Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law pulled out the seedlings for about half an hour. Then they carried the seedlings to the edge of the field, put them away, went ashore, picked up their shoes and walked back.

Zhao Huifang looked at the time and said, "It's almost six o'clock. Let's eat and go from the back mountain. It will be faster this way."

The sky is still gray and it looks like it won't be sunny today. But that's okay as it won't be too hot when planting rice seedlings or picking mushrooms.

Yang Chunyan nodded, "After the saplings were planted, Huai'an took people to repair the road over there. Now it is very convenient to go there from the back mountain."

Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "I forgot about the forest we just booked. Now that the bamboo forest is out, let's go take a look inside. We picked up so many honey mushrooms even at such a late hour last year. If we go earlier this year, there should be other mushrooms."

Yang Chunyan: "There are also a lot of mushrooms in the big pit at my house, including red mushrooms and morels. Last year, I took Xiaoqian and a few others to pick up a lot of them, some of which were rotten."

Li Qiuyue pointed at the people carrying baskets on the road and said, "Look, some people are already carrying baskets into the mountains."

"Oh!" Yang Chunyan said regretfully when she saw quite a few people. "I should have gotten up earlier and sent the advertisement paper Huai'an wrote last night to the brigade headquarters to post it."

Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Grandpa has already pasted it. It's on the gate of your yard. Didn't you see it?"

“I didn’t even look closely.”

When the sisters-in-law arrived home, Zhou's mother had already heated up the food. "You're back. Go wash your feet and put on your shoes. I'll serve you some food. Eat before you leave."

"Okay!" The sisters-in-law went to the backyard, ran water to wash their feet. Yang Chunyan went back to the house to check on her son. Seeing that he was still sleeping soundly, she changed into high rain boots and went out. Mother Zhou had already prepared the meal.

After Zhao Huifang and the others went home and changed their shoes, the sisters-in-law had their meal, picked up their backpacks, and took Wangcai up the mountain. When they reached the woods, they saw a few half-grown children carrying backpacks, chattering as they walked in front of them.

There were two baskets filled with a few mushrooms. Yang Chunyan felt that every year when the rainy season came, as soon as she entered the woods, the air was filled with the smell of mushrooms.

Zhao Huifang turned to Li Qiuyue and said, "Qiuyue, why didn't your little sister come over to play during the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Li Qiuyue said happily: "The youngest came back and said that the couple was busy making money. After receiving the festival gifts I brought, they asked the youngest to bring back the shoes they made for us, the pork, and the wine and tobacco they bought for mom, husband, and grandfather."

Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "That's good. From now on, you two sisters can go out together during the holidays."

"Yes, I will have relatives visiting during the holidays." Li Qiuyue said happily, "The couple wants to go home in a few days to start the migration.

My younger sister said that even roasted corn and sweet potatoes can be sold for money in the city. When they go back this time, they want to go to my eldest sister and second sister's house to see if the nephews are willing to come out and find a job. "

Zhao Huifang took over the conversation, "Qiuyue, if your sister's family had a mule, they could collect mushrooms in the mountains and bring them to Baicaoping to sell to our family. My brother will also go to collect mushrooms this year."

"They should have been collected last year." Zhang Xiuxiang said angrily, "My brother is stubborn. I have told him several times that he would rather pick them up and sell them than collect them. He said he was afraid of receiving fakes."

Zhao Huifang sighed, "One reason is that they are timid, and the main reason is that it is a bit far from my home. This time, I lent them money to buy mules and horses, and also lent them a few hundred yuan as capital before they agreed to take the goods and sell them."

Li Qiuyue: "Our home is even further from Baicaoping. Mushrooms are not like truffles. You can pick them today and send them out tomorrow. Mushrooms must be sold on the same day they are picked.

Even if you are a fast walker, it will take you half a day to get there. If something goes wrong walking on the mountain road in the middle of the night, I can't take the responsibility. My sister's method is safer."

Zhao Huifang: "That's true. It's the middle of the night, who knows what wild animals are in the woods. If anything happens to you, your sister will hate you for the rest of her life!"

Yang Chunyan took over the conversation, "In fact, going to the city to find a job is also a way out. If you can't do anything else, you can grind beans like Third Aunt's family, and sell tofu, tofu pudding, and tofu pudding. As long as the taste is good, you can still make money."

"That's right!" Li Qiuyue's eyes lit up after hearing this, "How could I have forgotten about this? I was just thinking about asking them to go dig herbs and collect mushrooms."

Zhang Xiuxiang held onto Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, the tofu pudding that my mom and sister-in-law ordered is not tasty at all. You said I should ask Third Aunt to teach them, give her some money, and ask her to teach them. Will she agree?"

"It's hard to say." Yang Chunyan said with a smile, "The tofu pudding they ordered is not tasty. Is it too old or too tender?"

"I can't tell, it's just not delicious. The same thing my second aunt's family cooks is much better than these two." Zhang Xiuxiang said a little frustrated, "Maybe it's the same as mine. Look at my family, there are four sisters-in-law, and the food I cook tastes the worst."

Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "If the tofu pudding is not cooked properly, if it is too hard, it means there is too much bile or gypsum, otherwise it is too little. You can ask them to try making it a few times.

Each time you make it, write down the amount of soybeans, bile water or gypsum used. Which amount gives the best taste? Use that amount next time to make the dish so that you won’t make mistakes easily.

There are many varieties of tofu. The most common ones are tofu, tofu pudding, tofu pudding, dried tofu, and bean curd sticks. Dried tofu can also be sold after being brine-cured.”

Zhang Xiuxiang nodded after hearing this, "Right, your method is good. Just like when mom makes bean paste, the amount of salt to a pound of chili pepper is adjusted according to the ratio. This way, it is not easy to make mistakes."

"Then when will you go back and let your brother and sister-in-law try it out?" Li Qiuyue said happily, "I'll tell the youngest brother when I get back and ask him to help me take the letter to Qiuxia.

Let her go back and let my sister and the others make tofu and sell it at home. Even if she earns less, she can still make 1 or 2 yuan a day, which is 40 to 50 yuan a month!"

Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "No wonder they say that three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. Today, we sisters-in-law picked mushrooms and found a way to make money for our family."

Yang Chunyan looked at the four people with a smile, "It's not three cobblers, it's four."

"Yes, four!" The sisters-in-law looked at each other and burst into laughter.

As we were talking, we entered the woods and saw that the honeysuckle tree we had planted in March had sprouted new branches. Going further, we saw that the chestnut tree was also alive.

Wangcai was very happy in the woods. He would run for a while and then come back to pick them up, spinning around and biting his tail for fun.

It had just rained and the ground in the forest was very soft to walk on. Occasionally, a few mushrooms could be seen in the places where they had been dug. When they were almost at the edge of the ditch, Zhao Huifang saw a few green-headed mushrooms, all of which had not opened. She and Li Qiuyue happily squatted down and picked them up.

Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang were walking forward with their baskets, and suddenly pointed ahead, "Look, sister-in-law, there are some red onion mushrooms over there."

"It's true!" The two sisters-in-law walked forward in surprise, patted the mushroom caps, and pulled up all the pink and plump red onion mushrooms.

Red onion mushroom is a kind of boletus, named because of its pink body and strong onion fragrance. Wash and slice it, soak it in warm water for a while, add green and red peppers, garlic slices, bacon or ham and stir-fry over high heat, the taste is the best.

Red onion is also a kind of green mushroom. It has a very high price in later generations. Now its price is about the same as that of ordinary big-foot mushroom. This kind of mushroom must be fried before eating, otherwise you will see villains.

Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang picked up the red onions and put them in the vegetable basket, and picked up a few milk mushrooms and blue-headed mushrooms in front. Li Qiuyue, who had already walked in front, shouted in surprise.

"Come and see, there is a beautiful field of big red mushrooms here, it's very peaceful!"

"Let me see!" Zhao Huifang ran over and saw some bright red spots under the fallen leaves. Li Qiuyue was holding a large red mushroom that was chopped into a very nice shape in her hand.

"Really?" Zhao Huifang turned her head happily and waved to Yang Chunyan and the other person, "Chunyan, you two come quickly, we'll pick the good ones, let's go to the bamboo forest and pick bamboo fungi."

"Yes, pick up the red mushrooms and then hurry to the bamboo forest. It will be a waste of time if you delay in picking bamboo fungus." Li Qiuyue quickened her pace and picked up the chopped red mushrooms and started pulling them up.

Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang walked over and squatted down to pick them up. As for the ones that had just grown, the sisters-in-law gave up and waited until they came out of the bamboo forest to pick them up again.

Before they reached the ditch, they heard the sound of water splashing. When they got there, they saw that the ditch was full of water. The four of them walked to the part where the sluice was built, crossed the ditch, and arrived at the bamboo forest.

There is a strange smell in the bamboo forest after the rain, the smell of rotten soil and the strange smell emitted by bamboo fungus.

After entering, I saw a few bamboo fungus eggs, which were much whiter than the newly grown old man mushrooms.

Yang Chunyan followed the smell and saw several freshly baked bamboo fungi in front of her. "1, 2...Haha, there are 5 of them here. It looks like we'll have a big harvest today."

When she got closer, the black and red cap of the bamboo fungus gave off a strange stench. She used a stick to pick off the top cap, pulled apart the bamboo leaves and pulled the bamboo fungus up from the roots.

Li Qiuyue used a stick to dig at the bamboo leaves. "How come you are so lucky? I didn't find any, but I saw a few bamboo fungus eggs."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Third sister-in-law, remember the location. When we come back after a round, it may be opened."

"Yeah!" Li Qiuyue and the other two continued to move forward, "Haha, I found two too."

Zhao Huifang turned her head and took a look. "They are all blooming. Pull them out quickly!"

"Okay!" Li Qiuyue took two steps forward, pulled up the bamboo fungus, took off the cap, put it in the basket, and pointed to a flower next to it and said to Yang Chunyan and the others, "Look, these flowers have gone bad, and they stink like sugar chicken shit."

Yang Chunyan laughed and said, "Those that haven't gone bad have the same smell. If you smell your hands, they also stink like sugar chicken shit."

"Let me smell it!" Li Qiuyue put her hand to the tip of her nose. "Oh my god, there is a smell. No wonder you picked the mushroom caps with a stick."

"Hehe!" Zhang Xiuxiang laughed, "It's okay, you'll get used to it after smelling it for a while."

Li Qiuyue wrinkled her nose, "You didn't tell me."

"We had ours stink last year, it's only fair that you stink once too!" Yang Chunyan patted her with a smile, "Let's go and take a look at the front. The smell of these rotten flowers is so strong that even Wangcai doesn't want to come over."

"Woof woof!" Wangcai seemed to understand, and from a few steps away, he wagged his tail and barked at them twice. (End of this chapter)