Chapter 483 Chapter 484: The money you should earn should still be earned
Yang Chunyan felt that doing business was the fastest way to make money. No wonder those big bosses who collected mountain products in the past were able to build such a large fortune.
When I think about the red mushroom season that will begin a few months after the truffle season ends, I immediately get excited!
After she hid the passbook and the money from today's sales, she closed the door and came out, only to see Zhou Huaian leading Qu Qiulin and the others into the yard.
"As soon as we reached the grove, we ran into Village Chief Qu and his men. I asked Ding Ding Cat to bring some aniseed and salt to Mom."
"Oh! Then I'll go to the backyard and cook a bowl of noodles for Village Chief Qu and the others." Yang Chunyan greeted Qu Qiulin with a smile and walked towards the backyard.
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Qu Qiulin said as he took a wild goat out of the bamboo basket. "I eat your rations every time I come here. This is what I hunted yesterday. I'm giving it to you."
Zhou Huaian looked at the fat black goat and said embarrassedly: "It's just a few bowls of noodles, not worthy of such a heavy gift."
Qu Qiulin pretended to be displeased and said, "Brother Zhou doesn't treat us as friends!"
Zhou Huaian thought about the pig slaughtering at home today, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll accept it shamelessly."
Qu Qiulin smiled happily, "From what you said, you guys have helped us a lot." After he said that, he took people to carry the truffles.
Zhou Huaian carried the wild goat and Yang Chunyan to the backyard, picked up the straw mat, and called Zhao Huifang, Zhang Xiuxiang, Li Qiuyue and others to go to the front yard to pick, sort and weigh the truffles.
Zhou Huaian took out the unsold Gastrodia elata and Codonopsis pilosula from the main room and repeated what Wang Zhen had said to them.
"Village Chief Qu, you'd better send fresh goods next time, otherwise all these herbs will be wasted."
After hearing this, Qu Qiulin's eyebrows were furrowed with distress. "No wonder the person who came to buy herbs last time didn't come. It seems that person is also an amateur. He lost a lot of money by buying our herbs."
Zhou Huaian was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then smiled and said, "Village Chief Qu is such a down-to-earth person."
Qu Qiulin said somewhat embarrassedly: "That man never returned the money he owed. The villagers cursed him every time they thought about it. He was so miserable."
"The good thing is that the Chonglou you sent are all fresh goods, and this money is from the sales of those Chonglou." Zhou Huaian said as he took out more than two hundred and ninety yuan and handed it to him.
Last time, the total amount of Chonglou sold was more than 310 yuan, and he took the 20 yuan commission as agreed. Human relationships are human relationships, business is business, and the money that should be earned must be earned.
Qu Qiulin couldn't believe his eyes. "You helped us sell so many Chonglou with just that little bit of it?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "The main reason is that six of the Chonglou you sent are special grade goods. The price of a special grade piece is several times that of other grades, so I sold so many!"
"When I went to Ning'an in the fall, I also delivered some herbs to the pharmacy in the city. Some of them were better than the special goods you mentioned. In total, I sold them for less than two hundred yuan."
Qu Qiulin felt that they were very sincere and held Zhou Huaian's hand gratefully. "Thank you, Brother Zhou. Thank you so much. The day after tomorrow I will send the Gastrodia elata buried in the soil to you for help in selling it."
"Okay, just send it over."
Zhou Huaian thought that he must have sold the herbs to the drugstore that cooperated with Cai Ermei, and secretly cursed that drugstore for being so evil-hearted.
He was secretly glad that the people he was working with were Dr. Wang and his grandson.
Qu Qiulin put the money away and said gratefully, "Thank you!"
Yang Chunyan and Luo Haili brought out bowls of noodles. The others took them and started eating without hesitation.
Zhou Huaian said to Yang Chunyan, "They sent a goat over here. Go back to the old house and ask Yiding to send some meat as a return gift. What do you think?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Take 20 kilograms of fattier ribs, and a leg of meat."
"That's right!"
Yang Chunyan rode her bicycle to the old house and saw that the baskets in the yard were full of pork. Zhou's mother had already divided the pork that Jiang Yu and others wanted.
A big fat pig was divided up cleanly by Jiang Yu and his four men and Zhou Yiding's family.
Upon learning that Qu Qiulin had sent a wild goat, he hurriedly picked out some fat and a leg of pork to make ham, put them in a backpack and asked Zhou Yiding to carry it over.
When the old man and Zhou Huairong and his two brothers heard that truffles were being delivered from the mountains, they went over to help.
Zhou's mother pointed at the basket and said to Yang Chunyan, "I have divided all the meat among you. I also sent a piece of meat and half a pig's head to the third brother's family. I will braise the remaining half this afternoon and treat everyone to soup. I also have three pig's heads that have been salted and smoked."
Yang Chunyan looked at it and asked, "Didn't the old man send meat to my father's house?"
Mother Zhou curled her lips and said, "Last year, his family killed a big fat pig and sent a few pounds of blood sausage and a set of pig intestines. Everyone in our family likes to eat pig intestines, no matter how big or small, so I couldn't bear to send it to him, so I asked you to send a few pounds of blood sausage and a piece of pork chop. In the end, we are at a loss!"
Yang Chunyan laughed when she heard this. "Village Chief Qu and his men sent quite a few truffles. I'm afraid it will take us until two or three o'clock to clean them. Who did you invite to your home to eat the truffle soup?"
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "We invited your third aunt's family, Secretary Xu, and your uncle Datian's family. They all went up the mountain to dig truffles. I told the butcher to come in the afternoon."
"That's great! Let Huai'an and Big Brother collect truffles at home this afternoon, and we'll come over to help scrape and clean the small intestines and make sausages."
"I ground some tofu pudding and pressed two sheets of tofu this morning. You can take some tofu pudding and pork blood back home. I can also cook some pork blood with some pickled peppers and fermented soybeans. The tofu pudding and pork blood will be enough for lunch without any cooking."
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "Are you going to use the pressed tofu to stew the meat?"
"Hmm! The pickled cabbage, tofu and meat stew tastes really good."
Zhou's mother said, "Cook four pig hearts and mix them together, stir-fry the pig liver, stir-fry shredded pork, sliced pork, and then cook a braised pork... and cook the blood curd with raw blood curd. Huai'an and the others all like the spicy taste."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan followed her to the kitchen, took the tofu pudding and pig's blood and put them in a basket. After visiting Zhou Yumei, she went back.
Zhou's mother took the hind legs out of the bamboo basket and placed them on a wooden board to wait for the meat to cool. She kept five hind legs to make ham, and she planned to pickle the front legs to make bacon.
Thinking about making sausages in the afternoon, I took some small intestines from the basin and started picking them out.
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When Yang Chunyan arrived home, Qu Qiulin and his group had already left. Just after lunch was ready, Xu Erchun, Li Wu and Zhou Huaigang pushed a chicken cart into the yard.
Zhou Huaian stood up and said with a smile: "It's just right, come sit down and eat together."
Zhou Huaigang said bluntly, "Let's eat. We are all starving."
They set out from the forest farm early in the morning, pushing the chicken cart, which, with a weight of more than 300 kilograms, was particularly difficult to navigate on the mountain road.
My stomach was growling with hunger before I even got down the mountain. I thought it was just the right time to get home and eat at noon, so I hurried over and finally got there.
When I walked past my house, I found that the gate was still locked.
Yang Chunyan and Zhao Huifang hurriedly brought bowls and chopsticks to the three people. After washing their hands, they sat down and started eating.
Xu Erchun said with a smile: "Tofu pudding and pork blood stew are both good dishes to go with rice. The three of us are so hungry that we can eat a cow. You won't have enough rice later."
Zhou Huaian pointed to the blazing stove and said, "If it's not enough, cook it right away. Cook as much as you want."
Zhou Huaigang laughed, "Then let's eat to our heart's content!"
It seemed that the three of them were really hungry. They took a piece of the spicy and sour blood sausage with chopsticks, took a few mouthfuls of rice, and then started chewing it.
After Zhou Huaigang ate more than half a bowl of rice, he felt that his stomach was no longer burning and he swallowed the food in his mouth. "I'm really starving. If it doesn't come soon, I'm going to wash a few truffles and eat them."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "It's such a long journey, why don't you bring some dry food?"
Xu Erchun said: "Mina got up early in the morning to cook potatoes and fried some pancakes for us to take with us. I hung it on the handlebars and I don't know where it fell on the road."
Zhou Huaigang laughed and said, "I won't let you go next time I go down the mountain. You almost starved me and Lao Li to death!"
Li Wu smiled innocently, "Maybe the rope wasn't tied properly, and the bus was shaking so much that it fell off."
Xu Erchun nodded, "I think it fell off like this."
Li Wu looked at Zhou Jiaming, "Are you guys on vacation?"
"It's vacation time. School won't start until February." Zhou Jiaming thought about it and said, "Uncle Li, your Xiaoping got first place in the exam again. The teacher also rewarded him with a pencil case and a fountain pen!"
Li Wu said happily! "This kid got another reward!"
"..." Zhou Jiaming felt depressed after hearing this and wanted to slap himself twice.
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said, "I forgot to ask you how you did in the exam! Did you get the five-dollar reward?"
Zhou Jiaming hung his head. "Jialiang and I didn't do well in the exam, but the teacher said I made progress, and Aunt Yao even rewarded us."
“It’s good to see progress!”
As soon as Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Xiaoqian, Zhou Jiakang stood up and said proudly: "Dad, my sister got 100 points in math and 98 points in Chinese. The ancestor rewarded her with three yuan to encourage her."
Zhou Xiaoqian pulled him back awkwardly, "You old woman, you're just too quick to talk!"
Zhang Xiuxiang also glared at him, wondering which one her son took after for his quick-talking habit. If he hadn't been born at home and looked a bit like Zhou Huaijun, she would have suspected that her son had been replaced.
"..." Zhou Jiakang was despised by his mother and elder sister, and sat back awkwardly.
Everyone laughed after seeing it.
After dinner, Li Wu rushed home to see his mother and children.
The cataract surgery performed by Old Mrs. Li two days before New Year's Day was very successful. Now that he has his mother to help take care of him at home, he dares to go to the forest farm to dig truffles.
Zhou Huaian and the others were chatting at the table. "The youngest and I were just talking about how it's been two days and it's time for you to send the truffles down the mountain!"
Xu Erchun burped, rubbed his belly and said with a smile: "It's not easy to go up and down the mountain once. We have to save more goods before coming down."
Zhou Huaian: "It's just right to go down the mountain today, so stay and have some soup before leaving!"
Zhou Huaigang smiled and shook his head after hearing this. "Uncle Daqing and the others are waiting for us to go up the mountain together tomorrow morning. We'll sit for a while and then leave."
Xu Erchun took over the conversation, "It's good to kill the pig, so we can buy some meat to bring back to the mountain."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "The meat is all in the old house, you can pick it up when you go up the mountain!"
"Okay!" Xu Erchun agreed and said, "Let's pour out the truffles, you weigh them and put them in the account, and we'll calculate them together when we get down the mountain."
Zhou Huaian: "That's right!"
(End of this chapter)
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