Chen Xiuyu came down from the forest slope with the last bag of hazelnuts on her back. When she got to the car, she leaned over and dumped the bulging bag on the mouth of her backpack onto the car.
On the cart were eight bags of hazelnuts, picked by five women in one day.
She wiped the sweat from her forehead, glanced at the setting sun in the west, and called Zhao Meiling, Zhou Cuifen and others to go home.
During the four days since Lu Lu entered the mountain, they had been doing the same thing every day.
We gathered at Caodianzi early in the morning, had a meal together, then went up the mountain to pick hazelnuts, returned together in the evening, unloaded the cars, and went home separately.
Working in the mountains all day long, this is not a hazelnut plantation, the work is very hard.
Chen Xiuyu asked them to help pick, and gave them one dollar and two a day.
The price is not low, and the women are all honest. They don't talk much while working, and they try their best to pick as much as possible.
Over the past few days, they had visited all the places with more hazelnut trees around Lulu Meadow.
Zhao Meiling drove the carriage to Lulv Meadow. Chen Xiuyu, Wang Yan, Pu Guiying, and Zhou Cuifen followed the carriage, talking and laughing. Zhao Meiling in the front also turned around and interjected a few words from time to time.
"Where should we pick tomorrow? Almost everything has been picked near the meadow! If you want to get more, you have to go further."
"How about we go to Huilongtun? There are several places around Huilongtun where there are more hazelnuts, and the places are familiar. Xiuyu, Cuifen, and Guiying, you three haven't been to our house yet. Tomorrow
Come to our house in the morning, we will cook and wait."
"Yes, we have been picking mushrooms with Sister Xiuyu for so many days. We share the same money as her and eat at her place. After all, we have to go to our house, although the food is not as good as Sister Xiuyu's.
, but if I don’t go, I will always feel guilty.”
"Why go all the way to Huilong Tun? We only picked around Xiuyu's house. There is still more to pick in the areas behind Xiushan and Tundong. Don't you drive the carriage over every day to help? I and I
Guiying hasn't done anything yet. We have to go to our house to eat this meal. Guiying, please remember to come over and help me cook tomorrow morning."
"Okay, Sister-in-law Zhou, I will bring some vegetables over tomorrow."
Chen Xiuyu listened to the heated argument among several people and said with a smile: "Stop arguing. Otherwise, Sister-in-law Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhao, you two will not come over tomorrow. One will pick at Huilong Tun and the other at Xiushan Tun."
, after picking it, keep it at home temporarily.
We have picked more than 30 or almost 40 bags in the past few days. There is no room for them in the cellar. The ones picked the day before must be processed and taken out to dry, otherwise they will become moldy and spoiled. Let Yanzi and Guiying come
Just help me."
Fresh hazelnuts picked from the mountains, with buds.
It is very laborious and time-consuming to take the hazelnuts out of the buds one by one by hand.
The usual method is to pile up these hazelnuts to a certain thickness, heat them naturally, cover them with something like straw curtains, and carry out fermentation and debudding.
This process must be well controlled and handled in a timely manner, otherwise, the otherwise intact hazelnuts may easily become moldy and deteriorate during the fermentation process.
When picking mushrooms, the small cellar was used as a roasting room.
Now picking hazelnuts has become a place used by Chen Xiuyu to ferment and debud the hazelnuts.
If you put it outside, the temperature at night will still be lower, so the effect will not be good.
After hearing Chen Xiuyu's arrangement, Zhou Cuifen and Zhao Meiling nodded.
When they returned to Caodianzi and saw Lu Lu, Zhao Yongke and Chen Xiuqing who were still busy stretching the jackal skins in the open space in front of the cellar, Pu Guiying began to sigh: "We can't live in a big city."
House!"
Wang Yan looked at Chen Xiuqing who was collecting the furs to dry on the meadow in front of the cellar, her face turned slightly red.
While they were still in the forest, Yuan Bao had already made a sound.
So, when a few people drove the carriage out of the forest and arrived at the river, Lu Lu trotted to open the fence gate, and Chen Xiuyu also hurried up to greet them happily.
The first thing she did was to pull Lu Lu around and look around: "Brother Lu, did you encounter anything when you went out this time?"
"No, everything is fine."
Lu Lu had already said hello to Chen Xiuqing and Zhao Yongke, not to let them mention the matter of being besieged by jackals, so as to save Chen Xiuyu from worrying: "It's just a bunch of useless furs. These things can only be sent after drying in the shade."
Go to sister-in-law Unakan and ask her to help tan it and make it into mats or mattresses."
"Have the deer and deer been caught?" Chen Xiuyu was more concerned about this issue: "Those doe deer in the meadow screamed every morning and made people panic."
She asked Lu Lu and found out that this was called estrus.
"I caught a very strong buck." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"One, is that enough?"
When Chen Xiuyu followed Lu Lu to the underground cellar, she looked back at Zhao Meiling and others who were following behind, and asked in a low voice with a blushing face.
"That's enough. One sika deer can take care of more than ten doe deer. Apart from the young deer, there are not many big doe deer in our meadow. They will definitely be able to take care of them and howl with them!"
Lu Lu winked at Chen Xiuyu.
How could Chen Xiuyu not understand what it meant, so she reached out and pinched Lu Lu's waist.
Lu Lu quickly jumped aside to prevent her from succeeding.
"There are so many people here, please keep your voice down, you are so embarrassed!" Chen Xiuyu said angrily.
Lu Lu smiled and continued: "I also captured two deer deer, a male and a female. I don't know if the two males will fight."
The deer have a home range, and although the meadow is quite large, when these two animals meet, they may also fight over the two female deer.
The conditions for raising deer deer were not yet mature, so Lu Lu still had to isolate them.
Now, we can only wait and see what happens next.
"By the way, when Qingzi and Brother Zhao leave in the evening, give them three hundred yuan each," Lu Lu explained.
Chen Xiuyu nodded without hesitation.
When Zhao Meiling drove the car to the cellar, Chen Xiuqing had already helped her without saying anything. After asking Zhou Cuifen, she stepped on the bags in the car tightly, weighing more than a hundred kilograms.
Move it inside the cellar.
This guy's strength always doubled in front of Wang Yan.
As soon as the things in the car were unloaded, Zhao Meiling called Wang Yan and rushed the car to leave. Zhou Cuifen and Pu Guiying were also busy joining in the fun and were determined to leave.
Originally, he wanted to keep them at home for dinner, but Lu Lu was too embarrassed to push them away, and Chen Xiuyu couldn't stop them, so she had to watch the women leave.
As a result, Chen Xiuqing and Zhao Yongke also stood up and wanted to leave.
"Brother Zhao, what are you doing back home? Why do you have to stay tonight, have a meal at my place, drink some wine together, and then leave. It's only a few steps away?" Lu Lu hurriedly said
Zhao Yongke stopped him.
"I haven't seen my children and Unakan for a few days, and I, Amma, will go back and eat with them tonight. I have already told Unakan."
Zhao Yongke smiled and said: "If we drink, let's talk about it another day."
He reached out and patted Lu Lu's arm, then went to the meadow to lead the horse.
"Qingzi, Brother Zhao wants to go back to spend time with his wife and children. You are all alone. What are you doing back home?"
Lu Lu looked back at Chen Xiuqing and saw that he was eagerly looking at Wang Yan who was following Zhao Meiling in the carriage and driving away: "Don't think that I don't know and just want to see Yanzi more, right?"
Lu Lu's voice was quite loud, which startled Chen Xiuqing. He was afraid that Wang Yan would hear it.
But Lu Lu just wanted to tell Wang Yan. When several women heard this, they all turned around and looked back. Only Wang Yan didn't dare to look back.
"Qingzi, don't you want to leave too? Come with us!" Zhou Cuifen shouted with a smile. She already knew what Chen Xiuqing was thinking.
"Oh...good!"
Chen Xiuqing ignored Lu Lu and ran towards the fence gate.
"This kid..."
Lu Lu looked at him hurriedly running out and following Wang Yan, feeling speechless. He waited until he crossed the bridge and was about to enter the forest before Lu Lu shouted: "Qingzi, you don't want your horse."
Already?"
Chen Xiuqing was startled suddenly, and ran back quickly to go to Caodianzi to get the horse.
Zhao Yongke came back on his Oroqen horse. Chen Xiuyu, who had already gone back to the house to get money, gave him three hundred yuan. Zhao Yongke didn't say anything: "Then I'm not welcome!"
"That's how it should be!" Lu Lu laughed.
Zhao Yongke nodded, took the money, and rode back directly along the ridge.
But when Chen Xiuqing rode her horse and ran in front of the cellar, Wang Yan's shadow was nowhere to be seen.
He looked back at Lu Lu awkwardly: "How about I stay for dinner?"
Lu Lu rolled her eyes at him, took the money Chen Xiuyu had prepared and stuffed it into his bag: "Farewell, Mrs. Zhou and Pu Guiying, they might still be waiting outside! Leave quickly."
Chen Xiuqing scratched her head in embarrassment: "Then...I'm leaving!"
When trying to persuade him to stay, Chen Xiuqing wanted to leave. Now that Chen Xiuqing wants to stay, Lu Lu doesn't want him to stay.
I really don't know what's going on in his mind. When he saw Wang Yan, he seemed to be possessed.
How could Wang Yan have such great charm? She is obviously a very ordinary girl. Her advantages are probably that she is diligent, doesn't talk much, has a pretty face, and is nothing special about anything else.
Lu Lu couldn't even figure out what could make Chen Xiuqing's head turn to mush when she saw Wang Yan, as if she was being led along.
How much do you have to like it to reach this level?
Lu Lu still couldn't understand this matter between men and women even if he was reborn.
But when he thought about it, Lu Lu felt that he was not much better. He was possessed by a demon and had to run back to the village in the mountains.
Seeing Chen Xiuqing riding a horse into the woods, Chen Xiuyu closed the fence gate and came back.
"We have to find an opportunity to help Qingzi find out about Wang Dalong and his family!"
If he didn't help Chen Xiuqing, Lu Lu didn't know when he would have to wait until he could speak out about this matter. Lu Lu even doubted whether Chen Xiuqing would be unable to control himself for a moment and give Wang Yan... It's hard to say.
"I asked Wang Yan secretly in private, and she only said that she listens to her parents' arrangements. Seeing her like that, she must like her in her heart. I also asked Sister-in-law Zhao, and she said that Wang Yan is still young..."
Apparently, Chen Xiuyu also helped a lot in private.
As Zhao Meiling said, Wang Yan is only fifteen years old, which is a bit too young. Although many people get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen these days, in Lu Lu's eyes, those who are less than eighteen years old are all children. This is why Lu Lu has never
Ask Wang Dalong why.
But thinking about it decades later, when the relationship was almost in kindergarten, he suddenly felt that it was no longer a problem at all: "I will find an opportunity to ask some other time, and if possible, let the matter be settled first."
Chen Xiuyu nodded: "What do you want to eat tonight? I'll cook it for you!"
Lu Lu smiled and said: "Yangchun noodles!"
"Yangchun noodles?" Chen Xiuyu was a little stunned. She had never heard of this name.
"You have been tired all day today, let me do it!"
Lu Lu put his arm around Chen Xiuyu's shoulders and walked home together.
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