Chapter 126: Growing Mushrooms

The uncles and aunts were particularly enthusiastic today, which made Qin Huiyin, who was used to being ignored, feel a little uncomfortable.

She doesn’t think she is socially anxious, but when she meets uncles and aunts who have nothing to talk about, she begins to understand the feelings of the socially anxious group.

"Hey, Heiwa, don't pull its tail." Qin Huiyin quickly rescued Mantou from Heiwa's hands, and then said to the uncles and aunts who were still unwilling to end the topic, "I'm sorry, my puppy is too young and has to go home to eat. Uncles and aunts, let's talk again when we have time."

Slide, slide quickly.

The villagers looked at the direction where Qin Huiyin ran and said, "This little girl is quite cute and polite. We used to have prejudices against her and her daughter."

"I think so. We should interact more with their family in the future. By the way, why haven't I seen Li Erniu recently?"

"I don't know. When I saw her the day before yesterday, she looked so thin that I almost didn't recognize her. Why mention her? That woman deserved it. Don't sympathize with her."

Qin Huiyin ran home holding the steamed buns, as if she was being chased by someone, which scared Li Taohua.

"What's wrong?"

"The villagers are suddenly so enthusiastic that I can't handle it."

Mr. Tang San said with a smile: "You have to get used to it. There will be more and more people who are enthusiastic towards you in the future."

Tang Luwu's ramen was very successful, and the whole family praised her cooking skills. Tang Luwu, who had never been very confident, smiled shyly, and her eyes became brighter.

After Tang Yixiao drank the medicine, he went to count the chicks. In just a few days, the chicks had grown a lot. Tang Yixiao was digging in the soil with a shovel. Qin Huiyin sat in the yard and watched him. He caught earthworms from the soil and fed them to the chicks.

The busy day came to an end. They were watching the chicks eating earthworms in the simple yard. The dog was pulling their trouser legs to find a sense of existence. Li Taohua and Tang Sanye were drinking wine with braised meat and fried dried fish. The life was comfortable and beautiful. Only Tang Dafu in the county town was suffering, but the suffering was only temporary. After the suffering, he would be refreshed. This was also an extraordinary progress for him.

"These dried fish are good. Huiyin girl, do you want to sell new dishes?" asked Mr. Tang San.

"I'm going to town to find a carpenter to make tables and chairs tomorrow. I plan to take these dried fish to town to ask for advice. If I can sell them, it won't be a wasted trip."

Master Tang San said to Li Taohua beside him, "You are such a restless girl. If there is a chance, you will definitely look for some business opportunities. But I will go there tomorrow, so you don't have to go. We are just looking for a carpenter, so we don't need so many people. If you trust me, leave the dried fish business to me and I will sell it for you."

"Thank you, Third Grandpa. Although you are my biological grandfather, we should still settle accounts clearly. These dried fish are fried so crispy, and a lot of oil is used, so we can't sell them cheaply. You can sell them at eight cents per catty. If you buy two catties, you can get half a catty for free, and if you buy three catties, you can get one catty for free. Oh, and bring our mobile cart to display the goods. When these things are sold, I will give you 20% commission."

"My granddaughter is filial, so I'll take 50% even if you say 20%. Don't worry, I'll take advantage of it."

Li Taohua chuckled and said, "An old fox and a little fox, you really are becoming more and more like a grandfather and grandson."

On the second day, Master Tang San moved the cart onto the ox cart as agreed yesterday, and took the dried fish and braised meat with him.

Qin Huiyin said a few words, roughly saying what to purchase, and then handed the silver and drawings to him.

Not long after Third Master Tang left, Li Taohua came out yawning, "I drank a little too much with Third Uncle last night, and I just heard his voice again in my dream."

"Mom can't drink as much as Third Grandpa. Don't drink so much next time. Third Grandpa has been gone for a quarter of an hour, and you still think you are dreaming!" Qin Huiyin teased her.

"I haven't practiced for a long time and my performance has regressed so much." Li Taohua muttered.

"What?"

"Nothing." Li Taohua brushed her teeth with a willow branch dipped in salt.

The mushroom matter was left to the aunts, and what they had to do today was to clean the pottery jars.

After breakfast, Li Taohua went to the village chief to rent a new place to live, while Qin Huiyin took the Tang siblings to fetch water and wash the pottery jars.

Li Taohua soon brought back good news. When the village chief heard that they wanted to rent a place, he gave them the largest vacant house and the rent was very cheap.

Qin Huiyin decided to move there within half a month. Once they moved there, they could start building a new house.

After lunch, Song Tieniu and Zhang Jieba brought the mushrooms over.

Qin Huiyin looked at the loads of mushrooms coming in and said in surprise, "This time there are more than last time."

"Today, many people sent mushrooms. I heard from them that you agreed to it. You said that as long as they pass our inspection, we can accept them. We accepted them."

"The uncles and aunts in the village asked me, and I said this. As long as there is no problem with the goods, of course we can accept them. How many kilograms are there in total?"

After collecting the mushrooms, the next step was to clean them. Song Tieniu and Zhang Jieba stayed behind to clean them, while Qin Huiyin followed the two sisters-in-law to Song Tieniu's house to meet the other aunts.

The aunt who said yesterday that she was willing to learn mushroom cultivation technology was waiting at the Song family. Today, when I pushed the door open, I saw seven or eight aunts waiting there.

The aunts were a little embarrassed. Although Qin Huiyin was young, no one dared to look down on her. Can an ordinary little girl support a family? Anyway, they had never seen it. Even though this little girl was young, she had wisdom that ordinary people did not have. Both men and women admired the strong, and they were instinctively a little afraid of Qin Huiyin.

Qin Huiyin noticed their nervousness and thought they were not confident in their learning ability, so she comforted them with kind words and then began to talk about the techniques of growing mushrooms.

The conditions in ancient times were not as good as they are today. It is very easy to grow mushrooms today, but in ancient times people could only use local resources.

She first taught them the method of stacking fodder. Through her observation, she found that some women had spare rice straw or wheat straw at home. As for animal manure such as cow manure and horse manure, it was also easy to find, so this method was very simple for them, and they were all eager to try it after hearing it.

She also talked about log cultivation and soil covering cultivation. No matter which method it is, it is child's play for these rural women who have worked in the fields.

"Girl Huiyin is so smart. We have been farming for so many years and never thought mushrooms could be grown this way. We used to be so hungry that we had to go to the mountains to dig wild grass to eat. If we had known about this technology earlier, wouldn't mushrooms taste better than wild grass?"

The women relaxed and were not as nervous as before. They started talking and laughing with Qin Huiyin.

"Aunts, go back and try it first. If you don't understand, you can come to me." Qin Huiyin said, "If you have a cellar at home, you can plant it there. It will grow faster this way."