Ma Chunhua looked at Yang Chunyan with admiration, "You are so capable. Why don't you learn medicine from your husband? If you learn it, we won't have to go to the hospital to see a doctor when we are sick."
"Yeah, how can she be so capable! Zhou Laoyao is so lucky to have such a capable wife."
"Sister Ma, this is nothing. Anyone who has seen it will know it..." Yang Chunyan's ears were burning with praise from several people. She turned her head and saw Xiao Jiuer coming over holding Zhou's mother's hand, and she hurried to greet them.
"Mom, mom..." Xiao Jiuer let go of Zhou's mother's hand and ran towards her.
"Slow down, be careful not to fall." Yang Chunyan hurried forward, picked him up and walked into the house, leaving Zhou's mother and Ma Chunhua to exchange a few pleasantries.
Zhao Huifang and the other two came in with baskets on their backs, "Chunyan, how is Wang Chunhua's Xiaomin?"
"Send him to the hospital." Yang Chunyan carried Xiao Jiuer and followed the others to the sink. She told the three of them what had happened.
Li Qiuyue's eyes widened. "Oh my god, it turns out that I ate horse mulberry bubbles. Eating that stuff can really kill people."
"Yes!" Zhao Huifang said to the three people, "We should also tell our kids about it. If they see it on the mountain one day and pick it to eat, they will be in trouble."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan put Xiao Jiuer down, "Be good and don't mess with the mushrooms. Mommy picked some sweet potatoes and washed them for you to eat!"
"Jiuer, have some fruit!" The little guy obediently retreated to the front of the straw bench, turned his head to look left and right, and then sat down.
Li Qiuyue looked at his cautious look, took two wild sweet potatoes and rinsed them under the tap, then walked over to him and squatted, holding up the wild sweet potatoes, "Jiu'er, call Sanniang, and I'll give you some fruit when I call you!"
"Sanniang!" Xiao Jiuer called out crisply.
"Be good!" Li Qiuyue tore a hole in the sweet potato skin and put it in his hand, "Eat the inside and spit out the skin, understand?"
Xiao Jiuer nodded, "Sister Xiaolin, eat!"
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "Oh~ Are you going to save it for your sister to come back and eat?"
"He said that Xiaolin taught him to eat it." Yang Chunyan smiled and helped her son translate. She scooped two spoonfuls of salt into a porcelain basin filled with cold boiled water and poured the rinsed wild sweet potatoes into the basin.
Little Jiuer nodded, took the wild sweet potato and sucked it hard, then put the skin in Li Qiuyue's hand, "Tiantian, Jiuer wants more."
"Oh! Our Jiu'er is smart." Li Qiuyue smiled and gave him two and pinched his chubby earlobes, "Little smart boy!"
Yang Chunyan fished out the wild sweet potatoes and put them into a colander. She went to the cupboard and got out an enamel jar, put the sweet potatoes into the jar, and looked up to see Zhou's mother coming in with Xiaolong in her arms, constantly instructing little tail Zhou Xiaolin.
"Did you hear me? You must not eat the mulberry leaves, or you will end up like Xiao Min, having your intestines washed and injections administered by the hospital."
Zhao Huifang hurriedly said, "Mom, when Xiaowen and the others come back, remember to tell them about it, so that they don't have to run up the mountain to pick horse mulberry trees to drink."
Zhou's mother nodded. "Yes, I have said it before. Oh! That thing is too scary. I will tell them about it when they come back."
Yang Chunyan waved at Zhou Xiaolin, "Eat wild sweet potatoes. We picked them over in the woods. The sweet potatoes over there are all big."
"Wow! So many!" Zhou Xiaolin saw the wild sweet potatoes and ran over happily. She took two and sat next to Xiao Jiuer. "Bad Jiuer, you ate the fruit without calling me. I'm not going to be with you anymore."
After hearing this, Xiao Jiu hurriedly took two and gave them to her, "Sister, Hello Jiuer!"
"Yes!" Zhou Xiaolin nodded with a smile, "Sister is nice to you!"
Yang Chunyan looked at her son who was sitting side by side with Zhou Xiaolin eating fruit, poured the Aconitum into a net bag, hung it on a bamboo pole, and went over to clean all the mushrooms with Zhao Huifang and others.
There was a basket full of mushrooms, including six or seven kinds of mushrooms. Zhao Huifang said to Zhou's mother, "Mom, let's save the mushrooms and stir-fry them to eat in the evening, and make honey mushroom soup. What do you think?"
Mother Zhou took a look and said, "No need. I picked some chicken mushroom flowers from the big pit this morning. I'll chop a piece of pork chop and cook it with those chicken mushrooms to make dumpling soup in the evening."
"Chicken mushroom dumpling soup is the most delicious." Zhao Huifang took out the chicken mushrooms and put them in a colander, then walked towards the oven next door.
Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang brought the honey fungus upstairs, put the dried wood ear fungus in a sack, and spread the honey fungus thinly on the drying mat.
Zhang Xiuxiang pinched the bamboo fungus hanging on the wooden nail to dry, "Chunyan, I think the dried mushrooms are better. They taste much better than those dried in the oven, but they don't look as good."
"When the quantity is small, try to use sun-dried ones. When the quantity is large, you can only use the oven to dry it." Yang Chunyan spread out the last bit, stood up and picked up the bamboo basket, "It's more comfortable in the shade. In the sun, I sweat all over when I move."
"That's right!" Zhang Xiuxiang also picked up the bamboo basket, "She said she would come back to take a nap, but it was already past three o'clock when she was done."
"Yeah! After we finish the rainy season, we won't be so busy later."
"The youngest and third oldest haven't come back yet. It looks like they went to the Baicaoping to collect mushrooms."
"Not necessarily. When Huai'an left, he said to check the road conditions first. If things don't work, he would call the people to the asphalt road."
"I think it's easier to collect it on the side of the asphalt road. If nothing else, it will save me a lot of gas money by not having to travel such a long mountain road."
"It's mainly because there's enough supply over there, especially at the end of the year when truffles are collected. The truffles sent from Chuancheng are much more than those sent from Sancun for sale."
"That's true. If you want to earn money from others, you have to make things more troublesome for yourself."
Yang Chunyan and her friend went downstairs and saw Xiao Jiuer squatting at the door, watching Zhou Xiaolin lying on the ground and fanning match skins with Ma Chunhua's third child. "Xiaolin's temper is really like a boy."
The match skin is the cover of the matchbox. There are several ways to play. One is to bet based on the number of points given by the pattern. Everyone places bets with their backs to each other, which means whoever bets the biggest number has the right to take everyone's match skins to bid.
Another way is to take out the same number of cards before playing, then play "rock, scissors, paper", and the winner takes the first shot.
When taking pictures, put the patterned side facing up, line up the matches one by one in a long dragon, then fan them vigorously. The match skins that turn over will be yours.
"Xiaokang also likes to play this trick on her!" Zhang Xiuxiang laughed after seeing this: "Xiaokang tore up my unused match box last night, and I almost got beaten up."
"The last time I went back to my parents' home, my eldest sister-in-law was also saying that Xiaoshuang and Dashuang asked every day if the match boxes at home had been used up. Once, when they were doing laundry, they took out a colorful stack of them from their trouser pockets."
Just as the two sisters-in-law put the bamboo basket away and closed the backyard door, Zhou Xiaolin at the door shouted at the top of her voice, "Aunt, Second Aunt, the mushroom seller is here."
"Mom, Second Mother, selling mushrooms..." Little Jiuer also ran in with his short legs, grabbed her hand and pointed outside, "Selling mushrooms."
"Jiu'er is so good!" Yang Chunyan smiled and picked him up and kissed him happily, "Be good and play with your sister. Don't go to the ditch!"
"No, I want an injection!" The little guy poked her face with his chubby finger.
Zhang Xiuxiang thought the little guy was so cute, she grabbed him and hugged him, saying with a smile, "Oh my! How can the little one be so well behaved!" Then she pointed to her cheek and said, "Good boy, give me a kiss!"
Xiao Jiuer came forward and kissed her, pointing to the door, "Sister, sister!"
Zhang Xiuxiang carried him to the door, gave Zhou Xiaolin and Lin San a few words of advice, and strode towards the oven.
Yang Chunyan locked the main room door and asked Gouzi to watch the house. When she went out, she saw groups of villagers carrying baskets on their backs walking towards this side. "Xiaolin, play outside for a while, then come to the oven. Watch your brother and don't go to the ditch to play in the water."
"Got it." Zhou Xiaolin hurried over and took Xiao Jiuer's hand, "Aunt, is there a call? We want to watch TV."
"No." Seeing Lin San looking at her eagerly, Yang Chunyan said with a smile, "Be good and don't run around. When the electricity comes back, Auntie will turn it on for you."
There was a power outage early this morning, and she hasn't come yet. She is hoping that the power station downstairs will be completed soon to avoid power outages every now and then.
It was fine during the day, but especially at night when we were working, the light bulb would flicker a few times and the power would be out. Everyone had to busy themselves lighting the lanterns. After getting used to the bright light, they felt that the lanterns were like fireflies that couldn't even illuminate dirty things.
"Oh!" Both children nodded quickly.
Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law were so busy that they didn't stop until dark. The children had been waiting for electricity all afternoon but it didn't come.
The old man took out the lantern and hung it on the shelf, sighing, "Electric lights are better. They are not troublesome. Just pull the switch and it will be bright."
"Grandpa, when the power station down there is repaired, our village will have its own power station. In the future, even if there is a power outage elsewhere, there will be no power outage here."
"I don't know how long it will take to repair it!" The old man hung up another lantern and went back to work.
"I went to check it out yesterday, and the workers said that the water is too high now, so they have stopped working and will wait until the dry season to resume work."
"I heard they were going to build a sluice gate to block the water. Now the river is full of water and we can't stop it from flowing out!"
Everyone was chattering away. Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law were busy sorting and weighing with a few helpers. Zhou Jiaming, Zhou Xiaoqian and other older ones also came to help.
After the villagers who were selling goods were sent away, the people who went out to collect the goods came back, and there was a line of ox carts and tractors outside.
Zhou Yiding and others helped Yang Xiaoxue, who arrived earlier, to unload the goods. Xu Hongbing picked up a basket and walked towards the yard.
Zhou Yiding looked at Xu Hongbing, who was tanned like a loach, and said with a smile: "Old Xu, when you go back, will Sister Xiaofang be able to see you?"
Xu Hongbing didn't understand the meaning of his words and rolled his eyes at him. "Tsk! I'm such a grown man, it would be strange if I can't see it."
Xu Erchun said with a smile: "Old Xu, Ding Dingmao means that you have been tanned into a black boletus mushroom and you can't even be seen with a kerosene lamp."
Xu Hongbing looked at his tanned arms and said with a nonchalant smile, "I'm not looking for a partner, so what's the big deal if an old man gets a little tanned!"
Xu Laosan also laughed, "That's right, I'm already an old man, not a young man, I'm worried that if I get tanned, no girls will like me." (End of this chapter)
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