"Fifteen dollars. The manager nodded, "Well, this price is quite pertinent, if it is retail, I am afraid it will be sold for twenty yuan a catty, after all, it is still early, and no one else sells bitter bamboo shoots at all." ”

"Yes, yes, yes. Liu Qingshan nodded happily, "Now this bitter bamboo shoot has not yet emerged from the ground, and it is more difficult to dig it out from the ground one by one, so few people are willing to dig it, and it is estimated that it will take another month to go on the market in large quantities." ”

The manager also nodded: "I understand this, in this case, let's take a look at your bamboo shoots first." You bring in the bitter bamboo shoots. ”

Liu Qingshan hurriedly walked out, took a bag of bitter bamboo shoots from the pickup truck and brought it into the restaurant.

As soon as the mouth of the bag was opened, a fresh earthy smell poured out.

The smell of spring rain, the warmth of spring breeze, and the verdant mountains instantly made the surrounding air a lot fresher.

Many waiters leaned over and looked at the bitter bamboo shoots in the bag together.

The bag was full of fresh bitter bamboo shoots.

Everyone looked at these many bitter bamboo shoots and couldn't help but sigh.

There are bitter bamboo shoots that are fresh, and there are bitter bamboo shoots that are delicious.

Although the taste of bitter bamboo shoots is very bitter, it seems that everyone has the figure of bitter bamboo shoots in their memory.

Even if she is a little girl who has never entered the mountains, as long as she has eaten bitter bamboo shoots, she will never be forgotten.

The manager pinched two fresh and full bitter bamboo shoots and was very satisfied: "It's really good, this bamboo shoot is fresh, and the price of fifteen yuan is fair." ”

said, paused, thought for a while, and said: "That's it, let's ask for two hundred catties today, and then you leave a phone, if it's sold out today, I'll call you again to order." ”

Liu Qingshan was overjoyed, and hurriedly brought two more bags of bitter bamboo shoots, and then left the phone.

After the bitter bamboo shoots were weighed, more than 220 catties, and the manager did not twist it, and gave the money truthfully.

After taking the money, Liu Qingshan said: "Manager, because my home is in the mountains, I can only go out to the county every other day, you see, do you want to buy more, lest it be sold out today, and it will not be sold tomorrow." ”

The manager smiled: "You look up to our restaurant too much, if you can sell a hundred catties of bitter bamboo shoots today, I will laugh off my big teeth." ”

"Actually, more than 200 catties of bamboo shoots, after peeling off the bamboo shoot shell, it is only about 1718. ”

"It's okay, just ask for so much first, and then plan when it's sold out. The manager said.

Seeing that the other party insisted, Liu Qingshan was not verbose, took the money, thanked him, and left on his own.

Leaving this restaurant, I went to other restaurants to sell bitter bamboo shoots.

Although not every restaurant will ask for his bitter bamboo shoots, he can't help but have good things, and after walking more than a dozen restaurants, 800 catties of bitter bamboo shoots are still sold out mercilessly.

Moreover, he has left a phone number for every restaurant that wants bamboo shoots, and if there is still a need, you can call him directly.

More than 800 catties of bitter bamboo shoots were sold at a price of 15 yuan a catty, and today's income is more than 12,000.

The 12,000 yuan of bitter bamboo shoots is naturally not as good as the tens of thousands of yuan for selling honey, but people, they can't be too greedy, just make money, don't be too much, not too little.

After selling the bamboo shoots, call my dad again.

Fortunately, this time the call got through and was answered.

Dad has already bought orange saplings and is waiting under the big banyan tree in the central square.

Liu Qingshan drove the car over, picked up his father and orange saplings, and went home together.

In the car, Liu Yuanhe asked: "Qingshan, I see that there are no bamboo shoots on the carriage, have you sold them all?"

"That's it. Liu Qingshan said unexpectedly, "There is nothing that I Liu Qingshan can't sell." ”

"Huh. Liu Yuanhe looked at his son with his tail almost up in the sky and asked, "Then you are more than twenty years old, why haven't you sold yourself yet?"

Liu Qingshan: "Dad, do you talk like that? I'm a person, not a thing." ”

"Yes, you're not a thing. ”

"Hey, how do you talk about that. ”

"Originally, look at you, you're in your twenties, and you don't even have a partner, and you're embarrassed to brag here, you're really thick-skinned. ”

Liu Qingshan: ......

Forget it, the bamboo shoots are sold out today, and I'm in a good mood, so I'm too lazy to quarrel with him.

When they arrived at home, father and son worked together to put a few bundles of orange saplings in the courtyard stream to soak their roots.

Liu Qingshan looked at the many orange saplings in the creek and asked, "Dad, how many days do you have to plant so many saplings?"

"It won't take many days. Liu Yuanhe washed his hands in the stream and said, "I have already dug a tree pit at the end of the year, and I can plant it directly in the mountains tomorrow, so I don't need to dig a pit, so it will be much faster, even if I move slowly, at most I will be busy for a week." ”

"Then do you want me to plant with you?" Liu Qingshan thought, if he helped, it was estimated that he would be able to plant it in a few days, and in this way, his father would not have to work so hard.

However, my father waved his hand again and again: "I don't want your help, you just dig your bamboo shoots." ”

"However, you have to be busy alone for almost a week, and with my help, maybe you can plant it in two or three days. ”

"Oh, slow work makes a lot of work. Moreover, didn't you also say it on the way back just now, saying that bitter bamboo shoots don't worry about selling, since this is the case, then you should take advantage of the fact that no one is digging bamboo shoots now, dig more and sell more. ”

If it had been before, Liu Yuanhe would definitely ask his son to help plant the orange tree first. However, now after seeing his son's earning ability, he knows that what his son said in the past is indeed right, he can earn thousands of dollars a day, and let him waste time to do other things, it is simply impossible to get along with money.

Liu Qingshan felt sorry for his father and insisted on helping.

However, Liu Yuanhe was also very insistent and did not let him help.

In the end, the two of them also persuaded Liu Qingshan together.

Wu Cuimei said: "Qingshan, the weather is getting warmer day by day, and the bamboo shoots are growing day by day. When the bamboo shoots come to the soil, there will be more people digging them, and the price will follow, so you don't care about the saplings now, you dig your bamboo shoots first, and leave the matter of planting trees to your father. ”

"Yes, I'm getting better and better now, not to mention planting these fruit trees, even if I open another barren mountain, it won't be a problem. ”

Since the old couple said so, Liu Qingshan no longer insisted.

However, it did inspire him to make more money and make his parents live a better life.

In the afternoon, I went to dig bamboo shoots for an afternoon, and the next morning, before dawn, I went out into the mountains again.

However, as soon as he reached the halfway point of the mountain, he noticed that something was wrong, and he always felt that someone seemed to be following him.

Someone is following him!

It was a hazy morning and a breezy morning, and the white flowers of the sandalwood trees in full bloom in the mountains were sending bursts of fragrance.

Yes, the white sandalwood flowers are in full bloom, and spring is coming.

The sandalwood flower in the city is red, so red that it is vulgar but not bright, and it almost blends with its own red leaves, which is really nothing to look at.

The sandalwood flowers in the mountains are white, so white that they are elegant and refined, beautiful and charming, especially after setting off each other with its light green leaves, they are even more beautiful like the elves in the mountains.

In fact, there is another very beautiful flower in the mountains, and that is the wild rhododendron.

Wild rhododendrons are red, red as fire, red as blood, and when they bloom in the mountains, any plant and flower will be eclipsed by their presence.

However, even if the azaleas are warm red and beautiful, they are only better than the sandalwood flowers that are as white as snow all over the mountains.

In this big mountain, it can be said that it is a commonplace shrub. Every year in this season, when the spring rain is misty and the fog is misty, the sandalwood flowers will bloom in patches.

They dress up the mountains one by one, and embroider the dreary winter mountains and forests with white and snowy flowers.

Their petals are more special, one by one, long, often several flowers form an inflorescence, the petals spread out in all directions, a little tassel-shaped. The breeze blows, and the slender snow-white petals sway in the wind, like elves dancing in the wind.

It's the season when the sandalwood flowers are in full bloom.

Liu Qingshan looked at the dense snow white around him in the hazy morning light, and instantly felt like he was in a dream.

I'm afraid it's not in a dream.

Because only in a dream can you see such a dreamy scenery.

The white sandalwood flowers grow on both sides of the mountain road, densely and tightly arranged together, the white flowers of a tree bloom vigorously, at a glance, as if this is not the road, but the ladder to the clouds, as if this mountain is not a mountain, but the hometown of white clouds.

The sandalwood flower is elegant, and although it has no dazzling colors or delicate shapes, it is charming throughout, whether it is in the form of a budding mung bean flower or now fully open.

It's beautiful.

Therefore, this faint morning light is also charming.

If it weren't for an abrupt figure flashing, Liu Qingshan would probably be reciting a poem.

However, it seems that because of the flash of this figure, this hazy morning light has a little more charm, a little more fragrance, and a little intoxicating spring.

"You're a ghost, you can't make a sound when you walk. Liu Qingshan shouted at the figure in the morning light.

The figure stood more than ten meters away from him, with a hoe on his shoulder, looking at him with a bright face.

"You're the ghost. The man said, "It's just that you didn't pay attention to it, why didn't you make a sound?" ”

"You said you're a girl, what are you doing in the mountains early in the morning?" Liu Qingshan looked at the girl in front of him with some unhappiness.

Last time, I walked from the outer village to the village temple in the old village at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night to worship the gods, and now I walked to the mountains before dawn.

You know, she doesn't own a car. Therefore, her appearance here at this time can only show one problem, that is, this girl has entered the village in the dark again.

Girls are a vulnerable group, but this girl never seems to realize that she is a girl, and always does things that big men can't do.

She had already come here at this time, and it could be seen that she got up at five o'clock, and then walked into the old village early, otherwise, she would not have appeared here at the same time as him.

There's really no girl at all.

"What's wrong with the girl?" Chen Xiaofang crossed her waist with one hand and held the hoe on her shoulder with the other, panting for breath and saying, "You can enter the mountain at this time, why can't I?"

Liu Qingshan looked at Chen Xiaofang with amusement and anger, and said, "I'm a man, you're a woman, can't you be as normal as other girls?"

That sounds like a nasty thing.

What does it mean to be normal? Am I not normal now?

Chen Xiaofang glared at Liu Qingshan: "I want you to take care of it, what do I like to do, I can enter the mountain whenever I like, what does it matter to you?"

"Oh, it's none of my business. Liu Qingshan had a feeling that his kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, so he said indignantly, "Count me too much, okay, you walk your way, I walk my way, let's not get in the way of anyone." ”

With that, he turned around and continued his walk into the mountains.

Chen Xiaofang followed from a distance.

The two men walked one after the other, and neither of them spoke.

Until more than half an hour later, it was almost time to reach the bamboo forest, Liu Qingshan saw that Chen Xiaofang was still following him, so he couldn't help it, and shouted again: "Hey, Chen Xiaofang, there is something wrong with you, what are you doing with me all the time?"

"You're the only one who has the problem! Why do you keep following you? Obviously, you've been in front of me all the time. ”

Chen Xiaofang was so angry that Liu Qingshan almost vomited blood: "I'm blocking your way?" Obviously, you can't catch up, if you can't catch up, will I give you the way?"

"I don't care, I didn't follow you anyway, you're in my way. Chen Xiaofang's face raised, and it seemed that she didn't intend to be reasonable.

Seeing this, Liu Qingshan remembered an old saying: Only women and villains are difficult to raise.

It can't be justified with a creature like a woman.

Since this is the case, then you can only speak with strength.

Liu Qingshan quickened his pace and walked forward.

But Chen Xiaofang's girl is not a vegetarian, Liu Qingshan walked fast, she also quickened her pace, and even trotted all the way, it seemed that she was going to stick to Liu Qingshan's big fat meat.

This made Liu Qingshan very angry, and he stopped again and stopped Chen Xiaofang: "Chen Xiaofang, are you really wrong, what have you been following me for?"

"Who's following you, don't be sentimental, okay?" Chen Xiaofang gasped and replied as loudly as she could.

Liu Qingshan's feet are really fast, if she hadn't trotted all the way, she would have lost it.

This trotting followed, and now she was so tired and panting that she felt like her lungs were going to explode.

Actually, hehe, she deliberately wanted to follow Liu Qingshan.

What do you think, this Liu Qingshan bought a car last year, and I heard that he also redecorated their old house, which shows that he has made a lot of money.

Although she doesn't know what Liu Qingshan's magic weapon is to make money, Xiaofang feels that as long as she follows Liu Qingshan, what Liu Qingshan digs, she also digs, and what Liu Qingshan sells, she also sells, so that in the end, even if the money she makes is not as much as Liu Qingshan's, she will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

Hehe, anyway, it's right to follow Liu Qingshan's big fat meat.

Liu Qingshan looked at Chen Xiaofang, who was sweating profusely, and asked impatiently: "Then you say, what are you doing in the mountain?"

Xiao Fang rolled her eyes and replied, "Why should I tell you? You think I don't do serious things all day long like you." ”

"What do you mean I don't do serious things? Why don't I go into the mountains to dig bamboo shoots?" Liu Qingshan was speechless.

Chen Xiaofang's eyes lit up, and she laughed: "Haha, such a coincidence, I also went into the mountains to dig bamboo shoots, since this is the case, then let's go together, how good it would be to have a companion to chat." ”