I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 129 Yu Mei grows bagged wood ear mushrooms in her own yard (1 An unexpected encounter with b

Yu Mei's small soy sauce workshop failed again, and her two daughters just started going to school in the spring.

She sat helplessly in Chen Lixin's own diesel tricycle, which he was driving to deliver goods and take a stroll to clear her head.

The tricycle was loaded with a set of black leather sofas. The tricycle drove for more than half an hour to a distance of more than ten kilometers from the furniture store on Erbai Street in the Seventh City. Then it arrived at the outskirts of a village. All that could be seen in the fields outside the village were white plastic films from which tiny black petals were seeping out, blooming with vigor.

It is quite obvious that the main source of income for this village is the cultivation of black fungus.

Just then, the tricycle arrived in the middle of the village and stopped in front of an open wooden gate. A middle-aged woman of about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old with an ordinary appearance quickly stepped out.

The two got off the bus at the same time.

The woman heard the clattering of the tricycle inside her house and knew that the deliveryman for her sofa had arrived. She then said to the driver, "He'll be back soon to help you carry the sofa. My house is in the mushroom field near the village; he'll be there in a bit."

Yu Mei saw that the man who delivered the sofa was walking home from the black fungus base outside the village.

"He's here. Hurry up, he's been here for a while. You guys are busy, I need to go back to the room to make lunch. Are you going to stay for lunch after you're done?"

Yu Mei smiled and refused. Chen Lixin was only focused on helping the male homeowner lift the sofa from the car, which had been untied and secured with car seat belts.

The sofa is made of two custom-made sets of black leather.

The two men carried the sofa to the cement floor of the west room of the three-room red brick house.

Just then, the woman finished cooking lunch and insisted that the couple who had brought the sofa stay for lunch.

The farmer himself said that he grows black fungus in a small area outside the village. The whole village grows black fungus in bags. Every year in winter, each household goes to the nearby mountains to collect fungus segments, then returns home and uses various machines to grind the segments into small pieces before packing them into white fungus bags—it's a very troublesome process.

We also had to use wooden chopsticks to cultivate wood ear fungus in winter, and then put the wood ear fungus from the chopsticks into bags of white wood ear sawdust in spring, and disinfect them. For a period of time, the cultivation of wood ear fungus was kept in the laboratory, and outsiders were not allowed to enter.

Yu Mei and Chen Lixin couldn't refuse the farmer couple's hospitality, so they stayed for a meal. A simple meal was laid out on the table. "Brother and sister-in-law, we still have goods to deliver, so we won't bother you any longer," they said. The farmer couple didn't press the matter further and saw them out.

Yu Mei and Chen Lixin got back into the tricycle and continued on their way. On the road, Yu Mei looked at the fields outside the window and said thoughtfully, "Although our small workshop failed, look at others, they also built up the black fungus industry little by little. We shouldn't give up so easily."

Chen Lixin nodded and said, "Yes, but we need to change our approach. We can't keep doing this blindly."

As they were talking, the tricycle suddenly lurched; it had run over a large rock. Chen Lixin quickly stopped to check and found that the tire was flat.

The two looked at each other, bewildered; they were in the middle of nowhere. Just then, a tractor pulled up behind them. The driver was the same man who had delivered the furniture earlier. He inquired about their situation and, upon learning of their predicament, helped tow the tricycle to the repair shop ahead. Yu Mei and Chen Lixin were extremely grateful, as if they had seen a glimmer of new hope.

Before leaving, the man left a phone number on an old-fashioned mobile phone, saying his surname was Yin and his name was Yin Cheng. He told him to call if anything happened.

Yu Mei used her old-fashioned mobile phone to write down his phone number.

Then Yu Mei and Chen Lixin returned home in their tricycle. Yu Mei took out her phone, looked at Yin Cheng's phone number, and started to laugh. She told Chen Lixin that she also wanted to grow bagged black fungus.

Chen Lixin stared in surprise, but did not stop her. As long as Yu Mei wanted to do something, it was a legitimate matter, and he would not interfere.

Without further ado, Yu Mei called Yin Cheng to ask if he would agree to help guide her in cultivating bagged black fungus. The man immediately agreed.

Then, Yu Mei needed a large yard to grow black fungus. She and Li Xin discussed selling the three red brick houses they had built last year. A few days later, they found a three-room adobe house with old tiles. The yard in front of the house was very large, about half a square meter in size.

Then they started working on the yard. Yu Mei and Chen Lixin began clearing away the clutter and tidying it up. Yin Cheng was also very helpful, bringing over some tools and materials needed for mushroom cultivation.

He first taught Yu Mei not to be unlucky, because a sudden rainstorm swept in, destroying part of the newly prepared land and ruining some of the fungi.

Looking at the messy yard, Yu Mei felt utterly dejected. But remembering the perseverance she had witnessed from that farmer's family, she gritted her teeth and decided to start over.

Chen Lixin borrowed money from various places to repurchase the mushroom spawn, while Yu Mei took even better care of the remaining planting area.

Days passed, and finally, the harvest season arrived. Tiny wood ear mushrooms, like black jewels, hung all over the mushroom bags. Yu Mei and Chen Lixin excitedly picked them, their faces beaming with happiness.

They took the wood ear mushrooms to the market to sell, and because of their excellent quality, they quickly sold out. This success not only allowed them to pay off their debts but also left them with a small profit.

Yu Mei was filled with emotion, knowing that as long as she didn't give up, life would always reward her.

From then on, they lived a stable and prosperous life by growing bagged black fungus.

The following spring, Yin Cheng again provided the fungus for Yu Mei to cultivate autumn fungus in her yard. Yu Mei, in turn, paid him with the white fungus seeds she had cultivated herself in her kitchen hut. Yu Mei gave him extra seeds to cover the cost of the seeds, and he smiled and said that he was happy with just the cost.

The sawdust was also provided by Yin Cheng; in short, most of the raw materials for making wood ear mushrooms were provided by Yin Cheng. Of course, his wife didn't mind. No matter how much prettier Yu Mei was than her, she believed that her man was a decent man and would never do anything to betray her.

That spring and summer, the wood ear mushrooms in the courtyard in front of Yu Mei's three mud-brick houses grew well, and the weather was also kind, with a light to moderate rain falling just in time.

It's autumn now, and we're all looking forward to harvesting the first batch of black fungus.

Yu Meili and her two daughters, Liu Shulan and Liu Shuqin, looked at the large, plump black fungus hanging on the bags of fungus in the yard, which was very appealing.

Just then, at noon that day, a sudden gale arose, a torrential downpour struck, and the sky turned black in an instant, as if the end of the world was coming!

Lixin immediately pulled his family into the house to close the doors and windows...

However, the wind was too strong, and several strong gusts threw Lixin out of the door. Yumei came to help him pull the door open. Fortunately, with one more person, there was more strength, and the door was finally closed.

Just then, the hailstones shattered several pieces of glass with a loud crackling sound, and several sharp pieces of glass pierced straight into Liu Shuqin's heart, who was hiding inside the house!