Chapter 378 One of the happiest things in summer
Mother Lin came here with Caiyun. It had rained so much in the past two days that the river dam had swollen and the water could not go to the town. Caiyun never went to school. at home.
"Son, Lin Shek gave birth to cubs last night, and she gave birth to three cubs." Mother Lin walked into the house and looked at Lin Heng and said.
Lin Heng was stunned: "Three cubs?"
Caiyun responded: "But the very bad thing is that when I woke up this morning, only one of them survived, and the rest Both of them died.”
"Then it's better to just have two children." Xiulan said in surprise.
Mother Lin sighed: "Well, I don't know now whether the two little ones froze to death or the one who survived was a male, and the two who died were both females."
She was very distressed at the loss of two female forest musk deer. These were means of production and could expand the size of the group.
Lin Heng explained: "It is probably a stillbirth. Generally, forest musk deer can only give birth to two cubs, and none of the three will survive."
Mother Lin shook her head and said: "I don't know the specifics. I don’t know, but your dad has cooked those two dead forest musk deer and fed them to the dogs.”
Everyone is just sorry about this situation, not surprised, because it is a very common thing in rural areas.
"Then I'll take some time to go over and have a look." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.
Mother Lin suggested, "We'll talk about it in the afternoon. Caiyun said that we can help take care of the children, and the three of us can go up the mountain to collect fungi."
Caiyun nodded and said, "Yes, second brother, I Help me while you read. You, your sister-in-law, and your mother can go up the mountain together.” Condition.
After making the decision, he and Xiulan tidied up quickly. When Xiulan left, she fed the child again and brought out rice noodles for Caiyun. If the child was hungry and cried, she would feed her a little bit of rice noodles.
After finishing it, Lin Heng took Xiongba up the mountain, while Da Zhuang and Xiao Bai stayed at home to play with Xiaoxia.
The three of them each carried a basket and two snakeskin bags. Needless to say, today's harvest would definitely be very expensive.
“Oh my God!”
“This is too much!”
Even though they had expected it, the three of them were still shocked when they walked into the forest. Everything they saw was covered with fungi, so dense that there was no place to put their feet.
The most common ones are red mushrooms and porcini mushrooms, as well as many unknown mushrooms and other edible fungi.
“I’m afraid I can pick up several thousand kilograms of these porcini mushrooms!” Mother Lin said in shock. The ground was full of yellow mushrooms and bigfoot mushrooms, that is, wrinkled porcini mushrooms and delicious beef mushrooms. Hepatitis.
They usually only pick up red mushrooms when there are no other fungi, because this kind of fungus rots easily and breaks into several pieces at the slightest touch.
"It's more than a few thousand kilograms. It's impossible to pick up all of them." Xiulan shook her head and said, most of them are palm-sized and have not grown to their full size yet.
Lin Heng looked at his wife and mother and said: "Don't worry about these fungi. Let's go pick up the chanterelles quickly. Don't get picked up by others if we are late!"
Among the fungi in June, the most popular ones are undoubtedly the most popular ones. It's chanterelles. It doesn't matter whether they are fresh or dried. The porcini mushrooms just taste average when eaten in large quantities.
As for the most delicious porcini mushrooms, they don’t eat them here for fear of poisoning people.
"Yes, hurry up and go to Daliang Shang. I think there are a lot of people there." Xiulan also said.
No one doubts the deliciousness of chanterelles. The most common fungi they eat here are chanterelles, pine fungi, broom fungi, egg fungi, and porcini. Last resort.
The three of them walked up quickly. There were all kinds of fungi on both sides of the forest path. Some were rotten and some had just emerged. This rain had grown too many fungi.
However, they didn't pick it up. After walking for half an hour, they finally came to the tall acorn forest at the back. They heard other people talking in the distance.
"There are indeed a lot of them, hurry up and pick them up." Mother Lin walked quickly and had already started to bend down to pick up the fungi.
I saw patches of golden chanterelles on the ground under the acorn forest. If you pick up the fallen leaves, you will find more. This thing likes to grow in the acorn forest.
“Let’s go to the front.” Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.
"Okay." The two of them walked forward and found a deserted place to pick it up.
The chanterelles are not big, and the largest cap is only about five centimeters in diameter. Most of them have bugs of that size. They only pick those with a cap diameter of less than three centimeters. This kind of bugs Less.
Holding a stick in one hand and picking up fungi with the other, turning the leaves while picking them up. Although the ones under the leaves are small, most of them are free of worms.
The chanterelles are also very hard and not easily broken, so they can be thrown into a bag without any problem. The three of them stopped talking after they started picking up the fungi, and kept immersing themselves in picking them up. With such harvests everywhere, people couldn't stop at all, and they just kept following the fungi.
Especially when there are other people here, which is different from everyone’s own family, picking up mushrooms becomes a kind of competition. If you don’t pick them up faster, others will finish it, because everyone is more focused.
Although there are chanterelles all over the place, they are not found in many forests. They are only found in a few specific forests, and the mountain where they are located is one of them.
While picking up, Lin Heng found that someone had picked it up in front of him. Then he exhaled and stopped, looking at the number of fungi he had.
Weighed the chanterelles, which weighed about 30 to 40 kilograms. Because the chanterelles are small, it must have been a bumper harvest for him to pick up so many in more than two hours.
In normal times, you may not be able to pick up so many in one day.
"Xiulan, how many did you pick up?" Lin Heng walked to Xiulan and asked. Xiulan wore a pair of gloves and picked up the fungi no slower than him.
"Mom and I both weigh about thirty pounds. We were late. Mom said the big ones were picked up by others."
Xiulan said, found a stone and sat down, bending over it. Her waist couldn't bear the fungi picked up from her waist.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Some people come as soon as dawn." Lin Heng shook his head.
“Not only that, some of them came yesterday.” Xiulan said.
The two chatted for a while, then took their things and went to a hilltop below, where they waited for their mother.
There are only a few trees in this place. You can see the continuous mountains in the distance and the neat terraces in the village. Lin Heng leaned on a tree and Xiulan leaned next to him. The two of them looked at the distance. The landscape rests.
The sky and mountains were so beautiful that they seemed full of saturation. The breeze blew Xiulan's hair and fell on Lin Heng's face. Xiulan took a sip of water and handed it to Lin Heng.
The two of them said nothing, feeling the beauty.
After a while, Mother Lin came down, looked at the two of them and said, "Let's go back. Let's take back the chanterelles first, and then pick up other mushrooms. I guess the chickens are in pieces. The oil fungus is gone.”
“Okay.” Xiulan nodded.
On the way back, the three of them picked up some other fungi, which they also picked carefully, such as green head mushrooms, some very straight and beautiful yellow mushrooms, bigfoot mushrooms, and tea tree mushrooms.
In June, they basically only have these kinds of fungi here, and there are not many others. For shiitake mushrooms, you have to go deep into the mountains, and you can’t find them at your doorstep. After taking the fungi back home, they poured them all into a large round dustpan to dry. Then the three of them set off to the mountains again. This time the goal was more casual. They picked up all kinds of fungi, but only the beautiful ones.
This time there were more porcini mushrooms. After more than an hour of picking, the snakeskin bag carried by the three of them was full, and the basket could no longer hold it.
“What a failure this time, I didn’t even pick up a few egg fungi or broom fungi.” Lin Heng shook his head on the way home. All he picked up were fist-sized yellow ragheads. Although they were very good, But he still prefers chanterelles and broom mushrooms.
Xiulan smiled brightly and said: "I am very lucky. I picked up five large egg mushrooms and five or six pounds of chanterelles."
Mother Lin also smiled and said: "Then I am lucky. It’s not bad, I picked up about 20 kilograms of broom fungus.”
The egg fungus is Amanita orange cap, and the broom fungus is coral fungus.
It was already 12 o'clock when we got home. Father Lin came over hungry. He looked at the three of them and said, "You guys really don't know how hungry you are after running for so long."
"Then "Absolutely, I don't feel it when I keep picking up things." Lin Heng said with a smile. When picking up fungi, his body is full of dopamine and he doesn't feel hungry at all.
Xiulan said: "I'm going to do it now. Let's all eat here."
"Then you go ahead and do it. Let's deal with the fungi." Lin Heng nodded and said, he also A little hungry.
Mushrooms are easy to pick up but difficult to clean up. You have to use a knife to remove the soil from the feet of the fungi. Especially small ones like chanterelles are time-consuming to handle.
In addition, the four of Caiyun sat down to work, and only half of the chanterelles were put away after the Xiulan rice was ready.
We still had rice for lunch, and the only dish we cooked was a pot of chanterelles and fried bacon. Chanterelles not only have a rich aroma, but are also very tough and taste very good. Needless to say, they are delicious when served with rice.
While eating, Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng and asked: "Son, do you want us to pick up Ganoderma lucidum tomorrow? I guess there are a lot of Ganoderma lucidum there in Baishigou."
"There are also a lot of shiitake mushrooms there. , you can definitely give it a try." Father Lin nodded.
Lin Heng thought for a while and turned to look at Xiulan: "Are you going?"
Xiulan shook her head: "It's too far over there. I have to take the child with me. You go. "Okay."
"Okay, let's get up early and take a look tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded.
Not only did the whole family finish their meal, there was no chanterelle fried meat left at all. After eating well, they continued to process the fungi in the afternoon. With Xiulan joining in, the speed was a little faster, and the chanterelles were quickly processed.
After it is done, wash it twice with water, and then put it in a dustpan to dry. Fresh and good bacteria do not need to be blanched.
Although there are a lot of porcini mushrooms left, they are easier to handle because they are larger and faster. After cleaning, they can be sliced and dried directly. With the current strong sun, they can be dried semi-dry in one afternoon.
After the fungi were dried, Xiulan stayed at home and did not go out. Mother Lin and Caiyun went to the places behind Hongfeng Mountain to pick up fungi. They wanted to go to the place where Lin Heng picked up egg fungi last time.
Lin Hengze and his father went to see the newly born baby musk deer. This one looked normal and had no problems, but the two dead ones most likely had problems themselves.
"Let's wait until December this year to let this lame forest musk deer breed again." Lin Heng thought for a while and said. By then, there will be three female forest musk deer that can breed.
There is the original female forest musk deer, as well as the intact male forest musk deer last year and the two female forest musk deer born from the original female forest musk deer. These three female forest musk deer are all the same as the lame male forest musk deer. Musk deer are not related by blood, so reproduction is relatively easy.
Father Lin suggested: "I think it would be better to give the original female forest musk deer to the intact male forest musk deer. Isn't it the lame forest musk deer that can't do it?"
"That's okay, as long as they are as unrelated to each other as possible." Lin Heng nodded. These forest musk deer all had ropes of different colors hanging around their necks, which he marked for easy identification.
After watching the forest deer, he and his father took the cages they had made before and went to the top of the mountain reservoir. The water in the reservoir was still relatively clear at the moment, and the figures of the big plum fish that had been released could be seen.
In addition, there are a large number of fish fry. These naturally bred fry are not easy to eat and are still very small. They can only be distinguished from the fish fry of the creek grouper.
After they fixed the cages, they went back to catch the fry of the fine salmon. In one afternoon, they transferred most of the fry to the cages on the mountain for intensive breeding.
Finally, the cage must be covered with a large mesh net, which will not affect the feeding of feed, but can prevent water birds from catching fish fry.
After finishing, the two sprinkled a few handfuls of powdered feed. These fish have already developed the habit of eating feed, and they only need to be fed every day.
“I don’t know how long I will survive in the end?” Father Lin said to himself as he looked at the fry.
Lin Heng shook his head: "I don't know about that."
After watching the fish for a while, they went down the mountain and went home. The shrimp pond continued to drain water, but the rain could not drain it.
Mother Lin and the others did not have a good harvest when they came back in the afternoon. Almost all the fungi they picked up were porcini, chanterelles only accounted for a small part, and egg fungi were not found at all.
"Let's set off at six o'clock tomorrow morning." Lin's father looked at Lin Heng and said.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.
After returning to the village, he went to his eldest brother's house to ask. His eldest brother and sister-in-law went to pick up mushrooms early this morning. They harvested more chanterelles than they did, as well as a large number of porcini mushrooms and tea tree mushrooms.
Lin Yue nodded with a smile: "I was about to say call you 豼, that's just right. Let's go have a look tomorrow morning and go hunting there by the way."
After the agreement, Lin Heng Turning around and returning home, Xiulan was collecting the half-dried mushrooms after the sun had passed. The mushrooms that seemed to be in abundance in the morning had shrunk by more than half. This stuff usually weighs ten pounds per pound in the sun, and most of them are dry. It's water.
Seeing Lin Heng coming over to help, Xiulan smiled slightly and asked, "Have you put all the fry on the mountain?"
"Yes, they have all been put up." Lin Heng smiled He nodded and asked again, "Do you want to eat plum blossoms? If so, I will catch one for you."
Xiulan shook her head slightly: "Let's go fishing when we have time. Yellow bone catfish is still easy to catch."
"That's okay." Lin Heng nodded.
After putting away the things, the two sat down on the bench. The sky was blue, there were green mountains in the distance, and the fruits and vegetables were blooming in the yard.
Xiaoxia was picking strawberries at the edge of the strawberry field, putting them in her mouth without washing them. Fortunately, it had just rained, and these strawberries had not been treated with pesticides.
Today is undoubtedly the happiest day in the past few days. We harvested a large number of fungi together. We not only enjoyed the fun of harvesting, but also took a walk while looking at the scenery.
After resting for a while, Xiulan turned around and asked, "What are you having for dinner?"
"How about fried noodles?" Lin Heng asked with a wink.
Xiulan thought for a while and said, "Then let's make fried pancakes. I'll bake a few soft pancakes and fry them."
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Okay, I think fried pancakes will be fried." Fried noodles are only mentioned when the cake is troublesome.”
(End of this chapter)