Chapter 205 Original Sin 14
But now there’s no need to worry, because Lin Shuangshuang’s mushroom quality is good. When she went to the town to sell mushrooms, a restaurant owner from the county, who was visiting his parents in the village, took a liking to them. Now, Yun Shuangshuang sells all her mushrooms directly to him.
These days, Yun Shuangshuang just picks the mushrooms and sells them directly to this restaurant owner without needing to put them in a basket. She and the restaurant owner agreed that whenever she sells mushrooms, they would weigh and price them less. The excess, Yun Shuangshuang secretly keeps for herself.
The owner also knows that these mushrooms are all picked by little Yun Shuangshuang, and because she handles things very maturely, he agreed. The owner’s restaurant is quite large, and if Yun Shuangshuang finds truffles, he certainly has the capability to purchase them.
When Yun Shuangshuang really started digging for truffles on the mountain, she realized she had underestimated it. Truffles are not just hard to pick; they’re extremely hard to find. On the first day, she wandered around all day and, besides the usual mushrooms, didn’t find a single truffle.
For seven consecutive days, she gathered a pile of mushrooms, but as for truffles, Yun Shuangshuang kept sniffing the air, trying to discern the unique scent of truffles. She almost developed rhinitis before she found three truffles!
Although it took many days to find just three truffles, Yun Shuangshuang was quite lucky; these were three white truffles. Due to their rarity compared to black truffles, the price of white truffles is seven to eight times higher.
Two of them were small, only fist-sized — and by fist, I mean Yun Shuangshuang’s fist. The biggest one was as large as a big Fuji apple. The truffle was dense, heavy in the hand, and although it is a fungus, its taste and appearance are completely different from mushrooms.
Lin Shuangshuang weighed these three truffles and thought they must be over a pound. The rarity of truffles is because they can’t be cultivated artificially, which is why their prices are high. These three white truffles were of excellent quality and very fresh, worth about two thousand yuan.
After returning, Lin Shuangshuang carefully wrapped the three truffles in wild grass and hid them. Although this area isn’t the main production area for truffles, every year, someone occasionally finds them, so people in the village recognize these expensive fungi. Everyone fears missing out on them because it would be like brushing past stacks of cash.
For the past two months, Yun Shuangshuang has been eating very well and exercising a lot. A child’s body changes daily. Though her height hasn’t changed much yet, her body has become much stronger. At least she’s no longer just skin and bones like when she first woke up, and she’s gained some strength.