"You're going to West Mountain, aren't you?" Old Man Ming said in one word.

Mingtang didn't panic at all, "I went to a slightly inner place, and it was still far from the mountainside." ”

Xie Shi gasped, "You guys are too bold!" ”

Mingtang waved his hand disappreciatively, "This is where it goes." Don't forget, we learned boxing from Youyan, and I don't dare to say anything about fighting wolves with my bare hands, but I can beat a fox or a badger or something, I think I can still do it. ”

Erlang and San Lang nodded again and again on the side, so angry that Xie Shi slapped the back of their two sons' heads, and Mingyue was so frightened that she didn't dare to say that she secretly carried the sharp knife at home up the mountain - she was afraid that Tao would bury her alive with tears.

"Tomorrow the boss will go to the town, first go and ask if these things are accepted by Jufu Restaurant, if they are collected, they will all be sold to Jufu Restaurant, if not, we will send someone to sell them in the market." The old man Ming made a final decision, and no one in the Ming family dared to have an opinion.

"Okay, while it's still early, hurry up and pack up what needs to be packed." As he spoke, Old Man Ming had already dragged a small bench over.

He was always like this, and if he asked others to do the work, he would certainly not sit idle. With him leading by example, the Ming family, both adults and children, are more diligent and neat than most of the villagers in Wulitun.

One. There are no words in the night.

Early the next morning, Mingdi carried a basket of hares and pheasants, and carried a basket of yams and chestnuts to the Jufude Restaurant in the town, while other Ming families under the age of ten continued to collect chestnuts and dig medicinal herbs in Xishan under the leadership of Old Man Ming.

Originally, Xie and Tao didn't plan to let their children go to Xishan again, but Old Man Ming had the same idea as Mingyue, thinking that firstly, they were outnumbered, and secondly, the children were now quite good, as long as they did not go to the inner place, personal safety should not be a problem.

At this point, the old man and Mrs. Zheng have the same concept, and the three old people all think that they should let their children explore more and see the world more, instead of treating children as golden eggs and carrying them in their armpits.

And Old Man Ming also has a secret wish that has never been declared - he wants the Ming family to prosper in his hands, otherwise he would not have a little money to send his second son to the school.

Although Ming Cheng dropped out of school because of his family background after failing to get Xiucai, this did not prevent Old Man Ming from expecting his grandchildren.

Now it is rare that several children in his family have learned martial arts, and the old man Ming will stop them from using their good skills to make money if they are stupid.

What's more, his old man also went with him, and in case of danger, his old bones would definitely be in front of the children.

Mingyue and the others, who didn't know what the old man's dangerous idea was, were like rats in a rice tank, and they moved things from Xishan to their homes one by one like marmots.

Herbs, hares, pheasants, wild eggs, yams, chestnuts, hazelnuts, pine towers, walnuts, red mushrooms, yellow mushrooms, purple mushrooms, black days, and a few dried apricots that are still hanging on the branches......

But everything that can be eaten and sold, all the Ming family will not refuse.

By the time Ming Di came back from the town, Old Man Ming and the others had already moved more than ten times home.

As soon as Mingdi entered the courtyard, he saw that the door of his warehouse was open, and the wooden shelves inside were full of several layers of baskets, and his mother, Mrs. Ming, was sitting in the hall of the main house, taking care of Xiao Mingxue while taking Shiro and Goro to do their work.

Of course, the three small ones are basically eating and playing, only Mrs. Ming is very serious about spreading herbs in the basket.

"Mother, why do you have more old baskets?" Ming Di put down the empty back basket and asked Mrs. Ming.

Mrs. Ming, who was sitting on a small bench picking herbs, raised her head slightly, "Most of what your father got back are wild fruits and nuts." What did Juford's old shopkeeper say? ”

"Say it's all collected, let us send as many donkey carts as we want." Mingdi is rare to be happy, "The dead and injured rabbits are given twenty wen a catty, and the living twenty-three wen, and the pheasants are also." Yam is four wen a catty, chestnut five wen. ”

Mrs. Ming was overjoyed, "Then you go and find your Aunt Huang to borrow her mule cart." ”

"I've already told Brother Dashan that he'll come over later." Mingming said that he was going to move the basket, "I'll move the basket to the door first." ”

Mrs. Ming nodded again and again when she heard this, "Then you go and move, don't delay other people's mountains to do business." ”

Dashan is the head of the Huang family next door to the Ming family, Huang Dashan is the only son of Mrs. Huang, Mrs. Huang was widowed in her early years, and she worked hard to bring up her only son, not to mention, but also very brainily helped her son to start a business of pulling feet.

Although Huang Dashan's foot-pulling business is only done during the slack time, and there is not much business all year round, he can more or less earn a few activity money to subsidize his family, which is also the reason why the Huang family's foundation is thin, but they have only lived a little worse than the Ming family over the years.

"Auntie, Brother Mingdi." Ming Di had just moved half of the basket, and Huang Dashan drove the mule cart into Ming's house. He parked the mule cart next to the basket that he had brought out of the open land, and immediately reached out and began to help carry the basket.

Mrs. Ming took out the sugar water to entertain him, Huang Dashan thanked him, took the bowl and drank it all in three or two sips.

He handed the coarse porcelain bowl back to Mrs. Ming, and then immediately helped Ming Di move the basket.

The two old men moved together, and the twenty or so baskets that were originally placed in the Ming family's warehouse were all moved to the mule cart by them after a while.

Some of the baskets are light and some are heavy, the light ones are herbs, and the heavy ones are yams, chestnuts, pheasants, and hares.

The thorny shell on the outside of the chestnut has been completely removed, and now the basket is only filled with chestnuts with smooth skin.

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At the end of the day, Mingdi and Huang Dashan returned to Wulitun in a mule cart.

Before going back to their respective homes, Ming Di wanted to give Huang Dashan twenty yuan for pulling his feet, Huang Dashan didn't accept it, Mrs. Ming heard the two arguing, and hurriedly took a basket of wild eggs and rushed to the door of her house.

"Alright, alright, you brothers don't have to say a word." She handed the basket to Huang Dashan, "Dashan, you don't need money, but your aunt can't let you work in vain." You take back this basket of wild eggs. ”

Huang Dashan wanted to refuse, but Mrs. Ming couldn't help but say that she put the basket on top of his mule cart, "If you don't want it, then the aunt won't dare to look for you if she has something in the future." ”

What else can Huang Dashan say? Mrs. Ming didn't even say anything about not looking for him, and he could only be "threatened" obediently.

"Then thank you, auntie. This wild egg is a good thing, and it just so happened that I took it back and boiled it for my mother and Xiaoying to make up for it. Huang Dashan smiled heartily, and his white teeth shone slightly in the sun.

Mrs. Ming waved her hand at him, and then watched Huang Dashan enter the courtyard of the Huang family next door with Mingdi.