After Yang Huairen and the others approached, the old man tied the sow back and let another hunter pull the pig aside. But he carefully lay on the ground, and directly used his hands to carefully dig the soil little by little.

Brother Tianba asked curiously, "Brother Ren, this old man, is he digging something?" Could it be that digging is the treasure he said? ”

Xiao Qi was completely confused, scratching his chin with one hand, pointing at the sow with the other, and pointing to the pit that the old man was digging, he really couldn't figure out what the inevitable connection between all this and the baby was.

Yang Huairen saw that he had figured it out here, so he explained, "This old man, what he is digging is indeed a kind of treasure, but this treasure is not gold, silver and gemstones, but a kind of food. ”

"Something to eat?"

This time it's Tie Xiangyu's turn to believe it, this deep mountain and old forest, even if there is something to eat, shouldn't it grow outside? Why is it buried in the soil, and the sow gang leader needs to search for it?

Yang Huairen couldn't help but smile when he looked at them, "This thing may not be familiar to everyone, and in different places, people call it differently."

My personal name for it is black truffle. It is something that grows in the dirt near the pine tree, not an animal or a plant, to be exact, but something like a mushroom. ”

"Truffles?"

Lan Ruoxin was surprised, "I seem to have heard this name, but I can't remember where I heard it." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, you've probably heard it in a restaurant. In some restaurants in Tokyo, there are dishes made with truffles, but this kind of food is really rare, and the production is very seasonal, so the dishes made with it are very expensive, and it is not easy to eat when you want. ”

Lan Ruoxin nodded thoughtfully, "It seems to ...... I did hear this name in a restaurant. ”

"Well, the truffle is also called a mushroom, and it is also called a mushroom, it is said that after eating it, it can prolong life, youth, and there is a saying that it has a special effect, that is, aphrodisiac, so many dignitaries and nobles in the capital are ......"

Speaking of this, Yang Huairen coughed a few times embarrassedly, Lan Ruoxin and Tie Xiangyu also turned their heads in embarrassment to see the old man digging the soil, and Brother Tianba and Xiao Qi looked at each other and smiled evilly.

Yang Huairen said that I am not lying, truffles are indeed rich in active protein, a variety of amino acids that are beneficial to human health and a variety of trace elements.

In addition, it also contains a large amount of cerebroside, male ketones, truffle acid, sterols, truffle polysaccharides and truffle polypeptides and other health care anti-cancer substances, which have outstanding effects on killing cancer cells and inhibiting their regeneration, anti-aging and enhancing immunity.

The male ketones in it have the function of nourishing yang and benefiting essence, and the ancients recognized this, so truffles have become a kind of health food that many rich and noble people are chasing.

The younger brother asked, "Then how can these hunters use sows to search for such treasures?" ”

Yang Huairen replied, "I didn't expect it before, but then I remembered the special smell of black truffles, and I knew what was going on with these hunters going into the mountains and leading the sows."

Black truffles do not grow on the surface for you to see, but grow in the soil below the surface. In the vast majority of cases, they are attached to the roots of pine trees to draw nutrients, so they can only be found under pine trees.

However, it has very high requirements for the growing environment, and it is necessary to find their traces in the deep mountains and old forests that are absolutely free of pollution......"

Brother Tianba interjected, "Oh, I see, the more deep mountains and old forests you are, the more you can let this treasure called truffle absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, right?" ”

Yang Huairen smiled, "Well, that's pretty much what it means, but even if people know that it grows in the soil under pine trees, the forest is too big to find it."

That's where sows come in. Because truffles have a special smell, we ordinary people are not easy to detect, but this smell is somewhat similar to a smell of secretions secreted by boars in heat that attract the opposite sex.

The pig itself has a very sensitive sense of smell, especially the sow, which will easily detect this smell and then be attracted to the truffle growth area. And these hunters can use this to dig up the truffles and collect them. ”

Everyone suddenly realized that even those hunters had cast reverent glances at him because what Yang Huairen said was very reasonable.

The old man said with a smile while digging, "This guest is really well-informed, and the truffle you are talking about, we mountain people call it Panasonic Treasure."

The truths you said just now, we have been digging Panasonic treasure in this forest for a lifetime of old hunters can't say clearly, but we know how the old generation of people teach us, so we just follow it, I didn't expect to meet a master today, I was really taught. ”

Yang Huairen waved his hand and said humbly, "Where, I just saw it from books." ”

The old man said, "It's better to be a reader of you Han people, who understand things and truths more than us in the mountains." ”

As he spoke, the old man's hand suddenly slowed down, and pulled the moist soil mixed with some dead grass and branches more carefully to the side with his fingers, and as the soil was removed, it gradually revealed something the size of an egg, black and covered with small bumps.

The old man took out a cloth towel from his bosom and spread it next to the truffle, and then with the two fingers of each hand, the index finger and the middle finger, inserted it into the soil from the four corners of the truffle, followed the shape of the truffle, and then gently separated it from the part of the soil that connected to the pine roots in the soil.

Brother Tianba couldn't understand it anymore, and said impatiently, "Since you have seen the baby, won't it be over if you pull it out of the soil directly, why do you work so hard?" ”

Yang Huairen explained, "Tianba, you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. The old man dug up the truffle so carefully, because he didn't want to destroy its wholeness, and it was the bulging parts that were collected that it was collected, but he couldn't savagely destroy it in its entirety.

Because the truffle is really too rare, and you can see the place where it was collected, in such a deep mountain and old forest, we have to trek for more than an hour to reach it.

And the difficulty of collecting is also very high, the old man's method is to protect the rest of it, so that it can grow new next year, and future generations can also come to collect.

If you pull out all the roots and soil as you said, I'm afraid that there won't be new truffles under this pine tree next year, which is also a kind of inheritance, understand? ”