Chapter 8 That's the hare
Zhao Yuan dug up the piece of bracken nettle, and picked all the ripe prickly bubbles, a total of more than ten pockets of prickly bubbles of tung tree leaves, and then beat pigweed along the hillside, and soon filled the back basket.
Seeing that it was still early, Zhao Yuan asked Meng Ying to take Zhao Luo to wait under the shade of a cedar tree on the hillside, carrying a full back of pigweed and a basket of fern nettles, and walked down the mountain.
Fortunately, there are a lot of pigweed on this side of the hillside, and he didn't go far up the mountain, Zhao Yuan's predecessor's physical fitness is very good, although he has been sick for a while, but the foundation is still there, and after he got sick, he rested for a day yesterday, and now he doesn't feel how hard it is to carry a basket of pigweed.
Walk to the river closer to your home, put down the pigweed under a wooden bridge, where the river is wider and the water flows slowly, wash the pigweed in the basket and the nettle in the basket in the river, and put it on the grass by the river to let the water run dry.
After Zhao Yuan washed the pigweed and nettle, he picked up the empty basket and empty basket, and walked towards the North Mountain, and when he walked to the mountain, he found that Meng Ying and Zhao Luo had already walked into the woods.
"Uncle, look at it, there's a big lump of cow feces there!" As soon as Zhao Yuan met with Meng Ying and Luoluo, he heard the little girl point to a black thing on the sand.
"Didn't anyone pick it up?" Zhao Yuan was puzzled, farm fertilizer is very important in this era, as long as it is cow dung and horse manure on the road, it will soon be picked up by farmers and buried in their own fields as fertilizer.
Zhao Yuan walked into the cow dung that the little girl was talking about, but saw a pair of big eyes staring at the cow dung, isn't this a gray-black hare!
"Luoluo, this is a hare." Zhao Yuan said, he wanted to get close to catch the hare, but he didn't expect the rabbit that was still in a daze just now to run into the jungle and disappear.
"It's really a rabbit, but it's a pity that it ran away." Meng Ying said regretfully.
Most of the trees in the Beishan forest are pines, and there are some camellia trees and some shrubs, the soil is mainly sandy, it rained heavily last night, and after the sun came out today, the hare should have squatted there to bask in the sun and fell asleep, Zhao Luo didn't wake it up until Zhao Yuan approached.
"Uncle, can you still catch a rabbit?" Zhao Luo asked expectantly.
"I can't catch it, the hare is running too fast, but there should be a lot of mushrooms in the woods, and in a while we will use the basket to pick mushrooms, and the basket will still be used to hold pigweed." Zhao Yuan looked at the little girl's expectant eyes and said regretfully.
"Okay then, go mushroom picking, uncle, there are mushrooms there, and they're still red."
"That mushroom can't be eaten, it's poisonous, let's look at the others."
"Brother Yuan, do you know mushrooms that can be eaten?" Meng Ying asked.
"Of course, I know, the mushrooms that can be eaten here mainly include pine mushrooms and green head mushrooms, as well as chanterelle yellow and chicken fir mushrooms, the pine mushroom cap is yellow, the cap is honeycomb-shaped, and the cap of the green head mushroom is blue-black, but this mushroom is very easy to grow maggots, chanterelle yellow and chicken fir mushrooms are relatively rare." Zhao Yuan said after thinking about it.
"Uncle, what is that white mushroom?" The little girl looked around and asked when she saw a white mushroom about six minutes in size.
"That mushroom, it's called a lime mushroom."
"Can you eat it?" Meng Ying asked.
"You can eat it, but this mushroom can't be eaten fresh, either made into acid bacteria, or dried before eating, the taste is not very good, and this mushroom is the most abundant in the mountains. By the way, there is another kind of mushroom that is somewhat similar to this lime mushroom, but its folds are thinner than this lime mushroom, and if there is a wound, a white slurry will emerge, and that mushroom is called rice soup mushroom, which can also be eaten. Zhao Yuan introduced the mushrooms on the mountain like Meng Ying.
"Brother Yuan, you know so much, no one eats mushrooms over there, and someone has been poisoned by eating mushrooms before." Meng Ying said with some admiration.
"Uncle, we have to pick up these stone ......" Zhao Luo didn't remember the name of the mushroom.
"Lime fungus. As long as you don't eat poisonous mushrooms and cook them thoroughly, there will be no problem. Zhao Yuan prompted.
"yes, are we going to pick up these lime fungi?"
"Pick it up, but be careful not to get the lime mushroom juice in your eyes." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, and then picked up the circle of lime mushrooms into the basket with the little girl, although this mushroom is not delicious, but it can be taken home and dried as a winter dish or can be pickled into acid bacteria.
The growth of lime bacteria is more magical, generally in a circle, it may be that the fungus factor is washed into a ring by the rain when it rains.
"A lot of lime fungus!"
"Pick up these caps that haven't opened much yet, don't be too big, and pay attention to the stipe to see if there are maggots in it." Zhao Yuan prompted.
"There are no maggots, there are small half baskets here." Meng Ying said with a smile.
"There are too many mushrooms in the forest, Xiaoying, I think we should stop beating pigweed, and fill the basket and basket with mushrooms." Zhao Yuan looked at the mountains full of edible mushrooms and proposed.
"Okay, Brother Yuan, you know how to eat these mushrooms, and no one in the village picks them up, let's pick up all the mushrooms in the mountains." Meng Ying agreed.
In this era, there are very few people who eat these wild mushrooms, it can be said that there are none, only mushrooms such as fungus, Ganoderma lucidum, lion's mane mushroom, shiitake mushroom, enoki mushroom and other mushrooms are eaten, but this place in Zhaojiazhuang basically does not produce these kinds of mushrooms.
"Maybe you can do these mushrooms as a business, but it's not easy to get people to accept that these wild mushrooms are edible."
"Uncle, is this a blue-headed mushroom?" After picking up the lime mushroom and walking into the woods, the little girl saw Zhao Yuan pick up a mushroom and asked.
"Yes, this is the blue-headed mushroom, it tastes very delicious, Luoluo is so smart, I just say it once and you will remember it." Zhao Yuan praised.
"There are two more there!" The little girl looked very happy, and pointed to the two green-headed mushrooms under a green hill tree and said.
"Okay, are you going to pick it up?" Zhao Yuan looked at the location where the two green-headed mushrooms were located was not steep, and said to Zhao Luo.
"Okay, uncle, I'll pick it up." Zhao Luo said, and picked up the two green-headed mushrooms, "Uncle, this green-headed mushroom has maggots." ”
"Don't grow maggots."
"Oh, then I'll throw it."
"Throw it."
"Luoluo, you follow me, be careful of slipping." Meng Ying looked at the lively little girl and said with concern, just after the rain, the ground under the shade of the trees was not dry, and there was moss growing in many places.
"Luoluo, go, follow your aunt."
"Okay, but I'm going to pick up the mushrooms when I see them." Luoluo said with a smile.
The three of them walked around in the forest of Beishan, and soon a basket and basket were full of mushrooms, most of which were lime mushrooms, and only a pitiful three or five of them were found in chanterelles and chicken firs.
The tools were full, and the three of them were ready to go down the mountain, and it was already noon, and it was time to go back and get lunch. Walked out of the forest and returned to the mountain path, while walking, the little girl suddenly pulled Zhao Yuan, Zhao Yuan thought that the little girl was going to fall, but he didn't expect the little girl to suddenly whisper: "Uncle, look at that!" ”
Zhao Yuan looked at the place where the little girl was pointing, and said in surprise: "That's that hare!" ”