Chapter 019 Red Mushroom Fungus

Chapter 019 Red Mushroom Fungus

It's time for Wei Dai to return to the army.

Before going back, I came to Fuyang Brigade to meet Jia Jia.

The team is currently harvesting soybeans, which are summer-sown soybeans. It is said that there are also autumn-sown soybeans planted in the fields in front of the village, so they will have to harvest another crop in November.

Because of the good climate, people there have not been any hunger in the past two years.

But because the climate is good, there is work to do all year round.

Needless to say, in spring, the weather is not too cold, the soil never freezes, and the land can be plowed after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Summer and autumn are the peak seasons for farming. Not only do farmers have to work on the crops, they also have to protect the forests.

There are many forests in several communes near the county seat, and wood is also a resource.

In the original owner's memory, every winter a car would come to the county and leave with a load of wood.

Therefore, during the free time, the team leader had to organize the team members to weed and plant trees in the mountains, and sometimes they would also transport trees. The original owner's parents were able to buy a new house by transporting trees for others.

As for winter, it is also difficult to be idle.

Winter comes late here. Even in October, you still have to wear short sleeves. You won’t feel cold until the first light snow.

In winter, we have to cut sugarcane, dig bamboo shoots, and dig dams... Wen Jiajia felt a headache every time she thought about it.

The soybeans of the Fuyang Brigade are not economic food; after harvest, all of them belong to the team members.

However, Fang Baoguo would sell a batch to Chendun Tofu Shop, and the rest would be distributed to the team members.

You have to shell the soybeans yourself.

When Wei Dai arrived, he heard Jia Jia was transporting soybeans home. She had to carry the soybean stalks together, and her home was far from the soybean field, so the journey was quite tiring.

He took the wheelbarrow and started pushing it. "I'll do it. You put some more bean poles in there."

Wen Jiajia did not refuse. She ran to the field, moved some bean stalks and stacked them on the cart, and did not stop until the cart was about to fall.

She understood that Wei Dai was going back to the army.

Wei Dai glanced at her helplessly without saying anything. He went to the nearby hillside to look for something and pulled a vine to secure the huge pile of bean stalks to the cart to prevent it from collapsing during transportation.

He finally understood that Jia Jia was not being modest and she really was not very good at farm work.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Wen Jiajia urged, "Someone will come to ask questions later."

These days, wherever she goes, people ask her when she will marry Wei Dai, and she is almost getting her ears tangled from hearing this.

It took Wei Dai three trips to transport all the soybeans from a field.

The soybeans that were brought back were placed directly in the front and back yards to be exposed to the sun, and it took several days for them to shed their shells.

Wei Dai drank a glass of water and said, "There will be about 20 kilograms of soybeans here. If you want to keep them for a longer time, you have to expose them to the sun for five or six days after removing the shells. They will grow for about half a year."

Wen Jiajia sat paralyzed in the chair: "Half a year? I can finish it in less than half a year." If there was a soy milk machine, it would be faster.

She likes soy products very much, especially soy milk. She would drink a bowl of it every day after she left the dormitory and lived alone in her previous life.

Wei Dai stroked her fluffy hair and said, "Then I'll go with you to the team to buy some more soybeans. If you don't have enough food, you can buy more from the team."

Wen Jiajia shook her head: "That's enough." Soybeans are not necessary to eat. With the money she would like to buy some cotton.

The team also grows cotton, and it is the women's team that grows it. They started to reclaim land several years ago, and so far, they have reclaimed more than 80 mu of land, which has directly saved the Fuyang team members from the plight of having no cotton.

This group was even featured in the newspapers and won the title of advanced collective. Director Fang Liuyu also wanted to recruit her into the Gengshan Sisters Team, but she was a hopeless waste and didn't even last half a day there, which really brought shame to the women's group.

Wen Jiajia was feeling a little down, so she held Wei Dai's hand and said, "What time is your bus tomorrow? I really don't want to leave you."

Her words hit Wei Dai's heart straight, and he stopped breathing at that moment. He was slightly stunned, and felt his chest was hot, as if bubbles were coming out.

Wei Dai stuttered: "I, I can't bear to leave you either." He had countless words to say to her, but he couldn't say them.

Wen Jiajia looked up at him, put her arms around his waist, and rubbed her head against his abdomen.

Wei Dai's body tensed up and his entire body tensed up. Wen Jiajia could feel his muscles getting harder through his thin clothes.

Well, there are eight pieces, Wen Jiajia counted secretly. She doesn't like skinny men, she must have strong men.

What seemed like extremely normal behavior to Wen Jiajia was considered outrageous by Wei Dai.

However, Wei Dai was reluctant to refuse. He felt that he had to consider getting married. Not only that, he also had to consider joining the army after marriage.

On this day, Wei Dai fixed the water pipe for Wen Jiajia's family.

Ever since he knew that the Wen family needed to collect water, he had been preparing to do this, but the water pipes were not purchased until yesterday.

Wei Dai fixed the last section of the water pipe to the mountain wall next to the vegetable garden, patted the dirt off his hands and said, "Just use it for now. It's almost the same as the tap water in the city, except that the water is smaller and the water may be cut off in winter."

I have to say, this water pipe really touched Wen Jiajia's heart.

God knows how uncomfortable it is for her to fetch water every day.

With this water pipe, the water from the mountain wall will flow from the pipe to the water tank in the backyard. She placed two large water tanks in the backyard. As long as the two water tanks are full, it can guarantee that the family will have water for at least three days.

The sky is a bit gloomy this evening, and there is no fiery red sunset in the sky. I guess the weather tomorrow will not be very good.

Wen Jiajia cooked more than ten tea leaf eggs and some wet peanuts and salted beans, stuffed them into Wei Dai's arms and said, "Take them with you on the road. Tea leaf eggs spoil easily, so it's best to eat them up tomorrow. The peanuts and salted beans can be kept until the day after tomorrow."

Perhaps because he was about to leave, Wei Dai's eyes were glued to her, not wanting to leave for even a moment.

When he was about to leave, he suddenly said, "When you are old enough, let's get married, okay?"

Wen Jiajia kicked his feet, put her hands behind her back and said, "We'll talk about it when the time comes."

Wei Dai smiled. Since she didn't refuse outright, that meant she was very likely to agree.

"I will get the application for joining the army as soon as possible, don't worry." After saying this, he plucked up the courage to kiss her forehead, waved and turned away.

Farm work was too hard, and he didn't want her to continue doing it.

The evening breeze was whistling, and Wen Jiajia watched his back disappear on the path at the entrance of the village.

She felt a little lost.

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Wei Dai's departure did not make Wen Jiajia depressed for long. In less than two days, she struggled out of this state of lack of energy to do anything.

There's nothing we can do. We have to eat.

The third phase of autumn harvest has begun in the village.

Just as Wei Dai said, the first few days are the most tiring, but it will be much easier towards the end.

The rice in the village has been harvested. Captain Fang and the village's experienced farmers think that the land needs to be nurtured, otherwise it is likely that the land will not be fertile enough next year.

How is it cultivated? The local people burn straw and use the ashes to cultivate the land.

However, Wen Jiajia had seen the dish of “roasting rice husks over fire” in her previous life, and she was hesitant whether to say it out loud.

Let’s not talk about it. At this time, food is lifeline. She also wants to make the land more fertile so that she can harvest more food next year.

Let me tell you...this practice comes from the neighboring island country.

These days, having any connection with a foreign country is a dead end, let alone an island country.

After hesitating for a night, Wen Jiajia felt that she still couldn't take the risk. The time-travel god was willing to give her two lives, but most likely he was not willing to give her a third life.

But she could hint at it indirectly, and whether the old farmers in the village could understand it and how much they could understand depended on them.

It’s not that early to deal with the matter of fertilizer, so Wen Jiajia just wrote it down in her little notebook for the time being.

Wen Jiajia has a lot of things she wants to do, so she writes them down to avoid forgetting.

The soybeans and mung beans have been harvested. This year, there is a bumper crop of beans. I guess every household will have to make tofu and grow bean sprouts by the end of the year.

As for sweet potatoes, another staple food, half have been dug up and the other half are still in the ground.

There is no need to worry about the sweet potatoes. As long as it doesn't rain heavily and there are no wild boars, they won't go bad if you harvest them a few days later.

After taking a bath, dusk fell.

Wen Jiajia never liked to go out and had no close friends in the village. After taking a shower every night, she would stay in her room and strictly follow the health concept of going to bed before 9 o'clock.

She is the same today.

With the windows closed, the room became pitch black until a light was lit.

There was a straw mat on the ground. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were sitting on the ground, fiddling with the small wooden blocks that Wei Dai had made for them. They were actually building blocks.

Wei Dai was not only good at carpentry, but also good at electrical work. It was said that he was also good at electrical work. One day, there was a problem with the commune's electrical wires, and he was the one who repaired it.

Wen Jiajia felt that even if he retired in the future and was not assigned a good job, he would not be worried about having no food to eat.

Very capable.

There are two sets of building blocks, each with 188 blocks, which are now assembled into a small house by Wen Chun and Wen Xuan.

This was something the two girls put together after arguing for a long time.

Wen Chun wanted a two-story building, but Wen Xuan wanted a three-story building. In the end, Wen Jiajia was annoyed by the quarrels and made a decisive decision, asking them to build a four-story building.

Listening to children's talk is not boring. It is much more interesting than going out to chat and gossip.

At this moment, she took out her little notebook from the drawer and opened the folded page. Well, the next task was to pick red mushrooms.

There is a very famous mushroom species in the area - the red mushroom.

This kind of mushroom was hard to find a few decades ago and was a rare and precious mushroom. But now, it is everywhere in the mountains.

It grows in mixed forests or broad-leaved mixed forests, and mixed forests are more common in the area.

It rained a little last night and the temperature rose at the right time, so the red mushrooms, which love moisture and high temperatures, broke out of the ground.

Although it looks gorgeous and is nicknamed the "red umbrella", it is not poisonous and is said to be very fresh.

You can't eat meat casually these days, so when Wen Jiajia comes across this kind of wild delicacy, of course she has to try it.

Even though the time coincided with the autumn harvest, it couldn't stop her from enjoying the wild delicacies.

While Wen Jiajia was thinking about how to cook, there was a soft knock on the door.

某些時候木頭房子也挺好，無論她在屋子的哪裏，都能聽到敲門聲。

不算意外，來的人是陳倩月。陳倩月很是謹慎，特意選了黑不溜秋的夜晚來。

聞嘉嘉曉得她遲早有天要來找自己，就是沒想到拖到這時候。

上回碰見她的時候她就說了要個水壺，如果可以就要兩個。

一直等着資金入賬的，以平這段時間收支平衡的聞嘉嘉對她的到來很是歡迎，邀請她來到堂屋，還破例點燃堂屋案桌上的蠟燭。

“喏，這是水壺。”聞嘉嘉從屋裏把兩個水壺拿出來，又說，“你檢查檢查。”

這東西她賣得貴，所以外表也得保證沒有磕磕碰碰。

陳倩月也不推辭，左右她是幫別人買的，當然要格外注意些。若非覺得聞嘉嘉是可交之人，想找個機會和聞嘉嘉打交道，她也不會幫這個吃力不讨好的忙。

她在燭光下把鐵壺翻來覆去檢查兩遍，然後點點頭，一手交錢，一手交貨。

陳倩月問她：“這水壺之後還有嗎？”她覺得這兩水壺拿回去後，知青院裏怕是不少人也得動心，因為确實挺結實的。

聞嘉嘉并不打算賣太多，于是搖搖頭：“沒有了，之後很難再買到，這兩個還是我好不容易讓我朋友幫忙帶的。”

陳倩月點點頭：“那好吧。”

她帶着兩個水壺離開。

人一走，聞嘉嘉立刻咧嘴巴笑。她把幾張紙錢展開，在燭光下仔細打量，滿意地點了點頭。

真好，第一筆收入到賬。

這筆錢，也夠補得上她這陣子花了的錢和票了。

“春兒萱萱別玩了，睡覺吧！”回到屋裏，聞嘉嘉把兩孩子趕到床上，“我不收你們的房子，你們明天再繼續拼。”

聞萱猶豫，看了馬上要拼好的房子一眼：“小姨，不能再拼會兒嗎？”

聞嘉嘉拍拍床鋪：“不能哦，快上來，小姨明天要早起。”

早起去采菇呢。

最重要的是，家裏的煤油可不多了，她可沒有煤油票去買。

聞嘉嘉威懾力很強，聞春和聞萱到底是磨磨蹭蹭爬上了床。“呼”的一聲，房間重新陷入黑暗。

聞春片刻後，略再着驚奇說：“小姨，魏叔叔呢？”他上回還說要帶自己和妹妹去掏鳥窩。

聞嘉嘉怪無語的，你魏叔叔都離開兩三天了，才惦記上呢。

“睡吧，你魏叔叔工作去了，我給你們講故事好不好？”她拍拍聞春的背。

聞春和聞萱反而立馬精神起來，皆轉身面對着小姨，臉上露出渴望。

小姨講的故事，比保育院裏的老師講的還要好聽。

“講悟空，小姨。”聞萱忙說。

聞嘉嘉：“行呗，那就将悟空。”

“咱們上回講到哪兒來着？”她想了想，“哦講到孫悟空過通天河。通天河裏面有尾魚，是觀音菩薩的魚……”

聞嘉嘉沒讀過書，但劇那是翻來覆去看幾十遍都有了，所以講故事全都是跟着劇來的。

反正小屁孩才三歲多，等十多年後劇出來了想必她們也不會記得曾經聽過的故事。

夜深了。

後山上時而有野物的叫聲傳來，聽着像是貓頭鷹，時遠時近讓人感到害怕。

因着前兩日下過雨，山水充沛，使得家裏水缸時時刻刻都是滿的。

溢出來的水就順着水溝歡快地流到院外，水聲潺潺，在寂靜的夜晚中顯得無比清晰。

這是上好的白噪音，聞嘉嘉很快就在水流催眠聲中睡過去。

翌日。

天沒亮，她醒來時大概不到五點。

穿越這些天，聞嘉嘉總算把看天識時間的本事練了出來。

沒辦法，沒手表的日子太難挨。

聞嘉嘉在燒水時就能聽到院外有人走動，可見有人同她一樣，都想上山摘紅菇。

她連忙加快速度，匆匆煮鍋南瓜粥，又用南瓜煎些南瓜餅，配着吃也很不錯。

秋季是南瓜成熟的季節。

因為菜園的地有限，所以一般人家都會在院裏種些南瓜。

南瓜絕對是高性價比的食物，只需要幾粒種子，就能結出比球大的果實。

關鍵它不挑地啊。

像聞家，就把南瓜種在前院和後院的牆根下。再插幾根竹杆供南瓜藤攀爬，等南瓜大後再撐個木架，不需要占用菜園的地，也能美美收獲上百斤的南瓜。

吃完飯，聞嘉嘉上山去。

出門前把兩姑娘喊醒，“飯在桌子上，自己吃，一人只能吃兩塊餅。”否則聞春和聞萱非得把自己吃撐才行。

兩姑娘點點頭。

聞嘉嘉又說：“粥裏放了糖，你們不許再放了，糖有多少我是曉得的。”

兩姑娘再次點頭。

是的，小姨的眼睛很厲害，數都不用數，就知道她們有沒有偷吃櫥櫃裏的冰糖。

聞嘉嘉：……

那是因為她在冰糖罐子上面夾了跟頭發，她總覺得冰糖沒得太快，懷疑是有人偷吃了。

她最後交待一句：“吃完別洗碗，把積木拿到堂屋來玩知道吧？”

“知道！”

聞嘉嘉依舊不放心，但也只能離開。

天蒙蒙亮，她背着竹簍上山。

紅菇多生長在岩山，而岩山進山小道就在離聞家八百多米外的位置。

“嘉嘉也去山上呢？”路上碰到的人問，“你跟我們走就行，要不然找不着路。”

聞嘉嘉笑笑：“好啊，謝謝嬸兒。”

這裏的山她還真不怎麽熟，沒有人帶着确實容易迷路。

路上時不時就能碰見人，有一個算一個，都會叮囑說：“你別啥菇子都采。”

生怕她走了她爹娘姐姐的後路。

聞嘉嘉惜命，怎麽可能随便吃菇子，她只會吃自己認得的菇子。

得益于短視頻，再加上她曾去有名的菇子大省旅居過一段時間，她還是能認出不少菇子的。

下過雨的山路難爬，聞嘉嘉沒經驗，雙手雙腳并用，花費将近一個小時的時間才到長有許多紅菇的那片山坡。

從此片山坡遠遠往山下眺望，還能見到她家的後院呢。

這令聞嘉嘉心頭一梗，心想往後在後院時也得注意些了。

山裏菇子多，紅菇更是顯眼，聞嘉嘉沒一會兒就在落葉下中發現一叢叢的紅菇。

聞嘉嘉大喜過望，立刻蹲下身采起來。

怎麽說呢，這種感覺就跟撿錢差不多，彎腰就有收獲，魅力可大了。

紅菇漸漸填滿竹筐底，繞到一座巨大石頭後面時她又發現一叢三九菇。

三九菇是啥菇？其實就是松乳菇，因為多長在三月九月，所以當地喊它三九菇。

這菇聞嘉嘉曾經吃過，畢竟作為一名熱愛複刻古食的博主，《随園食單》是必讀之書。

《随園食單》中說，用醬油與三九菇一起燒熟，加點麻油攪拌便是一道不錯的小食。

确實如此，最鮮美的食材只需要最簡單的調味，除了難清洗外沒有別的缺點。

聞嘉嘉連忙把一叢的松乳菇收入竹筐中，因為松乳菇小，她花費不少時間在這裏。

随後跟着同來的村民去另一側上坡，這裏同樣有許多菌菇。

山中霧濃，穿梭在林間身上也會沾惹些濕氣。

聞嘉嘉摸摸袖子，潮乎乎濕漉漉，看來得準備回去了。

“嬸兒，走嗎？”她朝着林子裏喊。

“我再采會兒，你先走吧。”她道。

行吧，聞嘉嘉記憶還算行，能記得下山的路。

在路上她還發現了漏網之魚，她在路旁的腐木上發現了木耳。這可是正宗野生木耳，她當然不能放過。

“朝陽坡啊。”

聞嘉嘉環看四周環境，這裏是最适合木耳生長的地方，所以大概率還有木耳。

果然，當她踏入枯木叢，掃去堆積在腐木上的落葉時，她又發現許多木耳。

聞嘉嘉不由得笑出聲來，這些木耳直接将竹筐裝滿，即使曬幹都能有一斤，完全夠炒好幾回菜了。

“明天再來吧。”她心中說道。

記好了位置，又把枯枝敗葉重新遮掩後才放心下山。

上山難，下山更難。

特別是被雨水浸濕過的路，聞嘉嘉走得磕磕絆絆，時不時就得滑倒。等到山腳時，她屁股上的泥土足有半厘米厚。

聞春和聞萱已經被陳艾接走了，兩人心愛的積木還在堂屋裏。

聞嘉嘉匆匆把竹筐裏的菌菇木耳倒出來，來不及清洗，換條褲子，又用兩張大葉子裝兩包木耳菌菇往牛棚去。

她得馬上去河溝鄉拉魚，去陳墩拉豆腐。

河溝鄉。

“魏二叔，不好意思我來遲了。”她緊趕慢趕還是比預定時間晚了五六分鐘。

因為沒晚多久，負責交接的魏成民也就不生氣，說道：“沒事，這三筐魚是你的，特意給你留的三筐。”

聞嘉嘛，現在和村裏有名的出息小夥兒魏岱是一對，四舍五入聞嘉也是他們河溝鄉的人了，自然會幾筐最好的魚給她。

“謝謝叔了。”聞嘉嘉把兩包葉子包着的菌菇木耳給他，說，“拜托您個事兒，您一包，再幫我給魏岱父母一包。”

“哎你這是……”

聞嘉嘉忙說：“不是啥好東西，是我今天上山采的，家裏多着呢，您放心收吧。”

是山貨，他也就不推辭。

As a result, he had a much better impression of Wen Jiaguan, who seemed to be as capable as Wei Dai.

He shook his head, thinking that he had to hurry up to find a blind date these days, otherwise all the good girls would become someone else's daughter-in-law.

"Drive!"

Wen Jiajia hurried away in the car. Daqiang was curious and knew her urgency. Even though there were still three baskets of fish in the car, her speed was still quite fast.

"Hey, hey, hey, Daqiang, take this road!"

She still has to go to Chendun.

Daqiang changed his route with a "click, click, click" sound, while Wen Jiajia held the reins in one hand and the stick in the other.

When she left the village and walked to the deserted forest road, she took the stick in her hand. She even hid pepper spray on her body, just in case she met any bad guys on the road.

Fortunately, the security in the county town is pretty good, and there are no people who value money over their lives for the time being.

But... her heart started beating faster for no apparent reason, and even her hairs stood up as if attracted by static electricity.

Wen Jiajia moved the reins again to speed up, deciding to quickly leave this road that few people had ever traveled on.

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