Chapter 379: The explosion of half a year of air force
After talking, the two picked some strawberries, washed them and placed them on the stone table, enjoying them while resting.
In the evening, Xiulan made some soft pancakes, cut them into small pieces, and stir-fried them with bacon, sour beans, and chanterelles.
After dinner, Lin Heng coaxed Xiaoxia to sleep and then lay down to rest. He was too lazy to read anything as he was quite tired after running around all day.
Holding my wife in my arms, we chatted for a few words and then fell asleep together.
The next morning, Lin Heng woke up at 5:30 in the morning. Xiulan, who was standing next to him, was also quickly awakened by the noise of him getting dressed. She yawned and sat up.
"We have last night's dishes and pancakes for breakfast. Just sleep for a while and then get up." Lin Heng looked at her and said.
"Okay, I'll sleep a little longer." Xiulan nodded and lay down again. She didn't sleep well last night because she got up in the middle of the night to take care of the children, and she was still a little sleepy.
Lin Heng did some simple exercise, milked the cows, and heated up breakfast in the electric oven. Just as he finished eating, his father and eldest brother came and knocked on the door.
“Here it comes!”
Lin Heng picked up his things and walked out with Xiongba, then locked the door.
When Xiulan wants to go out, she can just go out from the back door and use the key to open the front door.
On the way up the mountain, Father Lin sighed, "I didn't know there wouldn't be any harvest today."
Lin Yue smiled and replied: "At least we can pick up some mushrooms, we won't get nothing."
"Yes, there will definitely be no empty-handed hunting. It all depends on luck if you can catch prey." Lin Heng said. He had been hunting empty-handed for more than half a year and had no confidence in the area near this house.
"I'm talking about Ganoderma lucidum. I hope to pick more." Father Lin said with a smile.
"Then it depends on luck."
Lin Heng said as he walked to the front.
Today they still went from Shuijinggou to Baishigou. This is not the shortest route, but it is the best one.
As we entered the forest, patches of mushrooms came into view, some of which had already rotted and some had just grown out.
Mushrooms are like this, they grow and die very quickly. They found some newly grown chanterelles in the woods, but they didn't want to pick them up now, so they would wait until they came back.
After a while, they crossed the Shuijing ditch and came to the mountain where few people had been. There were tall trees, many fallen logs, and a lot of grass growing in the forest.
After walking for a kilometer, they came to a forest of chanterelles, and the ground was full of beautiful chanterelles.
Lin Yue was pleasantly surprised: "There are so many chanterelles, I can't help but want to pick them up!"
Father Lin picked up a few and looked at them, then shook his head and said, "They look good, but half of them are actually rotten."
"Let's talk about it when I come back." Lin Heng took a look and lost interest. There were too many worms on them. That's how chanterelles are. If you don't pick them up for a day, they will be infested with worms.
“Ouch!!”
As he was speaking, Xiongba called out from the front and turned to look at Lin Heng.
Lin Heng hurriedly took a few steps forward and saw three red Ganoderma lucidum flowers that looked like small fans on the tree stump where Xiongba was standing.
“Finally found it!”
Lin Heng rubbed Xiongba’s dog head, picked the Ganoderma lucidum, wrapped it in leaves and put it into the bag.
After searching around and walking forward, he found several Ganoderma lucidum on the ground and picked them all up excitedly.
Whether Ganoderma lucidum grows on trees or on the ground, it absorbs nutrients from rotten trees. Those that grow on the ground mostly absorb nutrients from rotten tree roots in the ground. If you dig gently, you will find that its roots are on the wood.
"It seems there are quite a lot of Ganoderma lucidum this time!" Father Lin said happily. He also found a few.
The three of them picked up Ganoderma lucidum along the way. Before they knew it, the sun was overhead and the beautiful Baishigou appeared before their eyes.
"Let's go down and take a look. I've already seen mushrooms." Father Lin said, pointing ahead.
Lin Heng and Lin Yue walked down to another place nearby. Although the three of them did not encounter any prey this morning, they still had a good harvest.
Lin Heng picked up nearly twenty red Ganoderma lucidums. Because they were all very large, they weighed about one and a half kilograms.
He harvested more because of Xiongba's help. His elder brother and father each harvested just one kilogram, much less than him.
Arriving at Baishigou, Lin Heng first went to the nest of red Ganoderma lucidum where he and Xiulan had discovered it two years ago. Unfortunately, there was no Ganoderma lucidum this time. There were only two palm-sized ones on a tree stump nearby.
"It seems that the mycelium here is dead."
Lin Heng shook his head in disappointment and walked down to pick up mushrooms. There were quite a few of these small mushrooms here, all growing on fallen trees, so it was quite fun to pick them up.
But if you pick too many, it will inevitably become boring and your attention will be focused on the Ganoderma lucidum. Fortunately, there are quite a few Ganoderma lucidum in this place. You can often find one or two after walking for dozens of meters.
"What time is it, son? It's about time for us to sit down and eat, right?" Father Lin shouted from the front.
Lin Heng looked at his watch and realized that it was already one o'clock. He had been picking mushrooms like he was looking for treasure and didn't notice the passage of time.
"It's one and a half. Let's eat by the ditch." Lin Heng responded. Since he hadn't found any prey, he spoke a little louder.
His harvest in Baishigou was pretty good, picking up 20 kilograms of shiitake mushrooms and 600 to 700 kilograms of red Ganoderma lucidum.
Ganoderma lucidum, like other fungi, has also grown in abundance this year.
“Awooooo ...
Lin Heng was about to walk over there when he suddenly heard Xiong Ba calling him from the hillside upstream.
"Here it comes!" Lin Heng walked over with curiosity, and just as he approached him he smelled a strange fragrance.
“It’s Matsutake!”
Lin Heng quickly came to his senses and ran over, and sure enough, he saw the matsutake mushrooms that had just popped up on the ground.
"There are Matsutake mushrooms here too!" Lin Heng was pleasantly surprised. He picked up a wooden stick and carefully took out the Matsutake mushrooms.
After searching around, I dug out six palm-sized matsutake mushrooms, weighing about 250 grams.
"Look for Xiongba again and see if he still exists." Lin Heng said while touching Xiongba's head.
"Awoo!" Xiongba stood still, as if it would have discovered it long ago if he had said anything else.
"Okay then, let's go back." Lin Heng touched its head and turned around to walk back.
Father Lin and his eldest brother had already found a willow tree to sit under by the Baishigou ditch. They saw him coming over after a long while and asked curiously, "What did you find?"
"Hehe, there are six matsutake mushrooms." As soon as Lin Heng opened the plastic bag, a rich fragrance wafted out.
“What a good thing!”
"You are so lucky!"
Both of them were shocked and very envious.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's too little. I'll take it home and eat it myself. I'm too lazy to sell it."
He now picks mushrooms just to satisfy his own appetite, and the only things he sells are probably Ganoderma lucidum and a large number of black truffles.
Although Matsutake mushrooms are precious, I have no intention of selling these few of them.
"You can eat it yourself. This thing makes delicious soup." Father Lin nodded. He had eaten the soup made by Lin Heng twice.
"I hope I can pick up two this afternoon." Lin Yue said enviously.
Regardless of whether you can make money or not, picking up rare mushrooms is itself as exciting as drawing a golden legend in the game. Dopamine will be secreted crazily, making people extremely happy.
"If there is one, it's easy to find. You can smell the fragrance from far away."
Lin Heng said this, then took out the soft biscuits and started eating.
The meals on the mountain are simple, just fill your stomach. After eating, the three of them passed Baishigou and continued to pick mushrooms.
After exploring here for an afternoon, Lin Heng failed to find any Matsutake mushrooms. He found traces of three prey, including a wild boar, a muntjac and a badger. Unfortunately, after tracking them for a distance with Xiongba, they disappeared without a trace.
It was difficult to hunt prey now, so Lin Heng didn't worry too much about it. He mainly focused on picking mushrooms.
After picking for three hours in the afternoon, the total weight of the red Ganoderma lucidum on his body reached five kilograms. Even if dried, it would weigh more than one kilogram, worth more than sixty yuan.
There are not many shiitake mushrooms, about 40 kilograms in total, and more than 10 kilograms of chanterelles.
In addition, there were many beautiful wild lilies blooming in the ditch. He picked the flowers and prepared to take them back to give to his wife.
At around five o'clock, they started walking back, still back to Shuijinggou, but they changed the route and picked up all the mushrooms they encountered on the way.
At around six o'clock, when they were about to arrive at the Shuijinggou, Lin Heng found the footprints of the wild hog badger on the ground. They looked very fresh, as if they had been stepped on in the morning. There were also some traces of chanterelles being eaten on the ground.
"Xiongba, try again!"
Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head, signaling it to try searching again.
He turned around and said something to his father and elder brother, then followed Xiongba all the way. The tracking lasted for more than half an hour, and when it was almost dark, they finally made a discovery.
The traces found on a ridge here are increasingly fresh, and are obviously formed just now.
Lin Heng looked at the wind direction and walked forward quietly. After a while, he really saw a figure with a black and white head. The guy was eating mushrooms in the woods and didn't notice him at all.
Putting the arrow on the bow, Lin Heng walked forward slowly, getting closer and closer. The woodland that had just rained was silent and very suitable for hunting. He was a little excited as he hadn't encountered such a big prey for a long time.
“BOOM!!”
Just when he was less than thirty meters away from the wild hog badger, a loud gunshot suddenly came from the left rear. With a grunt, the wild hog badger turned around and ran away in fright.
Lin Heng was stunned by the sudden gunshot, but Xiongba did not give up and rushed forward, closing the distance in just five or six seconds, and then bit the badger when it turned a corner.
As a large dog, Xiongba weighs more than 50 kilograms, while the largest size of a wild hog badger is only 30 kilograms. The two are not on the same order of magnitude at all.
Xiongba bit the badger's neck and lifted it up directly. After biting it a few times, it became motionless.
"sharp!"
Lin Heng looked at Xiongba and gave him a thumbs up.
Dogs can indeed chase wild boars, and many dogs can do it, but it is rare to find one as fast, accurate, ruthless, and fierce as Xiongba.
Xiongba took a few more bites and made sure it was dead before putting it down in front of Lin Heng, holding his head high and waiting to be touched.
Lin Heng rubbed its head vigorously and praised it again: "I'll let you eat your fill of meat when we get home today."
After receiving Lin Heng's praise, Xiongba was overjoyed.
Lin Heng drained the blood from the badger's paw and took a closer look, discovering that the guy's neck had been bitten off by Xiongba. What a terrifying bite force.
He quickly returned to the back with the badger in his hand and asked from a distance: "What's going on? Did you shoot, brother?"
Lin Yue responded: "It was me. I knocked down a wild boar and almost let it run away."
"What? You also killed a badger?" Lin Heng was shocked and quickly ran over to meet his eldest brother and father.
Lin Yue looked at the badger in Lin Heng's hand and widened his eyes: "You also killed one?"
Lin Heng exhaled, and said with a smile: "It seems that we are from the same nest. Just when I was about to shoot an arrow, you shot in advance and scared me away. Fortunately, Xiongba was powerful enough to catch you directly."
Wild hog badgers live in groups of three or four, so it is not uncommon to see some nearby.
Lin Yue smiled helplessly and said, "I have no choice. I found him suddenly and he is right in front of me. If I don't shoot, he will run away. I also have no way to notify you."
Father Lin rubbed Xiongba's head, grinning from ear to ear with joy: "Fortunately, Xiongba is so powerful. We have a great harvest today!"
"Indeed, I didn't expect to encounter a wild boar again." Lin Heng grinned. Although the wild boar is small, its meat is still very delicious.
Lin Yue said: "We have been chasing the Shandu Air Force for six months, and it is time to meet prey."
"Stop talking, let's go home and get something to eat. We'll stir-fry badger meat tonight." Father Lin said with a smile as he helped his two sons pick up the mushrooms.
The two of them carried the wild hog badger and hurried back, they were also hungry. On the way, the two compared the one that Lin Heng caught, the one that he caught was bigger, more than 20 kilograms, while his elder brother's one was only about 18 or 19 kilograms.
After returning home, Lin Heng knocked on the door quickly. When Xiulan and Xiaoxia came to open the door, he held a mushroom in one hand and a wild boar in the other and showed off, "Impressive, a big harvest today!"
"You also killed a wild boar, so awesome!!" Xiulan was really shocked, because Lin Heng hadn't caught any decent prey for half a year.
Xiaoxia was even more direct, jumping up and down and cheering: "Wow, Dad is the best, my dad is the best!!"
"Hahaha, not only that, my eldest brother also caught one, which was smaller than mine. I also picked up five kilograms of mushrooms." Lin Heng laughed heartily. The expressions of his wife and children made him happy both physically and mentally.
"Today is indeed a great harvest. I'll go back and put the mushrooms down first, and then call your mother to come over later." Father Lin said, then took the things and left.
Lin Heng returned to the house, threw the things on the ground, picked up Xiaoxia, threw her in the air, caught her and played with her for a while, then hugged Xiulan tightly and spun her around in the air twice.
"Look how excited you are. You're even more excited than if you had killed a black bear!" Xiulan said with a smile as she picked the spider silk out of his hair.
"You don't understand. I've been empty-handed for half a year and now I finally have something in stock!"
Lin Heng took a big sip of water and said excitedly that although he did not go into the mountains this year, he went hunting from time to time, and he was a little depressed because of the constant empty-handedness.
I didn't expect to get a big shipment today. How can I not be excited? I was restrained not to show off to the whole village.
"I understand, I understand. Daddy is the best." Xiaoxia said while hugging Lin Heng's legs. She also wanted to be lifted up high.
Xiulan patted his clothes and smiled, "Go change your clothes quickly, so you can deal with the badger."
"We'll change later. Let's kill the badger first."
Lin Heng sat down and explained to his wife and children the thrills and excitement of the experience. After listening, Xiulan also understood how he felt.
"You also got some matsutake mushrooms. That's really great today. You deserve a good reward." Xiulan said as she looked at the mushrooms she picked.
Lin Heng laughed and said, "That's easy. Let's fight for 300 rounds tonight!"
"Go away, Xiaoxia is still here." Xiulan slapped him, her pretty face slightly blushing.
Xiaoxia clapped her hands and said, "Okay, I want to watch Mom and Dad fight for 300 rounds!"
Lin Heng: “…”
Xiulan: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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