Chapter 5 Yellow Mushroom
Is there a strange sound on the mountain road, Xie Wanjun felt that his whole body was wrapped in a strangeness, so he had to speed up his pace to catch up with Mrs. Su, and almost slipped into the hillside several times.
Finally, when we arrived at the mountain, there was a dense pine forest growing here, and the mushrooms here were mountains and seas, and they were all over the mountains and fields in a day.
No wonder the Su family makes a living by selling mushrooms, as long as the mushrooms here can be picked back, it is not a problem to feed the family. But here's the problem, the mushrooms here grow so extremely, and it's so laborious to go up and down the mountain, even if the whole family comes to pick them, they can't pick much at one time. In addition, after noon, these mushrooms seem to have shrunk, and they have shrunk by more than half, so they can't be sold at a price.
Facing the mushrooms all over the mountains here, Xie Wanjun really thought about it for a while.
When he came back to his senses, he found that Zhao and Mrs. Su had already picked half a basket, and Xie Wanjun still had nothing in his basket.
Zhao picked a yellow mushroom from the gap in the tree and laughed coldly, "Some people, coming up the mountain is just a pretense, I think she wants to be lazy." ”
Xie Wanjun shook the basket in her hand and said to Mrs. Su, "Mother, is it okay to fill this up?" ”
Mrs. Su said, "Yes, the mushrooms have a lot of moisture, and they can't be taken if they are loaded too much." ”
Xie Wanjun lowered his head and meditated, but he didn't come up with a solution to this. After that, I carefully observed how Mrs. Su picked the mushrooms, and saw that she was holding two cloths on her fingers, pressing the mushrooms with her thumb, and pinching the roots with her index finger. There can be three to five on each flower, so that the basket will be full in no time.
Xie Wanjun followed her example and quickly picked some of them, but unfortunately she didn't recognize the varieties of mushrooms and didn't dare to pick them casually, so she was stopped by Mrs. Su after picking only half a basket.
Zhao's legs were wet with dew as she descended the mountain, and although she tried her best to keep them dry, she was still tired and crumbling when she came down the mountain.
On the other hand, Xie Wanjun was very brisk all the way down, although her legs were wet, her steps were as light and bright as the wind, and she also helped Mrs. Su carry the basket, and she didn't feel too tired all the way back to Su's house.
The Zhao family secretly hated in his heart, and attributed all this to Xie Wanjun's laziness and lack of work. When I got home, I sneered, "I knew that some people were lazy, so I shouldn't have gone up the mountain to help her, and I didn't pick a basket after picking it all morning, so those who eat white rice deserve to stay in Su's house!" ”
Su Youshan had just come back, and when he heard Zhao say this, he knew who she meant by what she meant, and when he saw Xie Wanjun helping Mrs. Su pick mushrooms, he immediately said, "Wanjun is back, how much did you pick today?" ”
Xie Wanjun smiled slightly, "I don't pick much, but my younger siblings and mothers pick a lot." ”
Zhao sneered, "She picked up that little thing, and she couldn't even sell it for a penny." ”
Xie Wanjun smiled, picked out a dark green branch from the basket, and said with a smile, "Dad, this is the wild deer ginseng I found, I heard that you have been suffering from low back and leg pain recently, this thing can work!" ”
Su Youshan didn't take it seriously at first, but when Xie Wanjun said the name of the wild deer ginseng, his eyes lit up, and he held the grass root in his hand, like a treasure, and said: "It's really wild deer ginseng, Wanjun, this is what you are looking for?" ”
Xie Wanjun nodded and said, "Wild deer ginseng is not difficult, but there are very few people I know, and I only found this one, if my father still wants it, I will go up the mountain to pick it tomorrow." ”
Su Youshan's eyes were about to squint together, and when the Zhao family on the side saw this, it was like a poisonous snake biting his tongue, and he said angrily: "How much is a grass root worth, don't use it to fool your father!" ”
Xie Wanjun smiled lightly: "The wild deer ginseng on the market, five taels and one dollar, what's the matter, my younger brother and sister want to buy it for my father?" ”
Zhao Shi was speechless for a moment, and opened his mouth wide in surprise: "That thing, so valuable?" ”
Hearing that this wild deer ginseng was so valuable, Su Youshan, who was still smiling from ear to ear, suddenly sank and said, "It's better to sell it, I'll drink some more tofu soup and be cured." ”
Xie Wanjun immediately put the grass in Su Youshan's hand, "Dad, let's take it, don't drag it out more and more." "Actually, the real wild deer ginseng is more expensive than this, but this one is too weak, and even if it is sold, it won't sell for much. She couldn't be left behind on a trip up the mountain, so she took it off and brought it back.
On the same day, Su Youshan killed another chicken for Xie Wanjun, and the family was also wiped out because of Xie Wanjun and opened the meat. Su Qing heard that Xie Wanjun had found a herb for Su Youshan to treat low back pain, and she couldn't help but feel more sorry for her.
At dinner, Su Youshan praised Xie Wanjun with a smile, which couldn't help but make Zhao's resentment towards her deeper, and he didn't understand why Xie Wanjun was loved by the whole family, as if there was a fire burning in his heart.
Xie Wanjun thought that when she had dealt with the major affairs in the family, she would come and settle accounts with her.
In the evening, Su Qing came to Xie Wanjun again, and she knew that Su Qing was going up the mountain for her during the day.
"Take your pants off."
Xie Wanjun was stunned for a moment, and then her face turned red, "What are you going to do?" ”
Su Qing didn't say anything, and silently dismantled the bandages that wrapped Su Qing's ankles, revealing his feet that had been wrapped all day underneath. I saw that the originally white soles of the feet had turned white after being compressed with dew for a day, and the entire soles of the feet were also a lot bloated.
Su Qing touched it lightly with her hand, and Xie Wanjun gasped, "Don't move, it's sour." ”
Su Qing glanced at her angrily, and then came in with the prepared hot water, "I told you not to go, you have to find guilt for yourself, now it's okay to see how you walk tomorrow!" ”
Although Su Qing was in a blaming tone, Xie Wanjun's heart was sweeter than honey, she expected that her feet might be injured, but some people were one step ahead of her to deal with this injury.
She even felt that there was nothing wrong with crossing over to the Su family, at least there was a man who really loved her.
Xie Wanjun snickered at the corner of her mouth, but Su Qing blushed and put her feet in the basin.
This is the most intimate thing the two have ever done since they got married, and Xie Wanjun is happy, and she is still talking to him about what she has seen and heard on the mountain today, although he has seen it countless times on the mountain, but what she told is like another extremely beautiful story.
After washing the feet, the story is over.
Xie Wanjun lazily withdrew her words, looking at the back of Su Qing leaving with the basin of water, after all, she failed to break through the heart of Fang County in her heart and left him behind.
On the second day, Xie Wanjun had a rare sleep, because Zhao didn't get up. Yesterday she caught a cold and fell ill.
Or take the money from Su Qing and ask Su Tao to go to the town to buy some medicine to remove heat.
When Xie Wanjun got up, she saw that Mrs. Su had spread out all those mushrooms and dried them.
Looking at those little mushrooms going hand in hand, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Xie Wanjun's heart.