Chapter 52: The King of Mushrooms

"It can't be a crippled muntjac, right? This Nima is too rebellious to be able to grow so small. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Li Ming really doesn't understand, the little guy who is not much bigger than a rabbit looks so much like a muntjac, is this Nima the mountain god teasing me?"

Li Zhi was also a little confused, but he seemed to have seen this thing in the animal world. I can't remember what it's called for a while.,It's like it's called a rat.,I remember that when I introduced it, it seemed that there was very little distribution in the country.。

If you can't figure it out, you don't want to, Li Zhi hurriedly took out his mobile phone and adjusted it to the highest pixel and quietly took a few close-ups of the little guy, especially the head and panorama. At this moment, the little guy seemed to have discovered something, and his front hooves flickered and disappeared from sight.

"Damn, isn't this a mouse deer!" Looking at the little guy's escape, a flash of light reminded Li Zhi of the name of this little thing, the scientific name is known as the mole (xi) deer is the smallest animal in the artiodactyls, the size is like free, the body length is 42~48 cm, the tail length is 5~7 cm, and the weight is 1.2~2 kg.

"What's that? Is this a cross between a mouse and a red deer? Li Ming's face was a little dirty when he heard the name, but he could understand it when he thought about it, it was really that this mouse deer looked too much like a large mouse.

", it's terrible to be uneducated! This is a small deer, and it is also considered a cervid. I remember that this thing seems to be mainly distributed on the border side, and it seems to be far away from our Lijiagou! Li Zhi was a little confused, the distribution of mouse deer is mainly concentrated in the tropical region, and there is very little distribution in China, but why is there one in Lijiagou?

"Hey, you want to do so much! That thing wasn't enough to eat, and it was long gone. Li Ming didn't care so much, anyway, as long as the things that couldn't be eaten were completely worthless in his opinion, he took the lead again and began to march into the mountains.

As the slope of the hill went downhill again, the brothers picked up a lot of wild mushrooms along the way. Although this is not the best time to pick up wild mushrooms, there are still a few. The more common ones such as ground mushrooms taste good and can be used to cook soup and drink later.

"Let's take a break, this is the big stone bag!" Li Ming was a little breathless, the mountain road is not easy to walk, and no matter how good the physical strength is, no matter how good the physical strength is, he can't roar for long, and it is almost noon, and it is time to rest when he is tired and hungry.

Li Zhi was also tired, mainly because the road was basically blocked by the branches and Teng Man, and the arms of the two of them were sore when they wanted to change the way. After looking around, he pointed to a birch forest and said, "Go to the poplar flat over there to rest, just enough to cook and eat." “

Li Zhi was carrying two pheasants and a rabbit in his hands, both of which were sent to the door by himself on the road. The pheasant was shot by Li Ming with a crossbow arrow, and he was in love with each other in the haystack when he was bumped into by Li Ming, who was going to the toilet, and Li Ming, who was unhappy, raised the crossbow and shot it.

This kid still likes to beat mandarin ducks as always, and when he was a child, he didn't ruin the dating of young people in the village, and he was not beaten up.

The rabbit was Li Zhi who was scared to pee and hit his leg when he opened the road, and he didn't plan to ask for it, but this guy didn't know if his psychological quality was too poor and he hit it twice in a row, Li Zhi got angry and kicked it to death.

The poplar flat is on the left side of the big stone bag and is a large birch forest. The terrain is relatively flat, and there are a lot of matsutake mushrooms in a gently sloping forest. In the past, Li Zhi and the others also came often, and there was a small river over there that was suitable as a rest camp.

It took more than ten minutes for the two of them to come to Baiyangping, where there used to be a large piece of empty land in the middle, but now it has long been occupied by some plants, and only a small piece near the stream is still empty with only a shallow layer of weeds.

"Brother, do you want a few stone frogs to cook soup?" There are many stone frogs in the mountains, the size of the stone frogs is similar to that of frogs, and the meat is delicious and the best soup is cooked. The stone frog soup boiled in clear water is as pure white and fragrant as milk, and it is absolutely delicious with a little seasoning.

"Deal with the wild *** rabbit first and save it for the night. Let's catch the stone frog again in a while, I'll go get some firewood and find out if there are any matsutake mushrooms by the way, and add a little to the stone frog soup to taste better. Li Zhi nodded and agreed, he hadn't eaten a stone frog for some years, and he really didn't have much appetite for all kinds of bullfrogs or other artificially bred frogs outside.

There are a lot of stone frogs in the mountains and forests around Lijiagou, although the surface looks leprosy, but the flesh is delicate and white after the skin, the taste is sweet, rich in nutrition, and it is listed as the famous dish of the mountain recommended by the hotel and the restaurant.

And the stone frog has the effects of nourishing and strengthening the body, clearing the heart and moistening the lungs, strengthening the liver and stomach, replenishing weakness, as well as detoxifying fever and treating diseases, etc., and is deeply loved by the mountain people. In the old society, the old people and mothers would go into the mountains to get some stone frogs to replenish their bodies, and I heard that the stone frogs could be milked by boiling soup and drinking.

Matsutake mushrooms are estimated to be unknown to few people, and they are also a good mountain delicacy. One of the most famous should be its medicinal properties, in fact, it tastes good, especially when adding some to the soup.

Matsutake mushrooms also have a unique taste like truffles, and if you look for them, if they have grown up, you can smell a fragrance from afar, and the fragrance is a bit similar to that of pine resin.

Matsutake mushrooms can be eaten not only in soup, but also roasted over a fire. Just picked down, roasted with pine branch fire, there is the smell of pine forest from the deep mountains, on the day of high autumn air, with friends scattered in the forest edge grassland, red leaves all over the sky, wild flowers occur, the sense of vicissitudes arises spontaneously.

Matsutake mushrooms generally grow in dense forests such as pines, oaks, and rhododendrons, where the soil is relatively soft. Li Zhi went into the mountains to look for it when he was a child, and naturally he also had a little experience.

Slowly looking along the edge of the woods all the way, looking at some raised places and pulling a few small branches with small branches, maybe a soft one will appear, Li Zhi was lucky, and it didn't take long to find one after walking into the forest, which is not too big, about six centimeters, which is relatively small.

Continuing to walk, this time after walking more than 300 meters, there was no harvest, but Li Zhi asked about the unique taste of matsutake mushrooms. There must be a matsutake tree that has grown around, and generally speaking, the most valuable matsutake mushrooms are those that have not yet grown, but they also taste good when they are opened, especially when roasted.

Soon Li Zhi found that growing in a tree hole, the mushroom surface that grew on the top of the matsutake mushroom was like a small plate, estimated to be about five centimeters in diameter, and he gently pried up the fungus stalk with a branch and slowly took it out, and it was good to see that it was still edible.

Because the precipitation in the south is much heavier, the water content of matsutake mushrooms is easy to rot, especially if they have grown and are not eaten by insects or rot.

After looking for more than ten matsutake mushrooms in succession, Li Zhicai stopped, picked up some firewood in the forest and carried it out of the forest. At this time, Li Ming had already cleaned up the pheasant, leaving a few beautiful feathers on the rooster's tail and burying the others in a pit, which was also to protect the environment.

The two pheasants were wrapped in yellow mud by the creek by Li Ming, put them on the ground, and waited for Li Zhi to come back and make a fire to barbecue.

"Brother, you make the fire angry. I'll catch a few stone frogs first, and I've heard a cry just now. Li Ming saw Li Zhi come back and couldn't wait to explain and walked to the stream, the stone frog generally stays in the cave in the water during the day, and will go to the forest to catch small insects for food at night.

Catching stone frogs is also a technical job, there is not only one kind of stone frog in the water, the skin of the stone frog is blue-brown and non-toxic and edible, and there is a reddish-gray skin with a high cry, which is a poisonous frog that cannot be eaten.

So when capturing, you must pay attention to the fact that a mountain kid like Li Ming is a little expert at dealing with things like the stone frog, and gently moved the stones in the few places he noticed just now, and the stone frog was already in his hands.

The best time to catch the stone frog is at night, at night the stone frog will come out of the water in the forest, at this time only need to shine a flashlight on it and stay motionless, just need to carry the bag to catch it. During the day, the stone frog is relatively active, jumping very fast, and it is not easy to catch it if it is slow.