"Fuck, open your squinty eyes and see clearly, what is that? Not only is the hunting rifle more advanced than our homemade guns, but the amazing thing is that they also have a rifle!"
"Monkey, a wise man should not suffer a loss in front of him, or should we just withdraw?"
Monkey looked at the three people on the tractor unwillingly, "I really can't accept this. Every time Zhou Laoyao goes to the village to collect herbs, he carries several hundred yuan with him!"
"A few hundred bucks is nothing. There are more when it's time to harvest truffles. That's when we should start."
The other two had already seen clearly that Zhou Huaian was holding a rifle, and then they looked at the worn-out hunting rifle next to Yuanlian, and completely gave up the idea of robbing him.
"When we were collecting truffles, there were more than a dozen of them in one car. They wanted to rob us? I think they were asking for a beating."
"They were armed with rifles. I didn't have the guts to go. I might as well not get any money but lose my life."
"Go back first and find another chance next time!" The monkeys retreated from the bushes and hunched their bodies as they retreated deeper into the forest.
Xu Hongbing, who was standing in the tractor bed, saw the bushes in the woods swaying a few times, and quickly raised his shotgun, "Youngest, there's movement in the woods!"
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian stood up and loaded his gun. Li Wu clenched the wooden stick in his hand, ready to fight.
Xu Hongbing stared at the woods for a while, "Youngest, those people seem to have run away!"
Li Wu looked at Zhou Huaian and said, "I'll go and drag the pine tree. You take care of the situation."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian and Xu Hongbing stared at the forest until Li Wu moved the pine tree away and ran back. There was still no movement in the forest. He handed him the gun and said, "You hold the weapon, I will go all out and fire at it."
"Okay!" Li Wu and Xu Hongbing were monitoring the woods with guns in hand. The tractor was rumbling with black smoke and reached the top of the slope, but there was no sign of the robbers.
Xu Hongbing asked loudly, "Youngest brother, could it be that those scoundrels from Baicaoping are targeting us?"
Zhou Huaian had several malicious looks in front of him. "Do you remember the skinny monkey who brought those two Ganoderma lucidum that day?"
Xu Hongbing thought for a moment and said, "Remember, those with shiny eyes are not good people at first glance."
Li Wu also remembered, "Yes, I saw him and a few other shifty-looking people secretly watching you for a long time before they came over."
Zhou Huaian: "The skinny monkey seems to be from Baicaoping?"
Xu Hongbing nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I called Brother Zhang a skinny monkey when I heard him!"
"When we get to Baicaoping, we must tell Secretary Zhang what happened today! When Old Xu gets there, go find the villagers and ask about Skinny Monkey's whereabouts today."
"Okay, I'll ask when I get there."
The sun had already risen when the tractor arrived at Baicaoping. The villagers who were waiting in the drying dam surrounded him with their backpacks as soon as he stopped. Zhou Huaian looked around but didn't see the skinny monkey among the villagers.
Zhang Laoer happily pointed at the herbs in the basket and said, "Youngest, we were lucky this time. We dug more than ten kilograms of Gastrodia elata and found a few kilograms of purple Ganoderma lucidum."
Another villager happily handed over the basket and said, "Youngest, what do you think of these mulberry flowers I have?"
A middle-aged man grinned and put down his backpack, "What's yours? These few authentic mulberry flowers are much better."
"I also got more than ten kilograms of old honey, take a look!"
These mulberry yellow flowers are safe, take them back and store them until the price goes up before selling them. Zhou Huaian nodded happily, "Everyone come one by one, a dozen people will be done in a short time."
Li Wu brought down the beam scale, and Zhou Huaian picked out the Gastrodia elata that Zhang Laoer had poured out, and put the big ones that could weigh down your hands in one pile, the medium ones in another pile, and the small ones in another pile.
He recalled the prices Wang Zhen had told him, and after weighing them, he said to Zhang Laoer, "10 yuan a catty for 4 catties and 2 ounces, and 7 yuan a catty for 5 catties and 6 ounces, a total of 81.2 yuan."
"Yeah!" Zhang Laoer happily took the money and said cheerfully, "Youngest, come home for lunch before going back?"
"No!" Zhou Huaian said with a bitter face, "I'll come to collect it this time, I may not come next time..."
"Ah~" The villagers waiting to sell herbs looked at him in surprise, "Why? What happened?"
Zhang Laoer said anxiously: "Yeah, what's going on? Tell me about it!" The price offered by those herbal medicine collectors in the town was more than half of the price offered by Zhou Laoyao. If he didn't come, he would suffer a great loss.
Zhou Huaian smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I want to come. You can make more money, and I can make some money to escape. The main reason is that when I came here today, someone cut down a pine tree and blocked the road. Fortunately, we borrowed a rifle this time so nothing happened. I'm worried that I won't be so lucky next time. Money is important, but life is more important. I have a wife and children waiting for me to support!"
Zhang Laoer thought for a moment and said, "Youngest, did you see clearly what kind of person he is?"
Zhou Huaian shook his head, "No! Maybe because they saw we had guns, those people didn't show up!"
After hearing this, the middle-aged man said angrily: "It must be that those herbalists saw that you took away their business, so they called the second-rate guys to take revenge!"
Zhou Laoya offered a much higher purchase price than those herbal medicine dealers in the town.
The price he paid for the mulberry trees' polytrichum foetida that he sold last year was not as high as the price Zhou Laoyao paid for the polytrichum foetida from miscellaneous trees.
I heard that he charges 160 yuan per kilogram for good quality mulberry trees, while those in the town only give 50 yuan, which is several times the difference. He is really cruel.
Now they and the herb collectors in Baicaopo would rather carry the herbs from Bailing Mountain and sell them to him than sell them to those herb dealers who come to collect them.
The man selling the miscellaneous wood mulberry also nodded, "That's right, those black-hearted bastards want to drive Zhou Laoyao away, and they are still buying our herbs at a lower price like before."
"Yes, yes, that must be the case. Those who died a miserable death have made a lot of dirty money from us over the years."
"Youngest, don't be afraid. I'll go find my old man and ask him to ask those scoundrels. If that doesn't work, we'll send someone to pick you up at the intersection!" After saying this, Zhang Laoer hurried away with his backpack.
Before Zhou Huaian finished weighing, Secretary Zhang arrived. As soon as he saw him, he said, "Youngest brother, don't worry, just come the day after tomorrow. We'll send someone to pick you up at the intersection until we find out which bastard did it."
He asked around and found out that the skinny guys had gone out early in the morning and hadn't come back yet. The ones who went out to rob people might be these bastards!
Zhou Huaian said gratefully: "Thank you, Uncle Zhang! We were really scared today. We were afraid that something might happen on the road. The three of us are the strong laborers in the family. We were afraid that something might happen on the road and leave our wives and children behind. It would be miserable."
Xu Hongbing took over the conversation, "Secretary Zhang, the tractor driver from our neighboring construction team has been injured by a robber for more than half a year. He has spent a lot of money, but he still can't do any heavy work. His wife and children are suffering as well."
Secretary Zhang nodded, "I've heard about this, too. Don't worry, I'll have someone meet you at the intersection the day after tomorrow. Once I find the person, I'll give you an explanation."
Zhou Huaian also said readily: "Thank you Uncle Zhang, with your escort, I have nothing to fear. We will definitely come the day after tomorrow."
Several herbalists from Baicaopo and Bailing Mountain also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
Secretary Zhang waited for Zhou Huaian to put away the herbs, then told him the news he had heard, and promised to catch the skinny guy and find out if there was anyone behind this.
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Yang Chunyan, Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang also arrived at the hilltop where they had searched for the purple ganoderma last time. After the rain, the forest was lush and green, and the mountain flowers were in full bloom.
The three of them waded through the flooded creek. Not long after they entered the mountain, they saw more than a dozen leeches crawling on their boots, constantly crawling upwards.
"This thing is the most disgusting and annoying thing when we go into the mountains in March and April. Fortunately, we tied our trouser legs tightly with cloth tape when we came up, otherwise it would have drilled in and sucked our blood long ago."
Yang Chunyan took out a medicine bottle, poured some salt out and sprinkled it on her boots, then looked at the leeches that fell on the ground and felt sick.
The scientific name of the dry leech is Hirudo. It likes to live in humid environments in dry lands and is more common in mountains and streams. Mountain leeches are particularly long and slender. Some are more than one meter long. They are like a piece of meat thread on the ground. If you look closely, you will see them wriggling.
Land leeches often live in moist mountain grasslands or bamboo forests and are famous "vampires" in the mountains.
Zhang Xiuxiang rubbed the goose bumps on her hands. "This thing will come out as soon as it rains. It may hide in the soil like a lazy cicada, and it will come out when the time comes."
Zhao Huifang said with a smile: "When the lazy cicadas come out, we will catch them and fry them to eat. We didn't enjoy them last year!"
Yang Chunyan: "I couldn't bear to use oil last year, but this year we planted so much rapeseed, we can fry as much as we want."
At this time, Zhang Xiuxiang pointed to the arrow-like stems in the grass on the slope and said, "Chunyan, look, are those the Gastrodia elata you found last year?"
Yang Chunyan turned her head and looked in the direction she pointed, and saw several stems of Gastrodia elata. "Yes, that's Gastrodia elata. The Gastrodia elata we dug these two days are not as good as those dug in winter. We can dig these and plant them back."
"Okay!" Zhang Xiuxiang happily picked up the hoe and went forward to start digging.
After Yang Chunyan and Zhao Huifang helped her dig it out, the three of them continued to walk forward, picked a handful of March bubble and put them in their mouths. It tasted sour and sweet and was very refreshing.
Zhao Huifang was the first to find the Ganoderma lucidum under a tree stump and happily squatted down to pick it.
Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang continued to move forward. She found a few purple Ganoderma lucidum as big as spoons, picked up some dead leaves to cover them and continued to move forward.
The clover in the forest had already blossomed and borne fruit. She dug up some seedlings and asked Zhao Huifang and the other person to dig some as well.
Yang Chunyan walked forward while digging. When she came to a dead tree, she saw several Ganoderma lucidum on the stump and smiled, "Finally, it's open."
I picked three bowl-sized Ganoderma lucidums from the tree stump, and then picked up a few smaller ones along the roots of the tree. I also found a red Ganoderma lucidum. Then I went back and found two Ganoderma lucidums with reverse stalks on the dead tree trunk.
This type of Ganoderma lucidum looks different from other varieties. Its cap is facing downwards and its stem is facing upwards. It grows in the opposite direction, so it is called reverse-stalked Ganoderma lucidum.
It is also a kind of Ganoderma lucidum, also known as wild purple ganoderma and horse hoof ganoderma. The surface is purple-black to black, with a lacquer-like luster, warm in nature, light in taste, and has a nourishing and strengthening effect. (End of this chapter)
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