Chapter 293 Five Years
After Zhang Dahua passed away, Gu Yan's attitude towards Gu Chongshan improved a lot.
It’s not anything else, Gu Yan just feels that life is impermanent, and people should be more forgiving when they can.
Gu Chongshan also came to terms with it and decided that living alone was fine.
Time flows like a stream, and five years have passed before I knew it.
In recent years, Gu Nian, Gu Bei and Gu Chuan all have stable families and live relatively stable lives.
If we talk about good development, it has to be Gu Yan and his team.
Xuanxuan had passed the examination to become a scholar three years ago. With the recommendation of the teacher of the academy, he went to study at the Baihe Academy in the provincial capital.
Gu Yan and his family also moved to the provincial capital to accompany their son.
However, every autumn Gu Yan and Li Wanqing still have the habit of returning to Daqingshan to live for two or three months.
"Mom, hurry up, my brother must be waiting anxiously." Five-year-old Xuexue urged.
They came back two months ago. Xuanxuan and Hengheng stayed at their home in the provincial capital to study.
"Okay, wait a minute. Mom will put away the cured chicken and rabbit. Go and help me put away the dried shepherd's purse, okay?" Li Wanqing said in the warehouse.
"Okay, Mom." Xuexue agreed and went to work happily.
Children of this age like adults to ask them to do work, which makes them feel that they are grown-up children too.
Li Wanqing took down the cured chicken, cured rabbit, cured meat and cured sausage from the wall and put them into the space.
This time, Gu Yan hunted quite a few prey, including eleven bison, thirty-two wild sheep, and five wild boars.
I killed sixteen wild deer, including the most roe deer. This year, I was lucky, and I also killed seven foxes. I also caught over two hundred wild ducks.
There were more than a hundred pheasants and rabbits, and more than a thousand wild duck eggs.
No one usually goes to that pond, so it's overrun with wild ducks.
They go to catch some every year and pick up some duck eggs.
Li Wanqing made part of it into cured chicken and rabbit, and also cured part of the duck.
Wild boar meat doesn’t taste good, so Li Wanqing made it into bacon and sausages.
Li Wanqing put all the things into the space, leaving only a backpack outside.
This is put outside for show.
Although Xuexue is still young, we can't be careless.
"Wife, I'm back. I dug a lot of bamboo shoots today. Let's go collect them later.
Also, I saw a jujube tree on the road. The jujubes on the tree are all red, so we can pick them." Gu Yan came over carrying a basket of bamboo shoots.
Although bamboo shoots nowadays are not as delicious as those in spring, they are still good. Especially when they are dried, they are delicious whether stir-fried or stewed in winter.
"Okay, let's go now and get it back as soon as possible so that we can go home early. Xuexue has been anxious for a long time." Li Wanqing said.
“Okay, I’ll pour out the bamboo shoots and we’ll go.
"Wife, how about we just stay for two days? I found another pine forest today. There are so many pine cones on the trees. I thought we should pick them all." Gu Yan said.
Pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and other things may not be considered important in the mountains.
But in the city, they are all good things.
Usually at home, the women from the neighborhood would come to chat with Li Wanqing and bring a plate of food, which everyone loved to eat.
Moreover, they had been away for two months, and when they returned they would also bring some food to their good neighbors.
"I have no problem, but Xuexue has been looking forward to going back to her brothers. She was urging me just now." Li Wanqing nodded towards the room.
Gu Yan understood immediately: "I'll go talk to her."
Gu Yan said this and entered the cave.
After a while, Gu Yan came out and said, "I've agreed with Xuexue that I'll stay for two more days before going back."
"What did you promise her again? I'm telling you, don't spoil her anymore.
If you continue to spoil him, he'll be crazy. I wonder what you'll do when he gets spoiled?" Li Wanqing scolded Gu Yan.
Li Wanqing didn't want to say it either. Xuexue was her own daughter and she loved her too.
It’s really because brothers Gu Yan and Xuanxuan dote on Xuexue too much.
If she continued to spoil her, Xuexue would become lawless.
"I like to pamper my daughter, so what? Besides, our Xuexue is such a sensible child. How could she be spoiled?" Gu Yan really wanted to hold his daughter in his mouth for fear that she would melt, and to hold her in his palm for fear that she would fall.
Li Wanqing knew that she could not win the argument with him, as he was extremely stubborn when it came to matters concerning his daughter.
Fortunately, Li Wanqing didn't force him to do anything, after all, she was his mother.
"I can't convince you. From now on, I'll take more care of it." Li Wanqing originally wanted to be a kind mother.
But Gu Yan never returned to being a kind father, so she could only become a strict mother.
The two of them walked and talked, and soon they arrived at the bamboo forest.
"Wife, please put away the bamboo shoots. I'm going to pick dates over there." Gu Yan said, pointing in a direction.
"Okay, go ahead. I'll come find you later." Li Wanqing agreed.
"Wow, there are so many dates on this tree. I'm afraid there must be several hundred kilograms." When Li Wanqing came over, Gu Yan had already picked down quite a few.
"That's right. This jujube tree is growing really well. Let's remember its location and come back to pick jujubes tomorrow." As Gu Yan spoke, he knocked on the treetop with a long bamboo pole.
This date tree is indeed growing very well. Just this one tree has produced nearly 300 kilograms of dates. Even if they are dried, there will be at least 200 kilograms.
"Let's look around. If we find one tree, there might be a second one." Seeing that it was still early, Li Wanqing didn't want to go back and wanted to take a walk around the area.
"Okay, let's go. You like shepherd's purse. Let's dig some more while it's still fresh." Gu Yan rarely disagreed with Li Wanqing's words.
Surprisingly, this turn allowed them to actually find two jujube trees, and Gu Yan knocked them down with a bamboo pole.
Li Wanqing was responsible for collecting the dates that fell on the ground and putting them into the space.
The two trees harvested more than 500 kilograms of dates.
"I didn't expect to get so many dates. Today's plus the ones I got before, after drying, there should be about 700 to 800 kilograms, right?" After Gu Yan knocked the dates down, he also followed Li Wanqing to pick up the dates that fell on the ground.
"Yes, we can't finish all these dates, so you can sell some when you get back.
Red dates aren't cheap either, so many of them can be sold for more than ten taels of silver." Li Wanqing said, thinking of the several sacks of red dates in the space.
"Okay, there are still pine nuts and walnuts. We'll keep enough for our family to eat, and sell the rest.
"A mosquito, no matter how small, is still meat, and it's always good to earn a little more." Gu Yan said.
"Okay, in that case, let's go around more in the next two days. Maybe there will be some unexpected surprises." Li Wanqing also agreed with Gu Yan's words.
The most important thing is that they have space, so no matter how many good things they get, they can take them out easily.
Otherwise, everyone knows that these things in the mountains can be sold for money, so why doesn't anyone take them out to sell?
It’s because the mountain roads are difficult to walk on and it’s too difficult to get things out.
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