OBS Chapter 388 Sheep Mushroom
Chapter 388 Sheep Mushroom
Zhou Xing was a little hesitant at first, but when she heard this, she nodded happily, "Oh, you're right. I didn't bring enough stuff. Let's come back tomorrow."
Li was laughing behind, looking at the large field of ferns. There were too many of them. It would be great if they tasted good!
When they approached the top of the mountain, there were no small shrubs on it, only big trees. The ground was also clean, with young grass sprouting one after another. Zhou Guo walked with her head lowered. A small, brown umbrella with a white handle and bumpy fungi on the umbrella appeared at her feet, and she almost stepped on it.
He waved behind him, "Mom, sister, come and have a look. I think this is probably the goat mushroom that Aunt Chen mentioned. It's full of holes."
"Ah? Found it? Let me take a look!" Zhou Xing was originally walking behind and was out of breath. The mountain road was really difficult to climb. After hearing this, her legs were no longer sore and she was no longer out of breath. She ran up like the wind and looked at the cute goat mushrooms on the ground. Her eyes lit up with excitement. "Second Aunt, come and see, is it like this?"
Li also came up excitedly, looking at the fungi on the ground, happy but hesitant, "I don't know, I haven't seen it either."
When I think about the fact that a pound of rice costs forty cents, and that it costs thirty cents a pound when sold to a pharmacy, if I can fill these two backpacks today, I can make a lot of money, enough to buy a lot of salt, a lot of meat, and a lot of paper for the family.
Zhou Guo said with certainty, "It must be this. Look, the flower is the same color as mud, with a white handle and bumps all over it. It's so unique. I've never seen any wild mushroom that looks like this, with bumps all over it. It must be this one. Come on, let's look for it based on this."
Li and Zhou Xing both nodded, looked at the sheep mushroom carefully again, stood up and started looking around. Since it had already started to grow here, they would just search all the way up. They were already very experienced in finding mushrooms.
Zhou Guo took a stick and dug out the fallen leaves if he saw anything pushing them up. He actually dug out quite a few of them. He happily squatted down to pick them up, put a layer of soft moss in the backpack, and put the sheep mushrooms in.
This is much easier to find than the pine mushroom. You don’t need to dig up the soil. It grows on the ground and you can see it by gently pulling aside the fallen leaves.
After walking a short distance, I came to a hillside and saw a flower right in front of me as soon as I entered.
I picked up this flower and looked up. Wow, wow, there is a small piece when I look around!
There is one raw flower, and two flowers growing together, growing in the tender grass, raising their heads from the withered yellow leaves, looking very beautiful.
She put down her backpack, climbed up and picked up the mushrooms one by one. Soon one hand could not hold them all, so she had to put them back in the backpack and pick them again. She would have to bring a small basket tomorrow. It was so inconvenient to climb up and down.
After picking this small piece of flowers, she looked carefully nearby to make sure that there was no flower left before going down.
A total of more than thirty flowers were picked up in this small piece of land. Together with the ones before, there are at least eight ounces of flowers, if not one pound. They were picked really quickly. It took less than half an hour to get up the mountain. It seems that it is good to be in a place where no one has been to before.
Zhou Xing was shouting excitedly over there.
"Ah, here is one... and two more..."
"Wow, there are so many here, there are four, why are there so many here..."
Zhou Guo found it funny. She thought about the time when the large group went to pick mushrooms last year. She seemed to have never been into the mountains and had never picked pine mushrooms. So she was naturally happy to come across so many precious morels.
But doing this will easily attract people.
She'd better move faster.
There are really a lot of morels on the mountain here, but I’m afraid no one has ever been here.
You can find a flower every five or six steps. Pinch it off and leave the roots. Soon you will have a big bunch.
Zhou Xing walked and called all the way. Half an hour later, she heard someone coming over there. "I heard from a distance that it's very lively here. There are so many people. Let's take a look too."
Zhou Guo saw Zhou Xing's happy face froze, and he stamped his feet in regret. His hands quickened their movements, and his eyes scanned the surroundings like radar, wishing he could make the entire hill his own.
She smiled, "Sister, it's okay. This mountain is so big that we can't pick it all. With these aunts as companions, we will be braver and can go to more places. We are new here and don't know the way yet. Some places have these things, but some places don't grow them."
Zhou Xing forced a smile and said, "I know, it's just a pity."
Zhou Guo patted her hands and showed her his backpack, "Look!"
Suddenly there was already half of the backpack inside!
Zhou Xing's eyes widened as she looked at her basket, which was only half full. "Where did you pick up so much?"
Zhou Guo said, "Not much. It's just that my backpack is small, so it looks a lot. It's not much more than yours. Mom has been silent for so long, so she must have picked up a lot. We only brought these things, and we can't fit more."
As they were talking, the women from the village had already arrived. Chen was the one in the front. Seeing Zhou Guo and the others, she smiled and said, "Why are there only two of you? Where's your mother? I saw you were heading this way when you entered the mountain, so I came all the way here to look for her. Let me see how much you have found now."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "We can't compare to the heavy baskets you have. We were just lucky to find a few. Let me take a look at yours."
As soon as the two saw each other, they both burst into laughter, not much different.
Chen said, "I was worried that you didn't know each other, and that I didn't explain it clearly. It seems that I was overly worried. Where is your mother? Guoguo's mother, where are you?!"
Li agreed from a distance behind.
"Okay, I'll go find your mother!" Several people went downstairs. "Come up, why are the children in front and you so far behind..."
The other women had already dispersed. It was such an expensive thing, picking up one flower meant money, and they could buy an extra foot of cloth for the children and an extra finger of cotton for the elderly.
Zhou Guo walked with Zhou Xing mainly because she was afraid that Zhou Xing would get so addicted to picking mushrooms that she would get lost in the mountains. She had done this herself before. Picking mushrooms was addictive, like treasure hunting. Once she found one, she would be extremely happy.
After another half an hour, her backpack was full, but Zhou Xing's basket could still hold a little more. The two of them picked for a while and filled their baskets.
When he turned back to look for Li and the others, he met some more of them on the way. Zhou Guo simply took off his thin coat and used the outer layer to carry the sheep mushrooms he had picked up, which allowed him to hold a lot more.
But in this way, the cotton jacket underneath was exposed.
Zhou Xing hesitated and said, "You'd better put it on, otherwise the cotton material will get damaged later."