Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 695: Matsutake Mushrooms Are Everywhere

Zhou Xing said: "It's okay, one year is one year. If it were someone else, let alone one year, even if he used it for a lifetime, he wouldn't be able to ferment it. It's already very fast."

Everyone nodded.

Li said, "Eat, eat. Everyone is hungry. We have been so busy for more than a month that we haven't sat down to have a good meal. The mushrooms are finally sold out. We are done with all the work. We just have to wait for the winter."

Zhou Guo didn't say anything and concentrated on eating.

After the meal, the whole family gathered on the kang to settle the bill.

Li held the account book in her hand. "This year, the amount of mushrooms harvested from the mountain is less than in previous years, but this year is the year with the most money sold. The family has earned so much money this month."

He extended a nine gesture.

Everyone was quite surprised when they saw the number nine. How could so many be sold now?

Much more than last year.

Zhou Guxi said: "If there are a lot of mushrooms in the mountains next year, it is estimated that there will be tens of thousands. Matsutake mushrooms are really good things."

Zhou Mai and the others were all delighted. If the family could earn so much money every year, they could study with peace of mind.

Zhou Xing also breathed a sigh of relief. She was really worried because her family had spent so much money on her marriage. The key point was that she had so many younger brothers in the family who all needed to go to school, and Guoguo would have to get married in a few years. When she left, she took away most of the family's money.

She often couldn't sleep because of guilt. Now she had this money, and maybe even more next year, so what else did she have to worry about?

Wu Ya was so frightened that she couldn't even speak. She felt as if her body was floating while sitting on the kang. There was a buzzing sound in her ears and she couldn't hear a single word. She suspected that she was dreaming. What did she hear? The family earned nine thousand taels from selling pine mushrooms in just over a month?

I must be dreaming. How is it possible to earn so much money in just one month from a wild mushroom?

There's no way these rooms could hold all that money, right? She had never dreamed of having so much money!

Zhou Guo waited until they had finished talking and were happy enough before speaking, "I have some bad news to tell you."

"What bad news?" Li asked with a smile, not taking it seriously. The family had earned so much money in the past month, so any bad news was not important enough in her eyes.

Zhou Gu and the others didn't take it seriously. They smiled and drank tea and ate melon seeds.

Zhou Guo glanced at them and said in a deep voice, "According to the news that came back, pine mushrooms have appeared in several neighboring counties. They just came down the mountain yesterday."

Everyone: "..."

Everyone in the room looked at each other, and no one spoke.

Zhou Guo continued, "In the past few years, my family and even our village have made a lot of money from this fungus. We have directly jumped from poor farmers to big landlords. We have made enough. The world is so big, and the North is so big. We can't keep making so much money with this thing. I told you about this result a few years ago. I have warned you."

The old man nodded and said, "I didn't have time to tell you. Today, I went hunting on the mountain near Guqiao Village and found one there. It's just that it's deep there, so few people dare to go in. But the sales of pine mushrooms have been so good in recent years, it's only a matter of time before someone finds it."

Zhou Mai couldn't help but say, "In the past few years, there were no other places. How come they are everywhere now? In the past few years, people from all over the country envy our village and dream of coming to our mountains to pick mushrooms. How come Guqiao Village hasn't found them in all these years?"

Zhou Mi looked at Zhou Guo and said, "Maybe God is especially kind to our family. He waited until we made enough money before letting others know about it. And it was when the mushrooms in our village were about to go out of season."

Zhou Su said, "How about we go and harvest those mushrooms in Guqiao Village? That way we can make some money this year."

The old man shook his head and said, "No, there aren't many left. The ancient bridge is just like our village. After the season, there is nothing left in the mountains. There is still a little left, but it is useless."

Zhou Guo shook his head and sighed, "It's useless even if I have it. The price I gave to the shopkeepers was too high. In the past few years, they must have asked around privately about where to get this stuff. I got the news, and they got the news no later than me. Maybe a few restaurants have already sent people over there to buy it. The mushrooms in our mountains can't be sold at that price!"

In fact, she felt that if she suffered losses here, the restaurants might also suffer losses.

As long as this thing comes out in large quantities and there is too much of it in the world, it will inevitably flow out. By then, the rich and powerful will have their own channels, and who will still keep an eye on the restaurant? If hers fails, several restaurants may not be better than her.

Li waved her hand and said, "It doesn't matter. If we can't sell it at a high price, then we can't sell it at a high price. Anyway, we have earned enough money in the past few years. At worst, we won't make this money in the future. We can just sell our own things."

As he said this, he actually sighed, then laughed, and said, "To be honest, this money came too easily and I always feel uneasy. You said that in previous years, we were such a big family, and the annual expenses were only a little over two strings of silver. Who would have thought that we would earn thousands of taels a month later? I'm afraid that even the emperor doesn't earn as much as we do. I'm always worried.

I was afraid that one day God would take all of this back. Now I have it elsewhere, so I think it’s not a bad thing. I am relieved. People should always live down to earth. That’s what life is all about. From now on, don’t think about it. If you can’t sell it, then you can’t sell it.”

Old man: "Yes, if our family has been selling this thing for a long time, I don't think it will be a good thing. It may be a good thing to sell it now."

The whole family nodded. Although it was a pity, what Mrs. Li and the old man said made sense. Besides, they had already made so much money, so they were content.

Even if a family does nothing now, they will still be able to spend all this money in a lifetime.

What's more, there are flower mushrooms, sheep mushrooms and manure from the farm at home. Any one of these things is a treasure if taken alone. If you have too many unique things in your hands, it may be a disaster.

Zhou Xing said: "Then next year we won't sell the mushrooms from the mountains. Let them sell them themselves?"

Zhou Guo said, "We'll see when the time comes. It should still be possible to sell it. If the big restaurant can't sell it, the small restaurant can still sell it. But the price will definitely be lower, maybe it will be cut in half. If it's too much, it may drop back to a few dozen coins per pound. But there will still be some profit. Let them sell it themselves, and let the surrounding villages make some money."

She has more important things to do.

Within a few days, the news that pine mushrooms had come down the mountain from Guqiao Village spread to all the surrounding villages.

This was too much. All the villages were in an uproar and went to the mountains of their own village. When they heard that there was no mountain in the shallow ones, they went to the deeper ones.

When we went deeper, we actually made some discoveries, including those in several villages.

Just not much.

Now, some are happy while others are sad.

The people in other villages were so happy that they went crazy, but everyone in Cangshan Village frowned.

I can only go to Zhou Guo’s house.