This mountain is quite large; the further you go in, the denser the vegetation and forests become.

There was frost last night, and this morning there was a lot of dew in the woods, and the ground was covered with wild grass and vines.

Lei Tingjun led the way, cutting a tree branch more than a meter long to use as a walking stick, while Ji Wanmei held onto his clothes and walked slowly behind him: "Be careful, the roads in the mountains are not easy to walk on."

"I see them! There are some white mushrooms under that tree over there!" Ji Wanmei looked around and suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

Lei Tingjun looked in the direction she pointed and smiled, saying, "That mushroom looks pretty, but it's actually poisonous. You can eat it, but it will give you a stomachache."

"Ah..." Ji Wanmei asked, "Then what kind of mushrooms are non-poisonous?"

Lei Tingjun kicked aside a dead tree root blocking his way, squatted down, picked up a bunch of brownish-yellow mushrooms, and said to Ji Wanmei, "Look, these are edible. They taste pretty good. When I was little, my grandma often picked these mushrooms to eat. She would just use a little bit of lard to sauté them over high heat. They tasted almost like meat, very fragrant."

"Is it really that delicious?" Ji Wanmei smiled, took the mushroom he had picked, and examined it. "This mushroom can actually taste like meat?"

Lei Tingjun said, "That's why the kings and nobles of ancient times loved to eat delicacies from land and sea."

"Mountain delicacies, in fact, refer to mountain products." Lei Tingjun spoke eloquently about things from the mountains, knowing far more than Ji Wanmei.

"Just pick the mushrooms that are the ugliest in color. The ones that look bright and pretty are often poisonous," Lei Tingjun told Ji Wanmei, giving her a rule.

This valley was where Lei Tingjun's grandmother used to come to pick mushrooms, and Lei Tingjun took Ji Wanmei for a walk around it.

Ji Wanmei carried a small bamboo basket on her back and circled around the huge tree roots and mossy stones with great seriousness. And sure enough, she actually picked up quite a few mushrooms.

Like a little girl who had just received a new toy, every time she found a mushroom, she would pick it up and show it off to Lei Tingjun: "Look, look, I found another one! Can we eat this?"

"You can eat this, but you can't eat this," Lei Tingjun would patiently teach her. "This is poisonous, and that will cause hallucinations if you eat it."

Ji Wanmei felt that there was actually so much to learn about picking mushrooms.

She went into the mountains with Lei Tingjun and gained quite a lot.