Harvesting a tree with an extremely well-developed root system is not an easy task, especially if there is no one to cooperate. But this red fruit tree is really rare, it is impossible to ask Ye Feng to give up, no matter how tired he is, he can persevere.

Fortunately, when he was just resting, Ye Feng ate the cake he brought with him at any time, and drank a bamboo tube of water, and the food and water made the tired Ye Feng recover some of his strength. After thinking about it, I simply put down the basket and sat there to rest.

Wait until you're rested before you do it.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this tree is worth nothing at all, even inconspicuous, and it is too small to use it as firewood. But in Ye Feng's eyes, how beautiful this red fruit tree is, dig it home and prune it slightly, and it can be formed in less than half a year.

Just like pruning rhododendrons, he has a lot of experience in how to make a beautiful bonsai of red fruit trees, and he doesn't have to think about it at all.

Besides, what did he go into this deep forest without the Ye family's long journey and hardships? Isn't it just to find this kind of manufacturable material?

After resting, Ye Feng began to observe the surrounding environment.

Although the red fruit tree was short, it was surrounded by an unknown vine crisscrossing it, entwined with leaves and broken branches that had fallen from the large tree overhead. And under the tree, there is a thick layer of fallen leaves.

Over the years, the leaves have made them look very thick.

Although the red fruit tree is not tall, its root system is notoriously developed. Like a tree, it stretches out horizontally and widely. So, although it is not necessary to dig very deep, it is necessary to dig a very wide area, and only in this way can the whole tree be pulled out intact.

Therefore, to dig a red fruit tree, the first thing to do is not to dig by hand, but to clean up the tangled branches and thick layers of fallen leaves.

Picking up the small hoe, Ye Feng quickly hooked those tangled branches, pulled hard, and after gathering, he was still behind him. Then he used a hoe to pull these thick fallen leaves, and after some effort, the roots of the red fruit tree were finally revealed.

After doing this, Ye Feng began to dig along the direction of the root system. After a while, the well-developed lateral root system was discovered. These roots are just auxiliary effects, and it doesn't matter if they stay or not.

Slowly, I also sorted out the thicker roots that had to be kept.

In this way, while digging, while planing by hand, cleaning up the developed root system, the hoe and hand were used alternately, so that Ye Feng's hands were full of soil.

As for some roots that were too small, Ye Feng directly cut them off with a small hoe.

When the root system of the tree was basically sorted out, and the soil was almost dug up, he was so tired that he was covered in sweat. After resting for a while, Ye Feng made a proper effort, holding the trunk and lifting it up.

The whole tree was freed from the shackles of the soil and held in Ye Feng's hands.

Holding the tree, Ye Feng was really relieved. The effort for so long has not been in vain, and this tree is really getting more and more perfect the more you look at it.

In order to facilitate taking it home, after careful observation, Ye Feng cut off the excessively long roots next to the main root system. After doing this, I still looked for broad-leaved leaves nearby, wrapped several large bags of soil closest to the roots, and carefully put them into the back basket.

After doing this, I checked it again, and then I took the basket on my back, and with a hoe in one hand and the tree in the other, I began to walk in the direction of home.

In fact, according to the relevant theories of bonsai planting, and there is no greenhouse in this season, this season is not suitable for digging trees to find raw materials.

Or rather, it's not the best time.

Because the weather is hot, most of the bonsai needs not big trees, so it is easy to die of dehydration. Even if you barely take it home, it will not be easy to survive.

But Ye Feng couldn't help it, when he first came to Chenjia Village, the season was more suitable than now, but unfortunately he didn't think of these at that time.

Now that I have found it, I can only take it home and raise it carefully.

Fortunately, both the wild rhododendron he found before and the red fruit tree now are extremely pruning plants.

Looking at the dead branches and hoes, the soil and fungus in the back basket, and the red fruit tree in his hand, Ye Feng regretted not asking someone to come with him at this time.

Although the dead branch was not heavy, it was not short, and when Ye Feng walked, it was a little dishonest, dangling back and forth trying to jump out of the back basket. The tree in his hand is even more precious, dare not slack off, along the way, Ye Feng will stop when passing by the water source, put down the back basket, and sprinkle its leaves with water before continuing to hurry.

Fortunately, Ye Feng set off early in the morning, and hurried along the way, although he entered the deep forest, when Ye Feng walked out of the forest and returned to the village entrance, it was only a little later than usual.

But even so, turning around the forest, far away, Ye Feng saw that the Ye family was hurrying towards this side, Xu was not worried about himself, and came to look for it in person.

"Sister, I'm here" Ye Feng shouted happily, his heart warm. I have to say that the taste of being remembered by relatives is really comfortable.

Seeing that the Ye family was walking towards him, and he was really tired, Ye Feng no longer continued to walk, but found a shade and stopped, waiting for the Ye family to come and pick him up.

Now I finally have a helper.

To tell the truth, just before he saw Ye's family, if he wasn't afraid that the shameless person would pick up the back basket and hoe, he would have wanted to put the back basket and hoe at the entrance of the village, and only took the dead wood and red fruit tree home.

He was so tired.

The last time I planted corn, Ye Feng proposed, saying that the family is quite far away from the rented land, and it is both hand-holding and laborious to hold farm tools back and forth every day, so why not put it in the ground, and then take it back together after planting.

As a result, according to Ye's family, things like hoes and baskets of firewood knives should never be left in the ground overnight. Just because some people like to go to other people's fields after finishing work, they will definitely go home when they meet these farm tools.

If you want to say how much these farm tools are worth, and most of them are from the same blacksmith, and they are not engraved with the name of the house, once they are subordinated, they will basically not be able to get them back.

When he got closer, he saw that Ye Feng was intact, Ye Shi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his previous worries were completely put down, and he spoke for Ye Feng while holding a cloth towel.

"When I saw you go out in the morning, I thought I was going to the woods again. As a result, you didn't come back when you just eat, and this girl told me that you decided to go deep into the jungle, and you didn't come back for lunch, which scared me. You're really, bold enough! A person dares to go deep into the woods? What if you run into those wild boars or something? ”

Seeing that the Ye family was a little angry, Ye Feng hurriedly said with a smile: "Sister, don't worry, I won't get lost." ”

"Won't? I think you're lucky. ”

"Of course not. As I walked deeper into the forest, I made some markings, and when I came out, I just followed them. It's my fault this time, I'm worried about you, and I won't go alone next time. But although I am tired this time, the harvest is not small, sister, you can help me hold it, I can't even walk. ”

Hearing Ye Feng say this, the Ye family became happy. This kid is quite smart, and he knows how to make marks.

It's also a shame that she's a kid, if it's a girl, she doesn't feel at ease.

Ye Shi hurriedly took the back basket and hoe that Ye Feng handed over, and Ye Feng himself held his precious red fruit tree. After Ye Feng's careful care along the way, he looked quite energetic at the moment, and there was no sign of dehydration.

After Ye Feng's theoretical edification in the past few days, Ye Shi somewhat understood a little bit of the so-called manufacturable materials that Ye Feng said.

However, she liked those slim flowers and trees more, so Ye Feng didn't attract her attention at all when he was holding this short and thick red fruit tree in his hand.

When he took the back basket, he saw a piece of dead wood more than one meter long that Ye Feng put inside, and he was a little puzzled, because he asked, "What is this used for?" You run so far, so tired, is it possible that you have achieved it for this piece of firewood? ”

She just heard Ye Feng say that today is worth the trip and has a big harvest. In her opinion, the tree in Ye Feng's hand is obviously not today's "big harvest", is it this dead branch?

As soon as Ye Feng heard this, he knew that the Ye family had misunderstood, and he was not annoyed, after all, not everyone could understand it, so he replied truthfully: "Sister, take a closer look, what is the difference between this piece of wood and ordinary dead branches?" ”

Ye quickly threw the hoe in his hand into the basket at will, put the basket on his back, and while walking, he took the piece of dead wood in his hand and observed it carefully.

At first, she really didn't care, but now that she takes a closer look, she really finds the difference in this dead branch. I saw a bunch of tiny things growing densely on it, pitch black, some big and some small.

With a frown, he asked, "These can't be sun-dried fungi, right?" It's just that I've never seen such a black fungus. Let me tell you, some fungi are poisonous and cannot be eaten. ”

Ye Feng said in his heart that the Ye clan was really powerful, and he knew that it was edible with a casual guess, so he said with a smile: "Sister, these are not mushrooms, but they are indeed edible." It's a delicious vegetable, I've seen it in books, and it can be eaten cold or stir-fried with a mix of herbs and the like. In particular, it can be stored for a long time after drying, and you can soak it in water when you want to eat it. ”

When Ye Shi heard this, his face was full of incredulity, and he said with some disbelief: "Don't make me happy, such a black and ugly thing can really be eaten?" It's as good as you said, it's as convenient as sun-dried mushrooms to dry it on weekdays, store it, and take it out and eat it in the winter. ”

Ye Feng couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.

Ever since he taught Yip to wash and dry the mushrooms that he couldn't eat, store them, and eat them in other seasons, Yip has compared everything with the mushrooms.

Fortunately, this fungus is indeed similar to the fungus, and some places are directly called wood fungus, which can be dried and stored for a long time.

Seeing that Ye Shi was still a little unconvinced, and there was doubt on his face, Ye Feng asked Ye Shi to stop, squatted, and grabbed a relatively large dried fungus that he had just picked from the back basket and put it in Ye's hand.

Now Ye Shi was a little convinced, because these black dry things in the palm of his hand were really much bigger than those black things that were still on the dead branches. And, perhaps, just like the fungus, a soak in water should get bigger and thicker.

However, this black appearance is so ugly that it can't be related to what you eat.

Ye Feng smiled bitterly and stopped explaining.

Anyway, you can't blame Ye, the appearance of this fungus is indeed ugly, and people who have not eaten it are unbelievable for a while. But it doesn't matter if you don't believe it at this time, when he sends out the fungus with water, and stir-fry it with other dishes at night, everyone will naturally believe it after eating.

After a while, due to the greatly reduced burden, Ye Feng was not as hard as he was walking in the forest just now, and between the two chatting, after a while, the sister and brother returned home.

Ye Feng placed the red fruit tree in the shade of the backyard and sprinkled some water on the leaf surface, and then he was relieved. Lunch was already prepared, and it was just the right cool. However, after a few bites and a quick lunch, Ye Feng began to get busy.

He first called Qianyan to help, and pulled out the relatively large dry fungus left on the dead branch. With the addition of the previous handful, there is actually half a bowl of dry alone.

After pulling it out, Ye Feng solemnly found a place to place the dead wood in the backyard.

The location is open-air, but shaded by large trees, so it is neither exposed to the sun nor rain. According to common sense, after the next rain, there will be fungus to eat.

There has been a lot of rain recently, so Ye Feng doesn't feel the need to water these fungus by himself, just let them grow at their own speed.

After doing this, Ye Feng scooped the hot water that had been heated during cooking from the ear pot on the stove and poured it into a small wooden basin, and poured all the half bowl of fungus into it to soak.

Then he went to the open space behind the house to plant red fruit trees.

Fortunately, the wasteland here in the backyard last time had been reclaimed by the family, and the Ye family just took the best of them and planted them with herbs, ginger, onions, garlic or something, and she couldn't look down on the rest of the places.

But this is also good, these relatively not very good locations are quite suitable for planting trees dug up by Ye Feng.

According to the habits of the red fruit tree, Ye Feng found a more suitable place, coarsely mixed some soil, plus the bags of raw soil he brought back, dug a pit, and began to plant trees.

It's not that Ye Feng has to be cultivated so carefully, but this season is really not suitable for planting trees. However, even if it is an experiment, he will definitely plant it on a large scale this winter and next spring.

Qianyan has been curiously guarding these fungus in the stove, never leaving an inch. It's pretty cool in the stove, because it's just a simple shed, and it's ventilated all around.

Although Ye explained that it was used to eat for a long time, just like Ye's reaction at the beginning, Qianyan didn't believe that this thing could be eaten anyway. But at the same time, I was very curious, I kept guarding it to see how it changed, and I heard Ye Feng say that this little ugly thing would actually become very big, so I kept guarding it.

As a result, before Ye Feng's red fruit tree was planted, he saw Qianyan running to himself and said, "Uncle, that thing has really become bigger, like a black flower!" And it has also become more and more, and half a wooden basin has been installed. ”

Well, it seems that no one likes black things, especially vegetables.

smiled slightly, ignored her, and said without raising his head: "Then if you continue to guard, it will become bigger." "Then go ahead and plant your own red fruit trees.

Seeing that Ye Feng ignored him, Qianyan ran back to the stove to continue watching. As a result, as Ye Feng said, the black thing became bigger and bigger.

After planting the tree, watering it, and washing his hands, Ye Feng knew that the fungus should be almost the same, after all, it had only rained two days ago, and the fungus was not particularly dry, it foamed quickly, and it was still hot water.

Immediately went to the kitchen.

Sure enough, the fungus has become huge. However, to Ye Feng's disappointment, this is not the small fungus that Ye Feng imagined, but a big fungus. Moreover, I didn't think much about it at the time, so I poured it all into the wooden basin and foamed.

Now it seems. That's too much.

Forget it, the big fungus is the big fungus, it's also a dish after all, and it doesn't cost money.

Seeing that it was still early, the fungus could also be soaked for a while, Ye Feng went to figure out how to shape the tree, and Qianyan went to take a nap. I have to say that today's trip to the deep forest is simply worth it, this red fruit tree is really more and more beautiful.

And it's not styling yet!

After his pruning, I believe it will surprise everyone's eyes.

In this way, according to the experience in his previous life, Ye Feng made a gesture towards the red fruit tree. When it was busy until mid-afternoon, Ye Feng stopped work, ready to go and see how the fungus was foaming.

Now that this season is so hot, I think it should be foaming.

Approaching the stove and approaching the wooden basin, Ye Feng picked up a piece of fungus and touched it, feeling that it was almost there, so Qianyan, who had just gotten up, took another clean bowl, and Ye Feng pinched the root of the fungus in the basin and washed the rest carefully. While washing the toilet, he said to Qianyan: "There are a lot of dirty things in this dish, as well as soil, you have to wash it carefully before eating." ”

After speaking, he showed Qianyan the water in the wooden basin. Sure enough, there was a fine layer of sand precipitating underneath.

To Qianyan's surprise, it was only half a bowl before foaming, but now after cleaning, there are actually three or four bowls.

Thinking that there was no meat at home, Ye Feng and Qianyan went to the field to pull out a cabbage, put away the old yellow leaves and prepared to feed the pigs, and the rest of the vegetable leaves were torn at will, and the vegetable gang was not thrown away, but cut them carefully. I cut the sauerkraut and pepper again.

It's all ready, just waiting for Ye to come back and stir-fry.

Ye came back from hunting pigweed and was about to go to the stove to drink water, but he saw the cleaned fungus and the chopped cabbage. Ye still couldn't believe that this was actually the thin black thing he saw.

In addition, Ye Feng told her before, just follow the usual dishes. Ye no longer cares about the doubts in his heart, anyway, even if he can't eat it, it's just a waste of a cabbage.

I immediately tied an apron and started cooking.

At dinner, after this dish was served, Chen Jixing and the three of them did the same as before eating peanuts last time, and they didn't dare to do it.

Although Chen Jixing was hungry, he only picked up vegetables and sauerkraut to eat, and did not dare to touch the fungus.

This black appearance does make people wonder.

It seems that I have to be the first to eat.

So, Ye Feng took the lead in picking up a piece of fungus with chopsticks and eating it. The fungus sucks the taste of sauerkraut, which is a little sour, but the taste is okay, very tender, and chewy.

Immediately, Qianyan also ate a piece, and Chen Jixing and Ye Shi also began to eat. After tasting it, everyone was a little surprised. I didn't expect that although this thing looks black and ugly, it tastes really good, delicate and refreshing.

And according to Ye Feng, it can be preserved for a long time.

While eating, I didn't expect Ye Shi to suddenly ask, "Do you remember where this thing grows?" If only I remembered, we could pick it together next time. While there is still some to pick back, plus the mushrooms that were dried before, as well as woad and potatoes, this winter will not worry about running out of vegetables. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng felt that Ye's proposal was good.

If the family goes into the mountains to pick together, not only will they not get lost, but even if they encounter any dangerous things, the family will take care of each other, and he can continue to look for suitable bonsai raw materials.

Speaking of which, there are only two trees in the house now, which is too few. It seems that Chen Jixing has to be impressed. As long as he was willing to go, Ye Feng felt that the dense forest was not so terrifying.

Because he said to Chen Jixing with a smile: "The place where this thing grows is not certain, and generally speaking, it is easy to grow on dead branches." However, we have not seen it in the woods many times, and it seems that most of them are deep in the dense forest. ”

Ye Shi was an anxious child, so he immediately suggested: "Then what are you waiting for, let's go tomorrow." Anyway, there is little work in the field now, and there is no need to go to the ground every day. I'm good at eating it, at least it's much better than eating kimchi. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng had no choice but to stop Ye Shi and said, "Sister, this thing is not easy to find when it is dry, and I saw it this time because I was lucky." You've seen it before, it's small, and it's black. However, when it rains heavily, let's go in again, there must be something. At that time, after being soaked in rainwater, the fungus will swell and be easily detected. ”

Ye Feng didn't want Chen Jixing to go with him and return empty-handed, so he didn't want to go again next time. Speaking of which, in the depths of this dense forest, with Chen Jixing following, it is more reassuring in the end.

When Ye Shi heard this, he had no choice but to give up, but asked again: "You said that this black thing is called fungus?" ”

Ye Feng knew that he had missed his mouth, in fact, there were records of eating fungus in ancient times, but it was not called fungus, but "wood fungus" or "black cabbage cloud fungus". Because he smiled: "It was my slip of the tongue just now, this black thing is called wood fungus, and in some places it is also called black cabbage." It usually grows after heavy rain. ”

Hearing Ye Feng say this, the Ye clan seemed to react suddenly, and immediately connected all this with the trees. seemed to understand something again, because he asked Ye Feng and said, "You just carried that piece of wood back so far away, it won't be ......?"

Ye Feng knew that the Ye clan had already guessed, so he nodded and smiled.

As a result, Ye Shi was very happy, and asked stupidly, "Do you mean it really?" Can it grow in the backyard? Seeing Ye Feng nodded, he immediately ran to the back of the house to look at the piece of wood.

Ye's behavior made Chen Jixing and Qianyan unable to come back to their senses for a long time, they didn't understand why Ye's was so excited, wasn't it just a piece of dead wood!

When Ye Feng told the father and daughter in detail that there were dried black and white cabbage sleeping on the wood, which would grow out after the rain, they also went to the backyard to visit.

Ye Feng shook his head, a little unsure of what to say. It seems that Qianyan is curious about everything, and it is not impossible to find a reason.

As a result, after a short while, I heard Chen Jixing's exclamation again, and even Ye Feng was a little puzzled.

Chen Jixing has always been more stable and will not lose his temper like this. You must know that it is just a dead branch with fungus, which is really not worthy of his exclamation as a big man.

However, after thinking about it, the big fungus on the dead branch has been plucked clean, and the remaining small ones have not been watered, so there is really nothing to look at.

Could it be......

Ye Feng was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran to the backyard.

When they arrived in the backyard, they saw that the three of the Ye family were covering their mouths with one hand and pointing to the bamboo basket planted with peanuts with the other, and they wanted to say something incoherently, but they couldn't express it clearly.

But Ye Feng knew that peanuts must have sprouted.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief for no reason. To be honest, since the peanuts were planted, he was still a little worried. After all, this is a completely different time and space, and it is not certain whether peanuts can break through the ground as promised.

If it really doesn't grow, regret is certain. More importantly, this is one of the clues to his home. In order to prepare a soil similar to alkaline, he had mashed all the peanut shells and used them all as fertilizer.

In other words, these treasures in the bamboo basket are all his hopes.