The next morning, Zhou Huaian rode his bicycle to Zhou Yiding's house and knocked on the door a few times. "Let's go, Ding Ding cat!"
"Here you are!" Zhou Yiding opened the gate and handed him a bowl. "Mushroom meat buns, eat two before you leave."
Zhou Huaian took a look and took one, "Don't tell me about breakfast. I ate a bowl of Yinmi Egg before I came out."
Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes at him and said, "Your kid is so good at sex that he is full with just a bowl of rice eggs."
"Do you know what a bowl is?" Zhou Huaian gestured, "Such a big bowl, full of it, you can't even finish it if you eat a bun!"
"I can't eat!" Zhou Yiding leaned against the door, "Youngest, did Third Sister-in-law ask Doctor Wang to check her pulse before she gave birth to her youngest child?"
Zhou Huaian leaned forward and whispered, "Third sister-in-law wanted them to feel her pulse, but Chunyan and my mother were worried that if they felt it out it was a girl, they wouldn't want it and it would harm the child, so they said they couldn't feel it out."
Zhou Yiding lowered his voice and said, "You mean, can you really tell whether a baby is a boy or a girl by taking the pulse?"
"I think so!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "Before your sister-in-law gave birth, my father-in-law felt her pulse and said that she was a naughty little girl. I understood it immediately, but I pretended not to understand!"
"You're such a clever trick." Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "On the day the hotel opened, Xuejiao wanted to ask Doctor Xiao Wang to take her pulse, but I didn't have the nerve to ask.
The day before yesterday in Pulin Town, Xuejiao found an old Chinese doctor who spent ten yuan to check her pulse. He said she was pregnant with a son, but I didn’t believe it. Now I feel relieved after hearing what you said.”
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, "Why worry about it? My third brother's family was only fined 500 yuan. If it turns out not to be the case, we can just have another child!"
"Even if it is, I plan to wait two or three years before having another child."
"My family also plans to wait two or three years before making a decision."
"No matter what, we have to have two kids!" Zhou Yiding turned and walked into the yard, put down the bowl, pushed the bicycle, closed the door, and the two left together.
"Go ask your father-in-law for me this afternoon to see if they have any grain for sale. I want to buy two to three thousand kilograms of this year's new millet."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding suddenly remembered something, "I met Erchun yesterday afternoon, and he said you met that bastard Cai Ermei in Ning'an?"
"..." Zhou Huaian recounted what happened, "It's not easy out there."
"The young people in the forest farm have been making a lot of trouble recently. I heard from the leader that many people have been arrested in the second half of the year." Zhou Yiding looked in the direction of the Xiong family. "Xiong Laoer is lucky. If he did that this year, he might have been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment."
"Fuck! Is it so strict?"
"The director's eldest son is a police officer in the provincial capital. How could the news he brought back be false? People told him to let his youngest son behave himself in the next few years and not to mess around with others. If he is caught, he will be sentenced to at least ten years!"
"Damn it, luckily we didn't get into trouble."
"It's better not to be a mess! I don't want to spend more than ten years in prison just because of a fight, and then my descendants won't be able to climb up the ladder."
"What does my going in have to do with my descendants?"
"When you join the military, you have to check three generations. Do you think there is any connection?"
Zhou Huaian thought about it and it was true, "I'd better keep my tail between my legs and behave myself from now on!"
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and asked, "Can you hold your tail between your legs?"
"Haha!" Zhou Huaian laughed dryly, "It can usually be clamped."
“…”
The two men reached the asphalt road and happened to meet a tractor driving by. They stopped it, moved the things into the truck bed, leaned on the truck bed side by side, and closed their eyes to rest.
"Ding Ding Cat, call me when you return to the forest farm. Let's go into the mountains to look for some wild honey and dig some herbs."
"Even if you don't tell me, I want to ask you to go with me."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian responded and closed his eyes.
The tractor was belching black smoke and crawling unsteadily toward the top of the slope. It arrived at Ningqiaotou just after daybreak.
The two men jumped off the tractor, lifted the bamboo basket down, hung it up again, tied it to the back seat of the car, and still went to the guesthouse to deliver the vegetables first.
After weighing and paying, the three of them went to Douhuazhuang. Zhou Huaian brought out a bag of new rice and placed it at the door. "Brother Huang, I've just harvested new rice. I'm sending it to you guys to try."
"Thank you, thank you!" Huang Yongcai thanked him happily. "Youngest brother, I went to buy rice yesterday. The grain station only sold old rice, and the rice on the black market is expensive. Does your team sell grain?"
Zhou Huaian thought to himself that he had to buy food, "Let Ding Ding Cat ask our Tian Shao for you."
Before Huang Yongcai could say anything, Zhou Yiding said straightforwardly, "Leave it to me!"
"Thanks, brother!" Huang Yongcai patted his shoulder happily. At first, he thought Zhou Huaian was a good person and it was not easy for people in the mountains to make money, so he lent a hand. But he didn't know that after interacting with them, he would benefit more.
Sometimes helping others is helping yourself, the old saying is absolutely true!
The two men came out of Douhuazhuang and went to Deshengtang. When they got there, they saw Doctor Wang treating a patient. When Wang Zhen saw them coming, he came out of the clinic to greet them.
"The backyard door is open, just go in."
"Okay!" The two of them pushed their bicycles and followed him into the yard.
Zhou Huaian said: "The child from the Zhang family wants to go to the provincial capital after the autumn harvest. Can you please help contact him?"
"We agreed when I was in the provincial capital. When are they going to go? Just set a date and I can just call in advance."
"Thanks!" Zhou Huaian smiled and took out a urea bag filled with rice from the bamboo basket. "This year's new rice is sent to you for you to taste."
"There's also cherry wine!" Zhou Yiding took out a jar from his backpack, "Drink it to cure rheumatism!"
Wang Zhen looked at the two of them happily, "We have new rice and newly brewed cherry wine. You should prepare some snacks to go with the wine and the meal."
"Eh!" Zhou Yiding looked at him in surprise. Wang Zhen touched his face and asked, "Is there something dirty on my face?"
"No!" Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "I found that you like to joke more than before!"
Wang Zhen felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. "I think so, too. It's mainly because there's a chatterbox in the family now. She has also made me talkative."
Zhou Huaian thought of her own family member who didn't talk to her and didn't say a word for a long time, and smiled and said, "Complement each other, complement each other!"
Zhou Yiding: "As the saying goes, a smile makes you ten years younger. Worrying makes you gray. It's better to like joking."
Wang Zhen agreed with a smile, "Being in a good mood is good for your health!"
The three of them carried the rice and jars and walked to the kitchen. Wang Zhen asked, "How was the harvest this year?"
"There is no lodging this year, and the harvest is better than last year." Zhou Huaian untied the rope, and the two of them lifted the bag and poured the rice into the rice jar. The fresh fragrance of new rice wafted into the air.
Wang Zhen grabbed a handful and sniffed it. "It smells so good. New rice is the best for making porridge."
Zhou Huaian remembered Huang Yongcai saying that the grain station only sold old rice, "We want to buy some new millet that was harvested this year, do you want some?"
Wang Zhen nodded and said, "If you have any, please buy me one or two thousand kilograms."
Zhou Huaian patted Zhou Yiding on the shoulder and said, "Don't bother two people with one thing. I'll leave it all to you!"
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."
Zhou Huaian put away the urea bag, and the three of them went to the yard. "I brought some Coriolus versicolor. There are quite a few good ones!"
Wang Zhen followed him towards the bicycle, "Boss Zheng needs a batch of good goods, and the price is not bad, so I thought of you."
"Thanks!" Zhou Huaian smiled and took down the bamboo basket tied to the seat. "Take a look at these goods."
"Brother Zhou, you are really good. You have collected so many goods and stored them."
"I'm collecting in Huangqinggou, Baicaoping, Baicaoping and Bailing Mountain. Some of them were found by Chunyan and I when we went up the mountain."
"It seems that they all trust you and sell you the good stuff." Wang Zhen took out all the Coriolus fungi, looked through them over and over again, and divided them into three piles. He said, "These ten or so flowers are top-notch goods. These are first-class, and that pile is third-class."
Zhou Huaian saw that all the Coriolus fungi he and Chunyan had found were in the special grade pile, and proudly pointed at the big ones and said, "Chunyan and I found these in the back mountain. She said at the time that they could be rated as special grade."
"The ones that Sister Yan has checked are usually 80% accurate." Wang Zhen said as he brought the scale over. Zhou Huaian put the special ones into the bamboo basket on the scale first.
"Not bad, these special ones weigh 21 jin 9 liang."
Zhou Huaian thought that last year the first-grade fish was 180 yuan per kilogram, so if the price of the special-grade fish could double, that would be great.
He happily put the first-class goods into the bamboo basket, which weighed exactly 31 jin, and the second-class goods weighed 19 jin and 7 liang.
Wang Zhen picked up the abacus and fiddled with it. "Special grade goods are 390 per jin, a total of 8541 yuan, first grade is 280 per jin, a total of 8680, second grade is 180, a total of 3546, the three grades add up to a total of 20767 yuan."
Zhou Huaian grinned, revealing his full set of white teeth. "The price of the goods has increased by 100 yuan per kilogram. It is indeed worthwhile to stock up for a few months."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Youngest, your kid is great. I've been working so hard in the forest farm these past few months, and with all the miscellaneous subsidies I've only made 500 to 600 yuan."
Zhou Huaian: "These goods have cost me a lot of money. After selling them today, my wallet will be fatter."
Zhou Yiding: "Let's go to the woods and look for some good stuff in a few days."
Wang Zhen: "Yiding, compared with those workers in the county, your salary is not low at all."
Zhou Yiding: "Workers in the county have it so easy! The work we do in the forest farm is just as hard as that of the old farmers."
Wang Zhen: "That's true, especially for forestry workers in old forests, who only go down the mountain two or three times a year."
Zhou Huaian helped move the Coriolus versicolor to the warehouse and said to Wang Zhen, "Should I store the Coriolus versicolor I harvest next or send it here to sell?
"This price is already the highest purchase price at the moment. If you come across good goods, it is better to send them here and sell them first. Now the price is good and many people are sending goods there. Once they have received all the goods, the price may drop a bit."
Wang Zhen said, then changed the subject, "But I think in the long run, wild Coriolus versicolor will become less and less. If there is a good storage environment, we can still stockpile some."
Zhou Huaian: "Okay, if I receive good goods, I will send them here to sell first. If the price drops, I will stockpile them first. Now that I have a wine cellar, it should be no problem to store them in there for two years."
Wang Zhen nodded and locked the door of the warehouse. "Come with me to the bank and I'll transfer the money directly to your account."
"Okay!" (End of this chapter)
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