Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

There are not many Dendrobium officinale growing here. Every year, Lin Heng and his family pick some to make Dendrobium tea.

This year, there are more. After picking them, Xiulan estimated: "There are about two kilograms wet, and two taels dried."

"It's OK, enough to stew chicken and drink tea. We have a lot of Chinese medicine at home, and we don't just use Dendrobium to make tea." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's enough." Xiulan nodded.

Taking the Dendrobium to the cabin, Lin's father and mother were swinging with their children.

"Son, honey can be harvested in autumn." Lin's father said.

"Wait until it rains in a few days, cut some." Lin Heng replied.

There are also many flowers in autumn. Cutting them will make room for the little bees to continue making honey.

"Okay." Lin's father nodded in agreement.

Before they knew it, the sun was setting. Lin Heng wanted to go down directly, but the children wanted to continue playing on the swings. Lin Heng had no choice but to take Xiulan to the forest to see if he could pick up mushrooms.

This year, the forest was not taken care of, and many small trees grew out. It was not as transparent as before with only big trees. The two of them broke a branch and waved it up and down in front of them. There were many spider webs in the forest, which could effectively prevent spider webs from getting on their faces and hair.

"It rained a few days ago, why can't I find any mushrooms."

After searching for a while, Xiulan asked a question. It was very easy to grow mushrooms in the temperature of more than ten degrees.

"We still have to go to the deep mountains, such as Baishigou. There are not many mushrooms in places where people often walk."

While explaining, Lin Heng took a small yellow flower he picked and inserted it on Xiulan's head.

Xiulan blinked and waited quietly for him to finish inserting the flower before smiling and saying, "It seems that there are Hericium erinaceus recently. Let's go pick it once?"

She really wanted to go out with Lin Heng to find mushrooms. This was a very pleasant and relaxing thing.

"Okay, it's good to bring back some Hericium erinaceus to eat." Lin Heng thought about it and nodded in agreement. He and Xiulan went out together less this year.

The mushrooms in this season are indeed quite good, whether it is enoki mushrooms or oyster mushrooms, or Hericium erinaceus, pine mushrooms, black truffles and the like.

They turned back when they couldn't find mushrooms. Xiulan and her parents each took a child downstairs, while Lin Heng took things.

They only caught three fish in the afternoon, one of which was the big mandarin fish that Xiaoxia caught, and two were plum fish weighing about one pound. Looking at the plum fish jumping in his hand, Lin Heng really wanted to raise this kind of fish, but he didn't have the strength to do so at present.

This kind of cold-water fish is difficult to raise, and the profit from raising it is not as good as raising pigs. In this era, pork, which is cheap and can be sold in large quantities, can make a lot of money.

He wanted to raise it at first, because he thought that everything should be easy after rebirth, but when he actually calculated the accounts, he found that it was not a cost-effective deal.

You have to follow the trend of the times and make enough money before you talk about your own preferences.

After going down the mountain, Lin Heng killed the fish, then simply marinated it, steamed it, and added some light soy sauce. This kind of fish raised in mountain spring water, or carnivorous mandarin fish, basically does not have any fishy smell.

While Lin Heng was killing the fish, the children were playing with the puppies here. The blue wolf dog Lai Fu recently gave birth to a litter of six puppies, all of which were Xiongba's children. The colors were less than last time, four big yellow dogs, and two wolf dogs were black and yellow.

The puppies are just one month old now, running around and howling, and fighting with the three children. After Lin Heng finished the fish, he watched from the side to prevent the children from hurting the dogs and the dogs from hurting the children.

In addition to the fish, Lin's mother fried three dishes, two dishes of meat and one dish of green vegetables, and put the fish together, and the family started to eat. Lin's father heated up a pot of rice wine, and the adults drank while eating.

The children kept clamoring for fish. One fish fed most of the three of them. It was lively to have children at the table, and they ate happily.

When the meal was almost over, Lin Heng told his mother about going to pick mushrooms with Xiulan tomorrow. After hearing this, Lin's mother nodded repeatedly: "You go pick your own, I'll take care of the children."

"Okay, thank you, mom." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

After the meal, he returned to the village. Lin Heng asked his eldest brother if he wanted to go. It would be easier to take care of anything in the mountains with more people.

"I'll go with your eldest sister-in-law. We're going to dig some yam to eat." Lin Yue said.

"Is the child at home alone?" Lin Heng looked at his eldest nephew Lin Wei. The little guy is strong now, and he is not fatter than before because he eats well.

"Yes, Lin Wei can take care of the house by himself. He is six years old and knows everything." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Wei hugged Lin Heng's legs and complained: "Second Dad, I actually want to go up the mountain, but my dad won't let me."

Lin Heng touched his chubby head and said: "Then let's do this, next time Second Dad goes up the mountain, I'll take you with me."

"Okay, Second Dad, you are the best person in the world." Lin Wei cheered happily.

Lin Heng said to Lin Wei, and then looked at his eldest brother: "Okay, let's have breakfast and set off."

Back in the house, Xiulan was already washing the children's faces and feet. The little guys were very tired after jumping around during the day.

Lin Heng came to help, and after going to bed, he told Xiaoxia such an interesting story about Journey to the West that she fell asleep without listening for a while.

"Let's go to bed early too."

Xiu Lan said and undressed and went to bed. Lin Heng followed closely and got into the not-so-warm bed.

The next morning, the sun was very bright. The two got up early, first added fire and steamed the wilted apples in a large steamer, and then went to practice milking.

When the milk came back, the apples were steamed. Xiulan opened the steamer and looked at it, and was surprised: "It really changed, it's orange."

"This time you can take it out and dry it. After it's dried, steam it again. After drying it, honey will come out, and you can eat it." Lin Heng picked up one and tasted it. Although it was sour and sweet now, the taste was not good enough.

When the two dried the apples, Lin's mother also came over. She was a little surprised to see the dried apples they made. After eating one, she said she wanted to learn.

"This is very simple..." Xiulan told her mother, and she immediately said she learned it.

When they were about to leave with the basket, it was more troublesome. Xiaoxia was now older and listened to what she said. Lu Ming and Du Heng completely held her legs and didn't let her go. In the end, they found an opportunity to sneak away.

Each of them carried a small backpack. Lin Heng had a hatchet to clear the way, Xiulan had a small medicine hoe to dig medicinal herbs, and they also brought a big wolf dog, Xiongba.

"Let's go, let's go directly to Baishigou first, and talk about it on the way back." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Yes, there is nothing nearby, and there may be good things in the deep mountains." Liu Juan also said.

The configuration of the two of them was similar to Lin Heng, and they brought hunting dogs for good luck.

Lin Heng nodded and agreed: "We think so too."

After deciding, they followed the path up the mountain. It was already autumn, and the temperature was only 23 or 24 degrees when the sun came out. The four of them still sweated when they got up the mountain.

They walked slowly, and it took two and a half hours to get to Baishigou. They didn't see anything on the road.

"I haven't been here for a year, and it's still the same." Lin Heng sighed as he looked at Baishigou, which was full of white stones.

Lin Yue brought some bad news: "We haven't come here, but it seems that someone has been here. There are still some branches that have been broken not long ago."

"That's okay. There are too many mushrooms to pick up. At most, we can pick up a little less." Xiulan said.

Lin Heng nodded, looked at his elder brother and sister-in-law and asked: "Are you going up or down?"

Liu Juan looked and said: "Up, I feel that there are more yams over there. I want to dig some yams."

"Okay, let's go down." Lin Heng nodded and walked down the ditch with Xiulan.

After crossing the stream and coming here, he found a surprise not long after walking. He saw a large cluster of gray-white oyster mushrooms growing on the trunk of a dead tree.

"Wife, this cluster can weigh two kilograms!" Lin Heng was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. This is really a village with bright lights. Just now, someone said that someone had been here, and he found something when he came here.

"This old forest is different." Xiulan squatted down happily to pick them. She picked them all at once and put them in the backpack happily.

The feeling of harvest was really great. The two of them couldn't help but speed up their pace, looking forward to more ahead.

But things went against their wishes. They saw only dead trees. Some trees had traces of Hericium erinaceus, which had been picked not long ago.

Lin Heng took Xiulan's hand, shook his head and smiled: "This is really a man with aspirations to soar to the sky, but luck can't help it. It seems that luck is not good today."

"Let's go to the front and take a look. Take your time."

Xiulan pursed her lips, let go of Lin Heng's hand, took out an apple from his backpack and asked him to break it apart. Each of them took half and explored the forest while eating.

"Woof woof!!" After a while, Xiongba barked twice in the distance.

"Go quickly."

Both of them were a little excited and walked over quickly. When they came over and looked, the boredom disappeared immediately.

"I've been looking for half an hour and finally found it again." Lin Heng said happily.

"There are more than one, two, three... a total of five Hericium erinaceus. I said they can't pick them all." Xiulan counted them and rubbed Xiongba's head happily.

Xiongba hadn't played for a long time. He stuck out his tongue and rubbed the mistress before running out to have fun again.

Lin Heng picked the two lower ones first, then cut a stick to poke the ones on the tree down. The five Hericium erinaceus were not big, all the size of a fist.

"This is also two kilograms." Xiulan found a plastic bag to pack it up, and then put it in Lin Heng's backpack.

Without the children, they were free and walked and searched quickly in the forest. After a while, Lin Heng found a bunch of enoki mushrooms, which were also more than half a kilogram.

After walking a few dozen meters, Lin Heng found another Codonopsis pilosula under the forest. It was not small. He immediately took out a machete and cut a stick to dig. The soil under the forest was very loose, so he didn't need a medicine hoe. After a while, he dug out a large Codonopsis pilosula weighing about two taels.

Now the ones dug are generally kept at home for their own use. Sometimes they will take some back from the purchasing station to eat if they are not enough. His family is no longer in the situation where he had to break a dime into three petals.

"I found another Hericium erinaceus here, husband, come quickly!"

Lin Heng had just dug out the Codonopsis pilosula when Xiulan's cheers came from the left front.

He walked over quickly, and Xiulan pointed to a large acorn tree with a diameter of barely 40 cm and said happily: "Look, there are three big ones on this trunk, I suspect each one weighs one pound."

"Really, I'll pick them."

Lin Heng said with a smile, the largest Hericium erinaceus is as big as a baby's head, it's so cool to pick them.

He put down the backpack and climbed up the tree with his arms. He has been climbing trees since he was a child, so this tree is not a problem at all even though it is big.

Soon he was fooled and found the first Hericium erinaceus on the tree trunk. He reached out and picked it up and held it in front of his nose to smell it. The rich fragrance made him swallow his saliva a little. He hadn't eaten dried Hericium erinaceus for a long time and he missed it very much.

He didn't leave the tree and put it in the bag hanging on his waist. Then he went up again and successfully picked the remaining two. The largest one was yellow and very old, but it was still edible.

It was a little uncomfortable when he got down from the tree, but it was okay.

"Let's go, let's keep looking." Handing the bag to Xiulan, Lin Heng couldn't wait to keep looking.

Time flew by, and soon the sun was over their heads. Because someone had come before, their harvest today was not good.

It was half past one now, and they only found eight Hericium erinaceus. Fortunately, they were all good in size. There were five catties of Oyster mushrooms and a bunch of Enoki mushrooms, less than half a catty.

In addition, there were some Chinese medicinal materials. They dug a few Codonopsis pilosula and found three catties of Gastrodia elata.

"Let's eat. Maybe there will be another chance in the afternoon." Xiulan took out the food and placed it on the stone, enjoying it face to face with Lin Heng.

"Come on, let's have a wife!"

Lin Heng took a bite of the scallion pancake, picked up the kettle and clinked it with Xiulan.

"Let's have one!"

Xiulan smiled and clinked it with Lin Heng.

"Awooo!"

Xiongba was wagging his tail beside him, as if to say, don't just eat by yourself, give me something to eat.

"Hey, open your mouth!"

Lin Heng would definitely not treat his son badly, so he took a scallion pancake and stuffed it into Xiongba's mouth.

"Don't have fun in the afternoon, work harder!" Xiulan fed it a potato pancake.

The two people and the dog enjoyed lunch happily under the shade of the tree. The cool mountain breeze gently caressed their faces. Looking up was the blue sky and white clouds, and looking down was the mountains and valleys.

They didn't know where the eldest brother and sister-in-law had gone, but agreed to return to Baishigou to meet before five o'clock in the afternoon. After eating, the two ate another apple and then continued on the road to look for mushrooms.

Although we didn't pick much today, they were all high-quality goods, so we didn't need to pick them up again when we got back.

Not long after walking, Lin Heng found another bunch of oyster mushrooms growing on a rotten tree root, and he happily picked them up.

"It's good to find more of these oyster mushrooms." Lin Heng said with emotion.

"I want enoki mushrooms more, so we can have hot pot when we get back." Xiulan smiled.

After saying this, the two of them moved forward all the way. There was no movement in the forest, and they could find some mushrooms from time to time, and they were quite happy to pick them up.

"Husband, come and see, this yam vine is so thick."

Xiulan suddenly found something good and shouted at Lin Heng.

Lin Heng didn't go to see Xiulan, he was stunned by another scene: "Don't talk about yam first, look at Xiongba, my God, where did it get such a big prey!" (End of this chapter)