small farmer

Chapter 342 Take Big Black and Little Black to Patrol the Mountains

Seeing the sly expressions of the two little guys, Zhang Feng couldn't help shaking his head,
I thought that in this day and age, even dogs have become actors. They just pretend to be silly and cute to please their mother and elder sister all day long, and they eat hot and spicy food. Even Zhang Feng is envious of such a happy little day.

"Mom, I'm going to the mountains for a stroll, and I don't think I'll be back until the afternoon."

"Why are you going up the mountain?" Mother asked curiously, is there anything going on on the mountain now.

"Just stroll around casually, don't worry, I will be back in the afternoon." Zhang Feng smiled slightly.

"Well, then you have to pay attention to safety. By the way, you can also take Dahei and Xiaohe with you!" Mother Zhang hesitated for a while, but finally nodded and ordered.

"Understood, Mom!" Zhang Feng immediately agreed, "Da Hei Xiao Hei, let's go!"

"Wow... woof..." The two dogs knew that they were going up the mountain, and they jumped up and down excitedly, shaking their heads as they walked, as if they were going crazy with excitement.

"These two little guys are really..." Zhang Feng couldn't help laughing seeing the two dogs ecstatically, like children who have eaten candy.

Today's trip to the mountain was not a whim of Zhang Feng's, and he had already planned it. This time he went to the mountain to investigate the growth of truffles in the mountain.

Black truffles generally grow in the border areas of Sichuan and Yunnan. They begin to grow during the rainy season and don’t mature until November every year. However, the best season for picking truffles is from December to March of the following year. The truffles are of the best quality and taste better.

Every year at the end of March, the overripe black truffle rots and disintegrates, releasing spores that start to germinate and grow into mycelium, and form a symbiotic relationship after touching the fibrous roots of trees.Around May, the hyphae become larger and reproduce sexually, growing into truffles.The newly formed small truffles grow slowly, and will start to grow rapidly during the rainy season in August.When the cold wind blows, the truffles stop growing and begin to mature and turn black, releasing a unique fragrance.

Half a year has passed since I last found truffles.

Today Zhang Feng is going to go to the mountain to see the distribution of truffles. Only by knowing ourselves and the enemy can we be invincible.

Zhangjiawan facing south

To the south is the beautiful Moon Lake, and to the north is the rolling Qinglong Mountain.

Standing on the mountainside, overlooking the entire Moon Lake, the mountains and rivers are connected, the trees are shady, the green trees are close to the village, the green hills are slanted, and the natural scenery is very beautiful.

The vast Qinglong Mountain, with overlapping peaks and dense forests, is a large original forest with a radius of tens of miles. It is the best preserved original deep forest in the entire Guizhou Province, not one of them.

On the outskirts of the vast mountain are patches of green hill forests. Due to the arrival of autumn, the forests are already bleak.

As described in a poem, the bleak autumn wind is here again, changing the world.

Yellow leaves flutter in the Qinggang forest, and the fallen leaves slowly fall to the ground, covering the entire mountain forest. From a distance, it looks like a golden field, which is extremely beautiful.

Further into the depths of the mountain forest, there are patches of primitive pine forests.

This place is not at all different from the blue sky and yellow leaves in the surrounding area. At this time, it is still lush and green, the forests are dyed, and the mountains are green. There is no autumn scene at all, and it is still full of vitality.

In autumn, the leaves of many trees will turn yellow and wither, and be blown to the ground by the autumn wind, leaving only bare trunks, which is very "bleak".

But the pine tree is different. In the severe winter, it still wears green clothes and stands there vigorously, tall and strong, so people regard the pine tree as a symbol of strong character.

Maybe everyone is more curious about why the pine tree can be evergreen all the year round and keep the same appearance.

This is because pines and cypresses were originally trees that grew in frigid regions and high mountains. Due to long-term living in a cold environment, they have formed a unique cold-proof structure.

This special structure makes the leaves of pine and cypress trees shrink into needle-shaped, linear or scale-shaped. Because the leaf area is small, the water is not easy to evaporate and lose.Some leaves have thick cutin or wax, and some have thick hairs.

If you take a pine needle and observe it carefully, you can see that it is densely covered with white fluff, and it feels smooth when you touch it. These structures have effectively prevented the evaporation of water.

At the same time, the leaves of pine and cypress trees have less water and contain rosin. When the temperature drops, the concentration of cell fluid can be quickly increased, and sugar and fat can be added to prevent freezing.Therefore, even in winter, the pine and cypress trees will not dry up due to lack of water, which ensures the eternal vitality of the trees.

People who have traveled all over Qingshan are not old, the scenery here is unique,

Looking at the scenery along the way, Zhang Feng did not forget his mission.

"Dahei Xiaohei, where are you looking for truffles?" Truffle truffles, as the name suggests, they must grow in pine forests.

"Woo~~" Xiaohei Xiaohei was a little dizzy, as if he didn't remember the truffle.

"Look for it on the ground. It's the round potato-like thing we found in the woods last time!" Zhang Feng explained to the two dogs verbally.

The big black and small black eyes rolled around, and after thinking for a while, they seemed to understand what Zhang Feng was looking for, barked and nodded, and began to search carefully on the ground.

"Dahei, you found it!" Seeing Dahei stopped not far away and calling to him, Zhang Feng hurried over and said with a smile.

"Woof..." Dahei squinted his eyes and nodded while barking. He is really a smart dog.

He touched Dahei's head to show his encouragement, Dahei shook his head happily, obviously it was very useful, and he was very happy about the master's praise.

After finding a truffle, Zhang Feng took out a small hoe from the space, and carefully dug up the pine needles and soil on the ground. After a while, a truffle the size of an egg appeared in front of Zhang Feng's eyes. Zhang Feng finally had a harvest. Happy, wipe off the soil on the truffle and put it in the storage space.

"Well, it's almost there, enough for a meal!" After digging a total of one or two catties, Zhang Feng stopped and continued to survey the distribution of truffles along the mountain with Da Hei and Xiao Hei.

On the outskirts of Qinglong Mountain, several hilltops near Moon Lake cover an area of ​​over a thousand acres, all of which are forest farms in Zhangjiawan. There are a total of [-] or [-] households in the village, and each household is allocated a large forest.

Throughout the morning, Zhang Feng took his two dogs and walked all over the woodland in the village. Although they found traces of truffles, the distribution of truffles was not even.

After recording the distribution of truffles in the woods, Zhang Feng walked eastward again. Unfortunately, as he went eastward, the truffles became less and less. When he finally walked one or two kilometers away, the forest here had completely lost all traces of truffles.

"I didn't expect there to be so few truffles here?" Qinglong Mountain is so wide, with a radius of hundreds of miles, it is the largest mountain range in the southwest of Guizhou Province. Zhang Feng thought that there must be a lot of truffles here, but he didn't know that there were only a few near the back mountain of Moon Lake. Only on the top of the mountain, not a single hair was found in other places.

(End of this chapter)