A small breakfast shop in the street market, supporting the family and making money

Their family has little land and they never have enough food to eat every year, so every year when mushrooms grow in the mountains, their family has to bring dry food and almost live in the mountains, just to pick more mushrooms.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll listen to your mother. The New Year is almost here, it's time to cut some meat!"

Grandma Goudan responded with a smile, feeling that she was trying to coax the three children not to fight.

Old Man Leng was weighing things in front, Leng Yan was recording the weight and helping to calculate the money, while Leng He was counting the copper coins and paying the money to the villagers.

They were busy in an orderly manner, and the villagers also lined up in an orderly manner. Soon it was Goudan's family's turn.

"Grandpa, what do you think of the quality of my dried mushrooms?"

Goudan's mother spoke cheerfully as she untied several sacks.

Seeing this, Old Man Leng and Leng Yan leaned forward to take a look, then grabbed a handful of dried mushrooms and put them to their noses to smell them, and both nodded in satisfaction.

"Well, it's good quality, 95% dry, and has no musty smell. I'll charge them 10 copper coins per pound for good quality. What do you think?"

Mr. Leng said politely.

Because there are so many kinds of mushrooms on the mountain, when villagers go up the mountain to pick them, as long as they are not poisonous, they are picked together, and then carried back to dry together.

Therefore, what Leng Yan and his team collected were miscellaneous mushrooms, and what Leng Yan wanted were miscellaneous mushrooms, so the price she offered was also high.

"Chengchengcheng!"

Goudan's family was delighted and hurried to help Old Man Leng to get on the scale to weigh the items.

"The total weight is two hundred and nine pounds."

Leng Yan reported the weight while writing down the amount in a small notebook. After a pause, he blurted out, "It's two thousand and ninety copper coins in total. Do you want the exact amount or the exact amount?"

Even though they were prepared to sell it for money, Goudan's family was still shocked to find out that they could earn so much at one time.

"Ah this...this..." Goudan's mother stuttered.

Grandma Goudan didn't even react.

In the end, it was Goudan who took the lead and said in a little adult manner: "We want two taels of silver in full and ninety copper coins in loose form."

His approach is also the one chosen by most villagers. It is easier to store things when they are whole, but more scattered things are more difficult to store.

"okay!"

After receiving the response, Leng He quickly counted out ninety copper coins, added two taels of silver and handed it over.

Goudan ran over to take it, then ran back and handed the silver to his mother. Everyone knew that his mother was in charge of the silver in the family.

Goudan's mother took the silver with a smile, her face full of love, "My eldest son is really good. Don't worry, I promised to cut meat for you two brothers. I will definitely do what I said. I will go to the market tomorrow!"

Goudan:……

As she spoke, Goudan's mother seemed to remember something and asked again:

"Old man and little girl, are you going to collect dried mushrooms tomorrow? My brothers from my mother's side also have a lot of dried mushrooms at home."

As soon as Goudan's mother said this, the villagers around all pricked up their ears. Just kidding, who doesn't have a mother's family and a husband's family?

These days, life is hard for every household, and every extra penny earned counts.

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Leng looked at his eldest granddaughter. After noticing his gaze, Leng Yan was also thinking. The dried mushrooms harvested today alone were almost three thousand kilograms.

If you just make mushroom sauce noodles, you definitely won’t be able to use it all in a short time, but you can add a mushroom soup base in a hot pot restaurant.

Moreover, after the dried mushrooms are soaked, they can not only be used in hot pot or spicy hot pot, but also in stir-fried dishes. In this way, the dried mushrooms in front of us are not enough.

Besides, even if it’s not for anything else, it’s just for the sake of these villagers in front of me, so that they can have a good winter. Leng Yan can harvest more dried mushrooms and find a way to sell them.

It was only when Leng Yan arrived at Shangou Village that he discovered that their Lengzhan Village was not only in good shape now, but also because of the workshops and soap factories in the village, every household in the village had made money.

Take the previous Cold War village for example. Compared with the current mountain village, it was considered wealthy.

Not to mention the low mud-brick houses all over the village, just at a glance Leng Yan saw that the villagers in Shangou Village were wearing thick winter coats. She didn't see a single fat person. They were all skinny with sunken cheeks.

Many people don’t even have a jacket or even a pair of cotton shoes, which shows how difficult life is!

"I will collect them. Tomorrow, it will be around the same time and at the same place. If any of your relatives or friends still have dried mushrooms, as long as the quality is acceptable, they can be sold to you!"

Leng Yan said this and continued to work, and the villagers of Shangou Village heard his words, all of them smiled and thanked him repeatedly.

"It's great, great!"

"Yes, yes, if my mother's family can get some money from dried mushrooms, we can buy more food and have more meals!"

If it weren't for the cold weather and the lack of mushrooms in the mountains, they would have wanted to go into the mountains to pick them right now.

Upon hearing this, Goudan's mother threw the sack to her mother-in-law and said, "Mom, I'm going back to my parents' home." Then she ran away in a hurry!

Seeing this, Goudan shook his head helplessly at his mother's instability.

When Grandma Goudan saw this, she slapped her eldest grandson on the head.

"Hurry up and catch up with your mother, or you'll fall again on the way."

Goudan:……

Having a mother who is not easy to take care of will make the son worry to death.

"Oh, I know, grandma!"

After Goudan responded, he trotted slowly and orderly to catch up with his mother.

"grandmother."

At this time, Tietou, who had been silent, suddenly said worriedly, "Do you think my mother, with her unreliable temper, will she throw away the money she just earned from selling mushrooms?"

Tietou, who is still very young, looked up at the sky with deep thoughts.

Upon hearing this, Goudan's grandmother glared at him and slapped him on the head: "You little brat, how dare you say your mother is out of tune? Is your mother that kind of person?"

Then Goudan's grandmother touched the purse on her waist and said, "Your mother has just given me the silver and asked me to keep it first. I will definitely not lose it!"

The mother predicted her son's prediction.

"My mother is really worthy of being my mother!" Tietou silently raised a thumbs up!

After another half an hour of hard work, all the dried mushrooms in Shangou Village were finally harvested, totaling more than 3,000 kilograms.

Seeing so many dried mushrooms, the grandfather, grandson and his two children breathed a sigh of relief, but they were in trouble again. They had only driven an ox cart today, but it was obviously not enough to carry all of them.

The chief of the nearby Shangou Village heard that a merchant had come to the village, so he ran over to inquire about the situation.

After finding out that he was not a liar, he took the initiative to notify everyone in the village to come and sell dried mushrooms. After they had sold all their own, the village chief of Shangou Village saw that Grandpa Leng and his men were too busy, so he took the initiative to bring his son to help.

Seeing this, he took the initiative to ask his son to drive the only ox cart in Shangou Village, which was their family's ox cart, over to help load the dried mushrooms, and then help send them back to the village to Grandpa Leng and the others.