He happily returned home with the copper coins on his back, took out 500 coins and gave them to his little girl, took another 1,500 coins for himself, and gave the rest to his wife.
He took the copper coins to his eldest brother's house, called his two nephews, and gave each of them a hundred cents. He also gave the eldest brother and his second brother five hundred cents each.
Because they all came to help when his family built the bamboo shed and drying oven.
I gave my parents another three hundred coins as a filial piety, and then said with a smile: "I sold the golden ear that Ying Bao picked up in the woods today, and I got more than four guans."
"Si Guanduo?" Jiang Dalang was surprised, "Is that golden ear made of gold? Why is it so valuable?"
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said: "It's more valuable than gold."
Then he said to the eldest and second brothers: "I have bred another batch, and now they have just sprouted. When they mature, I will give some golden ear roots to the eldest and second brothers, and teach you to grow some too."
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang nodded happily.
Jiang Erlang was embarrassed to accept the money from his third brother, so he declined: "I still owe you three guans, how can I ask for these five hundred dollars."
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said: "Second brother, you can use it first, and then you can pay me back when you make money."
"That's good." Jiang Erlang took back the money and sighed in his heart.
After the divorce, he had to raise two children alone, and life was not easy, but he had no regrets. He was also determined to make a lot of money in the future so that he and his children could live a good life without making others laugh.
But making money is not easy.
I have been busy with farm work recently, and I have no time to go out to find a living. I can't even get ten cents out of my hands.
If his eldest brother and sister-in-law hadn't allowed his family to come back for dinner every day, he probably wouldn't have been able to survive even two meals a day.
Alas, if the third brother's golden ears can really be sold at high prices, then I will have hope. I will follow the third brother to grow a little bit, but still worry about not making money?
Thinking of this, Jiang Erlang proposed to see the golden ears cultivated by his third brother.
Jiang Sanlang was naturally happy and took his second brother and his father to his yard.
Today, the yard of Jiang Sanlang's family is extremely cramped. It not only has a chicken shed and a deer shed, but also a bamboo shed and an earthen kiln that is two people high.
A wooden frame is placed in the bamboo shed. The wooden frame has two floors, and ten pieces of dead mulberry wood are placed on each floor.
A dozen holes were drilled into the mulberry trees, filled with rice husk sawdust, and planted with golden ear roots.
At this time, the fungus has emerged from the golden ear, and the stars are golden, which is very gratifying.
"If all these grow, how much will they cost?" Jiang Dalang exclaimed. He counted them and found that there were twenty dead mulberry trees.
If each mulberry tree grows ten golden ears, then there are two hundred golden ears.
Two hundred golden ears, how much silver will they cost after drying?
Jiang Dalang's heart trembled.
He also came to see his third brother when he was baking golden ears a while ago, but didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, no one has ever seen this thing, and they don't know if it is really valuable.
Now Saburo really sells at a high price and earns more than four guans at a time. How can he not be envious to the point of palpitations?
If only a dozen dried golden ears are sold for so much money, how much money can be made from more than two hundred golden ears?
Hey, I don’t even dare to think about it.
Jiang Dalang turned to his third brother and asked: "Sanlang, where did you find the golden ear seedlings? Why don't we go look for them and look at them with you?"
He couldn't wait any longer. He had to go into the mountains immediately to find Golden Ear.
Jiang Sanlang scratched his head and said, "Yingbao found this. I'll go and ask."
So, when Yingbao came back from a deer run, her uncle and uncle cordially surrounded her and asked her expectantly where she got the golden ear.
Yingbao blinked: "I found it in the woods over there, but it's gone. How about we go to Beishan and look for it."
She still remembered the boy in ragged clothes saying that the load of firewood was cut at Shita Mountain in Beishan.
"Okay! Let's go to Beishan to look for it." Jiang Dalang slapped his thigh and said excitedly. There are many woods and mulberry trees in Beishan, so maybe we can really find it.
The next day, Jiang Sanlang carried his daughter on his back and led his eldest brother, second brother and two nephews into the mountain.
Just in case, they all brought bows, arrows, ropes, machetes and backpacks.
There are many fruit trees in Beishan, and it is the early spring in March. The peach blossoms, pear blossoms, and apricot blossoms all over the mountain are in full bloom, which is so beautiful.
This reminded Yingbao of the fruit seedlings in the cave, and she had to find a way to plant them in Nanshan as soon as possible.
The group of people walked up and down several hills and searched countless trees. They couldn't find any golden fungus, but unexpectedly found a few snow fungus as big as an egg.
Ying Bao was pleasantly surprised and did not allow her father and the others to move. She only asked them to cut down the dead mulberry tree and carry it home.
Because it was a dead tree, Jiang Sanlang did not hesitate, and he and his eldest and second brothers started to cut down this dead tree as thick as a bowl.
“I don’t know who owns this land, and no one comes to take care of it.”
Jiang Dalang muttered, looked around, and urged his two younger brothers to leave quickly. "We can't be seen by others, let's leave quickly."
He was worried that the owner of the land would discover that his brothers were secretly cutting down other people's trees. If they were caught, it would be terrible, and it would be a fierce battle.
Jiang Erlang stood on the high slope and looked out for a while, then said: "It's okay, this land should be taken over and no one will take care of it."
According to the laws of the Great Qian Dynasty, after the death of the landowner, the land allocated in his name must be returned to the court and distributed to other young men in the future.
Therefore, the owner of this land either died, or the whole family fled the land, that is, fled the famine.
Jiang Dalang was happy when he heard this, and immediately ordered his two sons: "Hurry and look around again to see if there is any snow fungus like this."
It was also the first time for him to see this thing. He heard from his niece and his third brother that it was called snow ear and it was also very valuable. It was sold in Mr. Li's family drugstore, so he hurriedly asked his two sons to look for it.
Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan agreed and went to look for them separately.
Not to mention, I actually found a mulberry tree with snow fungus growing nearby.
It's just that the snow fungus on this tree is very small, just larger than a fingernail, but it's more numerous, with several clusters growing.
So Yingbao asked Dad and the others to cut down the whole tree and take it away.
In the evening, several members of the Jiang family returned to the village carrying two sections of dead trees.
Although the villagers they met were curious about them carrying the whole dead tree back, they didn't ask.
After all, every family is short of firewood, and it is common to come back from Beishan to cut firewood.
Two dead trees were brought to the yard of Jiang Sanlang's house. The three brothers cut off the head and tail of the tree, leaving only the middle section, leaning against the bamboo shed.
In the evening, Yingbao secretly sprinkled the water from the cave pond on the two dead trees with the snow fungus, and then sprinkled the golden ear with water before returning to the house to rest.
When I looked at it the next day, not only was the snow ear not dead, but it had actually grown a lot.
Yingbao is very happy.
Seeing that there is snow fungus inoculation, she will get some and keep them in the cave.
More than twenty days passed in a flash.
The golden ears in Jiang Sanlang's bamboo shed are finally ready to be harvested.
The snow fungus on the two mulberry tree sections has also grown up, and is crystal clear, more beautiful than the golden ear. However, the snow fungus is a bit loose, not well formed, and not as neat as the golden ear.
He and Chun Niang washed their hands and harvested them carefully with the newly bought thin knives.
Then cut off all the roots of the golden ear, carefully place it on the hollow bamboo drawer, expose part of it to the sun, and bake the other part in the kiln.
The white fungus was also cut off, scattered on the bamboo drawer, and pushed into the drying oven together with some golden fungus.
The weather has been exceptionally sunny these days. In just five days, more than a hundred golden ears have been dried out by the sun.
Jiang Sanlang picked up one and looked at it, then compared it with the ones he had baked, and said: "The golden ears baked in the stove are still drier, but the color is not as good as those dried in the sun."
Chun Niang feels that drying makes it look better, but it is too time-consuming and tiring.
Because someone has to guard the kiln all night long, add firewood and remove the fire at any time, and keep the temperature of the furnace neither too high nor too low. In the past few days, my husband has lost a lot of weight.
The price of gold ear has been revised. Please point out any unreasonable points and I will correct them.
