Yang Chunyan was thinking of asking Zhou Huaian to come back and dig up the black ginseng. He, Li Wu and Xu Hongbing were currently in front of a patch of black-stalked carbonaria, digging the soil with their buttocks sticking out.
"Youngest, is there really anyone who would buy this?" Xu Hongbing had also dug up some black ginseng when he was a child. When he dug it out and saw that it was pitch black, he thought it was poisonous and quickly threw it away.
"As long as I can dig it out, I can exchange it for money." Zhou Huaian rubbed his hands and dug hard, "Damn it, I have to bring a foreign pry next time."
Xu Hongbing smiled and said, "Next time, tomorrow you will go to Baicaoping to collect herbs and red mushrooms!"
Zhou Huaian: "My brother and his friends are going there tomorrow too! I'm just worried about whether Secretary Zhang and Secretary Lin have found the authentic red mushrooms?"
Li Wu smiled naively, "Don't worry, we are all experienced mushroom pickers. We can recognize the dried red mushroom samples you sent us."
"That's right! You two recognized it!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "You should go to the city early tomorrow to sell the chicken mushrooms, buy a cart and an old ox, and then you can start working."
Xu Hongbing nodded, "We definitely won't get any on the first day, so we'll just drive a bullock cart to the forest to pick red mushrooms. We'll pick up dozens of kilograms a day!"
Li Wu: "It's almost the same as before!"
Zhou Huaian burst into laughter.
"Look, we've dug a termite hole." Xu Hongbing put down his hoe and dug out the hole. "Let me see if there's any stock."
Zhou Huaian and the others stopped and looked at him, "Is there?"
"Yes, there are several hanging inside!" Xu Hongbing said as he reached in, picked the black ginseng and handed it to Zhou Huaian.
Three were the size of goose eggs, two were the size of duck eggs, and a few were only the size of chicken eggs. A total of thirteen black ginseng were picked.
Zhou Huaian weighed it and said, "Let's go back and let Chunyan take a look to see if it is first-class goods?"
"Okay!" Xu Hongbing and Li Wu filled the soil back, and the three of them continued to move forward.
When he reached a stream, he put down his basket and washed his hands. Suddenly, a howl of "jie" came from the woods ahead. Then, one louder than the last, the shrill howls echoed in the valley.
Zhou Huaian hurriedly picked up the rifle on his backpack.
Xu Hongbing and Li Wu also grabbed the hoe and the medicine hoe, "Youngest, are there wild boars in the woods across the way?"
"From the sound, it seems that the wild boar made the noise!" Zhou Huaian picked up the backpack and said, "Hurry and hide behind the big tree at the back."
"Yeah!" The two of them hurriedly picked up their backpacks and followed him to the big tree not far away. Three pairs of eyes looked at the forest opposite nervously.
In just over ten breaths, a half-grown wild boar limped out of the woods, followed by a golden cat.
Seeing this, Zhou Huaian raised his gun and shot. With a "bang" sound, the golden cat leaped and disappeared into the woods. The wild boar rushed to the stream and fell down headfirst.
Li Wu said, "Youngest, that thing just now is called a golden cat!"
Zhou Huaian: "I've never seen it before!"
Xu Hongbing: "I haven't seen it either. My mom told me that when there is a severe drought, the animals in the forest will come down the mountain to look for food. They saw it when they were young."
Li Wu: "I saw this when I went up the mountain with my husband to pick chestnuts. He said this thing is very clever and usually won't attack wild animals that are bigger than itself. It likes to steal wild boar cubs to eat. Why did it chase this wild boar this time?"
Zhou Huaian thought of the injured wild boar he encountered last year. This wild boar was also limping just now. "It might have stepped on a trap."
The three of them stood behind a big tree and watched for a while. Seeing that the wild boar had stopped moving and the golden cat in the woods was also quiet, they walked towards the stream.
Zhou Huaian poked the wild boar with his gun and saw that the flesh on the wild boar's hind hooves was exposed. "It turned out that it was injured, so it was covered with golden hair!"
"Hmm!" Li Wu and Xu Hongbing pulled up a pig's trotter. "Youngest, we got another wild boar. Today's harvest is already good. Should we go back?"
After the few of them picked up more than ten pounds of chicken mushrooms, Zhou Huaian shot a few pheasants and rabbits in the woods. Walking further in, he picked up a lot of red mushrooms and a dozen purple Ganoderma lucidum.
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian held up his gun. "This half-grown wild boar tastes pretty good. Go back and kill one and keep one leg. Let my third brother take you to the city to sell the rest tomorrow."
Li Wu said hurriedly, "How can that be? You shot the wild boar with your gun. One leg of meat is enough for us to eat. You can sell the rest for money."
Xu Hongbing also said: "Even the youngest, we have already gained a lot today. If we take more money, are we still human beings?"
Seeing the two of them say this, Zhou Huaian stopped being polite and said, "Okay! Go back and take a pheasant and a rabbit back to eat."
After hearing this, Xu Hongbing and the others said cheerfully, "Okay! Kill the pheasant and stew it with mushrooms. It tastes really good!"
Li Wu cut a stick, tied up the wild boar's four hooves separately, and carried it up the mountain with Xu Hongbing.
Zhou Huaian, carrying a backpack and holding a gun, followed vigilantly behind, thinking that he would have to bring the dog with him next time he went into the mountains, as it could help catch wild animals and also serve as an alarm.
The three of them had walked a long way without realizing it, and it took them almost three hours to get back to the place where the sea buckthorn and sticky grass grew.
After climbing the mountain, Zhou Huaian and Li Wu put down the wild boar and the backpack, and sat down on the ground. "Oh my god, why did we walk so far?"
Xu Hongbing also collapsed on the ground, panting and saying, "I picked up things along the way, so of course I didn't feel tired. But when I came back, my backpack was full, and I was carrying a wild boar weighing over 100 kilograms. It would be strange if I wasn't tired!"
Zhou Huaian patted him and said, "Old Xu, your child's health is really not good, you need to take good care of him!"
Li Wu also nodded, "Exactly, the youngest and I were still carrying the wild boar, and we weren't panting as hard as you!"
Xu Hongbing smiled bitterly, "There's nothing I can do. My old man died early, and it's good enough that my mother was able to raise me alone."
Zhou Huaian thought so too. "I used to think your mother was always fighting for everything and was so powerful. Now I think your mother is really powerful. Take my family for example. We have so many laborers, but we can't even feed seven or eight children, not to mention your mother."
Xu Hongbing smiled and said, "It's better now. You see, she is happy all day long and doesn't quarrel with others anymore."
Li Wu also nodded, "Yes! If we didn't fight for it in those years, we would have starved to death. Now that we have it, why bother since we are all from the same village!"
"Fellow villagers, some people just can't stand others doing well, so they like to steal!" Xu Hongbing said, nudging the two of them, "Look, they like to steal other people's things!"
Zhou Huaian and the other man turned their heads and saw the mother and son of Xiong Laoya and a tall woman carrying a backpack walking towards them.
Xu Hongbing winked and said, "That woman who looks like a bamboo pole is the wife of the youngest brother Xiong. She looks taller than him! I think he probably wants to find a taller one to give him a taller offspring!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said, "It looks like he's taller than that bastard, the youngest bear!"
Li Wu curled his lips after seeing this, "It's just a bare bone, it's not comfortable to hold it!"
"Hahaha!" Zhou Huaian and the other man pointed at him and laughed, "I see, so you like chubby ones."
"It's better for my wife to be chubby!" Li Wu responded seriously.
The youngest Xiong and Zhou Sufang also saw Zhou Huaian and the other two propping themselves up and half lying on the ground to catch their breath. "Mom, let's go over there."
The villagers they met along the way were all talking about the Zhou family's harvest of red mushrooms. The youngest Xiong looked at the red mushrooms carried by the villagers and wished he could crush all of them to vent his anger!
At this moment, seeing Zhou Huaian and his two lackeys lying there carefree and laughing arrogantly, his heart felt like a cat's claw, filled with anger and hatred.
His wife looked at him in confusion, "Why do you want to go that way? Didn't you say this way is closer?"
Seeing that the youngest Xiong didn't say anything, Zhou Sufang took over and said, "Lian Fang, there are some vicious dogs over there, let's stay away from them!" She shouted the latter part in a loud voice intentionally for Zhou Huaian and the others to hear.
Xu Hongbing couldn't take it anymore, he turned over and got up, cursing at the top of his voice: "Shameless old bitch, gave birth to a litter of vicious dogs, and still thinks she's a good person. If the ancestors knew about this, they would all crawl out of their coffins."
After hearing this, Xiong Laoyao stopped and looked at Xu Hongbing angrily, "Who are you scolding?"
Xu Hongbing: "Whoever agrees, I will scold him!"
"You bastard!" The youngest bear threw the basket on his shoulder to the ground and pointed at Xu Hongbing. "You kid is looking for death, I'll help you!"
Xu Hongbing refused to give in. "Come here. I've been wanting to deal with you bastard for a long time."
"You're just a rat in the gutter. You think you have found a master and now you dare to bite people." After hearing this, the youngest bear pointed at Xu Hongbing angrily and walked towards him.
Xu Hongbing cursed back: "You are the rat in the gutter, a rotten rat with maggots!"
When Li Wu saw him rushing over, he quickly stood up and prepared to help.
Zhou Huaian stood up and stepped in front of Xu Hongbing. He looked at Xiong Laoyao with contempt, spat the cigarette in his mouth on the ground, and stepped on it a few times. "Old Xu, you vicious dog barks all the time. If you knock out all your teeth, you won't be able to bark anymore!"
The bastard from the Xiong family came here just for him today. Xu Hongbing was just implicated by him. Since he wants to find fault, he will settle both the old and new accounts together!
Xu Hongbing looked at him, then at Li Wu, and said in a much louder voice, "That's right, all his teeth were knocked out."
"Youngest, don't go, youngest..." Zhou Sufang screamed and chased after him, grabbing him, "There are three of them over there, how can you win by yourself?"
The youngest Xiong looked at Zhou Huaian and said, "Fighting in a group is nothing. If you have the ability, just fight them one by one."
Xu Hongbing walked in front of Zhou Huaian and said, "You can't even beat me alone!"
Zhou Huaian pulled him to the back and hooked his finger at the youngest bear, "What's the point of calling yourself poor? If you have the guts, just do it! If you don't dare, get out!"
"I've been wanting to deal with you for a long time!" The youngest Xiong couldn't stand such provocation and rushed towards Zhou Huaian.
He felt that no matter what, he had been trained orthodoxly, and beating up a second-rate guy was not a casual matter. (End of this chapter)
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