Chapter 19: End Away
I don't know when the heavy rain stopped last night.
Pei Yao opened the rattan door and let out Duoduo, standing in the courtyard washed clean by the rain, inhaling the cool air with the scent of earth in her nose.
The surrounding vegetation and leaves are drenched with dew and sparkling, and when you look up, you can see the blue sky and cloudless sky, setting off the rising sun, and the glow of the sunset on the misty hills is beautiful.
A brand new day!
An autumn rain and a cold, and it won't be long before the frost will fall into winter.
By the time the sun had fully risen, around 8 a.m., the dew had almost gone. Pei Yao carried a rattan basket on her back, brought a machete and led Duoduo to set off to Beishan.
Usually Pei Yao rarely goes to Beishan, because the trees in Beishan are tall and the sunlight is difficult to reach the ground, in addition to some shade-loving herbs and mushrooms, you can also find some fruits growing on the trees in autumn.
Occasionally, you will encounter a place with few trees to find traces of wild vegetables and pheasants and hares.
It's not as much wood as bamboo forests and gently sloping mountains, that is, wood used to burn fires!
The north mountain is particularly large, and after walking up the slope from the col for almost an hour, I picked up a basket full of mushrooms and a few bunches of fruit with branches to hang on the edge of the basket. Stand up straight, and look through the gaps in the overlapping trees in front of you, but you still can't see the edge. This North Mountain is too big!
I didn't go inside, I turned a corner and went down the hill on a different path. Although I can't take it, I want to see if I can find other good things, but I am actually greedy ≥^.^≤ in my heart.
After walking diagonally down for a few minutes, I walked around a large tree blocking the way, and found a large rotten basswood tree next to a large rock.
The wood was wet, and patches of fat black fungus grew on it.
"Fungus!" Pei Yao shouted happily.
In this era of lack of food and clothing, being able to find fungus can greatly enrich the dining table! The fungus is highly nutritious and also nourishes blood and beauty, especially women should eat more fungus.
People in this world don't seem to eat this, and they don't see anything for sale. Maybe you don't dare to eat it because you eat fresh poisoning, it's a waste!
Duoduo saw the owner excitedly circling around a piece of rotten wood, thinking that it was a treasure, and happily ran forward to sniff east and west, and found that it was not delicious, or a piece of rotten wood, and was not interested in chasing a rabbit. Even if it can't catch up yet!
The rattan basket on her back was full, and she couldn't hold anything, Pei Yao could see that she couldn't get it, and she wasn't in a hurry.
Make a mark all the way and call Duoduo down the mountain, and the fungus will come to pick it again on the next trip, and it will not run if it is placed here.
Halfway down the mountain, I heard Duoduo calling ahead! Hearing its rapid voice, Pei Yao thought that she had encountered a snake, and hurriedly ran to the place where Duoduo made a sound.
Duoduo called at a bush.
Brushing aside the bushes with a machete, behind them was a large protruding chunk of mountain soil, on which a few clumps of unknown long-leaved grass hung like a curtain on the hill.
She didn't see a snake or anything else, she was a little puzzled, Duoduo wouldn't bark!
I took a closer look at the underside of the long-leaved grass, and some hay branches were exposed, and when I bent down, I could see a hole underneath! Pei Yao was surprised, pulled out the blades of grass with the wooden stick in her hand, and found that it was a pheasant nest, there were about seven or eight eggs in the nest, among which there was a small pheasant with a small head and body out of the shell, and it chirped slightly when it saw the light, and also heard the chatter of the chick breaking the eggshell with its sharp beak when it was about to come out of the shell.
This ......, Pei Yao hesitated, it is obvious that these pheasants are just about to hatch, and pheasants can also be raised artificially, she raised them in her previous life, and she heard that pheasants and wild eggs have high nutritional value, so she collected some and raised them in the backyard of the farmhouse in a cage.
But winter is coming soon, and although the feathers of the baby pheasants have grown well in more than a month, and they are frozen to the point that they are not broken, they still need to eat food to feed the animals.
It's good to go and collect the food you have brought back, enough for yourself and a lot to eat, and then raise chickens......
That's right, that's stupid! Chickens don't eat much when they are small, just when there are many alfalfa grass in autumn, they can be harvested back to feed the chickens, as well as the cabbage and radish leaves after the autumn harvest in the field, as well as the chickens, rabbits and fish that are usually killed.
Wait for the chickens to be kept in captivity for a period of time, adapt, the older ones will be scattered during the day to eat themselves, and the nest will be collected at night, and when they are older, they will cut off the feathers of the wings, and then tie the rope on the feet, enough to open the legs, so that they can't fly.
The bamboo forest is so big, just use a fence to give it to the chickens, and the pheasants also like the bamboo forest the most!
Haha, how can you waste it if you have such good conditions!
You can also go to the set to buy some chickens and geese together, one is also to catch a group is also to catch, anyway, it takes a lot of effort, the amount can also be a large ancient breeder, the worst, enough to eat!
Pei Yao was happy while thinking, and reached out to bring a nest of eggs to the nest...
I didn't go far to see a female pheasant with messy hair, pacing back and forth restlessly on a tree, clucking and looking this way, and seeing Pei Yao and Duoduo turn a tree to reveal their figures, the hen crowed even more rapidly.
Pei Yao understood that it seemed that the nest she was holding was it.
A little embarrassed, she covered her face with her hands, covered her face from the hen, and took Duoduo down the mountain.
Go home and see the chickens!