Chapter 41: Mushrooms and fungus
After Ran Wenxing waited for Ran Wenyue to finish speaking, he immediately picked up a green mushroom and asked. "Sister, isn't this mushroom also poisonous?"
"Well, Xing'er is so smart!" After Ran Wenyue praised him, she continued to explain. "This is the green head mushroom, also called the green red mushroom. It grows in pine or coniferous forests, broad-leaved forests or mixed woodlands, and has a high yield in summer and autumn every year. As long as one flower is found, another flower will be found within one meter, and the fruiting body is medium to slightly large.
The cap is initially spherical in shape, and it has the same protective color as grass, so it is not easy to find. Soon flattened hemispherical and gradually extended, often slightly concave in the middle, non-sticky, light green to grayish-green, the epidermis is often patchy and cracked, with stripes on the margins in old age. The mushroom flesh is white. The folds are white, dense, equal-long, nearly straight or detached, with transverse veins. When the rainy season comes, it is most easily spotted in the gullies. The stipe is long and medium-fruited or soft inside, edible and delicious. ”
Then Ran Wenyue briefly told them some other ways to distinguish mushrooms, and then told them. "Swarms of mosquitoes will emerge from the wet grass, so beware of red and swollen faces from mosquito bites, and watch out for snakes."
After Ran Wenyue finished speaking, she took some mushrooms and compared them and began to look for them.
Soon they finished picking the mushrooms here, and after Ran Wenyue looked again to make sure that there were no poisonous mushrooms, she put all the mushrooms together. Then he showed them the fungus in his hand. "This fungus is also a good thing to eat, let's find a little more."
"Is this thing really not poisonous? I remember that after someone ate it, it was itchy all over, had a rash, and breathed uncomfortably. Chu Jun looked at the fungus in Ran Wenyue's hand and said suspiciously.
"It's not poisonous, this fungus is edible. That person must have allergies. Ran Wenyue took the fungus in her hand and explained with a smile.
"I just took this fungus off and soaked it in water, cleaned it more and then you can eat it."
"I see." Chu Jun nodded, and then said, "I've seen this thing, it's in the mountain forest in front. ”
When Ran Wenyue heard this, she said happily: "Really! Take us there. ”
Chu Jun led the way in front, and the group came to a mixed forest, cypress, green oka, pine, some fruit trees and many unknown trees and shrubs.
Walking through the mountains and forests, the ground is still damp, and the air is filled with the earthy smell of rotting leaves and branches mixed with earth.
After turning around and not seeing the fungus, Chu Jun scratched his head. "Hey, I remember it was here, why didn't I see it?"
"Did we miss something? Let's look again. Chu Yi also spoke, bowing his head and pondering.
Suddenly, Ran Wenbo called out to Ran Wenyue in surprise. "Cousin, sister, let's see if that fungus is it?" After speaking, he asked, pointing to the fungus on the dead wood on his head.
"I really didn't expect it to be your kid who found it first." Chu Jun recognized it at a glance and touched his head in praise.
"That's it!" Ran Wenbo raised his head arrogantly.
Seeing that Ran Wenbo had made a discovery, Ran Wenxing was not far behind and walked forward, looking everywhere. Suddenly, he exclaimed in surprise, "There are so many here!" ”
Hearing his exclamation, everyone hurriedly ran over, all of them were stunned by the fungus in front of them, one after another, the trees were densely packed with fungus, and they were all big and big.
"Let's go, go pick it up." Ran Wenbo was so excited that he was about to run over to pick fungus.
Ran Wenyue looked around a lot and stretched out her hand to stop him.
"Sister?"
"Don't worry, wait for me." After Ran Wenyue finished speaking, she found a wooden stick nearby, and the two brothers of the Chu family did the same.
The fungus is inseparable from the wooden stick in the hand, which can be used to explore the way through the thorns, and is also used to beat the grass and scare the snake.
Ran Wenyue gave the wooden sticks she found to her two younger brothers and told them. "The vegetation is so lush that you can't keep your eyes on them when you pick fungus, so beware of snakes and wild beehives hiding in the grass at any time, and if you accidentally touch a round hive, the wild bees will come out of the nest and launch a fierce attack on you, so be careful not to get too excited. When you look at the six directions, your ears listen to the eight directions. ”
"Hmm!" As soon as Ran Wenyue finished speaking, several people couldn't wait to pick it.
A few people only picked the big ones, but not the small ones. Several of them were children who grew up in the mountains, and those who often ran in the mountains believed that the mountains had aura, and that no matter what they were, they could not fish in the water. Only if the roots are left will it continue to grow in the coming year.
Soon a few people finished picking, this time the harvest is quite rich, the five trees combined, how to get more than ten catties, after drying can also have more than a catty.
"Don't tell others, others will come to pick if they know, and we will be gone." Ran Wenyue whispered.
"Of course, you can't tell anyone first." Chu Yi and Chu Jun nodded in response.
"Well, we listen to my sister." The twins also nodded.
Carrying wild mushrooms and fungus, they went home happily all the way.