Chapter 201 - Take You up the Hill to Pick Mushrooms
The night passed quietly, and the next morning.
Old Master Liu was old, and he was an elder in the village.
His hundredth birthday was extremely lively.
The villagers were setting off firecrackers.
There were a lot of people who came to congratulate him.
As a junior in the village, Su Ming bowed to Old Master Liu according to the rules and received a piece of cake.
Just as he found a place to sit down, a person anxiously walked over.
“Old Su, you really came back!”
Cao Mingyuan walked over from the side in surprise. He looked at Su Ming and said happily, “Others told me you were back, but I didn't believe them. I didn't expect you to really come back!”
“Cao!”
Seeing his good friend, Su Ming smiled and said, “You're too busy. I don't dare to disturb you.”
Cao Mingyuan nodded and said: “Old Su, you know me best!”
However, there was a hint of guilt in his words.
In fact, he really wasn't too busy because he played mahjong all night.
If news of this got out, he would be labeled as lazy in the village.
It was summer, which was a busy time for farming, but he went to play mahjong.
He could spend more time to earn more money.
Cao Mingyuan couldn't help but yawn.
He rubbed his eyes and looked up at the sky.
“The weather forecast says that it will rain this afternoon, but it will stop in the middle of the night. I have nothing to do tomorrow. Let's go up the mountain.”
“What are we going there for?”
Su Ming was stunned for a moment.
The country no longer allowed people to hunt as they pleased. Why did he want to go up the mountain?
“Don't play dumb!”
Cao Mingyuan saw Su Ming's puzzled expression and said in surprise, “Go up the mountain to pick mushrooms!”
Su Ming's hometown was not in the mountains, but it was surrounded by mountains.
In summer, the temperature here was suitable. Every time it rained, there would be many wild mushrooms growing in the mountains.
At this time, the experienced elders in the village would go up the mountain to pick mushrooms.
The wild mushrooms tasted very good.
Although wild mushrooms were expensive, there was a shortage of wild mushrooms at this time of year.
The villagers would take advantage of this season to go up the mountain to pick some mushrooms and make money.
But the prerequisite was that the villagers had to know wild mushrooms.
There were not only edible mushrooms on the mountain, but also many inedible mushrooms.
Inedible mushrooms were poisonous. They might cause hallucinations, but those who were poisoned would be cured after going to the hospital to have their stomachs pumped and injections.
Some mushrooms were very poisonous. As long as people ate them, they would die.
Every year, there would be news from their village and the surrounding villages that someone had mistakenly eaten poisonous mushrooms and entered the hospital.
The method to tell if the mushrooms were poisonous was passed down from mouth to mouth, not in books.
The older people knew this very well, so they would not pick poisonous mushrooms.
But every year, new people would join.
It was very easy for these new people to be hospitalized because they ate poisonous mushrooms at this season.
If it was someone else, Su Ming might have agreed.
But he was Cao Mingyuan.
The two of them grew up together and knew each other very well.
So Su Ming knew that he had never been reliable!
“I'm not going!”
Su Ming was very determined.
Cao Mingyuan was a little stunned when he heard this. Why did he refuse so quickly?
Su Ming didn't believe him!
“Why aren't you going?”
Cao Mingyuan blinked.
Seeing Cao Mingyuan's expression, Su Ming felt helpless.
It was because of Cao Mingyuan that Su Ming did not go.
Since he was young, Su Ming had been deceived by Cao Mingyuan many times.
Even if the two of them were childhood friends, Su Ming was unwilling to agree this time.
They were not going to do anything else, but to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms.
It was very possible that Cao Mingyuan, on a whim, had cooked the mushrooms he picked into a pot of mushroom soup.
But Su Ming would not drink it.
“I'm tired!”
Su Ming made up an excuse. He picked up a piece of cake and stuffed it into his mouth.
“Don't make excuses! Don't you believe in my strength?”
Cao Mingyuan couldn't help but roll his eyes.
“Although I dropped out of junior high school and was not as cultured as you, I haven't been idle all these years!”
“Every year, I follow my mother up the mountain. I know a lot of mushrooms now.”
“My mother told me that I already have the ability to go up the mountain alone this year!”
Cao Mingyuan took the cake in front of Su Ming and bit into it under Su Ming's extremely disdainful and speechless gaze.
“So, you can come up the mountain with me in peace. I promise you will have fun!”
Cao Mingyuan patted Su Ming's shoulder and patted his chest as he promised loudly.
He looked confident, but Su Ming felt that he wasn't very reliable.
The two of them grew up together and were very familiar with each other.
Su Ming knew how unreliable Cao Mingyuan was.
“I'm not going!”
Su Ming shook his head firmly.
He was not married yet, and he had no children. He would not take the initiative to get into danger.
“This cake tastes really good.”
Cao Mingyuan automatically ignored what Su Ming said and said, “The weather forecast says that the rain will stop after midnight. I'll come find you tomorrow morning. We'll go into the mountains in the afternoon and spend the night in the mountains!”
Spend the night in the mountain?
He would even get lost in the village, so how could he have the confidence to spend the night in the mountains?
“Mingyuan?”
Just as Su Ming was about to refuse, Lee Sumei walked over from the side. “I heard from your mother that you work in town. Why are you back?”
“It's Grandpa Liu's birthday today, so I took a leave of absence and came back.”
Cao Mingyuan said with a smile, “Aunt Lee, it's raining today. There must be a lot of mushrooms on the mountain tomorrow. I'm going to take Old Su up the mountain to pick mushrooms. You won't stop us, will you?”
“No.”
Lee Sumei smiled and patted Su Ming on the shoulder. “I'm very relieved that you two grew up together. Pick more mushrooms tomorrow. Your father and I will wait for you!”
“What?”
Su Ming was shocked.
Lee Sumei agreed to Cao Mingyuan's request just like that!
How could she agree to Cao Mingyuan's request?
Su Ming had never gone up the mountain to pick mushrooms before.
Because Lee Sumei's health was not good, she had never taken him up the mountain.
When Su Tao was young, he occasionally went up the mountain a few times, but in the past few years, he had never gone up the mountain once. Moreover, he knew very few varieties of mushrooms.
What if they ate poisonous mushrooms?
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