Volume 2 Chapter 163 Mushrooms
There are only two or three days left before the Chinese New Year, and you need to prepare the ingredients for the New Year.
But compared with previous years, the Chinese New Year is not so rich now, I have to say that every day is not bad, it is no longer like previous years because of the lack of ingredients on weekdays, always looking forward to a big meal in the New Year!
The quality of daily life has improved, and naturally there are not so high expectations for a meal......
And this year is also very unusual, but the start of construction after the year should be the latest in recent years, almost at the end of February.
At the same time, this year's planting area is slightly lower than in previous years, all kinds of grain are enough for themselves and livestock to eat, and it is also a trouble to accumulate too much at home, especially when it is wet and needs to be dried again.
Nowadays, there is basically no need to worry about the problem of not having enough food to eat, and it is estimated that the risk of it is even smaller than the probability of an earthquake!
The loosening of the soil and planting continued until the transplanting of corn and vegetables in early April, when it was finally possible to relax again.
Fixation projects are unavoidable, especially now that there are enough crops, and even some cassava rhizomes have been found in the woods and planted in the ground on an area of 100 square meters.
After being busy with things in the field, I can finally let myself go again, which is the motivation for me to complete the farm work in the field quickly!
On the first day, I gave my time to fishing, and there was not much stock left in the fish pond, which should be the most urgent thing to solve in the near future.
But when I was halfway out, I didn't expect to see two mushrooms on the side of the road, and they were new varieties that I hadn't seen on the island before.
It managed to get my attention, and I stopped my trip to the trap to see if the mushroom was edible or not.
If you can eat mushrooms, it will be very valuable, especially when you think of the soft taste of mushrooms, you can't help but lick your lips!
Over the years, mushrooms have indeed been found on the island many times, but unfortunately it has been bad luck that they have found some colorful poisonous mushrooms, and there are only three or four varieties.
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Forget it once or twice, all the poisonous mushrooms that have been found for a long time will naturally give up the idea of looking for mushrooms again, because it is destined to pay no return!
The pile of mushrooms I see today is different from the previous ones, the appearance is gray-white, and the inside is snow-white, which is more like the edible mushrooms that I usually buy in the vegetable market.
So the first time I saw it, I not only stopped, but put down what I was doing and walked towards it.
Thanks to the rain in the previous two days, and the recent season is the time when everything grows, mushrooms are also out to join in the fun!
Normally, the most common season for mushrooms is in the inland areas of June and July, when the temperature is suitable and the rain is abundant, but the islands at sea cannot be used for common sense, because it is just the beginning of May and the heat is unbearable.
When I approached the pile of mushrooms, my mood was surging, and as expected, it turned out to be edible mushrooms.
To be honest, I don't know many types of mushrooms, but it happens to be one of the few types that I knew and ate quite a bit as a child!
It is indeed a coincidence to say that it is a coincidence, and it is inevitable to say that it is a mushroom that is very common in subtropical regions and is quite widely distributed.
However, I didn't rejoice too soon when I got closer and looked at it, the first was that the number of a few mushrooms was not worth jubilating.
In addition, I'm used to being slapped in the face.,It's better to be cautious.,If the previous character must collect the mushrooms as quickly as possible and take them home to cook.。
But after going through a lot of things, I still want to make a final confirmation, so I peeled the mushroom to check the part inside, and ate a piece raw to see if there was any negative reaction from the body in the follow-up!
There is no guarantee that there will be variation due to geographical location and climate factors, or even just varieties that are very similar to previous mushrooms, and if not, it is difficult to imagine the consequences of rashly eating large quantities of mushrooms......
After swallowing a piece of mushroom, it doesn't react so quickly in a short period of time, so I threw the mushroom in my hand and continued my original work.
If there is no adverse reaction in the stomach or the whole body after a few hours, it is not too late to slowly come back and look for the same kind of mushrooms in the woods!
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Then I continued to go fishing, as if the mushroom I had just found did not exist, and I was worried that there would be a reaction, and if there was a reaction, it would mean that the mushroom was poisonous, and I was happy again.
The fishing process did not last long, and after more than an hour, I returned home and was busy with other things, until three or four hours passed, and my body was still unresponsive in the afternoon.
There were no suspected poisoning and minor adverse reactions on the body, not even nausea and other feelings, the result was undoubtedly gratifying, and it was completely certain that it was indeed an edible mushroom!
Although I have been busy for several hours, my mind is not calm at all, and I have made up a big drama in my brain, but fortunately, things are completely developing for the better.
I set off again with my backpack and my personal weapon, of course, to get ready to pick some mushrooms and go home to prepare for dinner.
Although there is no guarantee that there will be other mushrooms in the woods, since the first plant can be found, it is believed that finding the second and third plants should not be a big problem......
The woods, which had just rained the last two days, were quite slippery, and it must have been an area that I would not normally want to set foot in, especially the overgrown woods.
But in order to get mushrooms, this problem seems to be no difficulty, and it can't stop my enthusiasm for collecting mushrooms, and my attachment to mushrooms has gone a little crazy!
The mushroom you find is called straw mushroom, and you know that it is related to its growing environment, and it often likes to grow in moist and rotten grass.
Maybe I hadn't eaten a mushroom for a long time, but God deliberately wanted to fulfill my wish, and a few meters away from where I found the first mushroom, I found another one.
When I happily collected it, I was stunned to look at it, and there were all kinds of mushrooms scattered around the woods, as if they were everywhere.
I never thought that there would be such an easy day to collect mushrooms, it was as if they were delivered to your hands!
Of course, I was extremely satisfied with this result, and the corners of my mouth were almost behind my ears.
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The only trouble is that the rain in the previous two days caused the ground to be slippery, and if you are not careful, you can fall down......
Poof!
This is the second time I have fallen, and at this time the mushrooms are almost half of the basket collected, which is completely sufficient if it is only used for the last two days, and even exceeds.
But my goal is much more than that, in addition to wanting to taste it in the next two days, I also want to save most of it for other seasons.
Of course, the way to do this is to dry it in the same way that most food is preserved, and I don't want such delicious things to go to waste!
After an hour or two, the basket was all full, and the mushrooms in the woods were almost collected, and it seemed that only one area in the vicinity had a greater chance of mushrooms, and the farther you went, the less mushrooms existed, especially in some areas with dense vegetation.
This made me start to think about collecting a large number of pounds, and finally collecting a few hundred catties and then drying them all into dried mushrooms failed, but now the harvest is not small, people always have to be content to be happy!
When I got home, it was still early for dinner after dark, but I was busy with the mushrooms I got up, mainly lighting the fire to make a mushroom feast.
At the same time, the remaining mushrooms are cleaned and put in the sun, and it is impossible to eat them in a day or two.
The taste of the mushrooms is very delicious, especially when I think of the soft texture of the chicken fir mushrooms I picked up at home when I was a child, and the chewiness in my mouth is simply unstoppable......
Although the taste of straw mushrooms is not so delicious, it is also decent, not to mention that the deliciousness is significantly magnified when you have not eaten mushrooms and similar foods for so many years.
It seems to be almost seven or eight years since I last ate mushrooms, and the delicious mushrooms not only satisfy my appetite, but also pull my mind back to how many years ago, and I miss the old days again!
A sumptuous mushroom feast whetts an appetite, and it's been a long, long time since I've enjoyed such a pleasant meal.
Every time you find a new ingredient, you can always be surprised by it, and you can also be supported by it, but unfortunately the possibility of discovering new types of ingredients that can be eaten in the future is getting smaller and smaller.
After all, the island has been inventoried several times, and the discovery of mushrooms today can only be regarded as an accident, or it can be said to be luck, but this kind of luck is not common.
What's even more unfortunate is that mushrooms can't collect seeds, so they can't be grown stably, and they can only be eaten a few times a year by chance, and if they are missed, they will rot.
And the number of mushrooms in the sun today is not much, and it will only take a few meals to take them out and eat them in the future, I have to say that there is a little regret!
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The next day I went to the woods where I had collected the mushrooms yesterday, trying to find the mushrooms that had grown last night, but I only found a few.
Not getting the desired harvest cut off my desire to keep it, so I returned home and went to the beach.
I have only been to the beach once since the Chinese New Year, which is theoretically not conducive to the collection of supplies, after all, some of them may be swept away by the waves after washing up on the beach!
Maybe it's because I haven't been coming to the beach very often lately, and there's a lot of garbage, and I'm pretty lucky.
In just over ten minutes after departure, two or three catties of iron were collected on a large piece of garbage, and a large piece of fabric was picked up half an hour later.
The most incredible thing is that in the second half, even a large stranded fish was found......
This moment is simply tearful, for the first time in so many years, the stranded fish was found in time, and the first few times I saw the fish on the beach, it either stinked or became a pile of skeletons, and the way was sad!
This fish is not big, only 20 pounds, 108,000 miles worse than the size of the stranded shark at the beginning, but it means something different to me.
Its value may not be great, but it makes up for a kind of regret, because too many times when the fish is found too late to eat, and it is natural to be thrilled to see a fish stranded on the beach.