Chapter 291 Excuse
When outsiders ask them about it, they will insist that it was the Zhou brothers who maliciously cut down their pine trees and trampled on the small pine trees they planted.
There was no way. The other party could not come up with an excuse that they were digging wild mushrooms on their mountain, because in the popular sense, this kind of wild thing, no matter whose mountain it grew on, anyone who saw it could pick it.
Unless it's your home grown one.
If you really want to say that everything on the mountain is ours, let alone in Qili Village, it would be a bit sad even in Dali Village.
Jia Sheng still wants to stay in the village, so he doesn't want to be too overbearing for the time being.
Now that you have found an excuse, even if Zhou Silang and the others were beaten, it would be in vain. But if you catch up with them now, they neither went to your mountain nor met you, so it would be unreasonable to fight with them again.
Maybe in the end it would be the Zhou brothers who would come and beat them up.
So Jia Sheng could only grit his teeth at Zhou Silang and his brothers, trying to kill them with his eyes.
But he knew that after today, it would be difficult to find trouble with Zhou Silang and the others.
Jia Sheng turned around and led Jia Li up the mountain, and they returned to the three pine trees.
The place was very different from when Zhou Silang left, because there were holes dug between the three trees, and there was a huge hole, and many of the pine tree roots were dug off.
This was dug by Jia Sheng and Jia Li.
The day before yesterday, they happened to hear someone say that the Zhou brothers went up the mountain to find a lot of wild mushrooms, a whole basket full of them.
Most of the people who spoke were just envious, and said regretfully that they also went up the mountain to look for it occasionally. After all, this thing is quite delicious, and finding it is like having an extra dish at home, right?
But it sounded different to the Jia brothers.
They knew that the Zhou brothers often went to the mountains to look for wild mushrooms. It was quite far from the two villages, so no one could find the place for the time being, whether they were collecting firewood, digging wild vegetables, or looking for mushrooms.
Only those in the village who love hunting would go to that mountain.
The villagers of Qili Village don’t know how much those mushrooms are worth, but those who frequently travel to the county town know.
Jia Li once saw a woman in Baimaquan Town who could bring seven or eight kilograms of wild mushrooms to the county town every day. Those wild mushrooms were divided into several categories, ranging from twenty to thirty cents, and could be sold for at least one or two hundred cents a day.
The income is comparable to what they earn from burning charcoal in winter.
So Jiali went up the mountain seriously to look for wild mushrooms, but this thing is very strange and you can't find it just by looking for it.
His best achievement was finding Ba Liang.
It was only eight taels, and he was too lazy to take it to the county town. And at the market, no one would spend money to buy wild mushrooms.
So he ate it himself.
It was precisely because of jealousy that the two brothers were so angry about the Zhou brothers looking for mushrooms in the mountains. They felt that the reason they couldn't find any was because they had picked them all.
However, both Jia Li and Jia Sheng had picked mushrooms before and knew that most mushrooms could be picked directly by hand. For a small number of mushrooms that could not be pulled up, they could just poke the soil with a stick and they would come out.
But the digging between these three trees was so extensive and so deep that it was obviously not done to look for mushrooms.
They discovered this place by chance after going up the mountain again after hearing rumors.
There were some chopped thorns lying nearby, and the soil in the middle was fresh, which looked like it had just been turned over. So the two brothers were curious and dug the ground again.
Of course, there was nothing inside.
At first they didn't think much of it, thinking Zhou Silang and his team had found a lot of mushrooms here, but now they look at it again...
Jia Sheng squatted on the ground, picked up a handful of fresh soil, and squinted his eyes and said, "That's not right. Mushrooms don't need to be dug so deep, right?"
Jiali's eyes lit up and he asked, "Could it be that they dug up treasures in our mountain?"
Jia Sheng glanced at him and said, "What kind of treasures could there be in this mountain?"
Considering that Zhou Erlang has been going to the county town every day recently, Jia Sheng said, "It must be food. I don't know what it is. You can take some time to go to the city tomorrow and see what Zhou Erlang is selling."
Jia Li was a little unwilling, "Brother, my family has to start harvesting wheat tomorrow, so we don't have time."
The most important thing is that even if they saw it, they couldn't catch the Zhou brothers in the act, so they couldn't do anything to them.
No, there aren't many ways to catch it now, because it's a wild animal growing in the field, and basically whoever finds it owns it.
They could only rudely forbid the Zhou brothers from going up the mountain to look for things.
Unfortunately, Jia Sheng's family also has to harvest wheat tomorrow.
When the effort and reward are not equal, obviously no one is willing to put in more effort. So after the two brothers talked to each other for a while, they went back in a depressed mood and did not mention going to the county town to keep an eye on Zhou Erlang.
Zhou Silang, who was about to return to the village, simply took Manbao into a mountain at the entrance of the village.
The trees on this mountain are very diverse, with all kinds of familiar and unfamiliar ones. Of course there are pine trees as well, but they are not as numerous as on other mountains.
The pine trees here are mostly scattered, and there are various trees, flowers and plants between the pine trees.
Moreover, low bushes make up the majority of the area, and various vines grow randomly, making it even more difficult to walk into.
Zhou Silang and Zhou Wulang led the way in front, while Zhou Liulang led Manbao from behind.
The four brothers and sisters took great pains and walked around half of the mountain before they found a pine tree with Poria cocos growing on it with the help of Koko.
Zhou Silang took great pains to note the location of the pine tree and decided to come back to see it at this time next year.
Since Manbao said Poria cocos is also a fungus, it should grow here again next year. This is the experience he has learned from years of searching for mushrooms.
By the time the three of them dug out the Poria cocos, it was almost dark.
Zhou Silang felt that today's gains were far less than in the past, so he scolded the Jia brothers, thinking that if they hadn't made trouble, they wouldn't have found only one tree.
Man Bao said, "Fourth brother, you can't beat them. We are almost done climbing all the mountains anyway, so we should not go to all the mountains in the future."
"What about next year?"
"I'll go there secretly next year."
Zhou Silang chuckled when he heard this. He also felt that this was more satisfying, especially when he could let the other party know after digging up the things.
Zhou Wulang felt that his fourth brother was attracting too much hatred, so he warned him, "Fourth brother, be careful when you go out in the future. Be careful not to get caught in a sack."
"They dare!" Zhou Silang snorted, "If they dare to put me in the sack, they'll be dead. Big Brother and the others are not pushovers. Put one on each of them and beat them to death."
When Zhou Wulang heard this, he was no longer so worried.
Manbao was used to it and followed everyone to the village, laughing. When passing by his own mountain, he saw many people cutting bamboo on it.
(End of this chapter)
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