Transformed into a mother of four children: Eating meat every meal during a famine

Chapter 338 Going up the mountain to pick mushrooms

He Tian felt sorry for the little bit of flour and complained, "Why did you make me a bowl too? I'm not hungry."

Zhang Xiaocui smiled and said, "Just think of it as accompanying me for dinner, okay? It's so boring for me to eat alone."

"Well... I can't eat so much, I'll give you some."

"That's enough for me. This is such a big bowl. Eat it quickly."

They said they couldn’t eat, but these days, everyone’s stomachs are so empty, how could there be a time when they couldn’t eat!

I ate a big bowl of noodles and finished it without even a drop of soup left.

……

Early the next morning.

Zhang Xiaocui got up early, washed and dressed.

Take out your best clothes and put them on.

Unfortunately, even her best clothes were only half-worn.

The material and style are outdated.

Zhang Xiaocui was trying on clothes over there, and He Tian came over and said, "I told you that you should have bought yourself a new set of clothes yesterday."

"Isn't it good for me to dress like this?" Zhang Xiaocui was a little concerned, but when she thought about spending half a tael of silver to buy a new set of clothes, she couldn't bear to spend it.

Clothes will become old sooner or later.

It would be better to save the money to buy more delicious food for your husband and son to nourish their bodies.

Not long after, Su Yunluo's carriage arrived.

Su Yunluo pulled open the car curtain, looked up and asked, "Are you ready?"

"I'm ready." Zhang Xiaocui happily took her things and stood beside the carriage.

Su Yunluo: "What are you doing standing there? Get in the car."

"No, I'll just walk down below."

"Do you want me to get off the carriage myself to invite you?" Su Yunluo pretended to get up and get off the carriage.

Only then did Zhang Xiaocui climb into the carriage and sit stiffly.

In order to break the deadlock, Su Yunluo took the initiative to talk to her: "Are these all the things you took back to your mother's house?"

"um, yes."

"What did you bring?"

"There are a few pieces of cloth, three pairs of shoes, some candies, and 20 kilograms of flour." Zhang Xiaocui thought for a moment and whispered, "I also gave my mother some silver."

"I heard that everyone in your family is very nice, right?"

"Yes. So I bought these things with the consent of my husband." Zhang Xiaocui said with a happy smile.

"I also prepared some small things. I'll take them to your mother later."

"It's absolutely impossible."

"Why, are you worried that your mother won't like what I prepared?"

"That's absolutely not the case!"

"Then you're welcome."

"Then let me thank Madam Su on behalf of my mother."

Zhang Xiaocui pointed the way, and after more than an hour, the carriage arrived at Zhang Xiaocui's parents' home.

The luxurious carriage appeared in the village and immediately attracted the attention of the villagers.

Everyone was guessing who the important person sitting in the carriage was.

Until Zhang Xiaocui lifted the curtain, got off the carriage and greeted everyone.

"Aunt, Third Aunt, Uncle..."

"Isn't this Xiao Cui? Why are you back?"

"I came back to see my mother."

"Xiao Cui is rich now? Is this carriage yours?"

Faced with the flattering expressions of the people in front of her, Zhang Xiaocui's vanity could be said to be greatly satisfied.

For a moment, she almost nodded yes.

Finally, he regained his senses and shook his head, saying, "No way, how can I afford such a nice carriage? This is my wife Su's carriage."

"Madam Su? Which Madam Su? Is it the well-known Madam Su Yunluo Su?"

Just as Zhang Xiaocui was about to say yes, Su Yunluo got out of the carriage by himself and said, "No, my last name just happens to be Su."

Zhang Xiaocui reacted very quickly: "Yes, yes, yes, how could I possibly know Mrs. Su Yunluo Su!"

The person next to him showed a look of regret: "Ah, that's right, Madam Su Yunluo is a very busy person, how could she possibly come here."

"Cui, it would be great if you knew Madam Su Yunluo. Then you can talk to her and ask her to take over the land in our village. Then we can live a good life with enough food to eat every day."

"When I really meet Madam Su Yunluo one day, I will definitely bring her to our village. Let's all go and get busy." Zhang Xiaocui sent away all the onlookers.

Soon, only a few people who were close to Zhang Xiaocui and Zhang Xiaocui's brother and sister-in-law were left at the scene.

While everyone was surrounding Zhang Xiaocui, her brother and sister-in-law stayed quietly on the periphery.

After the people left, they gathered around and said, “Cui.”

"Brother, sister-in-law." Zhang Xiaocui held her brother and sister-in-law's hands tightly.

"Cui, why are you back now? Did something happen at home?"

"If you have any difficulties, tell your brother and don't be embarrassed. We are all family." said the eldest sister-in-law.

Zhang Xiaocui was so moved that her eyes became moist: "Brother and sister-in-law, I'm fine. I just came home to see you. Where's our mother?"

"Mom couldn't sit still, so she went up the mountain to pick mushrooms early in the morning."

When Su Yunluo heard about picking mushrooms, he immediately became excited.

"Where are they picking mushrooms? Can we go check it out now?"

"Sure. I'll take you there." Zhang Xiaocui's brother Zhang Dalang didn't know who Su Yunluo was. But the person his sister brought back must be a good person.

Take them into the mountains without hesitation.

Zhang Dalang's wife, Li Feng'er, turned back to the house and said, "Wait a moment."

Soon, he came out again, holding a cloth bag in his hand, which contained a few yellow flour buns: "It's a long way into the mountains, take these with you and eat them on the way."

"Then you take good care of the house, we are leaving."

"Be careful when you go to the mountains."

"Sister-in-law, let's go first."

"it is good."

Su Yunluo, Shiba, Zhang Xiaocui, and Zhang Dalang, a group of four, went into the mountains.

Compared with the big mountain in Shanglou Village, this mountain is nothing.

The mountains here are not really mountains.

"Can we find people in such a big mountain?" Su Yunluo asked while standing at the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Dalang said confidently, "We can find it. Although the mountain is big, there are only a few places where you can pick mushrooms. No one else knows where to find these mushrooms, only my mother knows where. Let's go, this way."

Several people followed Zhang Dalang into the mountains.

After walking for about an incense stick of time, I found that the ground here had obvious signs of being disturbed by humans.

Zhang Dalang took a look and said, "It seems that all the mushrooms here have been dug up. Our mother should go to the next place. The next place will take about half an hour to walk."

When saying this, he looked at Su Yunluo.

Su Yunluo immediately said: "I'm fine. I can walk any time."

"That's fine, let's continue on our way."

In fact, it was less than half an hour, probably about forty minutes.

When we arrived at the next mushroom digging place, we saw a woman in her fifties bending over and digging on the ground.

Hearing the noise, I quickly turned around to look.

When she saw it was her son, Yu was only a little surprised, but when she saw her daughter, she was so surprised that she dropped the tools she was using to dig mushrooms.

"Cui'er, why are you here? Am I dreaming?"

"Mom, you're not dreaming, it really is me."

"My Cui'er!" Yu held her daughter's hand happily and affectionately.

But the joy didn't last long, and worry suddenly appeared on his face: "Did something happen at home? Let's go home first."

"No, it's not." Zhang Xiaocui quickly stopped her mother: "Nothing happened at home, everything is fine. Mom, I also brought my friend here, this is Madam Su. Madam Su, this is my mother."

Only then did Yu notice Su Yunluo.

Seeing that Su Yunluo was dressed in an extraordinary way and had a fair complexion that could squeeze water out of her, he could tell at a glance that she was not an ordinary person. He immediately said respectfully, "Meet Madam Su."

Su Yunluo responded politely: "Auntie, Xiao Cui and I are friends, you don't have to be so formal with me."

Yu looked at her daughter.

Only after Zhang Xiaocui nodded did Yu finally relax.

Zhang Xiaocui continued, "Mother, after Mrs. Su ate the mushrooms you gave me, she praised them highly and was very interested in them. So she asked me to bring her to see where the mushrooms came from. That's why we came to the mountain."

"So that's how it is." Yu pointed to the ground and said to Su Yunluo generously: "Those mushrooms were dug out from here. They are all hidden under the dead leaves. Look."

Su Yunluo looked along the leaves that had been pulled apart, and sure enough, there were a lot of mushrooms hidden inside.

There are both large and small.

While demonstrating how to pick the big mushrooms, Yu said, "Every time we come, we only pick the big ones and save the small ones for the next time. This way, the small ones will grow bigger next time, and the small ones will give birth to smaller ones. We can keep picking them."

Su Yunluo nodded upon seeing this.

"I heard that only your family knows the locations for picking mushrooms, right?"

Yu sighed, "In the past, I also led everyone to pick mushrooms together. But no one listened to me. As long as they found a place, they would dig up all the mushrooms, no matter how big or small. At one point, all the mushrooms in this mountain were dug to extinction. For several years, this mushroom could no longer be seen in the mountain. Later, everyone knew that there was no such mushroom in the mountain, so they stopped going up the mountain to dig mushrooms. The few places where we dig mushrooms now are where I accidentally found a few mushrooms from other places a few years ago, and then dug them up and planted them."

"You said that this mushroom can be grown, right?" This was the information Su Yunluo wanted.

Yu nodded: "It's just more troublesome to plant."

"It's great." Su Yunluo herself likes the taste of this mushroom, and she believes that those nobles and wealthy people will definitely like it too.

By then, mushrooms will become the agricultural product that makes this village rich!

"What's good?" Yu was confused.

"Auntie, if there is a chance that you can use your mushrooms to help your whole village live a good life, would you be willing to share your mushroom growing techniques with everyone?"

"Why wouldn't I want to? But can these mushrooms really make life better for the whole village?"

"Absolutely." Su Yunluo was confident.

There are many poor people and many rich people in this world.

What rich people worry about is not whether the price is too high, but whether the product is good.

As long as the food tastes good, many people will pay for it.

"Auntie, can I dig these mushrooms?"

"As long as you don't mind the dirtiness, Madam Su."

Su Yunluo followed Yu's instructions, rolled up his sleeves and started digging mushrooms.

After a while, he had dug a basket full.

Eighteen was standing there bored, so he went for a walk in the woods and came back with two pheasants.

"Chicken stew with mushrooms tonight," he said.

After seeing the two pheasants, Zhang Dalang was full of admiration for Shiba: "This gentleman is really capable. These pheasants fly so fast! Even the best hunter in our village can't catch them."

Su Yunluo glanced at the two pheasants.

Wow, this is not an ordinary pheasant.

It is a rare species that has been protected since the 21st century.

In that era, if you ate these two "pheasants", you would be caught and forced to operate a sewing machine.

But I heard that this kind of pheasant tastes delicious and is a hundred times more delicious than the most common pheasant.

"It looks like we're in for a treat tonight."

After digging mushrooms together for a while, a few people stopped to rest.

Zhang Dalang took out the cloth bag that his wife had stuffed into his hand. When he opened it, he found seven or eight yellow flour buns and a handful of dried meat inside.

He shared the dried meat and yellow flour steamed buns with everyone.

"Mrs. Su, please don't despise me. Ordinary people don't have any good things in their homes."

Su Yunluo took it with a smile and took a bite of the yellow steamed bun: "It smells good."

The Zhang family's unfamiliarity with Su Yunluo completely disappeared in an instant.

After eating and drinking, we set off to return.

After returning home, Zhang Xiaocui couldn't wait to take the things she brought from the carriage and give them to her mother.

"Mother, this is for you. Sister-in-law, this is for you. Brother, this is for you. And these are given to you by Madam Su."

"Oh, really, you two are the same. Just come, what do you want to bring?"

"Mom, here's one or two taels of silver, too." Because her brother and sister-in-law were so kind, Zhang Xiaocui didn't have to tell her mother behind their backs when she gave the silver.

When Yu saw this, she refused to accept it no matter what.

"Cui, forget about those things, but I absolutely cannot accept this silver. Keep it for yourself."

"Yes, sister, mother has us here." The sister-in-law also came to persuade Zhang Xiaocui to take the silver back.

Zhang Xiaocui shook her head and stuffed the silver into her mother's pocket: "Mom, things are different now. Our village is better now."

As she spoke, she glanced at Su Yunluo and said, "It was Madam Su who helped our village. At the beginning of the year, we planted herbs in our village, and Madam Su took all the herbs from our village and gave them a very high price. Now, we are not short of money. This silver is my daughter's filial piety to you. Although it is not much, it is my daughter's heartfelt gift. You must accept it, mother."

"Okay, then I'll accept it." Yu finally accepted the silver with a smile.

Over the years, it has been her daughter's parents who have been subsidizing her.

Although the daughter-in-law never said anything, it was all because she was generous.

The daughter-in-law is sensible, and she, as the mother-in-law, cannot always wrong her!

Now that her daughter had given her the silver, she turned around and gave it to her daughter-in-law.

Although it is a bit small, the meaning is completely different when the daughter subsidizes her parents instead of her parents subsidizing her parents.

Zhang Xiaocui and her sister-in-law cooked dinner together.

Pheasant stew with mushrooms.

Fresh mushrooms and dried mushrooms each have their own flavor, but fresh mushrooms are always more delicious.

Su Yunluo couldn't help but drink two bowls of chicken soup.

So fresh that my eyebrows are about to fall off.

Even Eighteen praised the pheasant and mushroom soup.