Chapter 165: Lactarius
Early the next morning, Gu Cheng went to the mountain again. This time he did not find any wild boars, so he went down the mountain empty-handed.
Liu Yinyin asked Gu Cheng to eat a full meal before going to work.
I didn't bring any more food for him to take to the factory, because he would probably give it to someone else anyway.
Time flies, and a few days have passed in the blink of an eye.
After a few days of observation, it is basically confirmed that there are no other large wild animals on the mountain where Liu Yinyin grows sweet potatoes.
In the past few mornings, Gu Cheng went to the mountain every day and only harvested two pheasants, but did not find anything else unusual on the mountain.
In other words, Liu Yinyin can go to the mountain to tend to her sweet potato field.
This is good news.
However, the weather was still as hot and dry as usual, and not a drop of rain fell.
That day happened to be the first day of the new year. Liu Yinyin always felt that she had forgotten something, but she couldn't remember it for a while.
Liu Yinyin didn't dwell on it for too long and just did what she had to do.
It wasn't until Jiang Zhiqing came to see her that Liu Yinyin finally remembered...
She had promised the educated youth who had crossed the Yangtze River that she would buy him 20 kilograms of coarse grain on the first day of every month.
Today is the first day of the new year, and the atmosphere in the village is visibly becoming more tense.
Jiang Zhiqing couldn't wait any longer and came to the door himself.
Liu Yinyin hasn't been to the county town for a few days, so she definitely hasn't bought any food.
However, since Jiang Zhiqing had come, Liu Yinyin couldn't let him go back empty-handed.
After a moment of silence, Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I've been too busy these days, so I didn't go to the county town to buy food. If you're in a hurry... my husband received a batch of commercial food a few days ago. Can I give you 20 kilograms of coarse food first?"
This is not impossible.
Liu Yinyin didn't tell anyone about exchanging food with Jiang Zhiqing, and he probably wouldn't tell anyone else about it.
It just so happens that the two of them can complete this transaction without anyone noticing.
"Comrade Liu, thank you." Jiang Zhiqing did not reject Liu Yinyin's proposal. He was indeed anxious, otherwise he would not have rashly come to find Liu Yinyin.
The sooner we get food, the sooner we can feel at ease.
He brought all the money.
Liu Yinyin: “…”
Okay, let Jiang Zhiqing wait for a moment, and she went into the house to pack food.
He was given twenty pounds of cornmeal.
As agreed, Jiang Zhiqing gave her sixty yuan.
It was only 20 kilograms of cornmeal, but he charged him so much money. Liu Yinyin felt embarrassed.
After thinking about it, Liu Yinyin gave him another ten eggs.
Recently, the hens raised by Liu Yinyin's family have been laying eggs very diligently, and they can lay five or six eggs every day.
There are only three people in my family. Even if each person eats one egg a day, we can save seventy or eighty eggs in a month.
Except for occasionally exchanging some eggs for Aunt Zhou, most of the others were given away by Liu Yinyin.
Jiang Zhiqing lived alone in the educated youth camp and did not have any chickens, so he was short of eggs.
After Jiang Zhiqing left, it was still early. Liu Yinyin looked at the time and it was just a little after eight o'clock.
There was nothing to do at home, so Liu Yinyin brought Gu Yanyan to the Liu family.
She went up the mountain with a basket by herself, intending to take a look at the sweet potato field.
Liu Yinyin had only been to the sweet potato field once since it was planted.
Fortunately, the land is close to the river and the soil is moist, so it does not need to be watered frequently.
However, there are still a lot of weeds, and there are no pesticides at this time.
If we don't weed regularly, the yield of sweet potatoes will definitely be affected.
She also didn't ask Huang Xiaoyue to go to the mountain with her. Maybe because she was scared by the wild boar last time, Liu Yinyin mentioned going up the mountain recently.
Huang Xiaoyue dodged and dodged, looking like she was unwilling to go to the mountain.
Liu Yinyin didn't force her, as she felt comfortable going to the mountain alone.
With no one else around, she didn't need to bring food up the mountain.
An hour later, Liu Yinyin arrived at the sweet potato field.
The mountain is shaded by green trees, whose branches and leaves completely block out the sunlight.
The breeze blows on my face, bringing a slight coolness. In comparison, it is cooler than at the foot of the mountain.
The sweet potato field was overgrown with weeds, and Liu Yinyin only picked out the taller ones.
Don't worry about the rest.
It's just two or three acres of land, and it's impossible for her to manage it so cleanly by herself.
Before she knew it, it was noon. Liu Yinyin sat by the river to rest for a while and bought two meat buns from the system for lunch.
Next to it, the water is gurgling.
The water in this river seemed unaffected by the drought, and it overflowed the shore.
The grass on the side is lush and green, exuding vitality.
After dinner, Liu Yinyin continued to busy herself with weeding the sweet potato field.
She spent about an hour pulling weeds in the afternoon.
Afterwards, she found an empty meadow with many fresh wild vegetables growing there.
Liu Yinyin put down the work in her hands and ran to dig wild vegetables.
Not many people come here, but there are a lot of wild vegetables growing there.
Liu Yinyin had a great time digging wild vegetables this time.
I dug half of the wild vegetables and sold the other half, and there were still five or six pounds of wild vegetables in the basket.
It was getting late and Liu Yinyin wanted to go back.
Unexpectedly, I found that the bushes next to me were full of green eggs!
Liu Yinyin was shocked!
The eggs are a little smaller than the eggs we grow at home.
It looks like a pheasant egg.
Liu Yinyin was surprised and happy, and thought to herself, there must be a lot of pheasants here, and there were a pile of pheasant eggs, probably about fifty or sixty.
Liu Yinyin carefully picked up the pheasant eggs, put them in the basket, and counted them.
Just as she had guessed, there were fifty-eight pheasant eggs in total.
After all, it was an unexpected gain, and Liu Yinyin was quite happy.
Good things always come one after another. On the way back, Liu Yinyin found a patch of yellow pine milk mushrooms in a shady place.
The Lactarius pine mushroom is plump and bright yellow in color.
Liu Yinyin's eyes sparkled, as she hadn't picked many wild mushrooms this year.
Not to mention the fresh and tender Lactarius edulis.
Now that she has seen it, Liu Yinyin will naturally not let it go.
Even though it was late, Liu Yinyin put the basket aside, squatted down and started picking pine mushrooms.
There aren't that many Lactarius mushrooms. If you pick them all, there'll only be about two or three pounds.
But it's already very good. Lactarius pine mushrooms are hard to find. This mountain is full of pine trees, but there are very few Lactarius pine mushrooms.
Liu Yinyin walked around the area and found no trace of the milk mushroom.
He went down the mountain carrying a basket full of things.
I went home to pack my things first, and then went to Liu's house to take care of Yanyan, carrying a basket of wild vegetables, twenty pheasant eggs, and half a bunch of pine milk mushrooms.
"The piglet is still small and can't eat much wild vegetables. There's no need for you to send wild vegetables over every day." Jiang Cuihua couldn't help muttering when she saw her daughter bringing another basket of wild vegetables.
Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "If you can't finish it, just dry it and store it. After a while, it will be hard to find wild vegetables in the mountains."
After that, Liu Yinyin said, "Mom, there are some good things under the basket, please pay attention."