Chapter 5 Going up the mountain with my wife
“Huh...huh...”
After only ten minutes on the mountain, Lin Heng began to breathe heavily.
Although I have a young body, I am often not in labor. I can’t bear to carry my 20-pound daughter up the mountain. On the other hand, my wife can’t even breathe while carrying her.
“Give it to me, your clothes are soaked with sweat!” Chen Xiulan felt helpless and a little funny.
"Haha...Mom..."
The daughter Lin Xiaoxia in the backpack grabbed Lin Heng's hair and played with it while giggling.
"No, just rest for a while, and we will be there soon."
Lin Heng found a stone and rested on it. The mountain here is not actually steep, but he It’s caused by not climbing often.
Chen Xiulan handed over a handkerchief: "Wipe your sweat, it's cold in the mountains, and you can easily catch a cold if you sweat."
"I can't free my hands, so you wipe it for me." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Chen Xiulan rolled her eyes at him. Although her hands were empty, she still came over and wiped Lin Heng's sweat carefully.
My wife wiped her sweat, while Lin Heng looked at her face and smiled stupidly.
This made Chen Xiulan a little embarrassed, but luckily there was no one in the mountain, so she wiped the sweat from Lin Heng's neck.
“Let’s go.” After resting for a while, Chen Xiulan stood up and said.
We reached the place when we climbed up a mountain. The area near the house was a forest of frequently cut down trees, and there were no fungi. Only the trees on the mountain were tall and the forest was old, so there were fungi.
The forest in front of me is a mixture of pine forest and acorn forest. As soon as I entered, I saw many large red mushrooms. This is what people often call red umbrellas with white poles in later generations. They are available from spring to autumn. There are many mushrooms.
But in fact, most red mushrooms are not poisonous and taste pretty good.
"It seems that no one has come to pick this place yet. Let's look for pine fungus."
Seeing that there were no traces of anyone walking on the ground, Chen Xiulan was very happy and started looking around.
There are too many red mushrooms and they are worthless. We only pick some when there are no other mushrooms.
This season. The valuable mushrooms are matsutake, morels, chanterelles, pine milk mushrooms and other mushrooms. Although the mushroom resources in Qinling Mountains are not as good as those in Yunnan, they are not bad either. They have had the habit of foraging since ancient times.
After walking a few steps, Lin Heng saw a pine tree mushroom. Pine tree mushroom is the customary name here, and its scientific name is pine milk mushroom.
Orange, with thick flesh, there are concentric circles on the cap. The most obvious feature is that it turns blue-green after being injured, and is also called aeruginosa.
When he found one of this thing, there was a piece of it. Soon Lin Heng found dozens of them nearby and picked more than two kilograms at once.
Two cents a pound is collected at the market.
Looking again, they were gone, but I picked up two pretty good blue-headed mushrooms. Although they were green, they were actually a type of red mushroom.
Mushrooms are all like this, one by one. Just when Lin Heng was about to change to a forest, a figure on the pine tree attracted him.
A red-haired squirrel stood on a branch, looking at him stupidly. It was only five meters away and there was no obstruction.
Lin Heng carefully took out the slingshot from his waist and the round pebbles he picked up on the way up the mountain. After taking aim, he was about to launch when a sound suddenly came from behind: "Wow...pee...pee... ”
The daughter's sharp scream scared the squirrel and it scurried to the top of the tree.
Lin Heng was helpless: "..."
Putting down the backpack, Lin Heng found that his daughter had wet her diaper and her pants, and she kept crying.
“You are really my caring little cotton-padded jacket!”
Lin Heng helplessly took her out of the backpack, took out the wet diaper and placed it on a branch nearby, patting her Coax her not to cry.
"Wow wow... wow..."
However, the more she was coaxed, the more she cried. Children are like this, they cry whenever they want, for no reason at all. After a while, Chen Xiulan heard the voice and came over: "Give it to me, the child is probably hungry."
Seeing that her husband was not angry because his daughter was crying, he was still trying. She was a little shocked to coax the child.
After taking over her daughter, Chen Xiulan pulled up her clothes and fed her. In this era, there is no milk powder, and many children are not yet weaned at the age of two or three.
Lin Heng looked at his wife's fair skin and felt it was dazzling. Her young body was a little hot. His wife was really rich, almost as big as his daughter's head.
“It’s not like I haven’t seen it before!” Chen Xiulan blushed a little, mainly because of Lin Heng’s perverted eyes.
"Haha, who makes my wife so attractive?" Lin Heng chuckled and looked at his wife's basket, which contained a pound of pine fungus.
“It’s too rotten, otherwise I could pick two pounds.” Chen Xiulan’s face was full of pity.
"Let me rest here for a while. I'll take a look around again." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.
"Go, pay attention to safety, be careful of snakes and bees." Chen Xiulan nodded and warned.
Lin Heng poured the pine fungus on the ground and walked toward the mountain on the left. His wife just walked on the right.
After walking for more than a thousand meters without seeing any good fungi, he was about to turn back. The sound of crunching leaves in the distance alarmed him.
I turned around and saw a gray squirrel on the stone three meters away.
“We are so close, I would be sorry if I didn’t hit you!”
Lin Heng sighed in his heart, quietly took out the slingshot in his hand, took aim, and shot out with a whoosh.
There was a snap, hitting the squirrel on the head. The poor gray squirrel twitched twice and died.
"It seems the accuracy is good!" Lin Heng was very satisfied. The main reason was that it was too close. He hadn't touched this thing for a long time, so he was still a little worried.
He was glad that he had gone to the archery club to practice in his previous life, otherwise he would not have such accuracy.
"It's almost a pound. The skin can be sold for three or four yuan, and the meat is enough for a meal." Lin Heng grinned. This was his first harvest after his rebirth.
After putting the squirrel into the basket, Lin Heng continued walking forward, feeling that he was lucky today.
Generally, squirrels don’t get so close to people, and most of them live in trees, so it’s difficult to hit them because they are blocked by branches.
“Chanterelles!!”
After walking a few dozen meters, Lin Heng could not help but cheer. There were dozens of golden chanterelles on both sides of the path.
In his opinion, this fungus is more delicious than pine fungus. It is golden, trumpet-shaped, and often has wavy edges. It is also more expensive than pine fungus. The wet one costs 30 cents per pound. After drying, It can be sold for five or six cents a pound.
However, when he picked one up and tore it open, Lin Heng was speechless. It was rotten.
Sometimes he couldn't understand how these worms could grow so fast. Sometimes the fungi that had just emerged didn't even last for half a day, and there were also the small fungi that had just grown out, all of which were full of worms.
The speed is too fast.
“Forget it, just pick it up and feed it to the pigs!”
Lin Heng shook his head, thinking it was such a pity.
I only picked up more than thirty good ones, weighing six or seven taels, and the bad ones weighed more than a kilogram.
Without a watch, he didn't know that he had been walking in the woods for a long time, so he decided to go back to find his wife.
“Xiulan!”
Lin Heng shouted while looking for fungi.
“Here, come here, I found something good!”
Not long after, Lin Heng heard his wife reply, her voice filled with excitement, as if she had discovered something good.
(End of this chapter)