Chapter 63: Going up the mountain to pick mushrooms
“I caught so many fish!”
Back in the house, Chen Shiying was also surprised to see Zhou Ziwen coming back from catching so many fish.
"Hey, good luck, good luck." Zhou Ziwen smiled modestly.
With his skills, it is indeed his luck to catch so many fish.
Firstly, Uncle Niu chose a good location, and secondly, it was a rainy day, so the fish in the river were more active.
If it were another time or another place, he wouldn't be able to catch so many fish.
“Thank you for your hard work, leave the fish to me, you go and rest first.” Chen Shiying took the bucket with a smile on her face.
There are so many fish, enough for them to eat for two meals, and this is all the result of Zhou Ziwen.
Although they have been eating fish frequently in the past few days, no one feels tired of it. Instead, they want to eat fish every day.
"Sister, let me kill this fish. How about calling Zhou Chaoyang over and letting him kill it." Zhou Ziwen grabbed the bucket and was not prepared to let his sister-in-law do such a rough job.
Although in rural areas, it is normal to do this kind of thing, and even in the production team, you have to do more tiring work, but this is at home, and Zhou Ziwen still feels sorry for them.
Who makes the two sisters look the same! He eats his sister, loves his house as much as his wife, and cares about his sister very much.
"I'll call him."
Before the two of them could react, Chen Qiaoyi, who felt sorry for Brother Ziwen, rushed over to call for someone from the Educated Youth Home.
"Haha!"
Seeing Yiyi like this, Zhou Ziwen was stunned for a moment, and then he burst into laughter.
Chen Shiying also pursed her lips and smiled, pretending to be dissatisfied and scolding, "Damn girl, I already know that I feel sorry for your brother Ziwen."
"Hey, don't I feel sorry for you too? !" Zhou Ziwen touched the back of his head.
"Okay, I've been busy all morning and I'm tired. Let's go and take a rest first. I'll call you during dinner." Chen Shiying felt that Zhou Ziwen's words were a pun, and her ears turned slightly red. Push him and start chasing people away.
"I feel sorry for you!"
Zhou Ziwen muttered after being pushed out.
Forced to return home, Zhou Ziwen did not rest, but took "Mushroom Cultivation Methods and Technology" and started reading.
There are not many words in this book, and with the speed at which he reads, it is now nearing the end.
But just because you have read it does not mean you have remembered it, nor does it mean you know it.
If you want to thoroughly learn the art of growing mushrooms, you have to rely on the idle panel.
The time for serious reading always passed quickly. Zhou Ziwen felt that after a while, the door of his home was pushed open, and his daughter-in-law, who had not yet passed the door, came over and called him to eat.
"Brother Zhou, I'm very tired today! Look at my hands, they've got a few cuts trying to kill fish."
As he approached the house, Zhou Chaoyang saw Just put on a pitiful look.
"Yeah, this is an opportunity to learn. Otherwise, Houli will be working with Comrade Shen Zhaodi. Can you bear to let her do such rough work?" Zhou Ziwen didn't take it seriously, but was a little gloating.
"Huh?" After hearing this, Shen Zhaodi also turned her head, waiting for Zhou Chaoyang with her eyes, ready to see how he would answer.
"Of course not. There is no need for Comrade Shen Zhaodi to do this job. Brother Zhou, please don't harm me." Looking at Shen Zhaodi's eyes, Zhou Chaoyang felt his scalp numb and immediately swore that this He has to do the work.
"That's pretty much it." Shen Zhaodi nodded with satisfaction and gave him a knowing look.
“Look, the rain outside seems to have stopped.”
While everyone was preparing to eat, Chen Qiaoyi’s voice came from the door.
"It's true."
Zhou Ziwen looked at the yard outside the house and found that the rain had indeed stopped.
"Everyone, hurry up and eat. After eating, we will go to the mountains to pick mushrooms." Zhou Ziwen greeted hurriedly.
The rain has stopped now, and I don’t know if it will rain again later. Even if it doesn’t rain, what if the production team lets them go to work?
So hurry up and go to the mountains first to pick as much as you can.
Under Zhou Ziwen's greeting, everyone hurriedly finished their meal, tidied up a little and set off. As soon as he went out, Zhou Ziwen heard a loud noise.
After listening carefully, it turns out that they are the aunts and uncles in the village. They have the same purpose, they all go to the mountains to pick mushrooms.
Zhou Ziwen was not surprised. As an outsider, he obviously didn’t know this land as well as the locals in the village.
He went to the mountains to pick mushrooms after it rained. He was not the only one who knew the news.
Along the way, when he met familiar villagers, Zhou Ziwen chatted with them, laughing and joking all the way, and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.
“Let’s pick them up separately. If you encounter any unfamiliar ones, you can ask nearby villagers, or you can pick them back first and wait for me to come back to confirm.”
Zhou Ziwen is ready to act alone. After all, it is outside the mountains and forests. There are too many people, and if he goes deeper alone, he can gain more.
"Don't worry, I also know mushrooms." Shen Zhaodi patted her chest confidently.
"Then be careful and pay attention to safety." Chen Shiying instructed.
"Well, I'll go first."
Zhou Ziwen nodded and continued up the mountain alone.
There were indeed a lot of mushrooms after the rain. Within a few steps, Zhou Ziwen had harvested something.
Pine tree fungus, hemp hen fungus, sesame chestnut nest, flattery bubble...
Some of them are not good-looking and look like poisonous mushrooms, but after careful identification by Zhou Ziwen, they are indeed It is edible.
If he hadn't gone through an emergency training and read a book about growing mushrooms, he really wouldn't know it.
“This is a black porcini mushroom, it looks so ugly.”
“This is a ganba mushroom, it’s so small. Hey, I’d better pick it. I can’t keep it anyway. "
"This is a Bailuo umbrella, it looks a bit eerie."
"Red umbrella, white pole, let's eat this Bailuo umbrella together. Even if you don’t, you have to lie down.”
Along the way, Zhou Ziwen fell into a busy state, encountering poisonous, non-poisonous, delicious and unpalatable things.
It didn’t take long before he filled half the basket.
"This harvest is incredible. If it is full, there will be no shortage of mushrooms for half a month."
Zhou Ziwen was secretly stunned. Sure enough, the resources in the mountains are abundant. If it rains, we can get so much food.
“Hey, there are fungus here.”
Just when Zhou Ziwen was getting excited, he made a new discovery.
A dead tree in front of him was covered with fungus. He knew that this fungus was edible.
“What a good thing!”
Zhou Ziwen put down his backpack and hurriedly started picking.
Under normal circumstances, wild fungus is not poisonous and has high nutritional value. With good luck this time, he made a profit.
"There is also this tree that can be chopped back for firewood."
After picking the fungus, Zhou Ziwen took off the ax he carried with him and started chopping it on the spot.
I didn’t encounter dead trees last time I went into the mountains, but I didn’t expect to encounter them all at once this time.
It’s so unintentional!
After cutting down such a big tree, Zhou Ziwen stopped going up the mountain and went straight down the mountain with a basket on his back and the dead tree.
It's not that far away anyway, so I might as well go back first and come back later.
As for whether it would rain later or whether he would go to work, he didn't care.
The worst he could do was ask for leave, or the worst he would get caught in the rain. Anyway, he was determined to pick the mushrooms today.
(End of this chapter)