The next morning, Zhou's father and mother came here. Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaijun moved the luggage onto the tractor, and helped Zhou Huaishan put the luggage on the four wheels.
Zhou Jiakang reluctantly pulled Zhang Xiuxiang and said, "Mom, Sister Xiaowen said that we can go to your place to collect truffles during the holidays. My sister and I will go to see you during the holidays."
"You were so happy yesterday, and wanted to work hard so that we could get rewards! Why are you clamoring to come find us today?"
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the siblings. The two children had grown up without ever being separated from them for more than a day. She felt extremely sad and upset when she thought about not having seen them for more than a month.
Zhou Xiaoqian said reluctantly: "There is still one month left before the holiday, it will be just right for me to come visit you then."
Before Zhang Xiuxiang could answer, Zhou Huaijun rushed to say, "Be good at home, and let your father take you there when you have a day off."
"Yeah!" The brother and sister stood beside their parents and didn't want to move a step.
Mother Zhou reluctantly held Zhou Xiaolin's hand and said to Li Qiuyue, "If Xiaolin is not used to it, ask Yiding to bring her back. And Xiaolong, don't spoil him too much. Don't underestimate him because he is young. He knows everything."
Li Qiuyue has gotten much better since she made a scene at the Land Management Office last time and was ignored. She is worried that this time, when no one is watching her, her old illness will relapse.
"Mom, don't worry, Xiaolong is my son, and I don't want to raise him to be like Li Laoer." Li Qiuyue understood that she was doing it for her own good, but she really didn't mean it. She was just used to doing it that way.
"Mom, don't worry, I will keep an eye on her." Zhou Huaishan picked up Zhou Xiaolin and said goodbye to the old man, grandpa and grandma, and my father and aunt!"
Zhou Xiaolin waved her hands happily, "Grandfather... I'll take the car!"
Mother Zhou pinched her cheek and said, "You are such a heartless little girl. When it comes to riding in a car, you even don't want your grandma."
Zhao Huifang looked at Zhou Jialiang climbing up and down the tractor, "Mom, look at my son, he's the one without conscience. Jiaming and Xiaowen know to watch over us, but he's been climbing on the tractor since he got up."
Yang Chunyan looked at the heartless Zhou Jialiang and recalled that Zhou Xiaowen used to say that his second brother was thick-skinned. Others were half a beat slower, but he was more than a beat slower.
He smiled and said, "You guys haven't left yet, so he doesn't feel anything yet. When he comes back from school at noon, he will probably be wilted."
After hearing this, Zhou Jialiang said, "Aunt Yao, you guessed wrong. I'm not depressed at all. Now that my mother is gone, no one will scold me. It's so much fun!"
"ungrateful……"
Zhou Huaian and his brothers packed their things and waved, "Okay, let's go."
Zhou Huairong and his friends quickly climbed onto the tractor and waved to the old man and his parents, "We're leaving!"
The old man also waved his hand, "Be careful on the road, drive slowly..."
"Got it!"
The old man stood there for a while and then went to release the chickens and ducks. Yang Chunyan and Zhou's mother stood there with a few children, watching the tractor emitting black smoke going farther and farther away before returning to the yard.
Zhou's mother scooped up some porridge, took out steamed buns from the steamer, let the children eat, and then went to Zhao Huifang and the others to help heat up pig food and feed the pigs.
After Yang Chunyan fed the pigs and finished her housework, Zhao Meina and her sister came to Yang Chunyan's house. "Are you two going to the forest farm? Isn't Xiaochuan going?"
"Yeah!" Zhao Meina smiled, "The pigs at home can't be slaughtered yet, and we can't sell all the chickens and ducks. Xiaochuan said he can't help us at the forest farm, so he stayed at home to take care of the livestock. Aunt Su said she would help us take care of Xiaochuan."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan rubbed the sisters' hair and said, "Good kids, just work hard for a few more years and then you'll have an easy time."
Zhao Meina looked up at her with a smile, "Aunt Yang, I feel very relaxed now."
This year, only a small amount of whole grains were added to the food intake of the three siblings. They can also eat meat once a week and bone soup twice a week.
I made every penny from digging truffles this year. I also saved another six or seven hundred yuan from picking red mushrooms, selling ice cream and melon seeds, and asked Uncle Huai'an to help me save it.
If this continues, my brother and sister and I will have money to pay tuition when we are admitted to school.
The teacher said that as long as you get into university, the government will provide subsidies, and you can also work and study while in university.
They all wanted to go there and see what was so good about it. Why would they abandon them just to go back?
"Aunt Yang, look!" Zhao Xiu Na happily pulled Yang Chun Yan to look at the sleeves of her cotton-padded jacket. "We have all grown taller. We also asked Aunt Su to help us connect one section of the cotton-padded jacket. Now no one calls us Xiao Chuan or Little Yellow Hair!"
"Aunt, look, how much taller have you grown?" Yang Chunyan looked at the sisters' flushed faces and pulled them to stand beside her. "Last year, Mina was not even as tall as my shoulders, but this year she has grown to my ears, and Xiu Na has also grown to my shoulders."
The two sisters nodded happily. "When the weather turned cold, we took out our clothes and pants and found that they were all too short. When we get down from the forest farm, we'll go get some fabric to make new clothes."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Then let's go to Ning'an together. The materials there are beautiful and not expensive!"
"Chunyan, are the Mina sisters at your house?" Before he finished speaking, Zhou Daqing rode his bicycle into the yard, and Lai Fu and Wangcai greeted him warmly.
"Grandpa Zhou, we are here!" Sister Zhao Meina shouted happily and went to greet him.
Zhou Daqing smiled and nodded, "Let's go, Erchun, Hongbing and the others are here."
Yang Chunyan hurriedly said, "Uncle Daqing, I made some steamed buns and dumplings for you to eat on the way."
Zhou Daqing said happily: "No need to take it. We have steamed a lot of Xuejiao. We can eat it for a long time if we carry it on our backs."
"Take it up and put it in the culvert and eat it slowly." Yang Chunyan went into the kitchen and took out a bamboo basket full of steamed buns and gave it to him.
After Zhou Daqing took his sisters away, Yang Chunyan left Xiao Jiuer with the old man and rode her bicycle to the brigade.
The villagers who were drying pig grass in the courtyard of the brigade saw her and asked with a smile: "Youngest family, will the market open tomorrow?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "It will start tomorrow. I'll get the key to the broadcasting room from Uncle Datian and let everyone know."
"Great, I can make money again!"
Yang Chunyan opened the broadcasting room, turned on the microphone, clapped a few times, and shouted into the microphone, "Fellow villagers, the truffle market will open tomorrow morning, everyone should be prepared! In order to have more truffles to dig in the future, everyone should not be afraid of trouble and must remember to fill in the gaps..."
The village loudspeaker sounded once when red mushrooms were being harvested. Although most villagers knew that the market would open the next day and had already prepared their belongings, as soon as they heard the notice from the loudspeaker, they all went to check where their belongings were.
I’m afraid that something might be missed and affect tomorrow’s harvest.
As soon as Yang Chunyan finished shouting, she saw Qian Chunhua standing outside the window, looking at her with a smile, "Chunyan, after you shouted through the loudspeaker, some families have already taken their belongings and went up the mountain."
Yang Chunyan turned off the microphone and looked at her strangely, "What are they going to do now?"
Qian Chunhua laughed and said, "I'm afraid my old nest will be occupied by someone else!"
"...They're not going to receive the goods today. Could it be that they want to stay in the mountains for a night?"
"I heard from some of Fangtian's maids this morning that Fang Sihai's sons and daughters-in-law went up the mountain to dig truffles early this morning. Didn't Xiaoxue come to tell you?"
"No!" Yang Chunyan never dreamed that Fang Sihai would take the lead in breaking the rules.
Even the people who receive the truffles take the lead in breaking the rules. Today you come one day early, and next year you come two days early. Sooner or later, these truffles will be like the previous life, where people start picking them in July and August when the truffles are still not ripe.
Because of this detrimental digging method, the quality of the truffles is reduced, and in the end they can only be sold for one-tenth of the actual price.
Qian Chunhua looked at her, hesitated for a moment and then said, "Chunyan, I have something to say. I think you and the youngest brother should take care of this matter. Otherwise, if everyone is as unruly as him, you won't be able to take care of others in the future."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "I'll talk to Huai'an."
Qian Chunhua smiled at her and said, "Then I'll go back first, pack my things, and go to the old nest with Xiaofang to dig truffles tomorrow."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan agreed and closed the doors and windows of the broadcasting room. After coming out, she thought for a while and then rode her bicycle towards Fangtian.
When she arrived at Fangtian, she went straight to the corner that Yang Xiaoxue mentioned, and saw a yard with a small blackboard hung outside. She got off her bike, stood there and read what was written on it, and found that it was similar to the requirements when her family first collected truffles.
Fang Sihai saw Yang Chunyan standing there in the yard. He came out of the yard and looked at her with a fake smile, "Boss Yang, how come you have time to come here today?"
"Boss Fang!" Yang Chunyan pointed at the small blackboard, "Who made these rules?"
When Fang Sihai heard her call him Boss Fang, he felt relieved. He stepped forward politely and said, "It was established by our Boss Feng. I heard that it was established based on the rules of your family!"
Yang Chunyan pointed at the acquisition date above and said, "Boss Fang, I want to ask, if there are people who don't follow the rules here, how will you punish them?"
"Haha!" Fang Sihai laughed dryly. "Don't worry, Boss Yang. I will check carefully when I receive the goods tomorrow. If someone digs them up early, I will let your family know and we won't accept his goods."
Yang Chunyan said in a deep voice: "Boss Fang, what if the person receiving the goods does not follow the rules?"
"This...this..." Fang Sihai raised his eyelids and glanced at her, "Boss Yang, I think there is not much difference between one day earlier and one day later, right?"
Yang Chunyan asked back: "Boss Fang, I want to ask you a question. If your millet is not yet fully ripe, will you start harvesting it?"
Fang Sihai replied subconsciously: "I'm afraid only an idiot would..."
"That's right!" Yang Chunyan looked at him and said in a deep voice, "Your family also dug truffles last year and sent them to my family to sell. We have told you again and again that truffles must be dug after they are ripe.
Because the surface of mature truffles will have clear marble patterns after being cut, and its unique smell is also very strong. On the other hand, the surface of immature truffles will be white after being cut, and they will have only a faint smell.
Even wild boars in the mountains won’t eat unripe truffles. Just think about it, who would want something like this?” (End of this chapter)
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