roccoschili Chapter 126 Team up and go deep into the mountains
Chapter 126 Team up and go deep into the mountains
While the women were preparing vegetables for the winter, the men of the two families were not idle either. Bai Chong was seizing the time to stockpile medicinal herbs, while the men of the Gu family were collecting and chopping firewood.
When Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou were free, Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi broke away from their original teams. They wanted to follow Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan into the mountains.
In addition to this couple, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan also planned to bring Bai Chong, Bai Jingshan, Ning Qirui, Jia Yuelan and Gu Wenxuan's cousins.
The reason they brought these people along was, on the one hand, because Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou really needed help, and on the other hand, because they wanted these people to make more money before the snow fell.
Their business scope is very wide. Hunting, collecting herbs, collecting honey, digging kudzu root and yam (yam), and picking wild fruits and nuts are all among their purposes for going into the mountains.
The more common medicinal materials on the mountain at present include kudzu, wolfberry, astragalus, angelica, atractylodes, siler, perilla seed, ginseng, etc. The more common wild fruits and nuts include chestnuts, pine nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, red dates, hawthorn, pears, persimmons, oranges, apples, etc.
These wild fruits and nuts can be stored for a long time if dried or put in a cellar.
In addition to these, people can often pick up pheasant eggs in the grass and wild duck eggs by the stream or pond.
It is worth mentioning that Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan also led everyone to catch fish at a pond they accidentally discovered.
The fish in the mountains have long been ignored. Not only are they large and delicious, but they are also stupid and have no sense of crisis.
The bait (earthworms) made from local materials and the primitive and extremely simple fishing gear (backpacks, fishing nets) allowed them to happily welcome a big harvest every time.
They went into the mountains time and time again, and each time they carried back the rich harvest, they were exhausted, sweating and panting. How could the villagers not be jealous?
Many people were in a state of uncertainty. Some of them called upon the villagers with whom they had a good relationship to form a team and go into the mountains together, or they shamelessly approached Gu Wenxuan's family, Bai Jingzhou's family, and the Fang brothers, hoping that they would take them with them.
Of course, the Fang brothers would not agree to such a request in private. They all said in unison that they were just benefiting from it and did not have the authority to decide on adding people.
After hearing this, the other party asked them to help intercede. The Fang brothers had already received Gu Wenxuan's approval and knew that she would not bring more people into the mountains, so they shook their heads and refused again, "Wenxuan has already said that she will not bring any more people."
Those people still refused to give up. They sat there and gave all kinds of bad advice to the Fang brothers. In short, they were determined to force them to find the Gu family and add themselves to this team.
Since the Fang brothers disagreed, those people couldn't help but get sarcastic, but they were directly scolded back by Gu Xing.
In her words, the mountains are accessible to everyone, so if you want to go, just go by yourself, and no one will stop you.
But the question is, how do those people have the ability to go deep into the mountains by themselves?
The reason why they racked their brains, used both soft and hard tactics, and were determined to join the team of Gu Wenxuan and others, wasn't it because by following capable people, they could not only benefit from the connections, but also have free thugs to protect themselves?
To put it bluntly, they just want Gu Wenxuan and others to be bodyguards, and they also want to have a share of the cake from their plates.
Gu Xing is not stupid, and those people don't hide their thoughts at all, it would be strange if she couldn't see it.
After scolding away those guys who never wanted to take advantage and got angry when they couldn't get any, Gu Xing praised her son and nephew with a gratified look on her face, "You handled this matter very well."
The Fang brothers smiled innocently. They didn't tell Gu Xing that it wasn't because they had quick wits, but because Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan had anticipated that they would face this kind of predicament, so they had already thought of ways to deal with it.
As for Bai Jingzhou's family and Gu Wenxuan's family.
The only trouble for Gu Wenxuan's family came from her third grandfather's family. Ever since her third grandmother found out that Gu Wenxuan's family had taken the Fang family into the mountains, she had been feeling unhappy.
In her opinion, Gu Xing was a daughter who was married off and was like water spilled out of the door, unlike her man, who was a brother to Old Man Gu from the same mother.
In terms of closeness, she felt that her family and Gu Wenxuan's family should be the closest.
But what did Gu Wenxuan's family do? When something good happened, they only thought about Gu Xing's family.
She was holding back a lot of anger in her heart. Usually she was timid and cowardly, but this time she was brave for once.
She ran to Gu Wenxuan's house and said, "Second brother, second sister-in-law, Yongming, your family is doing better now, can you also take care of my disappointing child?"
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Li looked at each other, and no one spoke.
As Gu Yongming continued to spread out and dry the various nuts they had obtained today, he said to his third aunt in a slightly apologetic tone:
"I'm sorry, Third Aunt, we went to the deep mountains. There are not only wolves, tigers, leopards, black bears and large groups of wild boars, but also more poisonous snakes and insects than in the mountains that other people in the village have gone to."
"Yongkang has never practiced martial arts and has never been to the mountains before. We dare not take him to such a place."
The third branch of the family only has one son, Gu Yongkang, and since he got married, he has only had two daughters. If something happens to him in the mountains, Gu Yongming dare not imagine how his third aunt will treat his family.
He didn't want to cause trouble for himself, so naturally he wouldn't agree to take Gu Yongkang into the mountains.
However, Gu Yongming's third aunt did not give up so easily. She said, "He is going with you, not alone. Even if there is danger, can't you protect him?"
Gu Yongming was speechless for a moment. Oh my god, it turned out that he wanted to hold them back while taking a piece of the pie from them.
He was just thinking about how to say it so as to firmly reject the matter without hurting the relationship between relatives, when Gu Wenxuan threw away the chestnuts in her hand and stood up with a sullen face.
She asked, "We protect him? Are we protecting him or doing something? If we don't do anything, will these things automatically run into our backpacks? Or do you plan to make up for our losses on a daily basis, Third Grandma?"
"Why are you so angry, kid?" Gu Tong's wife felt guilty for a moment, "Then, then how about letting him follow you from a distance?"
Gu Wenxuan could no longer suppress her anger, "What if he loses us? What if a wild animal suddenly attacks him from behind?"
"Let's not talk about whether he can get anything by following behind. Let's just say that if he is attacked by wild animals and dies, will you come to my house to make trouble? Will you resent us for not protecting him well?"