novelaction Chapter 807: The North is Unstable
Chapter 807: The North is Unstable
Zhou Guo also took a bite and said with a smile, "Not bad. I finally figured out how to eat so many walnuts."
After our family became rich, we had more to eat, so these walnuts became less plentiful. I estimate that these two sacks will last us until the year after next.
Zhou Guo spent a day in the mountains and gained a lot.
When I got home, the first thing I did was to find a clay pot, plant the spring orchid I had dug from the mountains, and place it on the windowsill.
There are now two pots of orchids on the windowsill, one on each side. Sitting in front of the window and looking up at them, I feel much better, just like being in the mountains.
The old man came over with his hands behind his back to take a look and nodded, saying, "This grass is good."
Zhou Guo said, "I'll give you some pots in the spring and put one in your room."
When the red flowers bloom, the whole yard is filled with fragrance, and it seems that the spring orchid is also very fragrant.
In the yard, Wu Ya brought Xiao Huachui to eat raw walnuts.
Li is sorting the pine mushrooms he brought back.
The old man was processing the meat, planning to sit in the yard with his family to roast the roe deer meat in the evening.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Deng and her friends were cooking dinner.
When Zhou Mai and the others came back and saw all these good things in the yard, they gathered around without even putting down their book boxes.
After Zhou Su and Li came to see the roe deer meat, they squatted next to Wu Ya and Xiao Hua and peeled walnuts to eat. It is very good to eat a few fresh walnuts occasionally. They haven't eaten them for several years.
Zhou Mi was drooling at the sight of the roe deer meat. He hadn't eaten roe deer for several years.
Now we have all kinds of food at home, including sea cucumbers, abalone, and delicacies from land and sea. We ate a lot of game in the past few years, but the old man got tired of it, so he stopped hunting.
I really miss it.
Zhou Guo fished out more than ten large crabs from the pond, intending to roast or steam them. He had eaten too many of them, so it would be nice to change the taste.
Li came over with a basket of cleaned pine mushrooms, cut them into slices and fried them.
Zhou Guo said to Mrs. Deng and the others, "Mammy, please make fewer dishes tonight."
Mrs. Deng smiled and said, "Yes, I understand."
The whole family sat neatly in the yard, roasting food, and waited for Mrs. Deng and others to cook and set the dishes before they could eat.
The three of them set the table and prepared to go into the kitchen. They always ate in the kitchen.
Eating in the yard with the host, I still felt a little uncomfortable and restrained.
Zhou Guo picked up a plate of grilled meat, a plate of pine mushrooms, and a grilled crab for each person and brought them in.
The three of them were flattered, as these were all baked by their masters, and they didn't expect that they had some too.
Zhou Guo ate a piece of roe deer meat and a piece of fried pine mushroom, shaking his head with delight. They were so delicious.
Days like this are so nice!
Everyone in the family was eating meat, and the grilled crabs were the last thing to be eaten.
We have eaten too much these days. If the crabs were not roasted, no one would touch them.
Zhou Guo rested at home for seven or eight days. Seeing the villagers go up the mountain with great enthusiasm every day and come back with full bags, he felt happy and worried at the same time.
On the third day after the mushrooms started growing in the village, large groups of people from several nearby villages went to the provincial capital, while those who had no cars went to the county town.
They have to get to the provincial capital before other counties do. Being the first wave still has an advantage.
After going there five or six times, the price of mushrooms in Fucheng County dropped, so he came to find Zhou Guo.
Zhou Guo was still very surprised. There were so many mushrooms in the mountains this year, and she didn't expect that they could sell so many bunches.
It seems that everyone is aware that the ones who keep lowering prices are others.
But even so, the top-quality mushrooms she received in the end were only two or three more than in previous years, not to mention the other inferior mushrooms. Not only did she not dare to accept them, but no one was selling them for the time being.
I can’t even carry all the good mushrooms I bring down the mountain every day, and no one wants the ones I’ve opened my parachute.
After receiving the last bit, Zhou Guo announced: I won’t be collecting this year, I’ve collected enough!
When this was said, everyone felt sorry but no one came to kneel and kowtow. A lot of goods were sold this year, and the lowest-paid family made 20 to 30 strings of cash.
The family was speechless as they looked at so many pine mushrooms. This was the largest amount of mushrooms they had seen in the past few years. The ones collected here were of the best quality and could be compared with last year's.
You know, last year there were fewer mushrooms, so most of the mushrooms harvested were of inferior quality.
The key point is that inferior fungi are sold cheaply.
The top-quality mushrooms are eight hundred and ninety-nine cents, nine hundred and ninety-nine cents. There are so many this year. Can they be sold?
Zhou Guo said: "Who knows, the only option is to lower the price."
The whole family looked over and said, "One catty is nine hundred and ninety-nine coins."
Full of regret.
Zhou Guo also lamented, "What can we do? Aren't the prices of grain different when there is a good harvest or a bad harvest? If there is too much of something, it will lose its value. Just wait and see. The price of pine mushrooms in restaurants will definitely drop this year."
This is also the downside of a good harvest.
Everyone thought about it and agreed. Who made it so? There were too many things.
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Even after the Zhou family stopped collecting mushrooms, there were still many people going up the mountain every day.
They had to pick up what was left in the mountains. Since they couldn't sell it, they would pick it up, dry it, and save it for cooking in the winter.
Chen also invited Li to go with her.
Li shook her head and waved her hands. She felt dizzy when she saw pine mushrooms and could not go into the mountains.
She was worried about how her daughter would sell these things.
Zhou Guo also had a headache. Fortunately, many shops had been opened in the past few years. There were hundreds of mountain product shops in the five prefectures. Each prefecture sold 80 kilograms of mountain products a day, which meant 8,000 kilograms a day.
These 700,000 to 800,000 kilograms of mushrooms... I think they should be sold out soon... right?
She asked all the mountain product stores to prepare themselves for a tough battle this winter.
This order has just been issued.
News came from the border that the Hu people were attacking the border again! !
Perhaps it is because the barrier has been breached several times in recent years, more than in the previous decades, and the barrier has never been breached, so people are not as panicked as they were last year. People are eating and drinking as usual, and there are not fewer people on the streets.
She was worried that she would have to waste so much mushrooms this year, but after the price reduction, they sold much better than in previous years.
Looking at the account books reported from various places, she happily ate snacks and drank tea on the kang at home.
The old man asked, "Why don't you go look around?"
In previous years, I would have gone to various places at this time.
Zhou Guo shook his head. "No, I won't go. They need me for everything. Why would I spend so much money to support them?"
Winter is here, and both pine mushrooms and sheep mushrooms are in peak season.
Business in mountain product shops across the country is booming.
Bad news is coming!
The King of Chu next door is attacking the North! !
He called out to General Xu that as long as he submitted to him, he would take back his 600,000 troops, make him a king of a different surname, and give him the northern land as a permanent fiefdom!
The North was in chaos now. The people had never imagined that one day, before the Hu people moved south, their own people would attack them first.
The stability of the North is about to be lost.
Ordinary people stayed at home and were unwilling to go out. Zhou Guo's mountain product shop's business plummeted, and he saw that these pine mushrooms were about to become a problem.
The nameless anger in my heart was rising rapidly.
The North is now stable, with a bumper grain harvest, and in recent years, the population has also been growing, making it a big piece of fat meat that everyone wants to take a bite of.