Otherworldly Days

Before the sun rose, they rushed into the mountain to pick mushrooms before the sun rose.Followed by two dogs, one black and one white, as soon as they entered the mountain, they ran happily on all fours as if they had returned home.

"Hoo hoo hoo..." Cao Xiangnan followed Cao Gang all the way. Walking on flat ground is completely different from walking on mountain roads. After climbing to the back, he gradually felt exhausted. It seemed that he did not exercise enough on weekdays.

Looking at the two people in front of him who were not blushing or out of breath but still breathing normally, he propped his hands on his knees and gasped for breath, his face was full of jealousy, he was so maddened by comparison with others.

Seemingly feeling the eyes looking at him from behind, Cao Gang stopped, turned his head, and looked at Cao Xiangnan whose face was blushing, a smile flashed in his eyes.His eyes swept over and he fell under an old tree, "Here it is." He walked over and picked two large mushrooms from the bush, "You should pick this kind of mushrooms, and don't pick the brightly colored ones that are poisonous."

"Yeah." He also knew this. When it rained when he was a child, he liked to go to the forest with his friends to pick mushrooms. Cao Xiangnan still knew how to tell the difference.

The sun rises slowly in the east, and it is brilliant for a moment, and the natural beauty is shocking.When the sun rose, they also picked half a basket of mushrooms. The big mushrooms were as big as a child's face. When they caught a glimpse of a big mushroom under the old tree, Cao Xiangnan walked over without thinking, picked it off with one hand and wanted to get up , I heard Cao Gang behind me yell, "Don't move!"

His body immediately froze, maintaining that posture.

"Shu--" Almost at the same moment, a dagger passed through his cheek, and a small green snake hit the tree trunk. Cao Xiangnan raised his head, and his spine felt a chill in an instant, looking at the snake that could not die anymore , swallowed with difficulty, being swallowed by such a small thing is really no joke.

God treats him kindly, if he can wear it once, it doesn't mean he can wear it a second time, don't go into the mountain and give your life here.

"Let's go." Cao Gang strode over, pulled out the dagger from the tree trunk, inserted it neatly into his boots, covered the snake with a little soil and leaves with his feet, and said calmly .

"...Oh." Dude, is it really okay for you to be so calm?

Cao Xiangnan hurriedly put the mushroom in his hand into the back basket, and pulled the rope of the back basket. Just because of such a mushroom, he almost killed himself, and he was so scared that he didn't even want to stay in this place for a moment.

He followed closely behind Cao Gang. The original forest here is completely different from the forest developed by generations. There are hidden dangers everywhere here, and there are still big man-eating insects.Thinking of the man-eating worm, Cao Xiangnan asked, "Brother Cao Gang, have you ever seen a worm when you came here to hunt?"

"Yeah." Cao Liehu said in a very normal tone, "I killed a big bug."

"..." Cao Xiangnan, "It's amazing!"

Other than that, he couldn't find other words of praise.

Cao Gang smiled and gave Cao Xiangnan a wide look. He was not afraid of anything before, and he crossed the edge of life and death again and again, pursuing the blood and excitement of a man.But now with Sun Bailian and two children, Cao Gang has gradually realized that it is different from before, and sometimes he has to think about Bailian and the children.

He knew that Bai Lian didn't want him to come into the mountain. He didn't know how many people died in this mountain. Cao Gang knew what Bai Lian was afraid of. After the second child was born, he would not go into the mountain. Hunt some small game outside and sell it for some money, and the family will be able to survive starvation, and they dare not fight with their lives.

After doing business with Cao Xiangnan now, he came here less and less, this time he only entered the mountain after a long time.

As soon as the bushes on the side moved, the arrow in Cao Gang's hand was already attached, and it shot out quickly, piercing through a big white rabbit. He walked over and picked it up by the rabbit's ear, pulled out the arrow inside, and said, "Hit a big white rabbit." Let the rabbit go back to add food to the children, let's go down." It was a rare trip to the mountain, and all he thought about was to get some game for the children at home.

Unknowingly, this man has changed a lot.

"Okay, braised rabbit meat is good? Roasted rabbit is also good, brother Cao Gang, what do you think?" When Cao Xiangnan saw this fat big white rabbit, he began to fantasize about the rabbit meat on the dinner table in his mind.

"...up to you." Cao Gang said.

Anyway, he only knows how to roast rabbits over a fire, and when they are cooked, he doesn't care about the taste.

No matter how high the mountain was, they didn't continue to go in. After picking mushrooms halfway up the mountain, they turned back the same way. Cao Xiangnan's purpose today was not to pick mushrooms, but to see what mushrooms he could find there.

Unexpectedly, this trip yielded a lot. They put a lot of mushrooms in the back basket. In addition to not finding many common Shuangpao mushrooms, they also found several other mushrooms.The most valuable thing is that they found a kind of Hericium erinaceus. You have to know how expensive Hericium erinaceus can be bought in this world, and it is not cheap here.The reason Cao Xiangnan knew Hericium erinaceus was later when he was working in a restaurant, and he heard the master at that time introduce various mushrooms to him.

He wants to wait until the factory building is completed, and the two warehouses behind his house will be vacant, and then he will set up shelves in it to grow mushrooms.The modern culture of artificially cultivated mushrooms has become very mature. Cao Xiangnan has seen them in news magazines before, and he still has some impressions in his mind, so now they are trying to grow them first. He shared this idea with Cao Gang, "So If it can be cultivated by then, we will have an extra income in winter."

It's more than just getting more money, it's almost all sent out in the future.

There are few fruits and vegetables in winter, and winter vegetables will be more expensive than meat, especially for wealthy families. At that time, no matter how expensive vegetables are, they will be willing to buy them for any amount of money as long as they are available.They now have the line of Yipinzhai, even if they only supply Yipinzhai, they are afraid that they will not be able to supply it.

On the way down the mountain, Cao Xiangnan told Cao Gang his plan, so they might have to go into the mountain again.

"Yeah." Cao Gang didn't have many people to talk to. In fact, his heart was greatly shaken. He said, "When the time comes, I will bring someone in to look for it, so you don't want to come."

Cao Gang calculated in his heart that his people should arrive soon.

The little snake that was close to Cao Xiangnan just now, although he didn't show it on his face, was still nervous in his heart. If something really happened, he couldn't explain it to Qi Wanfeng when he went back.

"Oh, good." Anyway, he didn't know if he was free to come in, and Cao Xiangnan didn't insist on coming.

The way down the mountain was much easier than the one up the mountain. Cao Xiangnan could still talk to Cao Gang along the way, unlike climbing the mountain where he couldn't even catch his breath. Now it's much easier.

Later, Cao Gang shot a few small prey casually. No one came in in the mountains. Every small prey ran past them and they were all fat. They stood there and shot you without fear.But they weren't greedy either, they just hunted a few enough to eat, and it was a waste to hunt too many, so they didn't hunt any more prey.

At this time, the sun gradually rose, and the sunlight fell from the forest through the gaps in the leaves and hit the ground. There were many peach trees at the foot of the mountain, and they were full of peaches at this time, because no one came in this year. Pick, a large piece is ripe and hang on the branch.

This place is not too inside, just outside. As long as no big prey comes down here, the villagers will not be in too much danger when they come here to pick fruits.Considering that the danger was not high, Cao Xiangnan thought of letting people from the village come in here to pick fruits, and they could make preserved fruits at that time.

The peaches at this time are cheap to harvest. Basically, it is a no-cost business. They can let the people in the village come in to pick them, and they will accept them when they pick them. The price is also cheap. price.In a month or two, the apples and pears will also be ripe, otherwise it would be a waste if these fruits are not picked and left to rot in the ground.

In the past, people in the village would go to the mountains to pick some and sell them outside. Now that everyone is busy with work, not many people come in to pick them, but if they have money, some people will still come in to pick them.When Cao Xiangnan thought about this problem, he turned his mind to the children, "Now everyone is too busy to come in because of work, and the children in the village are idle. If there are adults taking them with them, they are not afraid of anything. When the time comes, let the village The children here come in and pick it."

The children can also pick and sell some snacks for a few dollars when they come in, so they must be willing.

What Cao Xiangnan wanted was to open a shop selling preserved fruit and jerky in the town, and then he could go to Nanyang to open a shop, or he could open one in other places in the future, which was equivalent to a small chain store.Anyway, ships going to Nanyang often stop at the wharf, and it is convenient for their goods to be transported there. After the shops are opened one by one, their goods can be transported to various places in Fengchao.

"Yeah." Cao Gang didn't know how Cao Xiangnan's brain grew. Now he knew that every thing Cao Xiangnan said could be done in the end. As long as he watched from behind, if he needed help, he would It's enough to help, do what he can do anyway, they also picked half a basket of peaches back, Cao Xiangnan planned to go back and test it first to see how it tasted.

At this time they were about to go back, and Cao Xiangnan's footsteps suddenly stopped when he caught a glimpse of a small purple fruit out of the corner of his eye.Cao Gang followed Cao Xiangnan's gaze and spit out three words, "It's not delicious."

"Sour." After thinking for a while, he added another word.

In the past, if they hadn't been extremely hungry during the march and battle, they would not have picked this kind of fruit to satisfy their hunger. It was sour and astringent. After eating it once, he would not want to eat it a second time.

"You don't understand, let's go and have a look." Cao Xiangnan literally ran over, and the two dogs ran over faster than him.He didn't expect that there would be such a large area of ​​wild grapes at the foot of the mountain. His eyes lit up, and he saw the white silver beckoning to him.

He remembered that when he was in college, there was a fruit stand next to the school. Every summer, when the grapes were too much to sell, the proprietress in the shop made wine from the unsold grapes. He stood there curiously once. He asked the proprietress carefully how to make this wine, and the proprietress explained it to him.

Cao Gang looked at such a large piece of sour fruit and frowned.

On the way back, Cao Xiangnan still had a lot of wild grapes in his back basket, and the smile on his face never stopped, almost smiling like a flower.