Chapter 98: Lying on the Board
The sky cleared up after the rain.
The stream is gurgling.
The jungle is filled with the chirping of birds.
There are three brothers and sisters, a wolf and a bird.
Going up the mountain to pick mushrooms.
Jiang Xiaobai and Jiujiu led the way.
Jiang Miaomiao was tied to her elder brother's chest, her little hands waving and her legs shaking.
The second brother followed behind with a small bamboo basket on his back.
After walking in the woods for a while, the eldest brother was attracted by some brightly colored mushrooms.
Red umbrellas and white poles.
Then I saw my eldest brother walking towards them.
oops!
This thing is not edible, it will make you sick.
She waved her little hands vigorously, kicked her legs, and made gurgling baby sounds.
"Guoguo won't go... I won't go... Just lie down on the bench..."
You can't even touch this fungus.
The toxins will get on your hands, and if you accidentally eat them, you will die.
The soft and tender little voice was a little anxious, "Guoguo...it's poisonous...don't touch it..."
However, the eldest brother seemed not to hear it. He did not stop walking and kept touching her head to comfort her.
"Miaomiao, be good and don't make a fuss. Brother is just going to take a look. It looks delicious..."
Ugh! Boys are so curious.
I can't even pull it back.
Then she saw her brother bend down, holding her with one hand and reaching for the poisonous mushrooms with the other...
"Pah pah~~~"
A foot reached out and crushed the red umbrella into pieces.
"Jiang Ziyan, what are you doing?"
The eldest brother was unhappy and looked at the second brother with a gloomy face.
Such good mushrooms, how could they be crushed by him like this? What a pity!
Jiang Ziyan comforted his angry brother.
"Brother, haven't you heard what mom said? The more beautiful the mushrooms are, the more poisonous they are. Touching them will kill you..."
Jiang Miaomiao: “…”
Is it okay to scare Big Brother like this?
Jiang Zifeng was stunned for a moment. He forgot what his mother said. He just thought the mushroom was really beautiful and wanted to pull it up to take a look.
Can't even touch it? Is it that poisonous?
He smiled awkwardly, "I...I won't touch it anymore, and I won't look at it anymore..."
Jiang Ziyan explained: "You can look, but you can't touch it. What if you touch it and then pull your sister's hand, and she likes to suck her fingers..."
The eldest brother's face turned pale instantly, and he quickly took a few steps back, treating the poisonous mushrooms as snakes and scorpions.
"No, no, I won't touch or look..."
What if my sister gets poisoned?
I feel a little scared.
Jiang Miaomiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at the bamboo forest, "Pick mushrooms..."
If I remember correctly, the bamboo fungus buds usually break and open their skirts between Chou hour and Chen hour, and the picking must be completed before Si hour.
Otherwise it will start to deteriorate and begin to dissolve itself.
The whole process from buds breaking and opening to maturity only takes two or three hours, if they are not picked quickly.
It will attract insects to help it spread spores, reproduce offspring, and then dissolve itself.
The entire process of a bamboo fungus growing and disappearing takes no more than six or seven hours.
A short but legendary life.
Regardless of its nutritional value and taste, things are valuable because they are rare, which is one of the reasons why it was so rare and expensive in ancient times.
Look at the sun.
It's already past mid-morning.
If you don't pick them now, they will go bad and disappear.
Jiang Miaomiao was a little anxious. She twisted her body and shook her legs as she struggled to get down.
He mumbled to himself, "Down...down...Wo walks by himself..."
Jiang Zifeng comforted the little baby and said, "Dear sister, you can't walk by yourself. You will fall. There are bugs on the ground."
How can a little kid who can fall down on flat ground walk on this overgrown mountain?
If you're not careful you'll roll down.
Seeing that there was no hope of getting down, Jiang Miaomiao resorted to her trump card, "Shhh... I need to shhh..."
Sure enough, when Jiang Zifeng heard it, he quickly untied her.
I was just about to reach out and hold my sister to help her pee, when I saw her holding onto a tree and staggering forward.
Jiang Zifeng was confused. He wanted to pee, so why did he run away?
Jiang Ziyan was amused by what he saw.
My sister is so young, yet she can lie!
He put down the backpack, walked over and picked up the little guy, "Miaomiao will fall like this, where are you going? Brother will take you there, okay?"
The little fellow tilted his head and thought for a while, then said in a baby voice, "Okay... pick some mushrooms..."
Finally, there's someone I can communicate with properly.
She didn't want to walk this road, and she couldn't walk far. It would be best if someone held her.
Jiang Zifeng stared blankly at his brother and sister, then quickly picked up his backpack and followed them.
He was actually fooled by a little kid who was not even one year old...
Jiang Miaomiao tilted her head and looked around.
The bamboo fungus should have grown out at this time and is easy to identify.
Searched for a while.
Deep in the dense forest, several bamboo fungi were found among the dead branches and leaves under the green bamboo.
The mushroom cap is black, the stem is snow-white like a lotus root, and a circle of white mesh skirt spreads down from the stem.
Like a fairy in the forest.
Found it!
Jiang Miaomiao was overjoyed and pointed at the bamboo fungus, "Pick... Guoguo, go... pick quickly..."
Jiang Zifeng and Jiang Ziyan stopped, and even Jiang Xiaobai and Jiujiu did not dare to move forward.
Because they just smelled a foul odor ten miles away.
It's the smell of rotting animal carcasses...
"Brother, go over and take a look. Is there something dead there?" Jiang Ziyan frowned while holding his sister, looking at the strange-looking thing from afar.
Is it mushrooms?
Is that the thing that's causing the stench?
Is it poisonous?
People say that beautiful mushrooms are poisonous, but that thing looks pretty good too.
But my sister looked very excited and was rubbing against me to get out.
"Okay, you guys stay here, I'll go take a look."
Jiang Zifeng pinched his nose and moved closer. It was so smelly!
Jiang Miaomiao also smelled a stinky smell, but this was the smell of bamboo fungus.
It’s no wonder that no one picks them and takes them home to eat. After all, people will stay away from them just by the smell.
Little Miaomiao rolled down from her brother's arms.
The second brother’s thin body couldn’t stand her rubbing against him, so he put the baby on the ground and held him by the hand.
But the little kid seemed not to be able to smell the stench, and followed his elder brother's pace to move forward, muttering to himself.
"GuoGuo... picking mushrooms... bamboo fungus..."
"Bamboo fungus... can be eaten..."
She was afraid that her brother would mistake them for poisonous mushrooms and crush them.
Moreover, we have to hurry to pick them, because some bamboo fungi are already ripe, emitting odors and starting to attract insects and ants.
It will dissolve in less than two hours.
The attentive Jiang Ziyan felt that his sister was very strange today. She was clamoring to go up the mountain and even acting like a spoiled child and wanted to go to the bamboo forest.
Now when I see those strange-looking mushrooms, I don’t think they smell bad.
He walked towards it with shining eyes...
He picked up his sister and said, "Miaomiao, are you looking for that thing? You want to pick it up and take it home, right?"
Sure enough, he saw his sister smiling at him with clear eyes and nodding repeatedly.
"Pick some bamboo fungus and take it home..."
Jiang Miaomiao was amazed that her second brother really understood her the best and guessed it right away.
It also saved her a lot of effort.
But would her second brother doubt her, would he think she was a monster...
I felt a little uneasy again.
The word bamboo fungus.
Jiang Ziyan felt that it sounded very familiar.
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