Chapter 5 Going up the mountain with my wife
“Hoo…Hoo…”
After only climbing the mountain for ten minutes, Lin Heng began to breathe heavily.
Although I am young, I am often idle. I can't even carry my 20-pound daughter up the mountain. On the other hand, my wife doesn't even breathe hard when carrying her.
"Give it to me. Your clothes are all wet with sweat!" Chen Xiulan felt helpless and a little amused.
"Hehe...Mom..."
Lin Xiaoxia, the daughter in the backpack, grabbed Lin Heng's hair and played with it while giggling.
"No, just take a rest and it will be there soon."
Lin Heng found a rock and leaned on it to rest. The mountain here was not actually that steep, it was just because he didn't climb it often.
Chen Xiulan handed over a handkerchief: "Wipe your sweat. It's cold in the mountains. Sweating can easily catch a cold."
"I don't have my hands free, you wipe it for me." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Chen Xiulan rolled her eyes at him. Even though her hands were empty, she still walked over and carefully wiped Lin Heng's sweat.
While his wife was wiping the sweat off her face, Lin Heng was looking at her face and smiling foolishly.
This made Chen Xiulan feel a little embarrassed, but luckily there was no one in the mountains, so she wiped the sweat off Lin Heng's neck.
"Let's go." After resting for a while, Chen Xiulan stood up and said.
After climbing a mountain, we arrived at the place. The area near the house was a mixed wood forest that was often cut down. There were no mushrooms. Only on the mountain where the trees were tall and the forest was old, there were mushrooms.
The forest in front of us is a mixture of pine forest and oak forest. As soon as I came in, I saw many large red mushrooms. This is what people in later generations often call red umbrellas and white stems. They are available from spring to autumn and produce a lot of mushrooms.
But in fact, most red mushrooms are not poisonous and taste good.
"It seems that no one has come to pick pine mushrooms here yet. Let's see if there are any pine mushrooms."
Seeing that there was no sign of anyone walking on the ground, Chen Xiulan was very happy and started looking around.
There are too many red mushrooms and they are not valuable. People only pick some when there are no other mushrooms.
In this season, valuable mushrooms include matsutake, morel, chanterelle, pine lactarius and other mushrooms. Although the mushroom resources in Qinling are not as good as those in Yunnan, they are not bad either, and people have the habit of picking and eating them since ancient times.
After walking a few steps, Lin Heng saw a pine mushroom. Pine mushroom is the common name here, and its scientific name is Lactarius pineus.
It is orange-yellow in color, with thick flesh and concentric circles on the cap. Its most obvious feature is that it turns blue-green when injured, and is also called copper-green fungus.
Once you find one of these things, you'll get a whole bunch of them. Soon, Lin Heng found dozens of them nearby and picked more than two kilograms of them at once.
At the market, the price for wet food is 20 cents per pound.
I couldn't find any more, but I did pick up two nice blue-headed mushrooms. Although they are green, they are actually a kind of red mushroom.
Mushrooms are all like this, one by one. Just when Lin Heng was about to change to another forest, a figure on the pine tree attracted him.
A red-haired squirrel stood on a branch, looking at him stupidly. It was only five meters away and there was no obstruction.
Lin Heng carefully took out the slingshot from his waist and the round little stones he had picked up on the way up the mountain. He took aim and was about to fire when a sound suddenly came from behind him: "Wow... pee... pee..."
My daughter's sharp cry scared the squirrel so much that it ran to the top of the tree.
Lin Heng was helpless: "..."
When he put the backpack down, Lin Heng found that his daughter had wet her diaper and her pants, and she was crying.
"You really are my sweet little cotton-padded jacket!"
Lin Heng reluctantly took her out of the backpack, took out the wet diaper and placed it on the branch next to him, patting her back to comfort her not to cry.
“Wow…wow…”
However, the more I coaxed him, the harder he cried. That's how children are. They cry when they are told to, without any reason at all.
After a while, Chen Xiulan heard the voice and rushed over: "Give it to me, the child must be hungry."
She was a little shocked to see that her husband was not angry because of her daughter's crying, but was still trying to comfort the child.
After taking her daughter in, Chen Xiulan pulled up her clothes to feed her. In that era, there was no milk powder and many children were not weaned until they were two or three years old.
Lin Heng felt dazzled when looking at his wife's fair skin. His young body felt a little hot. His wife's brain was really big, almost the same size as his daughter's.
"It's not like I haven't seen it before!" Chen Xiulan blushed a little, mainly because of Lin Heng's perverted gaze.
"Haha, it's because my wife is so attractive." Lin Heng smiled and looked at his wife's backpack, which contained a pound of pine mushrooms.
"Too many of them are rotten, otherwise we could have picked two kilograms." Chen Xiulan's face was full of regret.
"Then you rest here for a while, I'll take a look around." Lin Heng said to Xiulan.
"Go ahead, be careful and beware of snakes and bees." Chen Xiulan nodded and gave a reminder.
Lin Heng poured the pine mushrooms on the ground and walked towards the left side of the mountain. His wife had just walked towards the right side.
He walked for more than a thousand meters without seeing any good mushrooms and was about to turn back when he was startled by the sound of leaves crunching in the distance.
When I turned around, I saw a gray squirrel on a rock three meters away.
"We're so close, I'd be sorry if I didn't hit you!"
Lin Heng sighed in his heart, quietly took out a slingshot, took aim, and shot it out with a whoosh.
With a snap, it hit the squirrel's head. The poor gray squirrel twitched twice and then died.
"It seems the accuracy is pretty good!" Lin Heng was very satisfied. The main reason was that it was too close. He hadn't touched this thing for a long time, so he was still a little worried.
He was glad that he had practiced archery in a club in his previous life, otherwise he wouldn't have been so accurate.
"It's almost one pound. The skin can be sold for three or four dollars, and the meat is enough for a meal." Lin Heng grinned. This was the first harvest after his rebirth.
After putting the squirrel into the backpack, Lin Heng continued walking forward, feeling that he was lucky today.
Normally squirrels won't get so close to people, and most of them stay on trees, where they are difficult to hit due to the branches.
“Chanterelles!!”
After walking forward for a few dozen meters, Lin Heng couldn't help but cheer. There were dozens of golden chanterelles on both sides of the path.
In his opinion, this mushroom tastes better than pine mushrooms. It is golden, trumpet-shaped, and often has wavy edges. It is also more expensive than pine mushrooms, costing 30 cents per pound when wet, and 50 or 60 cents per pound after being dried.
However, when he picked up a flower and tore it open, Lin Heng was speechless. It was rotten.
Sometimes he couldn't understand how these bugs could grow so fast. Sometimes, the newly grown mushrooms would have bugs in less than half a day, and sometimes, the newly grown small mushrooms would all have bugs.
The speed is too fast.
"Forget it, just pick it up and feed it to the pigs!"
Lin Heng shook his head, thinking it was such a pity.
Only more than thirty good ones were picked up, weighing about 60 to 70 grams, and the bad ones weighed more than one pound.
Without the watch, he didn’t know how long he had been walking in the woods, so he decided to go back to his wife.
"Xiu Lan!"
Lin Heng shouted while looking for mushrooms.
"Here, come here, I found something good!"
Not long after, Lin Heng heard his wife's reply. Her voice was filled with excitement, as if she had discovered something good.
(End of this chapter)
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