Chapter Ninety-One: The Yellowstonemason
After drinking tea and chatting for a while, Zhao Yuan got up and said, "Uncle Feng, let's go find Uncle Huang first and settle the stone grinding." ”
"Okay, but recently, the uncle's family has also been busy with spring ploughing, and it may take a while for the stone mill to be done." Huang Gufeng said with a smile.
In Shudi, according to the theory of feng shui, the stone mill is bad, and the idle stone mill can not be placed at home, and there is the meaning of grinding people to make the family poor, so although Uncle Huang Gufeng is a stonemason, he will not put the stone mill at home.
"Zhao Yuan, Xiaoying and Luoluo, I'll come to the house for lunch later." Seeing that Meng Ying and Luoluo were also going to follow Zhao Yuan to find Uncle Huang, the stonemason, Aunt Feng hurriedly greeted.
"Okay, let's go first, Aunt Feng." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
After a while, I will go to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots and find some tea saplings, and I will definitely have to eat at Huang Gufeng's house at noon.
"The environment of Zhulin Village is so good, I want to plant a bamboo forest in Xiaheba." Walking out of the house, Zhao Yuan looked around and said with a smile.
"It's not simple, dig up the bamboo roots of two bamboos, take them back and plant them in the ground, or in a few years, they can grow into a small bamboo forest." Huang Gufeng said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll trouble Uncle Feng to help me dig two and bring them back later." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
Everything is good in the new home of Xiaheba, but there are too few trees on a large river dam, and the newly loaded pear saplings will have to wait a few years to grow, and if a fast-growing bamboo forest is planted around the house, it will look much better.
"No problem, I'll dig it for you when I come back from going to my uncle's house in a while. The uncle's house is inside, so they don't know if they are at home, and if they are not, they have to look for it in his field. Huang Gufeng introduced.
"Don't worry, just go around in the bamboo forest." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Luoluo, there are a lot of bamboo fungi in the bamboo forest, and they stink." Huang Yuesheng, who was with her, introduced to Luoluo.
"Where, Uncle Yuesheng?" Luoluo asked.
"It's here, Luoluo, don't touch it with your hands." Huang Yuesheng said.
Zhulin Village is almost completely covered by bamboo forests, and the road to Huangshimason's house is also a small road between bamboo forests.
"Uncle, this mushroom is really strange?"
Hearing Huang Yuesheng's words, Zhao Yuan checked the knowledge base in his mind and knew that the bamboo fungus that Huang Yuesheng said was Bamboo Sun.
"This is a very good fungus that has not yet grown." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Is this still called Zhusun? We all call it bamboo mushroom here, don't look at this stinky now, it will open when it grows, remove the dirt on it, and then you can pick it up and dry it on the kang, and it is very delicious to use it to stew soup and drink. Huang Gufeng said with a smile.
Bamboo Thorn is a top mountain treasure, although everyone knows that Bamboo Thorn can be eaten in this era, but it is not really used, Bamboo Thorn contains a lot of nutrients, as early as the Tang Dynasty has been recorded to eat, but in Zhulin Village, just the villagers collect it at home as an ordinary ingredient to eat.
"This is the young basidiocarpus bud of the bamboo sunflower, there are three layers of coating, and when the bamboo sun is mature, the innermost stipe and the fungus cap will be opened, Yuesheng, the smelly thing you said is a kind of gum in the second layer of this coating, which does look a little similar to." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, making Huang Gufeng on the side unconscious.
"Brother Yuan, can this bamboo sunflower only grow in the bamboo forest?" Meng Ying felt very proud, she knew a lot about her father-in-law.
"Yes, it only grows in bamboo forests." Zhao Yuan nodded and said, but in later generations, he has been able to artificially cultivate bamboo sunflowers.
"Uncle, I really want to taste the taste of Bamboo Sun, Grandpa Feng, do you have Bamboo Sun at home?" Luoluo asked expectantly.
"Yes, I'll let your grandmother Feng do it for you." Hearing Luoluo's title, Huang Gufeng was stunned for a moment and said.
"There are actually many varieties of Bamboo Sun, and the Bamboo Sunflower in our Zhulin Village can be eaten, but there is a kind of Bamboo Sunflower with a yellow cover, but it is poisonous and inedible." Zhao Yuan said in popular science.
"Is there still a yellow bamboo mushroom, we have never seen it in Zhulin Village." Huang Gufeng said suspiciously.
"Yes, we don't have that kind of yellow bamboo sunflower here."
"How long will it take for these Bamboo Dolls to grow into Bamboo Flowers?" Luoluo squatted and looked at the round bamboo sunflower larvae in the bamboo forest and asked.
"It's going to be a long time, and now the temperature is relatively low, and the growth of bamboo sunflower is still relatively slow." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Let's go, when the bamboo sun grows up after a while, I'll keep it for you." Huang Gufeng said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll come to Grandpa Feng when the time comes." Luoluo said happily.
Everyone continued to walk towards the Yellow Stonemason's house, and after a while, they came to the Yellow Stonemason's house in the depths of the bamboo forest, and heard a sound of chiseling stones in the distance, and it seemed that the Yellow Stonemason was at home.
"Uncle, where are you at home?" Huang Gufeng pushed open the door and said hello.
"You kid don't go to work in the fields, why are you here?" Putting down the hammer and chisel in his hand, an old man with white hair turned his head and said to Huang Gufeng.
"Didn't I bring you a guest?" Huang Gufeng said with a smile.
"And the guests, who?" The old man looked behind Huang Gufeng and asked.
"Uncle, let me introduce to you, this is Zhao Yuan from Zhaojiazhuang, his family has now moved to Xiaheba, and I want to order a stone mill here from you, uncle." Huang Gufeng beckoned Zhao Yuan's family into the courtyard of the Huang Stonemason's house and introduced.
"It turned out to be the most promising kid in Zhaojiazhuang, I know you, your name is Zhao Yuan, right, you should call me according to your generation......" Huang Stonemason scratched his scalp with his hand stained with stone powder, thinking and said.
"I should call you uncle, hello uncle." Zhao Yuan took the initiative to say.
"Yes, that's it, what kind of stone mill are you going to fight?" Yellowmason asked.
"Uncle, I want to make a large stone mill with animal power and a small stone mill with manpower, and I want to carve a stone tablet." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"It's a lot of life, no problem, but although you are a junior, I won't be less of you at the price you should charge." Uncle Huang stroked his beard and said.
"No problem, uncle, you can take as much as you want." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll do the stone grinding as soon as possible, what kind of stone tablet do you want to carve?"
"Uncle knows the mountain in front of our Zhulin Village, the other half of the mountain was bought by me, I am going to plant fruit trees on the mountain, this monument is prepared for that half of the mountain, just engrave three words, called Huaguo Mountain."
"Are you ready for those three words?"
"No, uncle, look at the carving, find a bigger stone, and the font can be engraved a little bigger." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Okay, a total of six copper coins, the field has been busy recently, you wait a month later, I will pull the stone mill and stone tablet here." Uncle Huang said directly.
"Okay, uncle, then I'll pay you this money first?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"Pay two deposits first, and pay the rest after I finish the stone mill and stone tablet you want."
"That's okay, just listen to your old uncle." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
After paying a deposit of two copper coins to Uncle Huang, and chatting a few more words, Zhao Yuan's family followed Huang Gufeng and the three back to Huang Gufeng's house, took a hoe and a basket, and prepared to dig winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest.