Erdaohe and his group, no, to be precise, three groups of ordinary people spontaneously gathered into a group of people, and at this time they were being divided into four squads, each in place.

The first detachment stayed behind in the tent to roast mushrooms.

Represented by Mrs. Xu, the young woman of the family of four, with their daughter, who was only four or five years old, and the old woman who broke her leg when the wind blew it, sat or lay crookedly picking the mushrooms that each family had picked this morning.

Mrs. Xu and the young woman took good care of the old woman who broke her leg, and the one who couldn't move, it was all up to them to go outside the tent and pick up a lot of stones despite the rain, and specially brought out a share of the old woman.

There is no way, if you want to keep the mushrooms for a long time, you have to dry them.

How can there be a reason to look at such expensive pine umbrella mushrooms everywhere but not pick them back, and I can't bear the hard work of picking back mushrooms in vain, and I can't stand it.

But it's raining outside, and it's not like having a kang at home.

If there is a kang, it can be spread on the hot kang to dry and skewered, but at the moment it can only be made of local materials.

Mrs. Xu remembered the hot stones given by Huo Jiajun, which were hot for most of the night's sleep, and after heating, they were like a small hot treasure on their stomachs, so she proposed to use hot stones to spread around the stove pit and spread them all over the ground as a temporary hot kang to dry mushrooms.

It just so happened that there were stoves dug everywhere in the Huo family's military tent, just like they were clumsily picking up firewood along the way to set up pots on the firewood, and people dug pits directly in the ground, which made it convenient for them to have many fire sources.

And even the stone has to thank Huo Jiajun.

In the words of the granddaughters, it is better not to burn the stones that can easily explode and collapse them, it is better to use pebbles, only this kind of stone is very hard and has good heat resistance. If you use it incorrectly and pick out a stone containing carbonate like granite and heat it, it will not only explode but also catch fire.

Presumably, Huo Jiajun should also understand this aspect.

No, although the army withdrew, there were many small pebbles piled up into a hill and placed outside the tent for anyone to continue to use on the mountain in the future.

Mrs. Xu and the young woman carried stones into the tent in baskets.

After transporting, the small pebbles are first thrown into the fire to heat up, then taken out and spread around the fire, with a layer of straw on top, and finally the mushrooms are spread on top to dry.

After this amount of work was completed, I finally opened the curtain and looked around, and there were mushrooms everywhere.

That's it, it's not enough, Mrs. Xu put the basket upside down on the fire, and the bottom of the basket is also covered with mushrooms, so as not to waste a little area, and then use a thread to hang mushrooms on the edge of the basket. She even uses a pot to boil water, with a layer of mushrooms on the lid.

A steward left behind by the Huo family army opened the curtain and came in, Mrs. Xu didn't know whether she was called an adjutant general or anything, anyway, she was wearing a helmet and should be an officer.

People may have never seen such a person who can live in the wilderness, and the moment he opened the curtain, he was silent, he should not be able to stand it, and said: "There is still a big tent vacated, there is nowhere to dry it, how dangerous it is, don't catch fire." ”

Mrs. Xu and the others were very happy, and thought: Don't tell the military master, they have sent the second echelon to pick mushrooms in the rain, and the tent is really not enough, so it can be placed in another big tent.

When the military master left, the three women also came together to discuss, raise some salt and sauce brought by each family, and the newly picked mushrooms later, if there are those that have been broken, it will not be difficult to dry, and they will prepare to fry half a bucket of mushroom sauce and send it to the guard team left behind by the Huo family.

"Thanks to their care for the past two days."

"No, without them, we would almost be dead and dead."

This is not true at all, what if you go all the way through the mudslide and collapse and bury the place inside, or pass by the broken bridge and fall into the river.

Mrs. Xu understands more and more why the cotton cloth in the county town will add so much price difference, it is really a reversal of the goods, back and forth, a month of hard work, not to mention, in case of a natural disaster, the brain melon is pinned on the waistband of the pants.

During this period, the three women did not delay their work.

It doesn't matter when you don't get down to business: chatting.

Mrs. Xu could hear from the two of them that the conditions of those two were not bad.

Also, when I go out these years, I can't go out without any spare money at home, no livestock, and no car.

Like that family of four opened a farm utensils shop, Mrs. Xu asked for the address. I can't use it when I go back to the spring to buy guys.

And the old woman who broke her leg was even more capable.

Although the old woman didn't say how many acres of land there was in the family, but in the case of insufficient grain to grow in this year, the family was able to vacate the fertile land to plant 14 acres of yellow mushroom Niang (niang three sounds), and I heard that once it was harvested the next day, it could be harvested in two days more than 600 catties.

A pound of mushrooms is tossed to Fucheng to sell wholesale for eight cents, and the seedlings can bear fruit from around August to before the frost, so you can imagine how much the family will earn after a few months.

Mrs. Xu also asked for the address, planning to wait for the next batch of goods to earn spare money, so that the third child would take a trip and buy some mushrooms for her granddaughter to eat.

By the way, she also inquired about the mushroom picker, did the lady hire someone?

"Hire, or you won't be able to do it."

"How much money do you pay a day?" Picking mushrooms is hard work, and Mrs. Xu wants to inquire about the price of hiring someone to do the work, so as not to go back and hire someone to help her granddaughter make soap.

"Five copper plates in an hour, you can work for five hours a day, and you can do it all in a hurry."

Mrs. Xu knows.

The old woman who broke her leg said with a bitter face: "Removing the money for working for others, tossing expenses on the road, mules and cattle forage, and selling fruits is just the surface of donkey dung and eggs, which is equivalent to selling your daughter-in-law to buy monkeys to play." The little money earned by selling mushrooms has to be used to buy food to fill her stomach, and the food is at a price every day. My family has all the potatoes and sweet potatoes this year, and the more than ten acres of mushroom seedlings have not been soaked by the rain on the high post, otherwise it will be over. ”

Speaking of this, the young woman felt the same way, and chimed in:

"In the past, we loved the big drought, where have we heard of so much rain, this year the sky seems to be leaking, and this is a strong wind. I won't tell you that we have been burning incense everywhere since the beginning of spring, begging the bald-tailed Lao Li, the white mountain python general, and the black Eminem of Jiuding Mountain, but I didn't expect to ask for more and more energy, this god seems to have drunk too much and turned around, and it has to rain heavily. Not only are the potatoes and sweet potatoes all out of my house, but the bean shelves in the back garden are also finished, and a lot of carob shreds can be dried in previous years, so I saved a small handful this year. ”

The two looked at Mrs. Xu.

Only then did they realize that they had talked a lot about their own affairs, but they didn't know anything about Mrs. Xu's situation.

The sweet potatoes of the Xu family got up early, but they were not extinct, but the yield was reduced and they were not sweet at all, including the ones that Mrs. Xu spent money to save later.

Mrs. Xu just said: "If my family is confident, they can pick mushrooms like this." ”

Also.

I heard that Mrs. Xu is a dozen mushrooms, unlike the young woman and the old woman who broke her leg and worked together after picking and drying herself.

It's really a dozen, can't you pay the Erdaohe boys, can't you give some mushrooms to take home? and it shall be regarded as a result of hard work.

The two women were still righteous enough to say: "I will stay idle when I go back to the cave, so I will help you dry it all the time, otherwise you will be troubled." ”

The four or five-year-old girl also said, "Grandma Xu, I'll help you pick mushrooms." ”

"Hey, it's really a good treasure, as sensible as your sister Tian Xin."

"Then when I grow up, will I be able to get boar skins?"

"Yes."

Next, only the little girl was happy, and these people were all worried: "I don't know when we can leave." ”

Presumably, we must wait for the mud and rocks blocking the road to be pushed away and the bridge is broken, otherwise even if we follow the large army this morning, it will be a mess, after all, they are both goods and cattle carts.

"My house hasn't been repaired for several years, and there are clouds and sky, and I don't know if there is a strong wind blowing at home, and whether it will open the roof."

Mrs. Xu simply can't talk about this topic, her family has built a new house and lives by the river, she can't stand the wind and rain, but it's useless to be anxious.

But when she woke up in the cave this morning, she spat and foamed, like a psychopath, and kept talking to herself with our Northeast habitual slippery mouth: It's okay, nothing is wrong, in order to comfort herself with last night's nightmare.

Last night, she dreamed that the grass roof of the new house had been lifted, and her original old woman fell from the roof and broke her leg and landed on her house.

But when she woke up in the morning, she found that her granddaughter had crushed her leg numb.

She also had a knee injury, and she fell out of the car yesterday and broke a piece of skin that was bloodshot, and she didn't dare to tell her granddaughter for fear of worrying.

Meanwhile.

Most of the strong guys in the second echelon are shuttling through the middle of the forest with baskets on their backs to continue picking mushrooms.

After picking, it was sent to Mrs. Xu and then dried.

The third echelon is three groups of representatives of ordinary people's families, who are collecting manure in the horse shed of the Huo family.

Their original intention was to collect the dung pulled by their own mules and oxen, so that the fertilizer and water would not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Cow dung can be used as firewood, and a lot of firewood is needed to dry the mushrooms.

Like Erdaohe and his party, the cow dung has been loaded with a pocket prepared in advance along the way, because this thing has too many benefits, and it can be used as firewood when staying overnight is one thing, on the other hand, the cow dung is a little bit, and the mosquitoes and insects are all gone, which is much better than the wormwood. It would be better if there was a surplus, and it would be better to take it home to fertilize the land.

But I didn't expect to see a mountain of horse manure.

I heard that a horse is pulled eight times a day, and it pulls about forty catties a day, so you can imagine how much Huo Jiajun pulled.

When the boys saw it, they called it good.

The main lamented that the quality of the Huo Jiajun was too high, because he asked them as soon as he met them: "Do you want it?" ”

Xu Youcang was distressed: "I want it, but I can't pull it back." ”

Seeing things bad is like being poked in the heart and lungs.

The soldier in charge of the horse shed was also very pity: "It is fragrant to use this thing to burn meat, it is really dripping." ”

I thought to myself, if this can be pulled to the station, or pulled to which village to leave for the people, this horse manure will be of great use.

The guards who looked at the horses also introduced their uses to Xu Youcang:

For example, horse dung bricks are thrown out like adobe, and it is especially warm to build a house with such bricks.

Their commander Jia had already said that when they returned to the station, they would let them drop horse dung bricks to build a camp wall.

When the families of the soldiers and military families moved in, they had to use horse manure to loosen the soil and grow vegetables and grain. And only horse manure will keep the land warm.

Isn't there such a sentence? Cow dung is cool, horse dung is hot, and sheep dung is a good compromise. This good refers to the wide range of application, sheep manure is used for planting flowers and vegetables, and horse manure is most suitable for cultivating fertile land in the north. After fermentation, it is not very tasteful, and it is very powerful, and I don't believe in making a cup of water with horse manure to drink, and my whole body is hot after drinking.

So, what a pity, if only it could be given to the people in the village for nothing.

Even if it is impossible for the people to get so many horse manure bricks to build a house at once, but only a layer of horse manure is burned on the outside of the house, the wind will be impermeable in winter and the sun will not be exposed in summer:

"You can even use it when you build a cellar. We tried it in the northwest for a while, a cellar with a layer of horse manure, and in the hottest time of summer, the cellar was so cool that it could hold ice cubes when it was stored. ”

After listening to this, the other young men thought to themselves: What this military master said is very good, but don't say it quickly, lest they be even more distressed if they can't pull it away.

Xu Youcang gritted his teeth and said: "I want to, if I can't pull it this time, I'll make a mark first, and the next trip will pass by here and go up the mountain." ”

His house will build a house, and his house will fertilize the land.

He heard from his mother that the family also had to build a big scone stove in the yard and a stove for steaming and baking dried sweet potatoes, and if there were horse manure bricks, it would not cost money.

And the next time he goes to Fucheng to deliver goods, he will definitely have an empty car when he comes back after selling the goods, plus he carries a strap on his back, so he should be able to transport back a lot of horse manure.

You can't always be greedy and expect Huo Jiajun to go to his yard to pull ready-made.

It's good to have this, just when he comes next, the horse manure will be frozen and it will be easier to pick it up.

When the Erdaohe boys heard it, they said: "Cheng, there is Brother Cang, then let's pick up horse manure to the foot of the mountain together." Lest you have to go up the mountain next time, there is a danger that the beasts in the deep mountains will not eat in winter. If you can't use it, you can also use it to light a fire to keep warm, and you can pick it up. ”

This job can't trouble Huo Jiajun.

However, for now, I have to pick out some slightly dry pipes for what kind of dung, and send them to the tent to roast mushrooms first, and the other side is waiting to be used as firewood.

Xu Youcang turned out a lump pulled by mules, cows and horses earlier and grabbed it with his hands......

It was at this time that Xu Tianxin entered the tent to find her third uncle.

She belongs to the fourth echelon of people who do private work to tann pigskins.

In her group, the leader is her, and the team member is Liu Laozhu.

Xu Tianxin wants to interject a sentence first, do you know how smelly wild boar skin is? For her family, she first soaked it in plant ash water by the stream, and used the plant ash and fat to undergo a saponification reaction to clean.

I couldn't stand the smell of the stinking smell and used soap again.

Then I also found a plant containing tannins in the forest with Grandpa Lizheng.

The so-called tannins, natural plants are figs, walnut skins, ground pines, etc., she finally found the ground pine, picked up the bark, chopped and soaked with the skin, the taste did not become smaller, not to mention, but also to knead the skin.

I heard that if you want to do not spend money to buy miscanthus and yellow rice flour tanning leather, there is only this local method, that is, to rub the leather vigorously by hand for an hour or two before it is not easy to deform, and the leather will be delicate and soft.

But it made her hands curl up from the stream's freezing, and she was also pricked by pig hair. She was reluctant to throw away the pig hair, and wanted to make toothbrushes, shoe brushes, and pig hair hat gloves, but she really couldn't stand the panic, and almost cried to ask the third uncle for help.

But she didn't expect to come in and see a scene that stopped her: "...... Third uncle, is the dung dry? ”

Xu Youcang let go after grabbing it: "Didn't do it, why did you come by yourself?" Where's your grandfather? ”

"Grandpa Lizheng was smoked and fell by the stream."

Xu Tianxin also wanted to faint, in the words of the family members in the live broadcast room: left the smell of wild boar skin and entered the dung heap, and the smell floated all over the screen.

Huo Jiajun's personal guards couldn't see Xu Tianxin so disgusted, so they blocked Xu Tianxin that night, so that she could smell the horse manure that could be used as fuel.

This pro-guard believes that if Xu Tianxin can get a little friend under the command of Jia, then he is not an outsider, but also their little friend.

Xu Tianxin was forced to have no choice but to take the burnt yellow, dried horse manure of the same color as the millet cake, and she also sniffed it out for the live broadcast: "Huh? Don't you say hey, Liuwei Dihuang Pill Flavor. ”