Chapter 49: Can't Delay
"Hey, there are mushrooms!" Shen Qingning cheered, pointing at the morels under the tree.
When Mrs. Lu heard this, she quickly turned around and walked over. When she saw where she was pointing, she said disappointedly, "You can't eat this."
"Why?" Shen Qingqian asked in surprise.
Morels are both edible and medicinal mushrooms with a unique aroma. They are rich in a variety of amino acids and organic germanium that the human body needs. They have always been used as a high-end supplement for human nutrition in Europe and the United States. How can we not eat them?
Mrs. Lu sighed, "A few years ago, something happened in my mother's family. Someone picked this kind of mushroom from the mountain and brought it home to eat. The next morning, the person was gone."
"But that's not right. I've seen this kind of mushroom in a book, and it's edible." Shen Qingqian frowned in puzzlement. "I even asked my grandfather about it at the time, and he said he had eaten this kind of mushroom when he was a child. It was extremely delicious and tasty."
Lu was stunned. How could it be
Shen Qingqian continued to ask her, "Sister-in-law, how old was the person you mentioned who died? Was he the only one who ate mushrooms at the time, or did everyone in his family eat them? Did they eat anything else when they ate these mushrooms?"
There is a reason for asking this question.
Nowadays, anyone who can live to be sixty years old can definitely be considered to have a long life. In addition, farmers are frugal. Even if all the morels are given to the elderly, they will definitely drink the soup. If it is poisonous, it is impossible that only the elderly will be in trouble.
So she had other guesses.
Her series of questions completely stupefied Mrs. Lu. After a moment's hesitation, she replied, "I don't know anything else, but the person who died was already over sixty years old. She was the elderly lady of that family. The rest of her family was fine, but everyone in her family said she died from eating this mushroom."
Shen Qingqian nodded, "That's right, the old lady must have died of old age."
It’s just that the old man’s family couldn’t accept this fact, so they blamed everything on the morel.
Shen Qingqian expressed her thoughts, and Wu and others nodded, thinking that what she said made sense.
"Is that so?" It was the first time that Mrs. Lu heard someone analyze it this way, and she was a little unsure for a moment.
Shen Qingning waved her hand and said, "Oh, forget about that. Let's take this mushroom back first and have Brother Chengyun catch some small animal to try it out. We'll know for sure."
She was tired of eating dry food, porridge, and bacon these days. She finally saw something different, so how could she let it go easily?
"Then take it back first. It's not heavy anyway." Mrs. Wu was the mistress of the house and was used to making decisions. She didn't care about the struggling Mrs. Lu and started picking it directly.
Of course Shen Qingqian was more than happy to do so. Morels are a good thing. When she returns, she will add some holy spring water and the salt given by the system, and it will definitely taste better.
In a short while, all the morels in this area were picked up by Shen Qingqian and others. What's more, there were quite a lot of them.
The group continued to move forward and searched around again, bringing back all the wild vegetables that had appeared in the past few days.
Shen Qingqian also found several medicinal herbs. She thought that if something happened in the future, she would have a cover-up.
The mountains are a treasure trove. Although Shen Qingqian and others had a difficult time searching, they returned with a full load and had the most sumptuous meal they had in recent days.
After dinner, Li Laosan gathered everyone together around the campfire and announced an important event.
"In two days, if the weather doesn't change, we'll continue on our journey."
They really can't afford to delay any longer.
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