Chapter 655 Chapter 657: Headache
Zhou Huaian and his companion pulled the raft in the forest, stopping and starting from time to time. In the middle, they asked Da Huang and Da Hei to help pull it for a while. The two men and the two dogs took turns to rest many times, but they finally got back to the forest farm before dark.
Zhou Huaian wiped his sweat and looked at the gate of the forest farm. "Damn it, I almost died of exhaustion."
Zhou Yiding looked at the dog panting with its tongue hanging out, took out the key and went forward to open the door. "Don't talk about you, even the dog is tired today."
"Thanks to them, otherwise we would have collapsed from exhaustion halfway through the journey." Zhou Huaian said as he rubbed the dog who was looking at them with a smile on his face and tongue sticking out.
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "Get a pig's liver as a snack for them when you get into the yard."
Dahuang and Dahei seemed to understand, and their two big tails were almost broken by shaking with joy.
The two men pulled the raft into the yard and fastened the bolt. After entering, Zhou Huaian slumped down on the bamboo chair on the steps.
Zhou Yiding untied the urea bag, took out a pig liver, cut it in half and put it in Gouzi's bowl, then sat down on the straw stool and pounded his sore calves.
"Youngest, let's go boil some water and take a bath, then slowly scald the pig hair and peel the wild boar skin?"
Zhou Huaian narrowed his eyes and said, "Take a break. I don't even want to move a finger right now."
"Me too!" Zhou Yiding pulled a chair, sat on it, leaned back, stretched his legs, and closed his eyes.
They both fell asleep before they knew it, and were awakened by the cold. They then got up and went to the kitchen to boil water and cook a bowl of noodles. They then took a shower and changed their clothes, lit a bonfire in the yard, roughly washed the pig's innards and put them in a basin, and then put them into the cave.
After entering, I felt a chill. When I shone the flashlight on the stone wall, I saw a thick layer of ice on it.
"Fuck~ It's already below zero here?"
"It was like this half a month ago." Zhou Yiding sighed, "What I'm most reluctant to leave is this cave. I can store meat all year round. I can put as much as I want, and I don't have to pay for electricity. It's much more comfortable than Brother Huang's refrigerator."
"I have to go even though I'm reluctant. I can't stay here just for a cave!" Zhou Huaian rubbed the goose bumps on his arms from the frozen cold and walked out of the cave.
"Of course not!" Zhou Yiding followed him out. "Youngest brother, I think after they cut down all the mature trees on the mountain, they might contract this forest farm to someone. How about we take it over then?"
He felt it was a shame to have all the forest cut down. Without the protection of these big trees, the water and soil in the mountains would not be as good as it is now. Also, most of the pine trees had been cut down, and he didn't know if truffles could still grow this year.
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment after hearing this, "We have just rented a large area at the foot of the mountain and are waiting for us to clean it up. After we have cleaned it up, we can talk about it when we want to rent this area later!"
"It'll take a long time to do it yourself. In the spring, you should just hire someone like you did last time."
“It’s a must!”
The two of them ran again and finally brought the honey, pheasant, hare and snake meat into the cave and stored them.
The little wild boar had thin skin and tender meat, so it did not need to be skinned, but the hair had to be scraped off. It was particularly difficult to scrape the hair off the wild boar after it had been gutted. The two men were busy for three or four hours before they cleaned the little pig and carried it into the cave.
Zhou Yiding pounded his sore waist and said, "Youngest brother, we won't sell these little wild boars. Let's keep them for ourselves."
"Okay, eat it yourself!"
The two men returned to the yard, tore off the lard from the sow's belly, peeled the pig skin, chopped off the pig's legs, scalded them in boiling water, scraped and washed them clean, then chopped the meat into several pieces, put them in a backpack and carried them to the cave.
Zhou Huaian looked at the pile of things in the cave and said, "It would be great if we had a cow. We wouldn't have to carry them down by ourselves."
Zhou Yiding laughed and said, "Of course there are two!"
"..." Zhou Huaian was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and slapped him with a smile, "Go ahead and crawl, I don't want to be a workhorse!"
Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't want to be my son, you can just carry him down with you!"
"I won't say anymore. It gives me a headache just talking about it!"
Zhou Huaian pulled him back to the front yard and saw that it was already past twelve o'clock. After washing up, he went back to the room and lay on the bed. He felt sore all over and didn't even have the strength to turn over.
"Ding Ding Cat, why do I feel pain all over my body? Could it be that I fell asleep on the eaves when I came back and woke up from the cold and caught a cold?"
"Your kid said I was weak, but I think you're the one who's really weak." Zhou Yiding muttered as he turned on the flashlight, "You really don't feel well. Can I make you a bowl of ginger soup?"
Zhou Huaian waved his hands weakly, "I'll beg you for it. I'll just cover my head and sleep for a night."
Zhou Yiding was too lazy to move, so he lay back down. "Then go to sleep first, and drink ginger soup tomorrow morning."
Zhou Huaian was awakened by a headache in the middle of the night. He endured the discomfort and got up, "Ding Ding Cat, do you have headache powder?"
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding turned on the flashlight with sleepy eyes, "What's wrong? Do you really have a cold?"
"The back of my head hurts so badly that it seems like I can't even turn my neck."
"Your kid is really weak!" Zhou Yiding got up and took a flashlight to find a packet of headache powder. He saw Huoxiang Zhengqi water and took another one. He went back to the house and gave it to him to take.
"Eat and have a good sleep. I'll stew some pork tripe for you tomorrow."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian lay down weakly. After the headache powder took effect, he felt much more comfortable and soon fell asleep.
In his dream, the whole mountain was full of wild boars. He and Zhou Yiding were holding guns and chasing the wild boars all over the mountain...
The next day, Zhou Huaian slept until noon, got up and sat on the edge of the bed for a while, then put on his clothes and walked out in his slippers.
The dog lying on the steps basking in the sun saw him get up and wagged its tail at him.
Zhou Huaian looked around and didn't see Zhou Yiding, so he went to the ditch in the backyard and saw him squatting there cleaning the intestines. "Why didn't you call me when you got up?"
"I just got up too!" Zhou Yiding put a section of washed pig intestines in a basin, "Is your cold better?"
"I took headache powder last night and it's fine." Zhou Huaian squatted down and picked up a large intestine, filled the ditch with water, and cleaned up the pig manure that was not cleaned up last night.
The two of them didn't know how to clean it, so they could only wash it, sprinkle some salt on it and marinate it before leaving, and then bring it down the mountain for Yang Chunyan and the others to clean up.
Zhou Yiding said, "Youngest, I put the steamed buns that the old man made here in the hot steamer and cooked some porridge. After we eat, we will go and see the two Ganoderma lucidum nests and a few places where Dendrobium longituba grows. We will dig up what we can and bring it down the mountain. I will go to the forest farm to quit my job, and then drive the tractor up to move the things and the beehives in the mountain."
Zhou Huaian nodded, thought about it and asked again: "Will they agree?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Don't worry, we don't want a regular job, but there are many people who do."
"Yeah, at least 30 or 40 yuan a month!"
After cleaning the intestines and stomach, the two men put them in the cave, went back to eat, put their backpacks on, and walked towards the Ganoderma lucidum nest with the dog.
As the autumn wind blows, there is a slight chill in the air. The leaves in the mountains are green with yellow, yellow with red, with varying shades and mottled colors, which are more beautiful than the most beautiful oil paintings sold in bookstores.
At this time, the wild fruits in the mountains and forests are ripe, including wax gourd, wild grapes, chestnuts, hairy pears, sea buckthorn, myrtle... wild fruits are everywhere.
Yesterday, they were busy collecting honey and had no interest in picking honey. Today, they just went to a few old nests. There was no need to rush. They ate whatever they came across along the way. They also picked some delicious ones and put them in their backpacks.
Walking to a bush, he saw purple wild grapes hanging on it. Zhou Huaian picked two grapes and put them in his mouth. His face wrinkled with sourness, and he spit them out in a hurry, "It's so sour, my teeth are going to fall out."
Zhou Yiding couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw his expression. "This thing looks good. If you eat it, it can help you get rid of uric acid. I'll take you to pick some hairy pears to eat."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "I heard from Chunyan that the ditch we went to last time was full of hairy pears. I wonder if they went to pick them?"
"Maybe they have already picked them." Zhou Yiding pulled aside a bunch of vines and walked with him for about ten minutes. He pointed to the hairy pear vines that covered two large trees and said, "The pears on this tree are sweeter than wax gourds."
Zhou Huaian looked up at the pears on the vines that were about the size of pheasant eggs, "It makes me feel at ease just looking at them!"
Zhou Yiding grabbed a vine, pinched the fruits, picked a few and handed them to him, "There are mostly raw ones and few ripe ones. We won't pick them today. We'll pick them and bring them down the mountain when we come up to collect things."
Pick some slightly unripe hairy pears and take them home. Put them in a bucket with some pine needles, then cover the bucket with pine needles. Keep it covered for a few days. Gently pinch them with your hands and they will be ready to eat when they feel ripe.
The ripe hairy pear is sweet and juicy, with a faint aroma of fruit wine.
"This fruit is really delicious. I'll see if there are any seedlings. I'll dig it up with the soil and plant it." Zhou Huaian ate while checking around for seedlings.
After pulling aside the vines, he saw a dead tree in front of him that was covered with moss and required at least two people to hug. After taking a closer look, he shouted excitedly, "Ding Ding Cat, come and see quickly, I found something good! Hahaha...ha..."
"Found gold?"
Zhou Yiding hurriedly walked over in the direction of the sound, only to see him standing triumphantly under a dead tree. Shiitake mushrooms and a few clumps of Dendrobium officinale were growing on the tree. A few purple Ganoderma lucidum on the stump were shining with a lacquer-like luster in the sunlight shining through the treetops.
"I come here every year, but why don't I dig up the hairy pear vines and come in to take a look?"
"You are just a greedy cat. You only remember to eat every day!" Zhou Huaian walked forward proudly, pinched the mushroom stem, shook it left and right a few times, and broke off a purple Ganoderma lucidum with a cap as big as a bowl.
He checked the back of the mushroom and found no signs of insect infestation. He happily handed it to him and said, "Look, it's top quality stuff!"
"Very good, better than the ones you picked up before!" Zhou Yiding happily put the purple Ganoderma lucidum into the backpack, "Let me see if there are any more nearby?"
"Look along the roots. If there are any more, they will grow there." After Zhou Huaian pulled out all the purple Ganoderma lucidum around the tree stump, there were seven in total, the smallest of which was as big as a small bowl.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com