During lunch, Zhou's father told Zhou's mother and grandfather about growing mugwort. Neither of them objected and said that they should dig some up first to see if it can be grown, and then plant it in large quantities.
Who doesn't know about mugwort? As long as the soil is loose and enough fertilizer is applied, it will grow quickly after a rain. It would be strange if it doesn't survive!
In fact, the two elderly people have tasted the benefits of growing cash crops in the past two years. In addition, now is not like before. Even if you have money, you cannot buy food without a ticket.
Now, if you want to buy, you can just go to Zhou Ding's mother-in-law's house and find a few families, and you can buy tens of thousands of kilograms of grain.
In the afternoon, Zhou Huaian and others were still watering the fields when Wang Zhen and Yang Dongmei came. The two rested for a while and then went with them to take a look at the forest where they were planting saplings.
Seeing the reservoir and bamboo pipes in the woods, Wang Zhen praised them highly.
Zhou Huaian and his wife took the two to see the beehive in the forest, and then took them to the ditch and pointed to the forest opposite. "There are a lot of bamboo fungi in the forest. We came here too late last year and didn't pick up many. This year, we came as soon as it rained and tried to pick up more."
Yang Dongmei laughed and said, "In our area, no one picks up this thing when it blooms and withers in the bamboo forest. The main reason is that after it blooms and withers, it smells so strong that it makes people dizzy."
"If your sister hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known to pick them up. Oh! There are also golden cicada flowers. We have to look carefully for them in the bamboo forest this year." Zhou Huaian said with a proud look on his face.
Seeing his smug look, Yang Dongmei turned her head and complained in her heart: It's because you didn't live up to expectations in the past, so I had no choice but to rack my brains to find ways to make money.
The four of them walked around in the woods and came back. Yang Chunyan and Zhou's mother started cooking, while Yang Dongmei took Xiao Jiuer to bed.
Zhou Huaian took Wang Zhen to Zhou Yiding's house, planning to go to the bamboo forest to cut hard springs to make antenna poles. "I forgot to ask you, what does the antenna you mentioned look like? I heard that the one that comes with the TV is useless and can't receive TV programs."
"I haven't watched TV at other houses. I think it's good and clear when I watch it at your house. I thought they were all the same. I heard from Ding Ding Cat that the TV signals at other houses are not good and there are snow dots on the screen."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "It's the antenna that I have at home that is specially used to receive signals. As long as you put the antenna pole higher, the received signal will be very good."
"My mom said that Aunt Chen, who raises pigs, wants to buy a TV. I asked her to tell her to go to your house to buy it on Labor Day. Also, Uncle Xu's family and Uncle Datian's family are also planning to buy one. I think you need to bring in more goods. In the future, more and more families will definitely buy TVs."
"But in the future, there will be more and more people opening shops to do business, and the same goes for people collecting mountain products. We have to build up our foundation now so that we can have the capital to do what we want in the future."
Zhou Huaian thought of the pharmaceutical factory Yang Chunyan mentioned, "Wang Zhen, what do you like to do most besides being a doctor?"
Wang Zhen thought for a moment, "I also want to have a large forest like you do, where I can grow all kinds of herbs. When I have the ability, I want to build a pharmaceutical factory. My grandfather collected a lot of prescriptions in the past, and they are all treasures. If I make them well, they can help more people avoid the torture of illness."
Zhou Huaian felt a little pain in his heart, and after a while he responded: "I thought you wanted to open a hospital!"
"I have never really thought about opening a hospital." Wang Zhen thought he might be like that. He had seen many grandfathers racking their brains to cure patients, but in the end they still had to watch the patients die. He felt a little disgusted with the feeling of being powerless to cure the disease.
I just thought of making money by opening a pharmaceutical factory, thinking that this way I wouldn't have to come into contact with patients, and it would be good to simply make and sell drugs.
The three of them walked around in the bamboo forest for a few rounds and found two old, thick, hard-headed springs. They cut them down and carried them home. They also found the remaining cement and prepared to make a cement pier.
Pour the cement mixed with sand and gravel into a bamboo basket with an exposed bottom, insert a piece of bamboo in the center of the cement pier, and when the cement is filled, pull out the bamboo and wait for it to dry.
For dinner, Zhou Yiding's family of three also came. We had eel braised with garlic, wild duck and mushroom soup, gray stork braised with dried bamboo shoots, and dry-pot turtledove cooked after braising.
After chopping it into pieces and stir-frying with other spices, pour in lettuce strips, potato cubes, cooked white beans, and onions. It tastes spicy and both adults and children will like it.
After eating and drinking, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding took Wang Zhen to the river to shoot birds, while Yang Chunyan and her sister-in-law began to clean up.
Zhou Jiakang, a foodie, was chewing a piece of turtledove wing diligently. As he chewed, he said to his mother, "Grandma, who made today's turtledove stew? It's delicious, much better than the last time."
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "Your aunt made it. She said it was a dry pot turtledove."
"Dry pot turtledove, dry pot chicken, dry pot yellow eel, dry pot mountain crab." Zhou Jiakang turned his head to look at Zhang Xiuxiang, and thought he didn't dare to let her kill the chicken. "Mom, let's go catch some mountain crabs on Sunday and you can make dry pot crabs."
Zhang Xiuxiang cleared the dishes in front of him without even saying a word to him. Zhou Xiaoqian glared at him unhappily. This kid needed to clean up. He just thought about eating all day long.
Wan Xuejiao looked at Zhou Jiakang with amusement, who immediately became as quiet as a dove, and asked, "Xiaokang, are you more afraid of your sister or your mother?"
Zhou Jiakang glanced at Zhou Xiaoqian who was walking away with the bowl in her hand, and whispered, "They are all scared. My husband and I are the worst offenders in my family. We are bullied by these two every day."
Wan Xuejiao suppressed her laughter and said, "You can't beat them?"
"It's not that I can't beat him, it's that I don't dare to fight." When Zhou Jiakang saw Zhou Xiaoqian coming, he hurriedly went to the yard to beat paper shells with a bone in his mouth.
After Yang Chunyan had packed up, Zhou's mother asked her to play with Yang Dongmei and Wan Xuejiao while she went to feed the pigs. Then they sat at the tea table outside the main room and talked.
Little Jiuer looked at the chubby white little guy lying in his cradle, and curiously stretched out his chubby index finger and poked his fair and tender face.
He looked up and saw Wan Xue looking at him with a sweet smile. He threw himself into Yang Chunyan's arms a little embarrassedly, "Mom, brother, wake up!"
Yang Chunyan understood immediately after seeing this and said with a smile: "Yes, my brother grows taller when he sleeps, you can't poke him secretly!"
Xiao Jiuer looked up and poked her with her finger, "Qingqing, huhu!"
Yang Chunyan acted as an interpreter and said to Wan Xuejiao, "He wanted Xiaolong to play with him, so he poked him secretly when he saw him sleeping, and his face turned red. His grandmother told him to be gentle next time, and also asked him to blow on the red spot on Xiaolong's face, and he remembered it."
"Oh my! How can this little rascal be so clever!" Wan Xuejiao smiled and hugged him over, "Auntie knows, our Jiuer was very gentle and didn't hurt his brother. Look, his brother didn't even cry."
"Little lazy pig." Xiao Jiuer looked at Xiao Wan and suddenly said.
Everyone laughed. Yang Chunyan said with a smile, "Your husband said that you learned to be a little stupid pig this morning. Who taught you to be a little lazy pig?"
Zhou Xiaoqian, who was listening to the radio nearby, said embarrassedly: "I was teaching Xiaokang to do his homework the other day, but he couldn't understand it. I told him he was a little stupid pig, and Jiuer learned it. He learns things very quickly."
Zhou's mother passed by carrying a pig feed bucket. She laughed and said, "I learn to speak from my brothers and sisters every day. I don't know who I learned a bad saying from that day. I came back and told everyone I met."
Zhou Jiakang stood up after hearing this and said, "I know. I learned it from Brother Liang. That day, Brother Ming said that he stepped on poop in the school toilet twice in a row. Second brother said that he was unlucky, so Xiao Jiuer learned it from him."
Seeing that his embarrassing story was publicized by Zhou Jiakang, Zhou Jiaming rolled his eyes at him and said, "You're such a bitch!"
"Talkative woman!" The little guy immediately learned another sentence, making everyone laugh.
Wan Xuejiao looked at the sky, picked up Xiao Wan from the cradle, and said to Yang Chunyan, "Sister-in-law, it's getting dark, I'm going back first!"
"I'll take you there." Yang Chunyan took Xiao Jiuer by the hand and sent her to the grove. She saw Ma Chunhua sitting on a stone bench at the gate to eat. "Sister Ma, come and eat!"
"Yeah!" Ma Chunhua stood up with the bowl in hand and walked over to them, "Have you heard that a hunter from the construction team was killed by a bear? I heard that the bear chewed his face to pieces."
Yang Chunyan and Wan Xuejiao were both shocked. "Where did you bite him?"
"Beside the ditch beside the old forest." Ma Chunhua paused, "It is said that three hunters from the Construction Brigade went into the old forest to hunt wild animals together, and they got a lot of good things in the mountains.
When they were about to leave the mountain, they caught another little bear. The old bear chased it to the edge of the old forest and killed the man carrying the little bear. The old bear was also beaten to death by them.
Now the family of the deceased wants the other three families to compensate them with all the money they earned from selling the wild animals. The other two families refused and only agreed to give him the share that he deserved, and then the others gave him 10% of the money as compensation.
"There's nothing we can do if the deceased's family refuses to agree. Those who go with us are all brothers from the same family. Even if we make a scene, we won't find anyone to help. I heard that the eldest child in that family is only seven years old, and the youngest is only four. It's a big sin!"
Wan Xuejiao said thankfully: "My Yiding and Brother Zhou didn't go to the old forest. They just wandered around the back mountain and usually dug some herbs. They were lucky to encounter a red deer after the New Year."
"When you sold venison, my family also bought some for Lao Lin to eat. It's really nutritious." Ma Chunhua smiled at the two of them, "Don't mind me, I told you this just to remind you, so that the youngest and the others won't go to Lao Lin, because it's not safe there."
"Thank you, Sister Ma!" Yang Chunyan said with a smile, "Old Xiazi told them that in addition to the old bear, there are other powerful wild animals in the old forest. If you encounter them, those who react a little slowly won't even have a chance to shoot.
Unless you can no longer make ends meet, there is no need to risk going to the old forest. Also, when you go into the mountains to look for mountain products, don’t be too greedy. Just take what you can get. If you encounter wild animals, catch the big ones and let the small ones go. It is best not to take anything that you shouldn’t take.”
Ma Chunhua nodded, "That's right, I've heard from the old people before that chasing people in the mountains has its own rules. In my opinion, it was because those people were too greedy. They got so many valuable things and took away the old bear's cub. They lost their lives in vain." (End of this chapter)
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