Cute Beast Food Garden

Village entrance.

Several middle-aged men were driving a donkey cart, waiting for their companions to gather.The leader was an uncle in his 50s and [-]s, who was the father of Si Dongmo's next door neighbor, A Jin.

After waiting for a while, the person they were looking forward to finally appeared on the path at the entrance of the village, walking towards them with vigorous steps.

"Hey—Brother Mo! It's Brother Mo, did you see that he's really here!"

Seeing Si Dongmo's figure, Ah Jin was extremely excited.He waved happily at the man who was walking from a distance, jumping around on the spot.

He heard Ah Jin yelling from afar, and the man also grinned and smiled faintly: "Ah Jin." Walking closer, he patted Ah Jin on the shoulder, and then said the same to the men behind him. Greeted: "Le Bo, Ah Sheng, Ah Cai."

Together with Ah Jin are his father, elder brother, and a very young brother from the same family.After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone set off early.After all, there is still a long way to go from Lezhuang to the place where the mountain goods are harvested. It is necessary to go from the plains to the deep mountains, and the journey will be very hard.

Although the price is high, the profits from a trip into the mountains are also very considerable.If conditions permit, people who do mountain goods business in this area can't wait to plunge into the mountains and make enough money continuously.

This time, Si Dongmo went out with them and took on the task of protecting everyone. In return, Ah Jin's father, Le Bo, would not only take him into the mountains to familiarize himself with the road conditions, but also teach him the basics of buying and selling goods.Normally in the village, Si Dongmo was a man of few words but very enthusiastic, and would often help them selflessly, so this time the Loeb family also wanted to "join him" and help him.

As for Si Dongmo going out of the village this time, besides going into the mountains to learn how to pick goods, he also had other thoughts.His younger brother Le Hong's hunting and selling of venison earlier gave him some inspiration.If you sell the harvested mountain goods intact, you can only earn a cost price, which is relatively cheap.And if the mountain goods are processed and then sold, more profits can be made without having to be robbed of the price difference by the middleman.

Several people were driving the donkey cart and chatting casually. Suddenly, a small red fur ball emerged from Si Dongmo's black hair.The young man named Ah Cai had the sharpest eyes. He immediately pointed to the red spot on the man's head and shouted, "Oh my God, Brother Mo's head is on fire!"

The man reached up and took the little bird off the top of his head. He looked at the boy with a smile on his face and said, "This is my little bird named Xiaohong."

"Guguji!" Qi Yandi protested by flapping his wings countless times.My name is not Xiaohong!

And the boy mistakenly thought that the screaming bird was greeting him, not only was not ashamed, but also showed a simple and honest smirk at it.

"Brother Mo, what kind of bird is this?"

Si Dongmo shook his head: "I don't know, but it has many unique skills. I saw it spray fire before, and it can also spit venom."

"That's weird." A Cai's eyes widened, "I heard that birds and beasts usually only have one skill, but this little red has the ability of raging fire and poison at the same time... This little thing is really not simple. "

After Qi Yan came to the other world, he heard people mention the word "alien beast" several times.He knew that "strange beasts" actually referred to living creatures in this world, including "birds" like him, fish like catfish in the river, and even the snake belly flower beside Sidong Mo's field. Because of its ability to move and carnivorous attributes, it is classified under the "exotic beast" category.The rest of the vegetation that does not move is collectively classified as plants.

Ah Cai asked Le Bo: "Uncle, do you know what kind of bird this is?"

Among them, Le Bo is the elder with the most senior experience, and he has been traveling around all the year round, so he should be well-informed.But after he looked intently at the appearance of the little bird, he also showed a puzzled expression: "I don't know either. However, this bird is still a fledgling, and perhaps when it grows up, its characteristics will be more obvious and easy to identify." .”

The appearance of the "new companion" has attracted everyone's attention.The boy named Ah Cai seemed to like Qi Yan very much, and even generously took out the melon seeds in his pocket, hoping to feed "Xiao Hong" to eat.

After obtaining Qi Yan's own consent, the man put the bird in the boy's palm.Ah Cai held the little bird carefully, watching the round, fat ball pecking melon seeds bit by bit in his hand, the pecking in his palm made him grin his teeth, and at the same time he was very excited.

Sometimes the teenager couldn't help stretching out his fingers, scratching the bird's furry back twice, and pinching the small elastic body.But when he saw those big pale blue eyes looking at him innocently, he swallowed again, and forcibly held back the urge to ruthlessly stroke his hair.

"Dong Mo, I heard that your Le family still owes boss Yao a lot of gambling debts?"

Loeb asked the man about repaying the debt.Si Dongmo also said frankly: "Yes. Three years ago, Master Le Jia was trapped by Boss Yao. He ate, drank, prostituted and gambled there. He lost all of the family's [-] acres of land, and even mortgaged the house. Boss Yao saw that our family had nothing and could not repay the debt, so he borrowed another seven or eight mu of land for us to plant.

But you also know, Uncle Le, that such a small piece of land is enough to feed our family of three, and if we barely have anything left over, we can earn two to three thousand copper coins a year. Pay off gambling debts in a short time. "

Lobo patted him on the shoulder: "You don't have to worry, it's faster to make money from making mountain goods than farming. It would be great if you went into the mountains with us early in the morning."

Si Dongmo nodded and smiled: "I know. However, my younger brother Le Hong...he is out of control, so I don't worry about letting him stay at home with his mother alone. My mother is not in good health recently, and often lies on the bed He is recovering from his illness, and Le Hong can't even cook, and he doesn't have the patience to make medicine for my mother. I'm afraid they will suffer at home."

He added: "Additionally, Boss Yao will come to collect debts every two months. With my brother's violent temper, I'm afraid that he will act like a hero when he is alone at home and fight with others again."

Hearing him talk about the situation at home, Lobo understood: "Your younger brother is not a blood relative, so it's not convenient to discipline him. It's just that his mother is his own mother. No matter how naughty and lazy he is, he has to be careful. Be angry with your own biological mother. But then again, are you relieved that he is at home this time?"

Si Dongmo looked a little helpless, "Fortunately, the people from the casino have come to collect debts a few days ago, and they won't come to them again in the short term. However, before going out this time, I promised Le Hong that he would make enough money Copper coins, that is, ten silver dollars will go home, otherwise he will not stay at home so obediently to take care of his mother next time."

Le Bo frowned slightly, and thought: "Ten silver dollars... We usually earn twenty silver dollars for a trip, or the sum of several people." He looked at Si Dongmo, "You earn ten silver dollars alone, Some difficulty."

Si Dongmo smiled: "You don't have to worry about it, Uncle Le. According to your original plan, you will go to the mountains to pick goods. I will only take what I deserve, and I will find a way for the part that is not enough."

Seeing his confident appearance, Lo Bo also smiled and nodded without saying a word.

They rushed on the mountain road non-stop.It was already midsummer at this time, and the village outside the mountain was already sweltering with heat, but it was unexpectedly cold in the deep mountains, or to be more precise - cold.

The mountains were shrouded in clouds and mist, and layers of green vegetation blocked the light. From time to time, a damp mountain wind blew past. The little bird staying above the man's head couldn't help shrinking into a ball and shivering.

But despite the cold and a little spooky, there are good things in the mountains.Qi Yan looked around curiously. The nearby plants were very lush. There were not only plants he was familiar with, but also plants with strange shapes that he had never seen before. It is walking, so it is also classified as a kind of "exotic beast".

After spending most of the day entering the mountain, people were already quite tired, so no one said much, but concentrated on collecting mushrooms, fungus and various unknown nuts and wild vegetables along the way.Ah Jin and others taught Si Dongmo to identify various plants, and Qi Yan, who was lying on the man's head, also took the opportunity to steal from the teacher and learned a lot of knowledge.

There are actually quite a few people who come out of Lezhuang to pick goods on the mountain, so the plants around the outer edge of the mountain have almost been picked.Le Bo and his party drove straight in and reached a deeper place in the mountain.This place is even more desolate, and ferocious beasts often appear here, so fewer people set foot here, leaving more plants for collection.

They collected as they walked, and soon, the two sacks were full.The impatient Ah Cai couldn't help but took a handful of nuts from the bag and held them in his palm. He ate them while walking forward, and even fed them to the boy standing on his arm with great interest. little bird.

The little bird took a nut from Ah Cai's hand.It had never seen this kind of nut before, and only felt that the black shell was very thick and hard.The bird barely knocked the shell open after dozens of pecks with its sharp beak.

Glancing sideways quietly, Qi Yan found that Ah Cai himself had spent a lot of effort to break off the shell, and then threw the brown rice grains inside into his mouth.

After Qi Yan pecked open the shell, he took a piece of rice from the inside and chewed it in his mouth.He thought that the hard nuts must be very dry, but he didn't expect it to taste sweet after eating.Seeing Ah Cai strenuously unscrew the nuts one by one, he kind of understood why the boy had to eat it into his mouth even though he put in so much effort.The mouth is dry when walking in the mountains, but the nuts taste unexpectedly cool, a bit like ice cream in the deep mountains.

Seeing the little bird looking at him, Ah Cai explained vaguely while eating the nut: "This fruit is called 'Mountain Bingguo', it tastes cool, but it's hard to open the shell."

Ah Jin also picked a mountain ice fruit and broke it open with both hands: "This fruit is easy to pick, but it can't be sold at a good price. Because this kind of thing is mainly bought by rich people in the market or big restaurants. And these people usually don’t have the patience to peel the shells slowly, so what we buy is the shelled ones. After we pick them, we sell them to the special people in the village to peel them, and they sell them to the town.”

Le Bo also said: "I remember that the old Tan's family at the east end of the village does not go to the field every summer, waiting to harvest the fruits to peel them, such as almonds, pine nuts, walnuts, chestnuts, etc., and then bring them to the town, or directly It is said that after one summer, thick calluses formed on the hands of men, women and children in their family, and it was difficult to even move their fingers." He shook his head, "Oh, all the money is earned. Hard money."

"But it's not a lot of money, it's twice as high as what we sold it for." A Cai said with envy in his eyes.

While eating, Qi Yan looked at the nuts in the young man's hand, and couldn't help thinking.Indeed, they can only earn a "transportation fee" when they go into the mountains to collect nuts, and the real value is the finished product that is processed and sold by others.

If they are processed and then sold to the market, the number of copper plates that can be obtained may be doubled several times.