Bianshanhan [farming]

It was rare that there was no wind at night, and the bonfire illuminated everyone's faces very brightly.

Li Maoqun's legs hurt a little from being roasted, so he moved back, thinking in his heart, he must get up early tomorrow and climb a few more trees...

Looking up, he saw Li Qingzhuo tearing up the Ganoderma lucidum and throwing it into the pot on the fire. He was stunned for a moment, then stared at the pot, wishing he could fish it out, "Zhuoer, why did you cook the meat with such a good thing? .”

"This thing can be used to stew meat." Knowing his distress, Li Qingzhuo said: "Uncle, this thing is a year-old, and it is not a precious medicinal material. It can be boiled and brewed in wine."

Li Maoqun was a little unresponsive, blinked and said: "No, dried mushrooms are quite valuable. Is this ganoderma lucidum more expensive than mushrooms?"

Li Qingzhuo stirred the pot with a wooden spoon, and said, "The white ganoderma lucidum here is better than the ones I've seen before, and the price of one flower is about the same as a piece of rabbit skin."

Hearing this, Li Maoqun's shoulders collapsed. He thought this thing was very expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so.

It wasn't just him, Li Qingrui was quite surprised when he heard this. Gain's villages were all bare, and Ganoderma lucidum was only heard of in some legends, and he thought it was a priceless treasure.

However, the two of them did not feel depressed, and soon cheered up again. A piece of rabbit skin is also good, this thing is better than the quantity.

Hongzhou is humid, with a lot of vegetation and many kinds of fungus. Qi Min understands a little bit, and said: "The climate here is special. Although the ganoderma is not big, the ganoderma grows thick and delicate, much better than those in our forests."

Li Qingwen held a piece of birch bark and touched it. Birch bark is not easy to peel in winter, and it was naturally picked off from a tree that was cracked by frost.The texture is flexible and comfortable to the touch.

Birch bark can make many things. He received the birch bark bag made by his grandfather in the past, and he was reluctant to throw it away. It should still be hanging at home now.

Today, they cooked rabbit meat. Everyone shared several bowls, probably because they saw the addition of Ganoderma lucidum. Everyone felt that the meat today was extraordinarily fragrant. Li Qingwen even drank two bowls of soup.

Seeing him like this, Qi Min said maliciously: "Drink some more, sprinkle some more bubbles, in case we can encounter deer antler or something again, we will get rich this trip."

Li Qingwen rolled his eyes at him, put down the bowl and chopsticks, it was really painful to go to the toilet in this weather.

One of the short ones burst into tears while eating, "My parents have never eaten so much meat in their entire lives..."

In a word, many people's complexions could not help but become heavy.

Many people in them live similarly to the Li family. They are tight-lipped. After this trip, they eat meat every time, and their mouths are full of oil. When they are satisfied, they naturally think of the past when they were frugal and their relatives in their distant hometown.

Here they have the pillars of the family, some are not yet married, their parents are still there, and they are thousands of miles away, the suppressed thoughts in their hearts are gushing out at this moment, and many people's eyes are red.

Li Maoqun was also very moved, he didn't miss home at all, but felt that the trip was really hard, but he also gained a lot of knowledge, and what's more--this place doesn't seem to be as bad as the rumors, the cold is true It is cold, and there are many novelty things.

Jiang Cong looked at the fire quietly, wondering what he was thinking.

Li Qingwen tugged at his sleeve, "Brother, are you homesick too?"

Jiang Cong nodded. It has been several months since he set off from Hongzhou. Although he was rarely at home when he was on errands, he could go back no matter how far he traveled. Now it is different. He may be buried in the border town and never return home. Have a look.

Li Qingwen also knew that it was useless to comfort him at this time, and said: "Why don't you write a letter to your family, I'll send it back to you, and when the time comes when your family writes back, I'll bring it to you."

Jiang Cong was taken aback for a moment, not knowing whether to be happy for being able to write the letter back, or happy for Li Qingwen to come again.

Before he could speak, the old grandson came over and said, "Boy, I have to tell you about this. If you want to send a letter to your brother, can you also send a letter to my house? My house is very far away from his house." close……"

More people gathered around and said in a hurry: "Send me a letter too, okay, we are not far away!"

Seeing everyone excited, Li Qingwen quickly said, "Okay, it's fine, let's all go together."

Jiang Liping happily said: "Hey, we are all the light of Zhanjiang Cong."

Li Qingrui said: "We've been through life and death together, so it's not a big deal to send a letter from home."

Because of this incident, the sad atmosphere of homesickness just now has subsided a little bit, and everyone began to think about what to write letters to their families.

Only Ma Yongjiang was sullen and muttered: "I can't go back, so what's the use of writing letters."

Someone next to him said: "You don't need to write, it will be easier."

"Why didn't I write it!" Ma Yongjiang immediately said: "My parents don't know how much they miss me, I have to tell them that I arrived safely, and here I eat and drink well."

Jiang Liping squatted beside Li Qingwen and did not leave, and asked enthusiastically, "Zai'er, you and your elder brother have been to Hongzhou before, how long have you stayed with us?"

I don't know why, but now these people follow Li Qingrui and they are called Li Qingwen.

Li Qingwen really didn't remember much about this, so Li Qingrui replied for him: "I went on the road for a long time, and stayed there for more than a month. On the way back, I encountered bandits and was rescued by Jiang Cong. He saw We are really miserable, and we still need to keep money for money, but my father refused to take it, so he secretly gave it to Zaier."

Li Qingwen didn't remember this at all. He said "ah" and looked at Jiang Cong, "Brother, you gave me back the money!"

Jiang Cong fiddled with the charcoal fire and said, "It's not much, it's only a thousand or eight hundred wen. We work as errands, board and lodging in the station, and we don't have much money with us."

"One thousand, 630 copper coins." Li Qingrui remembered it clearly, and said, "I stuffed the leather bag to the brim, and after walking for a long distance, I still wondered how the bag was flat at the beginning, so how did it get into Zier's hands?" It's just round... We didn't realize until the copper plate fell out of it."

Li Qingrui said to his younger brother: "Zai'er, it's the leather bag on the window sill of the Westinghouse. You used to like it very much, and you didn't want to let go of it."

"So it's that one." Li Qingwen understood.

"Hongzhou is good. The mountains are all green, and the weeds are more lush than ours. I have never seen trees, flowers, etc." Li Qingrui said with emotion: "There is still a lot of water. This river, that puddle of water, Unlike ours, it’s difficult even if it rains.”

Hearing people praise their hometown, everyone was happy, and said modestly: "A lot of water is not always a good thing, and floods are also scary. At that time, the people and the fields will suffer. It is nothing better than a drought."

"Hongzhou's water and soil support people, Jiang Cong, you are all very good..."

"Bingzhou also produces men..."

Everyone had a happy night in mutual praise.

The next day, Li Qingwen was the first to wake up, suffocated by urination before dawn, he hurriedly dressed, and Jiang Cong also got up.

After a long baptism in the cold wind, Li Qingwen swore that he would never drink so much soup again!

Although he knew that the Bai Lingzhi was not as valuable as he thought, Li Maoqun couldn't help but climbed one tree after another, and finally everyone had to go inside, so he reluctantly got down.

After entering the forest, they didn't dare to go too deep. Everyone divided into three waves and searched in different directions. Li Qingwen followed Jiang Cong and his elder brother to the east.

There are not only birch trees in this direction, but also other fallen trees and dead trees. There are dense versicolor versicolor on the trunks. Li Maoqun immediately started with a shovel, and Li Qingzhuo stuffed it in his pocket.

Jiang Cong looked at the small paw prints on the snow, adjusted his hat, and said, "There are many squirrels around here."

Li Qingwen was very interested in furry things, so he immediately followed Jiang Cong to find squirrels.

The two of them tracked for a long time, but they didn't see any squirrels. Instead, they found several squirrel nests. Jiang Cong squinted his eyes and looked up the tree, took his bag and climbed up.

The nest was not high from the ground. When he went up, he grabbed the branch with one hand, and reached into the hole with the other hand, grabbed the contents and put them into the bag.

When he came down, he handed over the bag. It was heavy, weighing about a dozen kilograms. Li Qingwen opened the bag and saw hazelnuts, pine nuts and some unfamiliar nuts inside.

Li Qingwen: "..."

There are a lot of squirrels!

Jiang Cong said: "I didn't take out all of them, I left some. There should be pine trees and hazelnut trees near here."

Li Qingwen really wanted to pick pine nuts right away, but he also wanted to touch the squirrel hole, so he was a little entangled for a while.

"There is a shorter squirrel's nest in front, let's see what else is inside." Jiang Cong relieved him.

Li Qingwen immediately ran to the front, and happily took out handfuls of almonds and pine nuts. It was quite a joy to do this kind of thing of getting something for nothing.

After struggling violently, Li Qingwen still left half of the food for the squirrels, although he knew that they had many nests to store food.

This winter is too long, it is very sad for people and these small animals.

Before Li Qingwen could slip down, Jiang Cong stepped on his feet and carried him down from the tree.

Li Maoqun happened to look up and saw it, and said loudly: "Look, how far did you take Brother Jiang on the way here, let's pay back now."

Li Qingwen chuckled, let everyone know, and continued walking with Jiang Cong.

After walking for about three or five miles, I saw a pine forest with white snow hats in front of me. The snow here is thinner, white and smooth as a mirror. Walking up, it is not very difficult, but occasionally you will step on the fallen pine trees on the ground. tower.

Li Qingwen bent down and picked out the pine cones in the snow. It was fate to meet each other, and it was really unreasonable not to take them away.

The pine trees were very tall, and some of them had only half of the trunk left, and the wood inside was exposed. Jiang Cong said that it was rubbed by wild boars to relieve the itching. There was an extra layer of grease on the outside of the wild boar skin, and the arrows could not hurt them.

The pine cone is really heavy, and the two of them didn't dare to make too much of it, so they walked back after picking up some.

I thought I had only been out for a while, but after gathering with other people, I realized that it was almost noon. Everyone didn't dare to fight, so they hurried back to the agreed place.