Zhou Huaian happily put the Ganoderma lucidum into his backpack. Just as he was about to pick down the shiitake mushrooms and a few clumps of Dendrobium from the tree, he heard Zhou Yiding's ecstatic laughter coming over.
"Hahaha, I found something good too."
"What did you find?" Zhou Huaian turned around and saw him standing there with his hands on his hips, looking very proud. He was moved, "Is it Hericium erinaceus?"
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding said, pounding his chest in pain. The pain was as if he had missed out on 100 million. "Damn it~ Why didn't I think of coming in to take a look before? I'm so stupid!"
Zhou Huaian ran over and saw a dead tree broken in half in front of him. Not far from the stump there were a few Hericium erinaceus mushrooms on the ground. They were bigger than the gourd scoops used to scoop water at home.
There was a big tree next to it, which was probably blown down by a hurricane or struck by lightning. There were still a few flowers on the trunk and stump that were almost as big as the ones I picked up last time.
Most varieties of Hericium erinaceus grow on trees, but some varieties grow on rotten fallen leaves. Moreover, the Hericium erinaceus growing on the ground is much larger than those on trees.
Zhou Huaian was heartbroken after seeing this, and rolled his eyes at him fiercely, "Fuck, so many Hericium erinaceus, you loser, I don't know how much money you have missed every year?"
"Tsk~ Big brother, don't talk about the second brother. Your kid was not a good person before!" Zhou Yiding gave him a big eye roll, "You idiot, hurry up and do it!"
"You pick the big ones, I'll pick the small ones!" Zhou Huaian hummed a little tune happily, walked to the dead tree that fell there, squatted down, grabbed the Hericium erinaceus, and broke off one with a little force.
"What a comfortable board!" He put it on the ground happily and continued to pick a few more flowers. He found that two of them had begun to age and turn yellow.
Zhou Yiding brought the backpack over, picked up the Hericium erinaceus on the ground, held it in his hand and said to Zhou Huaian: "Youngest, this one weighs at least two or three pounds."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "I'll give you a credit and I'll cook you a chicken leg when I get home."
"Get out~" Zhou Yiding picked up a piece of rotten wood and threw it over.
Zhou Huaian dodged and said, "Haha! I didn't hit you!"
"I'll deal with you later!" Zhou Yiding ignored him and picked up the Hericium erinaceus on the ground and put them in his backpack. He found five big ones in total, and these few were almost as heavy as those he picked last time.
He looked at these trees which would soon all turn into big stumps. He suddenly felt sad when he thought that it would take at least thirty to fifty years for a tree to grow to a size that could be hugged by one person, but it would only take a short time to cut it down.
"Youngest, when I go to resign the day after tomorrow, I plan to tell the boss to cut down the tree and plant a small tree next to it."
"You are just a small worker. Will your boss listen to you?"
Zhou Huaian often heard him complain that if it weren't for his old man, he wouldn't want to work in the forest farm no matter how much money he was offered. This time when he went up the mountain, he had heard him say several times that it was a pity to cut down all the big trees, and he complained that the forest farm only cut down trees and didn't plant them.
"Whether they listen or not is their business, and whether I speak out or not is my business." Zhou Yiding knew that no one would take it seriously even if he told them, but he always felt that it would make him feel better if he mentioned it to them.
"Well, since I won't be working for him anymore, I'll just put a sack on him and beat him up."
"That's not the case!" Zhou Yiding walked over with a basket and picked up all the Hericium erinaceus on the ground and put them away. "Let's go in and see if we can still find it."
"Well! Let's go pick up those clumps of Dendrobium and shiitake mushrooms before we go." Zhou Huaian patted him, and the two of them strode towards the hairy pear vine.
The two took the dog for a walk in the cycad forest, but didn't find any Hericium erinaceus. They picked up some shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, and a few white fungus.
After climbing up a beam, I arrived at the Ganoderma lucidum nest that was left behind. I picked up two purple Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms as big as bowls. I continued walking forward, went down to the ditch and dug up a few Paris polyphylla that I could. Then I walked back along the ditch. When I returned to the forest farm, the sun had already set.
The two men reinforced the raft when they got home, went to the cave in the backyard to pack up their things, and set out down the mountain the next morning.
After seeing so many things, the two men were not happy at all when they thought that they would have to pull the raft down the mountain like oxen again tomorrow.
When he went back to eat, Zhou Huaian looked at the dog lying on the steps, and suddenly remembered the dog that helped deliver letters in the movie, "Ding Ding Cat, what do you think about us letting the dog take the letter back, and having my brother lead the cow to pick us up halfway?"
Zhou Yiding's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Maybe it will work!"
Zhou Huaian became excited, "Hurry up and get some paper and pen. I'll write the letter, and you find a small bag and hang it around the dog's neck tomorrow for him to take back."
"Wait!" Zhou Yiding went to get a pen and paper to write a letter to him. "Gouzi will only come back to my house when he comes down the mountain. Tell my old man to ask him to go find his big brother."
"Got it!" After Zhou Huaian finished writing, he found a small flowered cloth bag, put the letter in it, tied the mouth of the bag with a rope, and put it there before starting to eat.
The next morning, at daybreak, the two got up and fed the dog wild boar liver.
Zhou Yiding called Dahei over, put the cloth bag in front of its nose and let it sniff it, then tied the bag around its neck, led it out of the yard, and when they reached the intersection leading down the mountain, he patted its head and pointed to the way down the mountain.
"Be good, go down the mountain and go home to find your old master, give the bag to your master, and bring them to pick me and the youngest one."
"Woof woof!" Dahei turned around and ran down the mountain.
"It's done!" Zhou Yiding looked at Zhou Huaian happily, "Let's go back and have dinner, then slowly go down the mountain."
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Zhou Daqing got up early in the morning to pick up manure and make fertilizer. The rapeseed would be sown soon, but the fermented fertilizer at home was only enough for planting rapeseed seedlings. Next year's medicinal fields, rice fields and soybeans would all need fertilizer, so they had to be prepared early.
Wan Xuejiao was drying clothes in the yard when she suddenly heard a dog barking at the door. She turned around and saw Dahei coming back. She happily walked towards the door, "Dahei, is Yiding back?"
"Woof woof!" Dahei bit her trouser leg.
Wan Xuejiao then saw the flowered cloth bag around its neck. Her heart skipped a beat and her legs went weak. She hurriedly untied the rope and untied the bag. After taking out the letter and reading it, she patted her chest and said, "I'm so scared."
Looking at Dahei who looked like he was begging for praise, she patted his head and said, "Wait a minute, I'll make you something delicious." Then she hurriedly took the letter to the vegetable garden outside the backyard and said, "Old man, old man, come and see."
"Whose letter is this?" Zhou Daqing put down the dung scoop, wiped his hands on himself, took the letter, and laughed after reading it. "These two lazy guys, only they can come up with such a method."
Wan Xuejiao patted the dog happily, "Our Dahei is smart and he even sent the letter down the mountain."
Zhou Daqing also thought that his dog was smart and capable, and said cheerfully: "Cook a bowl of lard rice for it, and I'll go to Huairong's house to find him."
"Hey!" Wan Xuejiao happily left with the dog.
Zhou Daqing rode his bicycle to Zhou Huairong's house, but saw that the gate was closed. Thinking that they were building a barbecue, he went to Yang Chunyan's house.
Seeing the old man drying corn in the yard, he smiled and asked, "Second Dad, is Huairong here?"
"Yes!" The old man said with a smile, "You look so happy, what good news do you have to tell me?"
Zhou Daqing handed him the letter and said, "Look, it's still the youngest and Yiding..."
"Wow! You're in good luck!" the old man said happily, "Huairong is at the construction site, and the cow is at the old house. Go over there and lead it up the mountain."
"I'll go call him."
After a while, Zhou Daqing and Zhou Huairong came back together, and they went out together to pick up Zhou Huaian and the other person.
The old man went to the back mountain and happily showed the letter to Yang Chunyan, "The dog of the Yiding family is amazing. He even sent a letter down the mountain to find someone to pick them up."
Zhang Xiuxiang and others who were scattering reeds and flowers in the medicinal field came over and learned that the two men had killed a sow and several piglets in the mountain, a total of several hundred kilograms of wild boar meat. They were all happy and planned to stew the pig's stomach when they came back.
When the old man saw his grandchildren's wives happily discussing the matter, he went down the mountain happily.
Yang Chunyan thought of the yams they dug up yesterday, "We still have some yams at home, we can use them to stew pig's stomach or pig's trotters."
Zhao Huifang smiled and nodded, "Add a few red mushrooms, and the taste will be absolutely delicious."
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "I haven't eaten wild boar yet! I heard that suckling pig tastes very good. Today I can finally try it!"
Yang Chunyan: "Big wild boars have a strong smell and taste a bit dry, so small wild boars definitely taste better."
"What are you talking about so excitedly?" Li Qiuyue walked over holding Xiao Long'er.
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Huaian and Yiding killed a few piglets and brought the pig stomachs and intestines down the mountain. You can come to my house tonight to eat together."
"Well, we won't be polite!" Li Qiuyue thought about it and said, "Chunyan, there was a grape trellis in the yard where I used to live in Ning'an. Do you remember it?"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Remember! If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten. The weather in Ning'an is hotter. The grapes in the yard should have been ripe by now. They might have been eaten by the birds."
Li Qiuyue looked at Zhao Huifang and the others with a smile, but her tone was sour, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, look, Chunyan's family has so many houses that I can't even remember what's in the house."
She just heard from the third child last night that the youngest child's family not only has that old house in the city, but also bought land to build a hotel and a large courtyard. The hotel also has a share.
The four brothers, who were blood relatives, bought land to build a hotel but did not think about their own brothers. Instead, they were thinking about outsiders.
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan smiled and glanced at her, "I'm not smart, I can't compare to Third Sister-in-law's smart mind, she remembers everything clearly!"
She used to think that she must be depressed and weird because she was hiding at home alone to give birth, so I didn't care about it. But now the child is two or three months old, and it's a bit disgusting that she is still like this.
Seeing that she was unhappy, Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "I have also found that since I gave birth to Xiaolong'er, my memory has not been very good at all. Sometimes I forget what I want to say." (End of this chapter)
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