Hard times have room

Chapter 5 Mushrooms
Wang Jianjun knew that he got up a little late, and asked his family to sit at the table to wait for him.

After Mrs. Wang finished drinking the porridge, she took out four or five baskets in the corner of the living room of her main house, and distributed them to the three rooms and one for her own old man.

The rest of the family who didn't carry a basket carry their own simple bamboo baskets, rattan baskets, or simply small rags with patches.

Now is the spring ploughing season, and several woods in the back mountain of Shanghe Village have begun to grow in large quantities, such as pine mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, straw mushrooms and other mushrooms.

The people of Shanghe Village are small and the forest is big. Every spring and summer, a lot of mushrooms grow, pick them up, dry them, and sell them to the purchasing station. That is one of the main sources of income for the villagers in Shanghe Village.

Of course, there are different types of mushrooms, and the prices given by the purchasing stations are also different.

For example, the mushroom is two cents more expensive than the pine mushroom, and it can be sold for eighty cents a pound. The more common and easy-to-find mushrooms, such as oyster mushrooms, are usually less than thirty or forty cents a catty.

Of course, not only dried mushrooms, but also dried bamboo shoots, dried bracken, dried chestnuts and dried walnuts.

Shanghe Village is backed by Daqing Ridge, with Daqing River in front. There are not many fields in the village itself. All the fields add up to more than 200 mu. More than half of them are mountainous land, and only about 1/3 is paddy field.

Due to the inconvenience of irrigation in the mountains, only drought-tolerant crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, sorghum and other crops can be grown, but these coarse grains can only be eaten by themselves and are really worthless.

The paddy fields are all planted with rice, but every year when the village's public grain is handed over, the remaining idea is enough to give each person four or five catties, so what's the use.

Relying on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water, the annual source of income of the villagers relies on the idea of ​​​​Daqingling.

The Wang family lived near the back mountain, and soon they arrived at the entrance of the back mountain. The houses were scattered and entered the mountain from different entrances.

"Don't forget, the sun has completely risen, and when you see other people's homes have returned, come back with me. When that time comes, whoever goes to work by mistake will have their work points deducted, so don't eat lunch." Mr. Wang Tai's tone was stern, and after speaking, he carried his basket in his left hand and a bamboo stick in his right hand, and followed Old Man Wang into the woods.

The big room went to the left, the third room went to the right, and after walking for a while, they also entered the woods from the path.

The second room walked along the woods outside the back mountain for a while, and found a small path that the villagers seldom walked in.

The three members of the family were all holding a bamboo stick that Pauline had prepared earlier.

The bamboo sticks were left over when the three brothers of the Wang family went to Zhushan to cut bamboo and repair fences, go around beans and climb pumpkins, wax gourds and loofahs. When the woods make.

Doesn't it come in handy now?Not to mention other things in the woods, there is no place where the grass reaches the knees, plus the spider webs between the trees and the trees, the trees and the vines and bamboos, if you don't wave a stick, your face will have a net cover.

"Mom and dad, let's go in from here. This forest is too small and there are few people here. We should be the first wave to come here today." Xiaolin said.

"Well, listen to you, you usually come here to pick up firewood, where will mushrooms grow, you are more familiar with your father than me." Su Hongying looked at Paulin with doting eyes and replied with a smile.

On the other hand, Wang Jiandang lifted the basket on his back and carried it smoothly. He took the bamboo stick and walked to the front, taking the lead on the road.

Wang Jiandang said as he walked: "Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, I'm exploring the road ahead, you follow me, walk carefully."

Su Hongying and Bao Lin followed in the footsteps of Wang Jiandang, and not long after entering the forest, Bao Lin was the first to discover a clump of pine mushrooms in the grass.

After a while, the sky was already lighted up, and the family of three walked a little apart, rather than walking together as before.

The location chosen this morning was okay. In just over ten minutes, the bottom of the basket on Wang Jiandang's back was covered.

After dispersing, Paulin picked a direction, carried a small backpack, and used a bamboo stick to pick up the bulging pine needle bag. In all likelihood, there will be mushrooms in it.

It's like a treasure hunt. It's very exciting and challenging. If you can't find it, you'll be disappointed. If you find it, you'll feel great satisfaction. What's more, it's a very interesting thing in itself. For Pauline, Picking mushrooms is addicting, just like playing a game.

Paulin turned her back and put some big mushrooms in the back basket. The mushrooms whose buds were not fully opened were placed on the space bed and stacked with the previously collected ones.

There are one, two, three or four flowers here, and a bunch of them over there. It's hard to pick them up. The small back basket is full long ago, so Paulin put all the mushrooms that couldn't fit in the back basket.

"I really came to the right place today. There are so many mushrooms in this forest. No one has been here to pick mushrooms in the past few days." Pauline said with emotion.

Usually, if you can pick up half of today's in the woods, you are lucky. It may be because the three Baolin family are here today.

After a while, Paulin, who felt that she had picked up about the same direction in this direction, carried a bag on her back and went to where her father, Wang Jiandang, was.

Seeing that her dad's basket was almost full, Pauline smiled and went up to look at the mushrooms in the basket.

"Dad, we've really come to the right place. There are many mushrooms here, but there are not many people. We will come here tomorrow to pick them up. My family will definitely sell more mushrooms than others." Pauline looked at the mushrooms in her dad's basket and smiled. said.

After she finished speaking, she emptied the mushrooms in her small backpack into her father's backpack.

Wang Jiandang smiled and put the mushrooms in his hand gently in the basket, and said, "How can there be such a good thing, seeing the mushrooms in our basket, everyone should know about this place tomorrow, you come tomorrow, and there are more Should I pick it up?"

"Oh, I see." Pauline looked at this somewhat remote little forest with a bit of reluctance.

"What are you mumbling about? Why don't you pick it up quickly?" Su Hongying said, but she did not forget to quickly clean up the pine leaves on the mushrooms and the mushroom stems at the roots.

It's not common to have so many mushrooms, so why don't you take advantage of this opportunity to pick up more?

"Don't mess with your father and daughter, hurry up and pick it up. There are so many mushrooms that have not been robbed yet. I don't know when we will meet again next time. Then we will sell mushrooms to buy you two big meat buns to eat." Su Hongying's eyes swept quickly. He moved, searching for the few remaining mushrooms in this small forest.

Bao Lin led the empty small back basket to find a direction again and carried the bamboo stick to it.

This time I didn't find as many as before, but it was not bad. At least the small back basket was full, and I could pick some tender ones to enter the space.

Before you know it, the sky is completely bright, and the sun is slowly rising from the east.

"Mom and dad, the sun is up, it should be time to go to work." Bao Lin walked over to Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang with her backpack on her back and said, "I shouldn't be able to hold it any more, why don't we go back? Go early to avoid being late."

"Alright, I can't finish picking it up. I'll come back another day. Lin Zi is here anyway."

"Well, let's do it, there are already so many today, let's go back, so you don't talk about it too late." Su Hongying also picked up her basket, took the bamboo stick, and followed Wang Jianguo.

(End of this chapter)