The first is to solve the problem of survival. You have to support yourself and your family, pay off your debts, and let your whole family live a good life in peace.

Of course, as a time traveler, it is not enough to live an ordinary and carefree life like this. He has a historical mission on his shoulders.

Chen Tianhua summarizes his historical mission after time travel into two basic points: do things that benefit the country and the people, and adhere to the principle of punishing evil and promoting good!

To achieve these two points, you must have power in your hands, and to be powerful, you must have strong connections and build your own team organization.

Whether you are doing business, industry, or something more ambitious in the future, having power is a must.

Nowadays, you must first have money and wealth. In the late Qing Dynasty, if there is anything that cannot be done with money, even officials and nobles can donate money.

Having determined the general direction, Chen Tianhua naturally had to formulate specific implementation plans and plans.

Now I have nothing, no resources or connections to use. The only thing I have is the modern knowledge in my mind, which can be used to do cost-free things according to local conditions.

As the saying goes: If you rely on the mountains, you will eat the mountains; if you rely on the water, you will eat the water.

Born in the water towns of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a land of plenty, it is natural to think about aquatic products.

The natural ecological environment of Chinese rivers in the early 20th century is completely different from the river ecology of the 21st century.

Today's rivers are really called primitive ecology, without any pollution, and technological means are not developed. In the wide and horizontal lakes, fish and shrimps should not be too abundant. It depends on whether you have the ability to fish for them.

Chen Tianhua decided to start with fish, shrimp, mussels, snails and other aquatic products, which are currently within his ability.

Because these do not require any capital investment, you only need to use your own brain, and you will have room for survival and development.

Thinking about it... In a daze, Chen Tianhua slowly fell into sleep...

"Oh oh oh..."

The rooster crows at home, and Chen Tianhua gets up as soon as the carp hits the yard, and looks out from the only window in the house...

The sky is hazy…

Chen Tianhua went out of the east wing to the main room, picked up the bamboo pole and bucket, and went to Henghu to fetch water first.

In the early morning, the lake water is crystal clear and very clean.

I picked up water twice and filled up the water tank. I walked by the lake and rubbed my face with my hands like a cat washing its face, and then returned to the house.

Mother had cooked the simmering porridge last night, scooped it into a bowl and brought it out. There were also a few sweet potatoes, a small bowl of pickles and a plate of mold on the table.

This is a bowl of gruel made with late rice. It is no exaggeration to say that it is so thin that it can shine through my own face.

Of course the porridge was hot. Chen Tianhua took a sip and it burned his tongue. He could only sigh while looking at the porridge.

Looking at the eldest sister Tingjuan at the same table, I saw her hunched over, her mouth close to the eaves of the bowl, sucking gently.

At the same time, she used chopsticks with her right hand to quickly move the gruel on her face to her mouth, making a "whoosh...whoosh..." sound.

Drinking and eating this kind of hot gruel is really a technical job in life, which requires a lot of skill. The person's mouth, tongue, and hands must be very coordinated and flexible.

In Chen Tianhua's eyes, the level of the eldest sister Tingjuan who drank porridge with great enthusiasm was quite high.

In later generations, businesses often held weird competitions such as beer drinking and watermelon eating. If there was a porridge drinking competition, the eldest sister would definitely win the championship with her level.

Chen Tianhua did not dare to show weakness. He learned from his eldest sister and followed the example of a gourd.

After a while, the two siblings swallowed the bowl of hot porridge in front of them. The younger brother was definitely slower than the older sister.

Tingjuan seemed to be very satisfied with her brother's performance in recent days. She wiped her mouth with her hand, smiled at Chen Tianhua, got up and went to the thatched hut.

She was ready to pick up the farm tools and go to work in the fields, because the busy farming season had already begun. Yesterday, she sharpened several sickles for cutting early rice on the whetstone.

In the past, when the farming season was busy, she and her father, Chen Shaoan, would go to the fields to harvest the crops, while her brother Tugen went to the foreign school in the county as usual.

But now, father's position can only be taken by his brothers.

"Tugen, don't forget to bring water. I'll ask Youjuan to bring you food at noon..." Mother warned, while giving Chen Tianhua a tin pot filled with boiling water.

"Um…"

He picked up the tin pot and followed his eldest sister, Sister Ting, to the fields...

Looking at the retreating figures of her siblings, Xue Wanzhen was filled with emotions, and she seemed to see a glimmer of hope amidst her sadness.

She was also busy going to her parents' house, where there was still a lot of sewing work waiting for her to do.

At noon during the busy autumn harvest period, those who work in the fields generally do not return home to eat. First, they are afraid of wasting time, and second, they want to hold on to the harvested rice and prevent others from taking it away.

The younger sister Youjuan was responsible for cooking and delivering the meals. Before her mother left, she washed the rice and put it in the pot. She put the steaming rack and the high lid on the pot, cooked the rice in the iron pot, and steamed the vegetables on top, all in one pot.

Youjuan lit a fire and cooked the rice, then looked at the position of the sun in the sky and saw that it was above her head. It was almost noon. She packed the food in bowls, held it in a bamboo basket and sent it to the field.

Today's dishes are two salted duck eggs, a plate of fermented bean curd, and a large bowl of steamed mussels with molded dried vegetables. There is no soup and water, so it is difficult to get them along the way.

These days, river clams are the only delicacy and meat dish for the whole family, because meat is only eaten during the Chinese New Year.

In fact, mussels are more nutritious than meat, but many people nowadays don’t quite understand.

…

After three days of hard work by the siblings, who went out early and returned late, their family's early rice harvest of just over an acre was completed.

The threshed rice is carried home in bamboo baskets, and only the straw is still drying in the fields.

After about ten days, the fields will be irrigated and plowed again, followed by transplanting and summer planting. The busy farming season will be over.

The rice field at home is only one-third of an acre, so there is not much work to do.

Starting tomorrow, millet will be dried and pestled in front of the house. This work can be done slowly by the two sisters Tingjuan and Youjuan, while Chen Tianhua will implement his plan to catch aquatic products.

Apart from going down to the lake to touch river mussels and snails, the first thing he thought of was fishing for shrimps. He had experienced this activity as a boy in his previous life, but it was not unfamiliar at all.

Immediately moving, Chen Tianhua began to prepare tools.

He first asked his mother for seven or eight copper coins, then went to Shuangqi Town and bought a pair of needle-nose pliers, a small file, hardware tools, several bags of large and small embroidery needles, and fine linen silk thread.

In the small bamboo forest behind the house, I cut a number of bamboo poles. The bamboo poles should be uniform, suitable in thickness, fresh and elastic.

Use a knife to sharpen and file the chopped bamboo pole to lubricate the entire fishing pole. After lightly burning each bamboo joint with fire, place it in water to cool suddenly to increase the flexibility of the bamboo pole.

In the small flame of a kerosene lamp, Chen Tianhua processed embroidery needles into large and small fishing hooks, and used a small file to process each fishhook into a "barb".

Arrange ten fishing hooks horizontally on each bamboo pole. The length of the silk thread varies from one meter to one and a half meters, and is evenly arranged in a trapezoid from left to right.

According to this wild fishing method, Chen Tianhua first made six pairs of wild fishing shrimp rods, and then dug some tiny red earthworms with Youjuan in the bamboo forest and put them into a small wooden box. Then he used the rice bran fed to the chickens to cook them in an iron pot.

Cooked with incense, it can be used as a bait.

Everything is ready, everything is ready, just waiting for action.
Chapter completed!