Green peppercorns are good green peppercorns, the quality is quite good, and the quantity is large enough; If you can really plant shabu here successfully, one commodity is transported, and two commodities are also transported, and the difference is not big.

But now, the shabu shabu has been dug up by the villagers, if it can't be planted, it is a one-time item, and he and Uncle Dongliang can take away these dozens of catties of shabu-shabu.

Now it mainly depends on Li Yanfu's mother's side, if the survival rate of planting is high, Xu An doesn't mind buying this green pepper together; But if the survival rate is low, then forget it, Hezibao is really not extraordinarily remote, and the shipping fee alone is enough for Xu An to drink a pot.

Maybe it was because Xu An was silent here, or maybe Li Sixin felt that the timing was wrong, so he came out in time to play the round.

"Hahaha, just kidding with Boss Xu, let's go, let's go to the mountains. Don't look at the sun is quite big, it's cool when you go into the mountains."

"Indeed, this mountain, the higher you go, the lower the temperature."

Xu An and the two chatted along with Li Sixin's words, and the atmosphere became warm again, as if the silence just now was just an illusion of a few people.

Most of the villagers here get up at four or five o'clock in the morning to catch the first wave into the mountains to pick mushrooms, and now around 12 o'clock in the afternoon, it is the time for them to go home. After Xu An and a few people entered the mountain along the path, they met many villagers who came down the mountain.

"How's the harvest going today?"

"Not very good, less than a pound, and there are some bargains that can be eaten but are not wanted by buyers."

"It's okay, I dug out a few old nests and found a lot of high-quality goods, don't look at this basket today, it's not much, but it can be sold for eighty yuan and one hundred yuan."

"Hahahaha, I'm lucky today, I got a super big dry mushroom, secretary, look at it, it's so big!"

As he spoke, the man took out a fungus like a blooming peony flower from the back basket, black and white intertwined, shaped like a peony, layered on top of each other, like the Milky Way in the deep night sky, mysterious and seductive.

Wow!

As soon as this dried mushroom came out, not only Xu An and others, but even the mushroom pickers who had passed by for many years couldn't help but show their exclamation voices, and the dried mushrooms that couldn't be held in both hands really hadn't been seen a few times.

"Yes, yes, just this dried mushroom is enough for your income from entering the mountain for a week." Li Sixin patted this person's shoulder with satisfaction, glanced back at Xu An and the others, and said to the surrounding mushroom pickers: "Have you picked dry mushrooms, forget the big ones, and let me make up the small ones and see how many there are." ”

"Yes, yes, I picked three small bones, and I sent them to the secretary."

"I have a few of them too."

“.”

The villagers almost didn't hesitate when they heard this, so they turned out a bunch of small bone dried mushrooms from the back basket, and one of them also took out a plastic bag from his arms and put all the dried mushrooms together before handing it to Li Sixin.

"Okay, then I'll take it." Li Sixin didn't shirk either, while taking the bag of dried mushrooms with his left hand, he took out a fifty yuan with his right hand and stuffed it into the hand of the person who handed him the mushrooms: "This mushroom is not easy to count as money for one person, you can use this money to buy some meat and divide it among everyone, so that the children in the family can eat meat." ”

After that, Li Sixin didn't wait for a few people to react, and left the scene with Xu An and others as if they were fleeing.

"If they don't leave, they'll have to catch up." Li Sixin explained, then raised the bag of dried mushrooms in his hand, and said with a smile: "This dried mushroom fried rice tastes first-class, and I will use this to fry Hezibao's characteristic dried mushroom fried rice for Boss Xu at night, I definitely want to eat it." ”

"Okay, then I'll look forward to it!"

Later, on the way up the mountain, I still met a lot of fungus pickers, and I also met a few people who were carrying them in a basket, holding a few shabu shabu in their hands, and walking down with red eyes and noses. Among these people were villagers from Hezibao, as well as villagers from nearby villages.

Xu An and the others were very unfamiliar with the villagers of Hezibao, so they didn't find anything wrong, but they just looked at the shabu shabu trees, and their hearts twitched with pain.

But Li Sixin, as a village cadre who has returned to his hometown for many years, muttered in his heart when he saw this situation.

I specially explained this matter and didn't say it before it was completed, why are the nearby villages also digging shabu-shabu?

However, now the main business is to take Xu An and the two to experience the fun of mushroom picking, Li Sixin was puzzled, did not continue to think deeply, and continued to take Xu An to look for mushrooms in the mountains with Li Yanfu.

There are a lot of mushrooms encountered along the way, such as the red umbrella umbrella and the white pole, even if it is a poisonous mushroom; Some mushrooms look very harmless to humans and animals on the surface, almost almost without the words 'eat me, eat me, eat me' on their faces, but when you ask, they are actually poisonous mushrooms.

If Xu An and Xu Dongliang went into the mountains alone to pick mushrooms, the mushrooms they liked would be enough for them to lie down several times and hold a few banquets.

Stopping and looking for mushrooms, several people walked to the top of the mountain, and the mushrooms in their hands did not add up to more than half a catty.

"We're late, this mountain has been searched by mushroom pickers several times, and it's lucky to be able to pick them up." Li Sixin forcibly gave everyone respect: "This is a lot, and a pot of chicken soup is more than enough." ”

Xu An smiled and didn't speak, standing on the top of the mountain blowing the mountain breeze, looking down at the large fields at the foot of the mountain, and the scattered cultivated fields were embedded in it, which looked particularly eye-catching.

"Secretary Li, listen to Yanfu, you are the first college student in Hezibao, and you also found a good job when you graduated, how could you think of returning to Hezibao to be the village secretary, and you will be a village secretary for several years." Another gust of mountain wind blew, and Xu An's voice was sandwiched in the mountain wind, sounding ethereal and ethereal.

"Is Boss Xu interested in listening to me, tell me how I studied all the way to college?" Li Sixin did not answer Xu An's question directly, and asked back directly.

"Naturally, I'm interested, Secretary Li, please speak."

"We don't have a kindergarten or a preschool here, and we go to school directly in the first grade, and many people help out at home at that time, and when they are ten or eleven years old, they go directly to the third grade."

Li Sixin stood up from the ground as he spoke, walked slowly to Xu An's side, and stood side by side with Xu An.

"The school is a long, far away from Hezibao, and you have to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and set off and walk for two hours to get there. The journey is so far that it is impossible to go home for dinner at noon, so you have to bring rice and vegetables to school. Just because of this meal at noon, my family doesn't plan to let me study, and I don't study to save not only books and food, but also to help the family do some work. ”

Saying that, Li Sixin sighed, I don't know if it was because of emotion or because of happiness.

"Fortunately, I was the only boy in my family, the village secretary came to my parents every day to chat, and finally persuaded them to let me go to school, at that time I was already twelve years old, as soon as I entered the school, I was a fifth-grade student, I didn't even know how to write one, two, three, four, aoe didn't know how to spell the fifth-grade student."

Li Sixin followed Xu An's line of sight, looked at the foot of the mountain, looked at the little black dot walking around in the field, and his voice became ethereal.

"The rest of the story is very cliché, I learned that this learning opportunity was not easy to come by, I studied hard, and was admitted to junior high school, high school, and university, with the support of everyone in Hezibao, and with the support of national policies, I finished college and became the first and only college student in Hezibao so far."

Speaking of this, Li Sixin stopped, and stopped for a long, long time, so long that when Xu An couldn't help but look sideways at him, he suddenly opened his mouth and continued to speak.

"Two months after I graduated, the then village party secretary came to me and asked me a question."

Li Sixin turned his head sideways and met Xu An's gaze, sweeping away the previous elegant posture, his body was straight and tight, his eyes were resolute with some sadness, his expression was serious and dignified, and he said word by word: "The people of Hezibao have helped you get out, you, can you help the people of Hezibao go out." ”

Listening to these ordinary words in Xu An's ears, he felt that a boulder was pressed on his heart, and he was so heavy that he couldn't breathe.

Xu An heard a sense of loneliness from this extremely simple sentence.

"Well, the secretary now."

"When he said this, he was already lying in a hospital bed in the town hospital, and died less than a week after he finished speaking." Li Sixin's voice trembled a little, he looked up sideways into the distance, and no one on the field could see his expression at this moment.

Silence, incomparable silence, this silent atmosphere lasted until the four of them walked to the foot of the mountain, walked to Li Yanfu's house, and saw Li Yanfu's mother.

"Ah, Boss Xu, you deserve to be a big boss, this luck is really good, you can find so many fungi for the first time you enter the mountain!"

Li Yanfu's mother took the mushrooms handed over by Li Sixin and praised them, and then arranged the final fate of these mushrooms.

"This bag is full of dried mushrooms, so many, I will make a fried rice with dried mushrooms at night; Here, half a catty of miscellaneous mushrooms, stewed soup, fried meat, Boss Xu, which way do you want to try? ”

Xu An glanced at a few little hens running around in the yard, and said with a smile: "Auntie, let's fry the meat, I drank the soup yesterday, how about I taste the fried today." ”

"Okay, okay, I asked someone to cut two catties of pork belly this morning and came back, and it is just right to fry mushrooms!" Li Yanfu's mother laughed when she heard this, put the two bags of mushrooms on the stove, lifted her apron and wiped her hands, and asked a little crampedly: "Boss Xu, do you think you should go to see the ghost now, or rest for a while and go to see it after dinner?" ”

"It's still early for dinner, let's go check it out!"

"Okay, this way."

Li Yanfu's mother immediately walked out of the house with everyone, and walked straight towards the small hill behind the house, explaining to everyone as she walked.

"This ghost saw a very big smell, at the beginning it was planted in the yard, and after sowing a handful of seeds, two trees lived, and it was smoked day and night so that people couldn't sleep, and they couldn't stand it, and then they went to this small hillside and opened a small piece of land to plant this."

While talking, several people walked to the back of the house, and saw in the distance the lonely field under the hillside, on which there were more than 20 shabu shabu trees growing in the east and west, because there were too many of them, and everyone felt the rich smell of this pepper from afar.

Xu An saw these twenty or so shabu shabu spicy and his face was immediately happy.

There are a total of 306 households in Hezibao, and even if a family can only grow 20 shabu shabu, that adds up to 6,120 plants.

One plant can harvest more than ten catties of shabu-shabu, about two catties after drying, 6,120 plants, that is, 12,240 catties of shabu-shabu, this amount is enough for Xu's lo-mei shop to consume for a year! There can even be a surplus!

The premise is that other villagers in Hezibao can plant successfully.

(End of chapter)