The old man said, "We are all very familiar with Doctor Wang. When he opens the door, tell him that Chef Li wanted it and bought it back to entertain an important guest."
Zhou Huaian thought that giving two dried flowers to Wang Zhen would be the same, so he nodded and said, "Since you said so, I'll sell them to you!"
"Young man, you are straightforward!" Chef Li patted Zhou Huaian on the shoulder happily, "Wait, I'll use a vegetable leaf as a cushion."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "This stuff costs dozens of yuan per pound, and a cabbage leaf weighs one or two taels. I'll remove the skin first and then weigh it."
Chef Li nodded after hearing this and said, "Okay, come find me at Lin Yuan Restaurant when you get something good next time."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "It's a full 1.6 jin."
"Okay!" Chef Li took it and put it away, paid the money, and patted Zhou Huaian, "Young man, remember to find me there when you find something good."
"Don't worry, I'll definitely come find you." Zhou Huaian smiled and walked him a few steps before returning to the stall. "It looks like this old man cooks for those well-known people."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Didn't you hear him say that he bought it to entertain important guests?"
"I heard it!" Zhou Huaian looked at the money in his bag and looked at him happily, "Not bad, two Hericium erinaceus were sold for 48 yuan, and a badger pig was sold for more than 70 yuan, not counting the skin."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Yesterday's trip was worth it. If I could earn this much every day, I really wouldn't want to go to work."
"You should just go to work honestly. When you get old, someone will pay you on time. If we don't work when we get old, we won't get any money."
"Tsk~" Zhou Yiding patted him and whispered, "Landlord, are you still worried about not having money when you get old?"
Zhou Huaian recalled Yang Chunyan's dream, in which the villagers even drove cars. "Why not worry? Who knows what society will be like in the future?"
"I'm worried too!" Zhou Yiding took a puff of his cigarette and sighed, "When my old man replaced me at the forest farm, he told me that if we continue to cut down the mature timber in the forest farm at the current rate, it will be all cut down in a few years. By then, we forest farm workers may have a hard time."
"Uncle Daqing is right to worry. Look at the tree stumps left over from logging everywhere in the forest farm. The forest farm cut down all the trees and didn't plant any more. Even if they planted seedlings, they wouldn't grow in a few decades."
"Of course not! My old man told the manager, and he thought he was meddling in other people's business. They don't care about anything else but filling their own pockets."
"Think positively, it's not something we should worry about. Just live our lives well."
As they were talking, another person came to see the badger pigs. Zhou Huaian was busy greeting the customers. "The badger pig meat was just caught. It's very fresh. It's only 2.8 yuan per pound."
"It's more expensive than pork. Who can afford it?" The man said, shook his head and walked away.
At this time, they heard the sound of door panels being removed from behind. They turned around and saw Wang Zhen holding a door panel and looking at them with a smile, "Good morning!"
"Good morning!" Zhou Yiding smiled and handed over a cigarette. "I still have a badger pig that I haven't sold yet. I'll set up the stall to sell it for a while."
"I'll smoke it later!" Wang Zhen took the cigarette and put it on his ear, then asked with a smile, "Is the badger lard still available?"
"Yes, I was going to give them all to you. I just sold one head, and I still have three heads of lard and half a pig." Zhou Huaian pointed at the bamboo basket, "Ding Ding Mao, I'll be here to sell the meat, you take it in and have it weighed."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding pushed his bicycle to the alley. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Yang Dongmei opened the gate and said, "Brother Yiding, is my brother-in-law here?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "I'm here, selling badger pork outside the clinic."
Yang Dongmei looked at the wooden barrel in the bamboo basket and asked, "Are you two going up the mountain to hunt for game again?"
"Yeah!" Zhou Yiding pushed his bicycle into the yard, Wang Zhen also came over, and Yang Dongmei went to the clinic.
"Brother-in-law, my eldest brother asked you to come home with my sister and spend two days when you are free!" She lowered her voice, "My eldest brother wants to give you the money."
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment, "Mid-Autumn Festival is only ten days away. Tell him that we will go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival!"
Yang Dongmei complained: "Why doesn't my sister come to Ning'an with you? I haven't seen her for a long time. Every time I thought she would come with you, but she never came."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "You know she can't sit still. She takes Xiao Jiuer to the forest to pick mushrooms whenever she has time. She must have gone to pick mushrooms by now."
"My sister is just as restless as my mother." Yang Dongmei thought for a moment and said, "They say the morels and bamboo fungus in the provincial capital are selling well too. I'll send them over together with the red mushrooms next time."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian was busy greeting the man who was buying meat, so she went in to clean up.
Zhou Yiding opened a bucket of honey in the backyard and showed it to Wang Zhen. "Take a look, is this honey? We tasted it and found that the taste is a little different from the honey we got in spring."
Wang Zhen dipped a little and tasted it, "Yes, but it's not that pure."
"That's good. We'll go there next spring." Zhou Yiding took out the Hericium erinaceus and said, "I originally left some for you... I can only give you two dried ones."
Wang Zhen waved his hands repeatedly, "You are too polite. I can't accept this. It's such a valuable thing..."
"Why are you being so polite to us?" Zhou Yiding smiled and put the Hericium erinaceus in his hand. "We picked them. Each family eats two to try. We will go to that nest to pick more next year. You don't know, when we went there, we met hunters who went to the old forest to hunt wild boars..."
After hearing this, Wang Zhen said with a longing look on his face: "Remember to call me next year, and I will go with you."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Okay, we'll call you at this time next year." He felt that next year was still a long time, and if they really came to call him then, he might not go.
Wang Zhen weighed the things he brought one by one and settled the bill. Then Zhou Huaian came in carrying the badger pork that he had left for them.
"Chunyan said that the house over there has been under construction for so long, and I, a hands-off shopkeeper, didn't even go to take a look. Let me save a piece of meat for you as a reward!"
Wang Zhen took it with a smile, "I shamelessly accepted the Hericium erinaceus, so I won't be polite about the badger pig!"
Zhou Huaian said with a playful smile: "Hehe, since you are the one who troubles me with all the big things, we will just send you some food. In the end, you are the one who suffers."
Wang Zhen: "I just talk, the work is done by the craftsmen, there is no need to be tired."
Zhou Yiding remembered what Zhou Huaian said on the road, "Doctor Xiao Wang, I heard from the youngest brother that the land over at the hotel will be sold in the second half of the year?"
Wang Zhen: "Yes! They will be on sale after National Day. I heard the price is a bit higher than when we bought it. Are you interested?"
Zhou Yiding nodded with a smile, "I also want to be like the youngest, to be a landlord when I'm old, and cross my legs while collecting rent."
Wang Zhen laughed and said, "Okay, being a landlord is a good idea. Look, I'm doing it."
Zhou Huaian: "We'll leave it to you after we buy it. You might as well get a construction team to repair the house."
Wang Zhen smiled and shook his head, "I know nothing about that. If I have the chance, I still want to do the medicine I studied."
Zhou Huaian recalled Yang Chunyan's dream in which he became a big boss, "Medicine is good, it can save the dying and the wounded."
"Take your time. There's no rush now." Wang Zhen said to Zhou Huaian, "Someone in the provincial capital is asking about the sale of red mushrooms and truffles. There may be competition for the truffle business in the second half of the year."
Zhou Huaian frowned and said, "Is it still Doctor Fang from the big pharmacy? The youngest Xiong was there for a few days, but now there is no trace of him."
Wang Zhen: "The boss who cooperates with the Fang family is not on the same level as the Zheng family. The one who wants to do this this time is another family."
Zhou Huaian: "Don't worry, if they collect it in Ning'an, we will go to the next county. You see, Secretary Xu and his team are doing a good job there. I heard that there are more truffles there."
"Also, truffles are much easier to transport than red mushrooms. I've been thinking recently that if it doesn't work out, we can go to distant places to collect goods without sorting them by grade. We can just set an average price and set a minimum standard. It will be simpler."
He and Yang Chunyan had already taken these into consideration, and their solution was that if someone here took away their business, they would raise money based on their shares to buy a large tractor and go to the next county to collect the goods.
Wang Zhen smiled happily after hearing this and said, "Seeing that you are so confident, I feel relieved."
Zhou Yiding also praised: "The youngest one is really impressive now!"
"Look at each other with disdain?" Zhou Huaian laughed after hearing this, "My sister-in-law said this."
"Hahaha..." All three of them laughed.
At this time, Yang Dongmei walked in. "Brother-in-law, Director Xiao from the street is here. He wants to meet you to see if you are the guy who saved his grandson that day. He also said that they have been looking for you for a long time, and only that day did they hear that you often come here to sell herbs."
She didn't expect that her seemingly careless brother-in-law was actually a hero who did good deeds without leaving his name.
"Director Xiao?" Zhou Huaian thought for a moment and then remembered, "I just happened to meet him that day and lent a hand."
Zhou Yiding also said: "Yes, there is no need to meet them. No matter who we meet, we must fight them."
Wang Zhen also heard from the neighbors on North Street that the Xiao family's child was abducted and rescued by someone, but he didn't expect that it was done by the two of them. "They have come to our door, no matter what, you should go and meet them!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Ding Ding Mao, let's go out and take a look." Neither of them expected that several months had passed and they had forgotten about saving the child, and the Xiao family was still looking for them.
Zhou Yiding: "Take the bamboo basket out with you."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian went out, picked up the bamboo basket, walked out of the alley and placed it in front of the clinic door.
Wang Zhen also arrived at the clinic. When Director Xiao saw Zhou Huaian and the other man, he excitedly said to him, "That's them. I went to the hospital to see Xiao Rui that day and told the third brother to remember to invite them home for a simple meal. When he came out, the two of them had already left."
Then he stepped forward and held the two men in one hand, and said gratefully: "Young men, we have been looking for you for a long time. When I went to buy fish that day and mentioned this matter, I heard Wang Jianjun say that it seemed to be you. He asked me to come to Deshengtang in the morning to have a look.
It's true. You must come to my house for a simple meal today. My wife has been talking about it several times." (End of this chapter)
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