Age: Passionate youth, starting from graduation assignment

Chapter 37
"Sure, boil the eggs longer, don't boil them until they are runny."

Xu Jichang exhorted.

Runny eggs are essentially undercooked eggs, and they will face a certain risk of bacterial infection after eating.

In this day and age, it is quite troublesome to get a bacterial infection without incident, let alone in the deep mountains and old forests.

After Xu Jichang finished speaking, he went out of the house and found a few Orion families in the village, and asked their women to come to his house to sew a tent for him to sleep in the mountain. He found another Orion and bought materials needed for making tents such as oilcloth, roe deer skin, and birch, as well as realgar powder and other necessary items for entering the mountain.

The wages for making tents are [-] cents per person. After hearing this figure, the aunts all beamed with joy, because there are very few opportunities for members to earn extra money.

Xu Jichang brought the ladies to his home. At this time, Shen Qingrui had already baked the pancakes and boiled the eggs, and started sewing tents with the ladies.

The outer layer of the tent is oilcloth, which is used to prevent rain and wind, and the inner lining is made of roe deer skin, which is used to keep warm and prevent heat loss.

Regardless of the fact that it is summer now, in the deep mountains and old forests, the night is still very cold, and if you don’t keep warm, you will face hypothermia.

When the ladies sewed the tent, they moved the thread so fast that Xu Jichang could barely see the movement of the bone needles in their hands.

Relatively speaking, Shen Qingrui is not as proficient as they are. She is half learning by doing, and spends a lot of time asking for advice.

After working for half a morning, the aunts sewed up the tent skin.Then they cut and assembled the birch wood that Xu Jichang bought into the tent frame, and cut the ground nails and other parts.

They are all experts in making tents, and they are proficient in the whole process.

"Jichang, take a look, tell us if you don't like it, and we will correct it for you now."

After the aunts finished making it, they carried the various parts of the tent outside Xu Jichang's house, stretched it out and fastened it with ground nails, and said to him.

Xu Jichang got into the tent and took a look, only to see that the whole tent was so tightly sewn that no light could penetrate.

The heat preservation effect is also very good. After staying in it for a while, he started to sweat.

Xu Jichang wiped off his sweat, looked around the skeleton of the tent, and came out after confirming that there was no problem.

"It's not bad, it's pretty solid, here it is."

After Xu Jichang finished speaking, he took out a stack of ten-cent bills and settled the wages for the ladies.

After receiving the wages, the aunts were very grateful for a while.In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer people hunting in the ten miles and eight villages, and their skills have not been used for a long time.

Xu Jichang's business today is really a windfall for them.

The ladies left happily, and Shen Qingrui put away the tent that was opened outside the door for Xu Jichang, and carefully patted the dust on the tent skin.

"When do you plan to enter the mountain?"

"Go into the mountains after lunch."

"Yeah, be careful and safe, I'll go and cook the meal right away."

Shen Qingrui went to the stove and began to chop vegetables and meat, beat eggs, and filled the iron pot with water to start cooking.

"Just now I saw a big egg, and when I opened it, it turned out to be a double-yolk egg."

"I'll fry it up for you to eat later, it'll be a lucky draw."

With her back turned, Shen Qingrui said to Xu Jichang who was packing his bags.

"Then I'll eat more scrambled eggs later."

Xu Jichang agreed to Shen Qingrui while arranging tents, water bottles and other items.

After Shen Qingrui worked for a while, the lunch for the two was ready. There were six dishes in total, including scrambled eggs, fried wild boar with celery, and tomato soup.

Xu Jichang looked at the sumptuous lunch and the number of dishes, and understood that Shen Qingrui had intentions this time.

"Sixty-six Dashun."

Xu Jichang blurted out after sitting down at the dinner table.

"That's right, I just hope everything goes well for you."

Shen Qingrui pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes were full of concern and love for Xu Jichang.

One bowl of rice, two bowls of rice...

Xu Jichang ate this meal very quickly, because it got dark early in the mountains, and he didn't want to go into the mountains in the dark.

After eating, Xu Jichang packed his bags and picked up his shotgun, only to find that his gun was shiny and shiny, as if it had been wiped by someone.

"I got up early this morning and cleaned your gun."

Shen Qingrui said to Xu Jichang while arranging the straps on his luggage.

"Well, it's pretty good. Continue to clean my gun in the future."

Xu Jichang said that after Shen Qingrui finished fixing the straps that bound his luggage, he walked out of the house.

On a summer afternoon, Tunli is extremely quiet.The members of the commune are hiding from the sun at home, and they are going to come out to work when the sun is not so poisonous in the afternoon.

Spring wheat is planted in the Northeast, and it is almost time to harvest. For the members of the production team, there is not much leisure time like this.

When the sickle is harvested, let alone the scorching sun, even at night, they have to burn the lights and fight at night to harvest the grain.

If the harvest is late, when there is a strong wind and rain later, it may destroy all the fruits of the farmer's labor for a year.

Xu Jichang carried his luggage and tent on his back, and carried a shotgun in his hand, all the way to the small river at the entrance of the village, and set foot on the road into the mountain.

Heixiazi is located in the north of the mountain range, which means that when Xu Jichang climbed the mountain, he came to the shady side.

This is extremely beneficial for picking ginseng, because ginseng likes shade and dampness, and is mostly grown on shady slopes of mountains, so Xu Jichang can save a lot of distance.

Xu Jichang walked along the mountain road for a long time, and came to the halfway up the mountain, then he left the mountain road and walked into the dense forest beside the road.

Ginseng is a precious medicinal material, and its red seeds are very eye-catching. Those born by the side of the road have long been illuminated by people. They are not as yellow as the Chaga mushrooms last time. They look like bark and have a chance of surviving.

Therefore, if you want to find ginseng, you must leave the mountain roads stepped by the predecessors and drill into the old forests that are inaccessible.

Xu Jichang went into the forest, felt the wind blowing from different directions, and chose the direction with the highest humidity in the wind to walk.

Ginseng is more likely to grow in damp places.

As for judging the humidity of the wind by feeling, it is also part of Xu Jichang's rich hunting experience.

After walking in the woods for a while, Xu Jichang saw a clump of pale yellow boletus, so he took out the cloth bags tied in a stack from the outside of his luggage, picked boletus one by one and put them in.

Boletus is very delicious, known as the king of mushrooms, the crown of delicacy, and very rare.Even in this era of low prices, wild boletus can be sold at a good price.

This clump of boletus weighed about six to seven catties. After picking them, Xu Jichang continued to set off with the bag in his hand, feeling very good.

It is a good sign to have such a harvest just after entering the mountain.

After walking a little further, Xu Jichang saw an open flat ground with the back of the wind, so he decided to pitch his tent here.

After cleaning up the fallen leaves on the ground, Xu Jichang took down the tent parts, first put the tent frame upright, and then slowly pulled the frame apart and propped it up on the side, then put on the double-layered tent skin, inserted the four corners of the bracket into the small holes reserved on the tent skin, and finally fastened the ground nails.

It was still early when all this work was done, Xu Jichang sprinkled realgar powder around the tent to prevent snakes and insects from approaching, took a rope stick and other tools, and went to find ginseng.

Before leaving, he specially packed all the food, including the porcini mushrooms he picked just now, and didn't leave any of it in the camp.This is to prevent wild animals from running over after smelling the aroma of food and causing unnecessary trouble to themselves.

(End of this chapter)