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At the beginning, there was still some awkwardness between Sun Ruhua and Xie Jiaojiao, and it took them several days to get used to each other.

The rabbits raised in Xie Zhiyi's backyard are pregnant again, and several of them have big bellies.

Sun Ruhua found time to make several rabbit cages for Xie Zhiyi, so that he could house the rabbits separately.

It rains from time to time in summer, and the house always leaks. Xie Jiaojiao thought about the spare money in her hand, and said to Sun Ruhua that day: "Mom, please take some time. We still have some snacks sent by Manager Chen last time. Take them to the village chief and tell him that we want to buy a piece of land to repair the house."

Sun Ruhua put down the work in her hands and smiled: "Are we really going to renovate the house?"

Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "Xiu! Although I am used to living in this house, it is not mine anyway."

Sun Ruhua agreed.

Xie Zhiyi clapped his hands happily and shouted, "Yeah! We're going to build a new house!"

"What are you so happy about? Repairing the house will take place during the autumn harvest. There will be less rain at that time and everyone will be free, so there will be people to help with the repair!" Sun Ruhua said with a smile.

"Well! Mom, there's no rush for this anyway, just do it when you have time!"

Sun Ruhua nodded immediately and asked Xie Jiaojiao, "Then is there any place you like?"

Xie Jiaojiao pointed to a piece of wasteland at the entrance of the village and said, "I think that's the right place. It's right at the entrance of the village and the road is wide. It will be convenient for us to do business with others."

Sun Ruhua took note of it.

As soon as he finished speaking, thunder suddenly broke out even though it was a sunny day.

Sun Ruhua said: "It's going to rain again."

The whole family was busy covering the soy sauce jar immediately.

Fortunately, I acted quickly, otherwise I would have been caught in the rain.

Several people ran to the eaves and patted the places on their bodies that had just been wet.

Sun Ruhua said, "This rain won't last long. Tomorrow morning, I'll go up the mountain and pick some mushrooms to eat."

When she mentioned mushrooms, Xie Jiaojiao immediately thought of picking mushrooms, drying mushrooms, and so on...

"Mom, are there many wild mushrooms on our mountain?"

"There are a lot of them. When life was hard in the past, everyone liked to go up the mountain to pick wild mushrooms to eat. But when you were young, people in our village accidentally ate poisonous mushrooms and got poisoned and died. So fewer people go up the mountain to pick mushrooms. But don't worry, Mom knows mushrooms and will not pick the wrong ones."

When Xie Jiaojiao heard this, she thought to herself that how could she miss this opportunity to make money.

"Mom, I'll go up the mountain with you tomorrow to have a look. Maybe we can earn some more money from these mushrooms."

"Can these wild mushrooms be sold for silver?"

"Why not? The restaurants in town will definitely charge for it!"

Sun Ruhua was a little bit unconvinced. The wild mushrooms on the mountain didn't cost any money, and if people wanted to eat them, they would go up the mountain and pick them themselves.

The rain really stopped after a while just as Sun Ruhua said, and the sun came out again.

Sun Ruhua smiled and said, "The sun must come out. If the sun comes out, there will be more mushrooms tomorrow!"

The next morning, Sun Ruhua got up at daybreak, and Xie Jiaojiao followed suit.

Sun Ruhua quickly took out the dough that she had made last night and steamed some buns. By the time the family had finished breakfast, the sun had come out.

Sun Ruhua took Xie Jiaojiao up the mountain.

There was heavy dew in the valley after the rain in the morning.

Sun Ruhua warned: "Don't pick the pretty ones. The prettier they are, the more poisonous they are."

Xie Jiaojiao nodded. In fact, she also knew about mushrooms. There were a lot of mushrooms on the mountain where she used to live. Her grandparents liked to go to the mountain to pick mushrooms in summer. People in the town liked to buy them, and it also served as a source of income for her grandparents. Sun Ruhua didn't mention it last summer, and she didn't think about it, so she missed this deal last year.

As soon as they got up the mountain, Xie Jiaojiao saw mushrooms not far away.

When I got closer, I saw that it was actually porcini!

Xie Jiaojiao picked one, and Sun Ruhua said, "This is a porcini mushroom, delicious! This kind of mushroom is the most abundant on this mountain."

It's also called porcini. Just as she finished speaking, Xie Jiaojiao saw another one. Next to this one there was a bigger one, which was very big, but the root had rotted. What a pity.

She saw that almost no one in the village went up the mountain to pick wild mushrooms.

Sun Ruhua said: "In recent years, the weather has been good, so there are fewer people picking mushrooms."

The two of them picked up a basket of things in less than an hour on the mountain.

Sun Ruhua had called them back long ago, but Xie Jiaojiao refused, saying that she would pick up more and carry them to the town later to see if she could sell them for some silver.

Sun Ruhua thought about what Xie Jiaojiao said about being able to sell the items for money, so she worked harder to pick them up.

Xie Jiaojiao could recognize mushrooms, but she saw that there were most porcini mushrooms on the mountain, with several mushrooms every few steps, so she only picked up these!

Porcini are delicious. They are crispy when stir-fried and very fragrant when used to make soup. Porcini are also easy to dry in the sun. If you cut them into slices and dry them, you can use them to make soup. Or when there is no fresh food in the winter, you can soak a handful of dried porcini and stir-fry them with bacon, which is also delicious!

Xie Jiaojiao was drooling just thinking about the taste of porcini mushrooms in her previous life.

When I got home, it was still early.

Xie Jiaojiao went home, drank some water, picked up a straw hat, put it on her head, and went out carrying the backpack.

She had walked a long way when she heard Sun Ruhua's voice behind her. She turned around and saw Sun Ruhua handing her a bamboo tube. Xie Jiaojiao knew that it was filled with water.

"Slow down on the road."

Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "Go back quickly, the sun is too poisonous."

At this time, Uncle Li's ox cart had already left and Xie Jiaojiao could not ride in the ox cart, so she had to carry the mushrooms to the town by herself.

Occasionally we met villagers on the road and we greeted each other.

Everyone was curious about what was in her backpack.

Xie Jiaojiao walked and stopped along the way for an hour and a half before she reached the town. On the way, she met Uncle Li's ox cart returning to the village. It was noon when they arrived in the town.

Just like usual, Xie Jiaojiao went to Qingfeng Tower carrying a backpack.

The waiter watched from a distance and called out, "Boss, Miss Xie is here!"

After saying that, he hurried forward to help Xie Jiaojiao take the backpack.

Xie Jiaojiao's forehead was covered with sweat.

"Thank you, little brother!"

The waiter kept shouting at her to go inside and rest.

Shopkeeper Chen greeted the guest and came over immediately.

"Xie Xiao-Xiao, what food have you prepared today?"

Xie Jiaojiao took the grass off the mushrooms, wiped the sweat off her forehead, and said, "It rained yesterday, and I picked up a lot of porcini mushrooms this morning. I thought I couldn't finish them at home, so I brought them to Shopkeeper Chen to see if your store would like them."

Shopkeeper Chen picked up a few and looked at them, then said with a smile, "They look really fresh! I'll take them all. These porcini can be fried or stewed."

What surprised Xie Jiaojiao was that the price of these wild mushrooms was actually more expensive than rice. Shopkeeper Chen paid ten cents for one pound!

Seeing Xie Jiaojiao's surprised expression, Shopkeeper Chen said with a smile: "The price of these wild mushrooms is very high to begin with, because they are not easy to buy normally."

Xie Jiaojiao nodded, turned her eyes and said to Shopkeeper Chen: "Shopkeeper Chen, do you guys need these mushrooms every day?"

"Of course you can. I can eat a basket like this every day."

"Well...how about I give you eight cents per pound? I'll send you a basket of them every day, and they're guaranteed to be fresh!"

The two of them made an agreement immediately.

Just as Xie Jiaojiao was about to leave, Jiang Weinan and his two followers came down from upstairs...

When Xie Jiaojiao raised her head, she happened to meet Jiang Weinan's eyes...