After the three sisters-in-law picked the large flowers of rejuvenation grass, they walked out of the forest and headed back. When they passed the big-fruited fig tree and were almost at the path, they saw Mrs. Lai and the two women walking towards them, supporting their companions.
Zhao Huifang asked hurriedly: "Sister Lai, what happened?"
Mrs. Lai said angrily, "I don't know who set a trap in the woods. Cuicui didn't see it and stepped on it, causing several holes in her body. Fortunately, I found some Panax notoginseng and mashed it up to apply to her body, which stopped the bleeding."
Yang Chunyan and the others looked at Cuicui's feet, which were swollen like steamed buns. They remembered that traps were usually set in remote and secluded places. "Was Cuicui trapped in the place where we usually walk, or in a remote place?"
Cuicui made a bitter face and said, "It's in the woods. We went there to pick mushrooms a few days ago."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought it was probably done by a novice. "Everyone should be more careful when entering the woods in the future. If you step on a trap, there are ways to get out, but if you step on a pitfall trap, it will be troublesome if you fall into it."
Everyone was terrified after hearing this. "You're right. I heard from Lao Xiazi before that hunting traps are made of sharpened wood. If a wild boar falls into it, it can't escape. If a person falls into it, he will die."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "There are a lot of people going into the mountains during this period. Let's go back and ask Uncle Datian to shout on the loudspeaker."
"Let's go find Zhou Datian when we get back." Several women took turns helping Cuicui walk back. Halfway through the journey, Yang Chunyan sprinkled some hemostatic powder on her. She felt so painful when she saw the bloody holes on the back of her feet.
Everyone cursed the guy who set the trap again before helping her walk back.
After arriving home, Zhang Xiuxiang rode her bike to Zhou Datian's house, and soon the brigade's loudspeaker sounded.
Yang Chunyan took a few flowers of Rejuvenation Grass to a big pit on the back mountain and threw them in the woods, hoping that they would leave spores so that she could pick Rejuvenation Grass from the big pit in the future.
She went home happily and saw Zhou Huaian holding Xiao Jiuer in the yard looking at the blooming dahlias. "It's such a hot sun, and you don't mind the sun!"
Zhou Huaian said with a bitter face, "Your son is clamoring to watch it, what can I do?"
Yang Chunyan walked to the steps with a smile, and suddenly remembered something, "Huaian, there are many treasures in our big pit. A few days ago, Jiaming and I went to pick mushrooms and found a lot of Panax notoginseng."
"What's so special about Panax notoginseng?" Zhou Huaian pointed at the Panax notoginseng with small yellow flowers at the base of the wall, "Look! I don't know where the seeds came from, but they have grown so many by themselves."
"This is local Panax notoginseng. The Panax notoginseng I'm talking about is much more valuable than this."
"Really? Why didn't you dig it up?"
"I want to wait until the Panax notoginseng seeds are ripe, pick some and scatter them in the woods, and then dig up the rest when they grow back."
"It looks like we need to clean up that big hole."
"Don't worry about it. I think it's suitable for growing herbs. When you find rare herb seeds in the future, just scatter some in there."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "When we are not busy anymore, let's find some time to walk around inside, maybe we can find other treasures!"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan stood up, "You take Jiuer with you, I'll go to the backyard to help."
"Go ahead! Help wash and then come and get some sleep. We'll start receiving deliveries again at around three o'clock."
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After work in the evening, Zhou Huaian took three big guys to move all the red mushrooms in the warehouse and counted them.
The dried goods stored in the warehouse, plus the six hundred to seven hundred kilograms of dried red mushrooms that were dried in the past two days, total 2,160 kilograms.
"Brother, we will earn more than 20,000 yuan from this batch tomorrow. Together with the previous sales, the total is more than 40,000 yuan. Should I take the money back and give it to you, or should I deposit it in the bank for you?"
Zhou Huairong and the others were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. "You don't have to bring the money back. We'll give you the passbook and you can save it all."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian turned to look at the old man and Zhou's father, "It's time for you to get paid!"
The old man waved his hand cheerfully, "What do you want me to do with my wages? I have food and drink, and the pocket money in my pocket is just sitting there and I haven't used it yet!"
Zhou Huairong said with a smile: "Grandpa, save it for the New Year and give it to your great-grandson as a New Year's gift!"
The old man said: "I have the New Year's money here. The pocket money given by the youngest and Chunyan has accumulated more than 300 yuan."
Father Zhou also said: "Your mother and I usually eat at the youngest's house, and we don't have any money to spend on weekdays, so it's useless to save the money from selling vegetables!"
Zhou Huairong and his friends didn't expect that the two of them often gave the old man pocket money. When they thought about the leaf tobacco they smoked, the ointments and eye drops they used, which were all bought by the youngest, they couldn't help but feel their faces getting hot.
"Youngest and Chunyan are really filial. We never thought of giving you pocket money."
"Grandpa lives in my house, so of course we will give him money!" Zhou Huaian looked at them with a smile, "You can show your filial piety if you want!"
The three older ones nodded repeatedly, "Of course, of course."
The old man said happily after seeing this: "You are all good. We are old and sleepy, so we will help you while we can. As long as you four brothers are in harmony, we will be happy."
Zhou Huaian hugged Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaijun, "Grandpa, don't worry, we will be in harmony until we grow old."
Zhou Huairong nodded several times, "Even if all his teeth fell out, he would still be so kind."
Father Zhou was a little uncomfortable, so he waved his hand and said, "Move all the bamboo baskets to the warehouse and stack them up. We have to get up early tomorrow to collect and deliver the vegetables!"
Collecting mushrooms is different from collecting truffles. You have to go there every day. The dry goods can only be sent to Ning'an after the goods are collected. Everyone puts the goods back into the warehouse before going out.
Zhou Huairong thought that the old man and grandfather wanted to learn to ride bicycles, so he would discuss with the second and third sons later and buy them a women's bicycle, which would not be so tall and would be safer to ride when they are older.
When he reached Zhou Huaishan's door, he stopped the two of them and told them his plan, "What do you think?"
The two nodded without hesitation, "Come back tomorrow and tell the youngest brother to buy two Forever 26-lap bicycles from Dr. Wang, and we will deduct the money from them."
Zhou Huairong: "Also, although the tractor was bought by the youngest, we all use it to farm and transport goods at home, so we should give him some of the freight."
Zhou Huaishan said: "He doesn't want the money, so why not buy them a 26-lap bike?"
Zhou Huaijun also nodded. "The youngest one's second-hand one is tall and big. It would be nice to buy a female one for my younger brother and sister-in-law."
"Great!" The three brothers went back home separately.
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At noon the next day, Zhou Huairong and several others entered the yard with the harvested red mushrooms. Zhou Jiaming and Zhou Jialiang got off the tractor listlessly.
"I'm going to throw up if I ride on the tractor every day for a few more days."
"Didn't you say you would follow us to collect mountain products to earn money and not go to school? You've only been there for a few days and you're already bored? If you don't study hard, every day will be like this."
Zhou Jiaming: "Every day you drag us to collect mushrooms or go up the mountain to pick herbal seeds, and then help dry the mushrooms at home. We don't even have time to do homework, it's strange that we can do well in the exams!"
"Okay, I won't take you out starting tomorrow. Let's see how many points you can get in the second half of the semester."
Zhao Huifang looked at the two of them and thought about changing the way she taught them, starting from making bricks and tiles, hoping to make them understand that being a farmer is hard and that they have to study hard to have a future. However, she tried several times but could not stick to it for long.
It seems that the two brothers are not good at studying. Let's see if Xiaowen can make a name for himself when school starts.
"You failed before, but now you're already doing well." Zhou Jialiang looked at her, "If you don't believe me, go and see the class. Except for Xiaoqian and Li Xiaoping, more than half of the students failed."
"I'm too lazy to talk to you. From now on, you will just watch Xiaoqian and the others sitting in the office while you stick your butts out to transform the earth!"
After saying this, Zhao Huifang no longer paid attention to the two brothers and put the honey and herbs that Zhang Laoer had given to Zhou Huaian back in the main room.
In the backyard, everyone was busy unloading the bamboo baskets and loading the red mushrooms from the warehouse onto the tractor.
Zhou Huairong also told Zhou Huaian about buying a bicycle and asked him not to tell the old man and the old man first, so that they would not be reluctant to part with it.
Zhou Huaian: "Buy three? Are you planning to buy one for each of them?"
Zhou Huairong made up a lie, "The other one is what your sister-in-law wanted."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian drove out on the tractor after dinner. When he arrived at the foot of Guanyin Mountain, he saw the youngest bear carrying two large bamboo baskets, sticking his butt out and pedaling his bicycle hard up the slope.
He increased the horsepower, and the tractor rushed past with a puff of black smoke.
When the youngest bear saw the bamboo baskets piled up like a mountain on the tractor, and then looked at the two bamboo baskets on the back seat of his car, his eyes almost exploded with anger.
Zhou Huaian accelerated all the way and saw a large Dongfeng parked at the entrance of Deshengtang Alley when he arrived at the North Street entrance. "We are still late."
Wang Zhen heard the thumping sound and came out of the clinic with the driver. "We've been waiting for you. Load the goods onto the truck and we'll set off."
"I was delayed for a while in Baicaoping today." Zhou Huaian jumped off the tractor, opened the car bed, took down the bamboo basket and handed it to him.
Wang Zhen put the bamboo basket on the scale. Yang Dongmei took a look and said, "102 jin!" Then she wrote down the weight in her notebook and would summarize and calculate it later.
Several people were weighing and loading goods into the truck on the side of the road.
Zhou Huaian saw that there were a lot of medicinal herbs in the car. There was Ganoderma lucidum in the bamboo basket and there should be old honey in the bucket.
After working for more than half an hour, all the goods were loaded onto the truck. The driver tied the tarpaulin, waved to the two men, and backed the truck out.
Wang Zhen walked with him to the backyard, "Brother Zhou, the price of Coriolus versicolor has increased a bit recently. How much have you stockpiled?"
"There are more than 60 kilograms!" Zhou Huaian said proudly, "Some of them are picked by us ourselves, 100% top-grade goods."
"Okay, when the price is about right, I'll have you deliver it over."
"That's right!"
“How many dried morels do you have at home?”
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "There are more than 20 kilograms, and there are about 10 kilograms of bamboo fungus."
"Bring it here next time you come."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian sat down on the chair, "I need your help, my brother and the others want to..." (End of this chapter)
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