Yesterday, I saw a lot of push carts or baskets selling mushrooms outside the supermarket, and they cost more than ten to twenty yuan per pound. Some of them I didn’t recognize, but most of them were the ones they used to eat.

The mushrooms on the mountain are growing best at this time. It doesn't take them half a day to pick hundreds of kilograms of mushrooms and sell them there. They buy two sets of clothes first, and then some more white rice and flour, so they won't have to worry about this winter.

While picking mushrooms, the siblings walked towards the place where Lin Erhu saw the stick last time.

"Sister, it's right over there. I once heard my father say that you can't break off the whiskers when digging out sticks. We'll be more careful later."

"I know, I brought a shovel, and I will dig up all the surrounding soil later, and then do it bit by bit."

The piece of stick that Lin Erhu was talking about grew on a shady hillside, with tall trees and weeds growing next to it. It was hard to spot it without looking carefully.

But when the siblings arrived, what they saw was a piece of soil that had just been turned over. From the traces, it could be seen that it had not been dug for a long time.

Lin Erhu was annoyed, "If I had known that someone had beaten me first, I should have come and dug earlier."

Lin Xiaoman was also a little disappointed, but still comforted: "If someone dug it up, it shouldn't belong to our family. You can get a lot of money by picking these mushrooms today. If you work harder before it gets cold, you can always save money."

Enough to last until next year."

Lin Erhu still sighed, and Lin Xiaoman had no choice but to say: "You dug it long ago, and your grandma will exchange it for money. It's better to give others an advantage."

"That's true! Alas!" Although Lin Erhu sighed again, it was obvious that he was no longer so depressed.

I searched around carefully and finally found a small mallet in the grass under a tree.

The siblings dug it out carefully, lifted a piece of moss on the ground, wrapped it in a few layers of leaves, tied it several times with straw rope, and then stuffed it under the big basket.

We walked around the mountain again, and in addition to two big baskets of mushrooms, we also picked a lot of wild fruits. When I got home, I cut a few knives into the peels, hung them in bunches under the eaves, and dried them. They can be soaked in water or dried in the winter.

Steam it with sugar and eat it.

When my mother was here, she cooked delicious food in different ways every day. The two siblings had eaten a lot of good food, so naturally they were better at eating it than the people in the village.

After returning home, I drank a ladle of water and then poured out today's harvest and sorted it.

Put the wild fruits into baskets and put them in the kitchen. Mushrooms are divided into four baskets according to different types, and the ones with worms or fistulas are picked out.

Lin Xiaoman is very strong, and she is carrying two large baskets filled with hazelnut mushrooms.

Lin Erhu was weak, so he carried two small baskets. One basket contained pine mushrooms, and the other contained half a basket of Hericium mushrooms and three pieces of Ganoderma lucidum.

Perhaps they arrived late. There were more people on the street than yesterday. The siblings were stopped before they even reached the supermarket where they bought yesterday.

A sleek woman in an elegant long dress asked: "Child, are you selling mushrooms?"

Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu nodded hurriedly. Lin Xiaoman said: "It's for sale. Do you want to buy mushrooms?"

The woman who called her "Auntie" beamed with joy, "Oh, you're such a sweet little girl. I'm in my sixties and I can be your grandmother, but I don't want to be called Auntie. My surname is Liu, so you can call me Grandma Liu."
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Lin Xiaoman looked at Grandma Liu's fair face in surprise, with almost no wrinkles visible on it.

Thinking again, Mrs. Lin is just over fifty, with a face full of ridges and grooves. Comparing them together, she would believe her even if she said she was twenty years older than Grandma Liu.

"Grandma Liu, you are so young. What do you wear on weekdays?"

Grandma Liu was even more amused by Lin Xiaoman, "I don't put on anything at all. I haven't liked makeup since I was young. I just put on some nourishing cream on weekdays, which costs ten or twenty yuan. The main thing is...

If you have a good attitude, you should also pay attention to sun protection. If a woman is exposed to too much sun, her skin will not be good and she will age quickly."

Lin Xiaoman nodded hurriedly. Women in the countryside have to go to the fields to do farm work. When the sun shines, don't they look older than women in the city?

From now on, when she goes to work in the fields, she has to be covered up tightly.

As she spoke, Grandma Liu called to her siblings, "It's quite heavy. Stop standing here and chattering. Let's go to the side and look at the mushrooms."

Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu followed with baskets on their shoulders and put the baskets on the ground. Grandma Liu began to look through several baskets.

"Your mushrooms are really good, and there are no insects. How much do they cost per pound? If they are cheap, I will buy more."

Lin Xiaoman remembered that yesterday he saw hazel mushrooms selling for 16 kilograms and pine mushrooms selling for 25 kilograms, which were not as good as the ones they brought.

I’ve never seen Hericium mushrooms sold, but they are quite expensive there, so they shouldn’t be cheap here either.

But the siblings don’t have scales!

Lin Xiaoman pointed to a few baskets and said: "Grandma Liu, we don't have weights, so just sell them by the basket. A big basket of hazelnut mushrooms weighs about thirty kilograms. I sell Grandma Liu four hundred and fifty for one basket, and two baskets for nine hundred."

"The pine mushrooms are about five pounds, so Grandma Liu can give me one hundred. Hericium and Ganoderma lucidum are also picked from the mountains. I don't know how to sell them. Grandma Liu will give them to me."

The corners of Grandma Liu's mouth twitched. Are you planning to make her smile?

Look at the two big baskets of hazelnut mushrooms. The baskets are very big, and there are only a lot more mushrooms in them than the little girl said.

The price is indeed cheap, but she just wants to buy some to wait for tomorrow's weekend when her son and his family come back to stew chicken for dinner. At most, she can only buy another ten kilograms of dried goods. How can she buy so much?

But these two children looked like pitiful little ones. Under their eager eyes, they said they wouldn't buy it, and they felt very sorry.

Gritting her teeth, Grandma Liu said: "Okay, you come home with me, my home is in the community in front. Hey, I'll take this basket. You're not old, how can you lift such a heavy basket? Your dad

Why are you so relieved to come out?"

As she spoke, Grandma Liu lifted up a large basket of mushrooms, which was so heavy that she almost lost her waist.

Looking at Lin Xiaoman, who is not even taller than her shoulders and is so thin that she is not even fourteen years old, she can carry two baskets an unknown distance without any effort, which makes her feel even more sorry for these two children.

Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu didn't know that Grandma Liu already regarded them as pitiful little ones, so they happily followed Grandma Liu towards the community she pointed to.

On the way, Grandma Liu took out the cube that everyone here has, pressed it a few times and put it to her ear. Not long after, she heard a voice coming from the other side. Grandma Liu said: "Lao Zhang, do you want to buy mushrooms at your house? I'm here

I met two kids selling mushrooms here. The mushrooms look really good, but there are too many for my family to eat. If you want to buy them, can we share them?...Okay, see you downstairs in the community later...

Hmm, there are quite a lot. Look who else wants to buy. Call a few more people and bring your own bags. I don’t think these two children have plastic bags."

"Oh, Lao Xu, here... yes, I remember you have a scale at home, right? Let me borrow it."
Chapter completed!