Chapter 20 Mushroom Picking

Shake hard to get rid of the strange things that appear inexplicably in your mind.

She knows best the consequences of emotional misfortune.

Zhao Yeqing drank the warm honey water in the cup in one breath.

This honey is wild honey from the mountains that Feng Chunyan gave her. It is very fragrant.

My thoughts continue to wander...

If she had the chance to come across a beehive, she would put a bucket on her body and wonder if she could bring the honey home alive.

The rain won't stop for a while. Zhao Yeqing got up early and is thinking about taking a nap.

I’m also afraid that if I fall asleep now, I’ll wake up before nightfall and then have to wait until tomorrow afternoon before I can fall asleep.

She was a little bored and didn't want to fall asleep so she forced herself to stay awake, so she walked around the room.

Take inventory of recently consumed inventory.

The frozen meat is almost finished, with only about ten pounds of bacon and sausage left. There are no vegetables left, only two jars of pickles.

There were still two barrels of oil and a lot of salt left. I bought twenty kilograms of salt to pickle vegetables.

There are more than 50 kilograms of rice left, 15 kilograms of flour, and a few kilograms of rice flour and glutinous rice flour.

Zhao Yeqing's face fell. She was actually a meat and carbohydrate lover. With her current daily workload, she could consume all the food she had stored for less than five months.

This is still the case when eating.

There were no rice or wheat seeds among the vegetable seeds that Feng Lixuan gave her before.

Who could have known that one day she would have to grow her own rice for food?

It’s not that you can’t survive by eating potatoes and sweet potatoes, but survival and living are not the same thing.

Who doesn’t want to eat better?

Zhao Yeqing recalled the scene she saw from the observation tower that day. The crack on the right broke at the cliff, and she couldn't see the end of the crack on the left because the vegetation was too dense.

There was no one living in the area where she was trapped.

But it seems that there are a few rice fields enclosed in the area at the foot of the mountain.

She remembered that early rice was planted in late March to early April. When she went down the mountain before, she did not see anything growing in those fields. Maybe the seeds were planted but nothing grew?

Rice is basically planted in two seasons in my hometown. Early rice is sown by sowing, which saves time and labor. The disadvantage is that it affects the germination rate a bit. Late rice is afraid of heat and rain, so it is planted by transplanting to increase the yield.

Logically speaking, it has been more than ten days since the ground cracked, and the rice should have sprouted if it was planted. She wants to go and take a look tomorrow when the weather is fine.

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It rained for two days in a row. They say spring rain is as precious as oil, and this is indeed true.

Not to mention that after the rain, her vegetables grew visibly taller. What made her most happy was that when she set out to go down the mountain to check on the fields, she found a lot of mushrooms popping up in the woods.

It was a pity that he didn't bring a basket. Zhao Yeqing remembered the location of those big wild mushrooms and must put them in his pocket when he came back.

Those fields were not far from the highway and were actually my grandmother's fields. But my grandmother didn't like farming and my grandfather wouldn't let her do it, so they rented them out to another family not long after they got married.

Every year when the harvest season comes, my grandmother would go down the mountain to buy new rice. The freshly harvested rice could be tasted with rice oil that had a fragrant smell.

We visited the only five rice fields at the foot of the mountain. The water source at the foot of the mountain was cut off. Although it rained in the past two days, there was no water in the fields, only the soil was moist.

As long as there is water, the rice seeds should be able to germinate. Among the five fields Zhao Yeqing looked at, only one had some small sprouts emerging, and there were only a few of them.

It is estimated that this was not sown, but left over from the past.

In other words, early rice was not planted in these fields this year.

Zhao Yeqing was a little discouraged and climbed onto the road from the edge of the field.

Let these plants grow on their own. If they survive in a few months, she will harvest them and use them as rice seeds.

On the way home, I didn’t forget to bring those wild mushrooms home.

Shiitake mushrooms mostly grow on broken and rotten wood. In addition to shiitake mushrooms, there are many other fungi that like to parasitize on wood, such as black fungus.

The color of wild shiitake mushrooms is dark in the middle and light yellow at the edges. The cap is flatter and smoother, not curled inward like those bought in the market. The fragrance is also not exactly the same, with a light woody aroma.

Zhao Yeqing went home with a few mushrooms. A few minutes later, he came out again with a basket on his waist.

It would be a big loss if we don’t pick mushrooms now, and building a wall will take time.

Speaking of mushrooms, Alstroemeria, Morels, Fir Mushrooms and Bamboo Fungus are her favorites, as well as Chanterelles and Boletus, but they are not available in this season.

Zhao Yeqing walked towards the bamboo forest and found more than a dozen fir mushrooms along the way. This kind of mushroom is extremely delicious whether it is made into soup, fried directly, or dried and then eaten.

Unfortunately, there are fewer fruits grown in spring, so by the time summer and autumn come, if you are lucky, you can’t eat them all.

Morels are only found at higher altitudes, and chicken mushrooms are also hard to find. However, I did pick up a few coral mushrooms, which are not shaped like ordinary mushrooms, but look like underwater corals.

Arriving at the bamboo forest, Zhao Yeqing squatted down carefully to look for bamboo fungus. The dried bamboo fungus usually seen on the market is white. In fact, there is a black cap on the head of the bamboo fungus, which is used to release spores. It smells a bit smelly, and some people can't get used to it, so they pick it off.

The bamboo forest was relatively small, but she was able to find a few bamboo fungi. Bamboo fungi must either be eaten fresh or dried quickly, otherwise they will turn black.

After the rain, a layer of bamboo leaves fell on the ground in the bamboo forest. You need to push aside the leaves to see the small mushrooms hidden inside.

She went around the back of the bamboo forest and found a few fir mushrooms. She walked up the mountain along the bamboo forest and didn't find any more mushrooms when she reached a small pond. However, she saw a small piece of wild Houttuynia cordata.

The waist basket was filled with half a basket of mushrooms. It was not enough to eat them all, but it was enough to satisfy my craving.

This piece of Houttuynia cordata was a pleasant surprise.

They are still tender buds, and no leaves have grown on the white buds yet.

Zhao Yeqing unceremoniously pinched off the seeds one by one and got a large handful.

She is not picky about food. Except for some weird foods, such as hairy eggs and live pearls, which she cannot be used to, she can eat other things, even insects.

Before I knew it, I had reached the edge of the pond. It had rained recently, so the water in the pond was not as clear as before. The water level was also higher, and the upstream flow was more turbulent.

Zhao Yeqing suddenly remembered that she seemed to have put out a fish cage a few days ago.

Her life was so exciting, with wild boars and bears, that she really forgot about this little fish cage.

Move the rocks aside and pick up the fish cage. Then you can see a lot of small fish wagging their tails inside the transparent bottle from the outside.

Two or three of them were no longer moving. I didn't know if they had starved to death after being locked up in there for too long. In fact, some water plants and small shrimps flowed in from the bottle mouth from time to time, so most of them were still in good spirits.

There are several wild taro plants by the water. Their leaves are very large and can hold water to carry the fish back. They are water-resistant and a bit like lotus leaves.

The leaves of taro and angelica are very similar. She looked carefully and made sure that they were taro leaves before breaking them off.

After all, the weeping angel is poisonous, and your body will itch if you come into contact with the juice secreted from its stems and leaves.