Chapter 40: Qingtou Fungus Zhou Ye’s heartbeat was like a drum, dong dong…
Zhou Ye looked at her smiling little crescent face, and did not look away uncomfortably as before. Instead, he looked back at her, nodded, and said okay.
"Sister." Lin Xiaopu suddenly interrupted them and asked, "What is this green poisonous fungus called?"
Lin Shu looked in the direction she pointed and was startled. She quickly squatted down and parted the grass to take a look.
A light green mushroom is hiding in the grass. It is hemispherical and has a cracked surface. It looks very beautiful, but because its color is close to the grass, you can't find it unless you look closely.
Lin Shu was slightly surprised. "This is a tricholoma! Although it's not as good as a chicken mushroom, it's also very delicious and has a very rich, natural fragrance."
Now is indeed the season for the growth of blue-headed mushrooms. Like the chicken mushrooms, they can be eaten in both summer and autumn.
With these two kinds of mushrooms available for harvest, there is no need to worry about lack of protein supplementation, as these two kinds of mushrooms are extremely rich in protein.
Moreover, there are many ways to eat this tricholoma. Not only can it be used to make soup, but it can also be stir-fried, stewed, steamed, sautéed, mixed, and braised. If it is stewed with chicken, the taste is even more delicious.
The more Lin Shu thought about it, the happier she became. "Look around quickly. These tricholoma mushrooms always appear in pairs."
"Sister, here!" Lin Xiaopu said hurriedly, also very happy.
Another blue-headed mushroom was hidden in the grass just one step away, even more concealed than this one.
"Sister, I didn't expect that these green mushrooms are not poisonous mushrooms, but edible mushrooms!"
Lin Shu said, "There can't be only these two of these tricholomas. If tricholomas can grow on the mountain behind us, there must be a lot of them. They produce a lot after the rain."
So on the way back, just as Lin Shu said, traces of blue-headed mushrooms were found in many places.
As the three of them walked along the way, Zhou Ye's backpack was almost full, most of which were tricholoma, and the other half were chicken mushrooms.
Lin Shu raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead and glared at the taciturn man, "Brother Aye, all he did was just stand there watching, instead of helping me and Xiao Pu."
Lin Xiaopu nodded like a little chicken, "That's right."
Although Brother Aye not only carried a large basket of mushrooms, but also took the small bamboo basket from her hand, and always took the initiative to reach out to take the mushrooms that she and her sister dug out without waiting for her and her sister to say anything, he was still not tactful enough. Didn't he see that she and her sister were sweating while digging mushrooms?
Zhou Ye didn't refute. He looked at Lin Shu and followed her words, "Then I'll dig the mushrooms later. You and Xiao Pu watch from the side."
Lin Shu handed him a freshly dug tricholoma mushroom and said, "You look so honest and simple, I feel embarrassed to bully you."
Zhou Ye reached out to take it, put it into the backpack skillfully, and did not say anything.
After Lin Shu glared at him, he finally said, "I just don't know what to say."
"From what I see, it's not that you don't know what to say, but you have to think before you speak. If you have to be cautious about everything when speaking to your family, it would be so tiring. Zhou Ye, you are a family member, not an outsider." The last sentence was said softly so that Lin Xiaopu didn't hear it.
Zhou Ye was suddenly stunned.
After a moment, he explained, "I'm not good at talking, but I'm blunt. If I talk too much, people will dislike me."
Lin Shu suddenly picked up a mud ball from the ground and threw it at his face. Zhou Ye was stunned and failed to dodge in time, so the mud ball flew past his cheek.
Lin Shu looked at the mud mark on his cheek, chuckled twice, and asked him: "I hit you with mud, are you angry?"
Zhou Ye felt that it was right for a person to be angry when someone threw mud balls at him for no reason, but when he looked at the girl in front of him, he could not feel angry at all. Instead, looking at her smiling face, the slightly stuffy feeling in his chest came again, but this time, it seemed like something else in that stuffy chest was dissolving little by little.
He thought of his childhood, when he was very young, and his mother gave him a bowl of sweet sugar water.
"Brother Aye, guess why I dared to hit you with a mud ball? Because I knew you wouldn't be angry? That's definitely not the case. I didn't know if you would be angry, but I still hit you because I felt we were a family. If I accidentally made you angry, I would apologize to you, or at least cook you a delicious meal to apologize. Moreover, even if you were really angry, you couldn't possibly hang me up and beat me up, right? I'm just relying on the fact that we're a family to be so fearless.
Similarly, you can do the same to us. If Dad, Mom, Xiao Pu and I are really upset because of something you said, you can just apologize and spend a little time to coax us back, right? Unless you don't regard us as family and are too lazy to spend the slightest bit of time on us.
Lin Xiaopu, who was standing by, didn't know how the topic had turned to this, but she also felt that Brother Aye was usually too silent, so she nodded and agreed, "Sister is right."
Zhou Ye lowered his eyes and looked at her. Suddenly, the stuffiness in his chest was gone, but his heartbeat was still as loud as a drum.
Seeing him standing there stupidly, Lin Shu was speechless for a moment. She glared at him dimly, "I've told you so much, but did you listen? Well, let me be practical. I can't control what others do, but I can promise you that from now on, you can say whatever you want to me, and I will never get angry because of a word from you. Even if I really get angry, I won't be angry with you for more than a quarter of an hour. How about that? Is that sincere enough?"
When Lin Xiaopu heard this, he quickly said, "And me, and me. I will never be angry with Brother Aye."
It seems that she has never been angry with Brother Aye in the past. Although Brother Aye looks tall and strong, he actually has the best temper. She has never seen Brother Aye get angry with anyone in the village.
Zhou Ye nodded at Lin Shu, his expression quite serious, "Okay."
Lin Shu: ...
She said so much, and this guy just said "OK" to her?
Forget it, she just thought that the other party accepted her kindness.
This family lived together, so they had to work together to make their lives better. The immense power she had in her previous life had been passed on to Zhou Ye, but she hadn't seen him use it properly. Lin Shu felt that this couldn't go on. She had to ask Zhou Ye to fully tap into his immense power. In the apocalypse, she had been able to make a name for herself with this immense power, making her life better and better. There was no reason Zhou Ye couldn't do the same. The world was much better now than it was in the apocalypse.
"The backpack is almost full. Let's pick these Acanthopanax and Bletilla striata. Let's go to the bamboo forest and pick some bamboo fungus. Take as many as you can."
Lin Shu called out, and Lin Xiaopu immediately responded, "Okay, okay, fill the remaining space in the backpack with the Queen Fungus!"
However, they had not walked far when they heard the voices of villagers ahead.
Lin Shu immediately winked at Lin Xiaopu and Zhou Ye.
Lin Xiaopu didn't understand, but Zhou Ye reacted very quickly and poured all the straw mushrooms in the bamboo basket into the backpack. He then used his hands to move them around, covering up all the chicken mushrooms and blue-headed mushrooms, especially the light green blue-headed mushrooms.
After doing all this, he subconsciously looked at Lin Shu, only to see her blink at him. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes were full of praise.
Zhou Ye lowered his eyes, a faint smile gently rising in his eyes.
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