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The next morning, the weather was gloomy. It had been raining since the night before, and it stopped just as dawn broke. However, judging from the sky, it probably wouldn't last long before it started raining again.

Sure enough, before noon, the rain started falling again, and the whole village looked misty due to the moisture.

"Rain is good. In Lijia Village, everyone looks forward to rain."

Li Er took a small stool, sat under the eaves, and watched the rain fall. His face was not bitter at all, but instead full of smiles.

"Oh, father-in-law, what's the story behind this?"

"Once the rain stops, the mountains behind us will be full of mushrooms. Although we can't transport them out, we can still carry them to the surrounding villages and sell some to supplement our family income."

Zhou Wucai realized that, as mentioned yesterday, the only crops here are mushrooms. However, due to the shelf life of mushrooms, they cannot be transported long distances and end up rotting in the village. In Zhou Wucai's view, this is truly a case of sitting on a gold mine and starving.

"dinner time."

Li Baiwei and Yang Chun prepared breakfast together.

"Dad, Mom, I'm going to call my younger brother and sister."

"Hmph, it's all your fault for spoiling me. What time is it? Why aren't you up yet?"

Hearing that his son and daughter were still sleeping, Li Er was furious. He felt embarrassed in front of his son-in-law on their very first day together.

"It's raining today, and there's no farm work to do, so let them sleep in a bit longer."

The mother quickly explained, probably realizing that her husband was genuinely annoyed.

"It's normal for kids to be sleepy; I used to love sleeping in when I was a kid too."

Zhou Wu didn't really think anything of it. Just as his mother-in-law said, there was nothing important, so sleeping a little longer wouldn't hurt.

"Eh~~"

Since Zhou Wu had already said that, Li Er couldn't say anything more. He could only wave his hand and tell his wife to wake up the little ones.

Everyone arrived in no time.

"This, this, is this breakfast?"

The Li family members stood in front of the dining table, not daring to sit down. They could understand if the dinner last night was a bit lavish, since the family hadn't seen each other for a long time and it was a rare opportunity for them to reunite. But to have a table full of food so early in the morning was a bit excessive.

"Everyone, please sit down. This is our family's usual breakfast."

Yang Chun was the first to get up, starting her work before dawn. She now really enjoys and appreciates the pleasure of cooking.

“Miss Yang, this is too much. Just cook some thin porridge. Logically speaking, it’s okay to skip breakfast today since it’s raining and we don’t have to work.”

That's life in the countryside. Everyone is still struggling to survive, and even getting enough to eat is a problem, so eating two meals a day is the norm.

“That won’t do. My husband said that we should eat three meals a day on time so that we can stay healthy.”

Although Yang Chun's words made a lot of sense, Li Er's family still felt a bit overwhelmed by the table full of delicious food. Apart from the white porridge, they didn't recognize many of the dishes.

"This is a fried dough stick, it tastes best when soaked in soy milk."

"This is a xiaolongbao (soup dumpling), filled with pork filling."

"Tofu pudding is the smoothest and most tender thing I like."

Li Baiwei noticed her family's predicament, so she introduced all the delicacies one by one.

The two younger siblings didn't stand on ceremony and started eating with their hands, praising the food as they ate.

"Big sister, this is really delicious. It's amazing to be able to eat meat in the morning."

The second brother had a small steamed bun stuffed in his mouth and another one held in his chopsticks, speaking indistinctly.

"Big sister, I still think tofu pudding is the best. It's so smooth and tender. I've never eaten anything so delicious before."

"Eat more if it's delicious, Dad, Mom, you should eat too."

Besides soy milk, fried dough sticks, and steamed buns, there were also various homemade side dishes on the table, which were served with white porridge.

The two elderly people were a little reserved at first, but they quickly relaxed under the temptation of the delicious food and ate with smiles on their faces.

"Father-in-law and mother-in-law, with Bai Wei and me here, you two can enjoy your retirement from now on."

. . . . . .

The sky still hadn't cleared up in the afternoon, but the younger children had a great time. Li Baiwei distributed all the gifts she had brought to everyone, which made everyone cheer with joy.

However, Li Er and his wife looked distressed. Zhou Wu guessed that the continuous rain had delayed their farm work, making the two elderly people feel down.

Fortunately, the sky cleared up the next day. Since they had been talking about picking mushrooms for the past two days, today was the perfect day, so Li Er took his family, carrying baskets and backpacks, into the mountains to pick mushrooms.

You can see them from afar; almost all the villagers are preparing to go into the mountains to see the mushrooms.

"Although picking mushrooms doesn't bring in much money, it's better than nothing. If we can't sell them, we can eat them ourselves. So every time it rains, everyone goes into the mountains to pick mushrooms."

Zhou Wu had only seen other people picking mushrooms on his phone before, and it looked quite fun. This was his first time experiencing it firsthand.

To Zhou Wu, the mountains were just mountains, but Li Er and his family knew very well where fungi would grow.

Lifting the thick pine needles, withered leaves, and rotting trunks, one finds all sorts of fungi underneath. Zhou Wu knew that many mushrooms were poisonous, so he obediently followed behind Li Baiwei, listening to her and Li Er explain to him which mushrooms were edible, which were not, which were delicious, and which were not.

Moreover, in the short time Zhou Wu and his group entered the mountain, they had already encountered several families from the same village picking mushrooms, and each of them had a great harvest.

"You have a lot of mushrooms here."

Zhou Wu kept marveling at how abundant the mushrooms were. He was heartbroken to hear from his father-in-law that the mushrooms were going to go to waste because they couldn't be transported long distances.

"Yes, our place is strange. There's a lot of rain, and a lot of fungi too. They grow all year round, but they're most vigorous in summer and autumn. They like to grow singly, scattered, in groups, or in clumps on damp places such as woodlands, grassy slopes, field edges, and corners of the ground, or on rotten wood and manure piles."

Li Er, having dealt with mushrooms for decades, spoke about them with great expertise.

"It seems that the only way to find a path to prosperity for Lijia Village is to focus on these mushrooms."

Zhou Wu's mind was racing, and information about fungi from his previous life flashed through his mind.

First, the main problem we face now is that fresh mushrooms have a very short shelf life. Coupled with the limitations of transportation in this era, these mushrooms simply cannot be transported far. If this problem could be solved, and the mushrooms could be transported to wealthy places like the capital or the water towns of Jiangnan, the value of the mushrooms would definitely increase exponentially.

"How should we resolve this problem?"

Zhou Wu frowned, clearly unable to distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous mushrooms, and couldn't think of a good solution for the time being.