Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Guess what kind of mushrooms we will pick up today...
Everyone sighed when they heard this, knowing that Lin Chuntao and her family had a really hard time. They didn't farm this year, and there wouldn't be a single grain of grain left for the autumn harvest. They would need to buy seeds next spring, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to farm next year. It was really hard to say when they would be able to build a house.
Thinking of this, they all began to worry about Lin Chuntao.
But after walking for half a day, she was not as shy as before, and was even cheerful. There was no sense of discouragement in her at all.
They joined in the fun and went to see the homestead.
Lin Cunzheng took them to see two places. One was in the middle of the village, with a slightly narrow area, but it was close to the neighbors and more lively. The other was on a slightly higher ground, and could be filled up if needed. It was also close to the villagers. He felt that Lin Chuntao and the others were all girls, and it would be safer with more people around them.
But Lin Chuntao didn't seem to like any of them very much. In the end, she chose a large open space at the entrance of the village. The ground was wide and flat, and there were several arable fields next to it.
Muramasa originally wanted to persuade Lin Chuntao that if there was trouble or bandits, the village entrance would be very dangerous, but seeing that she liked it very much, and thinking that it was not necessary to build a house right away, he simply did not say anything and decided to settle it for the time being. Besides, the war had just subsided, and there should be no trouble in the short term.
After the homestead was marked out and the work was done, Lin Chuntao and the others were busy making doors and windows with bamboo and left first. Everyone stood there and chatted for a while before going back to the fields.
Pei Ying and Lin Chuntao took their three sisters into the bamboo forest on the hillside. Pei Ying cut down the bamboo and they dragged it back to the yard.
Going out to mark out the land took a lot of time. They hurried as hard as they could, but by evening they had only made a door and a window.
Lin Chuntao and Pei Ying said, "Let's install the doors and windows on this room first. We'll stay here tonight and then do the other room tomorrow."
Pei Ying nodded slightly, stood up and began to install it. Lin Chuntao went to help. He said, "Let me do it. Why don't you go to Muramasa's house and get the things back?"
"Sure, cooking takes too long. Do you like potatoes or sweet potatoes? I'll see if I can get some back. We can roast potatoes or sweet potatoes tonight."
"I can do anything." Pei Ying said.
Lin Chuntao nodded and prepared to leave. Pei Ying glanced at her calmly and said, "The luggage is a bit heavy. You should take your sisters with you."
"Yeah." She took some copper coins, called her sisters and went straight to Muramasa's house.
Muramasa and his friends had just returned from the fields and were washing their hands in the yard, while Sun was busy in the kitchen.
Lin Chuntao first went to find Sun and borrowed her backpack, and then asked her to buy two baskets of sweet potatoes and potatoes.
She and Sun explained, "We don't have all the pots and pans, so cooking is inconvenient. Eating sweet potatoes and potatoes is more convenient."
Sun heard this and said, "I'll pick some for you. What's the point of buying a few sweet potatoes and potatoes?"
Lin Chuntao didn't know the price of the sweet potatoes and potatoes, so she took her hand and whispered, "No, Grandma, it was Pei Ying who wanted to eat them. He gave me ten coins and asked me to buy ten coins worth of sweet potatoes and potatoes from you."
Sun understood immediately and said, "Okay, I'll pick it up for you."
Sun picked up all the potatoes directly into her backpack. She picked up a whole basket of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and half a sack. Lin Chuntao looked at her in surprise: "Grandma, did you pick up too much?"
"Not much, and sweet potatoes and potatoes are not expensive."
Lin Chuntao took out ten copper coins and stuffed them in, saying, "Food is always expensive. Grandma is worried about us and gave us more. Chuntao knows it all."
Sun took the money and said softly, "It's a little hard now, but it will get better in the future."
When Lin Chuntao came back with her sisters, the door and windows of the room had been installed. Chunhe and Duoer were particularly curious, and they pulled the bamboo door, pushed it open and closed, repeating the same process over and over again.
"Brother-in-law, you are really amazing. Can this bamboo door be installed like this?"
Lin Duo'er was curious and sweet-talking, so Pei Ying rarely explained, "Think about how to connect the buckles before you make them, and you can install them after you're done."
Lin Chuntao doesn't know much about carpentry.
"Have you worked as a carpenter before?"
Pei Ying looked at her and shook his head: "I've only learned from a master for a few days, and I can only make simple things."
Upon hearing this, Lin Chuntao looked at the bamboo door and said with a smile, "This is not simple, it's very impressive."
Lin Chuntao stood at the door, the setting sun stretching her shadow very long. Pei Ying said, "I'm even better at butchering pigs. Once we've sorted out our family affairs, I'll go to the city and see if I can find a job butchering pigs."
Lin Chuntao was a little shocked when she heard this. "You used to be a butcher?"
"Yeah." Pei Ying responded.
Lin Chuntao's smile widened: "You are indeed amazing."
"When you're done and want to find work, I'll go with you."
Pei Ying agreed, and Lin Chuntao went to get some dry firewood and started roasting potatoes and sweet potatoes directly in the yard.
There were no chairs, so everyone brought a stone and sat around the fire facing the sunset.
As the flames danced, the air was filled with the sweet aroma of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Lin Chuntao and her sisters were talking and laughing, while Pei Ying was quietly watching the sunset.
Yizhou County is pretty good, much better than Guangling County.
At dusk, while Lin Chuntao and her friends were still eating, two half-grown children, about thirteen or fourteen years old, came into the yard, carrying straw in their backpacks.
"Sister Chuntao, my grandparents asked us to bring some straw for you."
Lin Chuntao then realized that there was no bed in the room, and if she slept directly on the floor at night without straw as a cushion, it would get damp.
"I'd forgotten about that. Come inside," Chuntao said, standing up and leading them inside. "Pour whatever you want. I'll clean it up later. Thanks for your hard work. Have you eaten yet?"
The two young men were a little embarrassed and whispered back, "We've already eaten."
But Lin Chuntao quickly dug out two sweet potatoes from the fire and gave one to each of them. The two people didn't want Lin Chuntao and just threw it into their backpacks.
"Go back and tell your grandparents thank you."
The young men were running along the ridges of the fields, and the echoes of their words were carried in the evening breeze.
Lin Chuntao had almost finished her meal and went back to the house to spread out the straw. Pei Ying watched her spread the straw and said, "I'm going to sleep next door tonight."
Lin Chuntao nodded and went over to make a mat for him with straw in her arms. Before, it was no problem for the whole family to live together with a curtain in the middle, but now it was just them. Chunxing was already fourteen years old, and it was not appropriate for them to live in the same room without a partition.
It was dark when we came out after laying the straw.
The moon rose slowly. The sisters played in the yard for a while, then washed up and went into the house to sleep.
Lin Chuntao and Pei Ying sat by the fire in the yard for a while.
"I might have to go into the mountains to pick mushrooms tomorrow morning. Do you want to go?"
Pei Ying was thinking about the pheasant, but the doors and windows of the next door were not fixed properly, and he didn't know how to pick mushrooms, so going along would waste time. Then she remembered that she had set out to pick mushrooms in the middle of the night, and it was dark and windy, and it seemed unsafe for a few girls.
"I'll go with you." Pei Ying said.
Lin Chuntao understood the meaning behind his words and said with a smile, "If you don't want to go, you don't have to accompany us. Our forest is not very dense, and the mountain is not very big. We can only get a few pheasants and rabbits when hunting, not wild boars, wolves, etc."
"So you all go picking mushrooms in the middle of the night?"
Lin Chuntao replied, "About the same. When there are more mushrooms in the mountains in a few days, people will be everywhere in the mountains before dawn."
"Okay, I won't go with you." Pei Ying said, "I'll finish the doors and windows at home first, and then get some bamboo to make a fence to surround the yard."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work."
Pei Ying nodded slightly, not sure how to answer her.
Lin Chuntao looked at the quiet village. The sound of the flowing river was too far away to be heard, but she could hear the sound of the evening breeze blowing the surrounding weeds.
She fell and came here for no apparent reason, and the reluctance and unwillingness in her heart swayed with the weeds.
Her survival rule is to make the best of what has happened. It is useless to think too much. It is better to rest early and prepare to greet tomorrow's sun.
"Go to bed. You have to get up early tomorrow."
After Lin Chuntao finished speaking, Pei Ying stood up and put out the fire, and the two went back to their rooms.
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At the hour of Yin the next day, Lin Chuntao was once again awakened by the system's repeated broadcasts.
She nudged Lin Chunxing next to her and said, "Chunxing, get up, let's go pick mushrooms."
Yesterday's mushrooms were sold for money. When Lin Duoer heard the word "mushrooms", she sat up straight.
"Sister, is it dawn yet?"
Lin Chunxing stretched and sat up, answering her fourth sister in a daze, "By daybreak, all the mushrooms on the mountain will have been picked up and taken home."
When Lin Duoer heard this, she quickly nudged Lin Chunhe next to her and said, "Third sister, wake up. We are going to pick mushrooms."
Lin Chunhe squinted her eyes, got up, and yawned, "I'm so sleepy."
Lin Chuntao said, "Hurry up and pick some mushrooms to sell in the city. You can use the money to have breakfast in the city. Think about what to eat today."
"I still want to eat the mutton noodles from yesterday. Sister, what do you want to eat?" Lin Duoer asked Lin Chunhe next to her.
Lin Chunhe yawned and said, "I'm not hungry yet. I'll think about it on the way."
"Second sister, how about you?"
Lin Chunxing smiled and said, "I'm not hungry yet. I'll think about it later."
The sisters quickly got up, folded the quilts and sheets, and set off with their backpacks on their backs.
As soon as they left, Pei Ying woke up with a start.
When he went out, he saw that Lin Chuntao had already walked away with her sisters. He looked up at the moon hanging high on the roof, yawned, and then began to make doors and windows for another room in the moonlight.
Perhaps because they were thinking about the mutton rice noodles they had yesterday, the sisters didn't mention anything about being afraid of ghosts along the way.
Lin Chuntao followed the arrows on the system and kept walking until she passed the hill she had visited yesterday. Without stopping, Lin Chunhe asked, "Sister, aren't we going to pick up the same things we did yesterday?"
"Let's go to the hill ahead. We picked up trash there yesterday, and it hasn't rained yet, so we might not be able to find anything."
"All right."
"I don't know if we can pick up any more tricholoma today. It would be great if we could pick up a whole basket of them," said Lin Duoer.
Lin Chunxing smiled and said, "You're dreaming. Where can we find so many tricholoma mushrooms?"
Listening to her sisters' words, Lin Chuntao smiled. Today the system reported pine mushrooms. Although the price of pine mushrooms was not as high as that of blue-headed mushrooms, they were not as fragile as blue-headed mushrooms. The same size backpack could hold more pine mushrooms without having to be cautious. She thought it was also very good.
Looking at the sisters chatting with each other, Lin Chuntao said with a smile, "Why don't we guess what kind of mushrooms we can pick up this morning?"
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