Chapter 168 The world of Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia
"Do you think I can really see the mushroom circle?" Along the way, Gu Xiaoxia kept asking, "And the Tianshan Snow Lotus..."< br>
“The Tianshan snow lotus cannot be seen for the time being, mainly because the time is wrong. Wait until the snow lotus blooms in June and July If we have three or five days to spend, it is still possible for us to climb to the snow-capped mountains, but if you want to see the mushroom circle, it is still relatively easy to achieve."
"Really?" Gu Xiaoxia? At this moment, he is like a child who has not grown up, sitting on the back seat of a bicycle and chattering.
Li Long could see that Gu Xiaoxia might have been depressed for a long time because of family reasons. Now that I have a job and my father is doing well, those previously suppressed thoughts are slowly being released.
That's good. As a young girl, it's not good to be old-fashioned.
"I will take you to a place," Li Long said, "where you can find mushroom circles. If you are lucky, you might be able to see wild boars, wild sheep and the like. Of course, this It still depends on your luck today."
"My luck..." Gu Xiaoxia's tone suddenly became lower.
"I think you must be very lucky today!" Li Long had a premonition and interrupted Gu Xiaoxia, "Listen to me, you are right."
Gu Xiaoxia felt warm in her heart.
"Look here, I have hunted wild boars here. See the raised soil and grass roots? Wild boars were active here a few days ago, and then I hunted them. I also caught some small wild boars, and then the group of wild boars I won’t come here anymore.”
“Really? Good little wild boar. Isn’t it fun?”
“It’s quite fun, I’m not afraid of people when I’m young, I know how to hug people, I’m very wild”
I passed the ravine where Harimu and the others were, because time was tight. , Li Long didn't stop and ran directly to the location of his winter nest.
"Look, this wooden house is our destination." Li Long proudly showed it to Gu Xiaoxia, "This is my winter nest, please visit."
"Your winter nest? You actually have a house in the mountains?" Gu Xiaoxia looked puzzled, "Is it really yours?"
"Of course." Li Long said with a smile, "I have many houses in the mountains. My friends, they helped me build this winter nest—it’s actually called a cabin in the mountains. Come in and sit down.”
Li Long set up his bicycle, opened the door of the wooden house and said, "It's still relatively simple inside now. I'll get a stove in a few days and add some things and it'll be good."
Now on the wooden kang There are already bedding and a stove and everything, but there is no furniture yet, so it looks quite messy.
“This house is really made of wood! It’s just like in a fairy tale. The cabin in the mountains is really nice!” Gu Xiaoxia sincerely praised, “Living here is just like in a fairy tale… ”
"Let's go, let's take you to look for mushroom circles." Li Long smiled, "I picked up a lot of straw mushrooms two days ago, and there may be more today."
As soon as I heard that Going to see the mushroom circle, Gu Xiaoxia didn't care about the wooden house in the fairy tale. She turned around and walked out, asking impatiently:
"Where is it?"
< br>Li Long took off the small-caliber rifle from his bicycle, put down the holster, loaded the bullet and then turned off the safety. He pointed to the hillside behind the wooden house and said:
"Did you see that? Those in the middle of the grass The white spots are most likely mushrooms. Think about how mushroom circles are described in Natural Scenery Notes. Just look for them. Let’s go! ”
"You still carry a gun?" Gu Xiaoxia asked curiously as she walked, "Is it dangerous?"
"Be prepared for any danger." Li Long said with a smile, "No one can guarantee what will happen in the mountains. Something happened. Some time ago, the herdsmen helped me build a house. On the day of the celebration, I invited I drank a little champagne at home and stayed here at night. In the middle of the night, a group of wolves came around and gnawed on the discarded sheep bones. I even beat a wolf. "
"It sounds really exciting!" Such an understatement, Gu Xiaoxia didn't hear the danger, she just felt it was exciting.
The two people walked to the white spot and saw a palm-sized straw mushroom growing in the grass. Gu Xiaoxia happily bent down and picked it, looked at it, smelled it again, and said: < br>
“This one mushroom can fry a whole plate!”
"There are some over there, look, this is wild onion, this is wild garlic, and there is a piece of wild leek over there, by the way, the one over there looks like mugwort, that is pepper mugwort, you...eh?"< br>
Li Long suddenly saw a fat head emerging from a mound not far away He stuck his head out and said immediately:
"Look, marmot!"
"Where is it?" Gu Xiaoxia asked excitedly:
""Tianshan Scenery" There are some in there too, marmots say they are very cute..."
Her voice was a bit loud, and the marmot was frightened by her and crawled into the hole.
“We’ve entered the hole, but don’t worry, you should be able to get out in a while.” Li Long pointed to the area and said, “See, there is a lot of dug-out soil, and there is a marmot hole there. They are also very curious and naive, and they came out soon."
Gu Xiaoxia also knew that her voice scared the thing back, so she stopped talking and followed Li Long closely. Stay there.
As expected, the marmot came out within a few minutes and looked this way.
Li Long and the others didn't get close, and the marmot didn't drill a hole. After watching for a while and feeling no threat, it began to crawl out and look for something to eat.
"Wow! It's so cute when it's fat!"
"This thing is a groundhog," Li Long explained softly, "But I heard that this thing may carry the No. 1 virus, so let's stay away from it. It’s better to stay away.”
The number one disease is the plague, which is quite scary at this time. Li Long remembered that in his previous life, the prairie dogs in the Tianshan Mountains had become Internet celebrities. People often fed them with food. Those prairie dogs were not afraid of people and would just eat them.
When I was watching those videos, Li Long worried about them. That thing was really going to be frightened. If I give you a claw, it might be troublesome.
Even if there is a one in ten thousand chance, it is better not to test it.
"Let's continue walking up. If the grass is thicker, there might be mushroom circles." Li Long suggested.
"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia was in good spirits at this time. She pointed to the distance and said, "There are cedars there, and the clouds in the sky are very beautiful. Although I can't see the wild horses, I really like the scenery. I feel the beautiful scenery in Tianshan Scenery!"
Li Long looked at Gu Xiaoxia with a smile. In Li Long's eyes, these scenery were ordinary, after all, he saw them almost every day. But for Gu Xiaoxia, it felt amazing to see the contents of the book reflected in reality for the first time.
"Wow! Sea of flowers!" Walking further and bypassing a small pine forest, Gu Xiaoxia exclaimed again when she saw the hillside in front of her was filled with white, yellow, and purple flowers of all sizes. Standing up, "It's so beautiful!"
Li Long felt that only at this time did Gu Xiaoxia look like a girl.
Gu Xiaoxia trotted to the flowers, bent down and smelled the flowers greedily, and then suddenly jumped back:
"Bees!"
Li Long smiled and picked a lot. The flowers were handed to her: "Here, there are no bees here."
Gu Xiaoxia took the bouquet, smiled and continued walking forward.
"Look there. I think it looks a bit like the mushroom circle you said..." Li Long suddenly pointed down the slope.
In front of them, about ten meters lower, the grass was denser and darker than other places. When the wind blew, Li Long saw vague white mushrooms in the grass. He guessed that there should be many mushrooms there. of. Gu Xiaoxia trotted over and shouted in surprise as soon as she arrived:
"What a mushroom circle! So many mushrooms... we are rich!"
The mushrooms are also Can make a fortune, so cute!
Li Long walked over with a smile and found that there were actually dozens or hundreds of mushrooms, large and small, in the dense grass. Some were rotten and had insect eyes on them, while others had just grown. The umbrella has not been fully opened yet.
Li Long picked a few relatively fresh ones and said to Gu Xiaoxia:
"This mushroom circle should be quite big. It has a diameter of five or six meters."
"Well, a mushroom circle. , It’s amazing!” Gu Xiaoxia looked satisfied.
Gu Xiaoxia opened her small satchel and filled it with mushrooms. Li Long picked up a few large leaves and rolled them up to make a small package, but he couldn't hold much.
"If you don't pick up the rest, they will grow later. And if no one destroys this mushroom circle, I think it will get bigger and bigger." Li Long said, "Let's go to the mountain Go down and have a look, there is a stream there, let’s wash the mushrooms by the way.”
Gu Xiaoxia followed Li Long to the creek. Li Long put the mushrooms in his hands and said to Gu Xiaoxia:
"I'll get a bag from Dongwozi, and you can wash your hands here."
Gu Xiaoxia nodded, lowered her head and began to wash the mushrooms.
Li Long strode towards the wooden house, looking back from time to time.
As soon as he entered the winter nest and grabbed a cloth bag in his hand, he heard Gu Xiaoxia exclaiming. Li Long was startled and rushed out, fiercely towards Gu Xiaoxia. Run, shout while running:
"What's wrong?"
"I...I found a piece of jade!" Gu Xiaoxia shouted loudly, holding up something as big as a fist.
Li Long slowed down his pace and his heart dropped - it turned out to be a piece of jade. He thought the other party was in danger of encountering a snake or something.
Quickly walked up to Gu Xiaoxia, looked at her excited expression, and asked with a smile:
"Let me see the treasure you found?"
"I guess it's a piece of jade." Gu Xiaoxia held up the stone and handed it to Li Long.
It is indeed a piece of jade, jasper.
Seed material, but Li Long can see it at a glance, because it has been soaked in water for a long time, and there is not much jade skin. It can be seen clearly, and there are many clear sesame spots, which is the most typical Ma. Material of river jasper.
"Well, it is indeed jade, you are so lucky!" Li Long smiled and took the jade and turned it around in his hand, "I have been here for so long and I have never picked up such a jade... ..."
"Really? This piece is for you!" Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "It's for you!"
"Really give it to me?" Li Long asked holding the jade.
"Really." Gu Xiaoxia nodded vigorously.
"Okay." Li Longzhen accepted the piece of jade.
The two began to clean the mushrooms. Gu Xiaoxia looked into the stream from time to time, but no jade was seen in this area.
The mushrooms weighed two or three kilograms. After washing, Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile:
"After we take it back, we can have a good frying meal."
"Then let's fry it here?" Li Long suddenly thought, "It will take a long time anyway, there is a stove and firewood, let's Cook a meal here?”
“Just cooking?” Gu Xiaoxia has There was some hesitation, "What is the staple food?"
"Can you stew rice?" Li Long asked, "There is rice and a pot, but I can't stew it well."
"I... ...Try it." Gu Xiaoxia said bravely, "Fried mushrooms..."
"I know how to stir-fry." Li Long smiled and said, "There happens to be some meat here, how about the meat and mushrooms?"
"Okay."
Just do it, Li Long lit a fire with the originally set up stove, then lifted the two pots to the stream and washed them, then went to the spring to get water for later use.
Gu Xiaoxia filled a bowl of rice in an enamel basin and washed it. Then she waited for Li Long to set up the fire and poured it into the pot.
“I’ll lower the heat when simmering the rice. Don’t worry, cook it slowly. It’s best to get crispy rice.” Li Long said, tearing the mushrooms into pieces and holding the belt. The meat that came over was cut on the board.
Wild onions and wild garlic are easier to work with. After washing the mushrooms and tearing them apart, the water will be absorbed more fully. Li Long also pinched them specially to squeeze out the water.
Gu Xiaoxia looked at Li Long's movements from time to time while looking at the rice in the pot. She did not expect that Li Long could really cook.
Heat a pan with cold oil, sauté the wild onions until fragrant, add the meat and stir-fry, then add the mushrooms, and soon the aroma will rise.
Looking at Li Long's skillful movements, Gu Xiaoxia suddenly felt a little ashamed. She didn't seem to be as comfortable as Li Long cooking.
It seems that I have to practice more in the dormitory in the future, and I can’t let Li Long compete!
Soon, a plate of meat and fried mushrooms came out of the pot. Li Long put it on the plate and put it on a temporary board. He said to Gu Xiaoxia: "You stew the rice first, and I'll see what else comes out."
Gu Xiaoxia responded, and then continued to look at the fire, very carefully. Li Long went to the creek, where there was a patch of grass that was relatively lush. He found some wild celery in the grass and pinched some back.
Taking the roasted meat from the shelf in the small house, Li Long fried another mutton with wild celery, which felt almost enough.
But at this time, Gu Xiaoxia's rice scooped out the rice soup and began to turn off the fire. There was still some time before it was cooked, so Li Long simply went up the hillside again and pinched it in a sparse bush. Some mugwort came back, I washed the pot and boiled water, soaked the mugwort in the water, and prepared to eat it cold.
"You are amazing, you made three dishes in a short time." Gu Xiaoxia couldn't help but admired when she saw Li Long busying there and then making three dishes.
"The main reason is that the mountains are rich in resources, and you can easily make something." Li Long said modestly. He looked around and planned to continue talking. Then he saw a yellow shadow flashing in the bushes, and immediately Said:
"There is a fox! Wait for me to take a gun and shoot it down!"
Following the direction of Li Long's gaze, Gu Xiaoxia also saw the fox poking its head. At this time Li Long had already turned around and ran to the house to get the gun!
The fox didn't know that the danger was approaching. It was attracted by the scent, but when it saw someone there, it wanted to run away, but was reluctant to do so.
(End of this chapter)