During times of famine: I have a spiritual spring space

Chapter 10: If you want to get rich, start by chopping down trees.

Peanuts are great! We need to plant peanuts! He also wants to eat peanut oil.

After transmigrating, although I wasn't hungry much, I ate mostly bland, oily food.

Therefore, Zhuang Lihui accepted the peanuts without hesitation.

"Wait for me a moment."

As he spoke, Zhuang Lihui went into the room and dragged out a half-sack of corn cobs. Actually, going into the room was just a cover; the corn cobs were taken out from his spatial dimension.

"Take it back and report," Zhuang Lihui said.

"What is this?" Chen Jianan asked curiously.

He leaned closer, opened the bag, and stared wide-eyed: "Brother Hui, where did you get so many corn cobs? Keep them for Liming, my family hasn't run out of food yet."

His first reaction was to refuse. He felt that Hui and his brother were already having a hard time, and he was asking them for food. Was he even human?

Zhuang Lihui patted him on the shoulder and laughed, "I brought back a lot of corn this time, enough for Liming and me to eat for several months, so take it! It'll be good to explain to your aunt when you get back."

"Really?" Chen Jianan asked doubtfully.

Zhuang Lihui nodded and repeated the same explanation he had given to his second brother.

Chen Jianan was surprised and delighted, never expecting that Brother Hui would have such an opportunity.

Since that was the case, he felt at ease carrying the half-bag of corn home. Just as Hui-ge had said, with this half-bag of corn, all the things he had done to steal grain before could be forgiven.

"Hurry up and carry it back, bring an axe with you, and come with me into the mountains to cut down some trees and bamboo later," Zhuang Lihui said.

"Okay, Brother Hui, wait for me."

Chen Jian'an excitedly carried the half-bag of corn home, wanting to see his family's expressions and prove to them that he hadn't done anything wrong in helping Brother Hui.

After watching him leave, Zhuang Lihui instantly returned to the Spirit Spring Space and planted the handful of peanuts.

It didn't take much time, since there were only about twenty peanuts, enough to plant in about one square meter.

The Chen family, including Chen Jian'an's family members, exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes fixed on the half-sack of corn cobs, as if afraid it would disappear. Who could have imagined that Zhuang Lihui would have such an opportunity? He had saved a very important person.

If that big shot gives them a hand in the future, won't the Zhuang brothers be set to take off?

Fortunately, Jian'an has always maintained a good relationship with the Zhuang brothers, and has even taken care of them. If the Zhuang brothers become successful in the future, Jian'an might be able to benefit from it as well.

Seeing his family members speechless with shock, Chen Jian'an felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

That's awesome, so awesome!

Chen Jian'an ignored them, picked up an axe from the house, and said, "Mom, I'm going out for a bit. Brother Hui wants me to go cut bamboo with him."

"Okay! Go ahead! Be sensible and work hard," Chen Jian'an's mother instructed, advising him to be more perceptive.

Chen Jian'an: "..."

Your change of attitude is making me very uncomfortable!

You guys didn't say that before; you all advised me not to hang out with Hui Ge anymore.

Chen Jian'an went out carrying an axe to find Zhuang Lihui.

"Brother Hui, let's go!" He didn't even ask Zhuang Lihui what he was going to do with the bamboo and trees. Anyway, they were public resources, and anyone could cut them down for their own use.

Remember, it's for personal use only, not for resale.

"Let's go!" Zhuang Lihui carried a machete with him, a large knife with a long handle.

The two walked towards the back of the mountain, chatting as they went. It must be said, Chen Jian'an had the air of a village know-it-all; he could gossip about almost anything that happened in the village.

Zhuang Lihui glanced at him and thought to himself: You wouldn't happen to be an intelligence agency that has infiltrated the village, would you?

You know something about Big Black Tooth breaking into the widow's house at night?

Big Black Tooth is a bachelor in their village, an old bachelor in his forties, who is still unmarried. He is the type who only needs to eat his fill and has no family to worry about.

As for widows, there are several in their village.

As they chatted, the two of them arrived at a nearby mountain. It was a popular spot, so it was relatively safe. The mountain was mainly covered with pine and fir trees, none of them very thick, about the size of a bucket.

The branches of each tree are very tall; the lower branches have been cut down by the villagers with machetes, dried, and carried back as firewood. Therefore, many trees look like just a straight trunk, with only the branches at the top remaining.

"Which one should we cut down?" Chen Jian'an asked.

Zhuang Lihui observed for a while, then pointed with his fingers: "Cut this one first, then this one, that one looks pretty good too..."

Good heavens! He pointed to five trees in a row.

Chen Jian'an: "..."

A few seconds later, he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Lihui, you're not thinking about building a house, are you?"

He couldn't think of any other reason to need so much timber besides building a house. And this timber looked quite suitable as the house's beams.

However, building a house requires the production team's approval.

It can't be used as a coffin, can it?

It's so small, it wouldn't even be suitable as a coffin!

"Cut it back first, we'll figure out how to use it later."

Without further ado, Chen Jian'an went to one of the trees, cleared away the weeds around it, spat on his hands, rubbed them together, and then picked up his axe to get to work.

Eighty, eighty...

Fortunately, the tree they were cutting down wasn't particularly large, only about thirty centimeters in diameter. Otherwise, using an axe would have been too time-consuming; a long saw pulled by two people would have been more suitable.

There's a technique to cutting down trees; you can't just chop them down randomly.

First, observe the tree itself and analyze which direction it might fall. Make a cut on the side most likely to fall, and then make a cut on the opposite side.

Therefore, when you've cut down most of the trees, you should leave promptly and not wait until they fall to the ground. If you're accidentally hit by a falling tree, you'll be badly injured, if not killed.

The first tree was very cooperative; it fell down after only a few minutes of cutting.

After it fell, Zhuang Lihui went up to prune the branches and cut off the crown.

"Brother Hui, we don't know if the two of us can carry it back!" Chen Jianan said worriedly.

It's not that he's diminishing his own prestige, but rather that he needs to have self-awareness. Don't be fooled by the fact that this tree isn't big; it was incredibly heavy when it was first cut down.

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Lihui couldn't help but recall the short videos he had watched in his previous life, where women could carry two pieces of wood even thicker than this.

Honestly, it's a bit of a joke.

Of course, it cannot be denied that such strongmen do exist in the world, and we cannot say for sure that they are fake.

"Don't carry it back yet, let it dry here first," Zhuang Lihui said.

Hearing Zhuang Lihui's words, Chen Jian'an immediately relaxed. Carrying such freshly cut timber would be agonizing; it gave him the creeps.

But if it's dry, then it's easy to talk about.

In fact, Zhuang Lihui planned to find an opportunity later to secretly take the items into his space, and he didn't intend to bring them home.

When he chopped down the third tree, Chen Jian'an found it difficult to continue; the axe was shaking so much that his hand was almost numb.

"Take a break, let me do it," Zhuang Lihui said to Chen Jianan.

Chen Jian'an stepped down and went to rest, catch his breath, and drink some water.