Chapter 302: Deer Ear Chives, Training Dogs into the Mountains
"Let's go home. Today is really a fruitful day."
Lin Heng put the silver thread vine into the basket and said happily.
His goal of going into the mountains this time was to harvest some Ganoderma lucidum and pick up some mushrooms.
Although I didn’t harvest as much Ganoderma lucidum as last year, I did find the unexpected silver thread lotus, which made the trip worthwhile.
Leading Xiongba Lin Heng back, they were out of the forest at around three in the afternoon.
“This is down river.”
Lin Heng looked around and found that he was still a little below the apple orchard.
He was very familiar with the place and quickly found the way home. He could just walk upstream along the forest path.
After walking in the woods for a while, I suddenly heard someone talking. I took two steps forward and saw a few people picking mushrooms.
"Oh my god, I'm lucky today. There are so many chanterelles."
"Come here, I have some too."
These people were in the woods inside the path, and their voices were so excited that they didn't notice Lin Heng at all.
Lin Heng took a look and found that he was not familiar with it either. He smiled and walked straight over.
After climbing over a mountain, he saw his own house and the tall ginkgo tree in the center of the village.
The small basin in their village is very beautiful when viewed from a distance, with fertile fields, beautiful scenery and neatly built houses.
Lin Heng had just taken two steps down when he ran into Li Yan, a woman from the village, who was accompanied by her five-year-old daughter.
Seeing Lin Heng, Li Yan smiled and greeted him: "Hey, Lin Heng, are you picking mushrooms too?"
"Yes, pick some up and take them back to eat." Lin Heng agreed casually.
Li Yan's daughter ran over and took a look at Lin Heng's harvest.
"Wow, Uncle Lin, you also got the silver thread lotus!" The little girl exclaimed and looked at Lin Heng enviously. She knew it was very valuable.
Li Yan also came over to take a look out of curiosity, and looked at Lin Heng in surprise: "Why do I feel like you can always pick up good things?"
She was extremely envious. This kind of valuable medicinal herb was so rare. She was considered lucky if she could pick up some more chanterelles. She never expected to come across these things.
"No, I'm just lucky." Lin Heng said casually.
After saying a few words, he quickly slipped away. A big part of the reason why he was able to pick up good things was because of Xiongba.
"Wife, I found something good today."
Lin Heng couldn't wait to speak as he pushed open the gate of the yard.
"What's so exciting?"
The first person to speak was Lin's mother.
Lin Heng was stunned for a moment and then smiled and said, "Mom, you are here too. Do you think this is a good thing?"
With that he placed the basket and bag in front of them.
"Chanterelles, shiitake mushrooms, yellow shiitake mushrooms, blue shiitake mushrooms... wait, how come there are so many silver clematis, and there are so many Ganoderma lucidums!!"
The two of them looked over one by one and soon opened their mouths in shock.
Mother Lin looked at Lin Heng in a circle and said, "Tell the truth. How do you always have such good results every time you go out?"
She finally discovered something was wrong.
"No, I was just lucky. This is the place where I picked it up last year. I went there again this year. I ran to Baishigou." Lin Heng smiled and spread his hands.
Mother Lin still didn't believe it, and turned to look at Xiulan: "Xiulan, you must know, tell me, my good daughter-in-law."
Xiulan blinked her bright eyes and looked at Lin Heng, as if asking what to do.
Lin Heng was helpless and could only look at his mother and say, "Actually, Xiongba has some credit for this. His nose is very sensitive."
"I told you, no wonder you always bring the dog with you every time you go up the mountain, and you even hid it from your mother and me." Lin's mother immediately understood.
"I didn't hide it from you, because it mainly depends on myself." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Woof!"
Xiongba seemed to understand and protested a little.
"Even dogs don't believe it!" Mother Lin rolled her eyes and pointed at the bamboo basket next to her, "But you're not the only one who got something good. I got one too."
Lin Heng looked at the wild vegetables in the basket and said in surprise: "Mom, you actually picked some deer ear chives, that's amazing."
This is a very delicious wild vegetable in the mountains. It is rich in nutrients and contains a variety of amino acids and minerals. It also has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, regulating physiological functions and enhancing immunity.
The most important thing is that it tastes good and has a unique flavor.
"Of course." Mother Lin said proudly. She just came over to bring some food to Xiulan and share her joy.
"Great." Lin Heng gave a thumbs up.
"These are for you to eat. I will go back to dry the mushrooms. In addition to the deer ear chives, I also picked up two baskets of porcini mushrooms and more than ten pounds of chanterelles." Lin's mother waved her hand and walked out.
"Leave it to me." Xiulan poured the things on the ground and started picking.
"Then I'll go and plant these ten silver thread lilies first."
Lin Heng went to the backyard with a hoe and ten silver thread vines with soil balls.
Like other orchids, silver thread vine prefers a shady and humid environment. It grows in deep valleys or under forests and can easily die if exposed to the sun.
Lin Heng planted a few trees in the corner and some under the orange tree.
Whether you can survive depends on fate. In theory, the climate here is quite suitable.
After planting the silver thread vine, he went back to help process the mushrooms.
The sun is very hot today, so pick out the dirt and rotten mushrooms, leave some for eating in the evening, and take the rest out to dry.
Chanterelles and shiitake mushrooms do not need to be cut, they can be directly dried in the sun. Porcini and Berstellaria need to be cut and dried in the sun.
Ganoderma lucidum needs to be steamed slightly and then dried in the sun to avoid infestation by insects.
The silver thread vine was also dried directly. He weighed the wet one and found it was two taels. It took five jin to dry one jin. The dry ones were less than half a tael, so he could only keep them for himself or slowly save up enough to make one jin.
Xiulan left some mushrooms of each variety to eat, cut them, soaked them in salt water for a while, drained them, and then stir-fried them in a pan to remove the moisture.
Fresh mushrooms will taste fresher if they are not blanched.
After stir-frying, take it out and add some sour cowpea to the pork belly in the evening. The taste is so delicious that it will make your mouth water.
Lin Heng ate a piece of watermelon and went to pack his things to prepare to go into the mountains.
This time he will not stay in the mountains for half a month like before. He will go there quickly and come back quickly, and at most he will only stay for about three days.
Therefore, you don’t need to bring so much equipment, no need to bring pots, pans, etc. Just bring water bags and food for survival.
In addition to bows and slingshots for hunting, the main equipment are ropes and iron clamps for trapping.
Cleaning up is also simple and can be done quickly.
When the equipment is ready, he will go to find his brother. It is almost five o'clock now, so he must have returned.
When I opened the door, I saw the big brother and his family who were processing mushrooms.
"Brother, do you think our harvest today is pretty good?" Lin Yue said with a smile, pointing at the pile of mushrooms in front of him.
"So many! You guys are awesome today." Lin Heng was shocked. They must have picked all the porcini mushrooms, filling up two small hills.
Nephew Lin Wei smiled and brought a stool to Lin Heng: "Second father, please sit down."
"But I'm lucky today..." Lin Heng sat down and said with a smile. If there were any good things, they would have to be his mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum and silver thread lotus.
Porcini mushrooms can only be eaten by yourself and cannot be sold for much money.
When Liu Juan heard this, she was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly and said, "Compared to you, we are just a pile of scrap metal."
"Not really, I don't have much either." Lin Heng waved his hand, then looked at his elder brother and said, "Brother, do you want to go hunting in the mountains tomorrow?"
Lin Yue suddenly became excited and looked at Lin Heng and said, "You're going hunting? You're not going to take care of Xiulan?"
He had wanted to go there for a long time, but without Lin Heng he couldn't go too far away by himself, so he could only hunt some pheasants near the village.
Lin Heng nodded: "Yes. But it's not the ten-day or half-month hunting like before. This time we'll only be there for two days at most. We'll set up some snares and traps, and check every few days."
"Is that so? That's fine. Xiulan is pregnant, so it's really not suitable for you to stay in the mountains every day. So what time do we leave tomorrow?" Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng and smiled.
"Let's set off at four o'clock tomorrow morning. We can still catch an early bird." Lin Heng said. Hunting is in the morning and evening. Most wild animals are active during this time period.
A good time to go is after a rainy day, when the old marks and smells in the forest have basically disappeared. On a sunny day, new wild animals will reappear, leaving new smells and footprints, which is the best time to identify them.
The hunting time he chose was also carefully studied so that Xiongba could play the greatest role.
"Okay, I'll get up on time then." Lin Yue nodded with a smile.
"Then I'll leave first. I'll go to Hongfeng Mountain to get the dogs. Tomorrow we'll be mainly hunting with dogs." Lin Heng nodded. Lai Fu and Feng Shou have grown up now, and after his initial training, they can be taken into the mountains to hunt.
After saying that, he turned and left, walking towards Red Maple Mountain.
After seeing Lin Heng leave, Liu Juan said very positively: "I'll go prepare food for you right away."
She has been working hard to make money recently, digging herbs and picking mushrooms every day, picking honeysuckle and not even eating all day.
She and her husband have been running around for this purpose, simply because they wanted to save enough money to ask Lin Heng for help in opening a shop in the village.
But they didn't have a treasure hunting weapon like Xiongba, so the benefits of digging herbs and picking mushrooms were not great. Liu Juan was so excited to be able to go into the mountains now. Even if she killed a squirrel in the mountains, it would be equivalent to digging ordinary herbs for ten days.
"Okay, I'll go pack my weapons and get ready." Lin Yue also stood up and said, he also valued the opportunity to hunt, he wanted to make money by himself and couldn't always rely on his younger brother to lead him.
"Dad, what are you doing?"
When they arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, Lin Heng saw his father holding a fishing rod by the grass carp pond and asked curiously.
Father Lin glanced at him, turned back and said with a smile: "Let me see how big the grass carp is. This fish is really easy to catch."
Father Lin pointed to the grass carp seedlings in the bucket.
Lin Heng walked over and took a look. The fry was smaller than he had imagined, about the length of a palm and weighing about one or two taels.
"You can feed more feed later, and you can also cut the grass and throw it in to feed. Grass carp likes to eat grass very much." Lin Heng said.
"I know that. I was planning to do that." Father Lin nodded and looked at him again, "Why are you here?"
"We'll get up early tomorrow and take the dog to go hunting." Lin Heng said with a smile and explained the general situation.
After hearing this, Father Lin nodded slowly: "It's okay to go for a day or two, but you should be careful."
"Don't worry." Lin Heng nodded, walked to the warehouse and led the blue wolf dog Lai Fu down.
Its body is a bit stronger than that of the greyhound Fengshou, and it walks very majestically. In a few months, it will probably be as big as Xiongba.
Seven months is considered semi-adult, but the body is already fully developed and it is completely possible for them to go into the woods for some training.
Lin Heng walked back holding it, and it was already past five o'clock when he returned to the house.
It was still early for the sun to set, so Lin Heng brought Lai Fu and Fengshou over for another pre-departure training session.
The so-called dog hunting method is very simple. It is to take a dog into the mountains to look for prey. It is difficult for one dog to catch up, but if there are more dogs to chase and intercept, the possibility of catching it will greatly increase.
Lin Heng trained some basic commands such as stand up, sit down, run, etc. Fengshou, the greyhound who was always by his side, had no problem and knew the rules very well, but Laifu, the blue wolfhound, had some problems.
“Woof woof!!”
Lin Heng gave it a bone, and when he reached out to take it, it suddenly bared its teeth and roared.
Lin Heng frowned slightly, looked at it and stretched out his hand again: "Be good, give it to me."
“Woof woof!!”
This time it struggled even harder and bit him. If he hadn't dodged quickly, he would have been bitten.
The next moment he kicked the dog on the mouth, pulled the chain with one hand and grabbed the dog's mouth with the other hand and slapped it several times.
“Ah…Ahhh!!”
After taking a look at Lai Fu who was screaming, he threw the bone over again and reached out to take it.
"Come on, keep barking and protect the food for me again?"
“Hiss… Roar!!”
After learning from the last lesson, this time it only dared to show its teeth and didn't dare to make any other movements.
However, the next moment, Lin Heng's fist came again, hitting the mouth with a few expressionless fists.
"Come on, continue!"
Lin Heng went back and changed it for a piece of meat, threw it over and continued.
This time, Lai Fu didn't even dare to make a sound.
Lin Heng smiled: "Keep going, isn't that awesome?"
The dog was a little food-guarding when it was young, and he had corrected it before, but he didn't expect it to become so serious again now.
In this case, he will just strike back mercilessly with an iron fist. No matter whether it is Lai Fu or Xiong Ba, if they dare to protect their food, there will be the same consequence.
He is raising a dog, not a ancestor. If it has a bad personality, he will help you to change it. If it cannot be changed, it will die, especially if it has a bad personality like stealing and biting people to protect its food.
It's the same with other animals. The premise of keeping you is that he is the master. There is no such thing as a naturally obedient dog. They are all beaten into submission. This is how the ancients tamed wolves thousands of years ago.
It seemed to have remembered its previous memories. Even when Lin Heng took the meat out of its mouth, it no longer resisted. At this time, Lin Heng would give it some comfort.
Then he threw another piece of bacon to Xiongba, and when he was halfway through eating it, he said, "Give it to me."
“Ouch~”
Xiongba looked at Lin Heng, walked over and spit out the remaining meat.
"Okay, you can continue eating." Lin Heng touched its head and said with satisfaction.
Then he tried the black greyhound Fengshou, and then the blue wolfhound Laifu.
Until before dark, he would test Lai Fu every few minutes. If he dared to protect his food, he would be beaten. If he was good, he would be petted.
In the afternoon, Xiulan was making soft pancakes and palm-sized scallion pancakes with fennel leaves.
"The soft pancakes are for us to eat in the evening. You can take the scallion pancakes with you into the mountains." Xiulan said to Lin Heng.
"I see." Lin Heng nodded and asked, "Do you need my help?"
Xiulan shook her head gently: "No, I'll just stir-fry some garlic-flavored deer ear chives and some sour beans and mushrooms with meat, and we'll be ready to eat soon."
"Let me do it, you go out and take a rest."
Lin Heng pulled her out of the kitchen and started cooking himself.
The two dishes were quickly cooked and served to the table. The soft pancake was spread out and topped with deer ear leeks and stir-fried meat with sour beans and mushrooms. Finally, a little bit of fermented bean curd and spicy sauce was spread on it and rolled up to eat. One bite would make you feel completely satisfied.
"Delicious!" Lin Heng nodded repeatedly. This was a perfect dinner that was both fragrant and nutritious.
"Eat more meat." While Xiulan was eating herself, she also picked up some food for Lin Heng and Xiaoxia.
The three of them finished their dinner chatting and laughing, and then went back to the house to rest after taking a short break, because Lin Heng had to get up at four o'clock the next morning to go hunting.
(End of this chapter)
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