Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 16 Chickens in the mountains have no independent thought
Li Muyang worked until the dogs in the mountain village stopped barking, and then returned home after a long journey.

On the road, he was covered with moonlight, looking at his lonely shadow, thinking about when he could marry Lin Xiuli back.

Knowing that she was going to be his wife, still keeping her in her parents' home was a bit of a waste no matter what.

If she is here, it will be more exciting to work by yourself, and you don't have to think about what to do if I leave you at home after you go out.

After returning home, he fetched a basin of water, washed the dirt off his body at the door of the room, then heated a basin of hot water and carried it back to the room.

He would sleep on the same kang as his mother at night and help her cover the bed at any time.

The mother's right hand can move, but her left hand is motionless, and what she can do is very limited.If the quilt happened to be turned to the left, there was nothing she could do.

"Five, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

Mother woke up again.

Now she sleeps in fits and starts, always feeling drowsy, but she can't sleep for long each time.

"I'll soak my feet and brush off the cordyceps."

Cordyceps sinensis is dug out of the soil, so the insect body is stained with a lot of soil.If it is not removed with a brush in time, the soil will continue to provide energy to Cordyceps sinensis, allowing its buds to grow further, and the useful ingredients will be consumed.

The dim light of the kerosene lamp shone on Li Muyang, making his figure look unusually tall. Yuan Rufeng looked at him working seriously and said distressedly: "Five, you have to find a partner quickly. This person is Life is too hard.”

Li Muyang smiled: "Mom, you don't have to pay for your wife to marry her. Look at the life our family is living like this. Who's girl would be willing to marry her?"

"Ugh……"

When it comes to money issues, Yuan Rufeng will appear very melancholy and helpless.

Of course she also understands this truth. To marry a wife, you have to pay for it. How can you marry someone whose pocket is cleaner than your face?
Which girl is willing to marry a pauper?
Seeing that his mother was a little uneasy, Li Muyang comforted her and said, "Don't be in a hurry, mother. There must be a road to the mountain. As long as our lives get better and we can have fewer wives, I promise you that before the Chinese New Year this year, I will definitely get you a wife back!"

"You baby, just look for it as you say. Look for it wherever you go. Pick it up on the road. You're so old and you can't speak in tune." His mother criticized him with a smile.

"Don't worry about it. I will definitely find it anyway, so don't worry."

Yuan Rufeng smiled again.

He did not continue to dampen his son's enthusiasm.

Among the nine children, this child was the most honest, so he foolishly put himself beside him to take care of him, saying that he didn't have a family and it would be convenient to take care of him.

This is not a lie.

You are all married. You don't care about me. Let the fifth man, a man with no partner, serve me. How do you want him to find a wife?

Even if people don't dislike the fact that the family is poor, who girl is willing to accept my body?

Not only can't he do odd jobs for his son, take care of the children, etc., but he also needs someone to take care of him. His own daughter can't handle it, so what kind of wife can he expect?

I'm afraid that by then, I will become a homeless old woman.

Li Muyang worked very quickly. After all, there were only nineteen cordyceps. The hot water under his feet had not yet cooled down. The soil on the surface of the cordyceps on his side had been brushed away, revealing their original appearance.

The quality of cordyceps in Gansu is not as good as in Tibet, or even in Qinghai. The cordyceps in Tibet are the best. If you brush off the floating mud on the outside, they will become golden and plump.

The color from Qinghai is also slightly darker, slightly blackened, but still very full, and it can be considered a very good category.

When arriving in Gansu, the color becomes worse. The Cordyceps has a faint black-red color and the bulges are larger. The body of the Cordyceps is thin and short, while the body of the Cordyceps protruding out of the body is relatively long.

In addition to these three places, there are also some other places where Cordyceps is scattered sporadically, but the quality of those places is worse and they belong to the lower grade of Cordyceps.In later generations, some people also started to cultivate Cordyceps artificially.However, the conditions for the formation of Cordyceps are very harsh, related to temperature, climate, humidity, light, day and night temperature difference, soil pH, hydrophobicity and many other factors. It is also very difficult to completely simulate the conditions suitable for their survival.

Therefore, the quality of artificially simulated Cordyceps is even worse. Generally, the insect body is small, dark in color, and the grass body on it is very long, just like a dried earthworm. It looks very poor and has poor medicinal effect.

But these have nothing to do with Li Muyang.

He wouldn't imagine cultivating Cordyceps by himself, he didn't have that ability.

It is true that some Chinese herbal medicines can be grown in this mountain, such as astragalus, angelica, notoginseng, bupleurum, honeysuckle, etc. I will talk about it later if you can think about these herbs.

You can't become a big fat man with one bite.

Before going to bed at night, Li Muyang carefully placed the canned bottle containing Cordyceps on the windowsill. He lay down and looked at it for a while, but felt that it was not safe. What if the bottle rolled down and broke, and the Cordyceps broke?

Get up again and put the cans and bottles in a basket, even if it rolls over and falls off the windowsill.

Only then did he blow out the kerosene lamp with satisfaction.

19 sticks are 6 yuan and [-] cents. If you are lucky and the price is slightly higher, you might be able to sell them for [-] yuan.

Those 38 sticks are 12 yuan.

76 sticks is 24 yuan, which is equivalent to the cost of working outside for half a month.

That's a lot.

I went late today and didn't dig much. If I get up earlier tomorrow, I can dig for two more hours to see if I can dig 25 roots.

If it’s 25, that’s...

Li Muyang only went to the third grade of elementary school and was not very good at calculating numbers. After doing calculations for a while, he became confused.

My mind is a mess.

"Forget it, no matter what he did, it's good to dig anyway. Try to dig as much as possible before others find out, the better."

He fell asleep soundly.

Soon he was snoring.

The moonlight drifted in through the small hole in the broken plastic paper on the window and sprinkled on Li Muyang's face. He slept particularly peacefully, with a faint smile on his lips.

"Xiuli, let's have a bowl of sour noodle soup. The chopped green onions are going to burst with flavor. I'm starving."

In his sleep, he was sitting on the bed counting odd pieces of money one by one, while his wife Lin Xiuli was busy beside the pot in an apron.

"Don't you want the blue shirt that day? We will buy it in the next episode. We have enough money now. We can buy two, wear one, and put another in the box."
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"Gou Gou~"

"Tall buildings~"

The chickens in the mountain village have no independent thoughts of their own. If any chicken in the village crows, other chickens will inevitably follow.

In an instant, the whole village will be enveloped in the sound of chickens crowing one after another.

Most people in mountain villages can get used to this kind of crow. They know that when the rooster crows for the first time, it is around five o'clock in the morning, which is far from dawn.

Turning over, the man pressed his thick thighs against the legs of his wife beside him and rubbed against her. He suddenly became interested and started eating breakfast.

(End of this chapter)