Seeing that she already knew that his family had gone into the mountains ahead of time, Fang Sihai said with a wry smile, "Boss Yang, you see, it's been winter for so long, the truffles should have been ripe a long time ago. We are all mountain people, we wouldn't be stupid enough to dig up unripe truffles."
"If you think it's wrong for us to dig ahead of time, we will definitely go up the mountain at the stipulated time next year."
Yang Chunyan said bluntly, "Your family is going into the mountains one day earlier to grab territory, which is wrong in the first place! If everyone is like you and doesn't follow the rules, you will go into the mountains one day earlier this year, and I will go two days or half a month earlier next year. If we keep going like this, our truffles will become extinct sooner or later."
Fang Sihai was so angry that he sneered, "It's just one day in advance, and I didn't go to your forest to dig. What's your business? Do you think it's still your exclusive business? Do we have to follow your rules?"
"Fortunately, you are just a helper. If you were the boss, you would not be able to abide by the rules!" Yang Chunyan pointed at the blackboard, "I don't believe your boss is the same as you, a person who doesn't follow the rules!"
After hearing this, Fang Sihai thought of the boss of her family's cooperation who was also from the provincial capital and was probably acquainted with their boss, so she begged with a sad face, "Boss Yang, I promise it will only be this time, and if it happens again, God will punish you with five thunderbolts.
Please don't go to our boss. If I lose this job, my whole family won't be able to survive."
"..." Yang Chunyan looked at him speechlessly. She had only been here for a short while and she had seen this man change his face several times. It would be a pity if he didn't go to act in a movie.
The villagers who were watching sneered, "If your family follows the rules, will Xiao Yang go to your boss? You can't survive! Your family didn't help the big boss in the provincial capital to collect truffles before, but you are still alive today!"
"That's right, and she gave birth to a whole bunch of four pests!"
"What's there to say to Zhou Laoyao's family? Can the famous four pests of Fangtian Brigade be people who follow the rules?"
"When I was in the brigade, when the corn was just filling up, people of all ages would go out to steal the corn. When they were caught, they would hang themselves or cut their throats to scare people. Dealing with such people, they look honest, but they do all kinds of immoral things!"
"If they don't accept ours, they will run to occupy the nest early. Tomorrow we will dig it up and send it to Zhou Laoyao's house. Let's see what you, a dog, will do in return?"
Everyone was talking at once, and Fang Sihai was so angry that his face turned red and blue like a dyeing factory. Finally, he turned around and went into the house and slammed the door shut.
He stood inside and looked at them with a gloomy face, spat, and walked into the house cursing, “If it were you, I would believe that you would be able to resist digging.
It's no use if you guys are jealous of me. I made hundreds of dollars yesterday. You can bite me twice."
The villagers outside saw that he had gone in and would not come out, and they all laughed, "Mr. Zhou's family is still the most honest, we will dig them up and send them to your family tomorrow."
"Okay, thank you everyone!" Yang Chunyan responded with a smile, got on her bike and walked back.
She was just listening to this. If Boss Feng really couldn't receive the goods, he might raise the price. At that time, it wouldn't need to increase the price by much, just a few cents per pound, and everyone would sell to this side without hesitation.
Just after walking a few steps, Yang Xiaoxue ran over breathlessly. When she saw her, she said, "I heard that you and Fang Sihai had a quarrel, so I hurried over here."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "It's okay, I just chatted with him for a few words..."
"That's a piece of shit!" Yang Xiaoxue spat in anger. "Everyone in the village started cursing at him. They said they saw Fang Sihai's family members digging truffles in the mountains yesterday. Some people followed them and dug truffles for them, but they refused to accept them."
"Have they dug your nest?" Yang Chunyan thought that if it didn't work, she would ask them to go and dig the nest that Zhou Huairong and his team dug last year.
"My truffle nest is a bit far away, they can't find it." Yang Xiaoxue came forward and whispered, "Why do you care about him? Fang Sihai has offended almost all the villagers by doing this. Everyone is saying that they won't sell him even a pound of the truffles they dig tomorrow."
"When I ask for help to collect, I'm afraid I'll run into this kind of selfish person."
"Why not? Pay someone to cut off your own financial resources."
Yang Chunyan walked with her to the intersection and said, "I'm going back first."
"Go ahead!" Yang Xiaoxue said again, "I just came back from my mother's place, and I heard that your eldest brother's house will also open tomorrow."
"We've made the same appointment." Yang Chunyan rode her bicycle to the brigade's sun-drying dam and saw Zhou's mother riding her bicycle towards them. "Mom, where are you going?"
Zhou's mother got out of the car and said, "I noticed that the horn had stopped for such a long time and you hadn't come back yet. I thought something happened, so I came to check it out!"
Yang Chunyan waited for her to turn the car around and said, "Aunt Qian just said... I went there."
"No wonder Ma Chunhua told me that her Lin Wu went to the mountain to check on the nest." Zhou's mother said, "Fang Sihai is right. He didn't go to dig in the forest that our family rented. You and the youngest brother can't do anything about it even if you want to!"
"I'll take some time to go to Ning'an and talk to Wang Zhen. Ask him to tell Boss Zheng about the situation. If you want to do this business for a long time, you have to wait until the truffles are fully ripe before harvesting them. Otherwise, they will only be sold at a very low price."
"Yes, you ask Wang Zhen to go and tell them. The big boss over there knows about the situation. It will be much better for them to set rules for their subordinates than for us to tell them."
"Brother, have they finished packing up?"
"It's all packed. Your sister-in-law and her friends cooked the pig food before they left. Jiaming and the others were also obedient and helped me clean the pig pen before they left." Mother Zhou paused, "It's almost nine o'clock. Your sister-in-law and her friends should have arrived at Baicaoping by now, right?"
"We're here. Huai'an may have already reached Baicaopo."
"If the youngest one doesn't accept the goods, can you make one round trip a day?"
"He said yes, but he would not be home until around ten o'clock at night."
"Where's the third brother?"
"The four-wheeled vehicle should be faster. Yiding may have reached the fork in the road by now."
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Zhou Yiding, Zhou Huaishan and others have now arrived at the fork in the road, the intersection of Baiyun Brigade. After entering the village, they saw that most of the houses in the village were thatched houses with rammed earth walls, and there were very few brick and tile houses.
When the villagers saw a four-wheel tractor entering the village, they all stood on the side of the road and looked around curiously, and some children ran behind the tractor.
Zhou Yiding took out a cigarette and handed it to the skinny man standing on the side of the road, "Brother, where does Secretary Yao live?"
The man happily took it and pointed ahead, "The big poplar tree in front is the brigade headquarters, and next to it is his home."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Thank you very much!"
"Brother!" the man called out to him, "Are you really going to harvest truffles tomorrow?"
The people standing nearby gathered around him and looked at him nervously, as if they were afraid that he would deny it.
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "Yes, we will start harvesting tomorrow. Hurry up and find the old nest, dig it up and send it back. Remember to fill it back!"
"Oh oh!" The man grinned and said to the villagers who gathered around, "Did you hear that? We really need to collect it."
A person next to him laughed so hard that his mouth stretched to his ears, "I heard it, I'm not deaf!"
"Hurry back and prepare your belongings. We'll set out early tomorrow morning." The onlookers dispersed, pulling their children with them, and went back to prepare.
Zhou Yiding drove forward for two minutes and stopped the tractor in front of a locust tree that was so big that two people could hug it together.
Li Qiuyue carried Xiaolong down and tiptoed to Zhou Huaishan, who was sitting in the truck bed holding Xiaolin, and shouted, "Old Third, we're here, hurry down."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaishan picked up Zhou Xiaolin and handed her to Zhou Yiding, "Pretty fast, huh?"
"I'm not familiar with the road conditions. We'll go faster once we're familiar with them." Zhou Yiding caught Zhou Xiaolin, put her on the ground, opened the trunk, and prepared to move things.
The Yao family who lived nearby heard the noise and came out.
Zhou Huaishan looked around and saw that the Yao family lived next to the brigade headquarters. It was a red brick and tile house with a storefront against the courtyard wall, which was a sales agency store.
Secretary Yao is about the same age as Secretary Xu. He has a square face, a medium build, and gray hair. He looked at him with a smile on his face. "Old Xu said you were coming today, so we waited for you at home."
"Thank you, Secretary Yao!" Zhou Huaishan handed over the cigarette with a smile, and then gave one to each of the men watching there.
Secretary Yao said to the men watching, "You've already smoked, hurry up and get on the tractor to help move the things."
Several young men climbed up swiftly, looked at the bamboo baskets above and asked, "Why did you get so many bamboo baskets?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, “These are used to store truffles.”
The young man laughed and said, "It's a stinky thing, and there are people coming from far away to collect it."
Zhou Yiding: “We harvested one crop last year…”
Under the tractor, Li Qiuyue smiled and handed the canned food and candies she bought from the town to Secretary Yao's wife, Mrs. Fan, and said, "Auntie, I'll trouble you in the next few months."
"No trouble, no trouble!" Mrs. Fan happily took the net bag and said to the pretty woman standing by to watch the fun, "Xiaohui, help the third sister-in-law move the bedding."
Then he said to Li Qiuyue, "My youngest daughter heard that you were coming to collect truffles, so she came back with her husband to have a look."
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "Auntie, we will open the market tomorrow, just dig it up and send it to me."
Mrs. Fan nodded happily after hearing this, "Okay, okay, we have truffles to sell this winter, and everyone can have a good year."
Yao Xiaohui smiled and took the blanket Zhou Yiding handed over. "Third sister-in-law, this is my eldest brother's house. They built a new house, so this side is vacant. I'll take you in."
"Sorry for the trouble, sister." Li Qiuyue followed her to the yard with rammed earth walls. After entering, she saw that the windows in the house had just been painted. It looked bright. Moreover, she lived in her own yard, so she felt much more satisfied.
Yao Xiaohui pushed open the door of the main hall, and there were tables, chairs and benches inside. "Third sister-in-law, which room do you want to live in?"
Li Qiuyue saw that the main room on the right was connected to the kitchen, "Live in the room on the right."
"Okay!" Yao Xiaohui pushed the door open and walked in. She saw a desk in the room and an old wooden bed covered with brand new straw. "Third sister-in-law, my husband asked my eldest brother to replace the bed railing for you with a new one.
Uncle Xu came to my old man the other day and said he wanted to rent a house. It happened that my eldest brother's family had built a new house, and the old house was empty, so he asked my eldest brother to clean up the house and rent it to you." (End of this chapter)
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