"Hey, it's cloudy again." Gu Changning sat on the small pestle by the door, glanced at the weather outside, sighed, and said sullenly.

Since He Fuzi gave his brother and their five days of vacation, every day has been wild/wind/storm/rain, lightning and thunder, and it is a whole day, so that people can't even go out of the door!

And before that, even if there was rain, it only stopped for a while, usually in the morning, and the ground was dry in the afternoon, as it had been in the past few days, from morning to evening.

Sometimes in the middle of the night, you can hear the sound of raindrops hitting the roof, which is really disturbing to your dreams!

If there is any benefit to these rains, it is probably to make the weather cooler.

Yang Huiyun listened to her daughter's complaining voice, shook her head funny, and said: "You think it's not good to rain these days, the fields in our village are far away from the river, and those who farm have to carry water for irrigation every day, and they can't wait for a few happy rains, so that the crops in the fields can drink enough, so that they don't have to go all the way to fetch water and come back." ”

"Hmm...... That's just as well. Gu Changning nodded when he heard this, "I am full of vegetables in the backyard, and I have to water several times a day when the weather is hot before, and I can't water the land at noon, so as not to burn the roots of the crops. ”

She planted all the vegetable patches in her backyard not only for her own food, but also for some of them.

The vegetables used to keep the seeds are generally planted until they bloom and bear seeds, so they cannot be eaten because they are too old.

Therefore, Gu Changning roughly calculated the number of vegetable seeds needed in winter in his heart, and simply planted all the land in the backyard, so that when he planted vegetables in the house in winter, he didn't need to keep the seeds while planting.

But in this way, she has more work, not to mention that she has also found a lot of things for herself.

For example, hatching chickens, cutting wicker, and the collection of firewood cannot be saved, Gu Changning has not had much rest for a day, so she is not used to staying in the house and doing nothing like now, she only feels that she can't wait to rush to the yard to do something.

Yang Huiyun saw that she couldn't sit still, so she directly called her over and found something for her to do, "Ning Ning, you come, A-Niang will teach you another new embroidery needle." ”

"Okay, Auntie!" As soon as Gu Changning heard that there was a new stitch method to learn, he immediately cheered up, and squeezed to Yang Huiyun's side with a high emotion, and seriously learned the new embroidery art.

Although Gu Changning showed her talent in embroidery, Yang Huiyun was afraid that she would be greedy and chewy, so she strictly controlled the time for learning each stitch, and taught the next set of stitches when she felt that it was about the same.

Yang Huiyun thought about it, it was almost time to teach Gu Changning a new one in the next two days, it just happened that there was a storm at this time, and nothing else could be done, so just teach her now.

In fact, Yang Huiyun taught Gu Changning Su embroidery, when Yang's father did not die, living next door to Yang Huiyun's house was an embroidery girl who specialized in embroidering Su embroidery, she retired from the embroidery workshop when she was old, and found a quiet place to prepare for her life, and found Yang Huiyun's embroidery talent.

The embroiderer didn't want her skills to be lost, so she taught her for eight years until she finally died of illness.

Now it was Yang Huiyun's turn to pass on this craft to Gu Changning, and she couldn't help but feel a little emotional when she thought about it.

Gu Changning studied with A-Niang for a while, and seeing that the rain outside was lighter, she quickly took out a handful of oil-paper fans to cook in the stove room, and then brought the prepared meal to A-Niang's room and asked Gu Huai'an to come over for dinner.

Sometimes the rain was too heavy, so they didn't eat in the main hall of the South House, and went directly to the room of Gu Shan and his wife.

Yang Huiyun looked at her son who was immersed in eating, and remembered the Yunshan Academy that Gu Changning suddenly mentioned a few days ago, her eyes flashed, and she finally made a decision in her heart.

In fact, the writing of Master He in Xingshui Town School is also excellent, but compared with the master of the academy, it is still a little less thorough.

If Gu Huai'an has the opportunity to go to the academy to study, not to mention whether he can pass the exam, it is also good to just see those famous scholars and Confucians, if he can learn a thing or two from them, the academy will not be in vain.

In ancient times, there was an example of Meng's mother moving three times, wasn't it just to let her son have a good learning environment and atmosphere that she moved so many times?

Yang Huiyun finally nodded about growing vegetables in winter.

With A-Niang's consent, Gu Changning began to prepare.

Gu Huai'an also knew about his sister's plan and intention at this time, and looked at her in surprise, as if he suddenly understood why she dared to say that she wanted to send herself to the academy.

If this method works, going to the academy is not a dream at all!

Gu Huai'an's heart was inexplicably hot.

Usually, after school, he would go back to the study to copy the book, until dinner was ready, and then go back to the study to copy for half an hour, and then wait until it was dark and the light was dim before he put down the pen in his hand and went to the courtyard to review and recite what the master had said today.

Since Gu Changning told him about her plan, Gu Huai'an has two more things to do every day - digging soil and collecting firewood.

Of course, the demand for soil is not very large, Gu Changning and Gu Huai'an also stopped after digging for a while, and in the face of the villagers who came to ask curiously, their explanation was that they were going to transform an acre of land in the backyard into a field, so they needed these soils.

It is not uncommon for the farmhouse to have turned the backyard into a field, and when everyone heard this, they all stopped thinking about it and stopped paying attention to their behavior.

After about a month or two, the soil needed was almost ready, because there were no suitable containers for it, and it was all piled up in the corner of the backyard wall, waiting to be put into the house when winter came.

But that's all for later, so let's not mention it for now.

The five-day vacation that He Fuzi gave to the students of Class A passed in the torrential rain, and Gu Changning had a good time in the past few days, waiting for the wind and rain to pass, he grabbed his brother to pick up the wicker, and by the way, he picked up the trunk of the tree that was blown down by the storm.

Although she quickly skinned the wicker as soon as she came back from harvesting, because of the bad weather, she could only put the peeled wicker in a ventilated room to dry slowly, until the weather returned to sunny again, and then she put all the wicker harvested these days on the rack in the yard to dry.

Taking advantage of the willow and damp trunks exposed to the sun, she dragged Chen Shuang, Yang Jin and others to the mountains to look for black fungus.

As the old saying goes, the mountains eat the mountains and the water depends on the water, and no one knows better than the farmers who have lived here for generations what is in the mountains, and when it is sunny after the rain, there are many children on the mountains who come to look for black fungus and mushrooms.

It's just that most of the mushrooms are poisonous, and some people who can't tell the difference don't dare to pick them, and it is safest to only pick up black fungus, so black fungus is the most sought-after, which is also the reason why Gu Changning went up the mountain to pick it as soon as the rain stopped.

If this thing had been picked half a year late, it would have been robbed long ago, and it would have been your turn.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Shuang and others did not hesitate to agree to go up the mountain to pick black fungus.

Therefore, these people are now carefully looking at the trees around them, focusing on the trunks that have been cut down, the trees with decaying branches, and so on.

Gu Changning collided with Cao Yueya under such circumstances.

"Ouch, who! Gu Changning? Cao Yueya stared at her with a pair of eyes, and scolded angrily, "Are you blind, can't you see someone here?" ”

"You're blind! I'm squatting here to pick fungus, and you hit me yourself! Gu Changning replied unhappily, his subordinates did not stop picking black fungus, and as he spoke, he picked them and stuffed them into the basket hanging on his chest.

This basket is different from the previous ones I carried on my back on the mountain, this basket has a lid to seal the opening.

Cao Yueya became even more angry when she heard her words, stood up and said angrily, "If you weren't here in the way, how could I fall!" ”

When she bumped into Gu Changning, Gu Changning was squatting to pick black fungus near the root of the tree, so the person who was hit was fine, but the person who hit the person did not stand firm and fell, Cao Yueya fell on the wet ground, rubbed the mud, and was in a bad mood at the moment.

Gu Changning glanced at her, and didn't bother to take care of her, "Let Jean, don't get in the way, I'm still busy picking fungus." ”

Although she went up the mountain with Yang Jin and his party, several people were scattered unconsciously in the process of picking, and at this moment Gu Changning stayed here alone, and the other people were scattered in different places, so her dispute with Cao Yueya was not noticed by several people.

Cao Yueya saw that she looked like she was ignoring her, she didn't laugh angrily, patted the soil on her body, stood aside and looked at her with a good mood: "I heard that you have been going up the mountain to chop firewood and tidy up the fields in the backyard these days, and now you are going up the mountain to pick fungus and sell it, it sounds like it is quite hard. ”

Gu Changning raised his head and glanced at her speechlessly, without speaking, his eyes clearly revealed a meaning, are you stupid.

Although she was too lazy to pay attention to Cao Yueya, her words gave her a wake-up call, yes, the fungus can also be sold!

This kind of wild vegetables that cannot be grown at all are picked for home consumption in everyone's minds, and no one has ever thought that they can be sold, mainly because the quantity is too small and cannot provide a stable supply of goods, so the general shopkeeper is unwilling to accept it.

But it was a smaller restaurant, and the larger restaurants sold the vegetable as a rarity.

After all, fungus will only grow after a rainstorm, and the number is small, and the shopkeeper is willing to use materials, which is different from the simple blanching of the farmhouse and adding a little salt to fry it.

She was fortunate enough to eat it once in her previous life when she was in the house, and it was given to her by the young lady, and the taste was much more delicious than that made by ordinary farmhouses!

Gu Changning thought that she could take advantage of the fact that she could pick more now and take it home to dry and store it, and then sell it in the restaurant when she was almost saved, and if necessary, she could also sell the recipes of black fungus, so wouldn't she have an income?!

The more she thought about it, the more beautiful she became, and she couldn't help but shine with her eyes.

“…… Also, my mother has heard Aunt Li say, your aunt's fetal image is unstable this time, and there is a chance that this fetus will not be saved, no wonder you have to come to pick these things that no one wants and sell them......"

Cao Yueya was still chattering, her words were listened to by Gu Changning, and Gu Changning directly interrupted her.

"What do you say? What Aunt Li? ”