Chapter 72: A Man's Hardness [5,000 words]
"What?"
Lin Heng walked over and took a look. They were two blue-headed mushrooms, which were pretty good. He picked them up and continued to pick porcini mushrooms.
As we walked along, we had already filled half of our backpack with porcini mushrooms, there were so many of them.
It’s a pity that dried porcini are not very delicious, otherwise it would be perfect.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Lin Heng saw a golden figure in his peripheral vision.
“Oh my god, such a lot of chanterelles!”
Lin Heng looked up and saw a group of golden figures of different sizes scattered in the oak forest in front of him.
Just when I was about to share my joy with Xiulan, I turned around and remembered that she was not around and had gone to the other side to look for mushrooms.
Lowering his head, Lin Heng picked up all the chanterelles on the ground, from grandfather to grandson, leaving no one behind.
After picking, he couldn't wait to go to his wife.
"Xiu Lan, what are you picking up? I just picked up at least 11 or 12 pounds of chanterelles."
Lin Heng said excitedly that even though there was an explosion of chanterelles in this season, it was definitely luck to pick so many at one time.
"That's amazing. I just picked up something good, too. Look!"
Xiulan took out a mushroom as big as a plate and said with a smile, and they ran in both directions.
The round cap is fifteen centimeters in diameter, concave in the middle, with large purple-brown scales on it, and the flesh is white.
"This is a musk mushroom!!"
Lin Heng hesitated for a moment and recognized it. This mushroom is so rare that few purchasing points buy it.
But in fact, it is very popular. Not only is it delicious, but it also has the effect of lowering cholesterol, which many people need.
"Yes, I suddenly found them. There were eight in total. I picked them all up. They weighed about five pounds."
Xiulan smiled and said that she was so happy. This mushroom could even be sold at a Chinese medicine shop, and the price could be comparable to that of Matsutake.
"You're luckier than me."
Lin Heng was extremely envious. This was definitely an SSR.
"I also picked up two Ganoderma lucidum." Xiulan took out two red Ganoderma lucidum.
"Okay, I'm convinced."
Lin Heng was speechless. He was with Xiongba, but his luck was worse than Xiulan's.
That’s right, Xiongba didn’t find any good mushrooms today.
Especially the morels, which seem to have disappeared. These mushrooms are only available in late spring and are no longer available now.
The same goes for pine mushrooms, which grow in spring and autumn and are no longer available during this period.
During this period, there are chanterelles, porcini, Ganoderma lucidum, etc. Maybe there are more types of mushrooms in Yunnan, and there are indeed not so many varieties in Qinling Mountains.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba shouted again.
Lin Heng walked over and saw two more green-headed mushrooms.
He relies entirely on Xiongba to pick the blue-headed mushrooms, as these mushrooms rarely grow together in large groups.
But it tastes really delicious and the price is not low.
Before they knew it, they had been in the woods for three or four hours.
Looking up at the sun, Lin Heng estimated that it was three or four o'clock. The two of them set out at around eleven in the morning.
"Hey, we were about to leave, and I found an egg mushroom."
Lin Heng looked to the left and saw an orange-yellow mushroom growing there, which he had not even noticed just now.
Egg mushroom, scientifically known as Amanita phalloides, is the only edible species in the Amanita family.
It is also very easy to identify. It is orange-yellow in color, and looks like an egg when the cap is not opened, which is also the origin of its name egg mushroom.
"There is one more."
Just after picking one, Lin Heng saw another one. Sometimes he felt that mushrooms could become invisible, just like in this situation.
I've just seen them all, and now I've discovered something new.
"Let's go back, picking up things as we go. We'll take the Shuijingwan Road instead of returning the same way."
Xiulan picked up two chanterelles and walked over to say.
"good."
Lin Heng nodded. It might be because of the bad location. Even the porcini mushrooms became less on the way back.
“Woof woof!”
When they were almost going down the mountain, Xiong Bafa called out again.
Lin Heng didn't go, but Xiulan, who lived closer, went.
"Guess what kind of mushroom it is?" Xiulan walked back with one hand behind her back and blinked.
"What else could it be? Agaricus fasciata." Lin Heng said, spreading his hands.
Xiulan shook her head and took them out with a smile: "Two pretty big red Ganoderma lucidum."
Lin Heng: "...Well, it seems that I have no chance to meet the red Ganoderma today."
Xiulan said mischievously: "It's okay, I'll buy you some candy with the money from the sale."
"Okay, then I'll wait for my sister to feed her." Lin Heng smiled and felt that Xiulan had a kind of queen feeling at this moment.
Going further down the mountain, they only encountered scattered delicious porcini mushrooms. Lin Heng was lucky enough to encounter a cluster of five yellow boletus mushrooms.
"I think I've discovered the green-shouting again." Xiulan said from a distance.
Upon hearing this, Lin Heng hurried over to take a look, and they were indeed three red onion porcini mushrooms.
"Wife, you are so lucky today." Lin Heng envied.
"My luck is your luck." Xiulan said with a smile.
The two were not in a hurry. They came to Shuijingwan chatting and laughing, walking slowly, not in a hurry at all.
"What's wrong with you?" Xiulan noticed that Lin Heng's walking posture was a little bit wrong.
"Nothing." Lin Heng smiled and let Xiulan walk in front.
He continued walking while holding his lower back. He felt nothing in the morning, but now he suddenly felt pain in his lower back and a sense of emptiness.
He didn't want to be discovered by Xiulan, otherwise it would be so embarrassing. He was bragging in the morning that he had had sex seven times in one night.
“Puff~”
As they walked, Xiulan suddenly couldn't hold back her laughter.
Lin Heng: “…”
Xiulan waved her hands quickly: "I sneezed, I didn't laugh at you."
Lin Heng: “…”
"Okay, okay, that's normal. Be more restrained next time."
Xiulan took Lin Heng's hand and comforted him.
Lin Heng: "...I said it's not my backache, do you believe me, wife?"
Xiulan nodded seriously: "Of course I believe you."
But it was clear that she was about to lose the smile on her face.
Lin Heng gritted his teeth and said angrily: "I dare to do it tonight!"
"No, I can't bear it." Xiulan said quickly.
Soon she stopped talking because she found that the more she explained, the more she seemed to be mocking Lin Heng.
"Mountain lily, what a beautiful flower!"
As soon as he came to the bend, Lin Heng saw two snow-white lilies and quickly changed the subject.
I walked over and picked some, and the faint fragrance was refreshing.
"Wife, this is for you." Lin Heng walked over and handed it to Xiulan as if nothing had happened.
Xiulan took the flower with a smile, smelled it, and held it in her hand.
She also acted seriously as if nothing had happened and protected the little dignity her husband had left.
"I dug up this lily and planted it back home." Lin Heng said that this thing was quite tall and was used to decorate his small yard.
This season is not the right one to dig lilies as they are not grown yet and cannot be eaten, but they can still survive if you force yourself to plant them.
The lily grew on a slope with loose soil. After a while, he dug out a fist-sized lily, which looked like a beautiful crystal lotus.
"It's a pity that the honeysuckle on Shuijingwan has been taken by others first."
Xiulan said in front.
"No way, they may have gone up the mountain to cut it yesterday."
Lin Heng said as he looked around.
Xiulan was puzzled: "What are you looking at? Prey?"
"No, I'm looking for honeysuckle."
"There's no hope." Xiulan was too lazy to look for him anymore. The people in the village were too crazy.
"I actually came here. This is a big cave."
Lin Heng looked at the cave in front of him. It was a natural cave, five meters deep. In winter, people often made fires inside to keep warm when herding cattle.
I have many fond memories here as a child.
"Let's go, there's nothing to see." said Xiulan.
Lin Heng nodded and pulled Xiulan down. The bend in the well was full of stones with water flowing on it, making it very slippery.
When he was about to turn the corner, Lin Heng saw a bunch of honeysuckle on the stone surface on the left and walked over with some joy.
Xiulan looked at him in confusion: "This has been cut off by someone, why are you still going there?"
"Of course I pulled them out and planted them again."
As Lin Heng spoke, he grabbed the honeysuckle vine and pulled it hard. With a "swish" sound, a large piece of roots was pulled out by him.
It is easiest to pull out the honeysuckle growing on the stone skin because there is stone underneath and the roots cannot take root, so it can only grow on the stone skin.
"Okay, it's done."
Lin Heng chuckled and looked at the old honeysuckle roots in his hand with great satisfaction.
The main vine is as thick as a thumb. When you plant it back, you can use the vine to weave a shape, and it will be a beautiful honeysuckle bonsai.
Honeysuckle is evergreen all year round. You can enjoy the leaves and smell the fragrance when they bloom. You can also soak the flowers in water and drink it to cool down and relieve heat.
Moreover, this thing is very easy to grow and can be easily cultivated without any technology.
How can you not plant such a high-quality plant at home?
"That's a good idea."
Xiulan nodded, feeling warm in her heart as she watched Lin Heng picking various things to decorate their little home.
On the way back, she also dug up two orchids to help with the decoration.
After returning home, the two of them first planted honeysuckle and orchids.
She didn't feel anything before, but as she smiled and watched the small courtyard being decorated bit by bit, a sense of beauty arose spontaneously, making Xiulan feel bright.
"What a pity, it's hard to make a lawn." Lin Heng still felt a little dissatisfied.
It would look nice if lawn was laid everywhere except the path.
It’s a pity that the lawn has to be purchased, as the weeds on the hill are haphazard and prone to growing into very tall piles of weeds.
It is better to have an artificially cultivated lawn.
"Let's go and see how many mushrooms and honeysuckle Dad and the others have got. I guess they'll be back soon."
Clapping his hands, Lin Heng put the hoe aside and went to the old house with Xiulan.
"Dad, they haven't come back yet?"
Seeing that Caiyun was alone at home, Lin Heng asked.
"Yes, he hasn't come back yet." Caiyun nodded.
"Dog~"
When Xiaoxia saw Xiongba, she staggered over and tried to grab his ears.
“Ouch~”
Xiongba seemed to be having a good time playing on the mountain. He didn't hide and let Xiaoxia touch his head.
"Dad, they can really run."
Lin Heng sighed and put down the backpack.
"Sister Xiulan, why did you only get this little honeysuckle?"
Caiyun was a little confused.
"Why else? It was cut off by someone."
Xiulan said helplessly that she was still careless this year, but there should be another batch in a few days.
Putting the honeysuckle aside, the two began to process the mushrooms.
Lin Heng dealt with the loose soil and dead leaves, while Xiulan cut the slices.
All the delicious porcini are sliced and dried. They are kept for our own consumption and not sold.
The blue-headed mushroom and the musk mushroom are all dried whole. If you want to sell them, they must be intact so that people can tell whether you have mixed other mushrooms in.
The delicious porcini mushrooms picked by the two of them weighed about 50 to 60 kilograms in total, but after being dried, they would only be about 10 kilograms at most because these things were too watery.
All mushrooms are the same, except for Ganoderma lucidum. The others require five or six kilograms to make one kilogram of dried food.
After Xiulan finished cutting the porcini and hung them up to dry, and started picking honeysuckle, she heard the voices of Lin's father and mother.
"You guys came back so early?"
The two were a little surprised to see Lin Heng and Xiulan come back so early.
"Where did you get this?"
Lin Heng was surprised at his parents' harvest.
"Whether it's honeysuckle or mushrooms, they have more than us, and we also have bamboo shoots."
Xiulan was also a little shocked.
Father Lin's big backpack was filled with mushrooms, with a large bundle of honeysuckle vines placed on top, and he was holding another large bundle in his hands.
Lin's mother was no less impressive. She carried half a basket of mushrooms and the other half of a basket of peeled bamboo shoots, with a bundle of honeysuckle vines on top, and she also held a bundle in her hand.
This is the same as going to purchase goods.
Father Lin grinned and said, “Your mother and I found out that there was no one in Shibadanggou, so we went to Sanyegou.”
Hearing this, Lin Heng could only give a thumbs up: "Amazing, you guys are really good at running."
Sanyegou is farther away. You have to walk two or three kilometers up the road, and then walk another one or two kilometers into the mountains to reach it.
"Of course. Do you really think we are old?" Lin's mother smiled. She was proud that she gained more than Lin Heng.
After putting it down, Lin Heng and Xiulan helped to deal with it together.
Lin Heng took a look and saw that the mushrooms his parents had picked were all porcini and chanterelles, with a small amount of agaricus and tea tree mushrooms.
"Everyone should do their own thing. Except for the delicious beef, which I don't think can be put together, everyone else should keep it separately."
Father Lin said that this was also for the sake of everyone's well-being, so as to avoid conflicts in the family due to uneven distribution.
"Lin Heng, have you discovered the secret to picking blue-headed mushrooms?"
Mother Lin looked at the green-headed mushrooms that Lin Heng had hung in the round winnowing basket and asked in surprise.
This kind of mushroom is hard to find, so how come Lin Heng always gets this kind of harvest?
Lin Heng chuckled: "I won't tell you anyway."
Mother Lin rolled her eyes: "Humph, I don't care either."
But in my heart, I was thinking about the next time I was with Lin Heng, I wanted to see how he would pick them.
"These two egg mushrooms are also beautiful. There are even musk mushrooms. Although you picked up few, you are lucky."
Mother Lin was a little surprised, because musk mushroom is very rare.
"That was picked by Xiulan. Give it to my dad. His cholesterol is probably quite high." Lin Heng said with a smile.
As they were talking, the eldest brother and his wife came back.
"We didn't harvest much honeysuckle, but we found several pieces of chanterelles, as well as some wood ears and bamboo shoots."
Lin Yue put down the backpack and said with a wry smile.
"You guys are still not satisfied, there's half a basket of chanterelles."
Father Lin said with a smile.
"Only these mushrooms are worth some money." Lin Yue spread his hands.
"Lin Heng, how much did you pick up?" asked sister-in-law Liu Juan curiously.
"It's almost the same as yours, just that little bit." Lin Heng pointed to the round dustpan behind him.
"Brassicaceae are more expensive than chanterelles." Liu Juan was a little envious.
For dinner, we had a delicious stir-fried mushroom dish with two types of mushrooms: chanterelles and porcini.
When fried with lard, the mushrooms’ fresh fragrance comes out, and they taste smooth, tender, refreshing and full of freshness.
Served with cornmeal steamed bread, it becomes more flavorful.
"I think we can pick a lot of mushrooms tomorrow. Let's go and see. We can dry them and cook them with meat in winter." Father Lin said while eating.
"Let's pick some bamboo shoots. They've all come out after the rain and can be dried and eaten." Lin's mother also said.
At this time of year every year, people dry bamboo shoots and mushrooms to save for the winter when there is no food to eat.
"Sure. Anyway, there is not much farm work to do these two days. We can apply the corn fertilizer in two days."
Lin Yue nodded.
Lin Heng just buried his head in eating, listening quietly without saying anything.
After dinner, Lin Heng took a cold shower and then went to take his daughter to bed.
"Shake, shake, shake!!"
After holding Xiaoxia and rocking her for a while, Lin Heng found that not only did she not fall asleep, but she became more energetic and laughed non-stop.
"You don't want to sleep, right? No more rocking."
Lin Heng threw her on the bed and pretended to be a big bad wolf to scare her.
"Hehe~"
Not only did it not scare her, it also made the little girl giggle.
After playing for a while, my daughter finally fell asleep.
"Is my daughter asleep?"
When Xiulan came in after taking a shower, she was a little surprised.
"He's asleep. I coaxed him for a long time." Lin Heng said helplessly.
"Caiyun said she slept a lot during the day today, and it's amazing that you were able to coax her to sleep."
Caiyun said admiringly that she had never realized her husband was so good at coaxing children.
As she spoke, she took off her coat and went to bed to rest.
As soon as I got on the bed, Lin Heng came over to me. He had to prove himself.
"No, it's not good for your health." Xiulan felt sorry for her man.
"Who said that? I'm in good health." Lin Heng said, patting his chest.
Xiulan's tone softened: "Brother, goodbye, mainly because I'm tired."
When she called him brother, Lin Heng's legs went weak. He gritted his teeth and pulled his wife into his arms, determined to be a tough man.
The next morning, Lin Heng woke up, turned over, and felt emptiness and coldness in his lower back and weakness all over.
"Xiu Lan, I'm not going to pick bamboo shoots today. You and Cai Yun can go. I'll take care of the baby."
Lin Heng turned his head and looked at Xiulan and said.
Don't get me wrong, I just felt bad for Caiyun being alone at home, so I asked her to go out and play with you."
Afraid that she might misunderstand, he added another sentence.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng, with a smile that she couldn't hide, and nodded vigorously: "I know, you are a good brother."
"Humph, what are you laughing at? It's because you are so beautiful."
Lin Heng snorted coldly.
"I wasn't laughing. I really wasn't laughing." Xiulan blinked.
Lin Heng waved his hand and didn't want to talk anymore.
I felt like my body was in such bad shape. It was only four or five days in a row, why was it like this?
Xiulan put on her clothes silently, and after getting up, she brought Lin Heng a cup of tea with some herbs in it.
Lin Heng said nothing more, swallowed it in one gulp, and fell into a deep sleep again.
"dad."
Lin Heng woke up again and found that he was having trouble breathing.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that his filial daughter Xiaoxia had woken up. She had climbed onto his chest and was throwing a dry diaper over his head.
"You really are daddy's little cotton-padded jacket." Lin Heng picked her up, glad that she didn't pee all over his head.
After getting up and taking his daughter to the toilet, Lin Heng went to the kitchen to find food. Xiulan had already put his meal in the pot.
He ate a bite, his daughter ate a bite, and by the time the father and daughter finished their meal it was already half past nine.
The sky was cloudless and blue, and the golden sun was high in the sky. Yesterday's freshness disappeared, replaced by roasting and heat.
Lin Heng took a look at the mushrooms drying in the yard, locked the door, and went to the new house with his daughter in his arms.
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(End of this chapter)
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