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Half an hour later, the four sisters-in-law arrived at the maple forest. There were many fishtail ferns growing in the forest. Maybe because of the dry weather, the moss and fishtail fern leaves on the slope looked dry and listless.
When passing by a dead maple tree, Yang Chunyan used a stick to pull away the weeds and fishtail ferns that were covering the tree stump, but looked around and found nothing.
Li Qiuyue also came over to take a look and shook her head, saying, "It's too dry. If it were in the past, such a dead tree would most likely grow Ganoderma lucidum."
"It's better to go back early." Zhao Huifang wiped the sweat off her forehead, picked up the kettle, unscrewed it and took a sip of water. "It's too stuffy in the forest. I think it might rain today."
Yang Chunyan had already felt that today was particularly boring. "Let's walk a little further. If there's nothing, we'll go down the mountain and go home."
"Okay!"
The four of them climbed up with the help of sticks, picking up some Selaginella. When they were halfway up the slope, they found a piece of Drynaria fortunei on a big rock. With the harvest, they finally felt a little better.
Li Qiuyue was always the most aggressive one. She stepped on a stone, climbed up the rock using her hands and feet, grabbed a bone-breaking herb, pulled it out by the roots and threw it down. "You guys take care of the skin, I'll pull it out."
"Slow down, don't fall down." Zhao Huifang hurriedly reminded.
"Got it." He threw down another one.
Yang Chunyan and the other two picked off the wilted leaves on the tubers of Drynaria fortunei and peeled off the withered and yellow leaves wrapped around the tubers, revealing the yellow hairy rhizomes inside.
Lai Fu, who was lying on the side, suddenly pricked up his ears, let out a "wow" and rushed up the slope.
Yang Chunyan threw the Drynaria fortunei into the backpack, stood up and looked in its direction, only to see the vines of Smilax glabra growing on the slope in front.
She turned to Zhao Huifang and the other two and said, "Sister-in-law, there is some wild yam in front. Let me take a look."
They hadn't been to this forest yet, so Zhao Huifang was worried. "Go take a look and come over. We'll go dig together later."
"Uh-huh!"
Yang Chunyan walked to the front of the wild yam with a medicine hoe in her hand. Lai Fu also came out from behind with a gray rabbit in his mouth. When he saw her put the dead rabbit in front of her, he looked at her with a smile on his face and kept wagging his furry tail.
"Good boy!" Yang Chunyan rubbed its head. "Your master is going to the county town today. I'll cook some big bones for you when I get back."
"Woof woof!" Lai Fu rubbed her hand and waited for her to pick up the rabbit and walk back.
"Good boy!" Yang Chunyan returned to the rock with the rabbit in her hand. Zhao Huifang saw the rabbit she was carrying and asked with a smile, "Did Lai Fu catch it?"
"Hmm!" She put the rabbit in the basket, "There are a few Chinese yam on it. After we finish here, we'll go dig."
Zhao Huifang nodded, "Okay, let's go home after we finish digging, so we won't get caught in the rain."
Yang Chunyan picked up a piece of Drynaria fortunei and saw that Li Qiuyue had almost pulled out all the Drynaria fortunei on the stone. "Third sister-in-law, let's keep the rest for seeds!"
"That's great." Li Qiuyue pulled out another one and then crawled down the rock.
The four of them cleaned up the last few roots, carried their backpacks to the place where the wild yam grew, and after finding the rhizomes, they cleared the surrounding weeds and stones and started digging.
The place was a bit narrow, so Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang were digging wild yam while Li Qiuyue was sitting on a rock to take a break.
Yang Chunyan was looking for a target nearby when she suddenly discovered a dead tree covered with moss lying on the slope. Generally, this type of tree is most likely to grow fungi.
If it was a maple tree, the probability would be even greater. She used a hoe to pull out the ferns and weeds, and a purple Ganoderma lucidum smaller than a spoon appeared in front of her.
Yang Chunyan was delighted and squatted down to touch it. "It's too small. It's worthless if I pick it up. I'll keep it for a while."
After she found one, there would be a second and a third. She excitedly buried her head in the nearby area and began to search carefully, pulling apart the fishtail ferns to see another, even smaller one.
Yang Chunyan looked up at the place where the tree fell, thinking that there must be something big on it, so she turned around and waved at Li Qiuyue, "Third sister-in-law, come here."
"What good stuff did you find?" Li Qiuyue immediately got up and walked towards her, looking at her with sparkling eyes and asked.
Yang Chunyan pointed to the place where she had just found the Ganoderma lucidum and said to her, "There are small Ganoderma lucidum here and here. I think there must be more above."
"Climb up and take a look." Li Qiuyue pulled her excitedly, "Finally we saw something good."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan said hello to Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang, and the two of them, leaning on their hoes, searched along the fallen dead tree. Lai Fu followed them when he saw them.
After climbing a short distance, Li Qiuyue in front found a mushroom as big as a rice bowl, with a grass stick stuck on the cap. She turned her head and grinned, revealing her full white teeth. "Chunyan, look, I found one, but it's a little small."
"I found two too, their caps are only as big as a fingernail. I'll have to wait a while before picking them."
The two continued to climb up, and the sunlight shone through the gaps in the treetops onto the purple Ganoderma lucidum, whose cap was as big as a bowl and shone with a lacquer-like luster.
Yang Chunyan excitedly stepped forward, patted the mushroom cap, pinched the stem and shook it vigorously for a few times before pulling it up. After checking the back of the mushroom for insect holes and damage, she shouted to Li Qiuyue, "Look, sister-in-law, it's a big deal."
"Oh my god!" Li Qiuyue turned her head and exclaimed in surprise. She took the Ganoderma and looked at it over and over again. "I haven't seen such a big purple Ganoderma for a long time."
"There must be more good stuff if you climb up."
Yang Chunyan continued to climb up with the help of the medicine hoe. She found a Ganoderma lucidum as big as a dipping saucer. The edges of the cap had turned black and the back had turned dark brown. This kind of Ganoderma lucidum would not grow again even if she left it. She patted the cap and pulled it up.
"Chunyan, come and see, oh my, I'm so heartbroken." Li Qiuyue in front shouted, patting her chest.
"What's wrong?" Yang Chunyan walked forward and saw a purple Ganoderma lucidum whose cap was gone, leaving only a bare stem, but the stem was thicker than a man's thumb. It can be imagined that if the cap was still there, this purple Ganoderma lucidum would weigh at least one kilogram.
"What a pity." Yang Chunyan patted her shoulder and said, "Don't be angry. We have no fate with it."
Li Qiuyue nodded, and the two continued to climb up. From time to time, they saw ants climbing up in groups. "Oh no, they are still moving at such a high altitude. It looks like it's going to rain heavily."
Yang Chunyan sighed, "We have been working for so long. If it doesn't rain, we won't be able to plant the rice seedlings."
"It's like this here. The first year is good weather, but the second year is 80% drought."
The two sisters-in-law went up along the road and found two more flowers that were smaller than the bowls, and then they arrived at the place where the big tree was broken.
It turned out that the big tree grew on the hillside and might have been blown down by a strong wind. The broken part had dried up and was covered with holes left by insects. Three flowers were found at the bottom of the stump. Two of them were as big as bowls and looked good, but the one that was slightly larger had been hollowed out by insects.
Unfortunately, the purple Ganoderma lucidum had already rotted. The two sisters-in-law counted them and found that there were seven around the tree stump alone, especially the two stems behind the stump, which looked like big ones. Looking at the bare stems, even the Ganoderma lucidum in the net bag lost its fragrance.
Yang Chunyan stood on the hillside, looked down, and turned to Li Qiuyue, who was crying, and said, "Let's go, don't feel bad. We found eight flowers along the way, and we also found several small ones. We can pick them again in two months."
"That's true!" Li Qiuyue brushed the dirt off her body, and the two of them went down the mountain with the dog.
Zhang Xiuxiang and Zhao Huifang were so happy when they saw the Ganoderma lucidum the two men were carrying that they couldn't close their mouths. "We are so lucky to have found so many."
"You guys won't be so happy after you went up there and took a look." Li Qiuyue told the two of them what she saw along the way. "Oh my, I'm so heartbroken."
Zhao Huifang picked up the wild yam and put it in her backpack. She glared at her in disapproval and said, "Well, it's good enough to find so many."
"Have you finished digging? If you have, let's go down the mountain." Yang Chunyan put the purple Ganoderma lucidum into the backpack. "Just now I saw ants moving on the slope. It's better to go home early."
Zhang Xiuxiang responded: "Okay, we dug three in total, but two of them grew in the cracks of the rocks and couldn't be dug out."
The four of them packed up and called Gou Zi to walk down the mountain together. Li Qiuyue took out a zongzi from the cloth bag hanging on the side of the backpack and said, "Are you hungry? I brought some zongzi."
"We brought some too." Yang Chunyan took a sweet potato rice dumpling with her backhand, "Aunt Qian gave it to me. It tastes pretty good."
Li Qiuyue untied the string that tied the rice dumpling, "I used to eat sweet potato rice dumplings every year, but they made me sick. Now I lose my appetite when I see them."
"Me too. I get heartburn and drool all the time after eating too much." Zhang Xiuxiang also took one and started eating.
The four people and the dog had not even reached the ditch when the wind started to blow, so they all quickened their pace and hurried back. They even had no time to dig the calamus that they had promised to dig later.
When they reached the bush forest where they were digging Codonopsis pilosula, the wind gradually grew stronger, blowing the treetops this way and that. The sky gradually became gloomy, and Yang Chunyan looked at the southeast mountaintop, which was already covered with dark clouds.
Zhao Huifang tied up her straw hat which was constantly blown by the wind. "It looks like we're going to get wet in the rain today."
"There's nothing we can do. We still have two or three hours to go. No matter how fast we run, we'll get wet in the rain." Before Zhang Xiuxiang finished speaking, there was a faint sound of thunder from the sky. "Oh my god, even the sky has become like Sichuan. There's nothing I can say."
The rumbling sound of thunder seemed to pass through overhead, accompanied by silver dragons passing through the sky. With a loud "crack", muffled thunder exploded on the top of the mountain.
Lai Fu pricked up his ears in fear. After taking a few steps, raindrops as big as beans hit the top of his straw hat with a "pa pa".
Zhao Huifang pointed to the big tree in front and said, "Let's hide there for a while."
"You can't go." Yang Chunyan hurriedly said to Zhao Huifang and the other two, "Run faster, run to a place where there are no big trees. It's easy to be struck by lightning if you stay under a tree."
"Why?" The three of them looked at her in confusion.
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "I heard on the radio the other day that when it rains heavily, the rain will flow down the trees. If someone stands under a big tree and lightning happens to strike them, the people below will also be in trouble."
"Run!" The three of them ran as fast as they could after hearing this, fearing that if they ran too slowly they would be struck by lightning and their reputation would be ruined for the rest of their lives.
(End of this chapter)
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