Chapter 39: When eating Alpinia arborescens, there is a fragrance of chicken.
When Lin Xiaopu heard Lin Shu's words, he was overjoyed.
There’s something delicious again!
This is another delicious thing that no one else has eaten!
"Sister, let's go!"
"Okay, let's go."
Once they entered the mountain, Lin Shu wanted to roll up her trouser legs for easier movement. Zhou Ye glanced at her and quickly retracted his gaze, reminding her, "The mountains are overgrown with vegetation and are full of insects and snakes. It's better to roll your trouser legs down."
Lin Shu thought about it and gave up.
Although there are few poisonous insects and snakes on the mountain behind, it would not be very beautiful if the non-venomous insects and snakes crawled on her legs.
Anyway, the trouser legs are already dirty, so I will definitely have to wash them later.
"Sister, Brother A Ye, look, there are so many mushrooms here!" Lin Xiaopu suddenly cheered and ran a few steps away.
In a patch of dense grass, there are clusters of round and cute straw mushrooms.
Grayish-white straw mushrooms grow in large numbers. If you pull aside the grass nearby, you will find many more.
The straw mushrooms in a cluster are big and small, with the smallest ones only as big as a fingernail.
Lin Xiaopu chuckled, picked up a nearby wooden stick, and used it to dig out the straw mushrooms one cluster at a time.
Put a layer of wild grass leaves in the bamboo basket, and then carefully place the straw mushrooms on top.
"See what I said, there are so many straw mushrooms on the mountain, you can't pick them all. Not only on the mountain, there are also many in the grass in the fields, so why bother to come all the way up the mountain to pick them." Lin Shu said with a smile.
The three of them picked mushrooms as they walked. Soon, Lin Xiaopu's bamboo basket was full of straw mushrooms, and Zhou Ye's backpack was also filled with a layer of mushrooms.
Lin Shu didn't go looking for the straw mushroom. She looked around. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and the corners of her mouth curled up, "I found it!"
The first time she went up the mountain with Xiao Pu, she discovered the chicken mushroom. It had just emerged at that time, hidden among the dead leaves and rotten wood, and was inconspicuous. After a rain last night, as she expected, the chicken mushroom had grown a lot bigger, and each one had grown into an umbrella shape. The largest one had cracked, like a chicken feather.
In summer and autumn, you can see chicken mushrooms for a long time, especially in autumn when there are so many of them that you never have to worry about not having enough to eat!
"Sister, this is a chicken feather mushroom. When it grows up, the mushroom will explode and look like chicken feathers or a flower. It is very beautiful. You can find it in many places on the mountain. Can it be eaten?" Lin Xiaopu asked, staring at her with his eyes wide open.
"Of course it's edible! It's a chicken mushroom! How could anyone in Tianshui Village eat it?" Lin Shu was surprised. The elderly in the village never tried it during the famine. Death by poisoning is better than starvation, right?
But then I thought, Tianshui Village has many mountains and vegetation, and even if there is a famine, there are still wild vegetables and tree roots to eat. There is really no need to take the risk of eating mushrooms that I have never eaten before.
"Alpha-Acanthocephala is a wonderful thing. When you eat it, it has a delicate aroma of chicken, and the soup made from it is just like chicken soup, so delicious! The bamboo fungus we saw last time was known as the queen of mushrooms, and this Alpha-Acanthocephala is even better! It's the king of mushrooms!"
Lin Xiaopu exclaimed, "Wow!" "I didn't expect this chicken feather mushroom looks like chicken feathers, but tastes like chicken! It's even the king of mushrooms! Sister, let's pick them quickly, there are so many in the mountains. After we pick these, we'll go look for them somewhere else! After we pick these king mushrooms, we'll go to the bamboo forest to pick the queen mushrooms!"
Lin Shu was amused by her and also found a thick wooden stick to dig mushrooms with her.
To pick mushrooms, you have to dig up the whole plant. The two of them dug up the rotten leaves and wet soil next to it and carefully dug out the chicken mushroom.
Zhou Ye watched from the side and wanted to ask if they needed help, but seeing that the two were happily picking mushrooms, he tactfully did not step forward to help. Instead, he asked Lin Shu curiously, "How did you know all this? Do you know all the mushrooms on this mountain? Can you tell which ones are poisonous and which ones are edible?"
Ingesting mushrooms by mistake is no joke. A villager accidentally ate a poisonous mushroom while fleeing famine and died that same day. Therefore, even when he was starving, he would not touch these mushrooms easily.
Lin Shu was busy picking the chicken mushrooms. Upon hearing this, she glanced at him and said with a smile, "Want to know? If you want to know, call out to someone nice first. Who wouldn't call out to someone before speaking? If you don't call out to someone, who would know who you're talking to?"
Lin Xiaopu immediately followed up, "That's right, Brother Ye didn't call anyone, so who knows if he was asking me or Sister?"
Zhou Ye:......
"Sister Shu."
Zhou Ye called her again, but it still didn't go smoothly. His cheeks flushed as soon as he finished calling her. "I was just asking you."
Lin Shu snorted, "I asked you to call someone, but you acted like you were asking for half your life. I call you Brother Aye every day, and if you were like this, wouldn't I be miserable?"
After the joke, he answered his question, "I know these mushrooms because I've seen and eaten them. I don't like anything else but studying the flowers and plants in the world, especially the edible ones."
Lin Shu spoke nonsense without blushing or panting, and her expression was natural.
"There are so many different kinds of mushrooms in this world, and I don't know every one of them. But if you ask me which ones are poisonous and which ones are edible, I know exactly."
Zhou Ye nodded. "This mountain behind is not big. The chicken mushrooms you mentioned are more abundant in the deep mountains. I'll pick some back someday."
In the past, he went into the mountains to look for fragrant mushrooms and had seen all kinds of mushrooms in the mountains. When the chicken mushroom grew up, it cracked like chicken feathers and was easy to distinguish, so he naturally recognized it.
Hearing this, Lin Shu had an idea. "Brother Aye, take me with you later! There are so many edible mushrooms in the mountains, not just the chicken mushroom. I won't go deep into the mountains, but just walk around the outside, okay?"
Zhou Ye was silent for a moment, then nodded.
Lin Shu's face lit up with smiles. "Brother Aye, have you agreed? Xiao Pu, quickly testify for me, or he won't deny it later."
Lin Xiaopu chuckled, "Okay, okay, I, Lin Xiaopu, heard everything clearly. Ah Ye, don't even think about regretting it after this."
Zhou Ye looked at the two of them without saying a word, only a hint of a smile flashed across his lips.
Now that he has agreed, he will not go back on his word.
The deep mountains are humid, so you can see all kinds of mushrooms anytime you go there, without having to wait for the rain.
Lin Shu didn't pick the newly grown mushrooms, as she would wait until they were bigger. After picking them here, the group continued to search for chicken mushrooms. On the way, Lin Shu saw several kinds of poisonous mushrooms. She thought to herself, no wonder the villagers in Tianshui Village didn't dare to eat mushrooms casually. There were so many poisonous mushrooms on this mountain.
Lin Shu could name some of these poisonous mushrooms, but not others. However, she told Lin Xiaopu and Zhou Ye about them one by one.
"So you see, some of these poisonous mushrooms are brightly colored and obviously poisonous, while others look harmless. Take this Amanita phalloides, for example. Does it look like a poisonous mushroom to you?"
Lin Xiaopu blinked and replied, "Yes, it looks like one. It's snow-white and you can tell it's a poisonous mushroom at first glance."
Lin Shu choked. Okay, Xiao Pu was the type who even thought chicken mushrooms were too pretty to eat, so it was good that he was being cautious.
"These white cap-shaped mushrooms are extremely poisonous and can kill people, so stay away from them. On the other hand, some mushrooms, while colorful and beautiful, are actually edible."
Zhou Ye thought of the colorful mushrooms he had seen in the mountains and asked, "Which colorful mushrooms are edible?"
After a slight pause, he moved his lips and added in a low voice, "Sister Ashu."
Lin Shu tilted her head to look at him, and noticed that his earlobe was indeed as Xiao Pu said, with a little red in the black, and suddenly she felt a little pleasure in teasing this man.
"Brother Aye, if I tell you now, will you remember it? Take me with you later and I'll point them out to you one by one. Is that okay with you?"
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