The evening time passed like this, and the next morning, the family of four continued to get up early, and after breakfast, they were ready to go up the mountain to pick tea.

As a result, as soon as I walked to the highway, I saw an old man surnamed Zhong in the next village, which was a little farther away from the county seat, carrying a few strings of three handfuls of mushrooms threaded with bamboo strips and walking towards the county seat.

Although Lao Zhong is old, he is actually a few years older than Wei Mingling's uncle, and his seniority is not high.

This is because Wei Xiaoli is the eldest of his grandfather's brothers, Wei Dagui is the eldest of his father's brothers, and Wei Mingrang is the eldest of several cousins.

The so-called elders come out of the house, so it seems that Wei Ming makes the three brothers and sisters have a high seniority, and often encounters old people in their sixties and seventies calling uncles, or even eldest brothers.

As for those of the same age, or younger than Wei Mingrang, there are already uncles and even fathers-in-law.

Therefore, this old Zhong, Hu Mengxian followed her husband to call Brother Zhong, and Wei Ming asked the three brothers and sisters to call Uncle Uncle.

After everyone said hello, Hu Mengxian asked, "Brother Zhong is lucky today, he also picked up three handfuls of mushrooms, where did you pick them up?"

Lao Zhong smiled: "It's in my family's valley." ”

Hu Mengxian said: "I'm afraid there are forty or fifty of these, and they can be sold for two or three hundred yuan, right?"

Lao Zhong said: "48 flowers, 9 strings, try it out, it should be sold for almost two or three hundred yuan." ”

Then, Lao Zhong left with a smile on his face and continued to sell his three handfuls of mushrooms on the street.

In the second season of "A Bite of China" in the previous life, an introduction to three handfuls of mushrooms was broadcast.

Three mushrooms, the scientific name is chicken fir mushroom, and there are umbrella mushrooms, three eight mushrooms, three dam mushrooms, chicken shredded meat mushrooms and other names, Meitan here everyone is called three mushrooms.

This wild mushroom meat is thick and fat, white in quality, fresh and mellow in taste, and contains a variety of amino acids, proteins, vitamins, riboflains and other substances required by the human body.

Three mushrooms can prevent intestinal cancer, lower blood pressure, enhance appetite, strengthen the spleen and invigorate qi, and increase human resistance.

Whether stir-fried, fried, fried, stewed, or grilled, the taste of the three handfuls of mushrooms is particularly fragrant, crispy, and smooth.

If you use three handfuls of mushrooms to boil chicken soup, it is even more fragrant and refreshing, so it is regarded as the treasure of the mountains and wilderness, and the king of mushrooms.

However, the growth environment of the mushroom is extremely harsh, and only a few mountainous areas in southwest and southeast China are produced from July to September every year.

And it must be a place where there is a termite nest to be able to grow three handfuls of mushrooms.

In addition, the existence of three handfuls of mushrooms is also very short.

After the mushroom head emerges from the ground, it will open and scatter for a few hours, and it will be ripe and rotten in less than a day.

If you don't have a lot of luck, you won't be able to meet three handfuls of mushrooms.

There are many people who have encountered three handfuls of mushrooms that have been overripe, spoiled, and inedible!

The magic of this wild mushroom is that as long as it encounters a cluster, there are generally twenty or thirty flowers.

Then, if you look carefully, you may find two other clusters within a radius of a few tens of meters, and the total number of three clusters is generally between 50 and 100.

Maybe termites also have the consciousness of "three holes of cunning rabbits"?

This is also the origin of the name of the Meitan folk three handfuls of mushrooms, which means that as long as this mushroom appears, it is basically three.

The delicacy and rarity of the three handfuls of mushrooms doomed it to an expensive price.

In 2018, almost all of them were at the price of twenty or thirty yuan a flower and more than 100 yuan a string.

Because of the scarcity and high price, Meitan is sold here regardless of the pound, it is made of bamboo strips, four or five, five or six flowers are worn into a string, and the strings are sold.

Farmers who work in the mountains in late summer and early autumn can earn hundreds of thousands of yuan as long as they are lucky enough to pick up three handfuls of mushrooms at a time, which is no different from picking up money on the ground.

If you are unlucky, pick up a few more times, and the quantity is large, it is possible to pick up three handfuls of mushrooms in two or three months and earn tens of thousands.

Even if it is 2005, the price is not so high, and it can only be sold for four or five yuan a flower, twenty or thirty yuan a string, but if you pick it up once like Lao Zhong, you will have an income of two or three hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the salary of picking tea for several days.

The key is not to lose time.

Because of the scarcity of this thing, it is very fast.

You only need to take the time to find a bamboo strip to draw out, wear it in a few strings and bring it to the street, no matter how expensive it is, you can quickly sell it, and you can continue to do farm work or pick tea when you come back.

This income is equivalent to picking up for nothing.

However, there are very few people who can pick up three handfuls of mushrooms.

Most people have never even seen or bought three handfuls of mushrooms, let alone picked up three handfuls of mushrooms in person.

This thing is completely lucky, and you can't find it if you want to find it.

Deliberately looking for it will delay time, and you may not be able to find a cluster for a few days, so it is better to earn the salary in your pocket by picking tea.

Therefore, the Tongxin villager group and the nearby villagers did not deliberately look for three handfuls of mushrooms in the season, they were all picking tea or doing farm work in the crops.

Naturally, scientists will not turn a blind eye to such delicious and expensive mountain treasures, and have also tried to cultivate them artificially.

However, the conditions required for the growth of the three mushrooms are too harsh, and agricultural scientists have not yet experimented with artificial cultivation techniques.

In his previous life, in 2018, Wei Mingrang searched for the news of successful artificial cultivation on the Internet, but he didn't know whether it was true or not.

But in 2005, there was absolutely no success in cultivating three handfuls of mushrooms.

The three handfuls of mushrooms seen on the market are 100% natural and wild varieties.

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Hu Mengxian had no other reaction to Lao Zhong's good luck and picked up more than forty three handfuls of mushrooms, but she was a little envious and jealous in her heart.

After envy, he was ready to continue walking in the direction of the tea field and picking tea.

But Wei Mingrang stood still.

After looking at the back of Lao Zhong on the street and the three handfuls of mushrooms he was holding in his hand for a few seconds, Wei Mingrang said to his mother Hu Mengxian, who turned back to look at him: "Mom, I'm not going to pick tea first, I'll go find three handfuls of mushrooms." ”

Hu Mengxian said: "This thing is completely based on luck, how can it be so easy to find?"

Wei Mingrang smiled and said: "I'll try, if I'm lucky and find a bunch, isn't it the salary for picking tea for several days?"

Hu Mengxian shook her head and said, "Whatever you want, anyway, you have to earn your own living expenses for the first semester." If you earn less, you will use less. ”

Then, he shouted Jiaojiao and Ming Fei to leave.

Obviously, Hu Mengxian didn't believe that her son had the luck to find three handfuls of mushrooms.

The second sister Jiaojiao and the third sister Ming Fei didn't believe it either, and said jokingly: "Big brother, you pick up more, let us also taste the taste of three handfuls of mushrooms." ”

Then, he smiled and walked away with his mother.

Wei Mingrang, on the other hand, immediately turned around and went home, found a firewood knife and cut two bamboos into small strips, and then went to the mountains.

I didn't think about it, but when I remembered it, Wei Mingrang naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity to make a windfall.

Others pick up three handfuls of mushrooms by luck, but he just needs to go straight to the destination with the strips, just pick them up.