From wilderness to palace

Chapter 44

Just as Liu Yaozu thought, people who have dealt with Dashan all the year round know when there is something they want in the mountain.It rained in the mountains the afternoon before yesterday, and the villagers in the surrounding villages naturally knew about it.

When it rains in the mountains, there will naturally be wild mountain mushrooms to pick after the rain.In fact, many villagers entered the mountain yesterday, but they couldn't find the jungle where Liu Yaozu was.For the villagers, they don't want to go too far to pick wild mushrooms.

Although more wild mushrooms can be picked further away in the mountains, it is too time-consuming to do it again and again.If you spend too much time in the mountains, it may be impossible to get back to the village before dark.

Liu Yaozu, who had a simple breakfast in the morning, looked at the sunlight above his head, and there were already many wild mushrooms that were drying in the air last night.It is clear that the temperature in the sun today should not be low. These wild mountain fungi will probably dry out after a day of drying.

What he had to do was to pick as many wild mushrooms as possible and dry them in the sun when the sun was at its strongest.Thinking about the plastic bag he had been using for the past two days, it was scratched by branches yesterday and became unusable. He couldn't carry the bag to pick mushrooms, right?

After thinking for a while, he said: "They say sharpening a knife makes it easier to chop firewood. I also need to make a tool to hold mushrooms. If I find rattan, it will probably take a lot of time to compile a vegetable basket, but now I have There is no rattan at all, only wood is available!”

If you have rattan or bamboo, putting together a vegetable basket won't take much time.The problem is that after so many visits to the mountains, he has not found any trace of the bamboo forest.Come to think of it, bamboo is relatively rare in the north.

After some consideration, Liu Yaozu felt that using the remaining wood to make a simple portable wooden box could also meet his needs.Finding some wood, he quickly made it into a portable wooden box, which is actually just a wooden box.

Looking at the final completion, the hand-held wooden box presented in front of me, although the style is not too beautiful, can be used to store the picked mushrooms, so there must be no problem.Spread some pine needles on the bottom to ensure that the mushrooms will not be damaged during transportation.

"Well, not bad! Although it's the first time I made it, the wooden basket made of this kind of wood is still very practical."

To comfort myself, Liu Yaozu didn't stay at the shelter for too long.Taking advantage of the early time, he hurried to the jungle where he didn't go yesterday, picked all the fresh mushrooms that grew there and dried them in the sun.

After picking a box of mushrooms, he put them under the eaves of the shelter first, and then continued to pick them.As for the work of cleaning and drying, he felt that it would not be too late to do it later.And this time, the drying rack has not been set up yet!

When Liu Yaozu was searching for good-looking fresh mushrooms all over the forest, he suddenly heard a voice not far away, and he also hurriedly got up to look around.After a while, he heard someone entering the mountain and heading towards the jungle where he was.

He immersed himself in picking mushrooms for a while, and when the sound approached, Liu Yaozu deliberately coughed a few times.The voices that were chatting at first stopped quickly.After a while, a voice said, "Who is it?"

"I'm from Kaoshantun, which village are you from?"

"Hey, he's still a man! Did you get up earlier than us? I said that there are not many good mushrooms in this forest!"

From the voices of these conversations, Liu Yaozu also knew that it should be a group of women.In fact, most of the activities of going to the mountains to pick mushrooms are rural women going to the mountains in groups.If the price is good, many men will be dragged into the mountains to help.

When the two sides met in the forest, one of the mushroom picking women in the group of five stared at Liu Yaozu and said, "You are from the mountain village? Then why haven't I seen you? Are you alone in the mountains?"

Seeing the suspicious expression on the middle-aged woman's face, Liu Yaozu took a closer look and then said with a smile, "Are you Aunt Lanhua? I am Master Cheng's grandson Yaozu. I lived in the city a few years ago. I haven't lived in the village for long."

A woman who dares to say this must have a better understanding of Kaoshantun.And Liu Yaozu also knew that there were women who married into the villages in the nearby ten miles and eight villages, and naturally there were also women from the village who married into other villages.And the woman in front of her is the married Liu's daughter.

Compared with when children grow up, it is difficult to find the body shape and appearance when they were young, but the face shape of adults basically does not change much.As for the woman in front of him, Liu Yaozu actually met him a few times when he lived in the village in his early years.

In terms of seniority, he really wants to call the other person aunt!
As Liu Yaozu announced his family status, the middle-aged woman was also surprised and said: "Ah! You are Uncle Cheng's grandson? Aren't you in the imperial capital? When did you come back? By the way, are you picking mushrooms here?"

"A few years ago, I was working and living in the imperial capital. I felt homesick some time ago, so I decided to go back to the village to live for a while. I came to this forest two days ago. I saw that there were a lot of mushrooms, so I picked some and planned to dry them. It’s become something useful!”

Pointing to the wooden box next to her, the woman who went into the mountain with the orchid girl also asked a few more questions curiously.For these middle-aged women who have had children for many years, they are indeed much more courageous than young girls!
Knowing that Liu Yaozu had entered the mountains two days ago, they were naturally curious.In order to satisfy their curiosity, Liu Yaozu took them directly to the shelter without saying anything.The women were shocked when they saw the built wooden houses.

One of them was even more puzzled and said, "You built this house? All right, why did you come to live in the mountains?"

"I've lived in the city for too long, and I've been thinking about the mountains for so many years. The important thing is that this mountain is quieter than the village. And I often go to the mountain and build a wooden house like this. It will be convenient for me to come and live in the future."

On the contrary, Aunt Lanhua said very directly: "Azu, are you not afraid of living alone in the mountains?"

"There is nothing to be afraid of! This house is very strong, and I brought a lot of guys into the mountain, including hatchets and axes. By the way, Aunt Lanhua, you should not go down the mountain at noon? Or, come and eat later Potluck?"

"Can you still cook here?"

"Yes! If I can't cook, how dare I live here! In fact, I built these wooden houses because I heard from the villagers that in the past few years, when the weather is bad when I go to the mountains, people who go to the mountains may have accidents.

If people who go into the mountains can find the wooden house I built, it will also have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.Although I didn't prepare bedding or other things in this house.But there's nothing wrong with making a fire to keep warm. "

It is rare to meet villagers in the neighboring village, and Liu Yaozu also directly told him his real intention of building a shelter in the mountains.Hearing what he said, several women also admired him a little bit.After all, this is doing good deeds too!

Open the wooden door and let Aunt Lanhua and others go in and have a look. Several women saw that although there are not many things inside, they can really live in.And in the wooden house, they also saw Liu Yaozu's computer and lamp on the table.

It can be seen from this that Liu Yaozu did not fool them, he really lived in the mountains for two days.In addition, there are wild mushrooms that he dried to dry, and a pile of wild mushrooms that have not been cleaned, which proves that he did not enter the mountains early in the morning.

Although they also brought food into the mountains, they had never done such a thing as lighting a fire and cooking in the mountains.Seeing that Liu Yaozu dug a pond to store water next to the shelter, they really thought this idea was very novel.

At the end of the chat, Aunt Lanhua didn't refuse the invitation, but thinking of the purpose of the trip, they still planned to pick mushrooms first.And Liu Yaozu didn't want to keep it, telling him the location that he hadn't picked before, and let these women search for it.

While staying in the shelter, he also began to clean the wild mushrooms he had picked before.Then make a drying rack, and continue to spread the cleaned wild mushrooms to dry.After finishing these tasks, he also started to prepare lunch.

Although it is troublesome for a few more people to eat, Liu Yaozu thinks it is not a big problem.These women have to eat when they go to the mountains, what he really wants to do is to cook some vegetables and make soup, let them eat hot dishes and drink hot soup, I believe they will be very satisfied!

(End of this chapter)