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Before going up the mountain, Dong Hanchao didn't tell Qin Laogou's family that he was going up the mountain, only that he wanted to go out with Qin Yuanyuan.It's not that he doesn't trust Old Dog Qin. If there is a person in this village who he trusts the most, Old Dog Qin is definitely the number one. If he can help a stranger like this, he feels that he may not be able to do it on Dong Hanchao. arrive.

It's just that Dong Hanchao feels that the matter is not yet a foregone conclusion and has not been arranged. It is better to arrange it first and then talk to Qin Laogou, so that he seems more sincere and more secure.

Dong Hanchao asked Qin Laogou to borrow a small iron catalpa and went up the mountain with Qin Yuanyuan and Xiao Tie early in the morning.The road on the mountain, or in other words, there is no road on the mountain. If there are many people walking, it will become a road, so this road is not easy to walk.He and Qin Yuanyuan were two adults who were not as fast as Xiao Tie.

Only after climbing for a while did he start to get out of breath. Qin Yuanyuan was a little better. At least he would occasionally go up the mountain to pick herbs, but he never walked so far up the mountain.Looking at Dong Hanchao again, he was sweating profusely, but looking at Xiao Tie, he seemed to be fine.

"Mr. Qin, Mr. Dong, come here and sit down and rest for a while." Xiao Tie saw that the two of them could hardly walk anymore, so he thoughtfully found a big smooth rock on the mountain, and the three of them could sit on it .

"Huh." After sitting down, Dong Hanchao took a deep breath, "How long will it take Xiaotie to go up the mountain to get to the place where you picked mushrooms?"

Xiao Tie seriously thought about it with his fingers, "I usually have to walk for another hour to get there, but today I walk slowly, maybe I have to walk for another two hours."

Two more hours to go!

Hearing these words, Dong Hanchao and Qin Yuanyuan were ashamed.He couldn't help looking at Xiao Tie again, he was only nine years old, and his body was so thin that he didn't look like a nine-year-old child.But when he climbed this steep mountain, he didn't look like a child at all, as if he had climbed for two or three years.But probably not. Two or three years ago, Xiao Tie was only six or seven years old. If he didn't pay attention, he might slide down the mountain and fall to his death.

"Little Tie, do you often come up the mountain?"

Xiao Tie looked at this forest with round eyes. He liked this forest the most. "Yes, grandma is not in good health, and the food at home is not much, so I have been going to the mountains to pick mushrooms since I was four years old."

Four years old!This cognition greatly exceeded Dong Hanchao's expectations.Although their family doesn't like him, at least when he was four years old, someone else lived for him and bought clothes for him, and Xiao Tie had already climbed such a steep mountain to pick food for the family when he was four years old. , and after picking mushrooms after the rain, how slippery these dirt fields must be.

Not only Dong Hanchao was surprised, but even Qin Yuanyuan learned for the first time, "Did you not get hurt when you climbed the mountain?"

Speaking of this question, Xiao Tie clutched his clothes and looked back and forth between Dong Hanchao and Qin Yuanyuan before replying: "Yes, I accidentally rolled down from the mountain several times at first, but I was afraid that grandma would scold me. So I said I fell at the door of the house." After saying that, I quickly added, "Teacher, do you think I'm a liar?"

How could they think he was a liar? After hearing Xiao Tie's words, Dong Hanchao and Qin Yuanyuan only felt bitterness, and felt bitterness for the child's sensibleness.At the same time, I feel lucky for him. Although he rolled down several times, he can walk and jump now, so he should not have suffered much injury.

If they can really successfully develop the truffle industry chain, they should also be able to reduce the burden of the little iron family a lot in the future.

Qin Yuanyuan patted Xiao Tie's head to comfort him, "In the future, if you want to pick mushrooms, tell the teacher that I will go up the mountain with you, and don't hide it if you are injured. You come to me, and I will apply the medicine for you."

"Thank you, teacher."

After listening to Xiaotie's experience, Dong Hanchao cheered up even more when he went on the road again. He was a big man, how could he not be able to compare with a child, and he gritted his teeth for the rest of the journey. He never offered to take a rest.

"I'm the mushroom buried in the soil that I found here. When it rains here, there will be many brown umbrella-like mushrooms, but I don't think it's delicious. Teacher, if you like mushrooms, I know that in our There is a piece of grass on the road ahead, and there is a piece of that kind of white mushroom, I think that mushroom is the most delicious." Xiao Tie thought that the teacher also wanted to eat mushrooms, so he tried his best to explain to them the mushrooms he thought were delicious.

After reaching this level, it really feels different from that at the bottom of the mountain. The trees at the bottom of the mountain are sparse and messy, but here, there are endless straight pine trees, lush and lush.Looking down the mountain from here, the shadow of the village has long disappeared, just like entering a virgin forest.

"Let's dig and see." Dong Hanchao took out the iron catalpa pinned to his waist, found a place where he could see the rotten roots of pine trees, and started digging. Generally speaking, the rotten roots are more likely to appear in places like this, thanks to Dong Hanchao I've been exposed to these things in the agricultural trading company, otherwise I'm really blind now.

Although they know that digging like this is not good for truffles, but they don't have pigs now, so they can only try with iron catalpa first, at least they have to make sure that this place can really find truffles.

The ripening period for truffles is November, but now it is October. If there are truffles, you should be able to find them.

Although Qin Yuanyuan didn't bring a shovel, he picked up a thick branch to help Dong Hanchao dig the hole together, and Xiao Tie walked around here looking for any truffles that were dug out by small animals.

The weather in the golden autumn of October is still cool, but after climbing the mountain for so long and digging dozens of holes, not to mention the truffles, there is not even a shadow of mushrooms, which makes people feel impetuous.Especially Dong Hanchao, who was originally fat and could not tolerate heat, and now his sweaty body is sticky, which is even more annoying.

After digging another hole and still nothing, Dong Han threw the shovel and lay down on the ground, Qin Yuanyuan also sat beside him.Looking at the large and small pits around him, Qin Yuanyuan frowned, "Could it be that we think too easily about developing truffles?"

Dong Hanchao didn't answer, just stared straight at the sky, could it be that he was too whimsical, could it be that he just couldn't do this kind of thing?

Looking at the two teachers sitting on the ground and lying on the ground, Xiao Tie was also a little at a loss. He looked at this and then at that.He was also very anxious about not being able to find the small soil clod mushroom. The teacher thought why he couldn’t find it at this time. Usually, when he didn’t particularly want to pick it, he could find a few when he just walked around. , Will the teachers be sad?

Thinking about Xiao Tie, he was sad and cried alone.

Hearing Xiaotie crying, Dong Hanchao thought something had happened. Although he was tired, he got up when he heard something wrong. He was crying, so he hurried forward to check, "What's the matter, what's wrong with you, Xiaotie? Isn't it wrestling?"

Xiao Tie cried so hard that he could hardly breathe, but he just didn't speak.

This crying made Dong Hanchao and Qin Yuanyuan anxious, and there was no sign of falling on his body, what happened?

"Xiao Tie, don't cry, tell the teacher what's wrong, be good, don't cry." Neither of them big men had any experience in coaxing children, and now they don't know what happened.

"Old...teacher" finally calmed down, Xiao Tie murmured, "Teacher... here... there is really... that mushroom...I didn't lie to you...I'm not a liar..."

It turned out to be the case. Xiao Tie was worried that they would think him a liar if they couldn't find the mushrooms, but they never suspected that Xiao Tie was lying to them. It was just that he couldn't dig the mountain and was tired.

"Xiao Tie doesn't cry, the teacher didn't say you are a liar, but you are too tired from digging, so lie down and rest for a while. You see, the teacher lost two catties by climbing the mountain. If the teacher doesn't lie down and rest Next time, the teacher is going to lose weight." It is comforting to know the reason.

Although a little lame, Xiao Tie really believed in this reason and stopped crying immediately, but he still couldn't help sobbing, "Then... Teacher, lie down and rest...don't lose weight..." In Xiao Tie's cognition, he feels that it is not good to be thin. Every time his grandma touches his head sadly, she says that it is her incompetence that makes him so thin.So Xiao Tie always hoped that he could gain weight, so that grandma would not be sad.

"Puchi." Qin Yuanyuan laughed out loud, "Xiao Tie, you should let Teacher Dong continue to dig holes, it would be good for him to lose weight!"

This small episode was over in a flash, yes, it is not so easy for them to start a business, but anyway, the opportunity is in front of them, so they can't give up so easily.It seemed that the previous disappointment disappeared in no time, and the three of them shared the corn they brought for lunch.

After taking a break after eating, Dong Hanchao decided to continue his digging business, but this time he and Qin Yuanyuan took turns, and one would go to the next when he was tired of digging, so that everyone would not feel so tired after a short rest.

However, there were quite a few pits dug after the break, but I still didn't even touch the shadow of the truffle.The sky is slowly getting darker. According to Xiaotie’s usual experience of watching the sun, it is estimated that it is almost four o’clock now. Now it will be dark at six o’clock and it will take two or three hours to go down the mountain. They have to go down the mountain while the sky is still bright That's good.

"Then I'll leave after digging this hole." Qin Yuanyuan looked at the half-dug hole. It seems that today is destined to be nothing, but Dong Hanchao and Qin Yuanyuan don't intend to give up. If they can't dig today, they will try another place tomorrow. Try, if it doesn’t work tomorrow, there will be the day after tomorrow.Since truffles can be picked up, there is no reason for this place, it's just that they didn't dig it.

"Alright." Dong Hanchao also went over to help dig with a branch, so that it would be faster.

The branches poked hard into the soil, and then pried the soil away. Dong Hanchao assisted Qin Yuanyuan in digging. The hole they dug was about half a meter in diameter and [-] centimeters deep.

Although I didn't give up, I didn't have any hope for this last pit.There is no place to find rotten roots in this pit, but they looked at it as if they were playing a game. Dong Hanchao turned his back to Qin Yuanyuan and casually said that where he was standing, he took five steps to the left, then three steps forward, and finally two steps at a 45-degree lower right corner, so There is the origin of this pit.

When Dong Hanchao was poking the soil, suddenly there was a place where he couldn't get in, and he poked twice again, and it felt like something hard was buried in the soil, did he poke the stone again?

"What are you playing with? The hole is big enough. I guess it's gone. Let's find another place tomorrow." Seeing Dong Hanchao poking around as if he was playing, Qin Yuanyuan hurried to leave.

"Yes." He agreed, but Dong Hanchao didn't stop his hand. For some reason, he just wanted to dig it out and have a look. He always felt like digging up the dirt here.

Seeing that Dong Hanchao agreed but still couldn't get up, Qin Yuanyuan couldn't understand, "Then let's go, why are you still squatting?"

"There is something hard here, give me a shovel, dig it out and take a look." Dong Hanchao decided to dig it out, otherwise he was worried, maybe this hard thing is a truffle.

Qin Yuanyuan sighed, resigned himself to his fate and squatted down again to help Dong Hanchao dig together.With a shovel, it is much faster, and the soil on the upper layer of the hard things will be dug up with three strokes.

There was still a thin layer of soil before digging. Dong Hanchao was afraid of hurting the truffle, so he deliberately asked Qin Yuanyuan to stop. He used his hands to pull the soil, but when he pulled it away, it turned out to be a stone!

"You should be so careful with a rock, let's go, or it will be dark before going down the mountain." When he found out that it was the rock, Qin Yuan hurriedly urged Dong Hanchao to leave.

Seeing that it was the stone, Dong Hanchao had to say that he was quite disappointed. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. When he got up to leave, Dong Hanchao turned his head a few times unwillingly.

After walking a few steps, Dong Hanchao still felt unwilling. Why is there a stone there?After hesitating for a few seconds, Dong Hanchao threw a sentence to Qin Yuanyuan, "You wait for me for 5 minutes, just 5 minutes."