Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Lin Heng came over and picked the red Ganoderma first. He took a look and found that the bottom of the cap was still white. The spores were not scattered and could still be used.

After picking the Ganoderma, Lin Heng looked at the ground. The ground here was bulging, and even when it rained, there was a crack.

He crawled and smelled it. A special fragrance was refreshing, and he was shocked all of a sudden.

"Am I really lucky to come across it?"

Lin Heng was a little bit unbelievable, and broke off a dry pine branch to dig.

After digging for a few times, a small black ball was brought out. Picking it up and looking at it, it was dark brown with some very small bumps on it, and the pattern was very complicated, as if it was a devil fruit.

Lin Heng was so excited that he couldn't speak for a while. He actually found the black truffle without relying on Xiongba. This luck was too good.

He picked it up and smelled it. The smell was very strange. When it first broke through the ground, it smelled fragrant and musky.

But now, why is it a smell of heather? Smelling it again, it felt like a sheet that hadn't been washed for years.

After covering this place with pine needles and inserting a wooden stick as a mark, Lin Heng quickly ran towards his wife.

Xiulan had already walked a long way with Xiongba. When she saw Lin Heng running over, she hurried to share her harvest: "Xiongba and I found another three or four pounds of matsutake mushrooms, which adds up to hundreds. Come and see."

Lin Heng walked to his wife and looked at her bag, then picked her up and turned around. However, the pine needles on the ground were too slippery, and the two fell directly together.

"Oh, what are you doing? You shouldn't be so excited to find so many matsutake mushrooms, right?"

Xiu Lan looked at him helplessly. Like a child, her hair was covered with many pine needles.

She sat up and picked some pine needles, and then picked some for Lin Heng.

"Guess what I found?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan, and his excitement was hard to conceal.

"What? A large area of ​​matsutake mushrooms?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.

Looking at Lin Heng's expression, Xiulan's face showed an expression of wanting to believe but not daring to believe: "Could it be black truffles? Impossible, I have been married to you for almost three years and I have only heard that someone has sold it once."

Lin Heng grabbed her hand, then put the black truffle in his palm on her hand, and said with a smile: "Then look at what this is?"

Seeing the thing in the palm of her hand, Xiulan couldn't help but open her mouth wide: "Oh my God, it's really a black truffle."

She picked it up and smelled it, looked at it again, and looked at Lin Heng again and smiled softly: "I feel a little unreal, how about you let me pinch it?"

"Pinch it." Lin Heng grabbed Xiongba's head and stretched it over.

Xiongba: "???"

"Just kidding, go over and dig truffles quickly, if someone grabs it, you will regret it for the rest of your life." Xiulan touched the dog's head and stood up and said.

"Walk slowly, what is the smell of this black truffle you just smelled?" Lin Heng asked curiously while walking.

"It's very strange, it feels like musk, but also like honey, very complex." Xiulan sniffed it again before speaking.

"I smell like unwashed sheets!" Lin Heng laughed.

Soon the two people and the dog arrived at the place: "It's here. I originally wanted to collect Ganoderma lucidum, but I found that the land next to it was cracked!"

"I'll dig."

Xiulan took her small hoe and dug gently, and she brought out five or six.

"Oh my God, this is too much. Husband, you are so lucky today." Xiulan was stunned.

"You don't understand, this thing is found in a lot, the ones with fragrance are mature, and the ones without fragrance are not yet mature." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then should we dig all of them?" Xiulan asked while digging.

"They buy black truffles regardless of whether they are mature or not. They export the mature ones and sell the immature ones to high-end domestic restaurants.

But if we dig them all, there may be nothing left the next year."

Lin Heng was also thinking about this problem. In his previous life, he had seen some cases of digging black truffles in other provinces. Often, they were found in one place, and several acres of land nearby were dug up and dug up directly.

This is like the prisoner's dilemma. You are kind enough to keep the immature ones, but others may not keep them.

And if you keep them, they may not be yours next year.

So most people choose to maximize their interests and dig them all at once.

"Then dig them all up, otherwise others will dig them up and we will have nothing left." Xiulan said without hesitation.

"I think so too, but we should leave some and not dig them up. We should be able to dig them up in a year or two. Cover them with pine needles so that they are not so easy to be discovered by others." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

"That's fine, so leave some." Xiulan nodded.

Let Xiulan dig here, Lin Heng took one and let Xiongba smell it, and just when he was about to speak, it ate it in one bite.

"You stupid dog, you always grab food, don't you? If you can't find the black truffle, I'll let you starve for three days!" Lin Heng pinched the dog's mouth and hit it twice.

He didn't eat it himself, but this guy tasted it first.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba barked, as if to say that it was okay to eat one after his hard work.

Seeing Lin Heng raise his hand, he hurriedly went to find it with his nose close to the ground.

Lin Heng ignored it and dug the black truffle with his wife first.

They could dig out many every time, and they were so excited.

After digging a two-square-meter piece, the number of truffles gradually became scarce.

Xiulan dug and Lin Heng picked. He separated the ripe and unripe ones to avoid confusion.

After searching for a while, Xiulan stopped and left some seeds.

She turned her head to look at Lin Heng: "This piece is gone, how much have we dug?"

"It should add up to 30 kilograms. There are 10 kilograms of mature ones in this bag and 20 kilograms of unripe ones in one bag."

Lin Heng said with a smile while holding two bags. This is how it is.

Either you can't find it, or if you find it, there are at least 10 kilograms.

It grows in patches underground.

"Oh my God, wouldn't that be 300 yuan?" Xiulan was stunned. It was the first time for her to make so much money from picking mountain products.

"More than that, I'm talking about the price at the town's purchasing station. In fact, this thing can be sold for 15 yuan wet and 150 to 160 kilograms dry." Lin Heng said with a smile. This time he really made a fortune.

"This is too good. Digging truffles once almost makes back the money for buying red dates." Xiulan opened the bag and looked at it again and again.

"Just tell me if I'm awesome?" Lin Heng wanted to cross his waist muscles, but he was so awesome.

"Awesome, awesome." Xiulan nodded repeatedly.

After looking at the black truffles in the bag again, the two hid them at the bottom of the backpack and began to restore the land here.

First, restore the overturned land to its original state, and then bring pine needles to cover it until no traces can be seen.

"Okay, it took another hour, half past two." Lin Heng looked at the watch. He was so excited to encounter black truffles that he was not hungry.

Only after digging did he feel hungry.

"It seems that Xiongba has no development." Xiulan said to Xiongba who was still searching.

"This thing is like this. There is one under a pine tree, but it is not certain for another one. Let's eat first."

Lin Heng really couldn't bear it.

"Okay, find a place to wash your hands first." Xiulan nodded.

This place is not far from the ravine. There are only some pools formed by rain in the ravine, and there are no streams.

After washing her hands, Xiulan took out their dry food from the backpack. This is the soft pancake baked last night, with fermented bean curd and spicy and sour potato shreds.

The fermented bean curd and chili were in cans, and the hot and sour potato shreds were in plastic bags.

Lin Heng used his hundred-refined steel dagger to sharpen a pair of chopsticks, and Xiulan put her hands together and asked him to put the soft pancake on it, spread the fermented bean curd, put the potato shreds on it and roll it up.

"Open your mouth!" Lin Heng handed the rolled pancake to his wife's mouth.

Xiulan lifted her messy hair, opened her red lips and took a big bite, and nodded with her cheeks puffed up: "Delicious!"

Lin Heng took a bite himself and nodded: "My wife's cooking skills are really good."

Then he handed the rolled pancake to her mouth again, and the two sat on the stone and leaned against each other, eating one bite each.

Xiulan took out a mouthful of water and fed Lin Heng a mouthful, and drank another mouthful herself.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba ran down from the woods and squatted in front of the two people and called out.

"Here, eat it yourself!"

Xiulan took out the rice prepared for it and put it in front of it.

Glancing at the two people, Xiongba lowered his head and started eating.

Although Lin Heng and Xiulan's clothes were dirty, they ate with relish.

After eating, Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng's shoulder to rest for a while, and suddenly her eyes lit up and pointed to a tree in the distance and said, "Honey, there are so many August melons!"

"It's just a little high, I can't reach it." Xiulan said again.

"I'll chop a tree for you." Lin Heng stood up and pulled her to the tree, and the bowl-thick tree was chopped down by his ten-chopping axe.

Stepping on the tree and pressing down, the August melons were within reach.

"There are so many, there must be twenty or thirty." Xiulan said with a smile, putting on gloves and reaching out to pick them.

She now pays great attention to taking care of her hands, because Lin Heng said he likes her delicate hands.

Lin Heng also came over to pick them. At this time, the August melons were basically purple, and they were broken open with a light crack.

"Twenty-five, there are so many on this tree." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan took off her gloves, opened one, ate half, and stuffed the other half into Lin Heng's mouth.

"Puff!"

After a while, the two of them spit out a lot of seeds of August melon.

"August melon is still as sweet as ever." Xiulan said with emotion.

"It's a pity that there is no Schisandra chinensis. I want to eat it a little bit." Lin Heng said with a smile. Schisandra chinensis is sour and sweet, and tastes better.

"Wait for two days and then go to Sanyegou to pick it. There are a lot of them there." Xiulan said and ate another one. She likes sweets.

"Woof woof!"

After eating rice, Xiongba ran over and smelled the August melon, wanting to nibble on it.

"Here!" Xiulan picked a fruit and threw it to it.

Xiongba gulped and swallowed it all with the seeds. There was no such thing as spitting out the seeds.

The two rested for a while, then packed up and continued to look for it.

"Xiongba, look for it again. There may be more nearby."

Lin Heng took out another ripe black truffle and let it smell it. The pine forest is very large, so he can look slowly.

Lin Heng and Xiulan picked some pine milk mushrooms together. They picked enough and were not in a hurry.

If you see any suspicious places, you can use a small hoe to dig.

For three hours, Lin Heng and Xiong Ba searched the forest, but apart from finding half a pound of matsutake mushrooms, they could not find any black truffles.

"This is not normal!"

Lin Heng felt that it was a bit fake. In his previous life, he saw people digging black truffles in the video. They dug several acres of land nearby and could dig out hundreds of pounds.

"Be content, this is already a fortune." Xiulan was very open-minded.

"Then let's go home. It's almost time."

Lin Heng nodded. This was unavoidable, but autumn was still long and there was plenty of time to search.

Picking up the things, the two walked back along another ravine that they had not walked through.

Passing through the oak forest, there were many brown yellow umbrellas in it. This thing tasted good, and there were a lot of them everywhere.

As a result, I picked up more than a dozen in a row and opened them to see that they were all hollowed out by insects. Suddenly, I was in no mood to pick them up.

"But I have indeed picked enough today." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After walking a few more steps, several hairy chestnut trees appeared in front of them. Xiulan walked under the tree to take a look, and turned back and said in surprise: "There are chestnuts, and quite a few."

"Then pick some." Lin Heng put down the backpack and walked over with the bag.

Hairy chestnuts are much smaller than chestnuts. Most of them are as big as the first section of the thumb, only half the size of chestnuts, and the small ones are less than one-third of chestnuts.

However, there are many hairy chestnut trees, and they taste good, and they can be sold for money. People pick them in rural areas.

Chestnuts are delicious whether they are eaten directly, fried, stewed with chicken or pork legs, and no one can refuse them.

While picking chestnuts, Lin Heng also saw a red-haired squirrel squatting on a tree, holding a chestnut in its hand.

He could only watch, because he only wanted to pick mushrooms today, and he didn't bring a bow and arrow or a slingshot.

The two stopped picking for half an hour and fell together. Xiulan estimated: "There should be more than ten pounds."

"The chestnuts on this tree have just started to fall, and there should be more after a while."

Lin Heng glanced at the thick chestnut tree. In fact, if he picked more carefully, he could pick up at least ten more pounds on the ground.

But it was already half past six, and if he didn't go back, he would have to go back in the dark. Xiaoxia didn't know if she cried or not, and they were a little worried.

Lin Heng took this road to see if there were any Schisandra chinensis or something, but he couldn't get through after walking for a while, and didn't encounter anything. He could only turn over to the ridge and take the small road back.

At this time, there were many people picking mushrooms on the mountain. When Lin Heng and his companion were walking, someone suddenly spoke to them from behind: "Lin Heng, are you still picking mushrooms on the mountain?"

Lin Heng turned his head and saw that it was Uncle Li Baigen of the Li family who could weave cloth in the village. His second son Li Shixing and his youngest daughter Li Shixia were following him.

"Uncle Li, you are a rich man, but you are also picking mushrooms." Lin Heng smiled casually. He was not very familiar with this person.

"It's far worse than you." Li Baigen smiled and said, "I see that your two backpacks are full. What kind of mushrooms did you pick?"

"Just pine mushrooms and broom mushrooms, and a little chestnut." Lin Heng said with a smile. He tied up the black truffle bags, so they should not be discovered.

"I smelled a fragrance. I thought you picked up matsutake mushrooms." Li Shigen said with a smile.

Lin Heng was stunned, thinking that this person had a dog's nose and could smell it.

"No, you must have smelled it wrong." Lin Heng shook his head, looked at him and said, "What mushrooms did you pick up?"

"Similar to you, but I came across a tree of wild grapes. Do you want to eat some?" Li Shigen came over with a bamboo basket, which contained a basket of wild grapes.

"Your is good, I couldn't find it after searching for a long time." Lin Heng was surprised, the wild grapes in the basket were so beautiful.

He reached out and took a bunch and tasted it, nodded and said, "Very good, thank you."

"Take some of our chestnuts too." Xiulan handed over the chestnuts.

"No, no, I picked some at home." Li Shigen waved his hand and said.

"The fragrance came from your backpack. Did you really pick up matsutake?" Beside him, Li Shixia moved her nose and said crisply.

"You kid..." Li Shigen looked at his daughter helplessly.

It's good that you know it, don't say it out.

"Hahaha, there is indeed a little, but not much." Lin Heng laughed and looked at the fifteen-year-old girl.

Li Shixia was a little curious, so she picked up a matsutake mushroom once, but she didn't see it this time.

But she had a very sensitive nose, and she felt that the smell emitted from the two people's backpacks was not just matsutake mushrooms, which was very strange.

However, she didn't dare to speak again because of her father's warning.

"What good luck, it's enviable." Hearing that there was really such a thing, Li Shigen couldn't help but show an envious expression.

"Haha, let's not talk about it, we have to go home to see the children quickly." Lin Heng quickly found a reason to run away. It seems that the effect of this snakeskin bag to isolate the fragrance is not very good.

The two of them may have been used to smelling it often.

"Then you take some more wild grapes and go back to let the children at home taste it." Li Shigen said again, forcibly stuffing Lin Heng with a few bunches of wild grapes.

After a few polite words, Lin Heng hurriedly ran away with his wife.

"Dad, they must have picked up a lot of matsutake mushrooms." Li Shixia sniffed and said.

"I guess so, they must have found a matsutake nest, otherwise where would they get so much money to buy mulberry yellow."

Li Shigen was a little envious, but if others don't tell you about this thing, you can't find it at all.

However, they didn't guess that what Lin Heng found was not matsutake, but the more precious black truffle.

The two hurried home, and Lin's father was curious. The two didn't even say hello to him and hurried home. What good things did they find?

After thinking about it, he followed them to Lin Heng's yard and looked at them: "What good things did you find?"

"This thing is so good that I don't want you to see it." Lin Heng smiled.

"Is it matsutake?" Lin's father turned around and closed the door to the yard, and walked over to ask.

"There are indeed matsutake, but it's not the best." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Ah? What else?" Lin's father was puzzled.

Xiulan took out the bag and opened it. Father Lin looked up and sat down on the bench in a daze: "Oh my God, how did you find out about this?"

"Lin Heng was wandering around, he was lucky enough to come across him." Xiulan said with a smile.

Father Lin calmed down for a while before he came back to his senses and patted Lin Heng on the shoulder: "You are really destined to chase the mountain. Go and pay homage to the mountain god. You might as well accept the mountain god as your godfather."

"Dad, this is too outrageous." Lin Heng said helplessly.

Most of his harvest relied on the dog Xiong Ba and his own bow and arrow. Today, he felt that even if he didn't see the truffle, Xiong Ba would have found it.

"I have to take you to pay homage another day. No one will be lucky." Father Lin shook his head.

The three of them were happy when there was a quick knock on the courtyard door, and Caiyun's voice came from outside: "Second brother and second sister-in-law, are you at home? Something big has happened."

Hearing this, Lin Heng and the others couldn't help but be stunned. What kind of big event is this? Caiyun was so excited that she hurriedly walked out.