Yang Chunyan got up and Zhou's mother came over. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law washed all the shiitake mushrooms and big-foot mushrooms that they picked up yesterday, put them in the oven to dry out the moisture, and then sent them upstairs to dry.

As soon as I went downstairs, Zhou Jiaming and others came running over, "Aunt, go to the big pit to pick mushrooms."

Yang Chunyan saw that several people were carrying small backpacks and holding crowbars, "Wait until I feed my brother before going."

"Oh!" Zhou Jiaming and others came to the cradle to play with his younger brother.

Just as she was about to go out, she heard Uncle Chen shouting outside. Mother Zhou hurried out to greet him, only to see him coming with twenty or thirty villagers carrying red mushrooms.

She turned around and shouted into the house, "Chunyan, quickly take out the straw mat and lay it out!"

"Hey!" Yang Chunyan agreed and pointed at the straw mat, asking Zhou Jiaming and the others to carry it and spread it out on the steps. "Auntie is going to collect red mushrooms. Go find Grandpa to take you to pick mushrooms."

"Oh!" Several people went to the backyard.

Yang Chunyan helped to carry the mushrooms down, and then went to pour boiling water for Uncle Chen and the others, preparing to wash the diapers before sorting the red mushrooms.

At this time, Zhou's father came to the front yard with a few children and said, "Chunyan, you and Jiaming go to the back mountain to pick mushrooms. Your mother, grandfather and I will pick them first. Jiang Yu and others will be here soon."

"Okay!" Yang Chunyan picked up the diapers and said to Zhou Jiaming and the others, "You guys help grandma pick them out first, and Auntie will wash them and then we can leave."

"Oh oh!" Several children also squatted down to help, and they did it quite well.

Yang Chunyan washed the diapers, and Jiang Yu and others also arrived. She hurriedly took the children to the back mountain.

Before Zhou's mother and her friends had picked out the mushrooms sent by Uncle Chen, Zhou Sanniang and her sister arrived with a dozen villagers.

She put down her basket and smiled, "Second sister-in-law, your business is getting bigger every year!"

This guy! It's true that things change over time. I never dreamed that the poorest second brother's family would become the richest family in the richest Niu Village.

Mother Zhou glanced at the three of them calmly and said, "We are just helping the boss in the provincial capital to receive goods, earn some wages, and collect some rent. Others may not know, but don't you know?"

"I know, no family is like yours, everyone gets paid!" Miss Zhou San said, looking around, "Where's my husband?"

Zhou's mother: "The old man is picking mushrooms with Dasong in the backyard."

"Let me take a look!" Miss Zhou San pulled her sister, and the two went to the backyard. Seeing the old man coming out with a winnowing basket, sweating profusely, she shouted exaggeratedly, "Old man, it's so hot, and you're old, why are you still going to the oven?"

"I'm not too old to move, so what if I sweat a little?" The old man glared at her and said, "Come here, help me carry it upstairs."

"Oh!" The two sisters hurried forward, picked up the basket, and walked upstairs together, "Old man, has Yumei found a partner?"

"No!" The old man responded briefly. He knew that his third daughter and the eldest daughter's wife had similar personalities. They were both the kind of people who would not leave without getting any advantage.

Miss Zhou San stepped forward and said with a smile, "Old man, our brigade secretary's son, his wife died two years ago. He is good-looking and his family is well-off. I want to tell Yumei about him!"

The old man put down the bamboo basket and asked, "Which child is in your brigade secretary's family?"

"The third one!" Miss Zhou San laughed, "He is about the same age as Huaishan, but a little shorter than Huaishan. He has fair skin and looks like the youngest one."

"The third brother?" The old man frowned and thought for a moment. It was indeed what she said. "Why did his wife leave?"

"She died of complications during childbirth! Zhong Lao Er was a man of loyalty and righteousness. He waited for her for three years and only agreed to find her after his mother forced him to do so."

"Wait until I talk to your second sister-in-law and ask her to ask Yumei first!" The old man poured the red mushrooms in the basket onto the drying mat and gently raked them with a bamboo rake to dry them.

Miss Zhou Er saw the rooftop full of mushrooms and said enviously, "Old man, the youngest family harvested so many mushrooms, they must have made a lot of money in a season, right?"

The old man mentioned Luo Zhuo, "I get up at five in the morning and go to bed at midnight. I just earn some wages and rent."

"I heard that the youngest one is going to be rated as a ten thousand yuan household!" Miss Zhou San curled her lips, "Old man, we are not outsiders, why are you hiding it from us?"

The old man gave her a sidelong look and said, "Who told you that? Ten thousand yuan households are praised so highly!"

Miss Zhou San: "My eldest sister-in-law said that the business of collecting truffles and mushrooms is owned by the youngest brothers. The youngest brother gets the lion's share, and his family has long been rich."

Miss Zhou Er: "Yes, old man. My youngest son will be getting married next year. You can talk to him and ask him to lend me some money to replace our old house with a big tiled house. With a big tiled house, I can find someone with a better family background."

"You believe what your eldest sister-in-law says!" The old man said angrily, "The youngest son still owes his father-in-law money for buying a tractor. Why don't you lend him some money to pay off the debt?"

He thought about it and said, "When we built the house, we also carried mud to make bricks and tiles. You have three strong laborers in your family, why can't you make them yourself?"

The palm of the hand is made of flesh, and the back of the hand is also made of flesh. Of course, he hopes that the family can live in harmony and love each other, but he doesn't know who these children in his family look like?

When the second son's family was poor, the others would never even come into the house every time they came, and the son-in-law never came home all year round. When they were needed, they were just relatives, and when they were not needed, they were worse than outsiders.

A daughter who is married off is like water spilled; a son-in-law and grandson are all outsiders. No matter how good the son-in-law's family is, it has nothing to do with my Zhou family.

Miss Zhou San was dissatisfied and said, "Old man, you are just as partial as mom. You only care about your sons and grandsons, and girls are outsiders!"

"Of course I love my son! My son and grandson take me to see doctors when I'm sick or in pain, what about you?" The old man sneered, "You guys only know how to come to my house and cut your brother and your father."

"Other girls go home with either meat or eggs, but you guys only come back once during the Chinese New Year. What did you bring to see me this time?"

Miss Zhou San smiled and said, "Old man, you know we are poor. Besides, my eldest sister-in-law said that you live a more comfortable life at the youngest's house than at a landlord's house!"

"My life in the youngest's house is more comfortable than that of a landlord, because the youngest couple is filial. What do you think? I have raised you for more than ten years in vain!"

The old man angrily piled up the baskets and walked downstairs with them. "You should hold bowls according to your hands and do things according to your abilities. When my family was poor, you didn't help us at all. Now that we are better, don't try to be so cunning."

After hearing this, the two sisters blushed, "Old man, look at what you said..."

"Did I say anything wrong?" The old man turned around and looked at them. "As the old saying goes, only when you suffer a loss can you win a fight! Don't be too calculating. Look at those who are too calculating, how many of them are good?"

"We are as poor as our second brother's family, how can we be calculating?" Zhou Sanniang and her sister understood what he meant. Although he said that, who wouldn't pick up the hot pot on the stove? How many of them would be willing to worship in a cold temple and cook for a cold stove?

"You know it yourselves!" The old man said no more, picked up the basket and went downstairs, and took the red mushrooms that Zhou's father sent outside to Zhou Huaishan's house to dry.

Zhou Sanniang and her sister went to the front yard angrily to watch Zhou's mother and others picking mushrooms.

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After Yang Chunyan and Zhou Jiaming arrived at the forest, they found that a lot of mushrooms had grown. Some of the mushrooms that were not picked yesterday had already withered, and some had rotted.

Zhou Jiakang exclaimed, "Oh my god, there are more today than yesterday!"

Zhou Xiaoru said: "It rained again last night. My mom said that if there are two more sun showers, there will be more mushrooms!"

Zhou Jiakang: "I know what a sunshower is. It's when the sun is out and it's raining at the same time!"

"Tsk~" Zhou Jiaming and the others looked at him as if he were a fool.

Yang Chunyan looked at him with amusement, "Jia Ming, you guys go pick mushrooms while Auntie goes to dig up chicken fir eggs! Remember, anyone wearing a hat, a skirt, or shoes is a poisonous mushroom and you can't pick them up!"

"Don't worry, we already knew it." The kids were not interested in the black ball-like eggs made of chicken mushrooms. They nodded in agreement and started picking up the eggs with their baskets.

A few people looked at the mushrooms spread out in the woods like drying millet, and felt like a little mouse that had fallen into a rice warehouse, not knowing where to start.

"Wow! There are so many Torchwood mushrooms here!" Zhou Xiaoru stuck her butt out and used a crowbar to dig up the mud, and a short and fat Torchwood mushroom was pulled up. "

Zhou Xiaowen pulled up a red mushroom and said, "I have a lot of red mushrooms here!"

"Ha!" Zhou Jiaming laughed and said, "If you give the chicken mushrooms to Ning'an, you can sell them for more than one yuan per pound. It's better to pick chicken mushrooms!"

"Brother, Dad hasn't given us the money he deducted yesterday. Don't forget it when you go back." Zhou Jialiang reminded.

Zhou Jiaming: "Aunt Yao said that the accounts will be settled to us at the end of the month."

Zhou Xiaoru turned her head and asked, "Brother, how much money can we make by the end of the month?"

Zhou Jiaming: "Yesterday we picked up more than 30 kilograms of red mushrooms. Aunt Yao said that the two grades together are worth more than 15 yuan. After deducting 30%, we still have more than 4 yuan left. If we can earn more than 4 yuan every day, we can earn more than 100 yuan a month!"

"Wow~" Zhou Jiakang and his children looked at him in surprise, "Brother, what are we going to do with more than a hundred dollars?"

Zhou Jialiang: "We bought all the baby books we wanted, and we can use the remaining money to buy other things."

Zhou Jiakang: "If I spend all that money I'll definitely get beaten. I want to save mine."

"You stingy little thing!" Zhou Jialiang slapped him, "If you don't pay, you can't read the baby books we bought!"

Zhou Jiakang looked at the disgusted looks of the others and nodded with a pursed mouth, "Okay, let's use it together and then we'll figure it out."

Zhou Jiaming waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and work. Auntie will come over soon after she finishes digging the eggs."

Yang Chunyan took a hoe and went to the place where the chicken mushroom eggs were found yesterday. She picked up the hoe and started digging. After digging for more than half an hour, she finally saw the termite hole. She lay on the ground and shone the flashlight inside. She saw the chicken mushroom eggs hanging in the hole and laughed happily.

She picked a large one and weighed it, finding it was not light and fluffy. She nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad, I wish the others were like this."

After she had picked all the eggs from the nest, she filled the mud back in and walked up with the basket. (End of this chapter)