Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Mother Lin brought Caiyun with her. It rained too much these two days and the river dam was flooded, so she couldn't go to town. Caiyun didn't go to school and stayed at home these two days.

"Son, the musk deer gave birth to three cubs last night." Mother Lin walked into the house and looked at Lin Heng and said.

Lin Heng was stunned: "Three cubs?"

Caiyun responded: "But the bad thing is that when I woke up this morning, I found that only one survived, and the other two were all dead."

"Then it's better to have only two." Xiulan was surprised.

Mother Lin sighed: "Alas, it's not clear whether the two little ones were frozen to death or not. The one who survived is a male, and the two dead ones are females."

She was very distressed about the loss of the two female musk deer. These are all means of production and can expand the size of the tribe.

Lin Heng explained: "It's probably a stillbirth. Musk deer can only give birth to two cubs. Three cubs can't survive."

Mother Lin shook her head and said: "I don't know the details. Anyway, your father has boiled the two dead musk deer and fed them to the dogs."

Everyone just felt sorry for this situation, but there was no surprise, because it was a very common thing in the countryside.

"Then I'll take some time to go and see." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

Mother Lin suggested: "Let's talk about it in the afternoon. Caiyun said she would help take care of the child. Let's go up the mountain to pick mushrooms."

Caiyun nodded and said: "Yes, second brother, I will help take care of the child while reading a book. You, sister-in-law and mother can go up the mountain together."

"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded and agreed. It had just rained for three days, and he also wanted to see what was going on in the mountain.

After deciding, he and Xiulan quickly packed up. When Xiulan left, she fed the child again and took out rice noodles for Caiyun. If the child cried because of hunger, she would feed him a little rice noodle paste.

After finishing, Lin Heng took Xiongba up the mountain, while Dazhuang and Xiaobai stayed at home to play with Xiaoxia.

The three of them each carried a basket and two snakeskin bags. It was no wonder that today's harvest would be very valuable.

"Oh my God!"

"This is too much!"

Even though they had expected it, they were still shocked when they walked into the forest. Everywhere they looked was a patch of mushrooms, so dense that there was no place for people to put their feet.

The most common ones were red mushrooms and boletus, and there were many unknown mushrooms, as well as other edible mushrooms.

"I'm afraid we can pick up thousands of kilograms of this boletus!" Lin's mother was shocked. The ground was full of yellow heads and big-foot mushrooms, that is, wrinkled boletus and delicious boletus.

They usually pick up red mushrooms when there are no other mushrooms, because this kind of mushroom is too easy to rot and will break into pieces with a slight touch.

"More than thousands of kilograms, it's impossible to pick them all." Xiulan shook her head. Most of them were the size of a palm and had not grown to their maximum size yet.

Lin Heng looked at his wife and mother and said, "Don't worry about these mushrooms. Let's go pick up chanterelles quickly. Don't be too late and others will pick them up!"

Among the mushrooms in June, the most popular one is undoubtedly the chanterelles. Whether fresh or dried, the taste is excellent. Boletus is just a large quantity and tastes average.

As for the most delicious Boletus, they don't eat it here, fearing that it is poisonous and will poison people.

"Yes, let's go to Daliang quickly. I think there are many people there." Xiulan also said.

No one doubts the deliciousness of chanterelles. The most common mushrooms they eat here are chanterelles, pine mushrooms, broom mushrooms, and egg mushrooms. Boletus is the last choice.

The three of them walked up quickly. There were all kinds of mushrooms on both sides of the forest path. Some were rotten, and some just came out. This rain has grown too many mushrooms.

But they didn't pick them up. After walking for half an hour, they finally came to the tall acorn forest behind and heard other people talking from a distance.

"There are indeed a lot of them. Pick them up quickly." Lin's mother walked quickly and had already bent down to pick mushrooms.

I saw golden chanterelles on the ground under the acorn forest. If you pull away the fallen leaves, you will find more. This thing likes to grow in the acorn forest.

"Let's go, let's go to the front." Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said.

"Okay." The two walked forward and found a place where no one was around to pick them up.

Chanterelles are not big. The largest cap diameter is only about five centimeters. Most of those of that size will have worms. They picked those with a cap diameter of less than three centimeters, which have fewer worms.

Holding a stick in one hand and picking mushrooms with the other hand, she turned the leaves while picking them up. Although those under the leaves are small, most of them do not have worms.

Chanterelles are also very hard and not easy to break. It is no problem to throw them into the bag casually. After the three of them started picking mushrooms, they stopped talking and kept picking them up. This situation of harvesting everywhere made people unable to stop at all, and they just kept following the mushrooms.

Especially since there are other people here, it is different from being a family. Picking mushrooms has become a kind of competition. If you don't pick them quickly, others will pick them up, because everyone is more focused.

Although chanterelles are everywhere, they are not found in many forests. There are only a few specific forests, and the mountain where they are is one of them.

While picking, Lin Heng found that someone had picked them up in front of him, so he stopped and took a breath to check the number of mushrooms he had.

He weighed about 30 to 40 kilograms of chanterelles. Because chanterelles are small, he picked so many in more than two hours, which is definitely a great harvest.

If it were a normal season, you might not be able to pick so many mushrooms in a day.

"Xiu Lan, how many did you pick?" Lin Heng asked as he walked to Xiu Lan. Xiu Lan wore a pair of gloves and picked mushrooms just as fast as he did.

"My mom and I both picked about 30 kilograms. We were late. Mom said that the big ones had been picked up by others."

Xiu Lan said, and found a stone to sit on. She couldn't stand bending over to pick mushrooms.

"That can't be helped. Some people came just after dawn." Lin Heng shook his head.

"Not only that, some came yesterday." Xiu Lan said.

The two chatted for a while, took the things and went to a hill below to wait for their mother.

There were only a few trees in this place. You could see the mountains in the distance and the neat terraces in the village. Lin Heng leaned against a tree, and Xiu Lan leaned next to him. The two rested while looking at the scenery in the distance.

The sky and the mountains were so beautiful that they seemed to be fully saturated. The breeze blew Xiulan's hair onto Lin Heng's face. Xiulan drank a sip of water and handed it to Lin Heng.

The two did not speak, feeling the beauty.

After a while, Lin's mother came down and looked at the two and said, "Let's go back. First, take the chanterelles back, and then go pick up other mushrooms. I guess the large patches of chanterelles are gone."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded.

On the way back, the three of them picked up some other mushrooms, and they also picked the good ones, such as green-headed mushrooms, some very straight and beautiful yellow heads, big-foot mushrooms, and tea tree mushrooms.

In June, they basically only had these kinds of mushrooms here, and the others were not very common. For shiitake mushrooms, you have to go deep into the mountains, and you can't find them at the door of your home.

After taking the mushrooms home, they all poured them into a large round dustpan to dry, and then the three of them set off to the mountains again. This time the goal was more casual, picking up all kinds of mushrooms, but only beautiful ones.

This time, there were more porcini mushrooms. After more than an hour of picking, the snakeskin bag that the three of them brought was full, and the basket could not hold any more.

"This time, I really failed. I didn't pick up many egg mushrooms or broom mushrooms." Lin Heng shook his head on the way home. He picked up all fist-sized yellow oyster mushrooms. Although they were very good, he still liked chanterelles and broom mushrooms more.

Xiulan smiled brightly and said, "I was lucky. I picked up five large egg mushrooms and five or six kilograms of chanterelles."

Lin's mother also smiled and said, "Then my luck was not bad. I picked up more than 20 kilograms of broom mushrooms."

Egg mushrooms are orange-capped Amanita, and broom mushrooms are coral mushrooms.

It was already 12 o'clock when they got home. Lin's father ran over with an empty stomach and looked at the three of them and said, "You really don't know how hungry you are. You've been running for so long."

"Of course, there are always things to pick up, so I can't feel it at all." Lin Heng said with a smile. When picking mushrooms, his body was full of dopamine and he didn't feel hungry at all.

Xiulan said, "I'll do it now. Let's eat here."

"Then you go and do it. Let's deal with the mushrooms." Lin Heng nodded. He was a little hungry now.

It's easy to pick up mushrooms, but difficult to clean them. You need to use a knife to remove the dirt on the mushrooms, especially the small ones like chanterelles, which takes time to deal with.

Including Caiyun, the four of them sat down to work. After Xiulan's rice was ready, they only cleaned half of the chanterelles.

At noon, they still had rice, and the dish they made was a pot of chanterelles fried with bacon. Chanterelles not only have a strong fragrance, but also are very tough and taste very good. Needless to say, they are delicious with rice.

While eating, Lin's mother looked at Lin Heng and asked, "Son, do you want us to pick Ganoderma lucidum tomorrow? I guess there are a lot of Ganoderma lucidum in Baishigou."

"There are a lot of shiitake mushrooms there, so you can definitely try it." Lin's father nodded.

Lin Heng thought for a moment, then turned to look at Xiulan: "Are you going?"

Xiulan shook her head: "It's too far over there, I have to take care of the kids, you guys go."

"Okay, let's get up early tomorrow and go take a look." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

The whole family not only finished their meal, but also left nothing of the fried chicken mushrooms with meat. After eating their fill, they continued to process the mushrooms in the afternoon. With Xiulan's participation, the speed was faster, and the chicken mushrooms were soon cleaned.

After washing them twice with water, they can be placed in a dustpan to dry. Fresh and good mushrooms do not need to be blanched.

Although there are many remaining porcini mushrooms, they are easier to handle because they are large, and the speed is also faster. After washing them, they are sliced ​​and dried directly. With the current strong sun, they can be half dried in one afternoon.

After the mushrooms were dried, Xiulan stayed at home. Lin's mother and Caiyun went to the places behind Hongfeng Mountain to pick mushrooms again, wanting to go to the place where Lin Heng picked egg mushrooms last time.

Lin Hengze and his father went to see the newly born baby musk deer. This one looked normal and had no problems. The two dead musk deer probably had problems.

"Let's let the lame musk deer breed again in December this year." Lin Heng thought for a while and said that by then there would be three female musk deer that could breed.

There was the original female musk deer, and the two female musk deer born from the intact male musk deer and the original female musk deer last year. These three female musk deer had no blood relationship with the lame male musk deer, so breeding was better.

Lin's father suggested: "I think it's better to arrange the original female musk deer with the intact male musk deer. Isn't the lame musk deer okay?"

"That's fine, as long as they have no kinship with each other as much as possible." Lin Heng nodded. These musk deer had ropes of different colors hanging around their necks, which he marked for easy distinction.

After watching the forest deer, he and his father took the cages they had made before and went to the top of the mountain reservoir. The water in the reservoir was relatively clear at the moment, and the figures of the large plum fish that had been released could be seen.

In addition, there are a large number of fish fry. These naturally bred fry are not easy to eat and are still very small. They can only be distinguished from the fish fry of the creek grouper.

After they fixed the cages, they went back to catch the fry of fine salmon. In one afternoon, they transferred most of the fry to the cages on the mountain for intensive breeding.

Finally, the cage must be covered with a large mesh net, which does not affect the feeding of feed, but can prevent water birds from catching fish fry.

After finishing, the two sprinkled a few handfuls of powdered feed. These fish have developed the habit of eating feed, and they only need to be fed every day.

"I don't know how long I will survive in the end?" Father Lin said to himself as he looked at the fry.

Lin Heng shook his head: "I don't know about that."

After watching the fish for a while, they went down the mountain and went home. The shrimp pond continued to drain water, but the rain failed to drain it.

When Mother Lin and the others came back in the afternoon, their harvest was not very good. Almost all the fungi they picked up were porcini, chanterelles only accounted for a small part, and egg fungi were not found at all.

"Let's set off at six o'clock tomorrow morning." Lin's father looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded in agreement.

After returning to the village, he went to his eldest brother's house to ask. His eldest brother and sister-in-law went to pick up mushrooms early this morning. They harvested more chanterelles than they did, as well as a large number of porcini mushrooms and tea tree mushrooms.

Lin Yue smiled and nodded: "I was just about to say call you, that's just right. Let's go take a look tomorrow morning and go hunting there by the way."

After saying that, Lin Heng turned around and went back home. At this moment, Xiulan was collecting the half-dried fungi after the sun had passed. The fungi that seemed to be so many in the morning had shrunk by more than half. This stuff usually weighs ten kilograms per drying. Jin, most of it is water.

Seeing Lin Heng coming to help, Xiulan smiled slightly and asked, "Have you put all the fry on the mountain?"

"Yes, we've got them all." Lin Heng smiled and nodded, then asked, "Do you want to eat plum blossoms? If so, I'll catch one for you."

Xiulan shook her head slightly: "Let's go fishing when we have time. Yellow bone catfish is still very easy to catch."

"That's okay." Lin Heng nodded.

After putting away the things, the two sat down on the bench. The sky was blue, there were green mountains in the distance, and the fruits and vegetables were blooming in the yard.

Xiaoxia was picking strawberries at the edge of the strawberry field and put them in her mouth without washing them. Fortunately, it had just rained and these strawberries had not been treated with pesticides.

Today is undoubtedly the happiest day in the past few days. We harvested a large number of fungi together. We not only enjoyed the fun of harvesting, but also took a walk while looking at the scenery.

After resting for a while, Xiulan turned around and asked, "What are you having for dinner?"

"How about fried noodles?" Lin Heng asked with a wink.

Xiulan thought for a while and said: "Then let's make fried pancakes. I'll bake a few soft pancakes and fry them."

Lin Heng smiled and said: "Okay, I said fried noodles because I thought frying pancakes would be troublesome."