Chapter 63 Going up the mountain to pick mushrooms
“We caught so many fish!”
When they returned to the house, Chen Shiying was surprised to see that Zhou Ziwen had caught so many fish.
"Hehe, good luck, good luck." Zhou Ziwen smiled modestly.
With his skills, it was indeed luck that he was able to catch so many fish.
Firstly, Uncle Niu chose a good location, and secondly, it was a rainy day, so the fish in the river were more active.
If he had changed the time or the place, he wouldn't have been able to catch so many fish.
"Thank you for your hard work. Leave the fish to me and you go and rest first." Chen Shiying took the bucket with a smile on her face.
There were so many fish, enough for them to have two meals, and it was all thanks to Zhou Ziwen.
Although they have been eating fish frequently in recent days, no one feels tired of it. Instead, they wish they could eat fish every day.
"Sister, let me kill the fish. Or you can call Zhou Chaoyang over and let him kill it." Zhou Ziwen grabbed the bucket and was not going to let his sister-in-law do such rough work.
Although doing this kind of thing is normal in the countryside, and even more tiring work has to be done in the production team, but this is at home, and Zhou Ziwen still feels sorry for them.
Who made the two sisters look the same! After eating the younger sister, he loved the whole family and cared about the older sister as well.
"I'll go call him."
Without waiting for the two to react, Chen Qiaoyi, who felt sorry for Brother Ziwen, rushed over and went to the Youth League Institute to call for help.
"hehe!"
Seeing Yiyi like this, Zhou Ziwen was stunned, and then burst into laughter.
Chen Shiying also smiled and cursed in a disgruntled manner, "You silly girl, you only know how to feel sorry for your brother Ziwen."
"Hehe, isn't this because I feel sorry for you too?" Zhou Ziwen touched the back of his head.
"Okay, we've been busy all morning and you're tired. Go take a rest first. I'll call you when it's time for dinner." Chen Shiying felt that Zhou Ziwen's words were a double entendre. Her ears turned slightly red, and she pushed him and started to drive people away.
"I just feel sorry for you!"
Zhou Ziwen, who was pushed out, muttered something.
Forced to return home, Zhou Ziwen did not rest, but instead started reading "Mushroom Cultivation Methods and Techniques".
This book doesn't have many words, and at his reading speed, he is now nearing the end.
However, seeing something doesn’t mean you remember it, nor does it mean you can do it.
If you want to fully master the technique of growing mushrooms, you still have to rely on the auto-switch panel.
Time always passes quickly when reading seriously. Zhou Ziwen didn't realize that after a while, the door of his house was pushed open and his wife-to-be came to call him for dinner.
"Brother Zhou, I'm really tired today! Look at my hands, they're all cut up from killing fish."
As soon as he approached the house, Zhou Chaoyang put on a pitiful look.
"Well, this is an opportunity for her to learn. Otherwise, when she works with Comrade Shen Zhaodi in the future, how could you bear to let her do such rough work?" Zhou Ziwen didn't care, but rather felt a little gloating.
"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, Shen Zhaodi also turned her head, her eyes waiting for Zhou Chaoyang, ready to see how he would answer.
"Of course not. This job doesn't require Comrade Shen Zhaodi. Brother Zhou, please don't harm me." Looking at Shen Zhaodi's eyes, Zhou Chaoyang felt his scalp tingling, and he immediately swore that he must do this job.
"That's more like it." Shen Zhaodi nodded with satisfaction and gave him a knowing look.
"Look, the rain outside seems to have stopped."
Just as everyone was preparing to eat, Chen Qiaoyi's voice came from the door.
“It’s true.”
Zhou Ziwen looked at the yard outside the house and found that the rain had indeed stopped.
"Everyone, hurry up and eat. After that, we'll go to the mountain to pick mushrooms." Zhou Ziwen called out hurriedly.
The rain has stopped now, but I don’t know if it will rain again. Even if it doesn’t, what if the production team asks them to go to work?
So hurry up and go to the mountain first to pick as much as you can.
At Zhou Ziwen's invitation, everyone hurriedly finished their meal, packed up a little and set off.
As soon as he went out, Zhou Ziwen heard a noisy sound.
After listening carefully, I found out that they were the aunts and grandmas in the village. They all had the same purpose, which was to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms.
Zhou Ziwen was not surprised. As an outsider, he obviously didn't know this land better than the locals in the village.
He was not the only one who knew that people were going up the mountain to pick mushrooms after the rain.
Along the way, Zhou Ziwen met familiar villagers and chatted with them. They talked and laughed all the way and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.
"Let's pick them up separately. If you come across something you're not familiar with, you can ask the villagers nearby, or you can pick it up first and wait for me to come back and check it out."
Zhou Ziwen planned to act alone. After all, there were too many people outside the forest. If he went deeper alone, he could gain more.
"Don't worry, I know mushrooms too." Shen Zhaodi patted her chest confidently.
"Then you should be careful and pay attention to safety." Chen Shiying advised.
"Well, I'm leaving first."
Zhou Ziwen nodded and continued to climb the mountain alone.
There were indeed a lot of mushrooms after the rain, and Zhou Ziwen had a harvest after just a few steps.
Pine mushroom, hemp hen mushroom, chestnut nest, horse fart bubble...
Some of them look ugly and look like poisonous mushrooms, but after Zhou Ziwen's careful identification, he found that they are indeed edible.
If he hadn't undergone emergency training and read a book on growing mushrooms, he really wouldn't have known it.
"This is a black boletus, it looks so ugly."
"This is a dried mushroom, right? It's so small. Oh, I'd better pick it. I can't keep it anyway."
"This is a Shirao umbrella, it looks a bit spooky."
"Red umbrella, white pole, let's lie down together after eating. I also want to lie down after eating this white umbrella."
Along the way, Zhou Ziwen was busy and encountered everything, poisonous, non-poisonous, delicious, and not delicious.
Before long, he had filled half the basket.
"This harvest is incredible! If the tank is full, we will have enough mushrooms to eat for half a month."
Zhou Ziwen was secretly amazed. As expected, the resources in the mountains were abundant. Just one rain could provide so much food.
"Hey, there are fungus here."
Just when Zhou Ziwen was picking fruits with great enthusiasm, he made a new discovery.
A dead tree in front of him was covered with wood ear mushrooms. He knew this kind of wood ear mushroom and it was edible.
“What a good thing!”
Zhou Ziwen put down his backpack and started picking fruits in a hurry.
Generally speaking, wild wood ear mushrooms are non-toxic and have high nutritional value. He was lucky this time and made a profit.
"And this tree can also be cut down and used as firewood."
After picking the wood ears, Zhou Ziwen took out the axe he carried with him and started chopping on the spot.
I didn’t encounter any dead trees the last time I went into the mountains, but I didn’t expect to encounter one this time.
It was really an unexpected success!
After cutting down such a big tree, Zhou Ziwen did not go up the mountain. He went down the mountain directly with the basket on his back and the dead tree on his shoulder.
It’s not far anyway. At worst, I can just go back and come back later.
He didn't care whether it would rain or whether he had to go to work.
At worst, he could ask for leave or get caught in the rain. Anyway, he was determined to pick the mushrooms today.
(End of this chapter)
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