Chapter 107: Going Out to Sell Goods
The corners of Chen Xinjue's mouth twitched slightly, and like a deflated ball, he stepped back with his head drooped like a quail.
Chen Xinli saw at a glance that the food in her third brother's basket was black fungus.
But there was also something black in Brother Yu's basket, and she hadn't taken a closer look.
"Brother Yu," the little girl pulled Chen Xinyu's bamboo basket over to her, "Come and show me what goodies you've dug up."
Shen Yulin saw that his sister ignored him.
With a curl of his lips, he quickly squeezed his bamboo basket in front of Chen Xinli.
"Sister, I told you that the things he dug can't be eaten. Look at me here. You should teach me about black fungus. I picked so many. Do you think I'm awesome, your third brother?"
The young boy's face was full of excitement.
"Yes, yes, Third Brother is awesome, but you also have to let me see what good stuff Brother Yu has dug up, right?" Chen Xinli shook her head helplessly at Third Brother.
"He dug up something dark and it didn't look like wood ear mushrooms or mushrooms. I don't know if it's edible."
Shen Yulin's face was full of disgust.
Chen Xinli didn't bother to pay attention to her arrogant third brother. She turned to look at Chen Xinyu's basket and suddenly exclaimed, "Wow, is it black truffles?"
"Brother Yu, where did you dig up so much? This is really good stuff."
Chen Xinli's surprised voice made the young boy's expression in front of him brighten up a bit.
"Sister Ali, is this really a black truffle?" Chen Xinyu was also a little unsure.
"Of course, wild black truffles are rare. Brother Yu, you are amazing!"
Chen Xinli held a black truffle in her hand and examined it carefully.
Its dark brown and black surface is rugged.
There are bumps as big as soybeans, with light black and white textures on them, but many of the textures are covered by the smell of soil.
It smells like fermented corn.
This black truffle was known as one of the three kings of the food world in the previous life.
I didn't expect to find it in a small mountain village.
Chen Xinli couldn't believe her eyes.
"On the mountain over there, we climbed over the top of this mountain and there were some at the foot of the pine trees on the back mountain, but I dug them all up."
The boy scratched his head embarrassedly.
The boy's ears turned red when he received praise from his sister who was eight months younger than him.
Before the Shen family was exiled, they received rewards during every festival, and the children of officials had to go to the palace to express their gratitude.
Once, when Chen Xinyu was attending a palace banquet with her father, she had the honor of seeing the steamed egg made with black truffle from afar. She heard that it was a tribute specially presented by the King of Shu in the southwest to the Empress Dowager, and it was a rare treasure in the world.
The young boy thought about the loss of his loved ones since he left the capital.
My cousin's family took care of me along the way and provided me with food and clothing.
Now that his family had just settled down and must not have much money, he really wanted to do his best to integrate into this family.
Therefore, when I saw this kind of mushroom on the mountainside, I picked it immediately.
If this thing is really a very rare dish, I can also ask my cousin's family to sell it for silver.
"Brother Yu, good job, this thing might be able to sell for a high price."
Chen Xinli gave him a thumbs up, then weighed the backpack. It was not light, at least ten pounds.
"Sister, you are biased. I also picked so many black fungus, but you didn't praise me?"
Shen Yulin snorted, indicating that he was very angry.
"You stingy guy, what are you angry about? Go touch the snails. I want to eat them!"
"Okay, I must touch the most."
The boy swallowed and prepared to put down the basket and go to the field.
Zhang and Wu, who had just finished watering the seeds in the field, passed by the rice field and left behind empty buckets.
He carried the boys' backpacks back with him.
So, a group of boys stayed in the field to catch snails.
At this time of year, the fertility of the rice fields is limited, and the snails are very small, but no matter how small they are, they are still meat.
After Shen Jinshan and Shen Xinjue were the first to reach the bottom of the nearest bucket filled with snail shells, Shen Yulin became unhappy, "Brother, you're helping him and not me!"
Shen Jinshan frowned. "What do you mean by helping him and not you? Xinyu is my younger brother. He just learned how to touch snails, and he's already touched so many. Shouldn't you speed up?"
Shen Yulin was unconvinced: "No, you just can't help him? I want to compete with him to see who touches more!"
Chen Xinyu refused to be outdone: "Let's compete!"
"Hey, wait a minute, what are you competing for now? Tomorrow, when the snails have spit out the mud and sand, you guys will compete in brushing the snails."
Chen Xinli smiled and left the two of them with a fairer job.
The next day, the two men's hands cramped from cleaning snails.
But no one gave up easily, and they established a deeper revolutionary friendship.
After more than half a month of busy work, the Shen family finally finished the work in the fields and picked a lot of wild vegetables, mushrooms, tea seeds, herbs, chestnuts and other things.
The people of Gouxiong Village were indifferent to the Shen family's actions in the mountains.
They were all busy tending to their own vegetable gardens and fields.
Especially walking peanuts and beans in the fields.
During the autumn harvest, not only the rice was soaked by the rain, but the peanut fields and other crops were also soaked.
The soybean harvest is better.
The most distressing thing is peanuts.
When picking peanuts, many peanuts were left in the ground without being pulled up. After these days of catalysis, many peanut seedlings have grown in the ground.
The people of Gouxiong Village went out again with their whole families and dug over and over in their own fields.
Not willing to let go of a peanut or a bean.
Therefore, when the Shen family finished their vegetable planting work, the villagers finally dug out the remaining peanut bubbles and sprouted peanuts in the field.
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