So Wenxi put down her basket and took out a few distinctive mushrooms, explaining to Gu Huai'an, "This is a green-headed mushroom, it's green and very easy to recognize; this yellow one is an egg yolk mushroom, this one is a boletus... You don't know any mushrooms yet, just recognize a few. You won't remember too many. Just pick the ones I've mentioned, don't pick the others. If you pick a poisonous one, you could really die from it. And you can dry any mushrooms you can't finish and save them for winter."
Gu Huai'an nodded earnestly after hearing Wen Xi's words, "Wen Xi, thank you."
"Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can plant winter vegetables, such as yellow-heart cabbage, radishes, cabbage, and cilantro. You can exchange some seeds with your neighbors then." Thinking about how tough it was for everyone when they first arrived, Wenxi couldn't help but remind them, "The double-cropping early rice will be harvested in late July. You'll have to harvest the rice and transplant the seedlings then, which will be very busy and tiring. Make sure you have all the protective gear ready. Also, there are many blood-sucking leeches in the rice paddies, so wearing boots will be too hot. It's best to wear long pants, don't worry about them getting dirty."
"I haven't experienced these things before, and I don't know anything about them. Thank you for reminding me," Gu Huai'an said gratefully.
Wenxi nodded and headed down the mountain with the mushrooms. On the way down, she met other people coming down the mountain, and they all seemed to have a full harvest, which showed how many mushrooms were on the mountain this season.
Wenxi returned home, poured the mushrooms on the kitchen floor, then slipped into the system kitchen, filled a bowl with watermelon for herself, enjoyed the delicious meal, and then went out again with a basket and a carrying basket.
This is the season when these mushrooms grow like crazy, so she needs to stock up on them. Otherwise, she won't be able to enjoy them when she returns to the city.
Back on the mountain, Wenxi didn't go to the places she had visited before, but went to other places. As she walked, she unexpectedly saw a Sichuan pepper tree.
The tree, with only a few branches, is covered with small green fruits, about the size of mung beans, but like cherries, they grow in clusters of many.
Wenxi leaned over and sniffed the aroma, confirming it was Sichuan peppercorns. However, the peppercorns were not yet ripe, so Wenxi didn't touch them. Instead, she noted the location of the peppercorn tree and went to other places to continue picking mushrooms.
Suddenly, a short, sharp "clucking" sound came from the mushrooms. Shen Jiaojiao, who was picking mushrooms, was startled and looked around in a panic. "What is that sound?"
"That's the call of a rooster. It's breeding season now, so male roosters often make that call," Lin Qing explained, as she happened to be not far from Shen Jiaojiao.
Shen Jiaojiao's eyes lit up immediately. She had heard that pheasants were particularly easy to catch when they were incubating their eggs. She wondered if she could show off her skills!
A hint of excitement flashed in Shen Jiaojiao's eyes. She put the mushrooms in her hand into the basket, then crawled through the grass toward the place where the pheasant had made its sound. But instead, she saw a pheasant squatting in the grass in another direction, wondering if it was incubating its eggs there.
Shen Jiaojiao had no experience catching pheasants, and her hand accidentally landed on a tree branch. The branch snapped crisply, and she watched helplessly as the pheasant took flight, abandoning its eggs and escaping.
But the pheasant didn't fly very high before it fell into the grass with a thud. Shen Jiaojiao quickly stood up, ran over there, and then held down the pheasant that was struggling to escape.
Lin Qing, who was not far away, withdrew his hand, concealing his merit and fame.
Shen Jiaojiao tucked the pheasant's neck under her wing and carried it back to the spot where the pheasant had just laid its nest. There were eight wild eggs there!
"Comrade Lin Qing, everyone gets a share. How do you want to divide the pheasants? Do you want them cooked and then divided, or..." Shen Jiaojiao looked at Lin Qing and asked.
What if she monopolizes the pheasant and its eggs, upsetting Lin Qing and causing him to leak the news?
"No need, you caught the pheasant yourself, you can keep it. I'll pretend I didn't see it." Lin Qing said, turning and leaving.
Shen Jiaojiao didn't want to make a fuss about it, so she quickly emptied the mushrooms out of her basket, put the pheasant at the bottom, and then put the mushrooms back in. This way, everyone would see a basket full of mushrooms and would never guess that there was a pheasant inside.
Shen Jiaojiao put eight wild eggs in a basket, then covered them with a layer of mushrooms. The mushrooms were actually very light and wouldn't break. After that, she quickly went down the mountain and didn't continue picking mushrooms on the mountain.
After filling her basket and hampers again, Wenxi went home. As soon as she entered the house, she saw Shen Jiaojiao sitting by the well cleaning a pheasant.
"Jiaojiao, where did you get this pheasant?" Wenxi asked curiously.
Shen Jiaojiao laughed happily, "I caught this pheasant, aren't I amazing?"
Wen Xi hadn't expected Shen Jiaojiao to be able to catch a pheasant. The pheasants and rabbits she had brought back before were all from the sign-in system. Wen Xi gave Shen Jiaojiao a thumbs up, "Amazing! I'll make you chicken stew with mushrooms tonight."
Pheasant meat is tough and firm, making it difficult to stew. It's almost noon now, so stewing pheasant is obviously too late.
“There are still eight wild eggs!” Shen Jiaojiao proudly raised her eyebrows.
"Really? Give me the wild eggs quickly, I'll try to hatch the pheasants. We can raise them from the moment they hatch, and we should be able to raise them as obedient as domestic chickens," Wen Xi said eagerly.
The main reason is that she signed up for an incubator, and she wants to hatch wild chicken eggs and wild duck eggs.
Shen Jiaojiao immediately gave the wild eggs to Wenxi. Wenxi took the wild eggs and hurriedly returned to her room. After locking the door, she put the wild eggs into the incubator. The incubator, which could hold a hundred eggs, was not even full in two rows.
Because the time progress is different inside the system kitchen—a few minutes outside is several hours inside—Wenxi moved the incubator to the system kitchen.
In this way, the pheasants and wild ducks will hatch in just a few days.
After setting the wild chicken eggs and wild duck eggs aside, Wenxi came out to prepare lunch. Having picked so many mushrooms today, she naturally wanted to make mushroom soup. The mushroom soup was especially fresh and had a unique mushroom aroma, making it very delicious.
Wenxi took out the salted meat that she hadn't had time to cook yesterday, washed off the salt, and then cut it into shreds to make a stir-fried shredded meat dish. She also made a scrambled egg with tomatoes, and that solved lunch for the three of them.
After lunch, the three of them went for a nap because it was too hot in the afternoon, and it was not advisable to go up the mountain. Wenxi locked the door and went straight into the system kitchen.
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