They say July is the hottest month, but for Xing'anling, which is in the midst of the heat, the temperature is only around 24 to 5 degrees Celsius. This temperature can be said to be the most comfortable day of the year, at least it's not cold at night.
The lush trees and dense branches and leaves sealed the forest tightly, blocking people's sight and blocking the blue sky.
It had just rained heavily in the morning. At this time, the sun was steaming, the mist rose from the valley, and the entire forest was immersed in milky white mist.
It's really like a fairyland.
Lu Lu lowered his head and searched in the forest, at the foot of trees, bushes, weeds, and dead wood piles. What he wanted was the eye for discovery. He didn't even need to be too careful, and there would always be surprises every few steps he took.
Chen Xiuyu was even more sharp-eyed. She used a small wooden stick in her hand to pull around. From time to time, she would squat down and dig out some mushrooms from among the thick rotten leaves and weeds. She would run back and forth around Lu Lu, like a cheerful child.
I was so busy that I was sweating.
There was a lot of rainwater on the branches and leaves that had not yet dried up in the sun. Her crest was wet with rainwater and sweat, and stuck tightly to her forehead. Her shoes were already wet, and even her trouser legs were mostly wet.
, but still can’t hide the excitement in my heart.
Chen Xiuyu was an expert at picking wild vegetables, mushrooms, mountain nuts and medicinal materials, and Lu Lu had already learned this.
In the past, the conditions at home were not good, and we were short of food, drink, and money, so we had to ask for many things from the mountains. This also gave me a good ability to find goods from the mountains.
In fact, most mountain people know very well what mushrooms can be eaten and what cannot be touched.
If you want to eat safe and delicious mushrooms, you don’t have to have some experience.
Lu Lu was far inferior to Chen Xiuyu in collecting mountain goods. The things he picked up were mainly people he knew from his previous collection of mountain goods. When he encountered something he didn't know, he had to ask Chen Xiuyu for advice.
Yes...only pick mushrooms that you know and are sure about.
Although it seems that you only need to go into the mountains to pick up the mushrooms, wash them, stir-fry and stew them in a pot, and eat them in your mouth, but if you don't know these things, what was originally a matter of enjoying delicious food has turned into risking your life.
When you eat mushrooms, you eat experience, experience accumulated from generation to generation over countless years.
Some mushrooms, even if others tell you they are edible, can still overwhelm a group of people if you take them back and cook them poorly.
Red umbrellas, white umbrellas, let’s lie down together after eating. This is a saying in later generations, although it is biased, but it is a good piece of advice now.
There is a plant kingdom in the southwest, which not only breeds countless rare treasures, but also breeds a lot of poisons.
The plant species in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains are slightly inferior to those of the Plant Kingdom, but they are also quite complex and contain a lot of poisons, so you have to be careful.
The most common mushrooms are the poisonous mushrooms such as the poisonous cup mushrooms and the deer flower mushrooms. These have strange shapes and weird colors. The key is that there are many poisonous mushrooms that are very similar to the mushrooms that are very rare for Northeastern people. People who are new here will be very surprised.
Difficult to distinguish.
Such as hazelnut mushrooms.
This is a rare good mushroom.
However, there is a kind of mushroom that looks very similar to the hazel mushroom, commonly known as the kick mushroom or the dog urine moss. This mushroom is highly poisonous.
Look, kicking your legs...is no worse than lying down!
In later generations, every summer, text messages on preventing fungus poisoning would be received by almost everyone in the Northeast.
Therefore, Lu Lu picked it up very carefully. He would even look at the ones picked up by Chen Xiuyu and only put them in the backpack if he was sure of them.
After entering this pine forest for more than two hours, Lu Lu's backpack was almost full. There were many kinds of mushrooms, and they felt heavy even when he was carrying them. He was full of harvest.
Chen Xiuqing is not bad either. He has much fewer mushrooms in his basket.
Not all people in the mountains are good at picking mushrooms. Some of these things are blatant in appearance, just in case you don’t know the same thing. But many good mushrooms are always well hidden, and you can’t even see them with blind eyes, even on your feet.
I have stepped on it and walked over it, only to turn around and see a mess of pieces, which makes me heartbroken.
Chen Xiuqing is a bit incompetent in this regard. Even though he is a native of the mountains, in real comparison, he is even inferior to Lu Lu.
After seeing the backpack that Lu Lu was carrying, Chen Xiuqing felt a little envious, especially when he saw the two of them sitting down to rest in the woods while he himself was still wandering around. He couldn't help but call out: "Sister
, help me to pick up some too.”
"You can eat as much as you want. I don't see you eating less. Pick it up yourself, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on."
Chen Xiuyu glanced back at him, showing no intention of standing up. She kept clenching her fists and hammering her calves.
"How could you do this? After all, I am also your brother... I have never seen you like this. You have only been married for a few days and you don't recognize me!"
"Why can't this be like this? I am your sister after all... You all know that I am married, and you still think about bossing me around all day long, but you don't take much care of me!"
"I didn't take care of you, so what have I been doing running to the meadow for the past three days?"
"Obviously I just want to see if Yan Zi is here, and I obviously want to have a relationship with my future father-in-law...
Brother Lu, you don’t know that when you go to the mountains during this period, my brother comes to Caodianzi to bring tea and water to Wang Dalong. That’s so attentive. You actually dare to blame me for taking over the cooking, so that he can’t see it all the time.
Yanzi...now you have the nerve to say you are here to help me."
After Chen Xiuyu rolled her eyes at Chen Xiuqing, she turned around and exposed Chen Xiuqing's background to Lu Lu.
"Is there still such a thing?"
Lu Lu looked back at Chen Xiuqing: "Qingzi, why did you tell me that you came to Caodianzi to find me? You are so capable, you are almost a big liar."
Chen Xiuqing was speechless for a while. After a while, he scratched his head and said with a dry smile: "I mainly came to see you, Brother Lu. As for Yanzi and the others, they were just passing by..."
Seeing the embarrassed look on his face, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
"Tiepihanhan...brother, I'm teasing you!"
Chen Xiuyu smiled and stood up to continue looking for mushrooms nearby.
Lu Luze came to Chen Xiuqing's side and asked, "Did Brother Wang say anything?"
"I didn't seem to say anything!"
Chen Xiuqing thought about it and felt that it was normal.
"I think Wang Dalong should be very optimistic about my brother. He talks to him frequently. When we meet him, he always smiles. At least he is not annoying."
Chen Xiuyu interrupted at the side, and as soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly ran forward: "Come here quickly, there are a lot of yellow mushrooms here."
Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing both followed. Ten meters away, the rotten wood of a chopped down elm tree slid along the trunk and was covered with dense golden mushrooms.
Cluster after cluster, it is quite gratifying.
"It's a pity that many of them are already rotten. Otherwise, the harvest from this tree alone would be enough to carry half a basket."
Lu Lu looked at the elm-yellow mushrooms that were already limp and rotten with some pity.
This mushroom is a relatively common mushroom in the mountains.
In fact, artificial cultivation has already been possible these days.
It can be seen on the dead stumps of birch, elm, and oak trees or on dead trees. It is not only delicious, but also has considerable nourishing and strengthening effects and medicinal value. It is usually used to treat kidney deficiency, impotence, and dysentery.
My daughter-in-law is just eighteen, so she should replenish her kidneys as early as possible!
Lu Lu was about to ask Chen Xiuqing to put down the basket on his back. Just when Chen Xiuqing thought he was going to give these mushrooms to him, he saw Lu Lu stuffing the mushrooms from his basket into his basket.
This move made Chen Xiuyu and Chen Xiuqing stunned for a moment.
"Brother Lu, what are you doing?" Chen Xiuyu couldn't help but ask.
"I love this!"
Lu Lu glanced at Chen Xiuyu with a smile and urged: "Quick, quick, pick up more of the good ones and bring them back."
"If you like to eat, I'll pick up more in the future."
When Chen Xiuyu heard this, she smiled and nodded: "There are many in our mountains."
Chen Xiuqing also hurried to the front to help select the elm mushrooms, and Lu Lu found the opportunity to blow into Chen Xiuyu's ear.
When she understood that the elm yellow mushroom had such effects, Chen Xiuyu's face suddenly turned red, and she picked at the trunk of the elm tree with her head sullenly, her hands and feet becoming more and more nimble.
After picking out all the mushrooms on a whole tree trunk, she did not forget to rummage through Chen Xiuqing's backpack and put the mushrooms she saw into her own basket that was full of mushrooms.
I was speechless for a while.
Afterwards, the three of them wandered around in the mountains for more than half an hour. After picking up Chen Xiuqing's backpack, they walked towards Caodianzi together.
The five dogs went into the mountains today and had a lot of fun. While the three of them were looking for mushrooms, they ran around in the forest. They could sniff a bug for a long time when they saw it. When they encountered a butterfly, they could also chase it.
Squandering the energy accumulated these days.
The puppies have grown up a lot.
Walking back at this time, even though they have spent a lot of time on the mountain, they still look very happy.
After climbing over two mountain ridges, Chen Xiuqing chose to take a shortcut back to Xiushantun, while Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu walked towards Caodianzi along the way they came.
When they arrived at Caodianzi, the two of them took a short rest, then went to the river together, sorted the mushrooms they picked up, and then washed them carefully.
After washing, Chen Xiuyu took a lot of elm mushrooms back to cook. Lu Lu then sent these mushrooms to the cellar. He put the simple wooden bed covered with thick uralia grass and covered it with nylon cloth.
Washed mushrooms are sprinkled on top, and useful baskets and other luggage are also packed with mushrooms and hung next to the earthen stove.
Originally, Lu Lu wanted to dry the picked mushrooms directly on a wooden kang.
Each kang in the woodcarving room is connected to the kitchen stove through underground pipes. As long as a fire is lit in the stove, the kang will heat up quickly. The temperature is no worse than that of an electric blanket. It is also good for drying mushrooms.
But in the end, Lu Lu gave up after thinking about it. He didn't want to sleep on a hot kang in this hot weather at night, and then put his arms around his wife, heating it up and then heating it up.
Mushrooms are good things, but fresh mushrooms cannot be stored for a long time. Many of them will rot or become infected with insects after being left overnight. They must be dried as soon as possible.