Chapter 33 Chapter 33
Xu He has long wanted to go up the mountain since the beginning of spring, but he was too busy at home to have the chance.
After having lunch with Zhang Fangyuan, he even saved his lunch break, and went straight up the back mountain with the guy on his back.
The mountains and forests in spring have changed from the depression in winter, and the trees are green, giving birth to a lot of spring flavor. Xu He carried a small pannier on his back, and in his hand was a small sickle and a small shovel that Zhang Fangyuan took out from the tool shop.
When I saw Zhang Fangyuan on the mountain for the first time, I found that he had a lot of useful tools. Today, he has learned a lot about taking the tools out.
Zhang Fangyuan's treasures are kept in the barn behind the nave of the house, and tools are hung on one wall. There are tools for slaughtering animals, farm tools for farming, and sickles, machetes and machetes for hunting and chopping firewood in the mountains. The iron utensils glowed coldly. He was shocked when he first entered. There were sharp and sharp things hanging around, like Into the prison to see the instruments of torture.
It's no wonder that everyone is scared and far away, guarding a room full of such vicious weapons every day, so it can't be bluffing.
Zhang Fangyuan also said triumphantly that the tools in the house were sold off enough to build a new house.
Only halfway up the mountain, Xu He couldn't wait to start his hands. After all, the mountains are not as crowded as the fields of the village. The wild vegetables grow one after another, and the hair and onion tails of the wild onions hidden in the grass are a little yellow. It was not found either.
Wild onions are not like home-grown scallions that grow straight and smooth. Wild onions are more than half thinner than shallots, and when they grow like hair, they hang on the ground.
He used a small shovel to dig up the wild onions together with the scallions, shook the mud on the shovel and put them in a basket covered with banana leaves.
Along the way, there were mugwort dwarfing among the flowers, which were very tender, but Xu He didn’t pick them. He usually waited for the mugwort to grow taller, bloom and grow old before cutting it. Taking it home, he could make mugwort under the sun for a day. It's good to repel mosquitoes at night.
How do you know everything?
Zhang Fangyuan held a piece of grass in his mouth, and he was not in a hurry, so he just sat in the mountain nest and watched Xu He dig here and there with his head buried.
Mosquito repellent incense sold in Xiashi City costs ten yuan at a time, and you can't light it twice. It's more expensive than candles, so I can only find a way to repel mosquitoes myself.
Zhang Fangyuan smiled and said, Then I will cut the wormwood with you when it gets old.
Yes. There are many wild onions nearby, don't sit still, help me dig.
Half of the basket has been dug up, why dig so much, a fried meal is enough for the two of us. Zhang Fangyuan said in his mouth, but he still got up to help search.
Wild onions can be eaten in many ways. In addition to frying, you can also make dumplings and steamed buns. You always eat in the city, and you haven't seen it at a spring food stall. more expensive?
Zhang Fangyuan laughed, this little brother really knows everything.
Dig more, save it for a day, and I'll take it to sell when you go to a stall in the city, and buy some noodles with the money, and make skins for you to make buns when you go home.
Zhang Fangyuan became excited when he heard this, and he was eager for the two of them to go to the city together.
The two dug wild vegetables on the mountain for an hour. Zhang Fangyuan kept digging wild onions. Xu He thought that since he wanted to sell them, he also collected other wild vegetables, just like It is a tender and strong bracken, which grows well one by one, and after a while it is folded into a small half basket.
Perhaps it was busy farming season, and he was very relieved that the new wild vegetables hadn't been dug up by the villagers yet.
When the two of them went up the mountain, Xu He's small pannier was almost full. The pannier was moved from his back to Zhang Fangyuan's back. Zhang Fangyuan was tall, and he carried his little pannier as if he was being bound. The rope of the pannier was tightly tied to his shoulders. , a little funny.
Xu He asked him to carry it back for him. He couldn't afford to carry such a small thing, but he still refused, so he took a few strides to the front, so that he couldn't even catch up.
It is much cooler in the woods than on the hillside. The trees sprout new buds in spring, and the leaves bloom in late March. The shade is very good, and the sunlight has been cut by half.
The two went to the deep mountain to plant a trap together, and Zhang Fangyuan carefully called Xu He. The hunters have all gone up the mountain these days, and they depend on the mountains for a living. Yue's lives in the mountains, and their traps are buried everywhere in the deep mountains.
It's easy to get tricked if you don't pay attention.
Zhang Fangyuan took a few glances. He didn't know if it was because he didn't go up the mountain much in the past two years and didn't know the situation or what. He found that there seemed to be many more traps in the forest than before, and the distance was closer. In the past, it was a hunter hunting and a half. If there is a mountain, Orion can make money in those two years.
I think it's delicious, and I want to get a piece of it.
It seems that it is not easy to eat some fresh flavors. Zhang Fangyuan said with emotion, let's count on his wife's small wild onion buns.
Xu He said: I didn't rely on this for food, I just idled away. Isn't it the same as fishing by the river.
After setting the trap, the two went out to the deep mountains, fearing that wild animals would come to eat.
The early spring bamboo shoots on the hill were already half as high as a bamboo, wearing a dark-brown coat and rushing high, and very straight, the part of the bamboo shoots that leaned against the ground fell to reveal the oily green shoots inside. , Zhang Fangyuan touched it cheaply, the elder is too old to pinch.
Xu He put down his basket, ready to dig some unearthed spring bamboo shoots and go home. One is that there are many kinds of wild vegetables when he went out with Zhang Fangyuan when he was a child, and the other is that he wants to soak some bamboo shoots, which are usually delicious. , and can also be boiled and dried in the sun. You can eat it whenever you want, and of course, you can also sell it.
Although the taste of spring bamboo shoots is not as good as that of winter bamboo shoots, they are hard to find, so keep more of them. When the autumn harvest is not good, these wild vegetables can still satisfy your hunger.
He looked at Zhang Fangyuan like a naughty child, and said helplessly: Don't touch the new bamboo shoots, they won't grow taller if you touch them.
Zhang Fangyuan withdrew his hand amusedly, and jumped to Xu He: Then I touched you, wouldn't you grow taller too?
Xu He's ears turned red, and he stopped digging for bamboo shoots: I've already grown enough.
Zhang Fangyuan took the opportunity to stick his hand: Does that mean I can hold it casually?
Don't make trouble.
Xu He scolded, but didn't move to move away from Zhang Fangyuan.
The two dug together more than a dozen bamboo shoots. The spring bamboo shoots were big, and half of them were peeled off on the spot. Each of them was like a big fat head, and it was bigger than the winter bamboo shoots. Take a good-looking root to the city.
Xu He wandered around the mountain for a while, the sunshine on the mountain was not as good as that on the slope, and naturally wild vegetables were not growing everywhere, but he still found some thorns, the buds were still tender, so he sent Zhang Fang It is far away, but the thorns do not grow side by side, one on the east and one on the west. It is unrealistic to pick a lot at once.
Look, there's a tung tree!
Xu He's eyes were bright, and he looked at a thick tree trunk in the middle of the fern pile from a long distance. It may have rained in the forest yesterday, and the bark of the tung tree was still wet and not dry, it was the moisture. Well, there are some big and small fungus coming out of the pole.
Looking at the black fungus from a distance, it looks a little red up close. The small one is only as big as a thumb, and the big one is already like an ear.
The fungus on this tree may have absorbed a lot of water, it is very thick, and it is soft when pinched, as if pinching the earlobe. Xu He carefully picked off the big fungus and wrapped them in big leaves and put them in the basket. After picking all the fungus, he was a little bit reluctant, wondering if he could find them again when he came back.
Zhang Fangyuan said: Carry it home directly, put it in the yard, and pick it up as soon as it grows. It's not as convenient as going up the mountain.
Yes! Xu He took the sickle to cut the fern, but Zhang Fangyuan hugged the tree trunk, and with such brute force, he dragged the tung tree out.
After cutting off the branches, Zhang Fangyuan carried the half-person-high tree trunk to the two people's baskets.
Zhang Fangyuan?
As soon as the two returned, they saw a man wearing a felt hat and carrying an arrow basket in the distance, wrapped up like a savage, approaching. Xu He reacted for a while before he recognized that this person was Wang Jiu, a hunter in the village.
Orion is often on the mountain, and it is normal to wear a lot of clothes, and if there is no wife to follow up the mountain to take care of it, the man will let himself go, with long beards, no contact with people for a long time, and bad temper. It's also scary.
This Wang Jiu is about the same age as Zhang Fangyuan, when he was in his teens he used to go up and down trees together, now they are husbands.
I haven't seen you for a long time. I went up the mountain half a month ago and heard that you were going to get married. I didn't expect it so soon.
Zhang Fangyuan said: Your parents have come to have a drink. I asked you about it. I heard that you came up the mountain. How is it? How is the harvest when spring begins?
It's better than winter, but there are more and more people doing this, and it's not as good as the previous two years.
Just now I also saw that Ann's trap is much tighter.
The two chatted for a while, but Xu He didn't bother, and went to look for wild vegetables again.
Wang Jiu said again: I heard that you are working in the meat market in the city?
Zhang Fangyuan nodded.
The men in the village spoke directly, and Wang Jiu asked, Do you accept mountain goods?
Zhang Fangyuan frowned, he hadn't sold mountain goods before: Didn't you always sell them in the city by yourself?
Wang Jiu said: Delay time. And it's not selling at a stall. If it's not sold out today, it will continue tomorrow. How can it be like selling at a stall.
The price of these mountain products is already more expensive than pork, and most of the people who can afford it are urbanites. They are not as easy to sell as pork, and if they are not sold well, they will reduce the price a little, and someone will come to pick them up immediately.
As for mountain products, if you come across a restaurant to buy them, it will be quick, and they will be sold out in no time, but it is not always possible to meet them.
In the past, I made an agreement with a restaurant to deliver it as soon as it was in stock, but now it suddenly doesn't want it. There are many variables and there is no way around it.
Wang Jiu naturally didn't say what happened next.
Zhang Fangyuan didn't say yes or no, he just said: To put it bluntly, I'm a reseller. If you want something to sell at my place, the price is definitely not as good as selling it in the city by yourself.
It's natural. But the money is secure, isn't it the same as selling pigs in the village?
Zhang Fangyuan pondered for a moment: We are also old friends. I will go shopping tomorrow. I guess I will go to the city to set up a stall in the next day. You can deliver the goods tomorrow. I will take the city to see.
Wang Jiu smiled: Success!