Lin Momo was overjoyed to see so many precious wild mushrooms for the first time.
She, with her fickle nature, decisively gave up pine nuts and threw herself into the great cause of matsutake mushroom harvesting, working with great enthusiasm.
Many mushrooms have grown old because no one has picked them, and some have been dried out by the wind.
She only picked those with half-open canopies and those that were fully open.
After picking for half a day, she belatedly realized that she should try to harvest using spatial means, which would greatly improve harvesting efficiency.
Mushroom roots are shallow, so if you can harvest fruit from trees, you can harvest mushrooms too.
As she expected, with a thought, most of the mushrooms within eight meters of her instantly disappeared.
It's worth mentioning that the space is really thoughtful!
It automatically removed the poisonous and inedible mushrooms for her, so Mom no longer has to worry about her picking poisonous mushrooms and ending up on a flat board!
Hahaha......
"Chirp chirp chirp!"
This scene caused another uproar among the squirrels watching from the tree.
Lin Momo ignored this and continued to search for and collect mountain delicacies in the pine forest, keeping herself very busy. When she came across broken branches or thick pine needles on the ground, she would casually put them into the firewood shed in her space.
She was too busy to pay attention to these unusual little creatures.
The little squirrels, however, lined up in twos and threes, always following behind her, looking as if they had never seen the world before.
About half an hour later, Lin Momo saw that the wild mushrooms on the cement ground of the small courtyard had piled up like a mountain, and some of them had squeezed into the vegetable garden. According to her estimation, there were at least five or six hundred pounds of them, and she was extremely satisfied.
She'll leave it piled up like this for now, and sort it out when she gets back.
She took out a small earthenware pot filled with warm water to quench her thirst, and then bent down to look for Poria cocos.
It is said that Poria cocos is easy to find. It is a fungus that parasitizes the roots of dead pine trees and grows by absorbing nutrients from the pine tree. If the soil around the roots of a pine tree is dry or even barren, or if you tap the ground with a stick and hear a hollow sound, it is very likely that Poria cocos is underneath. It is shaped like a sweet potato, spherical, with a light brown outer skin and a pink or white interior. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and calming the mind.
It not only has medicinal value, but can also be used to make soup, porridge, tea, or poria cocos cake.
Lin Momo arrived at a dead pine tree and began searching according to her memory. She found neither raised soil nor dry, grassless soil. When she tapped it with the stick in her hand, there was no dull sound.
So she decisively gave up and found another dead tree.
This time, she really stumbled upon a lucky find, digging up a large, dark clod of earth, probably weighing more than twenty or thirty pounds. There were also seven or eight smaller ones in the nest, which made her extremely happy: "There really are medicinal herbs here!"
Now I have enough cotton-padded clothes and shoes for winter.
This large cluster of Poria cocos must have been growing for quite some time, at least more than ten years.
Lin Momo didn't know much about it either. She had only seen artificial cultivation in videos. In the first year, suitable mycelium for Poria cocos growth was planted. In the second year, small Poria cocos were dug up and planted. In the third year, a large harvest could be obtained, with the largest being as big as a watermelon.
Wild medicinal herbs have better medicinal properties than cultivated ones, and they also grow relatively slowly.
With this successful case, Lin Momo gradually became more adept at finding Poria cocos, like a seasoned herbalist.
Throwing the poria cocos was a bit of a struggle, not because it was buried very deep, but because her tools weren't handy.
The Lin family had a full set of farm tools, but they didn't have any tools like a small hoe for cutting wild vegetables. The only usable tool was a small shovel for digging wild vegetables.
Lin Momo would first dig up some soil and try to put the exposed Poria cocos into her space. If it couldn't fit, she would dig a little deeper until she could put the Poria cocos into the soil.
She dug like that until noon when the sun was directly overhead, and then she was too tired to continue.
However, looking at the huge pile of clods of earth on the concrete ground, she felt quite accomplished and at ease.
The group of squirrels skipped work and didn't even bring their winter food home. Instead, they hopped and skipped after Lin Momo as if she were a rare treat, and they followed her closely until she walked out of the pine forest satisfied.
Lin Momo couldn't help but chuckle at the sight.
Is it because he can't bear to see her leave?
They bullied her like that before, then followed her around, and now they're so reluctant to part. What's wrong with these little things?
With her gone, there's no one to compete with them for food anymore, isn't that good?
Lin Momo had no idea how much shock her sudden disappearance would cause these little creatures.
They were still in a daze, following her just to see if she would suddenly disappear again, otherwise they would doubt whether they had seen things wrong.
Once out of the pine forest, Lin Momo dared not venture deeper into the mountains. She was already somewhat disoriented and had lost her way.
Fortunately, she had anticipated this.
To avoid getting lost in the mountains, she would draw a triangular pattern on the trees she passed with a shovel every so often as she walked.
Now, as long as she finds this marker, she will find the way she came.
As she searched, Lin Momo found many dark brown soapberries on the ground.
She was secretly delighted; she knew this stuff well.
Back in the day, my grandmother kept this treasure in the drawer of the altar where she kept the Buddha statue.
After she found it, Grandma said, "This is soapberry. It's not very common nowadays. In the past, every household used it to wash clothes and hair."
She even broke off a piece to try washing clothes. It did produce some lather, but not much, and it was stiff and not very useful. Later, when she grew up, she realized that she had used it incorrectly. This stuff should be boiled with water to make soap extract before use.
Soapberry is the most primitive cleaning product and was very common in northern China in ancient times.
But the Lin family is very rare.
The soapberry that Lin Momo used to wash her hair and clothes last time was the only remaining piece of soap in the Lin family. It was left by Lin Erya specifically for washing hair. Usually, they used wood ash from the pot for washing clothes.
As for why the Lin family would lack soapberries when there are plenty of soapberry trees in the mountains.
The answer is simple: the Lin family is lazy, and they'll make do with whatever they can.
Every year, the villagers would go up the mountain to collect a large number of soapberries, which they would dry and use for a whole year.
Only Lin Musheng and Lin Erya from the second branch of the Lin family were willing to go up the mountain.
Lin Musheng mostly went up the mountain to chop firewood; he didn't care to collect this useless, inedible stuff. He could use the ashes to wash clothes just the same. Only Lin Erya would pick up a basketful when she went into the mountains with her father.
Lin Erya had used up all the soapberries she collected last year, and with other family troubles this year, she had no time to think about anything else.
In order to have soapberries for the whole year, Lin Momo collected a lot of them into her space this time, enough for a year and more. She also dug up a few seedlings under the tree, planning to transplant them to Lin Family Village.
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