After cutting the seedlings, Lu Xiaoqing still paid attention to the growth of the golden silk chrysanthemum.

took the time to organize and Lu's mother sorted out their five or six acres of bamboo forest.

Five or six acres are full of thick bamboo, and the weeds that grow luxuriantly are removed to make the bamboo shoots grow better.

Bamboo shoots have reached the most concentrated period of breaking the ground, densely packed and looking at all the time, growing fast, one day at a time, a few days of kung fu is higher than people, take off the bamboo shoot shell, stretch the branches and pull out the young leaves.

Hsinchu is just beginning to grow here, and there are still new bamboo shoots breaking through the ground.

Every year, some dried bamboo shoots are made at home. In autumn and winter, it is an excellent thing to use to stir-fry meat and chili peppers, or stew bones and stewed chicken.

Lu's mother saw that the bamboo shoots that had grown were almost gone, so she chose the ones that grew densely or were a little crooked, and dug up a lot and took them home to make dried bamboo shoots.

Their bamboo forest is not big, and they don't make much dried bamboo shoots, so they just keep them for themselves to eat. For example, many people in the village have more than ten acres or twenty or thirty acres of bamboo forests, and they will do more to sell them for money.

For example, the fourth grandmother's house is.

Her family has more than 30 acres of bamboo forest, and every year she makes many dried bamboo shoots for sale.

The small traders who buy dried bamboo shoots will come to the door to collect them at about this time, and they can sell for eight or nine yuan a pound in a good year, and six or seven yuan in an ordinary year.

Shelling about ten catties of fresh bamboo shoots can make a pound of dried bamboo shoots, but a big bamboo shoot is almost three or four catties, five or six catties, there is a twenty or thirty acres of bamboo forest at home, as long as it is well cared for, the bamboo shoots are much longer, dig the bamboo shoots to make dried bamboo shoots for sale, or can make a small amount of money.

This year's dried bamboo shoots market is unexpectedly good, the price has reached ten yuan per catty, and the supply exceeds demand, as long as there is, how much is not worried.

For a while, every household in the village was enthusiastic, and they had more bamboo forests, smiling, digging as many bamboo shoots as possible, and those with less bamboo forests were only left with envy.

If you want to make dried bamboo shoots, Nan bamboo shoots are the best choice, the bamboo forests of each family are planted with Nan bamboo, the bamboo shoots of other bamboos are too small, and the proportion of fresh bamboo shoots made into dried bamboo shoots is also much more than ten to one, so the wild bamboo shoots in the mountains and fields have not been favored much because of the rise in the price of dried bamboo shoots.

For example, the kind of thumb-sized thin bamboo shoots, after removing the shell, there is only a little core left, and it takes at least fifty or sixty catties to get one pound of dried bamboo shoots, which is not cost-effective.

Mother Lu saw that most of the families in the village were in full swing and vigorously digging bamboo shoots and making dried bamboo shoots, and she was also a little envious, but she thought that she didn't have many bamboo forests, and she had to spend more effort to take care of the chickens on the mountain behind the house, so she stopped thinking about making dried bamboo shoots and selling them.

Just like that, how much can it be sold?

Just make a little and keep it for home.

In the evening of that day, Lu's mother and Lu Xiaoqing were sitting in the courtyard chatting after dinner, and suddenly heard a sharp and noisy quarrel from the fourth grandmother's house not far away, which startled both mother and daughter.

Because Lu Xiaojing went home from school for dinner in the afternoon, after dinner, she had to go to school for evening self-study, and stayed at school for the night to spend the night. Therefore, dinner at home will always be a little earlier than other people's homes.

It was still early in the dark, the sun had just completely set, and the afterglow was still there, and the twilight was just falling.

The mother and daughter were frightened by the sharp and untoned quarrel, the relationship between the two families is usually not bad, and Lu's mother hurriedly said, "I'll go to your fourth grandmother's house to see what's going on." ”

Although I couldn't hear what the content of this dispute was, the sharpest voice was from the fourth grandmother, what happened to make the fourth grandmother angry like this!

Lu Xiaoqing also stood up: "Mom, I'll go too." ”

When the mother and daughter came to the fourth grandmother's house, two strange men in their thirties were leaving the fourth grandmother's house with angry faces.

"Fourth aunt!" Lu's mother screamed, and Lu Xiaoqing hurriedly went over, "What's the matter?" ”

Lu Xiaoqing took a look, the room was a little messy, several small benches were kicked over on the ground, and a plastic basin was trampled into large and small pieces, which showed how fierce the previous dispute was.

Such a big movement is not only Lu Xiaoqing's mother and daughter, but also several neighbors who live nearby who heard the movement, and they were busy asking what was wrong when they saw the messy appearance in the house?

The fourth grandmother chattered angrily to everyone: "Is there such an unreasonable person who received our bamboo shoots and came to look for trouble, saying that it had been smoked with sulfur, which was not good!" Phew, why don't you say it when you harvest it on the same day? Two days have passed, and I'm embarrassed to come to the door! The bamboo shoots still have our family's name engraved on them? Why is it said that it is our family? Whose bamboo shoots don't need to be smoked with sulfur? When they enter the door, they scold and kick things, and they run away without asking for compensation......"

The fourth grandmother hated. Finally, the price of dried bamboo shoots this year is high, and I got more money to sell them, and I was happy these two days, but I was so idle in vain, and no one would be happy if I was in anyone's heart.

The crowd listened to the gossip and talked a lot.

"It's too much, dried bamboo shoots don't look good without sulfur smoke, we can't sell them for the price, they can't sell them for the price, what's the trouble?"

"Hey, don't be angry, don't be angry, this isn't everyone's gone!"

"It's just that it's bad luck to meet an unreasonable person."

"The price of bamboo shoots is high this year, they are uncomfortable, but they are not looking for trouble? A few days ago, someone was critical of my family, and I couldn't respond to a few words. ”

"Is it because you use too much sulfur in your house? The color is a little better with more color, but the smell is also a little strong. ”

Speaking of these things, everyone had something to say, and they talked about it for a while, and the fourth grandmother's anger gradually disappeared.

Seeing that it was not early, it was time to go home for dinner, and after a while, everyone left one after another. Lu Xiaoqing's mother and daughter also said goodbye and went home.

Walking on the road, Mother Lu sighed: "It's not easy to sell bamboo shoots, your fourth grandmother is such a good person on weekdays, she is angry like that." It's a shame that those two people still know each other, and if they want to lose money and return the goods, I'm afraid there will be a fight. Oh, they must also know that it is impossible to return the goods, so they just make a fuss, but in the end, it is the right person. ”

Lu Xiaoqing was originally silent, but when she heard this, she reluctantly smiled and said, "Mom also thinks those two people are too much?" ”

"Not really!" Lu's mother said: "I don't know how to do business, I know what it means to buy and leave, how can anyone do things like them?" It's not authentic! ”

"But," Lu Xiaoqing said, "sulfur is poisonous, wouldn't it be ...... to smoke dried bamboo shoots with sulfur?"

Lu's mother disagreed: "The smell of sulfur is a little unpleasant, but I don't use it much, I only add a little bit to the charcoal fire, what does it matter?" ”