Chapter 293 281: It's all about money
Yang Chunyan arrived at the backyard and saw Yang Xiaoxue and Fang Zhiqiang coming. She smiled and walked over to them, "Sister, Brother-in-law Fang, when did you get here?"
"I just weighed myself!" Yang Xiaoxue looked at her happily, "Doctor Xiao Wang told me you were here, and I was regretting that I came too late and didn't meet you!"
"I went to the vegetable market for a walk. How have you harvested so far?"
"Not bad. We have allocated a new piece of land, right next to those houses on the road. You can go through there when you enter the city. Just shout and I'll know where you are."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan thought of her two-story house in her previous life, "What do you plan to build it like?"
"We haven't saved much money. I discussed with your brother-in-law and decided to build a three-room brick house like your family. Once the house is built, we will move out and he can live in the old house."
"That's good!" Yang Chunyan thought of the red mushroom harvest. "Huaian has gone to haul cement for someone. If you're not in a hurry to leave, wait for him here and take a tractor to my house. I'll show you something."
"We are going to visit his sister. We will come back to see you when we get back in the afternoon."
"Well! Remember to come, it's a good thing!"
“Yes!”
The three of them carried their backpacks and bamboo baskets, said goodbye to Wang Zhen and went outside the clinic. Yang Xiaoxue and Fang Zhiqiang pushed their bicycles and left.
Yang Chunyan waited for half an hour before she saw Zhou Huaian driving a tractor over. She hurriedly picked up her backpack and carried a bamboo basket to meet him.
Zhou Huaian stopped the car, got out and took the backpack, and whispered, "What's going on?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes!"
Zhou Huaian tied up the backpack and bamboo basket on the cement, looked at his employer who was sitting at the driver's seat, and said, "Uncle Fang, I'm sorry to bother you to sit in the back for a while. My wife just got pregnant..."
Uncle Fang understood immediately and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'll sit in the back. Congratulations, Master Zhou!"
"Thank you, thank you!" Zhou Huaian quickly lit a cigarette for him.
After returning to Fangtian Brigade and unloading the cement, Zhou Huaian drove a tractor out of his employer's house, and Yang Chunyan told him about collecting red mushrooms and truffles.
"Really?" Zhou Huaian looked at her in surprise. "Is it the red mushroom in your dream that can be sold for hundreds of yuan per kilogram?"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan nodded with a smile, "There are also truffles!"
"I know. Your dream..." Zhou Huaian wanted to say it was somewhat true, but he shook his head and said, "It's a good thing. Things that no one wants can be sold for ten yuan per pound."
"Luckily my sisters-in-law believed me and picked up the good ones, cleaned them and dried them. We still have 50 to 60 kilograms of dried red mushrooms at home!"
"Ten yuan a pound, even fifty pounds can be sold for five hundred yuan!"
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan looked at him proudly, "So they say that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared."
"That's a very good point!" Zhou Huaian gave a thumbs up, "Look how good I am at choosing a wife who brings good fortune and luck to her husband!"
"Go away!" Yang Chunyan smiled and patted him, "Hurry up and haul the sand!"
The two arrived at the river. The place where Zhao Huifang and her colleagues were sifting sand was downstream of the stone bridge, about two hundred meters away from the bridgehead.
Zhou Huaian slowed down and shouted, "Yan'er, it's very bumpy on the riverbank. Come down here and wait for me to fill the sand tank and pick you up."
Yang Chunyan felt that sitting and waiting was too anxious, "Forget it, I'll go over and take a look."
She put on her straw hat and got off the tractor. Zhou Huaian drove the tractor wobbly across the riverbank, slower than she could walk.
When I got closer, I saw Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaishan picking up big stones. Zhao Huifang and the other two were wearing straw hats and were busy on the river bank, with sand and gravel piled up into a mountain.
She looked at the stones in the dam and suddenly remembered that in her previous life, someone in the village picked up a stone nearly one meter high, dark green in color, that looked a bit like wood.
Everybody ran to see what was going on. The stone still retained most of the shape of the wood, including the bark marks, knots, growth rings, and holes that had been eaten by insects.
After polishing, it looks extremely beautiful. I heard that it was sold for tens of thousands of yuan in the Liangshan Nanhong Market.
Everyone then realized that the stone was a kind of petrified wood, which was formed when large tracts of virgin forest were buried deep underground by natural forces during the long geological history.
It is different from ordinary petrified wood because of its crystal clear appearance, and is also called petrified jade.
After the news spread, people from several nearby teams rushed to the dam with hoes and shovels, and some people drove excavators. The entire dam was dug into potholes. Some people actually found a few pieces, some grass agate, and some petrified wood that had not yet turned into jade, but none of them were as beautiful as that piece.
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Li Qiuyue saw her coming, leaning on the crowbar and looking at her, smiling, "You're back, I saw you smiling from afar, what good thing happened to you?"
"It's good news!" Yang Chunyan smiled and walked forward to tell several people about the red mushroom.
Zhang Xiuxiang was surprised and said, "Ah! That thing can really be sold for money? Ten yuan a pound?"
"Yes, Doctor Xiao Wang said so himself."
"Haha, that's great!" Li Qiuyue cheered in surprise.
Zhao Huifang and Zhou Huairong were so happy that their eyes narrowed into slits. "That's great! Fortunately, I listened to Chunyan and picked up so many of them to dry in the sun."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "This time they want 100 to 200 kilograms, and what we have at home is far from enough. I want to go back and tell Auntie San and the others to go pick up some too."
"While there is still a month or so left to pick mushrooms, let the eldest brother and the third brother come to sift the sand in the afternoon, and we will go up the mountain to pick red mushrooms." Zhang Xiuxiang said without hesitation.
Zhou Huairong nodded repeatedly, "You all go in the afternoon, leave this place to us."
Zhou Huaian jumped off the tractor and said, "Brother, a laborer only makes one dollar a day, which is only thirty dollars a month. If we are short of manpower, we can hire two more people to help. This is when we earn money."
Zhou Huairong glanced at him and said, "Your third brother and I can just screen it. The family has already hired so many people. Not counting the money for cigarettes and tea, the daily wages are several dozen yuan. It's not easy to make money, so you have to spend it frugally."
Zhou Huaishan also disagreed, "That's right, making money is not easy. Not only does it cost money to hire someone to do the work, but it's also not as good as doing it ourselves."
"Okay, okay, it's almost eleven o'clock, let's load the sand and go back to eat." Zhou Huaian lowered the baffle, and the three brothers pried the sand into the truck bed.
The sisters-in-law were excitedly discussing that when they picked mushrooms in the past, there were more red mushrooms on that hill, so they decided to go and take a look in the afternoon.
Yang Chunyan paid attention to the big rock that was pried up. After looking around, she found a piece of petrified wood, about ten inches long, like a piece of chopped wood.
She looked around the sand sifter and did not see the petrified wood that she had seen in her previous life. Instead, she picked up two pieces of colored agate the size of a child's fist.
(End of this chapter)
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