Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 61 (18)
After selling the fruit seedlings, I started digging orchid grass.Digging bluegrass became popular overnight.Bluegrass, also known as vanilla, is often regarded as adorned by the ancients. The people of Hejiapo have gone through hardships and dug bluegrass from the valleys in the mountains. Of course, they are not for planting or wearing, but for money.They heard two years ago that if they got a good bluegrass, they could make a fortune.Of course I don’t believe it, isn’t that thing just grass, it can’t be fed to cows, pigs, or people, why is it so precious?The orchidgrass dealers were finally not afraid of the overlapping of Guanshan Mountains. Carrying banknotes, they sneaked to Yongle County, and then went deep into the district and township. The people of Hejiapo knew that orchid grass could really be sold for money.The bull market is over, and the value of bluegrass has already plummeted. In addition, the mountains are deep and the forests are dense, and people are worried about the market. People come to buy it. It is the Lord Buddha who has come, and the value is naturally determined by people.Bluegrass dealers know that they are in power, and they don’t judge by the plant, but by the catty. Pulan (ordinary bluegrass) costs 50 yuan per kilogram, and if it is transferred to any city, one plant can be sold for fifteen or sixteen yuan.In addition to Purang, there are two kinds of precious orchids, one is Bailan and the other is Phnom Penh.The so-called Bailan refers to the white blood flowing in the three veins of the leaves; the three veins of the Phnom Penh orchid are black in the middle and golden on both sides-this kind of orchid is the rarest, and it cannot be made into a weapon unless it absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon. "No longer, as long as you find a good buyer, the price of a single plant can reach tens of thousands.The ancients said that horses are not fat without night grass, and people are not rich without windfalls. It would be great if you can dig Bailan and Phnom Penh orchids!But people on the slopes have only heard about these two kinds of orchid grasses, and they have never seen a few big mountains drilled out of the honeycomb-like holes.

But Mrs. Gu dug up a Phnom Penh Orchid!

On the first night when the Phnom Penh orchid was dug, Gu had a dream: an old man with a white beard came to her bed and told her mysteriously that there was a Phnom Penh Orchid under the round treasure-shaped bucket stone on Baiyanpo. .Gu woke up with a kick of her legs, got out of bed gropingly, and rushed to Baiyanpo wearing stars and moon.Mrs. Gu is already very old, but she dared to go to Baiyanpo at night, and she went under that round treasure-shaped fighting stone!That stone pen stands steeply among the mountains. Legend has it that when the rainbow shines through the sun, a red horse always roars out of the rainbow and stands on the top of the rock to graze. People from far and near regard it as a god and dare not approach it easily.Gu Shi dared to go there at night.She walked very slowly, and it was dawn when she reached Baiyanpo.She followed the route specified by the old man, along a sliding wooden path, climbing vines with her hands, and sliding down with her back against the rocks.Unexpectedly, halfway through the slip, the vine suddenly broke, and she rushed straight down towards the seven or eight meter high cliff.After landing on the ground, I felt soft under my body, but I didn't hurt at all.It turned out that a twisted old snake saved her life.The old snake has a thick cup mouth and is more than ten feet long, coiled up like a spring cushion.After Mrs. Gu stood up, the old snake looked up at her, and then slowly climbed to the other side of the hill.She watched the old snake off, and couldn't help cramping all over her body: she saw a Phnom Penh orchid!Gu Shi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed in the direction where the old snake disappeared.She believed that the snake must be the white-bearded old man in the dream, and that old man must be a god, the one who bit off Pu's man's neck, and the gods took pity on her man He Jiangao's unjust death, and specially sent this god to help him she.

No one on the slope knew exactly how much the Phnom Penh orchid dug by Gu's dug was sold for.But since then, people on the slopes have believed that there are Phnom Penh orchids in the mountains, so they would rather not plant land, men, women and children work together, wandering in the mountains all day long.

Unfortunately, a large mountain was almost hollowed out, and no Phnom Penh orchid was found
As the saying goes: On March [-]rd, snakes, insects and ants will drill out.In the past, although there were many snakes in Hejiapo, they were not easy to crawl under people's noses. Since the reservoir was repaired, the snakes often crawled out of their caves and lazily spread their arms across the ditches to bask in the sun; People in Hejiapo never beat snakes when they get into jar covers or pillows, so snakes have no scruples, even if someone passes by, they don't move, and passers-by will stride over them step over.But now, the snake that grew up in Hejiapo can no longer be so leisurely.A snake king appeared on the slope: Nuo sow.At some point, the sow with a red beard grew a red beard. Before that, the sow with the red beard had never caught a snake, but somehow he had a good ability to catch snakes.He can not only distinguish the traces of snakes, but also smell the smell of snakes, and distinguish the type, size, male and female of snakes from the smell!After he overcame the thorns and thorns to find the snake, he whispered a few times, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".The snake tried to fight back, twisted and whipped him, but he would not let go.

When encountering those strong-tempered green bamboo darts, gourd boards, pockmarked snakes, red snakes, and pine snakes, seeing that the whipping was ineffective, they wrapped around the waist of the sow, like a big bunch of belts. The peddler who was selling on the waist, but he was not in a hurry, he still laughed, and then slowly untied, and suddenly let go of the hand that was pinching the snake's neck, held the snake's tail, and danced wildly.This is a deadly move, and the snake is most afraid of it, because its bones will fall apart when it dances upside down.After dancing for a while, there was a "pop", and the sow pulled the snake to the ground. Although the snake didn't die, it couldn't move at all.Sometimes, when you meet a smart short-tailed snake, you don't wrap it around his waist, but around his neck!Once, he was wrapped around his neck by a thick short-tailed snake, which made his neck as thin as bamboo chopsticks, and his eyeballs protruded.At that time, there were a few people watching, all thinking that he was bound to die, but he still didn't rush, he tried his best to hook his chin over, showing his sharp teeth, and slammed into the snake's body.The snake was bitten by him, and the sow stretched out her tongue with many white spots, and licked the snake's wound affectionately.In less than half a minute, the snake's head slipped off limply.The snake is dead!He untied the snake, stretched its neck and said, "Snakes are most afraid of human saliva. The saliva is more poisonous than snake venom." Of course, he will not kill the snake unless it is absolutely necessary. What he needs is a live snake.Why is he so reckless in catching snakes?At first, the people on the slopes didn't understand, but soon they understood: the sow put the snakes in the snakeskin bag into the cart, and then sold them in the village farms, in Yongle City, and sometimes even in Tianzhou City or Chongqing. to sell.

Selling snakes is more profitable than selling fruit seedlings, and even more profitable than selling "puran".The orchid grass has been quickly dug up completely. Although the fruit seedlings are still there, but after selling them several times, there are fewer people who buy them; and the snakes have not been caught yet, and snakes are easy to get rid of. As many as you have, they will ask How much, whenever you have it, people want it.The buyers are all restaurants and big restaurants, not to mention a pocket of snakes, ten pockets are also wanted!Because of this, many people in Hejiapo began to catch snakes.Even if he was a coward by nature, he put an iron fork in front of the penny, and when the snake was completely defenseless, he slammed the fork into the snake's neck.

In addition to selling snakes, they also sell fruits and frogs. In the past, no matter whose fruit was ripe, they either ate it for themselves or gave it to others. When did the people of Hejiapo sell the fruit for money?Frogs are the singers in the fields. When the frogs sing, the people of Hejiapo can smell the fragrance of rice. They spent the long night of summer in the singing of frogs carrying the fragrance of rice. In difficult times, who would have thought of catching them and selling them?But now, selling frogs is crazy, and He Jiapo can no longer hear the frogs.Even if there are one or two chirps, they are hidden deep in the grass, cautiously and fearfully, and chirp a few times.

If this is not surprising, have you ever seen maggots on bacon?But someone will sell it!Those urbanites who have been sprayed with perfume have such a stinky stomach that they actually want to eat maggots, saying that they are high in protein and nutritious.Where do Hejiapo people have so much bacon?Even if there is bacon, how can you be willing to let it rot for nothing?So, the wise man figured out another way to pick up the maggots in the cesspit, clean them, put them into a dustpan and let them squirm, and soon, these maggots died.The maggots in the cesspit are white, and the maggots on the bacon are yellow. The villagers put the dustpan in the sun to die, and within a few days, the maggots in the cesspit will turn yellow, which can be used as a topping for bacon. of maggots.After those gentlemen and ladies proudly bought the maggots in the cesspit, the villagers finally understood: In fact, the city people are quite pitiful.

They also sell earthworms.City dwellers also eat earthworms.

Nowadays, people in the city eat everything, and people in the country sell everything.

At the same time, some things as strange as New York also flowed into He Jiapo.

The first sales shop appeared in Hejiapo.This promotional store was set up by He Zhongcai.He Zhongcai's arm strength was already weak, so the blacksmith's shop on the street was completely handed over to his son. When he came back to Hejiapo, he asked a carpenter to build a simple counter, and brought in liquor, cigarettes, firecrackers, matches, salt, and balloons from the street. , table tennis and other items are sold on the counter.The price he sells is more expensive than on the street. On the street, a bottle of "Qingxi Baijiu" costs two yuan, and he sells "Panzhihua" cigarettes for two yuan and three yuan, and a bag of "Panzhihua" cigarettes for 12 yuan. He sells a bag of salt for fifteen yuan. , He sold it for one yuan and fifteen cents, and the people on the slope would rather travel more than suffer He Zhongcai's "bang bang". However, what should I do if I suddenly run out of salt?What should I do if a guest suddenly comes to the house without liquor and cigarettes?Only go to him.Another advantage of buying things from him is that you can pay on credit.As long as you don't bankrupt the store on credit, you can take as much credit as you want.In less than a month, people on the slope knew its convenience, and He Zhongcai's business naturally prospered.

Later, an oil press appeared in Hejiapo.

The oil mill was built from vegetable roots.

After the Spring Festival, under the persuasion of the villagers, Cai Gen lived with his mother again, but his temper became bad again, and he quarreled with his mother again.In fact, since Hu Mian was sentenced, Cai Gen has never been happy. Even if he puts on the new clothes his mother bought, he can't say he is really happy; The woman who turned him into a man. People on the slope thought he was a rotten wood that could not be carved, and no one paid attention to his heart disease: Since Hu Mian was sentenced to two years in prison, she should have returned by now, why has she been missing? Son?Her house was almost rotten, and an alder post by the side of the pigsty was worm-eaten into a honeycomb.Why hasn't she come back yet?
When Cai Gen was extremely anxious, Hu Mian came back!After serving her sentence, she lived in Guanduhe's family for a long time.As soon as she went to the entrance of the village, everyone on the slope noticed that Hu Mian looked much younger than before the sentence, her face was very rosy, and even the few white hairs on her head had turned black.Although her breasts are not straight, they look full; it's just that her waist is thick and she can't get thinner anymore.

The second day after Hu Mian came back, Cai Gen went to find her.Hu Mian said: "Don't come to me, I will never do those things again." Cai Gen stood in front of Hu Mian, wearing the suit He Bi bought for him, with a purple face.Hu Mian felt that he had changed, and while cleaning the room with a broom, he said, "You are so well-dressed, why don't you just look for a little girl?" Cai Gen said, "I've been waiting for you." Shy, but the words are hard.Hu Mian's broom fell to the ground, and she subconsciously brushed her hair with her hands.Caigen picked up the broom and cleaned it vigorously.

Today's Hu Mian, it is hard to say that he still has passion for life, but the pursuit of love is a woman's innate nature.She fell into the trap again and again, and climbed out again and again.The scars all over her body and the pain in her heart gave her peace and tenacity.On the way she walked from her natal home to Hejiapo, nothing could move her.Due to the flooding of the Qingxi River, the ditch where she was squeezed by He Tuanjie is no longer there, and the piece of pamao field that she and He Tuanjie pressed together with water and fermented in the heat is gone; Even if those things still exist, they won't stir up any waves in her heart.That was just a long story, and it didn't seem to happen to her at all.She thought that the rest of her life was just mechanical and meaningless, but she didn't expect that Cai Gen's words "I've been waiting for you" would wake her up.

She was so eager to live!

When it got dark, Hu Mian didn't chase Caigen away, but Caigen scooped a basin of water from the tank by himself, washed away the dust from cleaning the room, and went out without saying a word.

Half a month later, the two got married.Cai Gen lived in Hu Mian's house dignifiedly.

When Hu Mian and He Tuanjie got married, like most couples in Hejiapo, they didn't go through any formalities at all. They slept in the same bed year after month, and people recognized you as a legal couple.This saves Hu Mian a lot of trouble for marrying Caigen.
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However, this time, Hu Mian insisted that the two go to the Dongba Township Civil Affairs Office to obtain a marriage certificate.

After her son got married, He Bi suddenly fell in love with Hu Mian and treated her like her own daughter.

Hu Mian said to Cai Gen: "We can't do CD-ROMs, we have to find other ways."
Cai Gen said, "I'm going out to work."
Hu Mian refused on the spot.

In fact, Cai Gen didn't want to go out to work, and finally got married with a wife, so he was reluctant to leave.

In this way, he set up an oil press in Hejiapo.

The oil mill is located under the old yellow jue tree in He Dadang's gate.

(End of this chapter)