Reborn in the 80s, starting with hunting in the mountains

"This tree is a dead tree." Lin Yi said.

"I know, so why are you holding me back? I've been climbing trees since I was a child. I can climb even bamboo poles, let alone dead trees." Yingzi asked in confusion as Lin Yi grabbed her by the corner of her clothes.

"How can it be the same? Although the surface of bamboo is slippery and difficult to climb up, it is alive after all. This tree is a dead tree and there is a risk of falling to the ground at any time. If you climb up, what will happen if the tree falls?" Lin Yi asked. black line.

Is he talking about something difficult to climb?

But it's about danger.

Yingzi smiled, with a slight blush on his face: "Brother Yi, are you concerned about me?"

Lin Yi
"It can also be said that it is concern. In short, climbing trees is risky, especially dead trees, so let me do it." Lin Yi said.

Yingzi quit.

"Brother Yi, you just said that climbing a dead tree is dangerous, and then you want to climb again?" Yingzi frowned.

"It's because of the danger that I should climb. I'm sure." Lin Yi touched Yingzi's head.

This move made Yingzi's heart beat wildly.

The words came to my lips and I forgot the words.

He could only remain silent and nodded.

Lin Yi is not lying. This birch tree is indeed difficult to climb, unlike the pine tree that was climbed through the squirrel hole last time.

The difficulty of the two is not at the same level.

The trunk of the birch tree is straight and tall.
This kind of tree is the most difficult to climb.

Especially for dead trees, their root systems are dead, and the tree body and branches are at risk of breaking at any time.

Lin Yi would rather not pick the chaga for the time being than risk picking it.

"Brother Yi, how tall do you think this tree is?" Yingzi asked curiously.

Lin Yi made a visual inspection and found that this dry birch tree was almost 25-30 meters high, which would be 9-10 floors in later generations.

Among all the trees, it is considered tall.

Most of the trees in the northern primeval forests are tall and straight.

Although this is not a tree from the original forest, it can grow very tall because it is close to the original forest and the soil is fertile.

"The chaga is a little higher in the middle of the tree, and it's also 15-20 meters high."

On such a tall dead tree, it is very difficult to pick Chaga mushrooms and escape unscathed.

Of course, the difficulty is not so great that it cannot be picked.

That is to say, Yingzi is by his side, otherwise Ji Yi will directly put the birch tree into the space, and then he can easily get the chaga.

Lin Yi and Yingzi discussed how to pick under the tree.

If you don't consider the integrity of the chaga, you can just cut down the tree.

This method is quite good.

When Yingzi heard what Lin Yi said, she hummed, and she was so well-behaved.

It’s different from the Siberian tiger girls in Lin Yi’s impression.

Ahem, no matter how fierce a girl is, she will still show her gentle and lovely side in front of the person she likes.

Softly spoken.

"Just do it, safety first, I'll go home and get the knife." Lin Yi said to Yingzi.

They went out this time with shotguns, so they didn't bring knives.

Ji Yi actually had a dagger in his hand.

But it's of no use.

A dagger cannot cut down a tree.

Even if it is a dead tree, it is not easy to cut it down.

"I'm coming with you. If you want to chop down trees, it's better to use an axe." Lin Yi and Yingzi returned home and brought an ax and a hatchet.

It took some time to come and go, but Ji Yi felt it was still worth it.

Standing under the tree, Ji Yi pushed the tree gently and found that the tree body shook slightly. "If there were a few more people, they might be able to push him down. Fortunately, he didn't climb up. How dangerous it was." Lin Yi said.

"Brother Yi, why does this Chaga kill the birch trees?" Yingzi asked in confusion.

Lin Yi told Yingzi that chaga has another name, which is birch cancer.

Everyone knows about cancer.

Chaga, in a sense, is very similar to cancer cells.

It is a fungus, but its growth method is very strange, and it is a kind of plant vampire.

Chaga parasitizes on birch trees and continuously absorbs the sap of birch trees. It has extremely strong vitality and is much more tenacious than ordinary parasitic fungi.

Once it takes root in a birch tree, it will continue to absorb nutrients from the birch tree day and night for about 15 years, until the tree itself dies.

So, this is why chaga kills birch trees
Yingzi couldn't laugh or cry.

I didn’t expect Chaga to be like this
"Chaga mushroom is a cancer found on birch trees. Is it really edible?"

After listening to Ji Yi's words, she suddenly lost all good impressions of Chaga, and at the same time, she was also very repelled by Chaga.

This is also human nature.

Normally when encountering something like this, you would subconsciously stay away from it.

Chaga is an exception.

Lin Yi told Yingzi that chaga is a cancer, a parasite, and a vampire to the birch tree, but to a certain extent, it absorbs the essence of the entire birch tree.

This is like a double-edged sword.

Therefore, for people, it is also a natural treasure and medicinal material.

Of course, in the 80s, most people didn’t know much about Chaga. At this time, Chaga was not as famous as it would be in later generations.

However, Lin Yi knew that sliced ​​chaga mushrooms soaked in water to drink are natural hypoglycemic drugs.

The smell is somewhat similar to coffee.

This kind of natural chaga mushroom, with better quality, can be sold for thousands of yuan per catty in later generations.

While Lin Yi and Yingzi were chatting, the movements of their hands did not stop.

The birch tree soon became shaky as it was chopped with knives and axes.

It seemed like he would fall down at any moment.

Every time Ji Yi dropped his ax, he cut it in one direction, so the direction where the birch tree fell to the ground was also in that direction.

"Yingzi, stand farther away so that you don't get affected later." Lin Yi said to Yingzi.

He estimated that the tree was about to fall to the ground.

Yingzi nodded quickly.

Stand a little further away.

About 5 minutes later, only a little bit of the birch tree was chopped down.

Ji Yi reached out and pushed, and the birch tree immediately fell in the opposite direction.

It crashed to the ground, splashing snow on the ground.

Yingzi waited for the snow to dissipate a little, then ran over to check on the chaga.

Brother Yi said it was a treasure, so that was basically fine.

As Lin Yi expected, the chaga fell apart due to the huge impact caused by the tree falling to the ground.

There was still thick snow underground, which slightly blocked the force of the fall.

Otherwise, half of it will probably fall apart.

But because it's in the snow, it's still easy to find.

"It fell apart. It's a pity. If you had climbed a tree, it would have been intact after you picked it." Yingzi felt a little regretful.

Lin Yi told Yingzi that in the furry bears in our north, there is a group of people who specialize in traveling through the vast virgin forests of Siberia to pick Chaga, similar to the ginseng diggers in Changbai Mountain. This kind of work has always been a high-risk job.

Climbing such a high tree is already very dangerous, and you are even more likely to encounter wild beasts in the mountains. (End of chapter)