Morel mushrooms are especially good for stewing in soup. They are not only highly nutritious, but the soup is also very flavorful. Although you can pick a lot of each kind, morel mushrooms are the most abundant.
Of course, there are many other wild mushrooms as well, enough for them to eat for a long time. Not to mention other things, even if they never buy any, they will have enough to eat for the rest of their lives.
They washed each type of wild mushroom and put it in a storage box before heading back to the cruise ship. It was already evening, and if they didn't go back soon, it would get dark again.
Upon reaching the outskirts of the island, the cruise ship was already waiting in the distance. They took out the kayaks, paddled over, and boarded the cruise ship. To avoid arousing suspicion, they carried bags in their hands.
It's just some fruit inside. As long as it's not opened, no one will know what's inside. Even if we take the wild mushrooms out to dry tomorrow, they'll just assume it's wild mushrooms.
"Didn't you come yesterday? Why are you only here today? Did you encounter any danger?" An Shuheng asked as he steered the cruise ship a little further away.
Seeing that no one was there except for them and their older brother, Xia Hua explained, "On the way here yesterday, Shu Shu smelled durian and went to pick some."
"It took some time; we only finished picking them at noon today. We'll wash the wild mushrooms this afternoon and take advantage of the good weather during our rest days to dry some of them."
The weather is nice today, and it should be good tomorrow too. It should be dry in a day. However, there are not many clothes today, so I will wash and dry some more tomorrow.
Upon hearing this, An Shuheng glanced at their sacks and knew they had a large haul. If there weren't many items, they wouldn't have bothered drying them. Just like with the seafood, they only dried it when they found a lot.
"Be careful, everyone. We've found quite a few things in the past month. Ya Han is refining them in her room; that'll keep her busy for a long time. We've almost found everything on the small island on the left."
"There's nothing worth looking for up there. When are you going to the small island on the right? I'll take people there when you come back."
There weren't many things on the left, but there were a lot of animals, especially snakes, both big and small. So he planned to have his sister and the others go look for them again, and when they returned, he would take people to the right.
An Shuyi and the others looked at each other, and Xia Hua said, "Big brother, we'll go in five days and probably come back in about a month. You can take people up then."
"This way we can find more things to store. There are still many things that haven't arrived yet. Next time, we'll try to be faster."
They found a lot of medicinal herbs, fruits, and meat, but not much other grains or meat. They need to find more, so they'll have to speed things up next time.
“Alright, then I’ll wait another month for you to come back. I’ll then take people to the small island on the right. There are still some places on the small island on the left that we haven’t searched yet, so we’ll spend another month searching there.”
They had a lot of people. They were originally one team, but it became too difficult, so he split them into two teams. Although teammates were often injured, none of the injuries were fatal, and they found more items.
An Shuyi and the others nodded, put their things in the room, and after washing up, Xiao Yubai and Cheng Yumo went to cook first, just making a couple of simple dishes, and taking the rest from the storeroom.
After finishing their meal, the group went to bed early. The next morning, after breakfast, they went to the deck to dry the wild mushrooms, which were already cleaned and ready to be dried.
Once everything was dried, there was no empty space left. Instead of rushing to wash the rest, I rested for a day, stayed in my room to sleep, and didn't go anywhere else.
When I got up in the evening, the wild mushrooms outside had already been dried. I packed them in storage boxes, and after making sure no one was coming out, I put them in the warehouse. Then I cooked and ate, and then went to sleep.
The next morning, the group cleaned the wild mushrooms and then took them out to dry. An Shuheng naturally came to help. They washed and dried the mushrooms on the cruise ship, and after five days, they were finally almost done.
Although there were only three boxes of each type of dried wild mushroom, there were ten different kinds, so the total amount was quite substantial. Three boxes of fresh mushrooms could only yield two boxes of dried mushrooms, which was already considered quite good.
That morning, I got up and boarded a kayak to head to the island. This time, I couldn't go as slowly as before; I had to speed up. Once we arrived at the island, I was picked up and carried deeper into the island.
As I flew over the trees, I looked around and saw that there were many things there. Soon I discovered that there were many fruit trees in the distance, with fruit hanging on them, and a little further away, there was rice paddy.
"Honey, am I seeing things? It really is rice!" An Shuyi asked.
The rice plants were so big that they looked like weeds. Although she had seen them before and even grown them in Peach Blossom Village, these looked so different that she began to doubt whether they were real rice.
Xiao Yubai nodded, picked her up and put her on the ground. "Yes, you didn't see wrong. It's just a bit big. It's too tall for you to cut down. Yu Mo and I can handle it."
“Leave some baskets here, we’ll cut the fruit and then pick more fruit. You and Huahua can go dig up the medicinal herbs. If we work together, we can get there faster.”
The most important thing now is to find more things so that we can bring more back, so we must split up and act separately.
“Okay!” An Shuyi said, taking a basket out of the warehouse and putting it on the ground. Then she and Huahua went to find medicinal herbs to dig up. Although there was no ginseng here, there were plenty of common medicinal herbs such as he shou wu.
Because they weren't afraid of damaging the herbs, they dug directly with a hoe. Before long, they had dug up a lot of medicinal herbs, which they put directly into a bag and would sort out later when they had time.
Xiao Yubai and Cheng Yumo were also very fast; the rice was harvested in just one morning, but they only wanted the top part and discarded the bottom part.
We didn't eat lunch; instead, we dug up medicinal herbs and picked fruit. There were many fruit trees, including pomegranates, pears, and kiwis. Although they were wild, they were exceptionally large.
We didn't stop to rest until dark. Fortunately, there were no animals to disturb us, and we had a particularly good harvest today. However, we didn't have time to organize it, so after dinner, we went straight to sleep.
In the early morning, just as dawn broke, the group got up, washed up, ate breakfast, and continued with what they had done the day before. However, their luck wasn't so good today; around noon, a few wolves came to the area.
Fortunately, Xiao Yubai and his companion were in a tree. When they were discovered, they were lifted up into the tree. The wolves did not notice them, so to avoid wasting time, and since wolf meat was not tasty, they did not kill them.
After the wolf left and they were sure it was far away, they were picked up and continued digging for medicinal herbs and picking fruit. The day passed quickly, and all the fruit had been picked. They planned to move to another place the next day.
The next day, after getting up, washing up, and having breakfast, I went to the other side. Although it was a distance away, I could still see fruit on the trees, and there was a lot of it.
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