Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 359

Chapter 359

Chen Xiuyu came down from the forest slope with the last bag of hazelnuts on her back. When she got to the side of the car, she tilted her body and dumped the bulging bag on the back of the basket on the car.

There were eight bags of hazelnuts on the cart, which were picked by five women in one day.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead, looked at the setting sun in the west, and beckoned Zhao Meiling, Zhou Cuifen and others to go home.

During the four days when Lu Lu entered the mountain, they were doing the same thing every day.

We gathered at Caodianzi early in the morning, had dinner together, then went up the mountain to pick hazelnuts, returned at night, unloaded the car, and went home separately.

Tossing in the mountains all day long, this is not a hazelnut plantation, it is hard work.

Chen Xiuyu asked them to help pick them, and gave them one yuan and two every day.

The price is not low, and the women are honest, and they don't talk much when they are working, and they are busy picking as much as possible.

After a few days, the places with many hazelnut trees around Lulu Meadow have been visited by them.

Zhao Meiling drove the carriage to Lulu Meadow. Chen Xiuyu, Wang Yan, Pu Guiying, and Zhou Cuifen followed behind the carriage, talking and laughing. Zhao Meiling, who was in front, turned her head and interjected from time to time.

"Where are we going to pick tomorrow? Near Meadow, almost all of them have been picked! If you want to get more, you have to go further."

"How about, let's go to Huilongtun. There are also a few places around Huilongtun that have more hazelnuts, and the places are familiar. Xiuyu, Cuifen, and Guiying, the three of you haven't been to our house yet. Tomorrow Come to our house in the morning, we will cook and wait."

"That's right, we've been picking mushrooms together with Sister Xiuyu for so many days, and we share the same money with her. We eat a lot of food at her place, and we have to go to our house anyway, although the food is not as good as Sister Xiuyu's. , but if I don’t go, I always feel sorry.”

"What are you doing so far away from Huilong Tun? We only picked around Xiuyu's house. There is still a lot to pick in the places behind Xiushan Tun and Tundong. Don't you come here every day with a carriage to help? Me and Guiying didn't do anything, this meal has to be eaten at our house, Guiying, remember to come and help me cook tomorrow morning."

"Okay, sister-in-law Zhou, I'll bring some vegetables over tomorrow."

Chen Xiuyu heard a few people quarreling enthusiastically, and said with a smile: "Stop arguing, or else, sister-in-law Zhou and sister-in-law Zhao, don't come here tomorrow. One is picking at Huilong Tun, and the other is at Xiushan Tun." , after picking it, put it at home temporarily.

We have picked more than 30 or almost [-] bags in the past few days, and there is no room for them in the cellar. The ones picked the day before have to be processed and taken out to dry, otherwise they will all be moldy and ruined. Let Yanzi and Guiying come to help I will do. "

Fresh hazelnuts picked from the mountains, with buds.

It is very laborious and time-consuming to take out the hazelnuts one by one from the bud by hand.

The usual method is to pile up these hazelnuts to a certain thickness, heat them up naturally, cover them with straw curtains and the like, and carry out fermentation and budding treatment.

This process must be well controlled and handled in a timely manner, otherwise, during the fermentation process, the original intact hazelnuts will easily become moldy and spoiled.

When picking mushrooms, the small cellar was used as a barn.

Now picking hazelnuts has become a place for Chen Xiuyu to ferment and debud the hazelnuts.

If it is placed outside, the temperature at night is still lower, and the effect is not good.

Hearing Chen Xiuyu's arrangement, both 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 basement, Pu Guiying began to sigh: "I can't live in a big place." house!"

Wang Yan looked at Chen Xiuqing who was taking back the dried furs on the meadow in front of the cellar, her face turned slightly red.

When they were still in the forest, Yuan Bao had already made a sound.

Therefore, when they drove the carriage out of the forest and reached the edge of the small river, Lu Lu trotted to open the fence gate, and Chen Xiuyu happily rushed up to meet him.

The first thing she did was pull Lu Lu around and look around: "Brother Lu, didn't you encounter anything when you went out this time?"

"No, everything is fine."

Lu Lv had already greeted Chen Xiuqing and Zhao Yongke, not letting 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 out, and then make it into a mat or mattress."

"Have you caught the deer and roe?" Chen Xiuyu was more concerned about this question: "The does in the meadow bark so much that people panic every morning."

She asked Lu Lu and knew it was called heat.

"Caught a very strong stag." Lu Lu laughed.

"One, is that enough?"

When Chen Xiuyu followed Lu Lu to the cellar, she turned her head to look at Zhao Meiling and the others who were following behind, and asked in a low voice with a blushing face.

"That's enough. A sika deer can serve more than ten does. In our meadow, there are not many big does except for the fawns. They will definitely be able to serve them until they howl!"

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 hurriedly jumped aside to prevent her from succeeding.

"There are so many people, please keep your voice down, it's embarrassing!" Chen Xiuyu scolded.

Lu Lu smiled, and continued: "In addition, two roe deer were caught, one male and one female. I don't know if the two male roe roe will fight."

The roe deer has a family area. Although the meadow is not small, when the two people inevitably meet, they may also fight for the two female roe deer.

The conditions for raising roe deer were not yet mature, and Lu Lu still had to isolate them.

Now, we can only look at what's going on behind the scenes.

"By the way, when Qingzi and Brother Zhao leave at night, each of them will give them 300 yuan." Lu Lu confessed.

Chen Xiuyu nodded without hesitation.

When Zhao Meiling drove the car to the basement, Chen Xiuqing had already helped to get started without a few women saying anything. After asking Zhou Cuifen, she stepped on the car tightly with bags weighing more than a hundred catties. Move it inside the cellar.

This guy, in front of Wang Yan, has always doubled his strength.

Once the things on the car were unloaded, Zhao Meiling called Wang Yan and drove the car to leave. Zhou Cuifen and Pu Guiying were also busy joining in the fun and insisted on leaving.

Originally, he wanted to keep them at home for dinner, but Lu Lu couldn't fight with them, and Chen Xiuyu couldn't stop them, so he 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 now? Why do you have to stay here tonight, have a meal with me, and drink some wine before leaving? It's only a few steps away?" Lu Lv hurriedly moved Zhao Yongke stopped him.

"I haven't seen the child and Wu Nakan for a few days, and I, Ama, I will go back to accompany them to eat this evening's meal. I have already told Wu Nakan."

Zhao Yongke said with a smile: "If you drink, let's talk about it another day."

He reached out and patted Lu Lu's arm, and went to the meadow to lead the horse.

"Qingzi, Big Brother Zhao wants to go back to accompany his wife and children. You are alone, what are you doing so busy going back?"

Lu Lu looked back at Chen Xiuqing, and saw that he was staring eagerly at Wang Yan who was driving away with Zhao Meiling in the carriage: "Don't think I don't know, just want to see Yanzi a little more, right?"

Lu Lu's voice was not low, which startled Chen Xiuqing, he was afraid that Wang Yan would hear it.

But Lu Lu was speaking to Wang Yan. When the women heard this, they turned their heads and looked back. Only Wang Yan was so depressed that she didn't dare to look back.

"Qingzi, don't you want to go too, come with us!" Zhou Cuifen shouted with a smile, she already knew what Chen Xiuqing was thinking.

"okay!"

Chen Xiuqing didn't care about Lu Lv, and ran to the fence gate.

"This kid..."

Lu Lu looked at him rushing out to follow Wang Yan, feeling quite speechless, and waited until he crossed the small bridge and was about to enter the woods before Lu Lu shouted: "Qingzi, your horse doesn't want gone?"

Chen Xiuqing was taken aback for a moment, then hurried back to Caodianzi to lead the horse.

Zhao Yongke came back on his Oroqen horse, and Chen Xiuyu, who had already gone back to the house to get the money, ordered 300 yuan for him, but Zhao Yongke didn't write: "Then I will not be polite!"

"That's right!" Lu Lu laughed.

Zhao Yongke nodded, took the money, and rode back directly along the ridge.

But when Chen Xiuqing ran to the front of the cellar on horseback, she couldn't see Wang Yan's shadow.

He looked back at Lu Lu embarrassingly: "How about I stay for dinner?"

Lu Lu rolled his eyes at him, took the money Chen Xiuyu had prepared, and stuffed it into his pocket: "No, Mrs. Zhou and Pu Guiying, they might still be waiting outside! Hurry up and leave."

Chen Xiuqing scratched her head in embarrassment: "Then... I'm leaving!"

When it was time to keep him, Chen Xiuqing wanted to leave, but now that Chen Xiuqing wanted to stay, Lu Lu didn't want him to stay anymore.

I really don't know what's going on in his mind. When he saw Wang Yan, he followed like a demon.

Where is Wang Yan's charm? She is obviously a very ordinary little girl. Her strengths are probably hardworking, quiet, and pretty. Nothing else is special.

Lu Lu couldn't even figure out what made Chen Xiuqing's head completely muddy when he saw Wang Yan, as if he was being led away.

How much do you have to like it to get to this level?

Even if Lu Lu lived his life again, he still couldn't understand the matter between a man and a woman.

But after thinking about it, Lu Lu felt that he was not much better, maybe he was possessed and ran back to the village in the deep mountains.

Seeing Chen Xiuqing riding a horse into the forest, Chen Xiuyu closed the gate and came back.

"I have to find an opportunity to help Qingzi find out about Wang Dalong's family!"

If you don't help Chen Xiuqing, Lu Lu doesn't know when he will have to wait until he can speak about this matter. Lu Lu even wonders if Chen Xiuqing can't control himself for a while and give Wang Yan to... It's hard to say.

"I asked Wang Yan in private, and she only said that she listened to her parents' arrangement. Seeing her like that, she should like it in her heart. I also asked Mrs. Zhao, and she said that Wang Yan was still young..."

It seems that Chen Xiuyu also helped to speak a lot in private.

As Zhao Meiling said, Wang Yan is only 15 years old, which is a bit young. Although many people get married at the age of [-] or [-], in Lu Lu's eyes, they are all children. This is why Lu Lu has never asked Wang Dalong. .

But after thinking about it decades later, when love is almost in kindergarten, he suddenly feels that it is not a problem at all: "I will find an opportunity to ask about it another day. If possible, I will settle the matter first."

Chen Xiuyu nodded: "What do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you!"

Lu Lu smiled and said, "Yangchun noodles!"

"Yangchun noodles?" Chen Xiuyu was a little dazed, she had never heard of this name.

"You've been tired all day, let me do it!"

Lu Lu put his arms around Chen Xiuyu's shoulders and walked home together.

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