The happy little days of the Ye family

"In the morning, Guoer and I went to the foot of Langshan Mountain to pick mushrooms. There are so many mushrooms there. We also picked two tiger palm mushrooms that cost 500 yuan per pound."

"500 Wen per pound of mushrooms? There are such expensive mushrooms. What do they look like?" Ye Qingqing had never heard of mushrooms costing 500 Wen per pound, let alone seen them.

Seeing the three people present looking at him, Ye Xilin started to get upset again:

"A kind of fungus with patterns. It has grown to a big size. I can't tell you for the moment. You and your brother-in-law come over to the house and have a look."

"Stone Mountain is right in front of Wolf Mountain. The two mountains are very close to each other. Maybe your mountain has this tiger palm fungus."

"Yes, yes, let's go home now." Ye Qingqing's eyes lit up, and he pulled his brother to run home.

Tang Xiaojing saw the herbs in his brother-in-law's hand and pulled Ye Qingqing back:

"Don't worry, the mushroom won't escape. Xilin, the herbs you have are going to be concocted, right?"

Ye Xilin, who had already followed Ye Qingqing and turned around to go home, then remembered the purpose of his coming and quickly handed the herbs in his hand to Tang Xiaojing.

"By the way, there are also these herbs. I almost forgot about them. Brother-in-law, please help me prepare them."

Tang Xiaojing looked at the herbs in his hand. There were two Panax notoginseng and one Polygonatum odorifera. They were of good age and good quality. If they were prepared, they could probably be sold for twenty taels of silver.

This guy is lucky.

After going back to the house and putting the herbs away, when Tang Xiaojing returned to the yard again, he found that no one was there.

His wife and son had already abandoned him and ran back to Ye's house to look at mushrooms.

"The mushroom can't run away, so you can't wait for me." There was a bit of sourness in his tone.

The tiger palm fungus was first looked at by people from the Ye family, and now it was in the hands of Ye Qingqing and Chen Chen.

Chenchen held the largest tiger palm fungus in her hand, which was bigger than the little guy's face.

"Mom, this mushroom is so big and fragrant." Chenchen was very excited when she saw such a big mushroom for the first time.

"The pattern on it is so special. I haven't seen it before. I guess the mountains at home don't have it."

There was no way she wouldn't be impressed by such a big mushroom if it really existed on the mountain.

When he thought that there was no such mushroom in the hill at home, the smile on Ye Qingqing's face suddenly faded, and the mushroom in his hand no longer smelled good.

At this time, Tang Xiaojing came over and saw the big mushrooms on the hands of mother and son at a glance:

"This mushroom is really big, but the pattern looks familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere."

"Where have you seen it? Is it the hill at home?"

The smile on Ye Qingqing's face came back, and she grabbed Tang Xiaojing's arm excitedly.

"Where have you seen it before?" Tang Xiaojing patted his forehead, but couldn't remember it.

When Mrs. Ye saw that Tang Xiaojing couldn't remember, she smiled and reminded:

"Jing Xiaozi has been taking care of herbs in Stone Mountain and Rabbit Mountain all day long. He has never been to other local mountains. I guess he only saw it in your small mountain at home."

"I have to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms these two days anyway. Jing, please go to the mountain and look carefully."

"Yes, yes, grandma, you are the smartest."

Ye Qingqing hugged Old Mrs. Ye and began to flatter her, making the old lady very happy.

Xiaoqi and Chenchen beside them were whispering and discussing what this big mushroom tasted like.

Xiao Qi stretched out her little fleshy hand and poked at the tiger palm fungus: "This mushroom is so fragrant, it must be delicious."

Chenchen also nodded his head, obviously also greedy.

Xiao Qi quietly suggested in Chenchen's ear: "How about we go to the mountains to look for mushrooms tomorrow? This uncle wants to sell them for money, and we can pick one and eat it ourselves."

"Okay, let's call Brother Ergou, Sister Erya and Xiao Shitou to join us."

Chenchen hadn't gone to the mountains to pick mushrooms yet, and thinking that her brother hadn't been either, she was going to ask a few friends to go with her.

"Okay, Brother Ergou has gone to the back mountain to pick mushrooms. Let him lead the way."

The two brothers, who only wanted to pick mushrooms, actually didn't know the way to the mountain.

As for Langshan, there were wolves on it. The two little guys didn't dare to go there, so they had to try their luck at the nearby back mountain.

Seeing that Ye Qingqing and the others were going back, Ye Xilin asked again:

"I'm going to the county tomorrow to sell mushrooms and bamboo shoots. I just saw that you have a lot of precious morels over there, sister. How about I help you take them to the county and sell them?"

Ye Qingqing shook his head, "No need, dry the mushrooms and sell them in winter. The price will be higher."

"It takes a whole day for you to go to the county. You might as well pick more mushrooms at home."

"I'm in a hurry to sell this tiger palm fungus. I've never sold such expensive mushrooms before."

Ye Qingqing has made up his mind to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms with his husband tomorrow. He wonders if he can pick this tiger claw fungus.

After a busy day in the mountains today, and going to the county to sell mushrooms tomorrow morning, Ye Xilin washed up early and got ready to rest.

Unexpectedly, when he returned to the house, he found Yuan Bao and Bao'er holding their wives' arms tightly on the left and right.

The three of them were sleeping soundly, and there was no space left for him on the bed.

Ye Xilin took another look and saw that there was only a small bed half as long as his body. He couldn't sleep on the ground, right?

"You two little bastards, this is my place."

Ye Xilin gently picked up the little Yuanbao who was sleeping outside, and then placed him on the small bed next to him.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he put it down, the little guy frowned and started to groan, looking very aggrieved.

"Why are you so clingy today?"

Seeing that the little guy was about to cry, Ye Xilin had no choice but to carry his son back to the big bed.

But instead of putting it back in its original position, it was placed on the innermost side of the big bed so that the brother and sister could sleep together.

Little Yuanbao stayed with his sister every day. When he smelled her familiar scent, he hugged Baoer's little arm and fell asleep again.

There was not much room left on the bed, and Ye Xilin hugged his wife tightly.

The mushrooms at home were picked yesterday. They were worried that they would become stale after being stored for a long time, so Ye Xilin got up in the middle of the night to prepare to go to the county.

After all, it takes two hours to get to the county.

Ye Xilin packed himself up, the sky was still gray, the road was quiet, there was no one.

Ye Xilin yawned and gnawed on the cake in his hand as he hurried on.

We left early today, and it was just dawn when we arrived in the county.

Father Ye had some friendship with Shopkeeper Liang, so Ye Xilin went directly to the Liang Family Restaurant.

Shopkeeper Liang collected everything and gave a very good price.

Tiger palm fungus costs 500 per catty, and two catties and three taels are a total of 1150 wen.

A catty of bamboo fungus costs 100 cents, and half a catty is a total of 50 cents.

Morels cost 60 Wen per catty, and a pound and a half is 90 Wen in total.

Galli mushrooms are 45 Wen per pound, 9 taels total is 41 Wen.

The red mushrooms cost 30 Wen per catty, so the total is 33 Wen per catty.

Common fungi such as oyster mushrooms, straw mushrooms and aeruginosa are priced at 10 cents per catty, and 12 catties is 120 cents.

Bamboo shoots are not shelled and cost 3 Wen per catty, so 96 catties is a total of 288 Wen.

Added together, the total is 1 tael, 772 Wen.

The herbs at home can probably be sold for more than two taels of silver. Yesterday, I made about 4 taels of silver from this trip.

Thinking of this, the smile on Ye Xilin's face became even brighter.