Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Zhou Guo said, "It's okay. The path up the mountain is wide and there are basically no thorns. After we get down the mountain... I remember that Master has a sack on his waist. It must not be full. When the time comes, put these into it and I will put it on. It won't be torn."

This way, there is more than can be held in a basket.

Zhou Xing seemed quite tempted, but then she looked at the cotton clothes inside. The material was precious. Let alone a bag of mushrooms, she just wondered if she could exchange a basket of mushrooms for the material of the clothes. She gave up at this point. It would be a waste to tear it.

Li was busy picking up the items on the other side. When she saw the two people coming back, she smiled and asked, "How much have you picked up?"

The two of them came closer to take a look and saw that the basket was half full.

Zhou Guo put down his backpack and said, "Mom, my backpack is full. I'll pour it over here. I'll go pick up some more while I carry the backpack. You and my sister can walk around here. I'll come back when it's full."

Li nodded, "Okay, go ahead, carry them on my back, I can handle it."

This is all money. No matter how heavy it is, she can carry it.

Coincidentally, Zhou Xing also needed to take a break. Although the mountain was not steep, it was tiring to keep her head down and her back hunched. Sweat was pouring down her head. She had been following Zhou Guo for so long and had never stopped. When she heard her arrangement, she readily agreed.

Zhou Guo put all the mushrooms in the backpack into the big backpack, and also took out the sheep mushrooms from his clothes and poured them in. He also put the basket that Zhou Xing was carrying in there. Originally there was only half a backpack, but now it was immediately full.

Li smiled and said, "If Aunt Chen and the others saw this, they would definitely say that I have eight arms. It was so fast, and it took only a short time to complete it."

Zhou Guo walked away with the empty backpack. It was always faster for one person than for two, and she still had to look after her.

Now there was a person, like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, her eyes rolling around, her hands never stopping, she kept picking up things as she walked forward, she didn't know how far she had walked, the voices of people from all directions were gradually left far behind her.

She didn't know how long it had been, but she picked up three morels that grew together on the ground. Suddenly, she had an idea. Since this thing was so expensive, only thirty or forty cents per pound, she could grow it herself. Hadn't this thing been artificially grown in the previous life?

Thinking of this, she dug up all the fungi she found later, including their roots and soil, wrapped them in fresh moss, and carefully put them into her backpack. She decided to take some fungi back to try first. If she was successful, it would be a way to make a fortune.

At this moment, the backpack was almost full, and I dug another twenty or thirty mushrooms. The mountain in front had come to an end, and there was a cliff ahead. Then I walked back with the basket of wild mushrooms on my back.

We had already been up the mountain for two hours.

After walking back for about a quarter of an hour, I ran into everyone sitting together, resting, chatting and eating.

Seeing her coming back, everyone laughed and said, "Little girl is really good at walking and has a lot of energy. It's like she's playing when she walks on this road. Guoguo, come here and let your aunt see how many treasures you picked up by walking in front by yourself."

Zhou Guo greeted everyone with a smile, and she kept calling him "Auntie".

Li said, "Put down the backpack quickly and come over to eat something."

What people bring up the mountain at this time is steamed buns. Because each family has different financial conditions, the steamed buns they bring are of different kinds.

There were some that sold white flour, not many, only two or three. There were also some that sold coarse flour. If that was not possible, there were vegetable steamed buns. What's more, some people didn't bring anything with them in order to save on a meal. They didn't want to sit with everyone else, and didn't come over here. They just kept looking for mushrooms as if they didn't know how to get tired.

Zhou Guo walked up to Li and Zhou Xing with a small basket full of morels on his back, took off the basket, took the white flour steamed buns and started eating.

There was no need to gather around to look, everyone could see that the basket was full again.

"Let's eat quickly, and after we finish eating, we will try to get ahead of them. I don't know what's wrong with their eyes, it's as if all the wild mushrooms in the mountains are for them, and they are all running into their baskets."

It made everyone laugh.

Li smiled and said, "We are lucky today. Luck comes day by day. Who knows, maybe tomorrow we will have the same luck. Besides, we only look at how much we have. Look at her small backpack. How much can it hold? Two baskets are enough."

Zhou Guo looked at their collection. The lucky ones had already collected most of their bags, and the only thing missing was the basket in his hand. "Aunties, you have quite a lot too. I think the three of us have collected as much as you have collected alone."

"Who said that? I didn't pick it up by myself. My husband came up here after he finished collecting firewood. This is what we found today. But today we are luckier than yesterday. We found more than yesterday. We will go to the market the day after tomorrow and sell it in town. It will be enough to buy your sister Chun Ya a few feet of red cloth."

"Oh, your Chun Ya is also going to get married, right? Whose family are you talking about?"

Zhou Xing glanced at the moss "buns" in the backpack and asked curiously, "What are you stuffing here?"

Zhou Guo said while chewing on a steamed bun: "Sheep mushrooms, there is still soil in them. I'm thinking of taking them back to see if I can grow them."

Zhou Xing's eyes widened, and she even forgot to chew the steamed bun that Li stuffed into her mouth.

"How can you grow this? Doesn't it grow in the mountains? And how can you plant it when there are no seeds?"

"Why are there no seeds..." Zhou Guo paused, as if it was a bit difficult to explain the seeds of mushrooms. The main thing was how could she tell them how she knew such a thing?

I had no choice but to say, "That's why I have to go back and try. If I knew how to grow it, I would have made a fortune from it a long time ago. Why am I still running around in the mountains here?"

Li shook her head. "You just want to do whatever you want. How can mushrooms be grown? I have never heard of anyone growing mushrooms."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Then I'll start with myself. If I can grow them, I'll buy a few large mountains nearby and plant goat mushrooms all over the mountains. They're 30 cents a pound, and if the whole mountain is full of them, I'll make a fortune, haha..."

Zhou Guo couldn't help but laugh out loud, as if he saw a mountain of money flying into his pocket.

The others were amused and curious when they saw this, "What did you think of that made you so happy?"

Li said helplessly: "Don't worry about her, she is just dreaming."

After eating the steamed buns, they wandered around in the mountains for more than half an hour before going down the mountain together. The least they had picked up filled half a backpack. Zhou Guo and her friends had the most. Not only were their two backpacks full, but their baskets were also full. They also had a big bag of clothes. There was no place to put more clothes. If they didn't go down the mountain, they might not be able to get back before dark.

When they reached halfway up the mountain, everyone looked at the ferns, but no one wanted any. It was as if they didn't see them, and they just walked away talking and laughing.