Chapter 451 Chapter 453: The Third Sister-in-law Is Really Cunning
Father Zhou came into the backyard carrying a basket of flowers and plants, "Chunyan, put the pig food in the pot to heat it up. I'll chop up the pig grass and pour it in to boil it before feeding the pigs."
"Hey!" Yang Chunyan scooped a few scoops of pig food into the pot, and scooped a few scoops of pig slop into the pot, "You go eat first, I'll chop pig grass later."
"It's just a matter of seconds. What are you waiting for?" Father Zhou grabbed a handful of pig grass and started chopping it up.
When he finished chopping, the three generations just sat down to eat, Zhao Huifang walked into the yard holding a pottery bowl, "Chunyan, I steamed some buns and steamed buns, come and eat them while they're hot."
"I cooked some potato porridge, would you like to eat it together?" Yang Chunyan hurriedly took out a soup bowl to serve the dumplings and steamed buns.
Zhao Huifang shook her head. "No, your elder brother has gone to collect the yellow mud. I have to go back and clean it up. I'll come back later."
Father Zhou took a steamed bun and said, "Ask the boss if there is any lime left from the last burn."
Zhao Huifang picked up the steamed buns from the pottery bowl and put them on a plate. "There is another basket that has been carried out and placed on the eaves."
Yang Chunyan picked up a bun and took a bite. It was stuffed with celery and pork. The skin was thin and the filling was thick. She took a bite of the meat and said, "It's delicious!"
"If you like it, I'll make it again next time." Zhao Huifang happily walked away with the pottery bowl.
After dinner, the old man went to help feed the pigs.
Yang Chunyan looked at the time. "It's almost seven o'clock. My uncle and Fang's husband Huai'an came to deliver truffles as soon as they left yesterday. Why haven't they come today?"
"Maybe he was delayed on the road." Father Zhou went out with a bamboo basket to pick up bricks to build a baking house.
As soon as he reached the door, the cousin of the Chen family came over with a basket on his back. "Uncle, I saw many people from your village carrying baskets up the mountain. The news of your truffle harvest has spread to us."
It was transmitted so quickly? I thought it would take two days to be transmitted!
Father Zhou looked at him in surprise, "Are there many people digging truffles over there?"
Cousin Chen said, "There are more than a dozen families, all of whom have relatives here. My husband and I had just left to deliver truffles when we saw them going out with rakes, so we hurried back up the mountain to reserve a spot before we came over."
Before he finished speaking, Yang Xiaoxue came in pushing a bicycle, "Uncle Zhou, this is terrible, the entire Fangtian team has gone up the mountain to dig truffles. Zhiqiang wanted to send some truffles over, but seeing that everyone had gone up the mountain, he didn't dare to delay and went up the mountain too."
Yang Chunyan came out of the kitchen and asked, "How did the news spread so quickly?"
Yang Xiaoxue smiled and said, "How fast? If everyone hadn't been busy going up the mountain yesterday, it would have spread everywhere yesterday."
"What should we do?" Father Zhou turned around and looked at Yang Chunyan, "The ovens in the village are enough, but if several villages combine to have ovens, there won't be enough space."
Yang Chunyan also felt that she had thought too simply at the beginning, and hurriedly said, "Old man, go and see if Master Liu and the carpenter have come. If they haven't come yet, please ask them to come quickly. We can hire two more masters to quickly build the oven. By the way, ask my sister-in-law and the others to come quickly."
"Okay." Father Zhou agreed and left in a hurry.
Yang Chunyan took out a straw mat and laid it on the steps, and asked Yang Xiaoxue and Chen Laobiao to pour out the truffles. Zhao Huifang and three others and Luo Haili all came.
Just as a few people picked out the truffles according to grade, weighed them and sent them to the backyard, Jiang Yu and his four companions arrived.
Yang Chunyan hurried to the pigpen and saw the old man pushing the pig manure into the pit outside with a dung rake. Three little pigs were crowded in front of the trough, wagging their short tails and eating with relish.
"Grandpa, go take a rest, let me do it."
"No, just sweep it once." The old man put the dung rake in the pen next to him and picked up the broom tied with bamboo. "Go get a bundle of straw. It's time to change the straw in the pigpen."
"Hey!" Yang Chunyan went to the next door and got a bundle of straw to lay out the straw. She then carried the straw that had been changed from the pigsty to the courtyard wall and spread the straw out to dry.
Wangcai and Lai Fu lay at the backyard door, wagging their tails at her.
After cleaning up the pigsty, she washed and hung up the clothes she had taken off yesterday upstairs before going to the baking room.
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang put the dried mushroom cubes into a bamboo basket. "It's much faster to cook with two stoves at the same time. Everything will be dry by the afternoon at the latest.
Zhang Xiuxiang touched the first-class goods and said happily: "Tomorrow's batch of goods will be quite large!"
Yang Chunyan took the bamboo basket and said, "If you don't ship the goods, you will lose all the money you paid for tomorrow's delivery."
"Aunt, an uncle is here to bring you some wine." Zhou Xiaoru ran in shouting.
"Oh! My cousin is here." Yang Chunyan walked out in a hurry, "Xiao Ru, go call your old man and your eldest and second uncles to come over and help unload the goods."
"Oh oh!" Zhou Xiaoru turned around and ran away.
Yang Weidong stood at the gate of the courtyard. Seeing Yang Chunyan coming out to greet him, he said with a smile: "No wonder Weiguo said that your house was well renovated. Next year I will renovate it like you."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Go and see the water pipes I laid later, you might like them more."
"Weiguo said that we will definitely take a look later." Yang Weidong led the mule into the yard, "Yan'er, I have a suggestion for you. It is best to soak the truffle wine for a year before selling it. If it is too short, the taste will not be good."
"Oh!" Yang Chunyan recalled the short video she had seen before, where wine was buried in the soil. "Is it better to bury the wine in the soil?"
Yang Weidong smiled and waved his hands, "Who said that? If the wine jar is buried in the soil for a long time, the moisture in the soil will permeate into the wine jar, and in the end the wine will turn into muddy water."
He paused for a moment and continued, "You know where I store my wine. Seal the wine jars and put them in the mud-walled house against the mountain. It will be fine no matter how long you keep them."
In his previous life, Yang Weidong opened a winery and moved to the city in the 1990s.
Yang Chunyan had long forgotten about the mud-walled house where his family stored wine. "What should I do? Do I have to build another mud-walled house to store wine?"
Yang Weidong smiled and said, "Once the truffle wine is ready, just sell it! How many years do you want to keep it?"
As they were talking, Zhou Huairong and others came into the yard. After exchanging a few words of greeting, they unloaded the wine jar and carried it into the house and put it away.
Yang Weidong pointed at the red paper on the wine jar and said, "One jar of 60-degree alcohol, five jars of 50-degree alcohol. If you want more, I'll make another trip."
Yang Chunyan calculated and said, "Bring two more trucks here, bring some of the mud you use to seal your wine vats, and help me make the truffle wine."
"Leave it to me." Yang Weidong gave her a thumbs up and said, "I'm telling you, the price of wine will only get higher and higher in the future. It won't be a bad idea to buy more and store it."
In fact, this person is born with a business mind. No wonder he was so successful in his previous life.
"Okay! I'll listen to you and buy more to store." Yang Chunyan walked towards the main room with a smile and mixed honey water for him.
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue was worried that Yang Chunyan would really buy so much wine. "Brother Yang, your family makes wine and sells it, so of course you say that!"
Yang Weidong didn't say much, just smiled and said, "If you don't believe me, just pretend I didn't say anything."
Li Qiuyue curled her lips and turned to go to the backyard.
Yang Chunyan came over with honey water, "Brother Weidong, I trust you. If you drink the water, I will give you money."
Yang Weidong happily took the cup and whispered, "Your third sister-in-law is really thoughtful."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "She just thinks too much, but she's not a bad person."
Yang Weidong nodded and said, "If we bring two more trucks here, the room won't be able to accommodate them. You should copy the room first, so that I don't have to leave it when I come."
"There are still two empty rooms in the wing, just bring them in." Yang Chunyan thought about it and said, "How many people are selling truffles over there?"
Yang Weidong finished the water in the cup and returned it to her, "A lot, Auntie asked several people to help. When I left this morning, someone delivered truffles."
"That's good. Do you want to go to the backyard and check the water pipe?"
"Wait until I finish pulling the mule before going. It would be better if you could introduce me to the master who will dig the well for you while I am repairing the house." After saying this, Yang Weidong led the mule out.
"That's great!" Yang Chunyan sent him out and saw him sitting on the mule cart, "Go slowly on the road!"
Yang Weidong waved his hand and whipped the mule, and the mule started running forward with all four hooves spread out.
Yang Chunyan went to the aisle and saw that Zhou Huairong and others had already carried the bricks over and piled them in the aisle.
The carpenters have already started working at Zhou Huaishan's house, and Master Liu and two other masters are laying the foundation.
Zhou's father went to Ye Quezi's construction site to borrow cement. He heard that the three households in the grove had stopped working and went up the mountain to earn money because all the helpers had gone up the mountain to dig truffles.
Li Qiuyue came out of the house and said, "Chunyan, the villagers who delivered truffles yesterday said that Mr. Xiong also went to dig truffles. Why didn't we see that bastard delivering truffles yesterday?"
"When Xu Hongbing delivered the truffles, he saw Xiong Da's wife outside and offered to sell them to him at a lower price... Maybe those truffles had already been sold to the villagers."
"I'll talk to mom and ask her to ask which family collected the chickens when she goes to collect them."
"It's better to ask!" Yang Chunyan felt that the Xiong family was a crooked family, and who knows what vicious things they might do out of jealousy.
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In the pine forest on the mountain, Xu Hongbing was startled when he saw Li Wu coming late. Just one night had passed, but this guy seemed to have aged ten years. Could it be that he knew about the green thing on his head?
He took out a cigarette and handed it to him, "Lao Li, I saved the seat for you. Why are you so late today? I thought you were not coming!"
Li Wu looked at the villagers in the forest and pulled him downstairs. "Old Xu, I have something to ask you."
Oh no, I really got it! How did this guy suddenly get it?
Xu Hongbing quickly shook him off, "I haven't even had time to make money yet! If you have anything to say, just go back home and talk!"
Li Wu looked at him and said, "I just want to ask one question."
At this time, Qian Chunhua shouted, "Hongbing, why are you still standing there if you don't want to work? How can a grown man like you have so many criticisms?"
Xu Hongbing took the opportunity to turn around and run towards her, pointing to the place next to his house as he ran, "Lao Li, this piece of land is yours! We can talk about everything later, making money is the most important thing!"
Li Wu looked at him and thought that given the personalities of his mother and son, it was a great honor for them to find a place for him. Things were already like that. Just like his mother said, he still had two children to raise and had to earn money for his mother's surgery. Making money was the most important thing.
Xu Hongbing had just dug out a few truffles when Zhou Huaijin came over. "Li Guangming said you told them that Zhou Laoyao had told others not to collect the Xiong family's truffles?"
(End of this chapter)
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