After selling myself, I became the head of the family

Chapter 9 Wild Picking
  "Brother Ruo'an?"

Su Yueyue originally thought that if the people from the old house came to cause trouble again, she would fight them desperately, but when she opened the window, she saw Zhang Ruoan standing in the yard with a red face.

"My mother asked me to bring you some cakes."

The young man raised the bowl in his hand and said a little at a loss.

"No need."

Su Yueyue knew that Aunt Zhang had good intentions, but she still had some food at home, so she couldn't keep eating from the Zhang family.

"My mother asked me to deliver it. If you don't accept it, I don't know what to do."

Zhang Ruoan knew the current situation of the Su family, so naturally he would not take it back seriously.

I can still afford a bowl of pancakes.

Su Yueyue knew Aunt Zhang's kindness, so she didn't refuse.

"Brother Ruo'an, please come in and sit for a while."

"No, no, Aunt Feng is not here, so I can't go in."

Zhang Ruoan shook his head quickly and handed the bowl in through the window.

"Brother Ruo'an, are you going to school soon?"

When the atmosphere was awkward, Su Yueyue finally spoke first.

"I'll go next month."

Zhang Ruoan nodded, knowing that Su Yueyue was bored at home alone, so he simply sat on the stone under the pear tree and chatted with her.

"Then you have to study hard and come back with a top score in the exam."

Su Yueyue sat on the bed with a smile in her voice.

Zhang Ruoan is the only son of the Zhang family.

He is two years older than Su Yueyue.

Zhang Haotian is a well-known master in the village. He is not only good at farming, but also has connections in the town. Although his parents left early, they left only ten acres of land. Speaking carefully, his family is living a very good life in the village. people.

Aunt Zhang's natal family is in a neighboring village, and they are also from a wealthy family in that village. The couple have good intentions and live a prosperous life after getting married.

It's just a pity that Aunt Zhang was pregnant with a baby in her early years. As a result, she was too tired and couldn't keep it. She was injured when she took it. She had to raise it at home for nearly a year before the root cause of the disease was found. The money at home was almost spent. It should have been Zhang Ruoan, who went to study early, has been delayed.

After that, Zhang Haotian became more and more kind to his wife.

Two years ago, they discussed sending Zhang Ruo'an to an academy in the town, but that year Zhang Haotian fell and injured his leg. They kept putting it off until this year.

Although I am a little older, being able to study in an academy is already better than many other people's homes.

Zhang Ruo'an actually didn't have much idea about studying, but his parents wanted him to know more words, and he was willing to learn.

"How can I get the first prize in the exam?"

Zhang Ruoan scratched his head and said nervously.

He only knew a few words from the elders in the village when he was a child. If he really wanted to come back as a top scholar in the future, he would not dare to think about it.

"Brother Ruo'an, you can definitely do it if you are so smart."

Su Yueyue said with a smile.

"Then, let me go for it?"

Seeing that he was at a loss, Su Yueyue couldn't help but giggled.

Hearing her laugh, Zhang Ruoan was not angry, but relaxed and laughed with her.

Su Laosan, who was sneaking outside the yard and looking inside, saw that Zhang Ruoan didn't even enter the house, so he just cursed a coward secretly.

After he went back that day, he was beaten up by his father, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong. He couldn't have cut Su Yueyue. The wound was clearly caused by her herself!

He even got himself beaten, so he would definitely not let this little girl go.

But looking at Zhang Ruoan in the yard, he turned around and left angrily.

He still remembered the pain Zhang Haotian hit him last time. If he provoked the Zhang family again, he was afraid of suffering it again. A group of seven or eight people on the back mountain were looking around to see where there were mushrooms and wild vegetables.

I have been looking for it for half an hour, and now except for a few mother-in-law trees, there is not even a shadow of other wild vegetables and fungi.

"It's weird, it rained last night, how come there isn't even a single fungus?"

Aunt Zhang scratched the ground with a stick, her face full of confusion.

"It's probably that we haven't found the place yet. Let's look for it on the other side of the mountain."

Feng Shuzhen wiped the sweat from her forehead and followed the others towards the other side of the mountain.

There are so many weeds on the mountain that people don’t know where to stay.

The rain and dew from last night were still on the weed branches, soaking the shoes on my feet.

Worried that her two daughters would be scratched by branches, Feng Shuzhen would carefully step on the roads she explored to make it easier for them to walk.

After struggling for another half an hour, I still didn't see anything. The people traveling with me were somewhat discouraged.

But who comes up the mountain without any difficulties?
  Since we have already gone up the mountain, it is naturally impossible to go down like this. We have to bring something back.

While groping, Su Qing and Su Jing broke off a branch and poked ants at the side.

Worried that they would get lost, Feng Shuzhen could only walk back to call them. Who knew that just by looking at them, she saw two palm-sized fungi growing on the side of the ant nest.

The stems of the coryphoid fungus are snow-white, and the gray-white canopy opens to form a beautiful round shape.

Feng Shuzhen almost thought she had made a mistake, so she walked over cautiously. When the scent of the gallinobacteria wafted into her nose, she quickly put down her backpack and squatted down to dig the roots.

Seeing her squatting down, several other women knew that she had discovered something, and they all came over.

When they saw two giant gallinopsis fungi, everyone else couldn't hide the envy in their eyes.

Coriander fungi can be sold for a price in the town, with a kilogram fetching thirty cents.

If there is an umbrella that has not been opened yet, it can be sold for 40 cents per catty.

Looking at these two, they can weigh more than a kilogram.

Jicong never strays far from its nest, and those who knew about it lowered their heads and started looking for it at their feet.

If you can find a fungus nest, that's also good.

Feng Shuzhen almost shed tears when she dug out the two Fiber fungi from the ground.

Forty coins was enough for her to buy a few kilograms of grain and take it back.

Now that Yueyue is injured, she should be recovering well, but the only thing the family can afford to eat is gruel.

If you sell these fungi, you can also buy a few eggs back.

"Auntie, there are more here!"

Su Jing looked at the few gray tips at her feet and happily tugged at the corner of her mother-in-law's clothes.

The smile on Feng Shuzhen's face never stopped. She only carefully dug out the roots of the chicken fir. These little things are now used to support her family.

Fungi are not found every day, so she can only be more careful. As long as she can sell them for an extra penny, the children will have an extra mouthful of gruel in their bowls.

After a final push, a total of two large chicken firs with open umbrellas were dug out, as well as eight five- to six-inch-long bones.

Someone who had been selling mushrooms to subsidize the family saw someone and just settled the matter for her.

The price of an open chicken fir this year is thirty-two cents per catty. Her two are good-looking and smell good, so they can be sold for thirty-five cents per catty.

These two bones should be worth one pound or three taels, and can be sold for forty-five cents. The eight bones weigh one and a half catties, and they are in good condition, and can be sold for sixty cents.

If added together, it would be ninety-five cents.

The food they can buy is enough to feed their family for half a month.

This is the envy of everyone.

　The high-quality chicken conongs sold here are 110 per catty, and the guduo is 120 per catty. The whole text is empty, and the prices will be different.

　　
  　
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