She turned the kettle over and over again in the candlelight and checked it twice. Then she nodded, handed over the money with one hand, and delivered it with the other.

Chen Qianyue asked her, “Will there be more kettles after this?” She felt that after the two kettles were brought back, many people in the academy would also be tempted because they were indeed quite sturdy.

Wen Jiajia didn’t plan to sell too many, so she shook her head. “No, it’s hard to buy them again in the future. I finally asked my friend to help bring these two.”

Chen Qianyue nodded. “Okay then.”

She left with two jugs.

As soon as the person left, Wen Jiajia immediately grinned. She unfolded a few pieces of paper, looked at them in the candlelight, and nodded in satisfaction.

Great, the first income arrived.

This money is enough to make up for the money and tickets she has spent in the past few days.

“Chun’er, Xuanxuan, stop playing, go to sleep!” Back in the house, Wen Jiajia drove the two children to bed. “I won’t take your house apart, you can continue to play tomorrow.”

Wen Xuan hesitated and glanced at the house that was about to be put together. “Auntie, can’t we play for a little while longer?”

Wen Jiajia patted the bed. “No, come up. Your aunt has to get up early tomorrow.”

Wake up early to pick mushrooms.

The most important thing is that there is not much kerosene at home, and she does not have a kerosene ticket to buy more.

Wen Jiajia is very strict, so Wen Chun and Wen Xuan climbed into bed in the end. With a “whew,” the room fell into darkness again.

After a while, Wen Chun said with a little surprise, “Auntie, where is Uncle Wei? Last time, he said that he would take us to dig the bird’s nest.”

Wen Jiajia was speechless. Your Uncle Wei has been away for two or three days before you remember it.

“Sleep. Your Uncle Wei is working. Can I tell you a story?” She patted Wen Chun on the back.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan immediately became energetic, and they both turned to face their aunt, their faces showing longing.

The story told by their aunt is even better than those told by the teachers in the nursery school.

“Tell us about Wukong, Auntie,” Wen Xuan said hurriedly.

Wen Jiajia agreed, “Okay, then Wukong.”

“Where did we stop last time?” She thought for a moment. “Oh, it was when Sun Wukong was passing through the Heavenly River. There is a fish in the Tongtian River, which is the fish of Guanyin Bodhisattva…”

Wen Jiajia has never read the book, but she has watched the drama dozens of times, so her storytelling follows the play.

Anyway, the little kids are just over three years old. When the drama comes out more than ten years later, they won’t remember the stories they once heard.

It was late at night.

From time to time, there was the cry of wild animals on the back mountain, which sounded like owls, sometimes frighteningly close.

Because of the rain in the previous two days, the water tank in the house was full all the time.

The overflowing water flowed happily down the ditch to the outside of the courtyard, and the sound of the water was murmuring, which was incomparably clear in the silence of the night.

This was the best white noise, and Wen Jiajia quickly fell asleep to the hypnotic sound of the water.

The following morning.

It was not yet dawn, probably not even five o’clock when she woke up.

Through these days, Wen Jiajia had finally practiced the ability to see the time by looking at the sky.

No way, the days without a watch are too hard.

While Wen Jiajia was boiling water, she could hear people walking outside the courtyard. It seemed that some people wanted to go up the mountain to pick red mushrooms just like her.

She hurriedly sped up, quickly cooking a pot of pumpkin porridge and frying some pumpkin pie. Pumpkin was also very good to eat.

Autumn is the season when pumpkins ripen.

Because of the limited land available in the vegetable garden, most people grow pumpkins in their yards.

Pumpkin is definitely a cost-effective food, and it only takes a few seeds to produce fruit bigger than a ball.

The key is that it doesn’t pick the ground.

Like the Wen family, they planted pumpkins under the walls of the front and back yards. They inserted a few bamboo poles for pumpkin vines to climb, and then supported a wooden frame when the pumpkin grew big. This way, they didn’t need to occupy the vegetable garden’s land, and they could also harvest hundreds of pounds of pumpkins.

After eating, Wen Jiajia went up the mountain.

Before going out, she woke up the two girls. “The rice is on the table. Eat it by yourselves, and each of you can only eat two pieces of bread.” Otherwise, Wen Chun and Wen Xuan would eat too much.

The two girls nodded.

Wen Jiajia added, “There is sugar in the porridge. You are not allowed to add more. I know how much sugar there is.”

The two girls nodded again.

Yes, their aunt’s eyes are so sharp that she doesn’t need to count to know if they have stolen rock candy from the cupboard.

Wen Jiajia… That’s because she had placed her hair on top of the rock candy jar. She always felt that the rock candy was running out too quickly and suspected that someone was eating it secretly.

She finally confessed, “Don’t wash the dishes after eating. Take the blocks to the hall to play, okay?”

“Yes!”

Wen Jiajia was still not at ease, but she could only leave.

The sky was bright, and she carried the bamboo basket up the mountain.

Red mushrooms grow in the rock mountain, and the rock mountain entry path is more than 800 meters away from the Wen family.

“Jiajia, are you also going to the mountains?” someone she met on the road asked. “Just follow us, or you won’t be able to find the way.”

Wen Jiajia smiled. “Okay, thank you, Auntie.”

She was really not very familiar with the mountains here, and it would be easy to get lost without someone guiding her.

From time to time on the road, she would meet people, and they would all advise her, “Don’t pick any mushrooms.”

They were afraid that she would follow the path of her father and sister.

Wen Jiajia cherished her life. How could she eat mushrooms casually? She would only eat mushrooms that she recognized.

Thanks to short videos and her time living in a famous mushroom province, she could still recognize a lot of mushrooms.

The rainy mountain road was difficult to climb. Wen Jiajia had no experience, and it took nearly an hour to reach the slope where there were many red mushrooms.

From this hillside, she could still see her backyard from the far side of the mountain.

This made Wen Jiajia’s heart stumble, and she thought that she would have to pay more attention when she was in the backyard in the future.

There were many mushrooms in the mountains, and the red mushrooms were even more conspicuous. Wen Jiajia found a cluster of red mushrooms under the fallen leaves after a while.

Wen Jiajia was overjoyed and immediately squatted down to pick them.

How to say, this feeling is similar to picking up money. Bending down and rewarding herself, the charm is great.

Red mushrooms gradually filled the bottom of the basket. When she went around behind a huge rock, she found another clump of three-nine mushrooms.

What kind of mushroom is the three-nine mushroom? In fact, it is the pine milk mushroom. Because it grows in March and September, the locals call it the three-nine mushroom.

Wen Jiajia had eaten this mushroom before. As a blogger who loves to reproduce ancient food, “Suiyuan Food List” is a must-read.

According to the “Suiyuan Food List,” it is a good snack to cook soy sauce and three-nine mushrooms and stir them with sesame oil.

Indeed, the most delicious ingredients only need the simplest seasoning, and there are no drawbacks other than being difficult to clean.

Wen Jiajia hurriedly put the clump of pine milk mushrooms into the bamboo basket. Because the pine milk mushrooms are small, she spent a lot of time here.

Then she followed the villagers to the other side, uphill, where there were also many mushrooms.

The fog in the mountains was thick, and shuttling through the forest would also get her some moisture.

Wen Jiajia touched her sleeve; it was damp and wet. It seemed she was ready to go back.

“Auntie, are you leaving?” She shouted into the woods.

“I’ll pick a little more; you can go first,” the auntie said.

Okay, Wen Jiajia’s memory is okay, and she can remember the way down the mountain.

On the way, she also found a few more mushrooms and discovered fungus on the rotting wood on the side of the road. This is an authentic wild fungus, and of course, she couldn’t let it go.

“Chaoyang Slope.”

Wen Jiajia looked at the surrounding environment. This was the most suitable place for the growth of fungus, so there was a high probability that she would find some.

Sure enough, when she stepped into the dead bushes and swept away the fallen leaves that had accumulated on the rotting wood, she found many fungi.

Wen Jiajia couldn’t help laughing. These fungi filled the bamboo basket; even when dried, they could weigh a catty, enough for several meals.

“I’ll come back tomorrow,” she thought to herself.

After memorizing the location, she re-covered the dead branches and leaves before heading down the mountain.

It’s hard to go up the mountain, and it’s even harder to go down.

Especially on the rain-soaked road, Wen Jiajia stumbled and had to slip from time to time. By the time she reached the bottom of the mountain, the dirt on her backside was half a centimeter thick.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan had been picked up by Chen Ai, and their beloved building blocks were still in the hall.

Wen Jiajia hurriedly poured out the mushrooms and fungi from the bamboo basket. She didn’t have time to wash them, so she changed her pants and used two large leaves to pack two bundles of fungi and mushrooms to the cowshed.

She had to go to Hegou Township immediately to pull fish and to Chendun to get tofu.

Hegou Township.

“Second Uncle Wei, I’m sorry I’m late.” She hurried to catch up, but she was still five or six minutes later than scheduled.

Because it wasn’t too late, Wei Chengmin, who was in charge of the handover, wasn’t angry and said, “It’s okay. These three baskets of fish are yours. We saved the best ones for you.”

Now that Wen Jiajia is coupled with Wei Dai, a well-known young man in the village, and Wen Jiajia is also from their Hegou Township, they naturally saved her a few baskets of the best fish.

“Thank you, Uncle.” Wen Jiajia gave him two packets of fungi wrapped in leaves and said, “Please, keep one for yourself, and help me give one to Wei Dai’s parents.”

“Hey, you’re…”

Wen Jiajia hurriedly said, “It’s nothing special. I picked them up the mountain today, and there are many at home, so you can rest assured and accept them.”

Since it’s a mountain product, he wouldn’t refuse.

This made him have a much better impression of Wen Jiajia. He thought Wei Dai had found a good match.

He shook his head, thinking to himself that he needed to hurry up on a blind date this year; otherwise, all the good girls would become someone else’s daughters-in-law.

“Drive!”

Wen Jiajia drove the car away, and Daqiang was curious to know her urgency. Even with three baskets of fish in the car, its speed was still not slow.

“Hey, hey, Daqiang, take this road!”

She was going to Chendun.

Daqiang “da da da” changed his route. Wen Jiajia held the reins in one hand and a stick in the other.

When she left the vicinity of the village and walked onto the deserted forest road, she gripped the stick in her hand. She even had chili water hidden on her body, just in case she encountered any bad people on the road.

Fortunately, the law and order in the county town was not bad, and there weren’t people who wanted to rob her for now.

However, her heart was beating faster inexplicably, and even her hairs stood on end as if attracted by static electricity.

Wen Jiajia moved the reins again to speed up and decided to leave this little-traveled road as soon as possible.