Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 78 - 0. A lifetime is not enough! It has to be for generations and generations!
Chapter 78: 078. A lifetime is not enough! It has to be for generations and generations!
After being fiercely declared love from a distance by his wife, Lianshan felt more than just the discomfort of his unlucky brother and brother-in-law’s spotlight-like stares making him awkward. He was filled with an overwhelming sweetness and joy.
Ah, it’s all because there are too many people around.
If not, he would have definitely dropped the sack and rushed into the house. Wouldn’t care about anything, just hold his wife, kiss her, hug her, and spin around a few times, properly expressing his inner ecstasy.
A lifetime of happiness and harmony, if that’s Shuzhen’s greatest wish. He would surely work hard, take good care of the family, and her as well as the children. Make her dreams come true with a lifetime of effort and devotion.
Meanwhile, Shuzhen was utterly embarrassed, as if an entire flock of alpacas had rushed past right before her eyes.
No need to touch, no need to measure, she already knew her face was as red as blood, hot enough to fry an egg.
Under the scorching gazes in the room, she didn’t dare to lift her head in her shyness. She just quickly helped her second sister-in-law, Su Hongying, set the table and cleared the dishes, urging their brothers to sit down for a meal.
If it weren’t for those more than twenty sacks full of mushrooms waiting for the group to sort, Shuzhen would have wanted to use the excuse of her baby bump to avoid the upcoming tasks and just hide in the house out of embarrassment.
The dinner of potato stuffed buns with mushroom and egg filling, mushroom soup with mashed potatoes, and garlic eggplants was once again lavishly praised with the men at the table.
The praises made Shuzhen’s embarrassed blush, which hadn’t fully faded, bloom with a touch of shyness.
Her blushing face and glistening almond eyes made Lianshan’s gaze slightly dazed; he just wanted to close the doors and call it a day, letting those mushrooms wait at the side!
But in fact, that was not feasible.
The mushrooms and fungi packed in sacks not only had to be processed but had to be done hastily.
You couldn’t sleep until they were neatly sorted.
The fungi, being mostly clean, were easy to handle: just tear them into suitable sizes, ensure they are ventilated and moisture-proof, and sun-dry them in high temperatures tomorrow.
The straw mushrooms, oil mushrooms, and some miscellaneous mushrooms were also manageable.
Those who liked fresh ones just had to pick, wash, boil them with salt water and marinate.
Those unwilling to use salt, simply shave off the soil and rotting leaves at the base with a knife, remove any dirt on the surface. Like the fungi, sun-dry them in high temperatures, and before cooking, rehydrate them in water, stir-fry, or stew.
The most troublesome were the most plentiful mushrooms, fully relied upon to bring in money.
Without it, selling price expectations naturally heightened.
Mushrooms that were too old, too young, or deformed from pressure and looked unsightly were all sifted out and kept home for personal consumption. Preferably with some scraps, they absolutely couldn’t allow the purchase stations to degrade them due to unfavorable appearance, as the difference in grade means quite a loss of money, or so they said.
It’s known as the fourth treasure of the Northeast, genuinely famous, and with a decent purchase price!
Even in purchasing stations, the best-grade mushrooms can fetch seven to eight dimes per pound. In the black market, selling at three to five yuan a pound wouldn’t be an issue.
Among these more than twenty sacks, fourteen were entirely mushrooms, nine were fungi, and the remaining three were various types of miscellaneous fungi.
Roughly weighing over four thousand pounds of mushrooms and fungi, even at a drying ratio of ten to one, they could yield a hundred to one hundred thirty pounds of fungi, two hundred or so pounds of mushrooms, and at least sixty or seventy pounds of various miscellaneous fungi.
If they were lucky this year with high mushroom prices from the purchase stations, their efforts today would settle over a hundred yuan worth of old debts!
No one expected the day’s harvest could be so immense, leaving all the men dumbfounded, didn’t they?
Even though mushroom picking isn’t exactly manly, but getting a year’s worth of income with just a day’s hard work was beyond imaginable! Not just picking mushrooms, but picking flowers, they’d still do it!
With the strong motivation to earn money, even though Liu Shouyi, Lian Hai, and Ning Jianshe were tired of looking at mushrooms, reluctant and dragging their feet to finish work, they suddenly perked up. In Shuzhen’s eyes, their speed seemed like transitioning from an old iron train to a magnetic levitation breakthrough.
Chit-chatting until at least midnight at eleven, they finally managed to take down all the mushrooms successfully.
After sending off the elders, siblings and spouses who insisted on another round in the morning, Shuzhen looked at the West room and kitchen filled with mushrooms and fungi, smiling with boundless happiness.
With this golden finger of supernatural ability, even in these harsh times lacking food and clothing, she still wasn’t distressed at all!
After eavesdropping on his wife’s talk about everyone needing to know how well-matched they are, looking like a lifelong happiness duo, Lianshan’s heart had been fluttering all night long.
If not for the presence of his brother and sister-in-law, sister, brother-in-law, and the urgent need to sort mushrooms,
Lianshan would have locked the doors and locked them, expressing his strong agreement through actions.
A whole lifetime of happiness and harmony, it simply struck his soul!
Suppressing himself painfully throughout the night, then looking at his wife’s joyous moonlit smile,
The instantly stricken Lianshan didn’t want to endure any longer and refused to endure it by quickly striding forward, wrapping the wife he had longed for tightly in his arms with a bear hug.
Before Shuzhen could ask what had stimulated him this late at night, her lips were captured by a passionate kiss.
With exceptional learning ability, the man had already adopted the stance of a novice advancing to a veteran overnight. The deep and lingering kiss left Shuzhen momentarily incapable of thinking, immersing herself in the deep kiss, completely entranced.
It was Lianshan who forcibly braked, considering her condition. Otherwise, the anticipated three months could have arrived prematurely.
"You..."
"I do."
"Eh?" Shuzhen was puzzled, what on earth was he willing to do?
"I’m willing to spend a lifetime of happiness and harmony with you, willing to put in my best effort to give you the best life I can offer!"
With a boom, Shuzhen’s beautiful face flushed instantly, evidently recalling that extremely embarrassing moment: "You, you are willing to what, that... that was just some casual talk between me and my second sister-in-law!"
"How can that be? As the ancients said, a promise is worth a thousand gold pieces, and honesty and trustworthiness are good qualities. Someone as wonderful as you deserves to have them!" Another passionate kiss seized Shuzhen’s lips, repeating over and over again, until Shuzhen’s almond eyes were filled with water and mist, and she coquettishly said a lifetime isn’t enough? With a husband as good as Lianshan, she would seize the opportunity for life and death, never giving other temptresses a chance.
He smiled contentedly and added a domineering declaration that if there’s no opportunity, they’ll create one to be together for life and death.
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