Chapter 138 It's really it, making a fortune
Lin Heng walked over and picked the red Ganoderma lucidum first. He took a look and found that the bottom of the cap was still white and the spore powder was not scattered, so it could still be used.
After picking the Ganoderma lucidum, Lin Heng looked at the ground. The ground here was bulging, and even when it rained, there was a crack on the ground.
He crawled over and smelled it, and a special fragrance was refreshing, which made him shudder all of a sudden.
"Am I really lucky enough to come across this?"
Lin Heng was a little bit unbelieving, so he broke off a dry pine branch and started digging.
After digging for a while, a small black ball was brought out. When I picked it up, it was dark brown with some very small bumps and very complicated patterns, just like a devil fruit.
Lin Heng was so excited that he was speechless for a moment. He actually found the black truffle without relying on Xiongba. His luck was too good.
He picked it up and smelled it. It had a strange smell. When it first broke through the soil, it smelled fragrant, with a musky scent.
But now, why is there a scent of heather? When I smell it again, it feels like sheets that haven't been washed for years.
After covering the place with pine needles and inserting a wooden stick as a mark, Lin Heng quickly ran towards his wife.
Xiulan had already walked quite a distance with Xiongba. When she saw Lin Heng running over, she hurried to share her harvest: "Xiongba and I found another three or four pounds of matsutake mushrooms, which adds up to more than a hundred. Come and see."
Lin Heng walked up to his wife and looked at her bag, then picked her up and spun her around. However, the pine needles on the ground were too slippery, and the two fell directly into each other.
"Hey, what are you doing? You shouldn't be so excited to find so many matsutake mushrooms, right?"
Xiulan looked at him helplessly. Like a child, her hair was covered with pine needles.
She sat up and picked some pine needles, and then picked some for Lin Heng.
"Guess what I found?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan, his excitement difficult to conceal.
"What? A large piece of matsutake?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.
Looking at Lin Heng's expression, Xiulan showed an expression of wanting to believe but not daring to believe: "Could it be black truffles? Impossible, I have been married to you for almost three years and I have only heard of someone selling them once."
Lin Heng grabbed her hand, then placed the black truffle in his palm on her hand, and said with a smile: "Then look at what this is?"
Seeing what was in her hand, Xiulan couldn't help but open her mouth wide: "Oh my God, it's really a black truffle."
She picked it up and smelled it, then looked at it, then looked at Lin Heng again and smiled softly: “I feel it’s a little unreal, how about you let me pinch it?”
"You pinch it." Lin Heng grabbed Xiongba's head and reached over.
Xiong Ba: “???”
"I'm just kidding. Hurry up and dig the truffles. If someone else grabs them all, you'll regret it for the rest of your life." Xiulan touched the dog's head, stood up and said.
"Walk slower, what was that black truffle you just smelled?" Lin Heng asked curiously while walking.
"It's very strange, it feels like musk, but also like honey, very complex." Xiulan smelled it again before speaking.
"It smells like unwashed sheets!" Lin Heng laughed.
Soon the two of them and the dog arrived at the place: "It's here. I was originally going to collect Ganoderma lucidum, but I found that the land next to it was cracked!"
"I dig."
Xiulan took her small hoe and dug gently, and she brought out five or six.
"Oh my God, this is too much. Hubby, you are so lucky today." Xiulan was stunned.
"You don't understand this. Once you find this thing, there are a lot of them. Those with fragrance are ripe, and those without fragrance are not ripe yet." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"So do we have to dig it all?" Xiulan asked while digging.
“They buy black truffles regardless of whether they are ripe or not. They export the ripe ones and sell the unripe ones to high-end restaurants in China.
But if we dig them all up, they might be gone by the next year.”
Lin Heng was also thinking about this problem. In his previous life, he had seen some cases of black truffles being dug in other provinces. Often, once a black truffle was discovered in one place, several acres of land nearby would be dug up and all the truffles would be dug up.
This is like the prisoner's dilemma. You are kind enough to keep the immature ones, but others may not keep them.
And even if you keep it, it may not be yours next year.
Therefore, most people choose to maximize their profits and dig it all out at once.
"Then let's dig it all up, otherwise if others do, there won't be anything left for us." Xiulan said without hesitation.
"I thought so too, but let's leave some of it undigged. We should be able to dig it up again in a year or two. Cover it thicker with pine needles so it won't be easily discovered by others." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
"That's fine too, then let's leave some." Xiulan nodded.
Let Xiulan dig here, Lin Heng took one and let Xiongba smell it. Just as he was about to speak, it swallowed it in one gulp.
"You stupid dog, you snatch food every day, right? If you can't find the black truffle, I'll let you starve for three days!" Lin Heng pinched the dog's mouth and hit it twice.
He hadn't eaten it himself, but this guy tasted it first.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba shouted, as if to say that since he had worked hard, it was okay for him to eat one.
Seeing Lin Heng raise his hand, it quickly went over with its nose close to the ground.
Lin Heng ignored it and started digging the black truffle with his wife.
They could dig out a lot every time, and they were so excited.
After digging a piece of about two square meters, the number of truffles gradually became scarce.
Xiulan dug and Lin Heng picked. He separated the ripe and unripe ones to avoid confusion.
After searching for a while, Xiulan stopped and kept some seeds.
She turned her head and looked at Lin Heng: "This piece is gone, how much have we dug?"
"It should be about 30 kilograms in total. There are 10 kilograms of ripe ones in this bag, and 20 kilograms of unripe ones in the other bag."
Lin Heng held two bags and said with a smile, "This is what it is."
Either you can’t find it, or if you do, it’s always at least ten kilograms.
It grows in patches underground.
"Oh my God, doesn't that mean three hundred yuan?" Xiulan was stunned. It was the first time for her to make so much money by picking mountain products.
"More than that, I'm talking about the price at the purchasing station in town. In fact, this thing can be sold for fifteen yuan if it's wet, and one hundred and fifty-six yuan per kilogram if it's dry." Lin Heng said with a smile. He was really rich this time.
"This is great. I can almost make back the money I spent on buying red dates by digging truffles once." Xiulan opened the bag and looked at it again and again.
"Just tell me if I'm awesome or not?" Lin Heng wanted to flex his hands on his waist, but he was so proud of himself.
"That's great, really great." Xiulan nodded repeatedly.
After looking at the black truffles in the bag again, the two men hid them at the bottom of the backpack and began to restore the land here.
First restore the turned over land to its original state, then bring in pine needles to cover it until no traces are visible.
"Okay, it took another hour, it's already half past two." Lin Heng looked at the watch and was so excited about encountering the black truffle that he was not even hungry anymore.
Only after I finished digging did I feel my stomach growling with hunger.
"It looks like there's not much progress for Xiongba." Xiulan said as she looked at Xiongba who was still searching.
"This thing is like this. There is one under one pine tree, but not necessarily under another. Let's eat first."
Lin Heng couldn't bear it anymore.
"Okay, let's find a place to wash our hands first." Xiulan nodded.
This place is not far from the ravine. There are only some puddles formed by rain in the ravine, but no streams.
After washing her hands, Xiulan took out their dry food from the backpack. It was soft pancakes baked last night, with fermented bean curd and spicy and sour potato shreds.
The fermented bean curd and spicy sauce are packed in cans, while the spicy and sour potato shreds are packed in plastic bags.
Lin Heng used his tempered steel dagger to sharpen a pair of chopsticks. Xiulan put her hands together and asked him to put the soft pancake on it, spread it with fermented bean curd, put shredded potatoes on it and roll it up.
"Open your mouth!" Lin Heng handed the rolled pancake to his wife's mouth.
Xiulan lifted her messy hair, opened her red lips and took a big bite, and nodded with puffy cheeks: "Delicious!"
Lin Heng took a bite himself and nodded, "My wife's cooking skills are really good."
Then he handed the burrito to her mouth, and the two of them sat on the stone together, eating one bite at a time.
Xiulan took out some water and fed Lin Heng a sip, then drank another sip herself.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba ran down from the woods, squatted in front of the two men and called out.
"Here, eat it yourself!"
Xiulan took out the rice she had prepared for it and placed it in front of it.
After taking a look at the two of them, Xiongba lowered his head and started eating.
Although Lin Heng and Xiulan's clothes were dirty, they ate with gusto.
After finishing the meal, Xiulan rested on Lin Heng's shoulder for a while. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she pointed at a tree in the distance and said, "Honey, there are so many wax gourds!"
"It's just a little high and I can't reach it." Xiulan said again.
"I'll chop down a tree for you." Lin Heng stood up and pulled her to the tree. He chopped down the tree, which was as thick as a bowl, with just ten strokes of his axe.
Just step on the tree and press down, and the wax gourd will be within your reach.
"There are so many, at least twenty or thirty." Xiulan said with a smile, putting on gloves and reaching out to pick them.
She now pays great attention to taking care of her hands because Lin Heng said he likes her delicate and tender hands.
Lin Heng also came over to pick them. The wax gourds were basically purple by now and could be easily broken open with a little effort.
"Twenty-five, that's a lot on this tree." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan took off her gloves, opened one, ate half of it, and stuffed the other half into Lin Heng's mouth.
"puff!!"
After a while, they both spit out a bunch of wax gourd seeds.
"The wax gourd is still as sweet as ever," Xiulan said with emotion.
"It's a pity that there is no Schisandra chinensis. I kind of want to eat it." Lin Heng said with a smile. Schisandra chinensis is sour and sweet and tastes better.
"Let's wait for them to dry for two days and then go to Sanyegou to pick them. There are plenty of them there." Xiulan said as she ate another one. She really likes sweets.
“Woof woof!”
After eating the rice, Xiongba ran over and smelled the wax melon, wanting to eat it.
"Here!" Xiulan picked a fruit and threw it to it.
Xiongba swallowed it all with the seeds in two gulps. There was no question of spitting out the seeds at all.
The two rested for a while, then packed up and continued searching.
"Xiongba, look again, there might be more nearby."
Lin Heng took out another ripe black truffle and let it smell it. The pine forest was very large, so he took his time searching.
Lin Heng and Xiulan picked some pine milk mushrooms together. They had picked enough and were not in a hurry.
If you see any suspicious place, use a small hoe to dig.
For three hours, Lin Heng and Xiong Ba searched the entire forest, but apart from finding half a pound of matsutake mushrooms, they did not see any black truffles.
“This is not normal!”
Lin Heng felt that it was a bit fake. In his previous life, he saw a video of people digging black truffles. They dug up several acres of land nearby and could dig out hundreds of kilograms.
"Be content, this is already a big fortune." Xiulan was very open-minded.
"Then let's go home, it's almost time."
Lin Heng nodded. There was nothing he could do about it, but autumn was still long and there was plenty of time to look for it.
After picking up their things, the two of them walked back along another ravine that they had not walked before.
Walking through the oak forest, there are many brown yellow umbrellas. This thing tastes pretty good, and there are a lot of them, everywhere.
As a result, I picked up more than a dozen and opened them, only to find that they were all hollow and worm-eaten. Suddenly, I lost the mood to pick them up.
"But I have picked up enough today." Lin Heng said with a smile.
After walking a few more steps, a few hairy chestnut trees appeared in front of them. Xiulan walked over to the trees and took a look. She turned back and said in surprise, "There are chestnuts, and quite a few."
"Then pick up some." Lin Heng put down the backpack and walked over with the bag.
Hairy chestnuts are much smaller than chestnuts. Most of them are as big as the first section of the thumb, only half the size of a chestnut, and the small ones are less than one-third the size of a chestnut.
However, there are many hairy chestnut trees, they taste good and can be sold for money, so people pick them in rural areas.
Whether you eat chestnuts directly, stir-fry them, or stew them in chicken or pork legs, they are delicious and no one can resist them.
While picking chestnuts, Lin Heng also saw a red-haired squirrel squatting on a tree with a chestnut in its hand.
He could only watch, because he only wanted to pick mushrooms today, and he didn't even bring a bow and arrow or a slingshot.
The two of them picked up the trash for half an hour before stopping and dumping it together. Xiulan estimated, "It should be more than ten kilograms."
"The chestnuts on this tree have just started to fall. There should be more in a while."
Lin Heng glanced at the thick chestnut tree. In fact, if he picked more carefully, he could pick up at least another ten kilograms from the ground.
But it was already half past six, and if they didn't go back, it would be dark. I didn't know whether Xiaoxia was crying or not, and they were both a little worried.
Lin Heng took this road to see if there were any Schisandra chinensis or something, but after walking for a while he reached a dead end and didn't find anything, so he had to climb over the ridge and take a small path back.
At this time, there were many people who were walking back from the mountain after picking mushrooms. As Lin Heng and his companion were walking, someone suddenly spoke up from behind, "Lin Heng, are you still going up the mountain to pick mushrooms?"
Lin Heng turned his head and saw that it was Uncle Li Baigen from the Li family who was good at weaving in the village. Next to him were his second son Li Shixing and his youngest daughter Li Shixia.
"Uncle Li, you're a wealthy man, but you're also picking mushrooms." Lin Heng smiled casually. He was not very familiar with this man.
"It's far worse than yours." Li Baigen smiled and said, "I see both of your backpacks are full. You picked some mushrooms."
"Just pine mushrooms and broom mushrooms, and a little hairy chestnuts." Lin Heng said with a smile. He tied up all the pockets of black truffles, so they shouldn't be discovered.
"I smelled a fragrance and thought you picked up some matsutake mushrooms." Li Shigen said with a smile.
Lin Heng was stunned, thinking that this person has a dog's nose and can smell this.
"No, you must have smelled it wrong." Lin Heng shook his head and looked at him and said, "What kind of mushrooms did you pick up?"
"Similar to you, but I found a tree of wild grapes. Would you like to have some?" Li Shigen walked over with a bamboo basket full of wild grapes.
"This is a great one. I've been looking for it for a long time but couldn't find it." Lin Heng was surprised. The wild grapes in the basket were so beautiful.
He reached out and took a bunch, tasted it, nodded and said, "Very good, thank you."
"You can take some of our chestnuts." Xiulan handed over the chestnuts.
"No, no, I found some at home." Li Shigen waved his hand and said.
"The fragrance comes from your backpacks. Did you really pick up some matsutake mushrooms?" Li Shixia, who was standing next to her, moved her nose in a crisp voice.
"You kid..." Li Shigen looked at his daughter helplessly.
Just keep it to yourself, don't tell it.
"Hahaha, there is a little bit, but not much." Lin Heng laughed and glanced at the fifteen-year-old girl.
Li Shixia was a little curious, so she picked up a matsutake mushroom once, but she didn't see it this time.
But she had a very sensitive nose and felt that the smell coming from the two people's backpacks was not just Matsutake, which was very strange.
But after her father's warning, she didn't dare to speak again.
"What good luck! I'm so enviable." Upon hearing that it really happened, Li Shigen couldn't help but reveal an envious expression.
"Haha, let's stop talking. We have to go home and see the kids." Lin Heng quickly found an excuse to run away. It seemed that the snakeskin bag was not very effective in isolating the scent.
They may have gotten used to it because they smell it so often.
"Then take some more wild grapes and go back to let your children at home taste them." Li Shigen said again, forcing Lin Heng to stuff a few bunches of wild grapes into his mouth.
After a few polite words, Lin Heng quickly ran away with his wife.
"Dad, they must have picked up a lot of matsutake mushrooms." Li Shixia said with a sniff.
"I guess so. They must have found a nest of matsutake mushrooms. Otherwise, where would they get so much money to buy mulberry mushrooms?"
Li Shigen was a little envious, but if others didn't tell you about this thing, you would never find it.
However, they did not guess that what Lin Heng found was not Matsutake, but the more precious black truffle.
The two of them walked quickly back home. Father Lin was very curious. These two people didn't even say hello to him and rushed home in a hurry. What good things did they find?
After thinking for a while, he followed them to Lin Heng's yard and looked at them: "What good things did you find?"
"This thing is so good, I don't even want you, Dad, to see it." Lin Heng chuckled.
"Is it Matsutake?" Father Lin turned around, closed the yard door, walked over and asked.
"There are indeed matsutake mushrooms, but they are not the best." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.
"Ah? Is there anything else?" Father Lin was puzzled.
Xiulan took out the bag and opened it. Father Lin looked up and sat down on the bench in a daze: "Oh my God, how did you find this?"
"Lin Heng was just wandering around and I was lucky to meet him." Xiulan said with a smile.
Father Lin took a long time to come back to his senses and patted Lin Heng on the shoulder: "You are really destined to drive the mountain. Go and worship the mountain god. You might as well accept the mountain god as your godfather."
"Dad, this is too outrageous." Lin Heng said helplessly.
Most of his harvest came from his dog Xiongba and his bow and arrow. He thought that even if he didn't see the truffle today, Xiongba would be able to find it.
"I must take you to worship there some other day. No one else has such great luck." Father Lin shook his head.
The three were just feeling happy when there was a hasty knock on the gate of the courtyard. Caiyun's voice came from outside: "Second brother and second sister-in-law, are you home? Something big has happened."
Hearing this, Lin Heng and the other two were stunned. What big deal was this? Caiyun was so excited that she hurried out.
(End of this chapter)
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