Chapter 170 Celadon Antiques? And Mushrooms in Early Winter
This person was none other than Zhang Zhigen, the man his uncle Li Baiquan had mentioned. This person didn’t come yesterday, and Lin Heng thought he wasn’t coming.
"What's the matter?" Lin Heng stopped and looked at him and asked.
Zhang Zhigen didn't say anything. He walked in front of Lin Heng, glanced at Xiulan, pulled Lin Heng aside and asked in a low voice: "Well, I heard that you beat a leopard. Do you still have the leopard whip?"
Lin Heng nodded and said, "Still, I just sold a little meat. I don't really want to sell the rest, mainly because I can't make much money from it."
Zhang Zhigen was delighted when he heard this, and looked at Lin Heng and said, "I want to buy your leopard whip, what price do you think is suitable?"
Lin Heng glanced at him and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, I really don't want to sell it. I'm not sure if I can get a second one of this good stuff. I want to dry it and store it."
Zhang Zhigen was not stupid and he understood it quickly. As a millionaire, Lin Heng had no shortage of money and a leopard whip was hard to come by, so it was unrealistic to expect him to buy it with money.
He thought for a moment and said, "How about I trade for antiques? I have some old items at home. Do you like them?"
Hearing this, Lin Heng did not rush to express his opinion, but looked embarrassed: "That's fine, but I can't be sure whether the old items in your house are real or fake."
Zhang Zhigen patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I can guarantee that they are all from the Qing Dynasty at least, and some may be even earlier."
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll go to your house tomorrow and we'll talk about it then. I'm going up the mountain now, so I really don't have time to deal with these things."
He was not in a hurry at all; it was Zhang Zhigen who was in a hurry.
In fact, he felt that something like a leopard whip might not be that effective, but most people couldn't help but believe it.
But of course he wouldn't refuse if he could get a good price.
Zhang Zhigen couldn't wait any longer and said anxiously, "Can't we do it now? They say the fresher the food is, the better. If you come with me to check it out, I'll give you some compensation."
"No, I promised to go to the mountains with my wife today. There will be no one to look after the children tomorrow when my sister goes to school." Lin Heng shook his head. He was not particularly interested in antiques.
Zhang Zhigen was anxious, so he went straight to Xiulan to speak good words to her.
Xiulan was helpless and glanced at Lin Heng: "Then you can go with Uncle Zhang. His house is not far away. If you go quickly and come back quickly, you should still make it in time."
Lin Heng had no choice but to nod and looked at him and said, "Okay then, Uncle Zhang, I'll bring whatever you want to buy to your house."
Zhang Zhigen thought for a moment and said, "How about this, you take the leopard whip, the balls, and the heart. I want them all."
Lin Heng looked at him and said, "That's fine, but these three things are the essence of the leopard, they are not cheap."
Zhang Zhigen waved his hand: "Then I'll trade three old things for them. You young man are so unpleasant to talk to."
Lin Heng was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "It depends on what kind of old item it is. Different items have different prices."
Zhang Zhigen looked at him and said, "Let me put it this way. I have a lot of old things in my house. You can choose them yourself. It depends on your taste. I don't know the specific value."
"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded, and the three of them went back to the house to get the leopard whip, testicles, heart, and a piece of leopard meat with bones.
After saying something to Xiulan, Lin Heng went to Zhang Zhigen's home with him. His home was on the hillside on the other side of the river. It took them half an hour to climb the mountain to get there.
There was a large lotus pond in front of his house and a ditch on the left. The two of them walked along the edge of the ditch and came to his house.
Zhang Zhigen's house is also a mud house. Since he is over 40 years old and still has no children, there are only three people in his family: him, his mother, and his wife.
"Lin Heng, would you like to drink some water before watching?" Zhang Zhigen looked at Lin Heng and asked.
"I'm in a hurry, so forget about drinking water." Lin Heng shook his head. He wasn't thirsty either.
Zhang Zhigen didn't waste any words, nodded and said, "Okay, come upstairs with me and I'll show you around."
Lin Heng put his things down, and the two of them went up to his earthen building together, and saw his so-called antiques in a room upstairs.
There are quite a lot of things. At first glance, there are about thirty or forty items. I don’t know if this is all.
"Everything is here. Just take three of whatever you like." Zhang Zhigen handed the flashlight to Lin Heng and said.
"Okay." Lin Heng took the flashlight and looked carefully.
Most of them are pottery, which look indeed simple and ancient. There are only a dozen or so porcelain pieces, mostly bowls and plates, and four porcelain bottles.
Lin Heng first looked at the pottery, and found nothing special, so he focused his attention on the porcelain. Most of them were blue and white porcelain plates with bright blue flowers on them, and the styles were also very ordinary.
He picked one up. There was a red seal on the bottom, but he didn't recognize it. There was nothing he could do. He had never touched anything like this in his previous life.
However, there was a porcelain plate in there that he recognized. This porcelain plate was of real light blue color, with dense "cracks" on it, and it looked like it was broken.
But it feels smooth and soft in the hand, and the color is pleasing to the eye, as if it is the color of the sky after the rain.
He had seen a similar introduction in his previous life, saying that this thing was celadon fired in the Ru kiln during the Song Dynasty and was said to be very valuable.
But as an outsider, he had no idea whether this thing was real or fake.
"I'll take this." Lin Heng thought about it and took it.
Since you can't tell the real from the fake anyway, just take the valuable and beautiful things. If they are real, you will make a lot of money. If they are fake, just consider it a good deed.
"I want the remaining two, the vase and the jar." Lin Heng then took out a trumpet-mouthed porcelain vase with a long neck and a round belly, as well as a round porcelain vase with a big belly.
Both of them have blue patterns on them, which are different from the green porcelain plate just now.
"Are you sure you have made your choice?" Zhang Zhigen said with a smile.
Lin Heng nodded: "I don't know the goods, I just pick whichever one looks good."
"I don't know it either, and I don't know where to sell it. If you know a channel, I can give you a commission." Zhang Zhigen said with a smile. After that, he grabbed a handful of copper coins from the window sill next to him and gave them to Lin Heng, saying with a smile: "This thing is not worth much, you can take it back and play with it."
"Okay." Lin Heng took it and took a look. There were four big characters "Yongzheng Tong Bao" written on it. This was a copper coin from the Yongzheng period and it should not be fake, but he didn't know whether it was valuable or not.
Lin Heng went downstairs and used some bristles to wrap the porcelain. He looked at Zhang Zhigen and said, "Uncle Zhang, I advise you to go to the hospital for a checkup if you have time."
Compared to folk remedies, he still believes more in modern medicine.
"You don't have to worry about that." Zhang Zhigen shook his head.
"Okay then. I'm leaving." Lin Heng spread his hands. This was just a suggestion. There was nothing he could do if others didn't appreciate it.
The road home was downhill, and he ran home in more than ten minutes.
Xiulan was a little surprised to see him come back so soon: "You're back so soon?"
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Of course, I was thinking about us going to the mountain. It's not even ten o'clock yet, so we still have time."
Caiyun hugged Xiaoxia and said, "Second brother, show me the porcelain you returned."
Lin Heng nodded and took out the porcelain one by one.
Caiyun said in surprise: "These three are all very beautiful. Even if they are fake, it's still a big loss."
Xiulan held up the green porcelain plate with floral patterns and said, "This porcelain plate is really beautiful. Why don't you get two more of these?"
Lin Heng spread his hands and smiled: "I want it too, but there is only this one."
"Okay then." Xiulan said with some regret.
The two men put the three porcelain pieces into the cabinet in the bedroom, then coaxed Xiaoxia, took the tools and set off with Xiongba.
Xiongba walked in front to lead the way, Xiulan walked in the middle, and Lin Heng walked at the end.
This time there was no delay and the two of them made their way to the beam and entered a relatively tall oak forest.
"After walking so far, I finally saw one."
Lin Heng saw a cluster of yellow-brown mushrooms on a dry tree stump. Like the tea tree mushrooms, these mushrooms grew in clusters at one growth point, with more than ten or twenty mushrooms growing in clusters.
Wild enoki mushrooms are also called winter mushrooms here. It is one of the mushrooms that can still come out in winter.
The cap of this thing is yellow, with a maximum diameter of no more than seven centimeters, and a general diameter of only three or four centimeters. There is no stipe on the stem, and it is covered with fine hairs.
The morning frost had just melted, causing the cap to feel slimy.
Xiulan looked over and said, "You are so lucky. I found some fungus."
Lin Heng grinned: "This one is not big, only half a pound. I guess other people have already visited this forest."
Wild enoki mushrooms are much more delicious than cultivated ones. They have a stronger mushroom flavor, a better texture and won’t get stuck in your teeth. They are very good mushrooms.
Xiulan also nodded: "Yes, so we just need to look for it along the way and go directly to a farther place."
The two of them brought Xiongba to Tongshugou very quickly and picked up a cluster of oyster mushrooms on the way. This thing also grew in clusters, on tree stumps, in a large white clump, and was very easy to identify.
Whether it is enoki mushrooms or oyster mushrooms, you can harvest a lot as long as you find them. They grow in clusters so each cluster weighs at least half a pound.
The two men didn't gain much on both sides of Tongshugou. This place should have been quite large, but it was obvious that it had been visited by others.
"We can only go somewhere farther away." Xiulan said with a pout.
Whenever she went into the mountains, she would braid her hair into a ponytail, letting it fall from her shoulders to her chest, giving her the charming temperament of a girl next door.
Lin Heng nodded and said, "This is the only way."
The two of them climbed along the pine forest next to them towards Baishigou. The pine needles were too slippery and they kept falling. They had to use wooden sticks to keep going up.
"Wangwang~~"
When they were almost up the mountain, Xiongba called out from thirty meters in front of them on the left.
"What is it?"
The two of them walked over together with curiosity.
I was stunned when I saw the things. I thought they were oyster mushrooms or enoki mushrooms, but I didn't expect there was a field of morels here.
Xiulan was pleasantly surprised and said, "This is really a pleasant surprise, there are quite a few."
Lin Heng also nodded repeatedly. There are almost no morels in this season, so it was a surprise to see them.
After picking them all, there were more than thirty of them, weighing almost two kilograms. Fresh morels are even more delicious when made into mushroom soup hotpot at home.
"Good dog, I'll give you meat when I get home." Lin Heng said with a smile.
“Woof woof~~”
Xiongba turned around on the spot and hugged Lin Heng's legs, as if to say that you are such a good master.
After crossing the mountain, the two did not search the woods much, because enoki mushrooms grow relatively close to the valleys, so there was little hope of finding them on the mountain.
Occasionally Xiongba would discover something and the two of them would run over to take it off.
Speeding up all the way, the two arrived at the lower reaches of Baishigou at noon. Going upstream from here is the place where they hunted yellow muntjacs and caught old turtles last time.
This place is also an old forest. The trees are all big trees with a diameter of 30 cm. There are also many fallen trees in the forest. It is the place where mushrooms are most likely to appear.
Xiulan pointed to a group of elm tree stumps in front and said, "Look, there are so many enoki mushrooms. No one has ever been to this place."
Lin Heng was also excited: "We have discovered a nest of Enoki mushrooms."
The two of them hurried over to pick them up. It was so satisfying to pick up a cluster of these mushrooms, which weighed at least half a pound. After a short while, they each picked up more than ten pounds, which were very heavy.
Lin Heng smelled the tempting aroma of mushrooms and couldn't believe how delicious it would be when cooked in hot pot.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said, "Should we take care of our stomachs or continue searching?"
"Let's look for it again. I'm not very hungry yet." Lin Heng shook his head.
The two had already agreed that they would take the left bank when going up and the right bank when coming back, so that they would not fall behind on either side.
There don't seem to be many oyster mushrooms around here, and there are few Hericium erinaceus either. However, you can see a cluster of enoki mushrooms every few meters.
He also found wild boar and muntjac feces on the way. Although they were not very fresh, they were no more than a month old.
He brought a bow and arrow today, and naturally had the idea of hunting. He was observing along the way and did hear the sound of birds, but they were all far away.
The wind was strong in the valley, but fortunately the two of them had been exercising, so it wasn't too cold.
After walking up five or six hundred meters, they came to a large bluestone that was slightly sheltered from the wind. Xiulan said, "Let's rest here for a while and eat. I'm hungry."
"Okay, I'm actually hungry too." Lin Heng nodded.
The lunch that Xiulan brought was pies made of leopard meat and pork that she had prepared yesterday. They gathered around a stove, made a fire, and baked the pies to eat.
The baked pie is crispy on the outside and soft and fragrant on the inside. It is full of meat filling when you take a bite, and the fragrance can be smelled from far away.
Xiongba was watching from the side, almost drooling.
"Give."
Lin Heng threw one to it, and Xiongba caught it and started eating it.
After eating, he looked at Lin Heng eagerly again.
"This is the last one. Work hard in the afternoon." Lin Heng took a look at it and gave another one. He was reluctant to give any more.
After finishing the pie, Xiulan took out the large water cup, took a sip, and handed it to Lin Heng.
"Let's rest for a while before we go on." Lin Heng said after taking a sip of water. Their legs were a little sore from having walked all the way here.
"good."
Xiulan nodded and leaned on Lin Heng's shoulder.
The scenery in early winter was nothing special, but the two of them enjoyed the silence of the forest, which gave them a feeling of peace and tranquility.
After roasting the fire for a while, Lin Heng urinated to put out the fire, then covered it with soil, and the two continued on their journey.
The mushrooms they picked up on the way were all enoki mushrooms, but the two did not get bored because these mushrooms were really delicious.
As she was walking, Xiulan suddenly stopped and looked at the things in front of her with a look of surprise: "Husband, come here quickly, I found something good."
It was a bit beyond her expectation to find such a thing in this forest.
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