Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were happiest with the return of the two cows. Hearing the good news from far and near outside, the two ran out hand in hand. When they reached the gate of the outermost yard, the two cows were already surrounded by people. Walked over.
The curious dealers kept asking Er Niu where they three went? What's the strange thing? When Er Niu left, except for a few people in Zhuangzi who knew about it, none of the others knew it.
The Er Niu, who was anxious to see the little boy, did not speak at all, and went faster and faster, and went to the outside of the main courtyard. When he saw the little boy and the cuckoo little lady also greeted him, he shouted again, " I'm back, boy, I..."
"Come back, don't talk, come in and rest, there are Zhang Xiaowu and Zhang Xiaoliu, don't stand outside, let others help unload the things in the car, just pile it at the door."
Seeing Er Niu's excitement, Zhang Xiaobao couldn't keep his mouth shut. He was afraid that he would tell the story, so he interrupted him and called him and the two people who followed him into the yard.
When the dealers saw people entering, they didn't bother too much. They turned around to help unload the stones from the car, and pondered while unloading them. Er Niu looked like the owner arranged to go out to do something. Why did they come back with so many stones? These stones don't look very good, and they can't be used to build a house.
"Did you see the little boy? I brought back the kind of stones you wanted. Those are all, little boy. What do you want those stones for?" Er Niu didn't feel tired now, and stood in front of Zhang Xiaobao, excited. To say.
"Yes, good job, Erniu, have you ever leaked this thing out?" Zhang Xiaobao had already seen the stone, it was indeed a medical stone, and finally relieved that the output should be able to increase a lot this year, and he is worried that this matter will be affected. The Er Niu three people accidentally spoke out, and looked at the other two as they asked.
Er Niu shook his head, took the water that the pomegranate handed over, raised his head and poured a bowl of water, rubbed his mouth with his sleeve, and replied: "Don't worry, young man, no one knows what the three of us want the stone for. I have changed cars several times along the way, and the person who drove the car on the last trip never knew where the stone came from.
Also, little son, I spent all the other money this time. The stones did not cost money. Picking the stones at will, saving a lot of money, son, you and the cuckoo lady don’t worry, the three of us all know that the little son wants If you use this stone to do big things, you won't talk about it, or even kill you. "
As Er Niu was talking, Zhang Xiaowu and Zhang Xiaoliu also nodded to the side, and they all felt that it was an honor to be able to keep a secret for the little boy.
"Okay, okay, haven't you eaten yet? The cucumber seedlings have been plucked, and there are still some of the cucumbers that have fallen off the shelf. They are about to go bad tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. They are just right to eat. You will know the usefulness of the stone in the future."
Zhang Xiaobao looked at the appearance of the three servants, and sighed in his heart. They were all people who were able to use them. He quickly arranged a meal.
When the three of them heard that there were cucumbers to eat, their eyes lighted up. There is nothing to eat that makes people miss more than the cucumbers in Shangzhuangzi in winter. Now don’t look at spring ploughing, there are still no vegetables, but some for winter. The dishes are almost ready.
Seeing that there were cucumbers to eat, Er Niu suddenly remembered something. He reached out into his arms and took out a paper bag, the size of a medium bowl. He bent down, handed the paper bag to Zhang Xiaobao, and slowly opened the bag. Some gray things were revealed.
"Little son, I bought this fungus over there. It happened that a family took it outside and was going to dry it. I saw it. I used the salty cucumbers that you brought us on the road in exchange. The three jars of salty cucumbers are just In exchange for this, it will take a lot of time to soak in water."
When Er Niu spoke, he licked his lips with his tongue. He didn't know if he was greedy for fungus, or regretted that he didn't eat the cucumber pickles.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stared at the fungus on Er Niu's hand, and they were all taken aback. With just a little fungus, they actually needed three jars of salty cucumbers to replace them? The cucumber pickles are green, not the brown ones made last fall.
The two of them were unable to eat more food at the beginning, and did not have so many requirements for eating. Now, thinking about it, they have never eaten fungus. Use the fungus to make some stew, put some diced meat in it, and eat tofu. It's not bad at the time.
"Er Niu, you were deceived? Three jars of cucumber, just got this thing, you didn't eat it yourself? You changed it all."
Wang Juan's first thought was that the usually clever Erniu was also at a loss, and asked aloud.
The three of Er Niu and Pomegranate looked at Wang Juan blankly. After a while, Er Niu said:
"Little lady, if you change with the little boy, of course it can be cheaper, but the three of us really don’t have that ability. Thanks to the fact that there are no such green cucumbers in the current season. Otherwise, let alone three jars, just Thirty jars will not be changed."
"Hmm? Is this fungus so expensive?" Wang Juan couldn't understand it for a while.
When Er Niu heard this, they felt that the little son and the little lady really didn't understand this aspect, they thought it was normal, they were children after all.
This time I don’t need Er Niu to say, the pomegranate will be explained there, “Little son, little lady, fungus is not something ordinary people can eat. Neither of our two villagers eats it during the New Year.”
"Yeah, I didn't eat it, I didn't eat it." Zhang Xiaobao affirmed this, and at the same time his eyes rolled.
Wang Juan's small mouth was slightly open, he looked at the fungus on Er Niu's hand, and looked at Zhang Xiaobao's appearance. It seemed that he had encountered something good and smiled sweetly.
"I haven't eaten well, our family can't even eat it. Erniu, you guys have worked hard, go eat, pomegranate, and come in with us."
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan called Er Niu to eat, and led a pomegranate with an unidentified face into the innermost room.
"Do you know how to plant fungus?" Wang Juan asked Zhang Xiaobao as soon as he arrived in the house.
"The general situation is understood, the specific details are vague, just try a few more together, and the wood is worthless." Zhang Xiaobao looked confident.
"There are quite a lot of meetings." Wang Juan muttered.
"That is, don't look at what we do. Our industry does not require much precision, but we must know more." Zhang Xiaobao also muttered, and then called the pomegranate who had just followed up in front of him.
"Pomegranate, let you do a very important task. Within one day, find the wood of the linden tree, and plan the wood into sawdust, and wheat bran... Take these dry fungus, soak it, and put it in The temperature, that is not the temperature, you might be slightly lower than the cold and hot of your body...
Those sawdust and wheat bran are steamed in a tin bucket. When the soaked fungus has hair on it, you can get the hair off. How to do it, I tell you, put the long hairy fungus on the yarn. Knead it with cold boiled water in the bag, and the kneaded water is what we want to use.
After finishing this, chisel out the other woods one after another... Is this sterilization, you go buy some lime, put a little in a bowl, fill up with water, and use this water to brush the wood. It's probably like this. , Do you understand? "
Zhang Xiaobao vigorously recalled the things he had occasionally glanced at before, and said the contents in a way that Pomegranate could understand, only to speak incoherent.
Pomegranate was serious when she heard it, and repeated the general steps. Zhang Xiaobao explained in detail what she didn't understand. Pomegranate finally figured out how to do it.
But she didn't know the purpose of the little son, "Little son, you don't want to eat this fungus? Give it to me to use it? It's better to leave a part and let the masters of the two families taste it."
"I can't bear to eat it. After I eat it, where can I find it? So Jingui, I can't even eat it even when my family is so rich. Now I eat a little bit and I don't know which way is better. Nothing. What to do?" Zhang Xiaobao now looks at the fungus in his hand and feels that the color is not gray, but gray and golden.
"You can just tell the pomegranate that it’s not enough, pomegranate, I tell you, follow Xiaobao’s method, we can grow fungus by ourselves, when there are too many, we can eat whatever we want. This must not be let others I see." Wang Juan interjected to explain to Pomegranate.
"Huh?" Pomegranate opened her mouth as wide as possible, looked at the two young men, and looked at the dry fungus, nodded mechanically, and suddenly knelt to the ground, pointing to the sky and hand to the ground.
"I swear by pomegranate that I will never let this method be known to a fourth person besides the little prince, the little lady, and myself. If I want to speak out, let God thunder and chop me into ashes."
Before Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan could react, Pomegranate stood up by herself, took the fungus, panted hard, turned around and ran away.
"Yes, this time I really did, Xiaobao, will you grow mushrooms?" Wang Juan thought that he and Zhang Xiaobao would have a large tract of land in the future, and many farmers were happily farming on it, excitedly Asked Xiaobao.
"Should be the same? Mushrooms seem to be edible usually. There are a lot of them on the mountain. They are not worth a lot of money. What do you do with them?" Zhang Xiaobao didn't care about the amount of money. He had been used to it a long time ago.
"Not many. Most people go to the mountains to pick mushrooms and sell them. They eat less at home. Mushrooms are usually cooked with meat. It takes ten and a half days to eat a meal. Eating mushrooms is good for your health. It’s worthless for the dealer to eat, it’s a basket after basket."
Wang Juan is determined to build a cozy manor, so that every farmer can grow up healthily.
Zhang Xiaobao can only cooperate. There is a stable rear that can avoid a lot of troubles, and nodded, "Well, when the fungus is successful, we will make mushrooms. Pine mushrooms and hazel mushrooms don't seem to work anymore. Choose one at that time. , This is harder than fungus."
"That's not a hurry. You can wait a few days. Let's go and see how old our garlic seedlings have grown. If you can eat it, we will make garlic seedling soup for the farmers tonight."
Wang Juan stopped urging for the time being, thinking that a few days ago, the farmer had sent some garlic seedlings to the owner to eat. She and Zhang Xiaobao also followed up to make a lot of them. This thing is good and can be eaten for several stubbles. It tastes better than leeks.