That was quite a sight.
Like chickens and ducks rushing to peck at rice, the villagers' trampled branches and fallen leaves made a rustling sound as they stepped on them. Some even broke the thin saplings, afraid of falling behind.
The Qiao family was stunned.
They also realized that if they didn't reveal their money-making secrets, these people would trample on them.
Old Man Qiao said, "He even said he would become a bandit if he couldn't make a living. It seems that our Qiao family is not the most qualified in the village."
Grandma Qiao: "Let's go pick some termite mushrooms, and pick any other mushrooms we see."
Otherwise, people would definitely be suspicious if they only picked termite mushrooms.
The family knew which areas had the most termite mushrooms, so they dispersed to different places.
Compared to them, the Qiao family was much more relaxed, so Shen chuckled as she passed by them.
"You couldn't compete with everyone, could you? No wonder you didn't dare to speak up at the beginning."
Boss Qiao: "So what if you grab it fast? You still have to walk several times more to the county town to sell it than others."
Shen, on the contrary, looked smug: "There are many wealthy families in the county town. Just wait and see, our mushrooms can sell for three taels of silver per catty."
Qiao Lian'er: "Oh, then good luck."
That's naive. Sure, you can get a better price in the county town, but the Song family isn't the only ones selling there. With so many households competing, you can't expect to sell it for three taels of silver a pound. Keep dreaming.
The light rain yesterday was effective; many new bacteria have grown on the mountain today.
Nearly half of the matsutake mushroom groves favored by the Qiao family have produced large matsutake mushrooms, some white and some black.
Although not as vigorous as the previous period, the harvest was still quite good.
After searching all day, they found most of a basket of termite mushrooms and a small portion of mixed mushrooms, which they then mixed together.
In the past, when searching for mushrooms, each basket was packed tightly, but today it's much lighter.
However, since termite mushrooms are expensive, the income won't be too low.
Because the competition was so fierce, with people fighting and grabbing, the most people in the village had weighed thirty or forty jin (about 25-30 kg), while some had only a few jin (about 2.5 kg).
As dusk fell, everyone carried their baskets to the assembly square and checked and corrected each other.
"This doesn't seem to be red onion mushroom; it's poisonous."
"Yes, this is inedible, throw it away quickly, the smell is pungent."
"This isn't bamboo fungus; bamboo fungus looks like this."
"Yes, yes, bamboo fungus is a white, openwork skirt."
They called Qiao Lian'er over again to check, and after confirming that there were no problems, everyone carried their baskets home.
All the problematic mushrooms were trampled and buried in the soil.
Grandma Qiao picked out the termite mushrooms to weigh: "Twenty-one catties of termite mushrooms and ten catties of mixed mushrooms."
The main reason for the mixed mushrooms was that the villagers were too eager to grab them. When they saw mushrooms, several people would rush over together. The Qiao family's main goal was the termite mushrooms, so they didn't bother with the villagers over these things.
Otherwise, with the strength of the Qiao family, no other household in the village could have won the fight.
After dinner, we squeezed mushrooms and produced seven catties of dried matsutake mushrooms and three catties of dried mixed mushrooms, which could be sold for eight and a half taels of silver.
With everyone else raking in the money like wolves, this income is considered quite good; it's impossible to earn dozens of taels a day like before.
I'll save it up slowly.
The next day, the villagers went in different directions to sell mushrooms, according to the lot they had drawn.
Because there were more wealthy families than mushroom sellers, people didn't scramble for the mushrooms, but they didn't dare slow down either.
To avoid arriving late and being pressured to lower the price.
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