Chapter 52 52 Searching Me in Disguise
"Who wouldn't want a bicycle?" Zhou Huaian sighed as he looked at the purple Ganoderma lucidum in his hand, "But it's no use thinking about it! First, I don't have a ticket, and second, I don't have money."
"Aren't you making money now? There's a nest of wild bees on it. If it's good, you can sell it for 10 or 20 yuan.
With the profit from this time, if I’m lucky I can save enough to buy a bicycle in one month.”
Zhou Huaian was also somewhat moved after hearing this, but then he changed his mind and said, "Hmph! Don't think I don't know what you are up to! You just want to take the money you gave me out of my bag. You are robbing me in disguise."
"I just thought you were too tired from pushing the chicken bus, so I wanted to buy you a big golden deer so you can ride it to Ning'an. Alas! I did not try to please you, but got bitten by that thing instead."
Zhou Huaian plucked up a purple Ganoderma lucidum and squinted at her, "Hey, I see you are getting bolder and bolder. You dare to call me a dog."
"Did I? It's obviously you...Huai'an, stop it." Yang Chunyan saw him reaching out to pluck a flower that was only the size of a dipping saucer and had grayish white edges, and hurriedly stopped him, "This flower is too small, don't pick it up, save it for when it grows up."
Zhou Huaian held the mushroom stem tightly and looked up at her, "Wait until it grows up and then pick it up? What if someone else picks it up and takes it away?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and patted him, "It's fine if it's picked up. It proves that we have no fate with it. Have you forgotten? The old people always say that you can't be too greedy when you come to the mountains to pick up goods."
Zhou Huaian remembered that his grandmother had said the same thing before, and nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you." He then gathered some pine needles and dead leaves to cover the purple Ganoderma lucidum, "Make a nest first, and come back when it grows up a bit."
The two picked up all the purple Ganoderma lucidum from the dead tree and began to search through the thick dead leaves.
Fungi like to hide under dead leaves and play hide-and-seek with those who seek them.
"Oh my god, this one is so good, so good!" Zhou Huaian shouted in surprise, holding up a purple Ganoderma lucidum as big as a pottery bowl to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, take a look!"
Yang Chunyan looked up and saw the sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves onto his hand. The purple Ganoderma lucidum looked like the magical herb stolen by White Snake. "This one is the best!"
Zhou Huaian nodded proudly and sang a nursery rhyme, "The roosters are crowing, whoever finds it will take it. Look carefully, look carefully, pull aside the grass, there is more underneath."
"Don't be too complacent. Be careful of the poisonous insects under the pine needles and dry grass!"
"It dares to bite me! I'm more poisonous than a poisonous insect!"
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes, "Zhou Baoqi!"
"Yang Haer!"
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The two conducted a carpet search around the dead tree and found six more purple Ganoderma lucidum in the grass under the dead leaves, one of which was particularly large.
Zhou Huaian brought the backpack over, and the two of them cut some grass to pad the bottom of the basket, then picked up the purple Ganoderma lucidum one by one and put them in.
Yang Chunyan counted them and picked up twenty-nine in total. The two of them grinned at each other.
She thought that there were several purple Ganoderma lucidums in it that were of particularly good quality, and they weighed about five or six kilograms in total.
In her previous life, she collected two kilograms of fruit of inferior quality and sold them for nearly a thousand yuan.
Forget it, let’s not think about it, to avoid being disappointed later!
Since Yang Chunyan made a wrong estimate on the price of Polygonum multiflorum last time, she didn’t want to make another estimate.
"Yan'er, we've found so much, it's time to call it a day and go home!"
Yang Chunyan came back to her senses and thought of the Magnolia officinalis not far away. "Huaian, let's wrap the Cistanche deserticola in a sack and keep looking for it while we're lucky. Maybe there'll be some good stuff there."
"Are you still looking for more?" Zhou Huaian pointed at the incense all over the mountain, his brows furrowed, "That pile weighs at least 40 to 50 kilograms, and there's also such a big pile of chicken-foot vines. We carry them down and up again, and the cows are not as diligent as us."
"Let's go! Go up a few dozen meters. If we don't find anything good, we'll go home."
Yang Chunyan picked up the backpack and walked towards the cocklebur, putting the cocklebur into the sack.
Zhou Huaian had no choice but to follow and help, "Yan'er, do you really want to go?"
"We're all out now, let's look for as much as we can! If you don't want to leave, just wait here for me."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian felt a little worried again, "Forget it, I'll go down with you."
Yang Chunyan knew that he was worried about her going down alone, so she smiled and said, "Thank you!"
Zhou Huaian looked around, then pulled her into his arms, kissed her quickly, and said with a drooling look on his face, "Wife, you see how diligent I am, please do that with me tonight."
Yang Chunyan pushed him away and said, "You are so diligent. There are no lazy people in the world."
Zhou Huaian didn't expect her to push him, so he sat down on the vine and pointed at her and yelled, "Yang Chunyan, you are determined to turn the tables."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Yang Chunyan smiled awkwardly and reached out to pull him. Zhou Huaian looked at her in pain, "Ouch! I can't get up. I twisted my waist."
"Really? Let me see where you twisted it." Yang Chunyan hurriedly squatted down to take a look. She saw a smirk on his face out of the corner of her eye. She rolled her eyes at him and went to pull the cocksfoot vine.
"You can't even take a joke, you're so stingy!" Zhou Huaian said as he put his hand under his nose and sniffed it, then touched his butt, "Pah! It stinks like chicken shit!"
"It's stinky, isn't it stinky when you're planting rice and throwing manure?"
"I didn't throw shit!"
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes, rolled up the vines and put them into the sack, "Master Zhou, you are so delicate, please carry the light ones, and I, a poor old woman, will carry the heavy ones."
"I don't want to bother with you. All you do is brainwash me all day long." Zhou Huaian turned and walked towards the pile of incense.
Yang Chunyan glanced at him, picked up the sack, placed it horizontally on her backpack, tied it up with a hemp rope, stood up with the help of the medicine hoe, and turned around to see Zhou Huaian also coming over with a full basket of mountain incense on his back.
The two walked down the mountain together. Yang Chunyan saw a field of charcoal grass, as well as Panax notoginseng, yam, and amaryllis orchids in full bloom. At first glance, the forest was more beautiful than the most beautiful picture!
Zhou Huaian pointed at a bird with blue feathers and said, "Yan'er, look at what kind of bird that is. Its feathers are so pretty!"
The little bird was not afraid of people. It stood on the branch and tilted its head to look at the two strangers.
After seeing it, Yang Chunyan realized that she had never seen such a beautiful bird before. She smiled and shook her head, "I can't recognize it."
She thought that if only she had a cell phone, she could take a picture and post it on a certain audio channel, maybe someone would recognize it!
Zhou Huaian was reluctant to move, "It's so beautiful, I've never seen it before."
"Let's go! We'll see you again later."
"Yeah!" When they reached the foot of the mountain, the two of them hunched over and climbed up.
The sun shone through the gaps in the trees, casting floating mottled shadows and causing heat to rush up. The originally cool forest also became stuffy.
The two of them were out of breath. Yang Chunyan took a sip of water and handed the kettle to Zhou Huaian, "Are you thirsty?"
Zhou Huaian panted and shook his head, "I'm not thirsty, but my feet are sore and the soles of my feet hurt!"
Yang Chunyan also felt her legs were sore, so she estimated the distance and said, "Let's walk for another ten minutes. If we don't find anything good, we'll go back."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at her, "..." I don't believe you! Greedy woman.
(End of this chapter)
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