Chapter 55: The King of Fungi, the Plump and Fragrant Matsutake
While Jiang Ning was busy, Yang Rui was at a loss.
She was completely unfamiliar with the surrounding environment.
I have lived in the city since I was a child, and have never been to any mountain or forest like this one.
I've never even seen a mushroom with soil on it.
Now, I watched Jiang Ning peel off the fallen leaves and use his fingers to dig out mushrooms one after another from the soft soil.
Yang Rui never dared to imagine such a thing.
But Jiang Ning seemed to be doing it in a relaxed and comfortable manner, without any discomfort at all.
But Jiang Ning...isn’t he also from the city?
Yang Rui hesitated and was confused.
In a short while, Jiang Ning had changed three places and his bamboo baskets were filled with a lot of wild mushrooms.
Yang Rui looked at it and began to feel inexplicably moved.
She squatted down imitating Jiang Ning's movements, looking for wild mushrooms among the fallen leaves and soil.
Soon I saw one.
It has a red mushroom shape, a white stem, and small white dots on the top of the arc.
This mushroom looks beautiful and clean.
That’s it!
Yang Rui reached out to pick the mushroom.
At this moment——
“Don’t touch!”
Jiang Ning's voice came hurriedly.
Along with it came the sound of her hurried footsteps.
In the blink of an eye.
Jiang Ning had already walked to Yang Rui's side and grabbed her hand.
"Don't pick it, don't pick it. Don't pick this. This mushroom is poisonous."
poisonous!
When Yang Rui heard this, her feet slipped and she almost fell down the hillside.
Fortunately, Jiang Ning held her tightly with his hands.
She was still in shock, "This mushroom... is poisonous?"
Jiang Ning looked at Yang Rui's still empty basket and understood something.
She said, "Red umbrella, white pole, lie down on the board together after eating. Have you heard of it?"
Yang Rui shook her head.
She also asked, "What is a banban?"
Jiang Ning then told her the second half of the sentence, "Lie on the board, sleep in the coffin, and then bury the mountain together."
This board is the board of a coffin.
Yang Rui's face turned pale all of a sudden.
Jiang Ning slowed down and explained carefully.
"Many mushrooms are poisonous. The prettier they look, the more poisonous they are. Even touching them can poison you, so you must not pick them. In addition to red ones, there are also yellow and purple ones... In short, if you don't recognize them, don't pick them at all."
Yang Rui immediately nodded heavily, her expression still nervous and conflicted.
Because she doesn't recognize any mushrooms.
Jiang Ning doesn’t know many mushrooms, just some of the easier-to-recognize ones, such as Tiger Paw Mushroom, Sheep Liver Mushroom, Bamboo Fungus, Deer Antler Mushroom, etc.
When she was digging mushrooms just now, she saw that the most common thing on the hillside was the chicken mushroom.
so--
"Xiao Rui, you don't need to know a lot of mushrooms, you only need to know one kind - this one is called Alternaria japonica."
Talking.
Jiang Ning took out the chicken mushrooms she had dug from the bamboo basket.
"Alstroemeria is easy to recognize, it's grayish white. It generally has two forms, one is unopened, with a long-stalked pointed head and a skull. The other is in an open state, with the top spread out like an open umbrella."
Unopened
Umbrella opened
Yang Rui listened and observed carefully.
I found that this chicken mushroom is exactly as Jiang Ning said, very much like an open umbrella.
She nodded gently, "Okay, I'll remember that."
Jiang Ning said again.
"The reason why the Altissima has this name is because it does not grow one by one, but in a group, just like a nest of chicks. And in the same place, as long as its environment is not destroyed, it will grow again next year. So... after we pick the mushrooms, we have to cover the fallen leaves back, so that we can maintain the fungal environment and pick more mushrooms in the future."
Yang Rui never expected that there is so much knowledge involved just by digging mushrooms.
Jiang Ning not only told her, but also demonstrated it to her personally.
She found a new bunch of chicken mushrooms nearby and immediately called Yang Rui over.
at the same time.
Jiang Ning picked up a wooden tube from the ground and cut it lightly at an angle with a machete, so that the front part of the stick became a slanted point.
"Here." Jiang Ning handed the sharpened wooden stick to Yang Rui and said, "If you are afraid of getting your hands dirty, use this stick. Just insert the stick into the soil and pry it upwards gently, and the mushrooms will be dug out."
"Jiang Ning, how do you know everything!"
Yang Rui didn't expect that Jiang Ning had also discovered her mysophobia.
When she took the stick, she was filled with admiration.
Jiang Ning shook her head and said "nothing". After all, she liked rural life in her previous life, but she had no way to realize it, so she could only watch short videos to satisfy her craving.
As I watched, I learned it naturally.
Yang Rui finally started digging mushrooms, and Jiang Ning walked away silently.
When she left, she walked to the poisonous mushroom with a red umbrella and a white stem and stepped on it hard to prevent someone from accidentally picking it.
…
On the lush hillside.
The three of them were like small dots scattered among them.
Jiang Ning had never dug so many wild mushrooms in his life.
The bamboo basket she brought was already full, and there were still a lot of mushrooms, which she put quietly into the spiritual treasure space.
Mushrooms grow under the influence of termites and fungi. There is no such environment in Lingbao Space, so it is unlikely to breed mushrooms.
However, mushrooms can be dried at the fastest speed in the Lingbao space and can also be kept fresh perfectly.
You can take it out and eat it whenever you want.
Jiang Ning left everything to the Space Boy to handle.
She straightened her back, stretched out her hands to relax her back, and was just trying to relax her muscles when she suddenly smelled a fragrance.
Light.
Faint.
But it makes people feel moved and their mouths can't help but saliva.
Jiang Ning smelled the scent and took a deep breath.
A light bulb went off in my head.
——It’s Matsutake!
It is the unique aroma of Matsutake, the king of mushrooms.
Such a faint smell is absolutely indescribable to ordinary people's sense of smell.
Jiang Ning is nourished by the spiritual spring water, and his five senses are much stronger than those of ordinary people.
She sniffed the faint fragrance in the air and walked towards another hillside.
After peeling off a layer of pine leaves, there is a circle of green moss with dew, and the tiny leaves are shining in the sun.
This is it!
Jiang Ning felt certain.
She also gently peeled off the moss around it with gentle movements.
You can see the matsutake mushrooms growing underneath at a glance.
Matsutake is different from Alpinia terrestris. It does not grow in pieces, but individually.
Sometimes there is one, sometimes there are two, and at most there are only three or four.
Jiang Ning found exactly three.
The matsutake mushrooms have little brown heads, which are round and plump, and three of them are huddled together.
Not only is the scent enticing, the picture is also very cute.
Jiang Ning's eyes were filled with excitement. He held a wooden stick in his hand, dug the tip deep into the soil, and then pried it gently -
The round, plump and delicious matsutake mushrooms are now in your hands!
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