Eating big melon is so refreshing

"Uncle Wu, this little fruit has another name, it's wolfberry." Xiao Chunya said slowly, "The herbal medicine shop in the county buys it in large quantities and dries it into dried fruit for 60 cents per pound."

Zhao Wulang jumped three feet high, his voice breaking through the wind, "Sixty cents a pound?"

The twin brother and sister felt that he didn't look excited about knowing that the fruit was 60 cents per pound, but more like he was excited about the fruit being 60 taels of silver per pound!

"The fruit is dried, and you get one pound for every ten pounds. It's troublesome to pick, and making... isn't hard work, but you can just earn a little hard-earned money."

"What do you mean by a little hard-earned money? This is a free-for-all. This is a business with no capital." How could Zhao Wulang not be excited? Everyone knows that cotton farming is profitable. From planting to picking to peeling, it is a series of work, and in the end, a pound of cotton is worth fifty cents.

You don't even need to grow this fruit. You just need to pick it and take it home to dry. One pound costs sixty cents. In comparison, what's the hard work?

"Uncle Wu, who does this piece of land belong to?" Xiao Qiulin asked a most realistic question, "Are there many places with wolfberry trees in the village?"

"There are not many wolfberry trees in this area of ​​Third Grandpa's house and the village chief's house. There is another one on the back mountain. Gaojia Village has the most of these trees. Every household likes to use wolfberry trees to build fences."

"Then tell Fourth Aunt, isn't it said that there are many children in Gaojia Village? They will come in handy."

Children don’t know how to get tired. Picking fruits all over the mountains is a game for them. They can eat, play and make money at the same time. Where else can they find this?

"Don't run around! I'll go tell Third Grandpa and the village chief." Zhao Wulang used his lightness skills to meet Zhao Bei and the village chief halfway.

"Wulang, you look so rash, what are you doing?" I knew this guy was unreliable. He went up the mountain with a bunch of radish heads, but ended up strolling down.

"Third Grandpa, Village Chief." Zhao Wulang was very happy to see them. "I was just about to look for you. Xiaochuner told me that the small red fruit on the thorn tree is called dog wolfberry. After drying, one pound costs 60 cents!"

"Sixty cents!" Two more voices broke through the wind. These wild fruits that no one wanted in the mountains and fields turned out to be treasures. Have they been begging for food while guarding a mountain of gold for all these years?

The village chief ran back to the village excitedly and yelled at the men who were chatting under the banyan tree, and everyone took action.

Except for those who are too young or too old, all the others who can go out in Zhaojia Village have been sent out. They do not go to pick fruits in places that have owners, as there are many unowned places in front of and behind the mountains.

Xiao Chunya and Xiao Qiulin, a brother and sister, really did not have the patience to pick wolfberries. Zhao Wulang thought that if they picked wolfberries from Third Grandpa's territory, Third Grandpa would give them some money, so he decided to take the two little ones up the mountain.

The twin brother and sister know a little bit of martial arts, and with Uncle Ku following them, nothing will go wrong even if Zhao Wulang is reckless.

After coming to Zhaojia Village for so many days, the brother and sister are finally able to go up the mountain. They set off in high spirits, carrying small bows and arrows and holding small forks!

Legend has it that a phoenix landed on the mountain hundreds of years ago, so it was named Phoenix Mountain. Previously, this mountain was called Gouweiba Mountain.

two quarters of an hour later

Xiao Chunya stared with her big eyes, her cheeks puffed up, and her expression was three parts hurt and three parts aggrieved.

Xiao Qiulin sighed silently. He had tried his best to restrain his breath. Looking at the two rabbits and a pheasant that rushed forward one after another, he had an innocent expression on his face.

"Why do they pounce on you and not me?" Xiao Chunya finally burst out, "I'm fatter than you, I'm cuter than you, why don't they like me?"

"Don't ask me, I don't know either." Xiao Qiulin picked up a little rabbit, took a look at it and said, "Could these be females?" Opposites attract, interracial love, can this be explained?

Xiao Chunya turned her head away angrily. She didn't want to talk to her brother anymore. She wanted to go find prey.

suddenly

Xiao Chunya screamed "Snake!"

Snakes are women's natural enemies. No matter how old a woman is, Xiao Chunya is particularly afraid of snakes. She immediately turns pale when she sees a small snake swimming over.

Xiao Chunya picked up a big rock and threw it at the little snake. The little snake was frightened by her scream and changed direction and swam into the jungle, saving its life.

The big rock hit a hole and seemed to have hit something hard and bounced back. Uncle Ku dug up the soil with a hoe and took out a rusty iron box from the hole.

Uncle Ku broke the lock and opened the box. He took out the items inside and his face changed. "A mechanical crossbow. This is something from the previous dynasty."

Zhao Wulang said, "It can still be used after repairing it. It's gone in the previous dynasty. Whoever picks it up can own it."

The things in the box are very interesting. There are four crossbows in total, two for adults and two for children.

Xiao Chunya gave her crossbow to her younger brother, because she knew it would be best for her younger brother to have a space to store this thing.

Continuing forward, they put the rabbits and pheasants into Uncle Ku and Zhao Wulang's big backpacks. The two adults came to their senses at this time. Little Chunya was very strong. The big rock just now weighed at least 60 kilograms.

soon

The two children stopped and saw the small bamboo shoots popping out. Their eyes lit up and they didn't care whether the soil was dirty or not. They squatted down and picked the bamboo shoots with their hands.

"A lot. I saw more than a dozen."

"This is sweet bamboo shoots and tastes better."

Uncle Ku's face was solemn. He had grown up in the village. He was 42 years old this year. He had climbed this mountain at least 80 times, if not a hundred times, but he had never been to this area.

It was as if... Xiaochun'er's big stone just now broke some kind of seal. Uncle Ku looked around and found, as expected, two ginsengs and a Ganoderma lucidum. They were at least fifty or sixty years old. There was indeed something strange about this place.

"Xiaochun'er, Xiaoqiu'er, let's go back." Uncle Ku tried to keep his tone calm. "It's not safe in the mountains after the sun goes down."

"Okay, we'll come back tomorrow."

I felt a little dizzy from digging bamboo shoots. After all, he was only four years old, so I decided not to bother him.

Several people left, and Uncle Ku went to look for it on the pretext of losing something. He was horrified to find that the area had disappeared, and he couldn't help but shudder!

All the way

Xiao Chunya deliberately held a rabbit. People who didn't know the reason thought that she had caught the rabbit and praised her. Xiao Qiulin was speechless that the fat sister suddenly had an IQ of negative 180.

"I picked five kilograms of wolfberries."

"I shot a rabbit."

"Fat sister is really amazing."

“I think I’m awesome too.”

Okay, as long as you are happy, you can catch all the rabbits and pheasants.

During dinner, Xiao Chunya showed a worried expression on her face while eating. "Why did Dad and Mom take so long to go back? Will there be any big trouble in Huangyang County?"

"Uncle Guang came back from the county town today. He didn't say what big thing happened in the county town. I guess your father and mother were delayed by something."

Zhao Bei had already learned from Uncle Guang that Jiang Tang and Tian Shi had gone to court for divorce, and one of them was pushed down the stone steps and died at the yamen gate, while the other was struck to death by lightning.