Great Tang Idyll Chapter 58

Chapter 58— Make another arrangement to make money

The return of Er Niu made Zhang Xiaobao and w.a.n.g Hao very happy . Having heard the far-reaching voice from the outside, the two people ran out together . Just arrived at the gate of the outermost yard, Er Niu came over with people surrounded .

The curious farmers kept asking Er Niu about where they went and what the strange things were? When Er Niu left, a few people in the village knew, while others were unclear .

Er Niu didn’t talk at all and went faster because he was eager to see the little master . The he went outside the master’s house . Seeing the little master and the little lady Zi Juan also coming out, he shouted out, “Master, I’m back . I…”

“Well, don’t talk, quickly come in for a break . Zhang Xiaowu and Zhang Xiaoliu, don’t stand outside . Let others help unload the things on the car, and just pile up at the door . ”

Zhang Xiaobao was afraid that Er Niu was too excited that he couldn’t help but tell the matter and quickly interrupted him . He and the two people following went to the yard .

The villagers saw people go in, so they did not bother anymore, turned to help unload the stone from the car . They unloaded with pondering that Er Niu was arranged to go out to do things by the master . They wondered why they came back with so many stones and they guessed these stones can’t be used to build a house .

“Do you see that, master? I brought back the kind of stones you want . What do you want the stones to do?” Er Niu said excitedly and he were not tired now, standing in front of Zhang Xiaobao .

“Yes, well done . Er Niu, have you ever leaked this thing?” Zhang Xiaobao had just seen the stones which were indeed medicinal stones . He finally rested a.s.sured . This year’s output should be able to improve a lot, and he worried that this thing was leaked by Er Niu and other two people while asking the question and watching the other two people .

Er Niu shook his head, took over the water handed over bu s.h.i.+ Liu, poured down a bowl of water, and wiped on the mouth with a sleeve . He replied: “Please rest a.s.sured . No one knows what we want the stones to do . I changed the car several times along the way, and the last one who drove the car never knew where the stones came from . Also, master, this time all the other money was spent, but the stones did not cost money . The stones can be casually collected, which can save nuch money . Master, you and the little lady, rest a.s.sured . We all know that you want to use this stones to do projects big, so we won’t say it out until we die . ”

Er Niu said it and Zhang Xiaowu and Zhang Xiaoliu also nodded beside him . They all felt that keeping secrets for master was a kind of glory .

“Well . Haven’t eaten yet? The cuc.u.mber vine has been pulled out, and there are some of cuc.u.mbers left behind . It will almost be broken soon after tomorrow . Just eat them . The use of the stones will be known later . ”

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the three people, and felt that they all can be used, and arranged them for meal .

When the three people heard that there was cuc.u.mber, the eyes were brightened . Nothing was more memorable than the cuc.u.mber in the winter of the village . It was the spring tillage, there is still no food . On the contrary, some winter dishes are almost eaten .

Seeing that there was cuc.u.mbers to eat, Er Niu suddenly remembered one thing, reached out in the arms and pulled out a paper bag, which was as big as a medium bowl, bent down, handed the paper bag to Zhang Xiaobao, slowly opened the bag, and inside some gray things were exposed .

“Master, this fungus was bought there . It happened that there was a family who got outside and prepared to dry it . I saw it so I changed it by cuc.u.mber pickles that I took on the road for eating . Cuc.u.mber pickles in three jars were changed for little fungus . As soon as you soak it in water, it would became bigger . ”

When Er Niu spoke, he licked his lips with his tongue . They didn’t know whether he wanted to eat the fungus, or had the regret for the cuc.u.mber pickles .

Zhang Xiaobao and w.a.n.g Juan looked at the fungus in the hands of Er Niu, and they all were absent-minded . The little fungus unexpectedly needed to use the three jars of cuc.u.mber pickles to change? The cuc.u.mber pickles were green, not brown, which was made last fall .

The two of them couldn’t eat more food at the beginning, and they didn’t have so much demand for eating . Now they thought about that they hadn’t eaten the fungus . It would be delicious if they put this fungus and some diced meat inside tofu jelly .

“Er Niu, have you been cheated? You exchanged three jars of cuc.u.mber pickles for this little thing, and you have not eaten? Are all changed?”

w.a.n.g Juan’s first thought was that Er Niu who were usually very clever also suffered losses and she asked it inquiringly .

The three people and s.h.i.+ Liu all stared at w.a.n.g Juan, and Er Niu said after a while:

“Little lady, if you and the master to change, of course, it can be cheaper, but we have no such ability . This is also because there is no such green cuc.u.mber in the current season, otherwise, let alone three jars, thirty jars will not be changed for the fungus . ”

“Well? Is this fungus so expensive?” w.a.n.g Juan couldn’t understand it for a while .

The four people heard this, and they felt that the little master and lady didn’t understand this aspect and thought it was normal . After all, they were children .

This time, Er Niu didn’t need to say because s.h.i.+ Liu explained, “Master, and the little lady, the fungus is not something that ordinary people can eat . When the two villages celebrated the New Year, the masters family did not eat . ”

“Yeah, they didn’t eat . ” Zhang Xiaobao affirmed this with eyes turned .

w.a.n.g Juan’s small mouth was slightly open, looking at the fungus on the hands of the Er Niu, and looking at Zhang Xiaobao’s appearance . It seemed that he encountered something good and smiled sweetly .

“I haven’t eaten, and our family can’t even eat it . Er Niu, you are hard-working, so come to eat . s.h.i.+ Liu, follow us . ”

Zhang Xiaobao and w.a.n.g Juan shouted two people to eat and led s.h.i.+ Liu into the innermost room .

“Growing fungus, will you?” w.a.n.g Juan asked Zhang Xiaobao when she arrived at the house .

“Probably I understand it, but the details are vague . Try a few more together to do it, and the wood is not worth much money . ” Zhang Xiaobao said with a well-thought-out look .

“You can do a lot . ” w.a.n.g Juan whispered .

“Yes . Just look at what we do . Our industry doesn’t require more precision, but you must understand more . ” Zhang Xiaobao also whispered and called s.h.i.+ Liu to come in front of him .

“s.h.i.+ Liu, here is a very important thing for you . Find the wood of the lime tree in a day, and plan the wood into wood chips, as well as wheat bran… Take these dried fungus, soak it, put it in the temperature that is slightly lower than your body . Those wood chips and wheat bran are steamed in a metal bucket . When the fungus have hair, you can get the hair down . How do you get it? I tell you . Take the long-haired fungus on the yarn bag . Then rub it through the cold boiled water, and the water that comes down is what we want to use . After you finish this, you can chisel out small mouths in the other woods one by one… It can be as sterilization . You can buy some lime, put a little bit into the bowl, fill it with water, and use this water to brush the wood . Probably it’s like this . Have you understood that? ”

Zhang Xiaobao eagerly recalled what he had occasionally looked for seconds, and said the contents in a way that s.h.i.+ Liu could understand, but the sentences he said was incoherent .

s.h.i.+ Liu listened to it seriously and repeated the general steps . Zhang Xiaobao explained in detail the place she still didn’t understand . The s.h.i.+ Liu finally figured out how to do it .

But she didn’t know the purpose of doing this . She said, “Little master, if you don’t eat this fungus, you can give it to me? It’s better to leave apart and let the two masters taste it . ”

“I begrudge eating it . When I eat it, I can’t find so expensive fungus, even if my family is so rich . I can’t eat it . I don’t know which method is good . What should I do if there is no fungus?” Zhang Xiaobao now looked at the fungus in his hand and thought that the colorwas not gray but grayish-white or golden yellow .

“You can talk it to s.h.i.+ Liu clearly . s.h.i.+ Liu, I tell you, according to Xiaobao’s method, we can grow the fungus by ourselves . When it is too much, we can eat it . This must not let others know . ” w.a.n.g Juan intervened to explain to s.h.i.+ Liu .

“What?” s.h.i.+ Liu opened mouth, and looked at the little master and the dried fungus, nodded mechanically, suddenly knelt to the ground, with one finger pointing to sky and one to earth .

“I swear that this method will never let the fourth person except for the little master, the little lady and I know that . If I leak it out, let G.o.d make a thunder and split me into ash . ”

Haven’t waited for Zhang Xiaobao and w.a.n.g Hao to hold up, s.h.i.+ Liu stood up and took the fungus, and took a breather, then turned and ran away .

“We will be rich this time . Xiaobao, will you cultivate the mushroom?” w.a.n.g Juan excitedly asked Xiaobao, and thought that after he and Zhang Xiaobao had a large pieces of lands and villagers were happy to plough and sow .

“It should be almost the same . Mushrooms usually seem to be able to be eaten . There are quite a few in mountain . It is worth a few dollars . What do you do with it?” Zhang Xiaobao didn’t care much about money . He used to get used to it .

“Not many . Most farmers have sold mushrooms, and they eat less . The mushrooms are usually cooked with meat . They eat it once ten days or half month . Eating mushrooms is good for the body . It is not worth the money, one is a basket . ”

w.a.n.g Juan was firmly to build a warm and grand farm, so that the farmers can be healthy .

Zhang Xiaobao can only cooperate . If there is a stable rear, he can avoid a lot of trouble . He nodded, “Well, after the fungus succeeded, we will get mushrooms . Armillaria matsutake and Armillaria mellea seem to be no fitful, then we can choose one which is harder than the fungus . ”

“That’s not in a hurry . Wait a few days . Let’s go and see how our garlic grows . If it can be eaten, we can make garlic soup for the farmers this evening . ”

w.a.n.g Juan did not urge it for a while . She thought that some farmers had sent some garlic to the master’s house a few days ago . She and Zhang Xiaobao also had some . This was a good