Speaking of picking wild beehives, the Mai family father and son have done it more than once or twice, Mai Wang took out dried wormwood from the basket behind his back and tied it to a long wooden pole and lit it. After the three siblings found a place to hide, he began to smoke the bees in the hive, and after making sure that there were no bees, Mai Yonghe climbed the tree several times, neatly picked off the hive, wrapped it in old clothes, and put it in the back basket.

Mai Xiaohuan's eyes flashed with stars and praised: "You are too powerful, but this is too dangerous, wild bees will kill people, let's never do this again, okay?" ”

Ye San smiled and shook his head, in their eyes, this is a trivial matter at all, which time did they go up the mountain and not pick two wild beehives to go home! After walking a little further, I saw two mulberry trees, the black, purple and dark red mulberries hung on a tree, Mai Yonghai picked a handful and handed it to his sister, and after a while, Mai Xiaohuan's fingers and tongue changed color. She found a leaf and wrapped some in the basket, and wanted to give it to her mother and second sister to taste when she went back.

There are plum trees and apricot trees on the road, Mai Xiaohuan peeled off the apricot flesh, found a stone to smash the apricot kernel, and took a bite to eat, she looked around, remembered the appearance of the surroundings, and prepared to come again one day to collect some apricot kernels and go back.

The mountains are full of treasures, wild grapes, early mushrooms, raspberries...... Of course, there are also the wolfberries that she has been thinking about, the wolfberries she has seen before have been processed, and today she finally saw the fresh ones, and she couldn't help but circle around the bushes covered with red wolfberries like small lanterns.

Mai Yonghai laughed at her sister for not being knowledgeable, such ordinary things can arouse her curiosity, Mai Xiaohuan did not refute, picked those shriveled wolfberries and threw them into the back basket.

When walking halfway up the mountain, several people caught two rabbits and a pheasant, Mai Xiaohuan saw that the rabbit was only injured in the leg, so she wanted to catch it and raise it home, she also asked if the rabbit was a male and a female?

Mai Yonghai laughed and then lit his sister's head and taught her: "You are a girl, don't say such things in the future, others will laugh when they hear it." ”

What a rule! Mai Xiaohuan had to explain that she just wanted to know if they would give birth to rabbits when they were raised together? The little rabbit can sell it for money if he raises the land.

Belch! For a long time, the Mai family father and son only knew that they would go up the mountain to catch prey, and then sell it, raising animals and selling them for money, they had never thought about it. Seeing that his father was deep in thought, Mai Xiaohuan continued to say: "I see that there are a lot of rabbits on the mountain, let's catch some and go back to the cage to raise them, it won't be long before they give birth to many little rabbits, and they can be sold for money after raising them for a while, isn't it?" ”

This is a good idea, Mai Wan and Mai Yonghe nodded in agreement, they will catch this pair first today and try to raise it, because there is no cage at home, go home and make a cage, and then come back to catch some back. Rabbits are omnivores, they don't need to be fed food at all, they are carefully cared for, and after a while, they can be sold in markets and restaurants for money.

"Dad, can we also catch some pheasants, deer, and roe deer to raise, if Xiao Huan's idea works, the family should be able to add a lot of money during the New Year." Mai Yonghai thought deeper and farther, Mai Xiaohuan praised, this guy is worthy of being the most flexible person in the family, if he is a native of Xirui, he must not think of this.

Mai Yonghai looked at his father's face, and did not see any objection, he turned back to his sister and said, "When you go home, make a place next to the sheepfold, and make a few cages to keep rabbits and pheasants." ”

I didn't expect my family to be quite open-minded, and it seems that my dream of making a fortune is just around the corner.

After walking for a morning, Mai Wan was afraid that the children would be hungry, so he found a spacious, flat place to sit down and rest, ready to eat something and walked around and walked back.

Mai Xiaohuan had a small amount of rice, and most of the cakes were full, so she used the thatched house as an excuse to run to the bushes on the side and stay alone.

The air in the mountains is really fresh, and not far away, I saw a few sparse shiitake mushrooms growing on a few dead trees.

"Xiao Huan, where are you?" When she was struggling with whether to continue mining, Mai Xiaohuan heard the second brother's shout, she quickly replied, and beckoned someone to come over to help.

"What are you doing here?" Mai Yonghai asked in confusion.

Mai Xiaohuan pointed to the dead wood, and said naturally: "Picking mushrooms!" ”

This frightened Mai Yonghai, and while throwing out the mushrooms in his sister's basket, he taught her: "The mushrooms on the tree can't be eaten, they will die, a few years ago, the village widow saw that the children were hungry, so she went up the mountain to pick mushrooms to eat, and the family of three died." ”

Aren't all mushrooms on trees poisonous, okay? Mai Yonghai didn't give his sister a chance to open his mouth at all, pulled her hand to find a small spring, and asked her to wash her hands carefully.

What is this called? The delicacy is right in front of you, but you can't see it, you can't pick it.

If no one picks the mushrooms on the tree, there may be monkey heads and Ganoderma lucidum on this mountain! If he encounters the latter, his family will soon be able to live a good life, Mai Xiaohuan thought beautifully in his heart.

When the two of them walked back, Mai Yonghai was still chattering and teaching his sister a lesson, he said that Mai Xiaohuan was not allowed to pick mushrooms in the future, if he ate it wrong, the family would die, and he hadn't married a daughter-in-law yet, and he didn't want to die!

The fourteen-year-old child wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, laughed to death, and was laughed at by his sister, Mai Yonghai was a little annoyed, he blushed and flicked Mai Xiaohuan's forehead, and scolded with a smile: "I shouldn't think about my daughter-in-law at fourteen, and you shouldn't laugh at people at the age of eight, and when I want to get married, you should also talk about your mother-in-law's family, and you are embarrassed to laugh at me." ”

is so serious, Mai Xiaohuan asked with a solemn expression: "How old are our Xirui men who can get married, and how old are girls who can get married." ”

"A man must not be more than twenty years old at the latest, and a woman must marry before the age of eighteen."

"If the man refuses to marry when he is old, and the woman refuses to marry!"

"We have a special official media in Xirui, and when the time comes, we will match men and women who are over the age casually, the man must marry, and the woman must also marry, otherwise he will have to go to prison for the rest of his life."

Don't let people live! Mai Xiaohuan originally wanted to do a big job and be a rich woman in Xirui! I didn't expect to have to worry about my life's events.

"You think that's the end of it."

"And?" Mai Xiaohuan stood up and shook the water in his hand, and walked to the place to eat with the second brother.

"The law of Sirui stipulates that a man of noble status may marry the daughter of an ordinary person, but a lady of an official family cannot marry a son of a common people."

"Why?"

"It is said that there was once a princess who married a common man, but was deceived and died of depression."

So the emperor gave such an order, and Mai Xiaohuan suddenly remembered the sentence that a rat feces spoiled a pot of soup, which could not be more appropriate for this matter.