Chapter 442 Chapter 444: So Good
Yang Chunyan looked at Yang Weiguo and said, "Brother, after the first batch of goods is sold, don't send me the profit yet. Buy more wine and soak it in wine and sell it slowly."
Yang Weiguo nodded and said, "It's best to store the truffle wine for half a year or a year before selling it for the best taste."
Zhou Huaian: "There are many empty houses at home, so I will store the wine for half a year or a year before selling it!"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "I need to talk to Dr. Xiao Wang. Truffle wine cannot be sold like loose wine. It needs to be packaged like the bottled wines sold in the agency stores, half a pound per bottle or a pound per bottle before being sold!"
"Okay, let's make the wine first!"
A few people were chatting while waiting for Yang Weidong to pull over two jars of 60-proof sorghum wine. They lifted the jars onto the tractor, tied them up with ropes, and stuffed them tightly with straw to prevent them from being damaged by the bumps on the road.
Yang Chunyan gave him the money and said, "Brother Weidong, please send us a few more jars of wine when it's ready."
"That's right!" Yang Weidong took the money and took a wine jar from the cart and gave it to her. "Red potato wine doesn't make you drunk. Take it and try it."
Yang Chunyan happily took it and said, "Thank you very much!"
After seeing Yang Weidong off, Sister Yang brought out two bowls of egg noodles and said, "It's already past five o'clock. Eat a bowl of noodles before going back."
Yang Chunyan looked at the bowl that was almost as big as Zhou Huaian's head, "After eating such a big bowl, I don't have to cook when I get home."
Mrs. Yang smiled and said, "Eat more noodles so that the child will be strong."
Before leaving, Yang's mother brought out another earthenware jar and said, "I brewed some fermented glutinous rice wine for you to boil eggs with."
"Hehe! When we come back, we'll carry all the big and small jars home." Zhou Huaian happily took them and put them in the truck bed, watching Yang Chunyan saying goodbye to Yang's mother.
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Zhou's family, Zhou Yiding and others had just arrived at the door of Yang Chunyan's house when they saw Xu Hongbing and his mother and son, as well as Li Wu, carrying baskets on their backs, coming around from the south wall of the courtyard.
Wangcai and Lai Fu bared their teeth and gave warning sounds to the three people.
Zhou Yiding patted the two dogs and said, "I know you, don't move!"
The dog immediately lay down and looked at the three people with a vigilant face. He was not familiar with them, so he had to keep an eye on them!
When Xu Hongbing saw them, he quickly took out a cigarette and said, "Yiding, Brother Zhou, you guys are back!"
Which one is your eldest brother? Zhou Huairong glared at him angrily, "No, no!"
Xu Hongbing scratched his head awkwardly, "Yiding, at noon Zhou Laoyao called me and asked me to dig truffles to sell, and also asked me to call Li Wu!"
Mrs. Xu didn't dare to look at them. It was her family that was wrong in the past, and now the youngest Zhou was helping her family. She didn't know why, but she felt more and more ashamed to face the Zhou family.
Li Wu looked at the expressions of Zhou Huairong and the others and felt a little uneasy. "Yes! Hongbing said that your youngest son asked us to go dig truffles to sell. Zhou the youngest son is not at home?"
The Zhou Huairong brothers looked at each other in bewilderment, then looked at Zhou Yiding, "Is it settled?"
Zhou Yiding: “Maybe it’s settled!”
"I'll go ask the third brother!" Zhou Huaishan came over just as Zhou Huairong put down his backpack, "Brother, it's settled."
Zhou Huairong and the others grinned, "Where are the youngest ones?"
"He went into the city and hasn't come back yet!" Zhou Huaishan said as he opened the gate and said to Xu Hongbing and the other two, "Come in, my sister-in-law will come and weigh you right away."
"Great, great!" Xu Hongbing and the other two entered the yard and saw that it was tidy. There was a flower bed about one meter wide against the wall, planted with green onions, coriander, unknown flowers and dahlias.
The windows in the yard are all made of glass, and the doors and windows on the second floor are made of diamond-shaped patterns, which looks comfortable.
On the eaves of the steps there was a large, polished tree stump and a few stools made of round wood.
Zhou Laoyao's brain is really useful. He made the tree stumps that others used to chop for firewood look so stylish. How comfortable! I will make one myself in the future!
Qian Chunhua's eyes widened, "This yard is so nice!"
Li Wu was also a little jealous, "Bashi, when we make some money, we will build one like this!"
Xu Hongbing secretly curled his lips and thought, if you want to build a house like this, you have to kick out the bottomless pit in your family who is cheating on you!
At this time, Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang came over with a beam scale. Zhou Huairong pulled Zhou Huaishan, and the few of them went to the backyard to ask about collecting truffles.
Zhao Huifang pointed at the round wooden stool on the steps and said, "Li Wu, Hongbing, Aunt Xu, please sit down while we pick out the goods and weigh them!"
"Great, great!" Xu Hongbing put down his backpack and pulled Qian Chunhua, and the three of them sat down somewhat awkwardly.
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang took out three samples, "Big, medium and small, three grades, the largest first grade, second grade, third grade, did the youngest tell you the price?"
Xu Hongbing nodded repeatedly, "I told you, first place is one dollar, second place is seven cents, third place is fifty cents, and I also picked up some small pieces to make wine for the youngest one!"
"Thanks!" Zhang Xiuxiang glanced at him and asked, "Did you fill in the soil you dug up when you were digging for truffles?"
Xu Hongbing: "It has been filled. Zhou Laoyao told me that if we find a family that doesn't fill it back, we won't accept it in the future."
Li Wu looked around and asked, "Why are there only me and Hong Bing's family? No one else is here?"
Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "Other families may not know this, but the youngest one is taking care of you and telling you first!"
Xu Hongbing and Li Wu were so excited that they didn't know what to say. "Thank you so much, Zhou Laoyao is so righteous, thank you so much!"
The two sisters-in-law selected the truffles from the two families according to grade and began to weigh them. "Xu Hongbing's first-class goods weigh 5.6 jin, second-class goods weigh 12 jin, and third-class goods weigh 16 jin."
Zhang Xiuxiang took notes with a pen and paper, and then weighed Li Wu's goods. "First-class goods are 3 jin, second-class goods are 7.5 jin, and third-class goods are 9.4 jin! These pieces are rotten and have a lot of worm holes. We won't accept them. You can take them back."
Qian Chunhua nodded, "That's fine!"
Xu Hongbing pulled Qian Chunhua, who was picking truffles, and said, "No need to take them. Save them for the youngest to make wine."
"Yes, save it for the youngest one to make wine!" Li Wu glanced at him and felt that second-rate people were good at dealing with troubles!
Zhao Huifang smiled and nodded, "I'll give you the money first!"
Zhang Xiuxiang was trying to hold back her laughter. Everyone knows that truffle wine can boost sexual performance. It would be strange if the youngest one knew that you left it for him to make wine.
Xu Hongbing tightly grasped the ten yuan or so handed to him by Zhao Huifang. Both mother and son were very happy. They had dug so much in just one afternoon, so they had to go early tomorrow morning.
Li Wu was also a little excited. It took him four or five days to earn a dozen yuan in the coal mine, but now he earned it in just one afternoon.
The three of them came out of Zhou's house happily and looked at each other, "It really sold for money. We'll go there early tomorrow morning."
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Zhou Huairong and his friends were talking excitedly in the baking room. "After the loudspeaker announcement tomorrow, more people will go up the mountain to dig truffles. We will go and dig up the ones we found today tomorrow morning, and go home early to help select and weigh the goods."
Zhou Huaijun thought for a moment, "There will be few people on the first day, but on the second day, people may deliver the goods at noon. It is not worth it for us to help select and clean them at home!"
Zhou Yiding: "We have several sisters-in-law, my second mother, and my second father to help us. When we come back from the mountain tomorrow, we will let them dig around the village, and we will go to the pine forest in the forest farm to dig."
Zhou Huaijun: "If you go to the forest farm, you will only come down once every two days. I will tell my mother later and ask her to find a few aunts in the village who don't have much labor to come to my house to help with the selection and cleaning!"
Zhou Huairong: "Yes! Please ask a few people who are not strong enough to help clean the truffles. We will dig up the truffles from the mountains and sell them. The money will be divided equally among us brothers."
Zhou Yiding laughed and said, "Then you will suffer a loss!"
"That hurts my feelings!" Zhou Huairong stood up and patted him. "The youngest ones haven't come back yet. Let's go to the eldest brother's house and have something to eat."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding agreed readily.
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It was already dark when Yang Chunyan and her friend got home.
Zhou Huaishan saw the wine jar in the truck bed and asked, "Are you really going to make truffle wine to sell?"
Zhou Huairong looked at the four large vats and said, "What do you mean? Buy so much wine to make truffle wine? I think it's more like taking a bath in it!"
Zhou Huaishan: "Doctor Xiao Wang said that we could make truffle wine and send it to the provincial capital to sell. I didn't expect them to act so quickly!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at them and said, "What? If you don't want to do it, I'll do it alone."
Zhou Huaijun immediately expressed his opinion, "Why not?"
Zhou Yiding also nodded, "I won't do this if I can make money from selling it and drink wine!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and patted him, "First take the wine jar down and go into the house to divide the money."
Zhou Huaijun hugged Zhou Yiding and said, "It's not easy! We spent every day in the mountains in such cold weather that we almost got rheumatism. Now we finally get some money!"
A few people carried the wine jar to the corner of the room near the stairs and placed it outside. They felt happy thinking that the small pieces of fungus they dug up would be useful in the future.
Zhou Huaian walked towards the main room and said, "Go in and sit for a while to discuss the wages for the hired help."
"That's right!"
In the backyard, Zhao Huifang told Yang Chunyan about the truffles sent by Xu Hongbing and Li Wu.
Zhou Huairong and his two companions dug up more than 90 kilograms of truffles from the mountain this time. They have already sorted them into different grades, cleaned them, and dried them in bamboo baskets.
Li Qiuyue laughed and said, "When did Laoyao and Yiding become so close to Xu Hongbing?"
Yang Chunyan: "Xu Hongbing told Yiding about Xiong Laoer stealing my trap, and said that most of the bad things in the village were not done by him. The two of them probably remembered the time when they were misunderstood when they were hanging around in the village, so they started talking."
Zhao Huifang thought this was the reason. "After Xiong Laoer was arrested, people in the village were saying that most of the things lost in the village were caused by the Xiong family!"
Li Qiuyue said with certainty: "It was those bastards from the Xiong family who did it!"
After a while, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Datian came in. "I just came back from my father-in-law's house, and I haven't finished writing the agreement yet. Now that you're here, let's have a couple of drinks together. And by the way, can you help me figure out how to write the agreement?"
"Don't bother, I came here after having dinner at home!" Zhou Datian put down his backpack with a smile, "What's there to think about in an agreement? Just have an idea!"
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, help Chunyan cook two dishes and some peanuts!"
"Okay!" Zhao Huifang and Yang Chunyan went to the kitchen to prepare wine and food.
Li Qiuyue and Zhang Xiuxiang began to pick truffles. Except for Zhou Datian's youngest son who was still in school, all three of them went up the mountain. They picked more than 50 kilograms in one afternoon, and sold more than 40 kilograms of truffles in total from several grades.
(End of this chapter)
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