Zhao Huifang angrily slapped the notice, "This is what I'm angry about. If he had worked harder earlier, fifteen points wouldn't be too bad!"
Yang Chunyan: "I heard from Xiaomei that the cultural knowledge in junior high school and elementary school is different, and boys are slow to understand things. As long as Jiaming continues to work hard after entering, it will be the same."
"I hope so. After worrying about Jiaming, I have to worry about Jialiang. They are all debt collectors!" Zhao Huifang sighed as she climbed upstairs.
Zhang Xiuxiang also sighed after seeing this, "I don't need to worry about my Xiaoqian, but Jiakang likes to play and eat, and I am worried that he won't even be able to pass the junior high school entrance exam in the future."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Why do you have to worry? Just leave him to Xiaoqian."
"You don't have a brother, so you don't know. My brother used to only listen to me. When he's taller than me, try yelling at him again. He'll be even more fierce than you. Look how fast Jiakang has grown in the past six months. When he's taller than Xiaoqian, he won't be afraid of her anymore."
"I don't think Xiaokang will do that. Xiaoqian can control him." Yang Chunyan remembered that in her previous life, Zhou Jiakang got married and was completely controlled by Zhou Xiaoqian.
What Zhou Jiakang likes to say most is that he is not afraid of anything except his sister who is more than a head shorter than him. He is completely suppressed by her bloodline.
"I hope so! If Xiaoqian can't be controlled, I can't do anything even though I've only read three books on culture."
Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang poured out the bamboo shoots and prepared to send the bamboo fungus to the drying room before going back into the mountains. Just as they reached the door, they saw Qu Qiulin coming with a mule team.
"Wow! There are more than a dozen mules this time!"
"Well! Go call Third Sister-in-law, I'll take the bamboo fungus to the drying room."
"Hey!" Zhang Xiuxiang handed her the basket and turned to run towards Zhou Huaishan's house.
Qu Qiulin saw the two of them and said to the girl with braids who was looking at Zhou's house curiously, "Xiaolan, after the rainy season is over, we will renovate our house like Brother Zhou's."
Of course Qiu Xiaolan thought about it, and looked at him with sparkling eyes, "It must cost a lot of money to build it like this, right?"
"Brother Zhou said that their family made their own bricks and tiles by stepping on the mud and making kilns. The wood was cut from the forest in the village. All they had to do was pay the craftsmen and buy some steel bars and cement." Qu Qiulin smiled at her, "Don't worry, I have saved enough money."
"It's almost okay!" Qiu Xiaolan looked at the villagers behind her and said with a red face, "We will repair the house in the second half of the year, and there will be no other big expenses. Even if we owe a little, we can pay it back with our earnings in the future."
"Yes!" Qu Qiulin nodded happily, and led the mule team around the vegetable field to the oven. Seeing that Yang Chunyan, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were already waiting there, he happily introduced Qiu Xiaolan to the three of them.
Yang Chunyan, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought that Qu Qiulin's young daughter-in-law was pretty good. After a few greetings, Qu Qiulin and the man who came with him unloaded the bamboo basket and had someone take the mule to the fish pond, tie it up and feed it with hay.
Zhou's mother said to Qu Qiulin, "Xiao Qu, take your partner inside. I knew you were coming today, so I kept the steamer warm on the stove."
"Thank you, Auntie." Qu Qiulin and Qiu Xiaolan each brought down two bamboo baskets. "Auntie, here are a few pounds of white fungus, some chicken mushrooms, and black fungus. They are all packed."
Zhou's mother could tell at a glance that they were all selected by them, and happily took them, "Thank you, I won't be polite to you!"
"We have eaten a lot of your food. We should thank you." Qu Qiulin and others followed Zhou's mother into the yard.
Zhou's mother asked them to sit down and went into the house to take out the bowls and chopsticks. The steamed buns she had made in the morning were made with sorghum flour, wheat flour, and an old pumpkin that had not been eaten last year. They were steamed and mixed with flour. They tasted pretty good.
She scooped the sweet potato porridge into the bowl, and Qiu Xiaolan hurried to help serve the rice.
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "There's not much on the stove, so I mixed some tiger-skin chili peppers and some pickled vegetables with red oil, so you guys just have to eat it!"
"Hey hey!" Qu Qiulin and others picked up the hot porridge and started eating with multi-grain steamed buns.
Outside, Yang Chunyan saw that they had delivered a lot of goods, so she called Jiang Yu and Jia Chunhong out to help.
Qiu Xiaolan took the steamed buns out and pointed to the mark on the bamboo basket. "Sister-in-law, this basket is top-grade morels. I sorted them with the villagers. Do you think the mud feet that have been cut off are up to standard?"
Yang Chunyan picked up a few and looked at them. "Okay."
She put the morels she had looked at into a bamboo basket nearby. Qu Qiulin and his team were very particular about their work. They arranged them neatly from top to bottom, cleaned up all the muddy feet, and cleared away the grass debris on the mushroom caps.
For mushrooms like these that have been cleaned, it is much easier to wash them. They can just be rinsed with water and sent into the drying room.
Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue sorted the red mushrooms and put them into bamboo baskets. Jiang Yu and others helped sort the big-foot mushrooms and chanterelles.
This batch of bigfoot mushrooms is mostly white beef liver and yellow beef liver. The white beef liver, which has been carefully selected, has thick and fleshy cap and hard and thick stem, while the yellow beef liver is mostly small fat yellow ones, and the reticular patterns on the stem are much denser.
Chanterelles, green mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms are all small buds that have not opened, which look very cute.
These kinds of mushrooms can be dried and stored. When it gets cold, kill a fat chicken and stew them in mushroom soup. It will be the best choice for a delicious hotpot.
The mushrooms that Yang Chunyan is drying this year are all selected from the mushrooms sent by the villagers. The inferior ones are sold at ten cents per pound. Two drying mats have been set up upstairs.
I also collected some brush mushrooms, dry mushrooms, and red onions. Dry mushrooms later cost hundreds of dollars per pound, but people these days don't even look down on them. If they're not particularly good, they're too lazy to even pick them up.
Several people worked without stopping for a moment and finally sorted the goods until after eleven o'clock. Jiang Yu and his friends went home to eat, and Yang Chunyan and her sister-in-law started to weigh the goods.
After weighing, Li Qiuyue read out the numbers loudly, "85 jin of morels, 135 jin of second-class, 675 jin of first-class red mushrooms, 2nd-class..."
Zhang Xiuxiang, Zhou's father and Lao Xiazi moved the weighed mushrooms to the baking room.
After Yang Chunyan wrote down the account and calculated it, she counted the money and gave it to him, "Village Chief Qu, the total sales this time is 1859.6 yuan. Take it."
Qu Qiulin took the money and put it away, then took out a pair of deer antlers from his bag, "Mrs. Yang, there is also this. Can you please ask Brother Zhou to help sell it?"
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan took it and said with a smile, "When are you going to hold the wedding banquet?"
Qu Qiulin said somewhat embarrassedly: "Let's hold it on National Day. You can all go to my house for the banquet then."
Yang Chunyan nodded readily, "Okay, I'll definitely go when the time comes."
Mother Zhou handed Qiu Xiaolan a basket and said, "Take it. I put some steamed buns and pickled vegetables in it for you to eat on the way."
Qiu Xiaolan glanced at Qu Qiulin before taking the basket and said with a sweet smile, "Thank you, Auntie!"
She heard Qu Qiulin talk about Zhou's family, saying that the first time he brought everyone to Zhou's house to sell truffles, they ate at his house, and whenever they came down the mountain, he would prepare food for them. When she came today, it was indeed true.
"It's just a few whole grain steamed buns, what's there to thank me for!" Zhou's mother looked at her with a smile, "You have good vision, and Village Chief Qu is a capable young man."
Qiu Xiaolan nodded shyly, "My mom and husband also said so."
Qu Qiulin blushed after hearing this and took the basket from her hand. "Auntie, we have to go back soon, so we'll leave first."
"Goodbye!" Zhou's mother smiled and saw them off.
Li Qiuyue and Zhang Xiuxiang came out of the baking room, "Chunyan, my uncle sent over a hundred kilograms of morels this morning, and here are over two hundred more. The harvest today is pretty good!"
Yang Chunyan: "It rained so hard last night. I think they will send more tomorrow."
"That's not certain." Li Qiuyue and she carried a basket of bigfoot mushrooms and walked in. "Alas! Since my family started collecting mushrooms, we haven't even had enough fun picking mushrooms this year."
Yang Chunyan: "After dinner, let's go to Baihua Forest to have a look. We were planning to send the bamboo fungus to the drying room and then go there."
Li Qiuyue: "That's right. After dinner, I'll go for a walk and come back to pick mushrooms."
"Mom, Mom..." Xiao Jiuer called Yang Chunyan and climbed into the yard by climbing onto the door frame.
Yang Chunyan turned her head and saw the mud on his face, hands and body. "You've become a mud monkey. Did you go to the vegetable garden to play in the mud again?"
"Bugs, fish, and feed the ducks!" Xiao Jiuer took out a handful of crickets from his pocket, and Yang Chunyan felt her scalp numb.
On sunny days after heavy rain, crickets came out of the soil. Without noticing, he would sneak into the vegetable fields to catch cabbage worms and crickets, saying that he would feed them to the fish and ducks.
Fortunately, the fish pond was fenced off early, otherwise, Yang Chunyan would not even dare to think about it.
When Zhou's mother came back and saw the crickets on the ground, she said with a smile, "Grandma, bring the dustpan, we'll sweep them up and feed them to the ducks."
"Duck, egg!" Xiao Jiuer took out all the eggs in the bib basket and held one in her hand.
Seeing this, Yang Chunyan quickly scooped up some water to wash his face and hands, and patted his palms, "Look how dirty you are. If you try to catch bugs again, mom will spank your palms."
Little Jiuer hid her hands behind her back, pouted, and said aggrievedly, "No need to hit me! Be good, Jiuer!"
"You're still behaving well?" Yang Chunyan took off the bib he was wearing, "Look, it's all covered in mud, almost like a dirty doll."
When her back was turned, the little fellow immediately rushed to the basin of water, splashing the water in the basin and giggling. His mischievous look did not show any trace of the aggrieved and pitiful look he had just had.
Li Qiuyu and Zhang Xiuxiang both laughed, "Little naughty boy, his favorite thing is to play in the water."
Yang Chunyan pulled Xiao Jiuer over and patted his butt, "You love playing in the mud the most!"
"It's inevitable that children play in the mud. Children who are more down-to-earth are easier to raise and less likely to get sick." Zhou's mother said, thinking of Yi Ding's Xiao Wan. "Yiding's Xiao Wan was raised too cleanly, so he caught a cold easily.
As long as the child is well fed and warm, it is normal for him to catch bugs and play in the mud. In the past, when the adults were working in the fields, there were children walking along the edge of the fields, pooping and peeing a lot. "
Zhang Xiuxiang also said, "It's not good to raise them too carefully. Look at the piglets in the pen. The piglets that eat coarse grains are easier to raise and grow faster than those that eat fine grains."
Yang Chunyan thought about it and it made sense. Xiao Jiuer used to like crawling on the ground the most. He had destroyed all the flowers in the flowerbed and almost pulled Lai Fu and Wang Cai's tails bald by him, but the little guys rarely caught a cold.
Mother Zhou swept the crickets into the dustpan and stretched out her hand to Xiao Jiuer, "Let's go, grandma will take it to feed the ducks."
"Hey, ducks!" The little guy grabbed her hand and happily followed her to the mulberry forest next to him. The chickens and ducks were kept in the forest. The ramie, sedge and flowers scattered in the forest were pecked by them. (End of this chapter)
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