Chapter 66 66 Average, Third in the World
"Yes, with the bee hat and gloves, you can go dig out the beehive of Jinhuan."
"It's best not to touch a wild beehive that's too aggressive. If something happens, it will be troublesome."
"Don't worry, just add some smoke and the wild bees will run away."
Yang Chunyan thought of the people in the short video who sometimes used moxa sticks to smoke wild bees. "I will make some moxa sticks at night and bring them with me to smoke the beehives."
"Sure, it's more convenient to carry moxa sticks." Zhou Huaian suddenly remembered what Wang Zhen said about the price of Magnolia officinalis going up recently, "Yan'er, let's go home quickly and pick all the Magnolia officinalis that we can while the price is going up."
"Go back and call my sister-in-law and the others, find a long bamboo pole, tie a sawtooth sickle on it, and we can get the Magnolia officinalis flowers that are out of reach."
"Let them buy a knife and you teach them how to cut the bark of Magnolia officinalis."
"Um!"
The two walked to where Li Qiuyue was selling vegetables and saw her busy picking up the corn leaves scattered on the ground, "Third sister-in-law, we're all sold!"
"Yes!" Li Qiuyue smiled and patted her bag. "I sold about ten catties at 1.1 cents, and the rest were all sold at 10 cents per catty. Go back and tell mom to break the corn and send it to Ning An to sell."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes! Let's go buy a hoe and a sickle."
Zhou Huaian put the bucket and the basket of corn leaves into the bamboo basket and said, "Let's go buy some pig's trotters and ribs!"
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue looked at the chicken cart that Zhou Huaian was pushing, walked to Yang Chunyan, and asked in a low voice: "Are Chen Ai and Ma Li Zi sold? How much is one pound?"
Yang Chunyan lowered her voice, "Mature mugwort is 2 cents, Polygonum multiflorum is 2.5 cents. My dried half-flowered flower is 3.5 cents per pound, and wet goods are only 7 cents. Doctor Wang asked us to dry them and send them over."
Li Qiuyue looked at her in surprise, "It's such a big difference. We'll dry it and send it to you next time."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan nodded and went to the meat stall with Zhou Huaian.
Zhou Huaian asked two people to guard the chicken cart and went to the meat stall with a basket on his back. After a round of shopping, he cut a four-pound rib, bought two pig feet with trotters, a pair of pig intestines, and asked someone to deliver a few large bones and a dragon bone.
When Li Qiuyue saw the things in the backpack, she felt that the two must have made a lot of money today, otherwise they would not have spent money so lavishly.
There were so many people in the vegetable market that she didn't dare to ask, so she had to suppress her curiosity and wait until she left the city to ask the two of them.
The three of them turned around and went to the stall selling ironware. Li Qiuyue took out the money given by Zhao Huifang and the other two and bought three medicine hoes. Yang Chunyan asked her to buy three knives for cutting Magnolia officinalis bark.
Li Qiuyue nodded and bought three more knives, spending a total of about 30 yuan. Thinking that it would take her a long time to save up 10 yuan, digging some weeds to sell was more valuable than the cowpeas in the field.
She suddenly felt that it was better to be an educated person. It was really hard for an old farmer who had to work in the fields for a living all his life.
Zhou Huaian chose a long and narrow dagger and a small shovel.
Yang Chunyan bought some thin steel wire, went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy two canvas hats, and cut a few feet of nylon yarn for making window screens.
Li Qiuyue asked curiously: "Chunyan, why did you buy these?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "It's too unsafe to find wild bees in Huai'an without bee hats. I'll buy some and make two bee hats."
"Wild bees are very vicious, and there are also hornets. Some people have been stung to death."
"It's just that it's too unsafe to be bare-headed."
Yang Chunyan said that she bought a few pairs of work gloves for going up the mountain and two pairs of high rubber shoes. As the weather got hot, her feet sweated too much when wearing plastic boots.
Seeing that she bought so much at once, Li Qiuyue felt that they had made a lot of money today. She thought that it would be great if she could earn back the money she used to buy the hoe and the knife today.
The three of them came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and bought the fruit candies and mints they had promised to the children, and then they hurried back.
After leaving the city and walking to the bridge, Zhou Huaian saw a tractor heading west of the bridge. He hurriedly chased after it and shouted, "Master, where are you going? Can I take a ride?"
"I'm going to Baima Town, where are you going?" the master said loudly.
Zhou Huaian shouted, "I'm going to the Fangtian fork in the road."
The master turned around and glanced at Zhou Huaian and the other two. "Five cents each!"
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian and the other two lifted the chicken bus onto the tractor, and he got off and sat in the driver's seat.
Yang Chunyan and Li Qiuyue took two sacks and spread them in the truck bed, then sat down against the tailgate, and the tractor rumbled forward.
Zhou Huaian sat in the driving seat and chatted with the driver, asking some questions about driving a tractor.
After selling those herbs, his mood was completely different from that morning. He felt that if he continued like this, he might be the first person in the Funius Brigade to buy a tractor.
Yang Chunyan and Li Qiuyue leaned on the tailgate of the tractor. The tractor rumbled and swayed as it moved forward. The noise was too loud and it was inconvenient to talk. The two of them found a corner to lean against and fell asleep without realizing it.
When the tractor reached the fork in the road, Zhou Huaian got off and saw Yang Chunyan sitting in the corner of the truck bed, holding onto the tractor's fender with one hand and sleeping soundly with her head resting on it.
In another corner, Li Qiuyue was also sleeping with her head tilted back and drooling.
He hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke, "Chunyan, sister-in-law, we're here, get off the car."
Yang Chunyan woke up from her dream and saw Zhou Huaian standing on the truck bed. She was stunned for a moment before she realized, "We're here!"
"We're here!" Zhou Huaian got off the bus, lifted the backpack down and put it on the side of the road, then grabbed the handle of the chicken bus, "Come on, lift the bus down."
"oh!"
Yang Chunyan and Li Qiuyue hurriedly grabbed the two wings of the chicken bus, and the three of them lifted the chicken bus off the tractor. Zhou Huaian paid the fare and pushed the chicken bus back.
Seeing that there was no one on the road, Li Qiuyue smiled and asked Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, is the money from today's sales enough for us to buy a medicine hoe?"
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes and thought to himself: Chen Ai and Polygonum multiflorum are only two or three cents per pound, the money from selling them is not even enough to buy a medicine hoe!
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "That's enough. There's still some left!"
"Morning mugwort and Polygonum multiflorum are so cheap, you must have found some valuable herbs." Li Qiuyue looked at her anxiously, "Tell me how much you sold them for, it makes me so excited!"
Seeing her anxious look, Yang Chunyan pulled her aside and whispered in her ear, "More than 600."
"How much did you say?" Li Qiuyue couldn't believe her ears, so Yang Chunyan said it to her again.
"Oh my god~" Li Qiuyue exclaimed, looking at Yang Chunyan with eyes shining with excitement, "What treasure did you pick up? Why are you selling so much?"
She quickly calculated in her mind, more than 600, half of them, and her family also had more than 100...
"The purple Ganoderma I picked up this time was of good quality and sold for a good price. Also, the price of some other medicines went up, so I sold so many."
"We've only been selling for two days and the price has already gone up!" Li Qiuyue looked at the two of them enviously, "You guys are so lucky!"
Zhou Huaian turned around with a proud look on his face, "Just average, third in the world!"
"Chunyan, look how proud the youngest is!"
Yang Chunyan glanced at Zhou Huaian and said, "That's just the way he is!"
"Ancestor," Zhou Huaian yelled, "What's wrong with my character? I follow you around like a workhorse every day, and you're still not satisfied?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Satisfied, your performance is beyond my expectation!"
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "To be honest, the youngest has been performing really well these past few days!"
"Hurry up!" Zhou Huaian quickened his pace, a little uncomfortable.
(End of this chapter)
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