At Old Ma's Place, Xu Hongjun was rather troubled too.
As the youngest of the Xu brothers of his generation, he had only just reached adulthood. He had originally worked at home with his parents, but now Xu Chengjun had sent him to get vegetables and fish for the professors and university students at Old Ma's Place.
Alfalfa, elm seeds, shepherd's purse, dandelions, and the like were easy to find. He could even get some sorrel, which tasted sour and was one of the "snacks" children whose families couldn't afford treats could find growing wild and eat raw.
As for wild mint, Prickly Sprout Flowers, and other things that could be eaten raw, stuffed into buns, or steamed, he could get all of those too-after all, he had only just become an adult and was barely past his days as the ringleader of the children. He had grown up with these things, so how could he possibly fail to find them?
Even bringing over some crucian carp every few days was easy. Irrigation began not long after sowing. Water from Little Haizi flowed through the Dry Canal, branch canals, and field channels into the fields, passing many floodgates, bends, and uneven stretches along the way.
Once irrigation was finished and the water was shut off, there would always be some crucian carp left in the remaining pools in the channels. Anyone who had been a childhood ringleader knew that if you only wanted fish for your own family, you didn't even need to cast a net in Little Haizi. In the few days after irrigation, following the channels along would get you plenty.
He had originally thought he could have a bit of fun and earn two work points a day. It wasn't as much money as the people making