Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 262 Picking Up Mushrooms

As if hoping that Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu would lie on the bed for a while longer, the next morning when it was just dawn, Chen Xiuyu was just about to get up, when she heard the crackling sound outside, followed by a continuous crackling sound .

She stood up, pushed the window open a gap, and saw that the sky was dark, and the big raindrops flew down, smashing the wood in front of the house.

She closed the window again, looked down at Lu Lu who was still sleeping, and stretched out her fingers to pat the hair on Lu Lu's forehead.

Seeing that Lu Lu's eyelids moved, Chen Xiuyu knew that Lu Lu had also woken up, so she said softly, "Brother Lu, it's raining outside, sleep a little longer...I'll make you breakfast!"

Just about to lift off the quilt to get dressed and get out of bed, she saw Lu Lu put her arms around her waist, dragged her down on the bed, Lu Lu turned over and laid on her without opening her eyes.

"If you sleep a little longer, you won't be able to do anything when you get up, and Wang Dalong and the others won't come to work..." Lu Lu said confusedly.

"I still have to clean up the house, feed the chickens, the little dragons, and the lynx!"

Chen Xiuyu didn't dare to be lazy, a good house should be well taken care of.

I greeted the guests for dinner yesterday, and there were a lot of things that needed to be washed and put away.

Don't look like it's a new home, but there are also trivial things that can't be done in a lifetime.

Lu Lu didn't answer, just poked his buttocks and poked on the ground: "Don't worry, sleep a little longer...it's just crackling anyway."

Seeing his sleepy-eyed behavior, Chen Xiuyu was amused and laughed, so she stretched out her hand to help under the quilt.

As a result, after a toss, Lu Lu fell asleep, and Chen Xiuyu fell asleep as well.

There was a knock on the door, and the two of them woke up suddenly and sat up.

"Brother Li, sister!"

Chen Xiuqing's shout came from outside.

This guy, where is knocking on the door? He is simply hammering with his fist.

Chen Xiuyu hurriedly dressed, then knelt on the bed and combed her hair in front of the big red mirror hanging by the window.

Lu Lu gently pushed open a window and looked outside. The heavy rain that had been pouring before had stopped at some point, the dark clouds had dispersed, and the sun had risen.

"It's all your fault!" Chen Xiuyu glared at Lu Lu and whispered.

Lu Lu smiled, stretched out his hand and patted Chen Xiuyu's buttocks, turned over and got up, and shouted outside the room, "Qingzi, wait a minute, you'll be here soon."

He hurriedly put on his clothes, kicked off his shoes, buttoned up his buttons, and went out, and opened the door: "It rained heavily in the morning, and I went back to sleep, feeling drowsy. Qingzi, what are you doing here?"

At the door, Chen Xiuqing was carrying a basket on his back, holding a sickle in his hand, and his shoes and trouser legs were covered with yellow mud. He looked at the sleepy Lu Lu: "I can't do much today. I came here just to ask you to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms."

"Picking mushrooms..."

A few days ago, while practicing guns in the mountains, Lu Lu went to many places.

As the temperature in the mountains continues to heat up, everything is flourishing. As early as a month ago, Lu Lu had already seen scattered elm mushrooms in the forest, but the number was still small.

In June every year, when the earliest elm yellow mushrooms in Xing'an Mountains start to grow.

Now that so long has passed, the mushrooms in the forest are already everywhere, and Lu Lu just has no time to take care of them.The main reason is that the current mushrooms cannot be sold at a high price.

He suddenly realized that in a blink of an eye, it was the end of July.

Chen Xiuyu, who came out with braided hair, heard that she was going to pick up mushrooms on the mountain, and immediately agreed happily: "It's good to pick up mushrooms!" Then, she looked back at Lu Lu: "Brother Lu, let's go together."

These days, all the miscellaneous things in the meadow, the wooden carvings, and the fields are all on Chen Xiuyu, and she doesn't have time to deal with them.

"Go, it's been a long time, and I haven't eaten mushrooms once."

Lu Lu readily agreed, and then he greeted Chen Xiuqing: "Qingzi, hurry up and go into the house, let's go after breakfast."

Chen Xiuqing nodded, just as she raised her feet to step into the house, she suddenly noticed the yellow mud on her feet and quickly retreated to the grass to wipe them off.

"So what do you want to do, just scan it and you're done." Lu Lu laughed.

"That can't be done. Such a clean and beautiful big house can't be buried. If I go inside, there will be yellow mud footprints every step, it's too ugly!"

As Chen Xiuqing said, she even ran to the small river to scoop up water to wash off the mud on the soles and uppers of her shoes before walking back.

Greeting guests yesterday, there is still a lot of food left.

After Chen Xiuyu washed up, she turned on the stove and started to heat up the food. Chen Xiuqing was also busy adding fire and blowing the bellows.

Lu Lu also washed up and walked to the meadow. He had to see the sika deer he kept.

No deer shelters have been built for them yet, and the rain can only make them drench in the woods. The key is to go and see if they have been injured by wild animals.

The five dogs naturally followed Lu Lu, and whenever Lu Lu raised his head to look into the forest, they also stopped to look.

Not long after, Lu Lu saw a herd of deer in the forest, picking and eating the grass leaves in the forest, all twelve of them were there.

Although it's inside the fence, in Lu Lu's place, it's almost like a free range, and it has always been very worry-free.

The twelve deer are all healthy, which is probably the benefit of grazing.

There are often people coming and going in Caodianzi. They are probably used to it. They no longer run away at the slightest noise like at the beginning. The two deer even ran down on their own initiative, but after seeing the five dogs next to Lu Lu, they went away again. Standing far away, not daring to approach.

"Brother Lu...it's time to eat!"

Chen Xiuyu's crisp voice came, and it was so cheerful and loud to Lu Lu's ears.

"coming!"

Lu Lu turned around and responded to Chen Xiuyu who was beckoning to him, and then ran back along the path that Caodianzi had stepped on.

Back in the wood carving hall, the table on the big kang had already set meals, Chen Xiuqing sat cross-legged by the table and waited, her eyes were still looking around the room, she reached out her hands to touch everywhere, and even opened the table to have a look.

When Lu Lu took off his shoes and sat cross-legged on the kang, Chen Xiuyu brought the last two hot dishes to the kang table, and she staggered to sit on the edge of the kang next to Lu Lu, and the three of them began to eat with chopsticks.

"This house, the more I look at it, the more I like it!"

Chen Xiuqing said while eating: "Sister, when I went back last night, my mother pestered me to ask all kinds of things, and finally got annoyed with me."

Chen Xiuyu blinked her eyes and asked, "What did Mom ask?"

"What else can I ask, just ask how the house is like. In my heart, this house is only bright, beautiful and comfortable, and I can't say anything else. I even found charcoal drawings from the stove for her to use. After paddling on the ground for a long time, she still couldn't understand, I was stupid and couldn't explain clearly, so I could only tell her to let her see by herself."

Chen Xiuqing smiled.

"And then?" Lu Lu couldn't help asking.

He knew very well that Ma Jinlan never took a step inside the fence, and it was always Chen Xiuyu's regret.

"No, then, our mother didn't say anything. When I said this morning that I would invite you to go to the mountain to pick mushrooms, my mother asked again, asking if Brother Lu is treating you well!"

When Chen Xiuqing said this, she looked at Chen Xiuyu who was eating without saying a word.

"You go back and tell Mom that Brother Lu is very kind to me, and it is my good fortune to meet Brother Lu."

Chen Xiuyu slowly raised her head, looked at Chen Xiuqing, and said with red eyes.

Her reaction stunned Chen Xiuqing for a moment, and then she laughed: "That's what I told mom too."

"Then go back and tell mom again, this time you tell our mom, I said it."

Chen Xiuyu's words were full of determination.

Lu Lu could hear that Chen Xiuyu was very moved by her concern for her mother. Although they were awkward and seemed to have nothing to do with each other, who could really let go of each other.And Chen Xiuyu had only one purpose in saying this, she wanted to tell Ma Jinlan: her choice was right.

Really stubborn!
But this stubbornness, in Lu Lu's ears, is a great trust and dependence.

"In this life, I will never let you down!"

Lu Lu looked at Chen Xiuyu, and silently swore in his heart.

The meal was eaten quickly, and while Chen Xiuyu was cleaning up the dishes and cleaning the kang table and mats, Lu Lu got some food to feed the five dogs.

The leftovers are much better than boiled corn noodles, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and the like.

Afterwards, he took out the basket that he had asked Bai Gousheng to weave from the Immortal Column. After Chen Xiuyu packed the pots and pans and locked the gate, the three of them walked towards the fence gate together.

The five dogs stayed in Caodianzi during the time when Lu Lu entered the mountain. They felt as if they were suffocated. When they saw the three of them move, they ran to the fence gate and waited. When Lu Lu walked, they rushed to Lu Lu again. They wagged their tails, hummed, and kept thumping, as if they were afraid that Lu Lu would not let them go out.

Lu Lu reached out and rubbed each dog's head. As soon as the gate of the fence was opened, they immediately squeezed out through the crack of the door just opened, and then rushed up the hillside along the fence.

After running up for a while, he looked back at Lu Lu and the three of them. When he saw the three of them also walking up the hill, Yuan Bao led the way all the way to the ridge, and barked at the mountains a few times, feeling a sense of "finally coming out" .

Walking all the way along the fence on the ridge, checking the condition of the fence by the way, after more than 20 minutes, the three of them entered the mountain forest.

As a villager in the mountains, I know that after the heavy rain, when the water vapor is dense in the forest, it is the time when mushrooms germinate the fastest. Due to the impact of the heavy rain, many people who can't get to the fields have gone into the mountains.

Mushrooms, such a mountain delicacy, are the best delicacy in this season for mountain people.

First, you can pick some to eat at home, and dry and store the unfinished ones, and enjoy them in winter.

Second, every day in the district, people from the city or outsiders come to buy them and transport them to other places for sale. The price of these things is much more expensive than many wild vegetables.

Every time I walk, I can always hear the voice of talking in the woods.

When meeting acquaintances, it is inevitable to say hello, and then go to one side. When meeting unfamiliar people, they also look at each other and smile, and then separate again.Seeing someone who doesn't feel good, he turned his head, or pretended not to see, and continued to go his own way.

They are all the land around the village, everyone is very familiar with it, let alone adults, even children can clearly know which forests and mushrooms are abundant in the surrounding mountains and forests.

According to this method of finding, there are naturally many cases of meeting people.

After wandering around for more than an hour, the three of them who came out much slower than others sadly found that the mushrooms didn't see anything, and they chatted a lot.

Well, let's go deeper into the forest.

Yuan Bao and his dogs happily opened the way ahead, and the three of them continued to go two or three miles deep into the pine forest, and finally gradually calmed down.

"Guess what mushroom I picked up?"

Chen Xiuyu was the first to find it among the thick pine needles and weeds in the forest. She quickly picked it up, hid it behind her, and asked Lu Lv mischievously.

Lu Lu didn't answer right away, but tilted his head and glanced around, then smiled and said, "You picked up a purple face."

Chen Xiuyu pouted all of a sudden: "How do you know?"

Lu Lu poked his mouth at the gaps in the weeds beside him: "Because I also saw two."

Purple flower face, a type of mushroom, needs black peat soil and a humid and warm environment. Even in the decades to come, Lu Lu has never heard of anyone who can plant it artificially.

It is a fine product among mushrooms, and the fine scale fish, natural fungus, and Hericium erinaceus in this mountain are good things known as the four treasures of the deep mountains in later generations.

Lu Lu took two steps forward, picked up the two purple flower faces that were growing close together hidden in the gaps in the grass, cleaned up the mud, tore some green pine needles from the back basket and put them on the bottom of the back basket, and then put them on the back. After inspection, the two purple flower faces that were confirmed to be undamaged and insect-infested were put into the basket.

Chen Xiuyu also cleaned out the two flowers in her hands, and just put them together with Lu Lu's two flowers, when she heard Chen Xiuqing shout again: "I picked it up too!"

　Thank you book friend Xiaoma for your sweet reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)