◎Happy 78th day: Fuck this mushroom◎
"mushroom?"
Apart from anything else, just increasing the variety of food can really make people feel better.
Life has been tough out there for a long time now, and having our hopes dashed again is indeed a big blow to everyone, but it’s not to the point of losing hope.
Jiang Muyun held up Dabai to show everyone: "Of course, I wouldn't eat wild mushrooms casually, but don't we have a little treasure at home?"
Dabai meowed in a very cooperative manner.
Zhao Jiahao regained his spirits, and carrying an open backpack as a bamboo basket, a group of people began to search the mountains and pick mushrooms with great enthusiasm.
They were very cautious, wearing gloves and masks while picking mushrooms to prevent accidental injury from strange things. They also tied up their trouser legs because mosquitoes have been active recently.
"To be honest, I have the illusion that I am in a tropical rain forest." Qin Shiwen pushed his sleeves into his gloves and jumped lightly over a tree trunk that had grown horizontally for some reason.
It had just rained, and the grove, which was beginning to take shape, was damp and stuffy. All kinds of unfamiliar plants grew lushly, and occasionally you could see insects passing by. It really looked a bit like a tropical rainforest.
Jiang Muyun thought of the golden python that lived in the underground garage in Nanshi. "No, when you mention tropical rainforests, I think of Anaconda. If we could get one here, we'd be enough to feed them for several meals."
"This will take three meals, right?" Wang Qingqing said.
Qin Shiwen kicked aside a clump of unusually dense weeds at his feet. "I can't stand this. Wang Qingqing, have you done your worship today?"
Wang Qingqing was very proud: "Do I still need to worship today? This is definitely the basis for three meals a day!"
Qin Shiwen looked in the direction of the voice, and before he could say anything, he saw Wang Qingqing squatting next to a large bunch of white unknown crops, looking at him repeatedly.
Before Qin Shiwen could identify what species Wang Qingqing was staring at, Wang Qingqing slapped her thigh and said, "Yun! My Yun! Hurry and bring our Dabai here! This thing doesn't seem to be poisonous!"
Jiang Muyun knew at a glance that it was not an illusion. The large clump that Wang Qingqing was staring at was a mutant straw mushroom.
It seems they are lucky.
Even if mushrooms grow all over the mountain after the rain, it depends on luck what variety will grow.
Mushroom mutations simply make their vitality stronger and their requirements for growth conditions lowered, but it doesn't mean they can grow anywhere without being picky.
To cultivate straw mushrooms, we usually use materials with sufficient nitrogen and carbon content, such as rice straw, waste cotton, and bagasse. If none of these are available, we need to see if there are any special conditions that can just meet the straw mushrooms' needs for carbon and nitrogen.
The growing conditions of straw mushrooms are not harsh, it's just that the environment on their mountain is not very suitable. Even so, you can just happen to come across a bunch of them, which makes Jiang Muyun feel like he has started a good business.
"Come, come, let Dabai identify it." She carried the poison tester Dabai to the bunch of straw mushrooms.
Wang Qingqing held up a mushroom whose cap was almost as big as half her face and looked like a straw mushroom and held it in front of Dabai. Dabai sniffed it and took a bite.
"Great, it seems it's non-toxic." Wang Qingqing was overjoyed, and she wanted to feed the whole flower directly to Dabai.
There's a reason mushrooms have become a staple food in the post-apocalyptic world.
In addition to the fact that it is relatively easy to survive in the apocalypse without the sun, yield is also a key factor.
Many common fungi after the end of the world grow in large clumps. From a distance, a clump of mushrooms is as large as a bush. They are also easy to preserve after being dried, and are a model of being large in quantity and sufficient to satisfy your hunger.
Wang Qingqing and the others had never seen what mushrooms looked like after the apocalypse. The first time they went to pick mushrooms, they only carried a backpack. Now, after picking this bunch of straw mushrooms, Wang Qingqing's bag was almost full.
The undehydrated mushrooms were of considerable weight. Wang Qingqing, having just experienced the joy of an unexpected harvest, was reluctant to go back and insisted on carrying her bag and going shopping with them.
Fortunately, Wang Qingqing didn't have to worry about it for long, as they harvested a lot of hazel mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms, as well as a large bunch of oyster mushrooms.
Hazel mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms are both common wild mushrooms after rain, and you can often find them within a few steps.
Oyster mushrooms have lower requirements for the growth environment than straw mushrooms. After mutation, they can grow freely on sawdust, and once they grow, they form a large area. They are the main species cultivated in major bases after the end of the world.
In addition to these common and recognizable mushrooms, there are also some strange varieties that no one can recognize. When we picked them up and saw that Xiaobai had no special reaction, we threw them into the backpack.
They hadn't been out for half an hour when their bags were full. They had no choice but to return the backpacks and exchange them for larger containers.
Mushrooms should not be kept crowded together for a long time, so the curtain cloth that was used to pad potatoes is making a comeback.
"I've finally experienced what happy troubles are." Qin Shiwen held her backpack of mushrooms and poured them onto the curtains. Seeing those mushrooms of various shapes and sizes bouncing and falling to the ground, Qin Shiwen felt extremely satisfied.
There were ten people, each with a backpack, and the collected mushrooms piled together looked quite spectacular.
Most importantly, all this was accomplished in just half an hour.
I didn't take the trouble to cultivate it, I just went out and picked it up after the rain.
Who can resist free food?
The teenagers who were picking mushrooms were attracted by the food and gave up the formalism of backpacks and chose net bags, which were not very beautiful but more practical.
It is the big net bag used to carry potatoes and sweet potatoes.
If you want to carry it with you after it is full, you need two people to carry it together.
A group of people are like old farmers in the harvest season, working diligently in the mountains for a day. All the winter depression and unfulfilled expectations are thrown behind their minds, and their hearts and eyes are filled with food!
In addition to the food that Dabai personally identified as non-toxic, people also did not let go of some mushrooms that were obviously wrong in color.
Not only did Jiang Muyun not let go of those unruly-looking mushrooms, he even went back to get some potassium permanganate tablets and dissolved them in a pot of disinfectant, and watered the entire piece of soil with it to prevent it from growing out again unexpectedly.
Their hill was not big, and it usually took them less than a day to walk up and down the entire hill. But today they stopped halfway to pick mushrooms, and went back and forth to deliver mushrooms. By the time it was almost dark, they had not been able to finish sweeping half of the hill, and the mushrooms they brought back piled up into a small hill.
No one was disappointed that they couldn't search the mountain in one day. Instead, everyone was quite excited.
Zhao Jiahao's hands were practically flying. "How much coal do we have left? Let's light a kang and dry it out! Dry it all out! We'll continue tomorrow!"
Jiang Muyun looked at the edible fungi they had found and smiled maliciously. When classifying the mushrooms, he deliberately collected some special varieties for himself.
After the rain, there are many kinds of wild mushrooms emerging from the mountains, and various mutant varieties are also emerging in an endless stream.
Some strains of bacteria that mutated after the end of the world do not have a unified name, and each place has its own name.
For example, there is a kind of fungus that looks 90% like shiitake mushrooms, but has a little white on its cap. Jiang Muyun heard many people call it wine mushroom in his previous life.
As the name suggests, this mushroom has a similar effect to alcohol. Eating too much will paralyze your nerves and make you feel drunk.
The disadvantage is that when a person is in a "drunk state", his or her pain perception will also be numb.
This toxicity is obviously a double-edged sword. If used properly, it can be a substitute for anesthetics and intoxicants, which can save lives. If used improperly, it can lead to alcoholism. People will be drunken and dreamless every day, unable to react when injured, and finally be completely relieved by a random accident.
Jiang Muyun picked up several wine mushrooms on his own mountain.
Dabai didn't react much to this toxin which was not fatal if consumed normally. When Jiang Muyun picked it up, Dabai raised its head lazily. After being rubbed twice by Jiang Muyun, it nestled in Jiang Muyun's arms without moving.
There is also a small kind of mushroom that looks and tastes very much like an button mushroom, usually called a laughing mushroom.
Because some people will laugh like crazy after accidentally eating it.
But the strange thing is that everyone's reaction to eating it is different.
Some people ate it and were completely fine, thinking it was a rare delicacy in the apocalypse. Others nearly died of laughter after eating it, thinking it might be highly poisonous and wanting to stay away from it.
This has caused the price of laughing mushrooms to soar.
Because the yield of this kind of mushroom is low, Jiang Muyun has never heard of its artificial cultivation. The laughing mushrooms she has seen being sold are all wild.
Those who come to ask for the price are naturally those who regard the laughing mushroom as a delicacy. It would be strange if the seller did not take advantage of such a fat sheep and make a killing.
Jiang Muyun was fortunate enough to find the laughing mushroom. After eating it once, he laughed for two minutes and felt a sore stomach for a while. He also learned why some people have a strong reaction to it while others have no reaction.
Because the principle that makes people laugh is itching.
After eating it, every itchy part of the body felt like it was being harassed crazily by a group of people holding feathers.
It's not the kind of itchy feeling that makes you want to scratch it all the time. It itches for a few seconds and then stops, then itches for a few seconds again and then stops again. Just when you want to reach out and scratch it, the itching stops. It's guaranteed to keep jumping back and forth around the line of driving you crazy.
When people started to think about whether to fight it, it was over.
This is a very sensible mushroom, it will never make people scratch themselves until they are covered in blood.
Some people who are not naturally afraid of tickling will naturally have no reaction to it.
There are also some things that can cause hair loss if eaten too much, and can make the throat astringent and make people unable to speak for a long time if eaten raw. Eating them can affect the secretion of dopamine and endorphins, causing people to inexplicably fall into excitement or depression.
It is not accurate to say that these strange varieties are poisonous, but it is also not right to say that they are non-toxic.
Dabai can react to them a little, but Xiaobai is completely unaware. It even wants to take a bite of some of the things that smell good.
The fruits of their hard work for the day were divided into several piles according to their types. In addition to the groups of straw mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, the largest number of them were hazel mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms.
After working hard all day, everyone was eager to have a mushroom feast to celebrate their good harvest of the day.
Half an hour later.
Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu hugged each other and cried and confessed to each other. Qin Shiwu cried and said: "If I had known this day would come, I would definitely not have hit Wang Xiaoming. I am sorry for you."
Qin Shiwen hugged Qin Shiwu and burst into tears: "It's okay, how could I blame you, but who is Wang Xiaoming and why did you hit him?"
Qin Shiwu was deeply moved by being forgiven: "Wang Xiaoming is the vice-class monitor of our elementary school, don't you like him? Brother was wrong and I won't interfere in your life anymore."
Qin Shiwen was filled with guilt when he learned the truth: "Brother, how can you say you care about me when I'm worried about you? Besides, I also ate the lollipop you were going to give to Chen Xiaohua."
Qin Shiwu paused: "Say it again?"
Qin Shiwen's whole body stiffened.
Qin Shiwen looked up and looked at Qin Shiwu innocently: "When you put the box on the coffee table, I thought Dad bought it - Dad just promised to buy it for me, you can't blame me."
Qin Shiwu immediately threw her aside and angrily went looking for someone to help him: "That was the birthday present I prepared for her! I begged her for a month before she agreed to lend me the comics! I was wondering why she turned against me after giving me the birthday present!"
Even if Qin Shiwen had taken a knockout drug, he should have been awake by now, but he immediately acted out what it meant to let go.
Qin Shiwu was chasing Qin Shiwen, while Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan were singing a military song in duet. They pronounced every word loud and clear, and even used their hands and feet to beat the rhythm when they sang with deep emotion. Their strength was so strong that they almost broke the kang, but Jiang Muyun couldn't make out what they were howling about.
Zheng Xiang stood by and looked at them in a daze. When Zhao Jiahao shouted, "Fire!", Zheng Xiang suddenly raised his hand and drew a Tai Chi in the air.
Wang Qingqing laughed and announced that she had found the secret to saving the world. Pointing to her itchy palm, she told Wu Xingyue that her magic power was coming back.
Wu Xingyue nodded and replied, "I know where the secret book is. I'll take you there."
The two of them had a nonsensical conversation, but finally reached a consensus to search for treasure together in the cave, and occasionally let out a creepy laugh.
Zhou Ying sat alone at the door, hugging her knees, looking up with tears in her eyes, and reciting rhythmic poems.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen passed by her when they were going out and heard clearly what poem she was reciting.
Braised pig's trotters, braised pork, blanched Chinese cabbage and boiled chicken.
Jiang Muyun didn't pick any mushrooms tonight. They wouldn't kill people anyway, and she also needed to vent her emotions.
But she still had a bit of rationality and knew that there were some things she couldn't say carelessly, so she took Chu Buwen, the only person who could listen to her secrets, and found a place where no one was around.
Maybe she also ate the dishes made with laughing mushrooms, and now her palms are slightly itchy.
Jiang Muyun stretched out his palm in front of Chu Buwen and said, "Look, a grass will grow out of my palm."
Chu Buwen leaned against the tree and looked at her and smiled: "What kind of grass is it?"
Jiang Muyun said seriously, "It will be a grain of rice, still covered with soil."
"Then I will plant it at home and then plant it outside." Jiang Muyun folded her five fingers together, carefully leaving a space in her palm to avoid crushing her rice.
Her words were a little confusing, but Chu Buwen still understood what she meant.
Chu Buwen clasped his hands together, holding Jiang Muyun in his arms, and whispered softly in her ear, "It will get better."
Jiang Muyun rested his forehead against Chu Buwen's shoulder: "Do we have to wait ten years?"
Chu Buwen smiled and said, "I've been waiting for more than ten years."
And he didn't want those ten years that had existed to disappear at all, at least not in his heart.
Without those ten years, there would really be nothing left between him and Jiang Muyun.
Jiang Muyun bumped his head against him and said, "Are we both unlucky or lucky?"
Before Chu Buwen could speak, Jiang Muyun continued, "I'm definitely lucky. I'm a perfect match for the female lead."
"Very lucky." Chu Buwen responded, but his voice happened to overlap with Jiang Muyun's.
Jiang Muyun paused for a moment after he finished speaking, then raised his hand to rub his temples: "I can't do this, I need some fresh air, why are all these words coming out?"
Chu Buwen also felt that his brain was a little rusty. He only remembered following Jiang Muyun closely and agreeing to whatever she said.
Jiang Muyun walked around the mountain for a while, and when he felt like he had recovered, he suddenly stopped and turned around to ask, "You told me about the shelter, will you tell others?"
Chu Buwen looked at her for a while before he slowly said, "No, I can only tell you."
Jiang Muyun thought for a moment and then asked, "Then why don't you ask where my warehouse is?"
Chu Buwen shook his head: "I don't want to ask."
Jiang Muyun paused for a moment before asking, "Why don't you want to?"
Did he discover something abnormal about her?
Chu Buwen was silent for a moment, feeling a little aggrieved: "You won't say it."
Jiang Muyun was bewildered: "Why won't you tell me?"
Chu Buwen stopped talking.
His mind suddenly became clear.
He wants to say, don’t you know what position I hold in your heart? Even if you said it, it’s only for the purpose of getting an equal exchange with me.
I confess my rebirth and you confess your rebirth too. I confess my shelter and you confess my warehouse too.
Are we really done with the money and goods?
Chu Buwen had already written a short essay in his mind, but he couldn't say a word. Finally, he grunted and uttered, "I won't ask."
Don't try to settle accounts with me.
He was afraid that Jiang Muyun would continue to ask, so he simply took the initiative and asked, "Will you tell others about the warehouse?"
Especially Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu. After Grandpa Jiang passed away, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were Jiang Muyun's relatives.
Jiang Muyun sighed and found a stone to sit on.
"You're asking even though you already know the answer. Of course I won't tell you." Jiang Muyun patted the seat next to him, motioning Chu Buwen to come and sit over.
Whether she had space or was really just a warehouse, she wouldn't say.
Don't test human nature. It's such a corny saying, but it makes so much sense.
Suppose someone is sick and needs some rare life-saving medicine.
Everyone knows that she has stored a large amount of supplies, so they will definitely place their hopes on her.
She said no, the person was gone, and everyone knew it and didn't blame her.
But ask yourself, if the sick person was Qin Shiwen, after she said that there was no medicine and she could only wait to die, could Qin Shiwu really accept the reality from the bottom of his heart and not have any doubts about her words?
Or perhaps she had set up a warehouse for her companions to search in order to dispel their suspicions? Would she be able to remain free of any grudges after the search?
If Jiang Muyun's trust in her companions allowed her to give affirmative answers without hesitation when faced with these questions, then Jiang Muyun would choose to tell the secret.
But obviously, she was also hesitant.
Reason and emotion are two different things at times.
There is no right or wrong in this kind of thing, it's just human nature.
In the last days, as you travel farther and meet more people, you will naturally understand these principles that seem less humane.
Jiang Muyun understood, and Chu Buwen also understood, so Jiang Muyun said that he asked even though he knew the answer.
"Move aside." Jiang Muyun said unhappily.
Chu Buwen thought she was unhappy about this topic: "Sorry, my head is dizzy."
Jiang Muyun put one hand on his shoulder for support: "What are you apologizing for? I'm serious. Move back."
Jiang Muyun pushed Chu Buwen back, then pointed into the distance and asked, "Could it be that I'm hallucinating from eating too many mushrooms? Is that the holiday villa sending a signal?"
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