Chapter 26

On the night that Xu Ran and his family moved to their new home, each taking a wooden stool, the family of four people came to the hall to hold a family meeting, mainly about the future planning.

Such as making money, eating and changing to another new house…

These were Xu Ran’s current goals.

“Ahem…” Xu Ran coughed and then began to speak,

“Tongtong, Tangtang and Guoguo, now our family has moved out here. Although we will live a little harder life at the beginning, we won’t be bullied again. Are you all happy about this?”

“Very happy!” the two children replied in a crisp voice, while Liu Tong also wore a gentle smile on his face.

“Well, this is the case. The brown rice we eat now is still offered by Wu Mei and the other families. We can’t grow our food this year, so we can only think of other methods to solve the problem.”

“What methods?” Liu Tong asked.

“Tongtong, you know. People here all love to eat chili, but I found that there is no chili patse here. Let’s just make it. Anyway, Chilli is everywhere here on the mountain. As long as we spend some time on the mountain, we’ll get a good harvest of them.”

“What should we do with the chilli? I know nothing about it! ” ‘What is chilli paste?’ Liu Tong had never heard of it before.

“You don’t have to worry about this. Leave it to me. This is not your task, either. You just go hunting for wild animals to sell in the town so that we can buy a few acres of wasteland to plant potatoes with the money you got.

As for Tangtang and Guoguo, you two go with me to pick chili and dig potatoes.” Xu Ran arranged.

“Okay, Ran, we’ll listen to you.”

“We’ll listen to dad.”

The whole family were very supportive of Xu Ran’s arrangement.

The next day, Xu Ran and his family went up the mountain, and the back baskets, hoes as well as sickles were all prepared as well.

Liu Tong also had a bow. It had been hidden on the mountain all along. That was why he was so straightforward back then when he had left the Xu Family with nothing.

In addition, Liu Tong also brought some tinder. Their family didn’t keep any fowls, so they didn’t need to come back home at noon.

August was a season for chili. The mountain was full of red and green chili. It was wild, so no one cared how much they picked.

The chilli paste that Xu Ran wanted to make was something like Lao Ganma chilli paste, which was very popular in his previous life. He had always liked eating it. However, his own mother had always said that there might be some more things added into that paste besides chilli. And actually, what Xu Ran had eaten then was the chilli paste his mother made following the ingredients written on the bottle of Lao Ganma chilli paste. As his mother had done it many times, he had learned it, too.

Xu Ran believed that it was very important for everyone to cultivate a sense of transmigration from childhood, and learn everything since young.

Xu Ran asked the two kids to pick chili, while he went to find another item, the black soybeans, which would add good flavor to the chilli paste.

“Tangtang, Guoguo, you must not rub your eyes with your hands after picking chilli, otherwise it will make your eyes sting,” Xu Ran urged his two children, who were concentrated on picking chilli

“Oh, I got it, dad,” Tangtang raised his head and replied.

Xu Ran knew that such obedient kids shouldn’t have any problems, so he calmly went to his own business. As for Liu Tong, he had already gone to undertake his task today.

Not like ordinary soybeans, it was not easy to find the black ones. After searching for a long time, Xu Ran still didn’t find any sign of black soybeans. He saw a few plants of soybeans. He didn’t let them go but plucked them all instead.

It was getting hotter and hotter, and it was almost noon. Xu Ran didn’t even see a stalk of black soybeans. He almost lost his hope for them here even though he got quite a few soybeans.

Liu Tong also came back at this time, holding a few pheasants and hares, two of which were still alive.

Seeing the living hares, the two children immediately left their work to play with them.

The two adults, so hot and sweaty, looked at each other and smiled, “Tired? Come and rest. ”

Xu Ran walked over to pull Liu Tong to a stone beside him and sat down together. Liu Tong didn’t feel tired at all. He was used to working this way. However, since Xu Ran was willing to take care of him, he was glad to accept it.

Xu Ran handed a bamboo tube with water to Liu Tong, “Drink some water first. At noon, we will roast some potatoes to eat, and in the evening we will go home to make delicious food.”

“Alright, up to you.”

Liu Tong had no objections. He had never had enough food in the Xu Family before. Sometimes, he even had nothing to eat at all and he was used to it.

At present, he felt very satisfied to have potatoes to eat.

Xu Ran asked Liu Tong to sit down to have a rest, while he ran to find firewood for the cooking.

The two kids were still chatting and playing with the hares.

At the moment, on the quiet mountain, the whole family felt so good and pleased. What a warm scene it was!