Baoya was the first to see Shen Yibei. She still remembered him. She remembered Shen Yibei saying that he would spend money to buy her cicada shell and that he would give her something. So, when she saw Shen Yibei, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Yuanbao was the second one to see Shen Yibei, and thinking of the last time he saw him, he said loudly:
"Is it you?"
When the other children heard Yuanbao's voice, they all looked up and saw Shen Yibei coming over.
Today, Shen Yibei was still dressed the same way, still wearing dirty and torn clothes, but today he washed his hands exceptionally clean, and his white skin was a bit contrasted with his exposed appearance.
When Shen Yibei saw Baoya, he felt inexplicably relieved. He had come here every day in the past few days to wait, and today he finally waited.
He walked towards Baoya. Yuanbao Tianen and the others immediately stood in front of Baoya and looked at him warily.
"You, what do you want to do?"
"What...what are you doing?"
Shen Yibei paused and said, "I owed her something last time, and I came to return it to her today." His messy hair covered Shen Yibei's eyebrows and eyes, and only when he got close could he see a little of his indifferent and distant eyes through the gaps in his hair.
"What do you owe Sister Xiaobao? How come we don't know?" Yuanbao frowned in confusion. They have always been with Sister Xiaobao and never talked to them.
"Before it rained, I bought her some cicada shells and told her I'd give her something as a deposit."
"Buy cicada shells?"
"You were the one who took our cicada shells?"
"You are the liar?!" The younger ones were surprised when they heard it.
They all thought Baoya was deceived. Baoya said he would come back, but they waited until dark and no one showed up. But why did he come out again now?
Yuanbao frowned and looked at him suspiciously: "What are you going to give to Xiaobao sister?"
"No, what did you buy it with?"
Baoya poked her little head out from beside them, blinked, and said, "Money, buy it."
Shen Yibei nodded: “I’ll buy it from her with money.”
"With money? Really?"
"You, you really bought it from Xiaobao sister with money?" Yuanbao asked with his eyes wide open in disbelief. However, before Shen Yibei could speak, he shouted again:
"No, you're lying. If you buy it with money, where's the money?"
Yuanbao scratched his head and thought for a while before he felt something was wrong.
, he said to buy it with money, but he has no money at all?
"I do need money to buy it, but I don't have it right now, so I might have to wait a little longer. But I'm going to give this as a deposit."
"Deposit? What is that?" The attention of the younger ones was drawn away.
"This is matsutake. It's delicious and nutritious. You can take it back and use it to make soup. It's also good for your health." Shen Yibei took out the matsutake that he had carefully preserved.
Several of them stretched their heads to look, but after looking for a long time, they all felt that this was not Matsutake.
"This is a mushroom, not a matsutake at all, you are lying." Although Yuanbao is young, he has seen mushrooms before. He stared at the matsutake in Shen Yibei's hand for a long time and said with a frown.
"This is matsutake. Although it looks a bit like mushrooms, it's still different. You can smell it. Matsutake has a special fragrance that mushrooms don't have."
A few little heads leaned forward, sniffed, and really smelled a fragrance. The doubts in the little ones' hearts were reduced a lot. At this time, Song Bowen asked again:
"Then why did you buy cicada shells?"
Shen Yibei did not hide it and said directly: “My grandma is sick and needs this.”
The little ones looked at each other, and now they didn't know what to ask. Seeing that they didn't ask anymore, Shen Yibei handed the matsutake in his hand to Baoya:
"Here you are. This is the deposit I promised you last time. When I can earn money, I will give you the money to buy the cicada shells."
Baoya looked at him, reached out and carefully took the matsutake, then put it into her small cloth bag. After putting it away, she patted it gently with her little hand.
"This matsutake is quite precious. It's rich in nutrients and good for your health. But you can't keep it for long after picking it. You can take it home and make soup with it."
The younger ones all nodded.
Shen Yibei didn't mention the value of matsutake mushrooms, especially wild ones without any damage. If they were sold, they could fetch a lot of money.
However, although he knew matsutake mushrooms were valuable, he was still too young. He had to help Zhao Rongsheng and Jiang Qiuli with their work during the day, so he didn't have much time to go out. Furthermore, most people in town didn't know how valuable matsutake mushrooms were, so even if he went there, it would be difficult to sell them. Therefore, if he wanted to sell them, he had to go to the county town.
But the county town is too far away
It is difficult for him to have the opportunity to go there now, so even if he knows how to make money, he cannot realize it for the time being.
In addition, buying and selling things nowadays is called speculation, so he did not tell Baoya and the others about the rarity and high price of Matsutake mushrooms. He just wanted them to keep them for themselves to eat and also to nourish their bodies.
The things have been given, and Shen Yibei should leave, but when he looked at Baoya's fair and tender face, he inexplicably didn't want to leave. After thinking about it, he said:
“My name is Shen Yibei, what about you?”
Thinking that Shen Yibei had just given them something, Song Bowen also replied: “My name is Song Bowen, this is my brother Song Boyu, and this is…”
When it was Song Bowen's turn to introduce Yuanbao, he tilted his head back and introduced himself: "My name is Yuanbao."
Finally, Baoya was the only one left. She blinked and, without waiting for Song Bowen to speak, said in a soft and sticky voice, "Call me, Baoya~."
Baoya, Shen Yibei repeated it twice in his heart.
"By the way, which team are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?" Yuanbao asked his doubts.
"I'm from the Yuejin Production Brigade." Shen Yibei came back to his senses. He didn't reveal too much, and didn't want them to know that he lived in the cowshed.
"Oh~" The younger ones didn't ask any more questions, but just said, "No wonder we haven't seen you before. We are all from the Red Flag Production Brigade."
At this point, Shen Yibei remembered a guess in his mind before, and asked: “Can I ask what you are looking for cicada shells for?”
The younger ones didn't know how to answer for a moment. They looked at each other anxiously, then remembered Feng Guizhi's instructions and lied: "We, we just picked them up for fun."
"Yes, pick it up for fun."
As soon as he heard what they said was a lie, but Shen Yibei did not expose it, and said along with the words: "It just so happens that I also want to pick it up, so let's do it together."
"good!"
Several of the younger ones picked up the items together with Shen Yibei. Shen Yibei was quite familiar with this area and had already searched some places before, so he took them to other locations. With so many people together, everyone gained quite a lot.
"Wow, there are so many here."
"Yes, a lot... a lot!"
The other children nodded and continued to look for it. Baoya was also looking very seriously. Shen Yibei was not far away from her. He looked at Baoya and thought about it. He pulled a piece of dogtail grass from the side. After moving his hands a few times, he made a
little rabbit.
He walked over to Baoya and handed it to her: "Here."
Baoya looked at the rabbit that suddenly appeared in front of her, her eyes lit up. She turned her head to look at Shen Yibei, blinked, wanting to take it but not daring to reach out and take it.
Shen Yibei pushed the rabbit forward again, “It’s for you.”
Baoya happily took it, carefully held it in her hands and looked at it back and forth several times, with a look of surprise on her face and her eyes smiling into crescents.
When Shen Yibei looked at her fair and tender smiling face, a smile also appeared on his face, and he couldn’t help but reached out and rubbed her head.
The younger ones searched for a while, but stopped when they saw it was getting late. Song Bowen saw that there were already quite a few cicada shells in the basket, and since they had walked a little further today, they had to go back early.
I said, "It's getting dark, let's go back."
"Okay, let's go home and eat!"
When leaving, Baoya's little hand touched the matsutake in the small cloth bag, and she was still holding the little rabbit in her hand. She looked at Shen Yibei with her big eyes, pursed her lips and smiled at him, then waved to him before turning and leaving.
After Shen Yibei watched them leave, he searched for a while before returning to the cowshed while it was still light.
After the weather cleared up in the past few days, Gao Zhifu called a few people from the brigade to help rebuild the cowshed. The cowshed was originally simple, so it was easy to rebuild it. Today, it was almost done, so they moved back.
The food in the cowshed that night was still very simple, but Zhao Rongsheng was a little happy today: "I took advantage of my free time today to go to the mountains and look for some mugwort. When I find my benefactor, I'll give some to them. Although it's not valuable, it's practical."
Jiang Qiuli also said: "Yes, mugwort is good. Fumigating with mugwort after a day's work will make you feel comfortable. You can find some more in the next few days."
Then he sighed and said, "It would be nice if there was a little more meat or something. After all, they helped so much."
But it's just a thought. They live here and never see meat all year round, let alone give it to others.
"There are quite a few herbs and other things on the back mountain, but it's not very nice to give them to others."
Shen Yibei: "I saw some matsutake mushrooms on the mountain. I can pick some and send them over later. But, we don't know who they are yet, right?"
Jiang Qiuli sighed: "Yeah, I don't know yet. But it's close anyway, let's pay attention to it and see if we can
Can be found.”
........
After the little ones returned home, when they gave the cicada shells to Feng Guizhi, they all started talking about Shen Yibei.
"Grandma, a few days ago, someone bought cicada shells from Xiaobao. We all thought she was being scammed."
"Yes, we all went to pee, and Xiaobao was the only one there. When we came back, we found that there were fewer cicada shells."
"...We wanted to leave, but Xiaobao refused to leave, saying that the man wanted to give her something. But we waited until dark and no one showed up, so we came back..."
"Grandma, that guy came over again today and said he really wanted to buy it, but he said he didn't have the money yet and had to pay it in debt first."
"Then, he gave Xiaobao sister something..."
"Matsutake! That person said it was matsutake, and he also said that matsutake is precious and good for the body."
Feng Guizhi listened to their chatter and roughly understood. However, when she heard Shen Yibei say that he spent money to buy cicada shells, she frowned. After hearing Song Bowen say that it was for the treatment of his grandmother, she was relieved.
When Feng Guizhi first heard the story, she thought it was a child teasing Baoya, but after hearing the rest, she felt that was not the case:
"Matsutake? Take it out and let me see it." Feng Guizhi had never heard of Matsutake either.
"Little sister, take it out and show it to me."
Baoya lowered her head and carefully took out the matsutake from the small cloth bag, then carefully handed it to Feng Guizhi.
Feng Guizhi looked back and forth several times and felt that the matsutake mushrooms were very similar to mushrooms. She couldn't tell whether the man used mushrooms to deceive the younger ones or whether matsutake mushrooms just looked like this.
"Grandma, is this a matsutake mushroom? It looks like a mushroom to me." Song Boyu asked.
Feng Guizhi frowned and couldn't say anything.
Song Jianshe, on the other hand, heard this sentence right after entering the door. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Matsutake?"
Yuanbao turned around and saw his father, turned around and ran over, and said, "Dad, do you know Matsutake? An older brother gave this to us and said it was Matsutake."
Upon hearing this, Song Jianshe walked over, took the matsutake from Feng Guizhi and looked at it carefully. The more he looked, the tighter his brows furrowed.
The little ones were all worried because he just stared at them without saying anything. "Dad, is this a matsutake or a mushroom?"
Song Jianshe actually didn't know about matsutake mushrooms, but he had been a trader in the city for several years.
He had heard of matsutake mushrooms, and the price seemed quite high outside.
He had only heard of it briefly before, and didn't know much about it, but he knew that matsutake mushrooms did look like mushrooms. So, looking at the thing in his hand now, he couldn't tell whether it was really one or not.
He looked at a few and asked, "Where did you get this?"
"It was given to me by a brother. He said he wanted to buy cicada shells for Xiaobao's sister, but he doesn't have the money now, so he'll owe it to him first. This can be considered as... as a deposit." Yuanbao replied to Song Jianshe, and while saying this, he almost forgot how to say the word for a deposit.
"What's wrong?" Feng Guizhi asked, seeing Song Jianshe frowning as if he was thinking about something.
"I've heard of matsutake, but I've never seen one. I don't know if it's real or fake. I want to take it to someone to have a look." Song Jianshe didn't have time to think too much in such a short time, but he made a decision immediately:
"Mom, I plan to leave tomorrow morning."
Song Jianshe didn't say anything else. After all, it was still uncertain and the situation was unclear. If he said too much, he might end up getting disappointed.
Feng Guizhi glanced at the matsutake mushroom in his hand and probably guessed what he meant. She didn't stop him and nodded in agreement.
Knowing that the matsutake was given to Baoya, Song Jianshe did not directly ask to take it away. Instead, he squatted down to make his eyes level with Baoya, and then asked her softly:
"Girl, can Fourth Uncle take this away tomorrow?"
Baoya blinked and nodded her head.
Looking at the fair and tender little face, Song Jianshe couldn't help but chuckle and rubbed Baoya's head.
However, this matter required more than just talking to Baoya. Song Jianshe took the matsutake mushrooms and went to the west room again. After telling him about the matsutake mushrooms, he also told Song Jianye the news that he would leave tomorrow.
"Leaving tomorrow?" Song Jianye looked at the reed mat in his hand and was almost finished weaving it. If he hurried, maybe he could still finish it before Song Jianye left.
Early the next morning, Song Jianshe left with a big bag filled with the reed mats woven by Song Jianye, a few cicada shells he had found, and the two matsutake mushrooms.
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