Chapter 387 Homespun Bag
When they entered the forest, they could see mushrooms growing on the ground. Most of them were rotten, and they had no intention of picking them up.
Occasionally, I would stoop down to pick up some green head fungi and egg fungi.
In the blink of an eye, they had passed Shuijinggou and arrived at a more primitive mountain forest. A lot of Ganoderma lucidum began to appear in the forest, which could still be picked up.
But it’s just by the way, there is no special search, because today’s time is very tight.
The road to Birch Cliff is very difficult to walk, especially in summer when the vegetation in the forest is very lush and it takes a lot of effort to walk.
But what’s good is that there are quite a lot of Ganoderma lucidum in the woods here. You can find one or two after walking a short distance. In addition to Ganoderma lucidum, there are also basin-sized tree tongues, flat-covered Ganoderma lucidum, etc., but these are not available. Too much medicinal value.
This area can already be called a primeval forest. The trees are generally as thick as one person can hug. Occasionally, you can see some super big trees that four or five people can’t hug, but these are often The heart of the tree is rotten and dying.
They had already arrived at Baishigou at around nine o'clock. There were very few mushrooms here today, so they picked up a few egg mushrooms.
Because the water in the mountain stream was still very heavy during this heavy rain, they had to take off their shoes and hold up their pants to swim through it. Over here were taller trees. Ancient trees and vines were fighting each other for sunlight. , the ground is full of rotten fallen trees, death and life complement each other.
"Look there, the August melons are ripe."
Lin Heng saw the purple August melons hanging under the canopy from a distance. The August melons that had just turned purple but had not yet cracked were the most perfect.
Lin Yue raised his eyes and said: "This tree is not big, we can just chop it down."
This is a small medicinal tree located on the edge of the forest. It has thick thighs and is tall. It looks like seven or eight meters.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, walked over with a hatchet, and chopped down the medicinal tree in less than a minute.
With a click, the whole tree fell to the ground, and the August melon vines wrapped around the tree also fell to the ground. The beautiful August melons became easy to pick.
“I can’t even finish eating this tree. There will be twenty or thirty August melons.” Father Lin said while picking.
"If you can't finish it, throw it away. If it rots, it will become fertilizer."
Lin Heng said as he opened an August melon and took a bite. It still had a familiar taste, without any trace of it. Sour, pure sweetness, even a bit cloyingly sweet.
The taste is still nostalgic. You won’t get tired of it at all. After absorbing all the juice from the pulp, you can open your mouth and spit out the seeds like a machine gun.
After eating three August melons in a row, they moved on, eating the rest as they walked.
Unknowingly, we climbed two more mountains. The forest became bigger and bigger, and the road became more and more difficult to walk. I picked up a lot of Ganoderma lucidum this year. Lin Heng picked up five or six of them by himself. Jin of fresh Ganoderma lucidum.
This thing needs wood to grow. This kind of deep mountain wild forest is full of fallen trees, which is the best growing environment, so there are more Ganoderma lucidum than other places.
"Hahaha, I got rich today!!"
At ten o'clock, Lin's father suddenly burst out laughing, which shocked Lin Heng and Lin Yue.
"What the hell, Dad, makes you so happy."
Lin Heng walked over curiously.
“Hey, I picked up three or four kilograms of Ganoderma lucidum.” Father Lin laughed.
Hearing this, Lin Heng quickly quickened his pace. When he walked over, he was shocked. In front of Father Lin was a large tree about forty centimeters in diameter, with more than a dozen palms growing on it. Large and small red Ganoderma lucidum.
“You will indeed make a fortune.” Lin Heng said with envy.
"This is too much. This is the first time I have seen so many Ganoderma lucidum growing on a tree." Lin Yue was also shocked.
"Hurry up and help me pick it." Father Lin laughed.
The two nodded and helped to pick the Ganoderma lucidum and wrap it in the leaves of the kudzu vine.
When they took them all off and put them in the bag and weighed them, they felt that it was even more than five kilograms.
Seeing their father picking up so many Ganoderma lucidum, the two of them searched harder. However, so many of them were hard to come by, and it would take a long time to find just one or two.
Because Lin Heng had Xiong Ba's help, he found more people than they did.
As we enter this old forest, other Chinese medicinal materials begin to increase, such as Scrophulariaceae, Polyporus polyporus, Chonglou, Codonopsis pilosula, Bergamot ginseng and so on.
Sometimes you can also pick up cicada flowers, which are a fungus born in golden cicadas. Like cicada sloughs, they are extremely valuable Chinese medicinal materials, but because they are relatively small in quantity, they are difficult to collect.
In addition, there were a lot of Schisandra chinensis encountered on the road. They were all red at this time and tasted sour and sweet. Because of these wild fruits, I was not too hungry.
They had steamed buns for lunch. Mother Lin steamed them yesterday, and Father Lin took a lot today. It was a happy thing to have a bite of August melon or schisandra, and then a bite of steamed buns.
Walking in the afternoon, Lin's father still focused on picking up Ganoderma lucidum and digging for medicinal herbs. Lin Heng and his eldest brother changed part of their goals to finding prey.
This time I came mainly to find ginseng, pick up Ganoderma lucidum, and dig up herbal medicines, but of course I also have to hunt for prey. Even if I can’t take it back, it’s a good choice to eat it on the spot.
After walking for more than half a day, Lin Heng finally heard a grouse crow. Following the crow, he quickly found a grouse foraging on the ground.
This grouse in the deep mountains has not been educated very much, and it did not fly away immediately when it saw people. Lin Heng was more than ten meters away and was shot to death with one arrow.
A two-pound grouse was enough for them to eat today, and Lin Heng felt more confident about this trip. In fact, there are a lot of golden pheasants in this old forest. I came in today and saw several groups of small pheasants, but the leaves were too obscured and they were not easy to hunt.
"This is right here. I dug ginseng in this forest."
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Father Lin said while looking at the forest in front of him.
Lin Heng looked at the forest and turned to look at his elder brother: "This seems to be closer than the last time we shot the black bear?"
Lin Yue recognized it and nodded. : "Yes, our original shelter should have been over this mountain, in that ditch over there."
Lin Heng looked at the two of them and said, "Then let's search carefully. If we can't find it, When you arrive, go to the shelter we built last time, which is close to the mountain stream and is convenient for getting water.”
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded.
The three of them separated and looked around. During this time, the ginseng seeds had turned red, so it was relatively easy to find them. They hoped to gain something.
At 3:30, Father Lin found the pit where he dug ginseng last time. They searched carefully nearby, but found nothing else.
He had no choice but to separate and search again. He found it after five o'clock. Lin Heng also shot a pheasant in the woods, but he didn't see any shadow of ginseng. In the end, he had to go to the shelter first. While rushing, go back and search slowly.
At six o'clock they arrived at the mountain stream here. The mountain stream that had just rained was very full of water, and the rushing sound could be heard in the distance.
The three of them quietly approached to see if they could find prey. Generally speaking, it was easy to find them near the water.
But after searching around, I couldn't find it. I only found some footprints. When I arrived at the shelter I had built earlier, I found that it had been destroyed, apparently by wild boars. "Fortunately, the platform is still there, just cut down the trees and build a new one." Lin Heng nodded and said.
"Let's do it quickly, it's getting dark soon, and it's getting dark fast in the forest." Father Lin put down his things and started cutting down trees.
Lin Heng and his eldest brother also put down their things and prepared to build a shelter. They had film paper and rainproof ponchos brought from home as rain shelters, so they didn’t have to worry about waterproofing. The main thing was to keep out the wind. The early morning dew in the mountains was heavy. It's very cold.
"Holy shit!! Homemade bag!!"
Suddenly, Lin Yue let out an exclamation. Lin Heng turned around and saw his eldest brother jumping away, where Feng Sheng screamed.
"What a poisonous snake, haven't you been bitten?"
Lin Heng and his father immediately ran over with sticks.
Lin Yue patted his chest and said with lingering fear: "It's a homespun bag. It's so motionless in the grass. It scared me to death!"
"I'll beat this bitch to death!"
Father Lin saw the snake running away slowly and beat it to death on the spot with two sticks.
After Lin Heng and other snakes were beaten to death, they stepped on the head with their feet, cut off the head with a dagger and buried it in the soil. The remaining body could be roasted and fed to dogs.
This thing is the same as the cauliflower spearhead viper that he was almost bitten last time. It is a viper. Its scientific name is short-tailed viper. It has a very lazy character. It does not run away when people come, but waits for them to get closer and bites.
“We must get a hammock tonight, we can’t sleep on the ground in summer.”
Lin Heng looked at his elder brother's situation and said, the most terrifying thing in the wild in summer is the poisonous snake.
Once bitten, there is a high probability that you will not survive. One is that it takes a day to go to the hospital in the mountains, and the other is that there is no corresponding serum in the hospital now.
So every time you see a poisonous snake, you will feel the fear of death.
Lin Yue said slowly: "I think we should change places. There are many toads by the water, and poisonous snakes like to come here to catch toads and eat them."
"Well, let's find a place higher up. There is no grass and a dry place,” Lin’s father also said.
Although the poisonous snake has been killed, it still makes people feel frightened.
They immediately found a new place, not to mention, they soon arrived at a very good place.
This place is located on the top of the hill here. There is a barren black sand with no grass. Going ahead is a 90-degree cliff. You can see the woods below and the winding ravine.
Father Lin nodded: "It's right here. Although it takes three hundred meters to get water, at least there is no grass around, so you can live with peace of mind."
Lin Heng also thought it was pretty good. The scenery on this cliff is quite good, and you can also observe whether there are prey in other directions.
Also, the Ganoderma lucidum and herbs they picked up today can be dried here better.
Lin Yue suggested: "Let's forget about the three herringbone shelters. The big one is not easy to build."
"Let's cut kudzu vines and wood first, and then build it when we come back." Lin Heng nodded.
The three of them spread out and came back after a while to cut down a lot of canes.
Everyone first made a bed off the ground, tied one end with three wooden sticks and stretched it out to form a cone-shaped structure. This is a strong bed leg that does not need to dig holes and fill in the ground.
The four bed legs are made of two-meter-long wrist-thick tree sticks used as two supports, and the middle is simply woven with rattan to create a perfect bed. It will not be uncomfortable to sleep on.
After the bed is ready, just build a herringbone shelter around the bed. Fill the two sides with trees, branches and pine needles, and block the back, leaving only the side facing the three people open.
The shelter of the three people is located in the middle of the black sand in a zigzag shape. The fire for cooking is in the central area enclosed by their shelter.
It is a good thing that the film paper and raincloth are not used. You can usually carry them with you to prevent rain. If the rain is too heavy, you can also put it on the shelter to prevent rain.
When the three of them finished building the shelter and lit the fire, the sky was only slightly orange, and the crescent moon and stars had already appeared.
At this time, all kinds of sounds in the mountains and forests can be said to be coming and going, and those who are not used to it will feel scared.
I didn’t cook at night, so I boiled a pot of water to scald the pheasant and grouse, then got some water to stew them both, and added some Codonopsis pilosula, mushrooms, and Yam eggs, and then salt.
It’s not that I like chicken soup so much, but it’s hard to preserve wild animals in this weather. Stewing them and putting them by the fire can keep them longer.
They ate steamed buns with chicken soup in the evening. Fortunately, the steamed buns were dry and could be kept for a day.
Xiongba and Fengshou ate the roasted short-tailed adder, some chicken bones and steamed buns, and their stomachs were considered full.
After dinner, the night sky was dark, and the stars in the sky were dense and busy. They were silent, and it seemed that the sky was busy.
The insects in the forest are still singing, as if they are competing with each other to make the loudest sound. A few fireflies are swimming around in the woods. It's not like flying, it's like floating in thick air.
The three people who had been traveling all day sprinkled some realgar powder around and went to bed to rest. They fell into a deep sleep under the Zhuozhuo firelight.
Gradually the sound of insects dissipated, and the night was as quiet as a calm lake without a single ripple.
But the silence lasted not long, and was soon replaced by the sound of birdsong, causing the three people who had not slept enough to frown.
Gradually, Lin Heng couldn't bear it anymore, so he climbed up, picked up a slingshot and shot several times at the birds on the branches. When a few of them fell to the ground and died, the area became quieter.
But Lin Heng was completely sleepless, and Lin's father and eldest brother also woke up. The three of them rubbed their legs. Lin Heng raised the fire and threw the four Green Lake Tricksters he had beaten into the fire to burn. Then the three of them went to the mountain stream to wash their faces and brought three pots of water.
Put the water into the chicken soup that was cooked yesterday, and put noodles in it. I ate chicken soup noodles this morning with the shrimp chili sauce I brought at home.
After eating, the three of them took out the Ganoderma lucidum and herbs harvested yesterday and put them on the ground to dry.
“Today, the three of us are still digging herbs and looking for ginseng together, and looking for traces of prey. Because there may be black bears nearby, and it is too dangerous for one person to act alone.”
Lin Heng said while placing Ganoderma lucidum.
Father Lin nodded: "That's for sure. It's safe for the three of us to move together."
Lin Yue asked: "Then should we continue to go back to the mountain there yesterday to find ginseng or go somewhere else? Place? "
Lin Heng thought for a while and said: " Let’s go and have a look. Maybe we missed something yesterday. If we can’t find it again today, we’ll move somewhere else.” In the jungle, the three of them set out with their dogs to look for traces of ginseng again.
(End of this chapter)