Zhou Huaishan told Zhou Huaian what happened. At that time, the woman said that she had Coriolus versicolor at home and asked if they would collect it. He felt that he did not know much about medicinal materials, so he told her that his youngest son was collecting herbs. If he wanted to sell them, he could make an appointment and come to see them.
But Li Qiuyue, who was obsessed with money, was worried that he would ask the youngest son to steal their business, so he secretly went to the woman to buy the Coriolus polygoni multiflori, spending one thousand yuan for 21 kilograms of Coriolus polygoni multiflori.
When he found out that the payment for the goods was wrong, he realized that she had embezzled 900 yuan of the payment and secretly collected Coriolus polygoni multiflori.
While the two brothers were talking, Li Qiuyue had already taken the Coriolus versicolor out of the room. "Youngest brother, look at how good this Coriolus versicolor is! It only cost one thousand yuan for 21 kilograms!"
Zhou Huaian could tell at a glance that these were not mulberry mulberry, but poplar mulberry and pine mulberry, because the appearance and taste of this kind of mulberry are most similar to the authentic mulberry mulberry.
The authentic mulberry mushrooms have golden edges and the surface is golden like silk. They come in various shapes, some are as big as spoons. He once received a large one that was larger than the chopping board at home, and the density of yellow pores was higher.
However, the size of poplar mulberry is generally small, and the largest one will not exceed the palm. The annual rings are much wider than those of mulberry mulberry, and not as fine and smooth as its counterparts.
Pine Coriolus versicolor is easier to identify because the pores on its surface are relatively large and it smells like a faint pine scent.
Zhou Huaishan and Li Qiuyue watched him pick out the ones one by one, and looked at him nervously, "Youngest, how is it? Is it Coriolus versicolor?"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "It's Coriolus versicolor..."
"Zhou Huaishan! Look, the youngest one said it was..." Li Qiuyue pointed at Zhou Huaishan and shouted proudly without waiting for him to finish his words.
"Third sister-in-law, listen to me!" Zhou Huaian interrupted her, "These are mixed wood mulberry, not authentic mulberry."
"There are different types of Coriolus versicolor and mulberry trees?" Li Qiuyue turned pale with fear. She picked up a piece and looked at it over and over again. "Why don't I know that?"
Zhou Huaishan no longer had the heart to argue with her, and hurriedly asked Zhou Huaian, "Youngest brother, how much can these Coriolus versicolor be sold for per kilogram?"
Zhou Huaian hesitated for a moment before saying, "A good quality mixed wood mulberry yellow statue like this should be able to sell for thirty yuan per pound, right?"
His original intention was to scare Li Qiuyue by not telling her the real price, but thinking that she would be able to find out the real price when she went to Ning'an, he told her the truth.
Zhou Huaishan was so angry that he didn't want to talk. As the old saying goes, one learns from one mistake the last time. There are four brothers in his family, but only this greedy woman in his family has been fooled time and time again.
Li Qiuyue's heart sank after hearing this, "Then I'm still losing 400 yuan, right?" She originally thought that these Coriolus fungi could make back the money she earned from the two plots of land, but who knew...
Zhou Huaian thought to himself: There should be more! You should be thankful that Phellinus versicolor is not easy to fake. If it were like Gastrodia elata, with so many materials that could be used to fake it, your thousand yuan would be a waste.
Li Qiuyue thought about it but still didn't give up. She picked up a piece and said, "Youngest, I think these Coriolus versicolor are exactly the same as the ones your family collected. Can you take a closer look and see if you are mistaken?"
Zhou Huaian took it and said, "Third sister-in-law, smell it. This one with a pine scent is pine mulberry yellow." He picked up another piece and said, "This one is poplar mulberry yellow. The difference between it and mulberry mulberry yellow is..."
Li Qiuyue looked at it for a long time as he said, but didn't find anything different. She felt a little unwilling, "It's not that I don't believe you, I just want you to take a closer look..."
Zhou Huaian put down the Coriolus versicolor in his hand, looked at her and said calmly: "Third sister-in-law, I have already told you how to tell the difference. If you don't believe me, send Ning An to Wang Zhen yourself."
I told her all the tricks to distinguish, but she didn't listen to a word. No wonder my mother said that it's harder to teach her than to teach a cow!
Zhou Huaishan suppressed his anger and pulled Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, don't talk to her anymore. I'll go get someone to load the goods. You still have to hurry home!"
"Then let's start loading the goods now!" Zhou Huaian patted the grass clippings on his hands and walked outside with him.
Li Qiuyue stared blankly at the Coriolus grandis, not believing that she had been deceived again. "They look the same to me! How come they are different?"
Zhou Huaishan went to call the Yao brothers, Zhou Huaian started to pull the tarpaulin, and Zhou Xiaoru ran out wearing a straw hat, pulled him and said, "Dad, my little sister and I want to go home with you."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Huaian squatted down and looked at her, "Isn't it hard to play here?"
Zhou Xiaoru pouted, "My mom and her friends always quarrel. I don't like it here. I want to go home to my grandma!"
Zhou Huaian rubbed her hair and said, "Okay, Daddy will take you home. We will kill the New Year pig the day after tomorrow. Your brother and the others will also be back."
"Okay! I'll go get something." Zhou Xiaoru happily went back to get her schoolbag and took Zhou Xiaolin with her.
Zhou Huaishan brought the Yao brothers back, and the four of them began to load the goods.
Zhou Xiaoru was afraid that Zhou Huaishan and Li Qiuyue would not let them go back early, so she quickly put her things in the cab and brought Zhou Xiaolin to sit up there.
The four of them worked for more than half an hour and finally loaded all the bamboo baskets onto the tractor.
Zhou Huaian plugged in the carriage board and said, "Third brother, Xiaoru and Xiaolin want to go back with me. I'll take them away!"
"That's right!" Zhou Huaishan thought about it and said, "Youngest, Qiuyue took 900 yuan from the payment for the goods. Tomorrow you ask Yiding to bring 900 yuan. I will return it to you on the 9th day of the first lunar month."
"Okay, I'll give it to him when I get back." Zhou Huaian opened the car door and saw the two children sleeping on it. After thinking about it, he turned his head and said, "Tell your third sister-in-law that there are endless tricks for scammers, and many of them use fake medicine to cheat people.
I went to the flower market today, and Uncle Xu bought a few kilograms of Gastrodia elata, but it turned out to be the tubers of dahlias. Your miscellaneous trees and mulberry yellow can be sold for hundreds of yuan when sent to Ning'an.
Losing a few hundred dollars is not a lot, so stop arguing, but you must learn a lesson this time, or you will be cheated again in the future."
He suspected that these scammers were all in the same group and had come all the way from the flower market to here.
Zhou Huaishan spread his hands and said, "It's easy to change a country, but it's hard to change one's nature. Life at home is so good now, but she's still acting like she's crazy because of poverty. She dreams of making a lot of money, but she doesn't have the ability to do it."
Zhou Huaian felt that what he said was right, and suddenly thought of what his mother had said when he came here, "My mother asked me to tell you something. She said that the first month of the lunar year should be taboo, and the last month of the lunar year should be taboo. What's the point of making a fuss outside?"
Zhou Huaishan said angrily: "I didn't want to quarrel with her either. It was just too irritating. I couldn't help but quarrel with her."
Zhou Huaian turned his head to look at the two children in the cab and sighed, "If you can't control your third sister-in-law's temper, Xiaoru and Xiaolin will have a hard time in the future.
And Xiaolong will probably be spoiled by her and become like the men in her Li family!"
Zhou Huaishan felt that if things continued like this, it would not be 80% likely, but 100% certain. "I am worried too! But we already have three children. We can't just divorce and ignore them, right? What if we divorce and find someone like Xiaoping's stepmother? The children will suffer."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes, leaned forward and whispered: "If she quarrels with you, just tell her that with your current conditions, if you two get divorced, you can find a beautiful young girl to go home in less than two days.
If she divorces and returns to Baicaoping, she will only marry an old widower or an old bachelor. I'm sure that Third Sister-in-law will be reluctant to part with all the family property and will divorce you."
"You're right. If she comes to argue with me, I'll tell her this." Zhou Huaishan thought about it and said, "I'll take the Coriolus versicolor back the day after tomorrow, and you can help me send it to Ning An to sell."
"Well! I'm leaving then!" Zhou Huaian closed the car door, took a cotton coat to cover the two children, started the tractor and left.
Zhou Huaishan watched him walk away, turned around and went back to the yard to lock the door. He went back to the room and saw Li Qiuyue sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the mulberry fungus in the bamboo basket and wiping her tears. Thinking of what his mother asked the youngest son to bring, he didn't want to say more to her, so he took off his clothes and went to bed.
Seeing him lying down, Li Qiuyue thought for a moment and picked up a mulberry flower and said to him, "Third brother, I will take the bus to Ning'an tomorrow. What if the youngest brother made a mistake?"
Zhou Huaishan couldn't bear it any longer, he turned over and sat up, snatched the Coriolus versicolor from her hand, and held it under her nose, "The youngest one said it was Coriolus versicolor, smell it yourself, the smell of pine is so strong, can't you smell it?"
"This piece has a smell." Li Qiuyue picked up another piece. "This piece has no smell at all. Think about how long the youngest has been selling herbs. If he makes a mistake, we will lose money."
"Plop~" Zhou Huaishan kicked the mulberry fungus in the bamboo basket far away, pointed at her and said, "You don't have much ability, but you have a lot of tricks. Do you mean that the youngest wants to deceive you?"
Li Qiuyue didn't want to admit that she was deceived again. "I didn't say he deceived me. I just wanted to go to Ning'an and ask Doctor Xiao Wang to check it out. What if the youngest doctor is not experienced and admits his mistake?"
"Xiao Ru and Xiao Lin went back with the youngest one, and you, as their mother, didn't even take a look at them, and you only care about your money."
Zhou Huaishan became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and slapped him in the face, "I was so blind to marry someone like you who doesn't even care about your own child."
"Zhou Laosan, you dare to hit me!" Li Qiuyue pounced on him with teeth and claws bared, but was pushed back a few steps by his palm and sat down on his butt with a "thump".
"Zhou Huaishan, I want to divorce you if I continue to live with someone like you!"
"Let's get a divorce. Do you think I'm afraid of you?" Zhou Huaishan said and lay back, ignoring her.
"Wow... earning some money is a big deal. I wonder if you can find a better man in the future?" Li Qiuyue cried as she picked up the mulberry fungus scattered on the ground and put it in a bamboo basket. She then picked up Zhou Xiaolong and put him on her back, then walked outside with the bamboo basket.
Seeing that she knew it was raining outside, yet still carried the child out in the middle of the night out of spite, Zhou Huaishan suddenly felt that her kindness to the child was all fake.
He turned over and sat up, pointing at her, "Li Qiuyue, I'm telling you, as long as you step out of this door today, don't even think about sending the Coriolus versicolor to Ning'an and selling it and then coming back." (End of this chapter)
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