Chapter 79 - 079. Intention to Raise Chickens (Collected 2,400+)
After a night of deep sleep, Shuzhen woke up again when the day was already bright.
Pulling open the curtains, seeing the sun outside, it must be around nine or ten o’clock.
The bedding on the kang where Lianshan slept had already been folded and stored in the kang cabinet, and the room was tidied up neatly. The thousands of catties of mushrooms that were processed overnight last night were also properly placed in the yard.
She didn’t know where he got those forty or fifty large frames from, but the shallow round frames with a diameter of more than a meter were set up on racks supported by bricks and wooden sticks.
The small yard was densely packed with these large frames, leaving only a walkway about a meter wide from the house door to the courtyard gate.
After a morning of sun exposure, the topmost layer had shrunk considerably.
The fungus, with less moisture and easier to dry, seemed half-dried already.
It was from the note left by her husband on the dresser that Shuzhen learned they felt it was a massive harvest after a day of mushroom picking, so they set off early in the morning, bringing enough dry food and sacks. After tossing the mushrooms and fungus into the specially borrowed drying frames, they hurried up the mountain.
However, seeing Shuzhen sleeping soundly, Lianshan couldn’t bear to wake her to follow them into the mountains.
Anyway, there was someone at home to guard everything, and those mushrooms and fungus drying outside needed someone to keep an eye on them and turn them over from time to time!
Perhaps worried she might have any complaints about being left behind, Lianshan left Shuzhen a long note in his few known Chinese characters with handwriting that wasn’t quite neat. With a tone like soothing a child, he talked a lot about the importance of looking after the house.