Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 137 Looking for Autumn Treasures
  The heavy rain will make a dull sound when it hits the terracotta tiles on the roof, it will make a ticking sound when it falls on the leaves, and it will make a snapping sound when it falls into the water...

Watching and listening to the rain has no purpose, it's mostly about being in a daze and feeling emotional.

Lin Heng thought of the poem and felt a lot: "The young man is listening to Yuge upstairs, the tent is dimly lit by red candles..."

"You're carrying it really well, let's carry it again!" Xiulan blinked.

"I can't remember." Lin Heng laughed.

It rained in autumn and was quite cool. Xiulan hugged Lin Heng and watched for a while. Xiaoxia next to her made a sound, and the two of them got up.

"I took Xiaoxia to cook. You put on your raincoat and go out to get something to eat for the horse." Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, put on his rain boots, put on a raincoat made of brown fur, put on his hat and headed out.

At the gate, Hongzao was lying on the ground and taking a nap. He was also more hygienic and did not lie down where he pooped or peeed.

Lin Heng went back to the house and shoveled it clean, then got it up and opened the door and went out.

There are no big trees in front of his house, and he can see the Shiban River at a glance.

At this time, the Shiban River had turned into an angry yellow dragon. The heavy rain overnight had swollen the water, and it seemed like it was going to go ashore.

He first went to the old house to take a look. Father Lin and Caiyun were processing the fish they caught last night.

Today is Thursday, but with such heavy rain and the river swollen, she will definitely not be able to go to school. Because you have to cross the Shiban River to go to town, and there is no bridge now.

Father Lin looked up at him and said, "You don't have to go if you want to hay the horses. Your elder brother made three big bundles of hay for the horses this morning. Just take one bundle back and feed it."

"It's a good time to catch up." Lin Heng quickly turned around and ran outside the cattle pen to take back a bundle of cow grass.

Part of it was thrown to the red dates, and the other part was fed to the forest musk deer. The little guy is quite comfortable now, lying in the circle and enjoying the life of eating and opening his mouth.

After feeding the animals in the house, Lin Heng ran to Lin's father again with a hundred-smelted steel dagger. His eldest brother also came back wearing a raincoat.

He was also holding a small black dog in his hand. He looked at Lin Heng and said with a smile: "Brother, what do you think of this five-black dog? I'm going to tie it behind the house to watch the pig pen and chicken pen."

Father Lin looked at the squealing puppy and said, "Look at the few beards. As the saying goes, one dragon, two tigers, three cats and four rats can't have too much grain."

This dog looks to be one month old, is fleshy all over, and makes a milky sound when barking.

A five-black dog means that the hair, head, tail, soles of feet, and tongue are all black.

The beard Mr. Lin mentioned refers to a few long beards on the dog's chin. Rural people believe that the fewer the beards, the smarter the dog, but there is no basis for this.

"Three Beards, I just met this dog on my walk and it has been following me. I asked and said it was a wild dog from Murakami, so I picked it up." Lin Yue turned the dog over and said.

"That's not bad." Father Lin nodded.

Lin Yue played for a while and then took the dog home.

"Caiyun, I'm here to kill you, you have to take out the internal organs."

Lin Heng took out his hundred-smelted steel dagger to help kill the fish. The knife was sharp and opened the fish's belly with a single stroke.

"Okay, second brother!" Caiyun nodded.

With Lin Heng joining in, especially his sharp knife, all the fish were gutted in more than half an hour.

The largest ones here are no more than three liang, and there is no need to remove the scales and gills.

Lin Heng separated the fish into one pot each for creek grouper, yellow catfish, and horsemouth white stripe.

Among them, Xi grouper has the most, followed by Makou and Baitiao, and Huang Jinggu third.

I took a steelyard and weighed it. The Xi grouper was six pounds, the horse mouth and white strips combined were four pounds, and the yellow bone was two pounds.

"Last night's work was not in vain." Father Lin said with a smile.

"Weigh the eel again." Lin Heng went to weigh the eel again.

"Twelve pounds of eel is not bad." Caiyun looked at the scale and said with a smile.

Lin Heng also weighed the extra-large eel individually and found that it was only two and a half kilograms, not three kilograms.

The elder brother's turtle weighed one pound and two taels, Father Lin's turtle weighed two and a half pounds, and his tortoise only weighed half a catty.

But all in all, going down to the river at night for the first time this year was quite rewarding.

"How to divide it?" Caiyun asked curiously.

"You can divide the fish and the eels as you please. Whoever catches the turtle belongs to him." Lin Heng spread his hands.

After a pause, he continued: "I'll get some yellow chili dices and river grouper, and you can divide the rest. Keep the eels first, and take them later if you want to eat them."

As he said this, he found a basin and poured some yellow bone and river grouper into it. It was already enough, but Father Lin poured some more for him.

"Don't fall down. I'm going to pull you over for dinner later, Dad." Lin Heng fell back a little helplessly.

"We've already eaten breakfast, and you won't even bother me." Father Lin glared at him.

"Caiyun, are you going? Come over and have fish soup." Lin Heng asked again.

"Go!" Caiyun was not polite, took an umbrella and followed Lin Heng to his house.

"Second brother, this is the horse you bought. It's so beautiful." Caiyun walked into the yard and touched the red dates and added some grass to it.

"Yes, please close the door."

Lin Heng nodded, walked into the house with the fish, looked at Xiulan and asked, "Honey, is the meal ready?"

"The rice has been put into the pot, and it can be taken out immediately to control the water." Xiulan raised her head and said while setting the fire.

"Then pick up the rice and make soup with the yellow bone." Lin Heng handed the fish to Xiulan and said.

"Okay, you go pick some coriander and I'll do it." Xiulan nodded and said.

Lin Heng went out and pulled a lot of coriander in the yard. This is the good thing about rural areas. You can make vegetables with great effort.

Just like this coriander, his family planted several square meters of it, but he couldn't eat it all, so he had to feed it to pigs.

Xiaoxia was playing with dolls and cars on the mat in the house, while Jinbao watched and chased her from time to time.

Caiyun was pestered by Xiaoxia after watching Ma enter the house. Lin Heng picked the coriander and washed it. He didn't remove the roots because he thought it tasted better with the roots.

Xiulan picked up the rice, put oil in the pot, put the yellow catfish and ginger in and fried it for a while, then added boiling water and a pot of milky white fish soup was quickly prepared. Add the coriander and blanch it, then add salt and pepper. The powder seasoning is complete.

"Eat!" Xiulan said with a smile. It was almost nine o'clock now and she was already hungry.

"Okay!" Lin Heng helped bring the dishes.

The dishes in the morning were quite rich. In addition to fish soup, there were also pickled bamboo shoots, spicy and sour potato shreds, fried pork with sour cowpeas, and cold cucumber shreds.

"It's so rich!" Caiyun's eyes lit up. The second brother's food was so good.

"Mom can't bear to eat, there's nothing we can do." Lin Heng spread his hands, there was no way to change this matter in a short time.

"Then you should eat more." Xiulan looked at Caiyun and said with a smile.

Like catfish, yellow bone bones have no spines and are all meat except for the spine. Lin Heng gave Xiaoxia one piece and she could eat it slowly by herself.

"good to eat!"

Xiaoxia puffed out her cheeks. She liked to eat catfish and yellow bone bone the most, as well as plum blossoms (Qinling fine salmon).

All the dishes on the table were for dinner. Lin Heng ate two large bowls of rice and drank a bowl of fish soup. The fish soup contained whole coriander and tasted very good.

But it was a bit chewy and had to be eaten whole.

I ate very slowly, mainly because there was nothing to do even after I finished eating, so I just chewed slowly and enjoyed life.

It rained non-stop. After dinner, it was still raining heavily when Lin Heng fed Xiongba. Xiongba's kennel was flooded, so he simply abandoned the kennel and ran to the eaves to eat.

Xiulan put away the dishes and took out a needle and thread to pull the soles of her shoes. Caiyun took a book and told Xiaoxia a story.

Lin Heng was thinking about getting a fireplace for his home. It was still very cold in winter. There was no heating in this place at minus ten degrees Celsius, so he had to rely on the fire to keep warm.

Naturally, there was a fire room at home, right next to the west of their master bedroom, but it couldn't warm the master bedroom. He thought of building a fireplace for the master bedroom when the time came.

But I’m just thinking about it, and I have no idea of ​​taking action yet.

After watching Tian Gong Kai Wu for a while, Lin Heng flipped through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There was really nothing to do on this rainy day.

In the afternoon, the rain subsided a little, from heavy rain to moderate rain. Lin Heng went out to get some horse grass for Jujube, and also made a pot of relatively thin corn paste and fed it to it.

The rest of the time was spent watching the rain, taking care of my daughter, talking to Xiulan, etc.

It wasn't until the evening that the rain finally stopped.

"Today is already September 21st. There should be matsutake and broom fungi (coral fungi) already. Let's look for them tomorrow." Lin Heng said looking outside.

"I know a place where broom fungus grows every year. I will take you there tomorrow, and we will bring Xiongba with us." Xiulan nodded and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded.

Early the next morning, it really stopped raining. The sky was cloudless and blue, and the golden sunrise was particularly bright.

Mother Lin came over and knocked on the door early in the morning: "I'm going to herd the cows. Do you want me to herd the horses for you?"

"Mom, where do you herd cows?" Lin Heng asked curiously.

"In front of the door, in the fields and beyond." Mother Lin said. Lin Heng immediately smiled and said, "Mom, you can take Xiaoxia with you. Xiulan and I want to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms."

"I knew it was nothing good." Mother Lin rolled her eyes and continued: "It's okay, but I'm afraid that he will stick to you and won't let me take him."

"It's okay, just grab two packs of shrimp crackers and you're done." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Mother Lin nodded and agreed: "Okay, hurry up."

Lin Heng came into the room and said something to Xiulan, and the two of them called Xiaoxia up and brought two packs of shrimp crackers to their mother.

Lin Heng helped drive the cattle, horses and sheep to graze outside the field.

"Dad!" Xiaoxia chased after Lin Heng when she saw him leaving.

"I'll be back in a minute, you eat first." Lin Heng coaxed her.

Xiaoxia saw that it was her favorite shrimp crackers, hesitated for a second, and nodded.

When Lin Heng returned home, Xiulan had already prepared breakfast. After eating, the two of them took Xiongba up the mountain with their backpacks on their backs.

The two walked along the hillside behind the door for a while, and Xiulan said, "In this forest, I can pick up a lot of broom fungi every September and October."

"I've already seen one." Lin Heng said, walked a few steps to the left, and saw an orange-yellow broom fungus. It was as big as a palm and weighed half a kilogram more when removed.

This broom fungus is still the kind that has just grown. The fully grown broom fungus is really like coral. It is a large clump at different heights. One tree weighs more than a kilogram, but that kind is not delicious.

It's the size of a fist, with only the main trunk growing, and the coral branches haven't grown much yet.

"I saw several of them too!" Xiulan also happily picked them up.

The orange-yellow color of the broom fungus is so conspicuous in this forest. Except for the very small ones that are still under the leaves, the others are clearly visible. The Xiongba is not as fast as people to find it at this time, because it is short and its sight is blocked.

But if you can't find the fungus nest, you may not find one all day long. This thing is a colony.

After picking them up, the two poured the fungi together. Looking at the half-bag of broom fungi, Lin Hengxi smiled broadly and said, "I picked up more than twenty kilograms in a moment."

Coral fungi are not expensive to buy, but they taste delicious when fried fresh.

"Do you know the nests of other broom fungi?" Lin Heng looked at his wife.

"I don't know." Xiulan shook her head.

"Then let's go directly to the pine forest to find matsutake truffles." Lin Heng suggested. The prices of these two kinds of fungi are very high.

Dried matsutake costs ten yuan per catty, but black truffles are even more expensive. Fresh ones cost ten yuan per catty, and dried ones cost forty-one catties. The price is extremely high.

After all, it is one of the three most delicacies in the world along with foie gras and caviar, and its price has always been very expensive.

Matsutake at least has a small head sticking out of the ground, while black truffles are completely in the soil. You can only rely on luck and fragrance to find them.

Xiulan reached out and pulled Lin Heng up a stone ridge and nodded: "Okay!"

The tyrant in the pine forest can play its role as a dog-nose.

The two of them headed towards the pine forest, and it took them half an hour to reach a pine forest.

"Xiongba, it's up to you!" Lin Heng touched its head.

"Ow!"

Xiongba put his nose to the ground and began to search.

Lin Heng and Xiulan followed it while picking up some pine milk mushrooms. There were not many pine milk mushrooms in this pine forest, and you could only see one or two after walking for more than ten meters.

But it had just rained, and the pine milk mushrooms were all very beautiful, some were orange-yellow and some were orange-red. The purchase price of this thing is not high, because it only tastes good if it is fresh.

It took half an hour to walk around the pine forest on half of the mountain. I didn't find matsutake and black truffles, and I only picked up less than a pound of pine milk mushrooms.

"To the taller woods."

Lin Heng was not discouraged. He took his wife and Xiongba and continued walking forward. The older the pine forest, the greater the hope.

Without children, the two of them were still moving very fast. They climbed over the mountain ridge and came to a pine forest. The pine trees in this forest were much taller, and they were as thick as a person's arms.

"Isn't that right? You haven't even found a single milk mushroom?"

Halfway through the walk, Lin Heng was shocked. The forest seemed to be poisoned, and he didn't see a single mushroom.

"Then we can only find another forest." Xiulan spread her hands and said, knowing that finding matsutake would not be that easy.

Lin Heng nodded: "This is the only way. We won't give up until we find it today."

Although there were no stray trees in the pine forest, the path was easy to walk, but the pine needles were too slippery, and the two of them would slip from time to time.

After leaving the pine forest and arriving at the junction with the acorn forest, Xiongba suddenly turned his head and roared: "Woof!"

"Have you gained anything?"

Lin Heng ran over excitedly. He fell twice and didn't care. He stood up and continued walking.

He came to the place where Xiong Ba was squatting and took a look at the bamboo leaves. He couldn't help but grin. He turned around and saw Xiulan and said, "It's matsutake. Come and dig it up."

"Okay!" Xiulan nodded repeatedly. She had never dug matsutake mushrooms with her own hands.

Lin Heng pulled apart all the leaves and found all the matsutake mushrooms. When Xiulan came, she was left with the task of digging the matsutake mushrooms.

"So many, there are seven in this area." Xiulan came over and said in surprise.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Hurry up and dig them out. I have three more here, and there might be some nearby."

Xiulan nodded, used a small hoe to pull apart the soft soil, and pulled out a matsutake mushroom. These were matsutake mushrooms that had not yet opened their umbrellas and were in the best condition.

"It smells so good!" Xiulan was very happy after smelling it.

After Lin Heng found all the matsutake mushrooms nearby, he touched Xiongba and watched his wife dig them, letting her experience the joy of digging matsutake mushrooms.

"A total of eighteen flowers add up to one pound. This is really a good place!" Xiulan looked at the individual matsutake mushrooms in the bag and said with a smile.

"I'll make a mark and just come here next time." Lin Heng smiled slightly, restored the ground to its original state, and cut an X-shaped mark on the pine tree. It will be easy to find it next time.

Then the two of them took Xiongba along the edge of the pine forest to search. Not long after, Xiulan exclaimed: "I have it here."

Lin Heng ran over and looked around, and the two dug out eight matsutake mushrooms in total.

"You're lucky today." Lin Heng smelled the matsutake mushrooms, which had a faint fragrance.

Xiulan said excitedly: "Keep looking!"

After searching this pine forest, the two of them found another pine forest. Unknowingly, they had climbed two mountains.

This third pine forest was very large, stretching over two mountains, and Lin Heng thought he might be able to find black truffles in it.

“There are so many pine milk mushrooms in this forest!”

Not long after walking into the forest, the two saw many orange-yellow pine milk mushrooms scattered among the pine needles, which were extremely beautiful.

Naturally, they would not let go of the pine milk mushroom, so the two of them bent down to pick it up.

The air in this forest was fresh and the silence was deep, but neither of them had time to appreciate it. Their eyes were focused on the pine milk mushrooms on the ground.

"so many!"

Lin Heng looked at his bag. He had only walked a few hundred meters and already picked up more than ten or twenty kilograms.

This is what picking up fungi is like. When you encounter a fungus nest with a lot of fungi, you are troubled. Lin Heng and Xiulan are very troubled now.

"Wang Wang~~"

Lin Heng was picking up mushrooms when he heard Xiongba's cry in the distance. He looked up and saw that Xiulan had passed by, so he didn't move and continued to pick up pine milk mushrooms.

"It's still matsutake!" Xiulan said aloud.

"Then you pick it up, I can't go there." Lin Heng was now eager to unlock the black truffles, and was no longer that interested in matsutake.

Of course, this is just talk, I will definitely not let it go if I see it.

After picking up a few more kilograms of pine milk mushrooms, Lin Heng found that the fungi were gone. It was so sudden.

He looked at his watch and saw that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Neither of them felt hungry because they had been looking for fungi.

They brought some dry food in their backpacks and planned to pick it up until the afternoon before going back.

After taking a look at the tiny bits of sunlight shining down in the sky, Lin Heng decided to look for a while longer, and then went to meet his wife for dinner.

"Well, there is Ganoderma lucidum here too?"

The matsutake was not found, but Lin Heng saw a red Ganoderma lucidum.

I didn't find much Ganoderma lucidum all day today, because I had been in the pine forest and I didn't have much hope for Ganoderma lucidum. I didn't expect to encounter one here.

This one is not small, half the size of a palm, red and slim.

"Hey, there's more than just Ganoderma here!"

When he walked up to it, Lin Heng suddenly noticed something different. There was something wrong with the ground.

(End of this chapter)