Chapter 58: Harvesting Mushrooms
Bai Ziqian couldn't stay there for a moment.
The Fan family had ridiculed him countless times for food, and the food couldn't be any worse!
The lowest servants in his Bai family ate better than this.
The accommodation was even worse.
At Aunt Shuiqing's house, although the place was small, he was treated equally and lived with Uncle Fan, Jianghehu and others.
He couldn't straighten his legs, and they couldn't straighten their legs either.
But here, Fan Dazhu and others were the "masters", and he was a servant. How could a servant live with the master?
It would be bad to disturb their sleep.
And the old Fan family didn't have any extra beds for him to sleep in, so the kitchen stove hole was where he slept at night.
Wearing the tattered clothes given by Fan Sanzhu, Bai Ziqian felt that happiness was indeed a result of comparison.
When he was at Aunt Shuiqing's house, he compared it with his own home, and felt that Aunt Shuiqing's place was not good at all. Now that he came to the old Fan family, he realized that Aunt Shuiqing's place was simply a paradise.
But he couldn't go back yet.
When he came out, he was afraid that he had already disappointed Aunt Shuiqing's family. Now he knows how good it is to have rice, meat and eggs, and he and Yan Qiuxing are no different when they go back to Jianghehu!
But he ran out without knowing what was good for him. Now he has suffered and tired outside, and he is going back with a flattering face. He is so anxious just thinking about it!
He wants to go back, but he has to go back with a contribution.....
"Heizi, let's go! It's dawn, why are you still lazy!" Fan Dazhu shouted impatiently outside the yard.
Bai Ziqian realized that he was called, walked out of the kitchen, looked at the dim sky, and asked in confusion: "You haven't had breakfast yet, and you go out to work without breakfast?"
Needless to say, at home, he also went out to work after having a full breakfast at Aunt Shuiqing's house.
Fan Dazhu rolled his eyes to the sky and laughed, "What the hell do you want!
It's not the busy farming season, who eats three meals? Two meals are good enough."
Fan Erzhu urged in front, "Come on, come on, don't try to be lazy, I'll supervise your work today!
If you dare to be lazy, I'll serve you with willow branches!"
Bai Ziqian looked at the faces of the two people in front of him, and he really felt what it meant to be a villain who succeeded, and he also really understood how disgusting it was to be a villain who succeeded.
The only thing he was thankful for was that he gave the jade pendant he wore close to his body to Aunt Shuiqing before leaving, otherwise it would have been taken away by the two people in front of him.
They don't distinguish between yours and mine. In the eyes of this family, everything is theirs!
Walking on the bumpy dirt road, they met many villagers carrying bamboo baskets and carrying bamboo baskets along the way, both young and old.
"Strange, why are the people in the village so diligent today? Is this the whole family going out to pick mushrooms?" Sun Jinhua led the way and muttered in confusion.
"It's not just the whole family that's out. Looking at the number of people, I wish the whole village was out!" Fan Sanzhu muttered.
Fan Erzhu said indifferently: "What's the big deal? Who told them not to work hard before? There are more mushrooms in summer than now.
Besides, the sun was strong at that time, so it was convenient to dry mushrooms. Didn't our second aunt take Daya and Erya to pick and dry mushrooms? A whole sack, right? Enough to eat."
Thinking of the dried mushrooms in stock at home, Sun Jinhua straightened her back and said proudly: "Da Ya and Erya are good at work, but they are a little stupid. Now they are all cheap for us.
Even if they don't pick mushrooms day and night, they can't dry a sack even if they work themselves to death!
Besides, our family not only has dried mushrooms, but also dried cowpeas, eggplant strips, dried beans, and pickled mustard greens in the summer before...enough to eat in winter. Haha, they are just destined to suffer hardships, and they can't compare with us."
Bai Ziqian thought silently, Yan Qiuxinghui has already eaten meat and eggs, and you are still complacent about the dried vegetables they dried before.
He now understands why Uncle Fan's family is so hardworking and willing to work hard, but still lives so hard.
It's because Fan Da's family sucked their blood!
No matter how hardworking a family is, they can't stand seven or eight people sucking their blood, not to mention that this is a family that can't help themselves.
Sun Jinhua said that the vegetables were enough for the winter, but she followed the women in the village to pick mushrooms.
There was no other way. The taste of fresh mushrooms was so delicious that it made her eyebrows drop.
She shouted to the familiar woman passing by: "Auntie Li, where are you going to pick mushrooms? Take me with you.
I have a lot of dried mushrooms at home. In fact, I don't need to come out to pick mushrooms with you, but I can't rest, so I want to come out and stretch my hands and feet."
Auntie Li curled her lips, and there was only two words on her face: speechless.
What a joke, they are all lazy people. In the rainy season before, who didn't have a few sacks of dried mushrooms?
Li Tiantian walked forward quickly, pulling her mother and urging her: "Mom, hurry up, otherwise you will miss so many mushrooms."
"Yes, yes, mom, hurry up, my daughter, you are right." Aunt Li hurriedly followed the trend.
Sun Jinhua was ignored and looked unhappy.
If the old village chief had not stipulated that their family could not go to Lao Er's hill to pick mushrooms, would she need to ask them?
The villain's face is not to be seen, and he is shameless!
Aunt Li, who walked away, whispered to her daughter: "Don't let them know that mushrooms can also be exchanged for food, otherwise they may be like Zhang Baldy last time, and they can't bear to see us doing well if they are not doing well."
This time, Fan Er greeted each family one by one, and the few families who made a fuss about returning the goods last time were not within the scope of notification.
Sun Jinhua was not within the scope of cooperation from beginning to end, so of course she couldn't let her know, otherwise there might be trouble again.
"By the way, your Uncle Fan didn't say yesterday how much rice a pound of mushrooms could be exchanged for. I heard that it can be sold for more than ten coins a pound in the city, but it has to be sold."
There are mushrooms everywhere. Can't the people in the city come out to pick them? Why spend more than ten coins to buy a pound of mushrooms?
With this money, it's better to buy pork!
Li Tiantian was also worried, "Don't think about it. Sister Shuiqing is a kind person. A pound of mushrooms should be exchanged for one and a half pounds of rice, right?"
Auntie Li smiled and joked: "If it can be exchanged for one and a half pounds of rice, I will stay up all night to pick mushrooms!"
Anyway, she loves to pick mushrooms.
Li Tiantian didn't take her mother's words seriously. Even if her mother could pick them overnight, she had to see them.
But the family has enough winter vegetables, and there are still many vegetables in the vegetable garden, enough for the whole family to eat. It doesn't matter whether mushrooms are eaten as vegetables. Now it's the best thing to be able to exchange them for food.
Aunt Li didn't care what her daughter thought. She calculated that if one pound of mushrooms could be exchanged for one and a half pounds of rice, the family would have enough food in stock next year.
Farmers are not afraid of eating up their food reserves. Eating up their food reserves is more about happiness and peace of mind, because it means that there is still extra food left in the family.
They are afraid that they will have to return the food from house to house as soon as the new grain is harvested every year, and the food they get will be reduced by half immediately...
Just after lunch, baskets of fresh chicken mushrooms and bamboo fungus were all delivered to the open space in front of Shuiqing's house, waiting to be weighed.
The women who delivered the food watched their baskets and talked: "I wonder how many pounds of rice our family can exchange for?"
"Mushrooms are easy to pick up, and they are not as hard as chicken head rice. I'm afraid there is not as much as chicken head rice."
"What good are you thinking? How can it be compared with chicken head rice? I think it's good to have half of chicken head rice."