Zhou Shishi thought for a while: "Chestnut, dried mushrooms, fungus, peppercorns...... At the end of each winter, we have to go out to the mountains to sell dry goods to Zhenjiang Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and exchange money to buy salt. ”

After hearing this, Lin Lan felt that there were still too few varieties of big ingredients, so she could only collect some dried mushrooms, and the fungus went out to sell: "Big cousin, how many mountain goods are sold in each family?" ”

Zhou Shishi shook his head: "There are more dry goods collected at home, and there are fewer lazy people, I don't know the specifics, I'll help you inquire tomorrow morning." ”

Lin Lan smiled: "Thank you, eldest cousin." ”

Wu Shufang cleaned up the bed, brought hot water over, and asked Lin Lan and the three of them to wash, and she went to the stove room to help her eldest daughter-in-law Xu Hongju cook.

Xu Hongju looked at her and whispered, "Mother, I heard my cousin say that they are here to collect mountain goods. ”

Wu Shufang nodded: "Hmm! Your cousin brought us plasters, medicine for cough and fever, a large bag of salt, and a bag of white flour ......."

Xu Hongju's eyes widened in surprise: "So many!" Qiaohui went to her cousin's house, and let her go when Xiaoyu was older. "How much does it cost to have so many things?

"Good! Your second aunt has been thinking about us, even a few children are thinking about us. Over the years, there has been no second aunt's family to help us, and the family has been even more difficult. ”

Wu Shufang thought about it and told her, "Cousin is here to collect dry goods, you can help her pick and choose, don't let the team go to those shameless pits." ”

Xu Hongju nodded again and again: "I know!" ”

Wu Shufang took down the old bacon brought by Lin Guoliang, and the two small ones ran to the stove: "Grandma, I want to gnaw on the bones." ”

Wu Shufang nodded and looked at the two: "Grandma cooked it, cut it and put it on the plate, You and your eldest brother ate together in the stove, did you hear?" ”

The two children nodded obediently: "I heard, let's not go to the hall to eat." ”

Xu Hongju glanced at the bulging mouths of the two of them, and said, "You two put the sugar that your cousin gave you, don't eat it in one day." ”

"Oh!" The two children walked towards the room.

Wu Shufang looked at the two of them, sighed in her heart, remembered the life of her three younger sisters, and then thought about herself, feeling that the mountains were much worse than the outside.

The children could not be allowed to stay in this mountain kaka, and it was better to follow his cousin to the city to settle down.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are accustomed to doing their work, and after a while, the meal is ready, brought to the hall and set on the table.

Wu Shufang looked at them embarrassedly: "Xiaolan, Xiangyang, it's the first time you come here, and your aunt's house has nothing to entertain you......

"Auntie!" Lin Lan interrupted her with a smile, "You have seen outside, the delicacies of the mountains and wild games are all good things!" ”

Li Xiangyang also smiled: "That's it, how can there be such a fat hare to eat outside, you see there are pheasant stewed mushrooms." ”

Wu Shufang saw the two of them smiling with smiles on their faces, and said with a happy smile: "We have laid a few sets in the forest, and we will go tomorrow morning to see if we can catch pheasants and hares." ”

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang ate spicy hare meat, soft and smooth ginger taro vermicelli, stewed dried mushrooms with pheasant, and drank fruit wine brewed by the mountain people themselves.

Wu Shufang told them that the fruit wine is soaked in jujube in the mountains, and there are several jujube plants under the slope of her house, which are ripe after frost every year, and they are picked and soaked in home-brewed sorghum wine.

After eating, everyone set up a peasant formation around the brazier in the hall.

The farthest place Zhou Shichang has ever been to is Zhenjiang Commune, and asked Li Xiangyang with a smile what is the East City like?

"The city is bigger than the commune, and the road is wider...... Li Xiangyang briefly told him and invited him to play in the East Market.

Zhou Shishi happily agreed, saying that he would definitely go to Dongshi next year to drink his and Lin Lan's wedding wine.

Lin Lan asked Wu Shufang: "Auntie, do you also plant rice in Shishanling?" ”

Wu Shufang shook her head: "Why is Shishan Ridge called Shishan Ridge, because there are more stones and less soil, and there is less flat land, and everyone's houses are built around the mountain. ”

"There are a few fields in the mountains where rice and wheat can be grown. The others are sorghum, bud grains, and red roots. Those who are diligent pick up more mountain goods, and those who are lazy don't even have the money to buy salt. ”

Lin Lan thought for a moment and said to Wu Shufang: "Auntie, you will talk to the members of the team next year, and let everyone plant more pumpkins and beans." ”

"If you are willing to do something, you can put these things away, send them to Shilian and hand them over to my parents, and earn a few cents a pound, and if the amount is large, you can't calculate it."

Wu Shufang smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, last time Guoliang also told us, let us talk to the members of the team, let everyone have a variety of big white beans and beans, put them away and sell them to you, but the family is really poor and has no money to start a business." ”

Zhou Dashan also said on the side: "After Guoliang left, we went to the few families who came to talk about it, but they didn't believe it, they were afraid that the things were sent and they couldn't get the money." ”

After listening to Lin Guoliang's words, they felt that it was a way to make money, but in addition to two pigs and a mule, they didn't even have five yuan to spare.

After hearing this, Lin Lan felt that money was a person's guts, and her aunt's family looked like a poor and white family, and everyone collected some mountain goods for money to subsidize the family, and it was inevitable to worry.

"So be it! If you want to receive the goods, I can lend you some money to make the capital, and then I will write a list of the purchase price to you, and you can earn more or less after receiving the goods and sending them out. ”

Wu Shufang stood up gratefully, looking at Lin Lan and didn't know what to say: "Xiaolan ......" The most worthless old pumpkin in the mountains actually costs eight cents a pound outside, and it should be able to earn a lot of money by running a few times before the snow closes the mountain.

Zhou Dashan rubbed his hands, blushed and said, "How embarrassing is this, how embarrassing is this!" ”

Zhou Shishi also kept thanking Lin Lan and the others.

Li Xiangyang looked at Lin Lan with a smile, this is his daughter-in-law, kind, righteous, and not bad-hearted.

At this time, Xu Hongju came from the stove room and said to Wu Shufang: "Mother, the second aunt and Qiaoyan are at the door, saying that they want to see Xiaolan." ”

"I'll take a look." Wu Shufang stood up and walked out, opened the back door, and a chubby woman and a handsome girl stood there.

She glanced at the two of them lightly: "Is there something wrong with his second aunt coming over so late?" ”

Last time Guoliang came to pick up Qiaohui, Zhou's second family stopped Guoliang with a dead face and asked him to take her Qiaoyan to Dongshi. At first, she was still worried that her mother and daughter would come to pester Xiaolan again tomorrow, but she didn't know that she would come tonight.

It's funny, her Xiaolan is not a human trafficker.

Aunt Tuesday looked at Wu Shufen with a flattering smile: "I heard that Cousin Qiaohui is here, bring Qiaoyan to show her cousin, help my family Qiaoyan also take Dongshi, earn a few money to spend, and the matter I told you last time, I want to ask her to inquire." ”

(End of chapter)