Chapter 108 Go to the Hot Springs Again
"Aunt Yuling, please pass me the rope. The stick is too big, and it's hard for one person to tie it with the rope." Dong Guoqing tied a stick horizontally between two trees.
"Slow down, Brother Guoqing, you can put the stick on the branch of that tree. It doesn't matter if it's a little higher. We can adapt to local conditions. As long as it can be fixed, it doesn't matter if it's aligned." Yike quickly told the method.
"Oh, that's easy. I've also cut some longer sticks, so I just have to tie them up and fix them. It'll be much quicker." Dong Guoqing was very happy that he could finally perform on the spot.
While Yike was busy building the pigpen, Ziyi was busy processing the wild boar meat. They put the processed pork, wolf meat and leopard meat into the water cave and froze them. Yes, it was frozen. As soon as Yi Ke came back, he used saltpeter to make ice. The temperature of the water cave was originally low, so Yi Kerang Ziyi built an ice cellar in the water cave.
The next day, Tang Jianguo, Wang Hongjun, Dong Guoqing and Ma Youcai followed Li Haoran out again with the pork. This time, more than a thousand kilograms of pork were taken by Wang Hongjun to the black market in the provincial capital to be sold. The money from the sales was divided equally among those who participated in the hunting, and those who stayed at home were given ten yuan each as a wage. Du Jiankang, Wang Cuihua and Zhang Yuling who stayed at home were all very happy. They didn't expect that they would get money just for helping to wash the pork.
Ten yuan was a considerable amount of money in that era. If you have a ticket, pork outside is only 80 cents per pound, and you can buy more than ten pounds of pork with ten yuan. Of course, Zhang Yuling and her friends are not interested in pork, but farmers outside seldom eat pork a few times a year.
The ones who were most deeply touched were Du Qingcang's family. Just thinking back to the time when they had to scrape together the money for Du Jiankang's medicine, it took them a long time to gather together penny by penny. Even pork was not available anytime like it is now. Didn't you see that Du Jiankang's face looked much rosier?
Not to mention that there are many wild beasts in the mountains. For Du Qingcang, who can't hunt and can only farm, those wild beasts are all from the forest and have nothing to do with his family. If you want to eat large wild beasts like wild boars, then be prepared to exchange your life. No, not exchange, but deliver food, haha, deliver food to the wild beasts.
They relied on traps to catch small animals such as rabbits and pheasants, but these could not be sold for much money, so they remained poor. Now they are particularly grateful to Li Haoran's family, and they really regard themselves and Li Haoran's family as one family. Li Haoran and Ziyi saw that they knew how to be grateful, so they treated them as family.
As soon as Tang Jianguo, Wang Hongjun, Dong Guoqing and Ma Youcai left, the place immediately felt much quieter. Ziyi decided to go to the hot spring again with Yike to see if there were any mushrooms to harvest.
This time they planned to go through the top of the Utopia Cave, so that they could go back and forth in one day without wasting time.
Ziyi and Yike came out of Tunnel No. 2 and arrived at the orchard. They found that although some of the fruits in the orchard were blown away by the heavy rain and strong wind last time, there were still a lot left, and the fruits were even bigger than what Yike saw when he came last year.
"Did godfather fertilize the fruit trees? Why are the fruits so big this year? They were not this big last year." Yike muttered.
"Probably not. Godfather is so busy. He has enough to take care of the rice in the paddy fields and the sweet potatoes and corn in the fields. How can he have time to take care of the fruit trees? Maybe you cut the weeds under the trees, so there are fewer fruits and the weeds don't take up the fertilizer, so the fruits are bigger." Ziyi analyzed.
"It's a pity that a lot of fruits were blown away by the wind. Otherwise, we could have made a lot of dried fruits this year and sold them. What a pity." Yi Ke said regretfully.
"It's okay. Didn't we grow a lot of sweet potatoes? We'll make dried sweet potatoes for you when the time comes." Ziyi's mouth curled up slightly. He was really a money-grubber.
"Hmph! Dried sweet potatoes are not as valuable as dried fruits." Yi Ke said angrily.
"Yes, it's not worth money. Next year we will take good care of the fruit trees and make sure they bear plenty of fruits. If we have time we can also transplant fruit trees from other places in the forest. Then we will have a large orchard." Ziyi painted a big picture for Yike.
"That's about right." Yike thought that he would have to transplant more species, not just these two or three kinds of fruit.
The two of them chatted until they reached the outside of the paradise. Originally, they wanted to go in and see the houses built by those people. Finally, he was stopped by Ziyi.
"We can't let them know this route, and we can't let them find the hot springs." Ziyi said.
"Okay!" Yike had no choice but to think that he must go in and take a look another day. He couldn't let them destroy the place.
The two men passed through the cave entrance. There was a wooden door installed in the crack. It must have been installed by Hu Haohan and his team. This is good, at least it gives you peace of mind at night without having to worry about blind animals sneaking in.
In fact, Ziyi and Yike really misunderstood. Hu Haohan and the others had never thought about installing doors. They were busy building houses and clearing land for sowing every day. Li Haoran arranged for them to install this device for two purposes: one was to prevent wild beasts from breaking in, and the other was to prevent the geese in the lake from coming out of their holes. Before, no one lived there, so the geese would go back into the cave even if they left. But now that people live there, the geese will not go back once they leave. Li Haoran knew how much Yike loved these geese, and he would be pissed to death if they ran away, so Li Haoran arranged for someone to install a door.
Ziyi and Yike climbed to the top of the mountain from the same place they climbed last time. Last time they saw purple flowers on the top of the mountain, some of which had fallen to the ground, and some looked like they had just bloomed.
"The flowering period is quite long. If it is planted under our watchtower, it will be a sea of purple flowers. How beautiful it is." Yi Ke looked at the hundreds of purple flowers growing on the five or six foot high flower stems, and the silver leaves below the purple flowers. How beautiful!
"When I come back, I'll transplant some to see if they can survive." Ziyi will try his best to satisfy something as long as he likes it.
"Brother Ziyi, you are so nice!" Yike gave Ziyi a big smile without hesitation and enthusiastically offered what she had wanted to do for a long time - a passionate kiss.
Who says our Ziyi is a Liu Xiahui, who sleeps with Yi Ke in his arms every night but does nothing else?
If Yi Ke didn't know that this was her husband from her previous life, she might have been secretly happy, but she already knew that this was her husband from her previous life, and the love in her heart was overflowing.
Ziyi: I feel wronged. It’s not that I didn’t want to, but I didn’t have a fire extinguisher, so I was too scared to take on the fire.
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The hot spring was still there quietly as usual, with smoke from the hot air swirling at the top of the valley. Ziyi and Yike found a slightly sloping place and slowly walked down the mountain. After entering the valley, neither of them had time to soak in the hot spring, but went directly to the back of the valley. After passing through the mouth of the gourd, the temperature inside remains the same and is not affected by the heat outside at all.
"It's very strange here. The temperature is the same all year round. Even in the hottest summer, the temperature here remains unchanged. I checked but couldn't find the reason." Ziyi explained.
"There are many magical things in nature. If you can't find the reason, don't look for it. Anyway, it doesn't harm us." Yi Ke said nonchalantly.
"You're right. We don't need to think about these problems. Let's go and see how the mushrooms and fungus are growing." Ziyi also agreed.
The two passed through the gourd mouth and went inside. They found that the mushrooms and wood ears that had not grown up last time had grown up. At the same time, some small ones began to grow. It seemed that they would not go back empty-handed.
The two of them were responsible for each place, Ziyi was responsible for picking wood ear mushrooms, and Yike was responsible for picking mushrooms. There are only a few kinds of mushrooms here, and one of my favorites is the elm yellow mushroom that grows on a dead elm tree.
The elm yellow mushroom is commonly known as "a nest of sheep", also known as the golden-topped ear and golden-topped mushroom. It is very small and its whole body is golden yellow. We all liked it very much when we were young. At first we thought it was poisonous because adults said that the more beautiful the mushroom, the more poisonous it is. Later, after learning Chinese medicine, we found out that this mushroom is not only non-toxic, but also very nutritious. It tastes delicious, whether it is stir-fried, sautéed, roasted or stewed, it tastes fresh and has a smooth texture.
First, different types of mushrooms can be placed separately. Shiitake mushrooms are the least among them, probably because they take a long time to grow. There are not many oyster mushrooms and enoki mushrooms either. Only straw mushrooms are the most harvested.
Yike remembered that straw mushrooms were the easiest to cultivate artificially, and the growth time was not long, only about twenty days. They grew in rotten straw. After returning, he thought about it carefully and tried to see if he could cultivate them successfully. If he succeeded, he would no longer be afraid of being hungry. Although straw mushrooms could not be eaten, they could be exchanged for food. The more Yike thought about it, the happier he became.
"Yike, there aren't many fungus, but there are a lot of mushrooms. My basket is full, is yours full?" Ziyi came to Yike and asked, looking at Yike's basket, "Yours is full too, so let's go back so we can get home before dark."
"Okay, let's go. Those kinds of mushrooms can be picked in half a month." Yike pointed at the shiitake mushrooms and oyster mushrooms.
"Then let's come back in half a month." Ziyi helped Yike put the backpack on his back, and then put on his own backpack.
The two returned to the top of the cave in Paradise along the same route. Ziyi used a knife to scrape out a few smaller silver grass purple flowers. This name was acceptable. She looked at the silver leaves and purple flowers of the flower and just picked this name.
Ziyi only dug up the flower stems which were only one foot long in the center of the grass. As for those silver grass purple flowers which were five or six feet high and had hundreds of purple flowers on their stems, Ziyi did not dig any of them, because he could not move them back even if he dug them up, although they looked better.
The two men were carrying mushrooms and Ziyi was carrying silver grass and purple flowers at the same time. When they returned to their home in the paradise, it was already completely dark. Zhang Yuling was looking out the cave entrance and saw their shadows from afar. She hurriedly asked Du Qingcang to go and pick them up.
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