the shuttles for weaving webs and the old tools for training eagles that were passed down from our family?” Yue Feng asked his mother in the yard.

“A shuttle? It’s in the broken box in the southwest corner of the warehouse. What are you looking for?”

“I’m useful!”

After Yue Feng got the answer, he quickly went into the warehouse and searched around.

Soon, Yue Feng turned out the wooden shuttle for weaving the net. In addition, he also turned out a riding cage net that was six meters long, three meters wide, and three fingers wide, plus several large and small pure copper swivels passed down from the elders, several sets of cow bone plates, and large copper eagle bells.

Yue Feng’s idea was simple: if he continued to live like this, he would not be able to change the fate of his family.

At this stage, your family definitely doesn’t have the money to buy a gun. A No. 16 gun with a barrel costs at least a few hundred yuan, and a brand new Type 56 and a half costs more than a thousand yuan in the supply and marketing cooperative.

The payback period for raising a dog is too long, good hunting dogs are hard to come by, and food is not abundant at home, which also makes it very difficult.

If Yue Feng wants to start making money from scratch, the shortest way is to take advantage of the falconry season in autumn, set nets to catch eagles, and then train the eagles to hunt in small enclosures.

(End of this chapter)