Zhao Yuan was chatting with his father-in-law and eldest brother, Meng's mother was cooking with Wei Qiumei and Meng Ying, and Meng Xiaobao was playing with Zhao Luo on the side, eating the honey money and melon seeds that Zhao Yuan bought at the bazaar.

During dinner, Zhao Yuan accompanied Meng's father and eldest brother to drink some rice wine. After eating, they chatted for a while, and under the constant advice of Meng's mother, the three of them were ready to go home, and before leaving, Zhao Yuan asked Meng Ying to give her mother-in-law the usual copper coins.

Father Meng and Father Meng were curious about where Zhao Yuan got so much money, and not only bought a whole piece of cloth when they came to their house, but also gave money, and kept refusing.

"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, you can take it." Zhao Yuan looked at Meng Mu and Meng Ying still pushing the consistent copper coin, and said.

"No, atom, we all know the situation of your family, and we still have to live, how can we ask for your money." Meng Mu said.

When Meng's father and mother first said that they were married, they had already learned about the situation of Zhao Yuan's family, and Meng Ying had just married and encountered that incident, and the family should have a hard time, how could they receive money from their son-in-law.

"Yes, Atom, take the money back." Sister-in-law Wei Qiumei also persuaded.

"Don't worry, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and eldest brother and sister-in-law, we have found a way to earn a lot of money today." Zhao Yuan saw that Meng Yingniang's family were all kind-hearted people, and was ready to let them follow him to pick up mushrooms to make money.

"Yes, Daddy, Mother, you can take it." Meng Ying stuffed the string of copper coins into Meng's mother's arms, took two steps back and dodged.

"Father-in-law, eldest brother, this is the time of the farm, you have time to go to my house, and I will tell you the specific things when the time comes." Zhao Yuan said.

"That's okay, in that case, old woman, you can take the money, and we'll come over tomorrow." Seeing this, Father Meng thought that Zhao Yuan had something to help him with, so he agreed without asking too much.

"Let's go, Dad, Mother, Big Brother, Sister-in-law, Little Treasure." Meng Ying said.

"Okay, it's not early, there are pigs to feed at home, we won't leave you behind, be careful on the road." Father Meng said.

Watching Zhao Yuan and the three of them walk out of Songjiazhuang, Wei Qiumei and Meng Xun returned to their rooms and asked, "Daxun, what do you say Zhao Yuan and Xiaoying found to get money?" ”

"Don't ask, I'll know if I go tomorrow, and it's not easy for Xiaoying and them, my father and I can help if we can."

"Oh!"

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When Zhao Yuan and the three of them returned home, it was almost dark, and the two pigs in the pigsty heard the sound of Zhao Yuan opening the door, and screamed, it seemed that they were hungry.

As soon as the basket and basket were put into the house, the two hurriedly took the pig food cooked in the pot and fed the pigs, and the raw banana leaves that were thrown into the pigsty when they left in the morning had already been eaten by the two pigs.

After packing up the things and baskets that they bought back from the market, and then changing all the mushrooms soaked in cold water, Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying sat down to take a breath.

One of the advantages of Zhao Yuan's family is that they don't have to go outside to fetch water, there is a water outlet hole in Houyanggou, as long as it is not a major drought, the water in the well made of stones is enough for the family's living needs.

"Brother Yuan, are we going to the mountains to pick up a lot of mushrooms?" Today, the mushrooms were sold smoothly, and Meng Ying also saw an opportunity to make a fortune.

"Yes, but I want the people in the village to pick it up in the mountains, and then we buy it, and tomorrow my father-in-law and eldest brother will come over and help us, and by the way, let the eldest brother and them earn some money." Zhao Yuan said.

"Brother Yuan, thank you."

"It's all a family, thank you, you may have to be lucky during this time."

"Uncle, I'll help too." Zhao Luo said on the side.

"Okay, Luoluo also helps, Xiaoying, you guys can wash up in hot water, I'll go take a bath in the river." Seeing that it was already dark, Zhao Yuan said.

"Okay, I'll get you a change of clothes."

Zhao Yuan took the clothes, took a piece of soap, and walked towards the river, it was the middle of the month, the moon rose early, and by the moonlight, Zhao Yuan went to the river.

"Second brother, why don't you go to take a bath?"

When he came to the river, Zhao Yuan met Zhao Xianyu, the big head who was about to go back after taking a bath, and a few boys in the village, the adults went back after taking a bath, these boys may have played in the river for a while, and now they will go back after dark.

"You're all done?" Zhao Yuan said.

"Well, let's go back, second brother."

"By the way, Datou, Erniu, Tiezi, and a few of you, you come to my house early tomorrow morning to find me, and I have good things to hand over to you." Zhao Yuan thought that he would go to the mountains tomorrow to pick up a large number of mushrooms, and these half-sized children could just help, and by the way, they could also earn some money to subsidize their families.

"What's a good thing, second brother?"

"You'll find out if you come early tomorrow, so go back."

"Okay, we're back." A few of the boys said hello and left.

In the summer, the men in the village are bathing in the river, the river below Zhaojiazhuang does not have a specific name, under the civil bridge because of the impact of the water to form a puddle about four meters wide, this time is the wet season, the water depth is about one meter or so, the edge of the puddle is a relatively smooth stone.

After a day of sun exposure, the river water in the evening was not icy, Zhao Yuan took a bath, washed his clothes in the river and went home. Early the next morning, Zhao Yuan got up at dawn, and Meng Ying also got up to prepare breakfast.

Zhao Yuan thought about it last night, wild mushrooms can't be limited to Zhaojiazhuang, several nearby villages are basically in the mountains, and there are a lot of mushrooms in the mountains and forests.

Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying were making breakfast, but they didn't expect a few boys from the village to come over, and Zhao Yuan was going to call them after breakfast.

"Second brother, we're here." The big head shouted.

"Here, why do you boys get up so early, since you're here, let's have breakfast here." Zhao Yuan said to Meng Ying, who was cooking breakfast, and asked her to cook more.

The five boys who came were the eldest Zhao Xianyu, the second cow Zhao Zhiyi, the iron son Zhao Xiantie, as well as Zhao Shuangxi and Zhao Qingyuan, all of whom were the children of Zhao Yuan's uncles, the youngest Zhao Qingyuan was ten years old, and the eldest was the oldest of the five.

"Second brother, can you tell us what you want to do?" Zhao Shuangxi asked.

"Do you want to do a good thing that can make you money?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"What's the matter, the second brother just said what to do." In fact, last night, when a few boys went back, they told the adults about Zhao Yuan's affairs for them to do, and everyone in the family knew the situation at Zhao Yuan's house, so they called a few boys up early in the morning and urged them to come to Zhao Yuan's house.

"You go home first to borrow your basket and basket at home, and after breakfast, go up the mountain to pick up mushrooms, and I will collect the mushrooms I picked up for five pounds of iron money, but the pine needles and dust on them must be cleaned up, and you can also call other people to pick them up, and I will collect as much as I want." Zhao Yuan said.

There are a lot of wild mushrooms on the mountain, if you go to the mountain to pick up mushrooms all day long, at the beginning, a person can easily pick up about 100 catties a day, so that you can earn 500 Wen Tie Yuan, which is a lot of income for the villagers in the slack season.

"It's really fake, second brother, the mushrooms in the mountains are poisonous." Erniu said.

"Some mushrooms are poisonous, but the big head knows what kind of mushrooms I want, so you can ask him or me."

Zhao Yuan was going to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms to buy mushrooms, and he just handled the mushrooms at home, but his father-in-law and eldest brother said that they would come over today and help at that time, and then call a few women in the village to help with the processing. You only need to control the quality and sales, so that the production of wild mushrooms can come up, and when the wild mushrooms are promoted and accepted, you can also contact sales channels other than Funing Building.