Chapter 428 Going up the mountain to pick mushrooms

Lu Yunchen noticed it and stood beside her, observing the surroundings.

Because they went up the mountain early, it was still early morning and the sky was not yet completely bright. In addition, the climate here was warm and humid, and wisps of mist were floating on the mountainside, shrouding the surrounding mountains like a fairyland.

Not to mention the guides were very excited after going up the mountain, even the bodyguards that Lu Yunchen had hired at great expense to protect them were all in high spirits. Some even found a good opportunity to grow matsutake mushrooms with their excellent eyesight.

Compared with those guides, he is not inferior at all, which really makes the guides jealous.

For this reason, the guides searched for matsutake mushrooms more carefully.

Huang Xinran sat for almost half an hour, and only stood up when she felt the surging spiritual power in her meridians. Because she knew that the spiritual power in her body had temporarily reached its upper limit. It was like the water in a bucket that was about to overflow. Before she could thoroughly consolidate her current spiritual power, it was not suitable for her to continue to improve it.

But it doesn’t matter, since they are already up the mountain, she will soon experience the fun of looking for matsutake mushrooms.

She stretched her back and felt the joyful flow of spiritual energy surging endlessly, even the internal injuries disappeared without a trace. She nodded with satisfaction and waved her hand with heroic spirit: "Let's go, let's continue picking matsutake mushrooms."

Everyone thought Huang Xinran was joking, after all, she had never come here to pick matsutake mushrooms before. But Huang Xinran's "luck" was particularly good. Once she walked over, she could find and pick matsutake mushrooms even if they were buried under the moss. She even found them earlier than the guides.

It didn't take long before Huang Xinran had a lot more matsutake mushrooms in his basket.

This caused the three children to exclaim in surprise.

In fact, Huang Xinran herself did not expect that the vines she conjured up with her spiritual power would be so useful in such a place. She only needed to sink her consciousness into the ground, and the matsutake mushrooms underground would appear clearly in front of her.

In order not to scare others, she even gave up some small ones and some matsutake mushrooms that were too weird or too deep.

Speaking of which, she also noticed that most of these matsutake mushrooms grow under pine trees, especially in the warm and moist places underground where pine needles are piled up, which is where matsutake mushrooms are more likely to grow.

It was precisely because of Huang Xinran, a capable man who picked matsutake mushrooms, that they went down the mountain from the other side even more slowly.

When they moved to another hill, they found not only matsutake mushrooms, but also a large number of porcini mushrooms.

To prevent poisoning, Huang Xinran asked them to keep the two types of mushrooms separate. After all, the toxicity of porcini mushrooms is not small, and raw porcini mushrooms can easily cause poisoning. She even heard of a case of poisoning caused by hitting cucumbers with a knife used to cut porcini mushrooms. She dared not underestimate this, and it is better to be safe than sorry.

After they searched two mountains in a row, it was almost noon.

According to what they had agreed upon at the beginning, they would have a meal on the mountain at noon, continue looking for mushrooms, and go down the mountain in the evening.

The three children had gotten up before daybreak to go hiking, and now, after the excitement had worn off, they were all tired. When they heard Huang Xinran say that they wanted to cook here, they immediately became unwilling to leave.

There was no other choice, the guides had to split up, some collected firewood, some dug holes, and everyone was busy cooking.

It wasn't long before wisps of smoke began to rise.

Huang Xinran had been staring at the fresh matsutake mushrooms she had picked early in the morning, so she naturally planned to eat them. She handed the matsutake mushrooms she had picked to them for processing. Not long after, the meal was served.

As the locals say, Matsutake is delicious no matter how it is cooked.

To this end, they steamed chicken egg custard with matsutake mushrooms and cooked soup with fresh matsutake mushrooms and wild pheasants. Meanwhile, the three-fresh porridge made with diced matsutake mushrooms was also ready.

The wild pheasants and eggs were caught by several bodyguards who followed them when they were in the mountains.

These people were very skilled, and Huang Xinran couldn't tell whether they were hired by Lu Yunchen or assigned to her by her superiors. Anyway, she couldn't get rid of them no matter where she went.

Today's meal clearly suited the children's appetites and everyone enjoyed it with relish.

Even though their faces and hands were covered in dust because they were in the wild, everyone was laughing happily, completely unaware of their own misfortunes.

Huang Xinran also ate a big bowl of three-fresh porridge, a chicken wing, and a lot of matsutake mushrooms, until his stomach was full, so he had to stop.

Over there, the remaining few people were still cleaning up the battlefield. They drank up all the chicken soup they hadn't finished and even ate up all the bone residue.

Lu Yunchen barely ate anything. He was checking something the whole time, and he was gesturing something. Huang Xinran finished eating and walked over, then looked at him, "What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing, I was just wondering if this Matsutake can be cultivated artificially? If it can, maybe..."

She didn't know whether Matsutake could be cultivated artificially, but Huang Xinran knew that mushrooms such as bamboo fungus and chicken mushroom could actually be cultivated.

"You want to grow these to sell? I think bamboo fungus, chicken mushroom, enoki mushroom, tea tree mushroom, etc. are OK, but as for the others, I don't know. Why, why did you think of growing these?"

Mushroom cultivation is indeed a profitable industry. Of course, this is also in view of the fact that there are not many people entering this industry at present. People are like this. Once they find that a certain industry can make money, there will be a steady stream of people coming to fill the vacancies. It will soon lead to overcapacity, and the production will be stuck in their hands if they can't sell it.

“That just occurred to me.”

Lu Yunchen was born into a peasant family. When he was young, he worked as a farmer at home. Later, he joined the army and left home. As a farmer, the instinct of farming is almost engraved in his genes. So his first thought after seeing Matsutake was whether it could be cultivated artificially to expand the production capacity and facilitate picking.

If this is really possible, how much economic value can such delicious matsutake create?

"Let's not talk about this for now. I'll tell you about it in detail when we get back."

This was not the time to talk about this. Lu Yunchen winked at her and stood up, intending to continue looking for matsutake mushrooms.

In fact, they not only found matsutake mushrooms on this trip, but also found many other good things.

Not to mention porcini, they also found some bamboo fungi, and Huang Xinran even found quite a few truffles.

Speaking of truffles, we have to give credit to the three children who came along to play.

Originally, the truffle was buried under the chestnut tree, and no one noticed it. But later, the naughty Yaya accidentally fell on her buttocks, and a black stone buried in the ground rolled down and fell on Yaya. Huang Xinran, who came to help Yaya, found it and recognized it as a truffle. Otherwise, they might not have discovered it.