Zhou Yumei took the sweet and sour pork out of the steamer with a smile on her face, and put a plate upside down inside it. "Here it is, the sweet and sour pork is served."
"There is also roasted rabbit meat!" Yang Chunyan put the pottery bowl on the table, and then pumpkin buns, tiger skin chili peppers, and cold eggplant were also served.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Huaishan came out carrying Hericium erinaceus. "Yiding said to give two to Wang Zhen's family, keep two for themselves, and put the rest in the oven to dry and send to Ning An to sell for money."
After hearing this, the old man waved his hand and said, "Youngest, don't keep such expensive things. Sell them all for money."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Grandpa, think about it, other people have to spend money to buy food, and we picked it up for free, so we should eat it."
Zhou's mother gave him a look and said, "These two flowers weigh more than one kilogram each. When we were in the supply and marketing cooperative, they sold for more than ten or twenty yuan per kilogram. Now they are worth at least several dozen yuan. Listen to Grandpa and sell them for money."
Yang Chunyan said, "Mom, Grandpa, eating Hericium erinaceus is good for your health. Just listen to Huai'an and save two for yourself."
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "We have found a nest. We will try it this year and sell it all for money next year."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother had no choice but to say, "Then we can exchange them for two smaller ones to eat at home, and sell the larger ones for a higher price."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian picked out two small ones, put the rest of the Hericium erinaceus into the baking tray, put it into the oven before sitting down to eat.
He ate a piece of sweet but not greasy meat with sand in it, "Hey! Didn't you go to the ditch to dig herbs today? You have time to prepare such a troublesome meat with sand in it."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes, we went there. When we got to the bamboo forest, the hairy pear trees growing on the edge of the ditch had covered the entire surface of the ditch, so we went to the bamboo forest..."
Zhou Huaian and his brothers were all interested after hearing this, "Are there really so many bamboo fungi?"
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "We went a little late. If we went earlier, there would be more. My sister-in-law said..."
Zhou Huaishan was very brave. "Why should we be afraid of a cemetery? No matter who dies, we have to go in. It's foolish not to make money. Let's go pick bamboo fungus tomorrow."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "I'm going to Ning'an to deliver the goods tomorrow. Chunyan, if you don't dare to go, let big brother and the others go. Dahuang from Dingdingmao's family is at our house, so bring Dahuang and Laifu with you tomorrow."
"Okay, we still have one more day to play tomorrow, let's go to the bamboo forest to pick bamboo fungus together." Zhou Huairong said, "The town said they would come to see the forest in a few days. And there's the matter of He Jianjun's grandson. Yumei is worried that not signing the letter of understanding will affect Xiaoxi. What do you think, youngest brother?"
Zhou Huaian was stunned for a moment, "How can his detention affect Xiaoxi? Didn't my sister get a marriage certificate with He Jianjun?"
Zhou Yumei replied, "We didn't get the marriage certificate, but everyone in the neighborhood knows what kind of relationship Xiaoxi and He Jianjun have. I'm worried that when the child grows up, people will talk about He Jianjun's affairs."
"So what do you think?" After she said that, Zhou Huaian was at a loss, because he had long experienced how sharp the mouths of those gossipy women in the village were. Even a trivial matter could be exaggerated and changed into several versions in less than half a day.
Zhou Yumei wanted to teach He Jianjun and his brother-in-law a lesson, but she also had to consider the views of the neighbors. "I haven't thought about it yet. How about I do as Chunyan said and see who can persuade them to speak up?"
Zhou Huaian: "Then wait until they arrive and you can make a decision based on the situation!"
After the family had finished their meal, Zhou Huaian took out the dried Hericium erinaceus and put it in a dustpan. "This stuff shrinks rapidly. There is only one pound of dried stuff left at most."
Zhou Huaishan weighed it and nodded, "The loss of this thing is about the same as that of the red mushroom."
"Who cares? I'll sell as many as I can!" Zhou Huaian said, then picked up the Hericium erinaceus and sent it upstairs to dry.
After coming down from upstairs, he took out the basket containing honey and mushrooms, took out half of the chicken mushrooms and morels, and asked Zhou Jiaming and others to deliver them to Zhou Yiding's house. The rest were given to Zhou's mother. After cleaning them, those that needed to be dried were put away, and those that needed to be kept for fried mushroom sauce were kept.
Zhou Huaian took out the honey filter bucket and gauze and began to filter the honey. The yard was filled with the aroma of honey. "Try today's honey and see if it tastes the same as before?"
Zhou Jiakang took a piece of honey and said after eating it: "It's so sweet, and it tastes like cough syrup."
The three Zhou Xiaoqian sisters also nodded, "Yeah! It has that smell!"
"Then I'll pack the honey separately." Zhou Huaian said as he broke off some honey combs and fed them to Zhou Xiaoxi, "You can also try it and see if it tastes good."
Xiao Jiuer, who was sitting in the sedan chair, was fed up and started yelling at him.
Zhou Huaian smiled and smeared a little honey on his mouth. Seeing him licking his lips, he laughed, "After all this time, our little Jiuer is still a greedy cat!"
"Who doesn't like sweet things?" Yang Chunyan fed the pigs and walked to the honey bucket. "Have you found honey nectar?"
Zhou Huaian pointed at the honey comb in the colander and said, "This is a bit similar, but the taste is a bit different from the one I had before. I will filter it out separately and send it to Ning'an for Wang Zhen to see."
Yang Chunyan dipped a little and tasted it. She felt that the taste was a little different from the multi-flower honey, old honey and winter honey she had eaten before. "Maybe there is honey nectar in it, but it's not that pure."
"Ding Ding Cat and I think so too." Zhou Huaian picked up the honey comb with a long wooden chopstick to make the honey filter out faster.
Zhou's mother and the others washed the mushrooms, put the morels in the oven, and said to Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, watch the oven and bring them out when you hear the alarm. We'll go to the old house and bring over the eggs, chickens and ducks that we're going to deliver tomorrow."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian agreed, picked up the gauze bag and started squeezing the honey, while the old man helped with a shovel.
It was almost ten o'clock when the family finished packing. Zhou Huaian walked into the room in his slippers and looked at Yang Chunyan lazily, "Today is the earliest I've slept in the past few months."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan handed him the passbook. "Third brother has already deposited the money distributed today, and Wang Zhen told him that there will be land for sale near the hotel after National Day. The price may be higher than when we bought it, so he asked Wang Zhen to help sign up."
Zhou Huaian glanced at the folded paper, opened the cabinet and put it away, then sat down on the bed and looked at her with a smile, "In this way, we have made money from our purchases!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "It's not much if I make a little money!"
"As long as there's money to be made, that's fine." Zhou Huaian smiled and put his hand on her soft waist, hugged her and kissed her...
The next morning, Zhou Huaian rode away on his bicycle, carrying honey, golden thread vine, Hericium erinaceus, badger pork and oil.
When we arrived at Zhou Yiding's house and knocked on the door a few times, he yawned and came out pushing his bicycle. "I haven't woken up yet. When the alarm rang, I didn't even want to get up."
Zhou Huaian handed him the bamboo basket containing the badger pig on the back seat, "Lazy dog, take it and hang it up and go!"
"Hmm!" Zhou Yiding took the bamboo basket and hung it up. "How much honey did you filter out?"
"I didn't weigh it, but I guess it's about ten pounds?" Zhou Huaian waited for him to hang it up, and the two of them got on their bikes and walked forward. "It's still cooler to ride a bike in the morning."
Zhou Yiding yawned again, "No matter how cool it is, it's not as comfortable as lying in bed."
Zhou Huaian glanced at him with a smile, "Don't be too busy at night, or you won't be able to do it when you are young."
"Climb!" Zhou Yiding turned around and bumped into him. "It's not what you think. Wang Chunming came home from behind my house last night. He said he saw a pair of other men's shoes in front of the bed when he entered the house. He chased out and saw someone opening the gate and running away. He disappeared when he chased out."
"Fuck~" Zhou Huaian looked gossipy, "Wang Chunming is always out breaking rocks, who is his wife hooking up with?"
"I don't know. Anyway, I didn't hook up with his wife." Zhou Yiding shook his head. "Even so, his wife still said that he slandered her and threatened to jump into a well to commit suicide. She was so cuckolded, but Wang Chunming, that coward, was afraid that she would jump into the well and die, so he frightened her into admitting his mistake to her."
Zhou Huaian was shocked, "I just realized there are quite a lot of adulterers in the village."
“You just realized this?” Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes and rushed down the slope.
The two of them rode their bicycles halfway when they stopped a tractor, climbed on it, took a nap, and arrived in Ning'an.
The vegetables were delivered to Huang Yongcai, who asked for two badger pigs. The two of them carried the other one and a half to the north city vegetable market. Seeing that the clinic was not open yet, they put down the bamboo basket and prepared to set up a stall outside Deshengtang to sell the meat of the two badgers.
Just as I set up the stall, an old man with gray hair and wearing cafeteria clothes and riding a three-wheeled vehicle stopped in front of the stall. "Badger pork?"
"Yes, badger pork!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "Uncle knows what's good. Would you like two pounds?"
The old man got out of the car and looked at it. "How much is one pound?"
Zhou Huaian: "Two dollars and six cents per pound."
The old man saw that the badger lard was still there and said, "I want to buy one, including the badger lard, for two dollars and sixty cents. Do you want to sell it?"
Zhou Huaian shook his head, "No, if you buy one, the meat will be 2.5 yuan, and the oil will be 10 yuan per pound."
The old man hesitated for a moment after hearing this, "Oil is 9.5 yuan, meat is 2.4 yuan, if they are on sale, I will buy it."
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and thought that the badger meat they sold to Huang Yongcai was only 2.2 yuan per catty, and it was already good to be able to get 2.2 yuan per catty for one.
"Okay, if you're straightforward, I'll be straightforward too!" Zhou Huaian said as he took out a beam scale from the bamboo basket and put the badger lard on the scale pan, "One pound and nine ounces."
Zhou Yiding helped to lift the meat and hang it on the scale hook. After weighing it, it weighed 24 pounds and 6 ounces. Zhou Huaian calculated the bill, and the old man paid the money. He turned around and saw the Hericium erinaceus in the bamboo basket.
He walked forward and picked up one, looking at it over and over again, "Did you pick it up in the mountains?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Of course I picked it up in the mountains. We can't grow it."
The old man looked up at the two of them and asked, "Sell it or not?"
Zhou Huaian said with some embarrassment: "We sent it here to sell to Deshengtang. We didn't ask the price, and we don't know the current price."
"I haven't bought them for a long time. They were around 20 yuan a pound two years ago!" The old man thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you 31 pounds. Sell me these two fresh flowers."
Zhou Yiding pulled him back and said, "Youngest, let's save those two fresh flowers for Doctor Wang." (End of this chapter)
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