Chapter 25 Morels, a treasure in the mountains
“Xiulan, I’m going up the mountain.”
After Xiongba finished eating, Lin Heng untied its iron chain and set off to go up the mountain.
"Go and be safe."
Xiulan nodded. She was going to help plant sweet potatoes in the afternoon and would not go up the mountain.
"Woof woof!!"
Xiongba looked up to the sky and barked loudly. He rushed out first, walked back a short distance, and whined and acted coquettishly at Lin Heng's feet.
The forest where the trees were cut was on the mountain behind the house, and the forest in the middle of the mountain belonged to his family.
At this time, the banging sound of cutting down trees could be heard. My father and the four of them had already gone up the mountain to start working.
Lin Heng took the bow and arrow and led Xiongba to climb over the mountain and go to the ditch behind to have a look. Finding prey in the forest at this time of year depends entirely on luck.
Xiongba took two steps before peeing, and looked back at Lin Heng, as if he was afraid that he would get lost.
"Young second son of the Lin family, are you going up the mountain to hunt?" Not far away, someone greeted Lin Heng.
Lin Heng took a look and remembered that he was the uncle of the Wang family in the village, a figure from his father's generation: "Yes, let's try our luck."
After saying this, Lin Heng took the Xiongba quickly walked over.
Seeing Lin Heng walking away, the Wang family uncle shook his head and said with a smile: "This second-rate guy is still hunting, and he even took a bow and arrow to kill people."
Obviously, in his opinion, Lin Heng was blindly testing for the top spot - a disgrace.
Although they were far away, Lin Heng still heard these words and silently memorized them.
Soon entering the forest, Xiongba suddenly became alert and stopped making a sound. He looked around and smelled the breath on the ground from time to time.
This is obviously a hunting state.
Lin Heng also looked around, but the leaves were too thick and his field of vision was limited, and he could hardly see any prey.
After walking nearly two kilometers to the top of the mountain, Lin Heng discovered something valuable - a clump of kidney essence grass growing on the stone wall, also called Aaoaowei.
This herb is easy to identify. It is dark green, with long strip-shaped leaves and small yellow medicine bags on the back.
Lin Heng took a look and didn't pull it out. The number was too small, so let it grow.
“Aww~”
At this time, Xiongba made a cry, obviously discovering something.
Lin Heng walked over and took a look, and couldn't help but smile: "What a good dog, I found everything."
What Xiongba found was a small piece of morel. Lin Heng guessed that it had smelled morel at home. Taste, knowing this is useful.
Xiongba opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, showed a Samoyed smile, and stretched his head over to beg for a touch.
"Well done. If we catch prey today, the internal organs will be yours."
Lin Heng smiled and touched the dog's head, thinking that now he could be sure that the old man in his previous life was not there. That's a lie, Xiongba is such a good dog.
Morel mushrooms are treasures of wild fungi and famous edible fungi. They are delicious, even comparable to matsutake mushrooms, and have been eaten since ancient times.
Because it is particularly sensitive to the environment and temperature, the quantity is small and the price is expensive. Fresh ones cost one yuan per catty, and dried ones can be sold for three or four yuan per catty.
The piece Xiongba discovered has about eleven or two flowers, which are black morels, whose scientific name is black-veined morels. Four to five centimeters high, the cap is long, black, with small rectangular pits arranged vertically on it, and the stipe is milky white.
Lin Heng picked one and smelled it, and couldn't help showing an intoxicated expression. The fragrance of this mushroom was so beautiful, not strong, but very pleasant, and it didn't have the faint earthy smell of red mushrooms.
For a while, Lin Heng's appetite was whetted, and his mouth and tongue were filled with saliva. Making a soup with morels alone, without adding anything else, would be full of flavor. "It's a pity that there are only seven or eight taels, and the two biggest ones have been eaten up by the worms." Lin Heng sighed, but he still couldn't bear to throw away the two big ones and put them all into the small backpack he carried with him.
I searched nearby again, but to no avail.
After climbing over the mountain ridge, my eyes suddenly became brighter, because there are still two fields here, which are planted with wheat. The breeze blows, and the wheat that has emerged from the ears is rippling in the wind.
Lin Heng took a look and walked toward the Tongshugou ditch on the side. As he walked, he found Xiongba crawling down and slowly moving towards the edge of the wheat field.
“Is there something?”
Lin Heng stopped quickly, looked in the direction of Xiongba, and rubbed his eyes several times before he found the prey.
A gray-haired rabbit was eating wheat under the leaves of a weed. He would never have seen it if it hadn't been for the bully.
He wanted to set up a bow and shoot an arrow, but looked at the distance and gave up: "The distance is too far."
At least a hundred meters apart, and there was no obstruction in front of him, he would inevitably be blocked if he moved forward. I found that instead of doing this, it would be better to look at Xiong Ba’s abilities.
At this time, Xiongba has crawled more than ten meters, and the rabbit has not noticed it yet. It has its ears erect and its eyes are focused, staring at the rabbit's every move. If anything goes wrong, it will immediately lie down and stay still.
The rabbit also stopped to look at it from time to time, but was dodged by the bully.
Lin Heng couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene: "Sure enough, powerful dogs have extremely high hunting instincts without deliberate training."
When the two sides were less than twenty meters apart, At that moment, the gray rabbit finally discovered Xiong Ba, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and ran away without saying a word.
"Woof woof!!"
Xiongba also sprinted and caught up at top speed. The distance between the two parties kept getting closer, and they soon disappeared into the woods on the edge of the ground. .
Lin Heng hurriedly chased after him, but he couldn't even see Xiongba's figure because it ran too fast.
“Woof woof~~”
Not long after, Xiongba heard a call.
Lin Heng followed the sound and quickly found Xiongba. He looked very anxious in front of a hole in the ground. There were many rabbit furs on the ground.
Obviously, it failed in its first hunt. It failed to catch the prey and let it run into the hole.
"It's okay, it's okay. It's already great." Lin Heng touched its head and rubbed its chest to encourage him.
Xiongba is still young now. He didn’t eat well before and his body has not yet developed. So mistakes are normal.
Looking at the entrance of the cave, Lin Heng knew that the rabbit was inside, so he turned around and blocked the suspected exit with stones.
Then I went to find some dry pine needles and took out an aluminum kerosene lighter to light a fire.
In this era, most rural areas used this kind of lighter.
The structure of the kerosene lighter is very simple. The lower part is made of cotton soaked in kerosene, which is connected to the upper part through a cotton wick. The upper part has a gear, and under the gear is a flint.
The friction between the continuously oscillating gear and the flint produces sparks, which ignite the cotton wick containing kerosene, and the flame appears.
There was a crisp click sound twice, and a small yellow flame appeared. Place it on the dry pine needles, and under the action of rosin, it will crackle and burn.
Place it at the entrance of the hole, mix it with some fresh leaves, and thick white smoke will billow. Fan it into the hole, and soon the smoke will come out from other places.
“No, there is still a hole that is not blocked!”
Lin Heng suddenly discovered that there was a secret exit that he had not discovered. As soon as he finished speaking, two gray rabbits rushed out with a hiss.
(End of this chapter)