In the back mountain of Fangtian Brigade, many villagers were walking down the mountain, leaning on wooden sticks, carrying baskets on their backs, with smiles on their faces and holding rakes.

Yang Xiaoxue and Fang Zhiqiang also walked back with truffles on their backs. The familiar villagers took a look at the basket she was carrying and asked, "Xiaoxue, how is your nest this year?"

"Not bad!" Yang Xiaoxue glanced at her with a smile, "Sister Liu, where are you going to sell your truffles this year?"

Sister Liu smiled and said, "We're planning to send it to your cousin to sell. We don't trust that bastard Fang Sihai."

"That's right, I don't believe him either. I'd better go to Zhou Laoyao's house and feel more at ease."

One villager said angrily: "I won't sell him even a pound. My family heard yesterday that Fang Chun went up the mountain to dig truffles, so we hurriedly followed him, and when we got there we saw that bastard digging truffles in our home.

What a shameless bunch of people. Last year, they were jealous of the good truffles from my truffle farm. This year, if it weren’t for his family harvesting truffles, he wouldn’t dare to rob my farm.”

"It's the same with my family. The truffles that jerk Fang Laowu sent yesterday were all dug from the nest in my house."

After hearing this, the other villagers secretly felt lucky that they did not go digging truffles in the forest with Fang Sihai's family last year.

Everyone was talking and laughing as they walked towards Fu Niu. When they were about to turn the corner and reached Fang Sihai's house, they saw him and Fang Laowu standing at the door, looking at them with smiles on their faces, as if they were looking at a big piece of fat meat.

Yang Xiaoxue stuck her head out to look and saw that there was no one selling truffles in the yard. Those standing there were all from Fang Sihai's family.

Fang Sihai looked with envy at the villagers whose backs were bent by the baskets on their shoulders, wishing they would go back to their own yards. But after looking for a while, he didn't see anyone who had that intention.

He thought, people started coming down the mountain with baskets on their backs since three o'clock, and those who came to his house to sell truffles were his relatives. Fang Sihai regretted it so much that his intestines turned green. If he had known earlier, he would not have been greedy for that little bit of bargain yesterday and would have dug truffles in advance.

If I wait for the goods to arrive and only collect a few hundred kilograms of truffles, I will definitely lose this job.

Two dollars per person a day, eight dollars for a family of four, and two hundred and forty dollars a month. You can dig truffles in the morning and harvest them in the afternoon. You can earn more than two hundred dollars without delaying anything. Where can you find such a good thing?

Fang Sihai quickly poked his youngest brother who was standing next to him, "Old Five, you go."

"Yeah!" Fang Laowu responded in a low voice, then smiled and walked to a tall man, handing him a cigarette, "Lao Gao, send the goods to my eldest brother's house to sell. When he evaluates the grade, he is a little more lenient than Zhou Laoyao's house. I guarantee you won't suffer any loss if you go there!"

Lao Gao is the same age as him. He looks tall and big, but he likes to take advantage of others and is too concerned about his reputation.

After hearing this, Lao Gao didn't take his cigarette. He raised his hand and picked up a truffle from his wife's basket. It was almost rated first-rate last year. He said to Fang Sihai, "Sihai, how would you rate something like this?"

Fang Sihai took it and looked at it. He knew that it could only be rated second-class, but thinking that there were not many such goods, he hesitated and said, "This one is rated first-class."

Lao Gao looked at him in surprise, "Do you keep your word?"

Fang Sihai responded readily, "It's a promise!"

Yang Xiaoxue curled her lips after hearing this, thinking that this man was completely brainless. The grades were set by the boss, and if Fang Sihai dared to charge second-class people as first-class, he would have to pay for it out of his own pocket.

Once you trick people into the yard, they will only give this one a first-rate rating, and you're going to bite them twice?

But she couldn't say this out loud, otherwise everyone would think that she was helping her cousin and belittling Fang Sihai.

Seeing her standing there motionless, Fang Zhiqiang pulled her and said, "Let's go. The youngest one is not at home. Let's go and help Chunyan and the others."

"Yeah!" Yang Xiaoxue pulled the shoulder strap of the backpack and followed with big strides.

Sister Liu was also a little tempted after seeing this. She picked out a truffle from her husband's backpack that was smaller than Lao Gao's and said to Fang Sihai, "How would you rate this?"

Fang Sihai took it and took a look at it and said, "This can only be rated second grade." There are too many such goods, and if he also rated it first grade, he would be in trouble.

Sister Liu put the truffles back into the basket and pulled her husband, "Let's go, I'd better go to Zhou Laoyao's house."

The man who just said that Fang Laowu had robbed his nest looked at the Fang brothers with disgust and said, "Lao Gao, do you really believe what they said?"

Lao Gao held the truffle and said to him, "Look, this kind of stuff can only be rated second-class at Zhou Laoyao's house. Sihai just said that his is rated first-class, and it costs more than three cents per pound!"

He wanted to try out how lenient Fang Sihai was when evaluating levels. After all, the higher the level, the higher the income.

"A wolf travels a thousand miles to eat meat, a dog travels a thousand miles to eat shit, I don't believe a dog can do anything human." The man sneered in response, and strode away with his backpack on his back.

After seeing this, the villagers who were still hesitating also said, "Forget it, let's just go to Zhou Laoyao's house to sell it."

Fang Sihai was so angry that he couldn't even keep the smile on his face. Fang Laowu saw this and hurriedly pulled Lao Gao, "Lao Gao, let's go weigh them. They will definitely be jealous of you and make more money tomorrow."

Seeing that there were still a few villagers who had not left, Fang Sihai quickly cheered up and said to them, "Everyone, go in! Putting aside the price, you can save a lot of walking if you sell it to my family!"

The villagers who wanted to sell for more money hesitated for a moment and said to him, "Si Hai, we can sell your house, but we have to give you a higher grade like before. Also, make sure the scale is large enough!"

"Don't worry, it would be fine if I didn't want to do this anymore." Fang Sihai enthusiastically welcomed them into the yard, helped Lao Gao take the backpack, and laid it on the straw mat on the steps.

He learned all these from Zhou Laoyao's family. Doesn't he see how useful it is to lay a straw mat?

Fang Laowu laughed exaggeratedly and said, "Oh~ Lao Gao, I'm afraid you have weighed more than 100 kilograms today, right?"

"The goods seem to be good this year. They are still laughing and saying that this may be a good year for truffles." Lao Gao responded to him, staring at the women who were selecting truffles without blinking.

After looking for a while, he found that only a few slightly larger second-grade goods were picked into the first-grade, and the others seemed to be of similar grade to those selected when they were sold at Zhou Laoyao's house.

After his wife saw it, she poked him and whispered, "Look, just put those few pieces aside for a while. If we lose a pound or half a pound of each grade later, the extra ones will be ruined."

Lao Gao thought about Fang Sihai's character, looked at the scale on the ground, and thought that neither he nor his wife really understood this kind of scale, so they really couldn't tell if there was a pound or half a pound missing.

Thinking of this, he felt mixed emotions, and couldn't tell what it was like...

…

Yang Xiaoxue and her group arrived at Yang Chunyan's house and saw that there were still a lot of people queuing in the yard just like last year.

There was still a large steaming steel pot on the eaves, and some villagers were standing there drinking ginger soup from porcelain jars.

On the side, Zhou's mother and Jia Chunhong were busy sifting. Zhou's father put the bamboo basket full of truffles on the scale, and Luo Haili began to weigh it.

In front of the small square table, Yang Chunyan was clacking away on the abacus to settle the bills for the villagers who had already weighed their goods. Xiao Jiuer was sitting in the sedan chair holding a rattle, beating it loudly.

Sister Liu turned her head and glanced at her, "Xiaoxue, there are so many people in your cousin's family."

The villagers of Guanyin Brigade asked curiously: "Hey! I heard that there are people in your field who collect truffles. Why do I see people from your village come here to sell truffles?"

Sister Liu smiled and said, "The people in their family are honest and kind, so I feel more at ease selling here."

"Yes, we won't sell it to that bastard of the Four Evils!"

Yang Xiaoxue and Fang Ziqiang put the backpack aside and said, "Sister Liu, let's go over and help them. You see, they are so busy that there is no one to take care of the baby."

Sister Liu smiled and nodded, "Go and help quickly so we can go back earlier."

Fang Zhiqiang went to help Zhou's father fill the basket. Yang Xiaoxue walked over and picked up little Jiuer, "Good boy Jiuer, let your aunt hug you!"

Xiao Jiuer turned her head to look at her, and stopped crying when she saw that she was someone she knew.

After Yang Chunyan handed the money to the villager, she turned her head and looked at her and said with a smile: "You are here! How was your harvest today?"

"Not bad!" Yang Xiaoxue looked at the cushions in the main room, "Why don't you put him on your thick cushion? The sedan chair is so hard that it's not comfortable to sit on."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "What he likes most now is to crawl all over the floor. He will even climb over the door. He crawled out yesterday. Fortunately, the dog was there to watch over him. Otherwise, who knows where he would have crawled to."

When the child grew up a little, I had to keep an eye on him when he was put to sleep in bed. If he woke up and I wasn’t watching, he would crawl all over the bed. Once, he almost fell off the bed.

"You can climb now, but you have to be careful." Yang Xiaoxue saw her finish her words and then busy herself with checking out other people. She was very happy when she thought that she was too busy to handle everything here and there were only a few people in Fang Sihai's courtyard.

Seeing that Zhou's mother was very busy, he picked up the sling, put Xiao Jiuer on his shoulders, and went to help with the screening.

Yang Chunyan didn't expect so many people to come to the market today. Even from the Construction Brigade and Guangming Brigade, which were quite a distance away, many people brought truffles to sell.

They were busy from one o'clock to four o'clock, and in three hours they had already harvested several thousand kilograms of truffles. There were still many villagers waiting in the yard.

After all the goods in the yard are weighed, today we will break the record since the goods were received, with tens of thousands of kilograms received in a single day.

Tomorrow I have to ask my mother-in-law to go to the village and find a few elderly people who can't go up the mountain to help with the carry. Don't let the three elderly people get exhausted just to make money.

Yang Xiaoxue went over and took the bamboo sieve handle from Zhou's mother, "Auntie, I'll do it. You take a break!"

Mother Zhou turned her head and smiled: "Xiaoxue is here!"

Yang Xiaoxue smiled and nodded, "Yeah! I didn't expect you guys to be so busy today!"

Zhou's mother: "We didn't expect this! Not long after dinner, a lot of people came."

The villagers waiting to be weighed said with a smile: "We are from Guangming Brigade. We didn't know you were collecting truffles last year. After selling the red mushrooms this year, we have been waiting for your family to open the scale to receive the goods."

"You've come so far, I'll help you weigh it quickly, so you don't have to go back in the dark." Zhou's mother said as she went to the bamboo sieve to sort out the first-class truffles. The villagers who sold truffles all spontaneously helped to pour the truffles into the bamboo sieve. (End of this chapter)