Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 25 Rare Morels from the Mountains

"Xiulan, I'm going up the mountain."

After Xiongba finished eating, Lin Heng untied its iron chain and set off up the mountain.

"Go, be safe."

Xiulan nodded. She was going to help plant sweet potatoes in the afternoon and would not go up the mountain.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba looked up to the sky and roared, and rushed out first. After walking a short distance, he turned back and whined and acted like a baby at Lin Heng's feet.

The forest where the trees were cut was on the mountain behind the house, and the forest in the middle of the mountain belonged to his family.

At this time, the banging sound of felling trees could be heard, and the four of them, my father, had already gone up the mountain to start working.

Lin Heng took his bow and arrow and took Xiongba over the mountain to take a look at the ditch behind. Finding prey in the woods at this time of year depends entirely on luck.

Xiongba took two steps before peeing, and looked back at Lin Heng, as if he was afraid that he would get lost.

"Second son of the Lin family, are you going hunting in the mountains?" Not far away, someone greeted Lin Heng.

Lin Heng took a look and remembered that he was the uncle of the Wang family in the village, a figure from his father's generation: "Yes, let's try our luck."

After saying that, Lin Heng quickly walked over with Xiong Ba.

Seeing Lin Heng walking away, the Wang family uncle shook his head and said with a smile: "This second-rate guy is still hunting, and he even used a bow and arrow to kill people."

Obviously, in his opinion, Lin Heng was blindly testing for the top spot - a disgrace.

Although they were far away, Lin Heng still heard these words and silently memorized them.

Soon after entering the forest, Xiongba suddenly became alert and stopped making a sound. He looked around and smelled the breath on the ground from time to time.

This is obviously a hunting state.

Lin Heng also looked around, but the leaves were too thick and his field of vision was limited, and he could hardly see any prey.

After walking nearly two kilometers to the top of the mountain, Lin Heng discovered something valuable - a clump of kidney essence grass growing on the stone wall, also called Aaoaowei.

This herb is easy to identify, with dark green leaves and long strips of leaves, and small yellow medicine bags on the back.

Lin Heng took a look and didn't pull it out. The number was too small, so let it grow.

"Ow~"

At this time, Xiongba made a cry, obviously discovering something.

Lin Heng walked over and took a look, and couldn't help but smile: "What a good dog, I've discovered all this."

What Xiongba found was a small piece of morel. Lin Heng guessed that he had smelled the smell of morel at home and knew it was useful.

Xiongba opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, showed a Samoyed smile, and stretched his head over to beg for a touch.

"Well done. If we catch a prey today, the internal organs will be yours."

Lin Heng smiled and touched the dog's head, thinking that now he was absolutely sure that the old man in his previous life was not lying. Xiongba was really a good dog.

Morel mushrooms are treasures of wild fungi and famous edible fungi. They are delicious, even comparable to matsutake mushrooms, and have been eaten since ancient times.

Because it is particularly sensitive to the environment and temperature, the quantity is small and the price is expensive. Fresh ones cost one yuan per catty, while dried ones can be sold for three or four yuan per catty.

There are about eleven or twelve flowers in this patch that Xiongba discovered. They are black morels, whose scientific name is black-veined morels. Four to five centimeters high, the cap is long, black, with small rectangular pits arranged vertically on it, and the stipe is milky white.

Lin Heng picked one and smelled it, and couldn't help showing an intoxicated expression. The scent of this mushroom was so beautiful, not strong, but very pleasant, and it didn't have the faint earthy smell of red mushrooms.

For a moment, Lin Heng's appetite was whetted and his mouth was filled with saliva. If you make a soup with morels alone, without adding anything else, it will be full of flavor. "It's a pity that there are only seven or eight taels, and the two biggest ones were eaten by the worms." Lin Heng sighed, but he still couldn't bear to throw away the two big ones, and put them all into the small backpack he carried with him.

I searched nearby again, but to no avail.

After climbing over the mountain ridge, my eyes suddenly became brighter, because there are two fields here, which are planted with wheat. The breeze blows, and the wheat that has already emerged is rippling in the wind.

Lin Heng took a look and walked toward the Tongshugou ditch on the side. As he walked, he found Xiongba crawling down and slowly moving towards the edge of the wheat field.

"Something?"

Lin Heng stopped quickly, looked in the direction of Xiongba, and rubbed his eyes several times before he found the prey.

A gray rabbit was eating wheat under the weed leaves. If it weren't for the bully, he would never have seen it.

He wanted to set up a bow and shoot an arrow, but looked at the distance and gave up: "The distance is too far."

Not to mention the distance of a hundred meters, and there is no obstruction in front of him. He will inevitably be discovered if he advances. Instead of doing this, it is better to see Xiong Ba's ability.

At this time, the bully had crawled more than ten meters, and the rabbit hadn't noticed it yet. It had its ears raised and its eyes focused, watching the rabbit's every move. If anything went wrong, it would immediately lie down and stay still.

The rabbit also stopped to look at it from time to time, but was avoided by the bully every time.

Lin Heng couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene: "Sure enough, powerful dogs have extremely high hunting instincts without deliberate training."

When the two sides were less than twenty meters apart, the gray rabbit finally spotted Xiong Ba. A trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and he ran away without saying a word.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiong Ba also sprinted and chased after him at top speed. The distance between the two sides kept getting closer, and they soon disappeared into the woods on the edge of the ground.

Lin Heng hurriedly chased after him, but he couldn't even see Xiongba's figure because it ran too fast.

"Wang Wang~~"

Not long after, Xiong Ba heard a call.

Lin Heng followed the sound and quickly found Xiongba. He looked very anxious in front of a hole in the ground. There were many rabbit furs on the ground.

Apparently it failed in its first hunt, failing to catch the prey and letting it run into the hole.

"It's okay, it's okay. It's already great." Lin Heng touched its head and rubbed its chest to encourage him.

Xiongba is still young now. He didn't eat well before and his body has not yet developed. So mistakes are normal.

Looking at the hole, Lin Heng knew that the rabbit was inside, so he turned around and blocked the suspected exit with stones.

Then I went to find some dry pine needles and took out an aluminum kerosene lighter to light a fire.

In this era, most rural areas used this kind of lighter.

The structure of the kerosene lighter is very simple. The lower part is made of cotton soaked in kerosene, which is connected to the upper part through a cotton wick. The upper part has a gear, and under the gear is a flint.

The friction between the gears and the flint produces sparks, which ignite the cotton wick containing kerosene, and the flame appears.

There were two crisp clicks, and a small yellow flame appeared. Place it on the dry pine needles, and under the action of rosin, it will crackle and burn.

Place it at the entrance of the hole, mix it with some fresh leaves, and thick white smoke will roll in. Fan it into the hole, and soon the smoke will come out from other places.

"No, there's still a hole that's not blocked!"

Lin Heng suddenly discovered that there was a secret exit that he had not discovered. As soon as he finished speaking, two gray rabbits rushed out with a hiss.

(End of this chapter)