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

There are also people who are willing to try, thinking that picking a handful or two is not a difficult task. If it is really delicious, it will add an extra dish to the table.

Today, everyone moved to a new hilltop.

Zhou Gu also carried a backpack today, so he had three backpacks in total.

Zhou Guo has been walking alone today. She doesn't need to worry about Li, as she has been with the women in the village. She doesn't need to worry about Zhou Gu either, as he is not far away from everyone.

She didn't want to stay with everyone else, and while picking things she went astray. It seemed that this piece of land today was easier to pick than the mountain yesterday, and there were more. It seemed that in just a short while, the small backpack was half full.

After picking up the items for more than half an hour, half of the backpack was almost full. Looking back, I didn't know where the people had gone. I guess they went to the other side.

She sat down, intending to drink some water and take a rest. After drinking the water, she tilted her head back and glanced upwards, and was stunned. The tree in front of her with tender buds seemed to be a toon bud.

He put down the bamboo tube, jumped up the tree, broke off a flower, put it close to his nose and smelled it. A rich fragrance instantly rushed to his head. The smell was so strong!

It was really the toon buds. She had been on the mountain for two days, but she hadn’t noticed that there were toon buds on the mountain. She was at a loss, and she didn’t know how much she had missed.

Cut a long tree hook.

The tree, as thick as a bowl, was swaying, and from time to time a tender toon bud would fall from under the tree.

Zhou Guo placed his two feet on a thin branch, hooked the branch with one hand and pried it with the other.

After breaking off the branches, they bounced back with a swish and the tree began to shake.

It was a bit scary to look at it from below, as such thin branches seemed like they would break at any time.

Zhou Guo stepped very steadily, and in a quarter of an hour, she had picked all the tender buds.

Pick up all the flowers without leaving any and put them in the basket. There is also a basket full of them. But don’t think there are many now. When you go back and blanch them in boiling water, there will not be much left.

Next, she not only had to pay attention to the sheep mushrooms on the ground, but also had to look up at any time to see if there were any Chinese toon trees around. Everyone said that this stuff was delicious when mixed with eggs, but she was not used to it. Her favorite was the one that was dried, cut into small pieces, fried in oil, and mixed with salt. It was like a cold dish and very fragrant!

She doesn't mind having too much. When there is no vegetable to eat in winter, it will come in handy. It is the best thing to eat with rice or steamed buns.

There was no more room for the sheep mushrooms in the backpack, so she took off her clothes and filled the basket with spring buds. When the basket was full, she found two Chinese toon trees. These days were the time when the Chinese toon trees were sprouting buds, and these things only sprout for a short time.

That's about seven or eight days. If it takes another five or six days, the toon buds on the tree will be old.

These two trees are bigger than the one just now.

After picking all the fruits, they could no longer be wrapped in clothes, so they had to be tied up with wild ropes and carried back.

After finally finding the main group, they were already sitting on the ground resting.

Maybe because they saw that only a few people from Zhou Guo's family came up the mountain, there were more villagers coming today than yesterday. Everyone who had nothing to do at home came up. Adults and children were gathered here and there. If you didn't know, you would think they were doing farm work in the fields.

With the whole family working together, the harvest is naturally not cheap. Some of the backpacks are full and everyone has a smile on their face. They can take them to the county town to sell tomorrow. Together with what they have saved in the past few days, they should be able to make a lot of money.

Looking up, they saw Zhou Guo carrying a backpack and a large bag in his hands. They didn't know where he came from. They all greeted him with a smile, "Guoguo, you're back. You found so many things again. You have a good eye."

Zhou Guo greeted everyone along the way with a smile.

Li and Zhou Gu had already finished their meal together. When they saw her coming back, they hurriedly took out the food they had left for her. "Why did you take so long to come back? I don't know where you went. We called you everywhere but you didn't respond. We had no choice but to eat first. Don't run so far later. You have to at least let me take care of you."

Zhou Gu stood up and took the backpack from behind her. Seeing that the backpack was full, he was surprised, "How could you find so much by yourself?"

Zhou Guo smiled and put down the things in his hand, took the pancake, took a big bite, and then said to the two people who were turning over the buds of the Chinese toon tree: "I found several Chinese toon trees over there, and the buds on them have sprouted. I thought it would be good to take them back and make scrambled eggs with them. It would also be delicious if dried, but I was delayed."

Li untied the knot of the clothes and saw a bag full of toon buds inside. She said helplessly, "You can only dry them if you bring so many back. We can't eat too much if there are too many."

Zhou Gu was quite disgusted. "This one isn't bitter at all, but it has a foul smell and doesn't taste very good."

Zhou Guo was stunned while eating the cake, "Brother, everyone doesn't like this either?"

Zhou Gu nodded, "In previous years, when we brought it back and fried a bowl, we had to hold our breath to finish it. No one liked it."

Zhou Guo didn't say anything. In fact, she didn't like it very much either, but it was still very good after being dried and fried.

When people saw her carrying bundles of toon buds, they gave her directions, "You like to eat this? Why didn't you tell me earlier? I told you, I just picked mushrooms there, over there, see? Go down there, turn a corner, and walk forward to a big rock. There are several big trees nearby, with many buds on them."

One person also said, "Hey, if you want to eat this, you've come to the right place. There's nothing else on our mountain except for these Chinese toon trees. They're everywhere, here and on the mountain over there. There are a lot of them."

Zhou Guo thanked them, "Aunts, why don't you eat?"

"Tsk, this stuff stinks. What's the point of eating it? My wife likes it, but there are so many on the mountain. She will get tired of it after a few meals. Now everyone is busy picking mushrooms. Who is willing to spend the time to pick this stinky thing? If you want to eat all the mushrooms on this mountain, no one will compete with you."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "That's fine. We only have one mouth and can't eat so much, so we can just break some off and eat a few meals."

The baskets that Li and Zhou Gu carried were only half full. Zhou Guo placed the mushrooms in his basket into theirs. After they had eaten and rested enough, they carried their baskets to the other side.

I didn’t specifically look for a Chinese toon tree this time. I will wait until this basket is full and then pick some from the trees that the aunt mentioned. That will be enough. If there are too many, people won’t be happy eating.

……

When we got there, we found that there were not just three trees, but five.

Looking up, the branches are straight and tall, with buds scattered on them, which is very beautiful.

Zhou Guo jumped onto the tree, flipped and moved around on it with the hook in hand, and soon the ground was covered with toon buds.

Zhou Gu came from the other side, looked at the pile on the ground, then looked at the tree, and saw those small branches trembling in the air. He said nervously: "Guoguo, be careful, move slowly, or the tree will break."

Zhou Guo was trying to hook the flower on the top of the tree, but he couldn't catch it no matter how hard he tried. He made up his mind, and with his right hand, he bent the trunk down hard. With a snap, the top of the tree broke off.