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Do it as soon as you think of it, Li Ran picked up the sack after dinner and planned to go to the mountain to pick mushrooms.After Fifth Sister knew his plan, she called him stupid.How can I go to the mountains at this time, just pick mushrooms in the grass.

Holding the cloth bag, Li Ran followed behind the fourth elder brother and fifth elder sister, nodding receptively.

After thinking for a while, Li Ran stuffed the cloth bag into Fifth Sister's hand, planning to go to Hu Jianjun's house to pull the guy out.

Hu Jianjun's house is next to Li Ran's house, just a few steps away.The house is also made of adobe bricks, with a large yard surrounded by adobe walls. In addition, there are two lines of white characters painted on the walls on both sides, which are now spotted. One line reads "Agriculture Learn from Dazhai", One line reads "Down with the Gang of Four."

Li Ran had been to Hu's house before, and knew that it was completely different from Li's house. His outfit here was really full of the atmosphere of this era.The picture hanging in the center of the hall is that of Chairman Mao. In addition, there are pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin on the walls on both sides.

Children know from this that the Soviet Union is the big brother and the United States is a paper tiger.

As for Li's house, there was a table facing the door with an incense burner on it.Li Ran felt that this was Li Ma trying to save trouble.

Hu's mother is washing clothes under the eaves. When it rained today, she put all the things that can hold water in the yard and filled them with water, so now there is no need to go to the river to wash clothes.

Tupo Village is located in the south. Although it is hotter than other places, it never lacks water. Apart from the natural reservoir on the mountain, there is also a small stream running through the village.In addition, there is a big river a little far away from the road from the village to the town. This big river has a long bend, and I don't know where it goes. But with it, Tupo Village has no shortage of water. Pass.

Seeing Li Ran coming, Mama Hu, who was scrubbing clothes, greeted him warmly while sitting on a chair: "Liu, come and find that brat."

Hu Jianjun's mischief made Hu's mother very irritated, so Hu Jianjun had the code name of a dead boy in Hu's mother.

Nodding his head, Li Ran replied, "I have something to do with him."

Hu's mother laughed when she heard this: "I still have something to do with him. What can you two get together? Just play. Go in, he's in the lobby."

Li Ran replied, Hu Jianjun likes to play, but he doesn't.

Walking into the lobby, I saw Hu Jianjun playing with wine bottle caps alone in the hall.

His third brother, Hu Jianguo, was sitting on a chair beside him with a book and looked down.Seeing Hu Jianguo, Li Ran nodded honestly and said hello: "Third cousin."

Hu Jianguo nodded slightly as an answer.Li Ran peeked at the book and the magazine again. Hu Jianguo is now 17 years old and usually stays at home to help Uncle Hu. Li Ran has seen him many times, but he is still not very familiar with him.

This person seems to have his own world, immersed in it alone. Every time Li Ran sees him, he always holds this book that he did not know where, and sits on a chair and squints. what to think.

After Hu Jianjun aimed his eyes, he swung his arm vigorously and knocked out the wine bottle cap.The way to hit the wine bottle cap is actually the same as playing marbles. It is to draw a line as a boundary. Whoever can hit the opponent's wine bottle cap with his own wine bottle cap on the ground, even if he wins, the opponent's bottle cap will be his own. all over.The difficulty of this game lies in arm strength and eyesight.

And these wine bottle caps used as marbles are all dug out from the garbage dump.For children at this time, the garbage dump is a treasure mountain full of surprises and infinite possibilities.

Li Ran hadn't been there yet, but Hu Jianjun hadn't.

Hu Jianjun took out another wine bottle cap. At home, expecting his third brother to play with him was a dream, so Hu Jianjun could only entertain himself.

Li Ran walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said bluntly, "Go, go out with me."

Hu Jianjun looked up and saw that Li Ran was coming, he laughed happily, and quickly put the bottle cap into Li Ran's hand: "It's just right to come, play with me."

Li Ran shook the bottle cap with his hands, and shook his head helplessly: "You can play this anytime, I really need you if I have something to do today." He leaned into Hu Jianjun's ear and whispered, "It can make money."

Hu Jianjun frowned at first, but when he heard this, his eyebrows trembled, and he said in surprise, "Can you make money? What's the matter?"

Speaking of making money, Hu Jianjun became interested, took Li Ran's hand and walked quickly to his room.Hu Jianjun's room was cleaned very cleanly. It seems that Hu's mother kept tidying up a lot. Unfortunately, some other small things were thrown around, which ruined the order.

Hu Jianjun squatted down and took out a cardboard box from under the bed. This cardboard box was dug out from the garbage dump by him. Although it was not good, it was still usable.He opened the lid of the cardboard box, and when Li Ran looked inside, he found a large pile of wine bottle caps.Then he dragged out another box, which was not filled with wine bottle caps, but with everything in it, all kinds of strange things.

With a happy expression on his face, Hu Jianjun touched these, his eyes shone brightly, and said in a low voice, "These are all money."

Li Ran laughed and shook his head, where is the money?

Seeing that Li Ran didn't believe it, Hu Jianjun stood up and raised his eyebrows triumphantly at Li Ran: "These wine bottle caps can be exchanged for money when they are sold to waste collection stations." Then he said proudly: "I practiced so hard to type this , not just for fun."

Hu Jianjun looked out of the room, and the third brother was still reading. He tiptoed to the door, closed the door, turned around and whispered to Li Ran: "When the box is full, I will go to change the money. Then we will go to the town I bought egg slices and maltose in the small store. If there are more, I will continue to save money to buy a firecracker, and when I have it, I will throw it at the old bald man's feet and scare him to death."

The old bald man was the teacher who taught Li Ran and others mathematics. He had a staid temper and mean words. The children in the class didn't like him, but they didn't dare to resist him.Because this teacher is not soft at all when beating people, holding a wooden plank, and beating them down hard.So children take his classes very seriously, because no one wants to go home with a hand like a pig's trotter.

Li Ran just heard that Hu Jianjun exchanged money, and he was very mysterious, thinking that this person was going to save his own small treasury, but it turned out that the small treasury was intended to be saved, but the motivation was still the same as eating, drinking and having fun in the child's mind , can't get rid of.

However, compared to children who purely play games, Hu Jianjun's mind is indeed much more flexible.

After thinking about it in his heart, Li Ran considered whether he should also go to the garbage station to pick up some things to sell. You must know that he is also doing nothing at school now, just in a daze.It's better to earn a little money. At this time, a little money is also money.

Helping Hu Jianjun push the cardboard box back under the bed, Li Ran decided to put this matter aside for now, and it is more important to step on more mushrooms while the day is still bright.

Asking Hu Jianjun to take a sack at home, Li Ran and Li Ran walked to the place where the fourth brother and the others went.It was a large grassland, very flat, and there were some fruit trees planted there. In summer, many adults and children loved to rest under it.After it rained, there should be a lot of mushrooms popping up there.

When they came out, Hu's mother was still washing clothes in the basin. Seeing that they were about to go out, she told them worriedly: "Don't run around, it's raining, don't go to the mountains."Thinking that Li Ran is much more reliable than Hu Jianjun, Hu's mother said to Li Ran: "Liu son, help me manage the army and don't let him run around."

After hearing this, Li Ran returned with a smile: "Understood, Auntie, I will take good care of Junjun!"

Hu Jianjun was embarrassed by Hu's mother's words, but now he couldn't help it when he heard Li Ran's reply. He turned sideways and grabbed Li Ran's neck, jumped on his back, and threatened, "Don't call him Junjun!" Yes, call me Hu Jianjun. Also, I am a cousin, and I will take care of you if you want to take care of him!"

Li Ran nodded with a sullen smile, no longer hurting the child's fragile self-esteem.What Mama Hu said after she became gentle was really uncomfortable.

When the fourth brother arrived, he and the fifth sister were already picking mushrooms in full swing.When Li Ran told the two of them to use this to make money, they didn't believe it. They decided to come and try it after seeing Li Ran's swearing.

Now that they saw so many mushrooms, the two of them no longer thought about whether they could make money. If they really couldn't, they would stay and eat for themselves.

After Li Ran brought Hu Jianjun here, he immediately joined in. There were a lot of mushrooms and they were close together. Seeing this, Li Ran's eyes glowed, and he began to pick them nimbly.

Some mushrooms are poisonous and cannot be eaten, so everyone is very careful when picking mushrooms, and only dare to pick those familiar, common, and edible ones, such as shiitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, Hericium erinaceus, Agaricus bisporus, etc.

Stretching his sore waist after bending for a long time, Li Ran smiled as he looked at the mushrooms in the sack in his hand.These few days seem to be misty and rainy weather. It is really a good time for mushroom growth. The family can make a small amount of money from this. When the weather turns fine, there will be no such opportunity.

When there was only a dim light in the sky, the four of them were ready to go home.After a long period of time, each of them picked more than half of the bag, and the place where the mushrooms were picked was also turned around several times.That piece of grass was not full, but it couldn't withstand their picking speed.

After Hu Jianjun knew that it was going to be sold in the town tomorrow, he refused to take it home.If he brought this back, he would have to confiscate all the money he got from selling it tomorrow.Hu Jianjun didn't want to do this. He planned to put it in Li Ran's place and sell it tomorrow. After he got some money out, he would hand it over to Mama Hu.

From the time Li Ran saw the bottle cap of the box, he knew that Hu Jianjun was not only flexible about the melon seeds and could find business opportunities in the garbage, but also a money addict. From his expectations for money, Li Ran felt that he could see that he would go to the business The image of a boy on the road.

And whether the money is held by himself or by Hu's mother, for Hu Jianjun, this is a big difference.Holding it by yourself without asking for instructions, you can freely make decisions. This feeling is really comfortable.

After returning home, Li Ran felt worried when he saw the four big bags of mushrooms.

How are these mushrooms going to be brought to town?This is a whole four big bags, even if they are hung tonight to let the water inside drip clean, the weight will never be cleared.

Seeing his frowning face, the fourth brother clapped his chest confidently after asking the reason, and promised, "Leave it on me."

Li Ran felt relieved when he saw that he had already made up his mind.

On the second day, when Li Ran opened the door, he saw a group of junior high school students standing at the door, with a trolley beside them.Seeing this, Li Ran knew the so-called method of the fourth brother: put the mushrooms on the car and let everyone push them to the town with pure strength.

Thinking of the two-hour journey, Li Ran couldn't help but say, "Thank you for your hard work."

Those junior high school students shook their heads when they heard this. Their elder brother and Li Ran's elder brother grew up together, and they are very familiar with each other. This can still help.

What's more, the 7 of them are replaced by two gangs, and they can take turns to rest. As for the children who walk behind and have no strength, they can be pushed on the car or carried on their backs, which is the same.

Li Ran also breathed a sigh of relief when he thought that the road was fairly smooth.The smoother the road, the easier it is to push.He looked carefully at the seven junior high school students, only to find that Guan Ji was also standing inside.

This boy has been here for a few days, but Li Ran rarely sees him normally.He hadn't been to Uncle Yao's when he went to school these few days, and even though they were walking on the same road in the morning, the two of them hadn't talked to each other.

This is the second time Li Ran took a closer look at him after picking him up in the village, but found that the young man had changed a lot in just a few days.

When he first arrived, he was wearing a white shirt, with a polite smile but with an arrogant sarcasm, which made Li Ran feel uncomfortable when he first saw him.

That feeling is that when you meet a person for the first time, and that person is prejudiced because of something when they meet you for the first time at the same time, they dislike you and despise you.As long as he is a person with self-respect, he probably won't have a good impression of this person.

But now, the young man was wearing a blue long-sleeved coarse cloth dress and cloth shoes on his feet, and his whole appearance had changed.His smile was still polite, but without the arrogance. Although his eyes were darker, the contempt was gone.

Li Ran was puzzled, what happened, how did it change so much?

Before he could figure it out, the fourth brother took everyone to move the mushrooms to the car.A boy in gray cloth looked at this and asked the fourth brother strangely: "What do you want us to bring to the town? It's quite heavy."

The fourth brother stroked the back of his head and said with a smile, "It's mushrooms, and they are sold in the town for money."

After everyone heard this, they all shook their heads, and one of them frowned to persuade: "Mushrooms are all over the ground after it rains. Where can I buy them in the town? It's a waste of energy for you to bring them there."

The fourth brother smiled foolishly and didn't answer. In fact, his thoughts were the same, but since Liu'er was sure, it was best to try.If it doesn't work, just follow Liu'er's wishes and try to have fun.

After the mushrooms were installed, the trolley started to go to the town with the expectations of the fourth brother and fifth sister.

This matter was kept a secret, and Li's parents were not told.They hope that this mushroom can really be sold, so as to surprise their parents!