pasture leisure

When Zhang Chi returned to the door, he heard someone shouting before he entered the door. He turned his head and saw that Cannon was standing in front of the cowshed and waving at him.

After waiting for a while, Cannon rode over.

"Boss, didn't we make an appointment to find mushrooms?" Cannon rode to Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi remembered after hearing this, and made an appointment with Cannon to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms in the morning.

So he said repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I forgot about this matter, it's...not too late."

I looked down at my watch, it wasn't ten o'clock yet.

Cannon said: "Okay, let's go now."

Zhang Chi then asked, "Do you want to bring anything?"

Cannon thought for a moment: "Take the basket, the one with the big belly and the cover...".

While talking about Cannon, he gestured.

Zhang Chi understood that what Cannon was talking about was the fish basket he brought from his hometown, which was woven by his grandfather. Zhang Chi brought some bamboo weaving when he came back, and this fish basket was among them.

So Zhang Chi went into the house and took out the fish basket, and the two rode on their horses and went down the mountain talking and laughing.

After leaving the ranch, Zhang Chi followed Cannon and went up the mountain together.

Originally Zhang Chi thought there was still a long way to go, but who knew that within ten minutes of walking up the mountain, Cannon reined in the horse and jumped off the horse's back.

"arrive!"

Zhang Chi got off the horse, looked at the surrounding environment in disbelief, and asked Cannon, "Is it here?"

Zhang Chi looked around but didn't see any mushrooms, and this place was really not like the kind of place where mushrooms could grow as he had imagined.

Cannon bent down and picked up a branch from the ground, and began to pick up the dead leaves on the ground, and said to Zhang Chi while doing it: "The mushrooms are under these dead leaves, near the special tree roots, look for them carefully. You can find them as soon as you look for them. Also, BOSS, pay attention, there may be snakes in the leaves, some guys bite you, it is not a joke... ".

Snakes are really common in the countryside. Most of them are not poisonous, but there are quite a few poisonous ones. Not to mention the mountains. When Zhang Chi was in Folsom, there were snakes crawling into the building downstairs where he lived. someone else's home.

Zhang Chi is not afraid of these things, but every time he sees them, he feels uncomfortable, especially when the snake is swimming, the hairs on Zhang Chi's back stand up when he looks like that.

Following Cannon's example, Zhang Chi also picked up a branch, but Zhang Chi picked a very thick one, saying that the branch was actually about the size of a stick, and it was no problem to use it as a crutch in his hand.

"That's it".

After a while, Cannon yelled happily, and waved at Zhang Chi without looking back.

Zhang Chi went over to have a look, and found that under the parted leaves of the tree, there was a golden umbrella cover with a white handle underneath. There were about a dozen plants, which were quite long, but the umbrella was not big.

"Can this stuff be eaten?" Zhang Chi couldn't help asking while looking at the mushroom.

In Zhang Chi’s concept, all edible mushrooms are colorless, like oyster mushrooms and Coprinus comatus sold in the market, at most they have a light yellow color. Of course, shiitake mushrooms are sauce-colored, but they are not golden. yellow.

It looked like it was poisonous.

"This is what you ate yesterday, and the color will disappear when you heat it up. This is the most delicious mushroom in the mountains." Cannon said while scraping the mud from the bottom of these mushrooms with his hands, and removed all the mushrooms. come out.

Zhang Chi understood what Cannon meant, and took the basket from the horse, opened the lid and let Cannon put the mushrooms in his hand.

Seeing the mushrooms, Zhang Chi looked for them carefully.

Not to mention, Zhang Chi quickly sent out a cluster of a dozen or so plants, which were also under the loose dry leaves, and they couldn't be found without peeling off the leaves.

After digging out the mushrooms from the ground, Zhang Chi sent them to Cannon's eyes, and asked him to take a look.

"Yes, that's it." Cannon nodded.

With the first harvest, Zhang Chi came to the spirit, and kept poking under the roots of the tree with the branches in his hand.

It's really like what Cannon said, there are really a lot of mushrooms in the mountains, and after a while, the two made half a basket.

"It's quite a lot," Zhang Chi said.

The two sat down to take a rest at this time, took a sip of the water they brought, and prepared to continue picking.

Cannon said: "No one usually goes up the mountain, so there are many mushrooms in the mountain."

This is easy to understand. Originally, there were not many people in the small town of Amber, only a few hundred people.

Small towns in the west are like this. There are not many people in each small town. If you stay in the small town honestly and don’t go to other places, you will never see a few familiar faces in your life. With such a small population facing such a big mountain, even How many mushrooms can be collected in the whole town from the mountains? This amount of collection is not enough for the number of mushrooms that pop up after a rain in the mountains.

Of course, you need a license to collect these things, but no one is swaying the government. Even if it only costs ten dollars a time, no one is willing to pay the money.

Good fortune is hard to give up!
The people in any place are like this, and the folks in Amber Township don’t have much awareness. Some people even directly think that when there was no your government, Lao Tzu’s ancestors picked mushrooms here for an unknown number of years. You haven’t paid any fees, why do you want to collect money when you set up?no way!

The government has no choice but to simplify the handling process. As long as you pay the money, hand over the money, and the certificate will be issued to you in less than a minute, but no one is willing to hand it over.

Zhang Chi was not foolish and rushed to pay the money if others didn't pay, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat.

The two picked half of the basket, and Cannon told Zhang Chi to stop, saying that enough was enough, and the two turned around and went home.

When they arrived at the ranch, Cannon asked Zhang Chi to dump all the mushrooms he picked on the porch in front of the door, and began to pick them up one by one.

"What is this for?" Zhang Chi was curious.

Cannon said: "I'm afraid you picked up poisonous mushrooms and came back."

"Can it be wrong?" Zhang Chi felt that Cannon didn't believe him.

As soon as this question was asked, Cannon had an extra mushroom in his hand: "This one is poisonous. If there is one, there must be a second one."

Uh!
Zhang Chi felt a little embarrassed, and he couldn't possibly say that Cannon picked it up, because he guessed that Cannon would not pick up such poisonous mushrooms.

"How can you tell?"

If you make a mistake, just ask. Don't be ashamed to ask. This is one of Zhang Chi's good qualities.

Cannon took the poisonous mushroom and Zhang Chi explained: "Look carefully, although the two mushrooms look alike, but this kind of mushroom can be touched on the top of the umbrella with your hand."

While speaking, Cannon touched the top of the mushroom's umbrella with his hand, and then rubbed it twice to show Zhang Chi. Zhang Chi saw that there seemed to be a layer of silver powder on the belly of his finger.

"Is this thing poisonous?" Zhang Chi wanted to reach out and touch it, but he thought it was better not to touch it if it was poisonous.

Cannon shook his head: "This thing is not poisonous, but the mushroom stalk is poisonous, but the toxicity is not high. Eating it will make you have diarrhea for a few days, and you can't even lift your pants."

Having said that, Zhang Chi felt much more at ease.

Watching Cannon pick it, Zhang Chi soon discovered the difference between the two types of mushrooms. The edible mushroom has a bigger umbrella and the top of the umbrella is not flat, which really looks like an umbrella. The poisonous mushroom is flatter, and the sides Slightly ticked upwards, except for these differences, other places are almost exactly the same, for a novice like myself, it is normal for a novice to pick a wrong one.

Picking out all the poisonous mushrooms, Cannon took a bag and packed the poisonous mushrooms.

"Where to throw this thing, don't let the cow eat it," Zhang Chi said casually.

"It's okay for a cow to eat this," Cannon said.

Ok? !

Zhang Chi felt a little strange.

Cannon explained: "The digestive system of cows and humans is different. This thing is fine for them, but it is not good for us. I feed these to cows. Also, these mushrooms are placed in It’s no problem to put it in a cool place for three or four days, so you can eat it slowly.”

"Aren't you coming?" Zhang Chi asked.

Cannon waved his hand: "I don't want it anymore, I ate it for several days before you came back, and I don't really want to see them now."

Since Cannon didn't want it, Zhang Chi had no choice but to accept it all.

I originally wanted to eat mushroom soup, but now I have mushrooms, but not tofu, and it’s almost one o’clock. If I go to buy tofu again, I’ll skip lunch and change it to dinner.

Faced with these mushrooms, Zhang Chi thought for a while, and decided to make scrambled eggs with mushrooms at noon. There is no shortage of eggs in Zhang Chi's house, and they are all fresh eggs.

Riding on Chiyan Mountain to the side of the stables, Cannon built several poultry houses in his free time, each of which was about one cubic meter in size. A total of four or five poultry houses were placed against the walls of the stables. Chickens and geese all squat inside.

When he came to the door of the chicken coop, he bent down and stretched his head in to have a look. Zhang Chi saw several hens nestling inside, that is, hatching chicks.

He reached out and touched under the hen's belly, and took out an egg.

Zhang Chi is a principled person, and he will not only touch under the belly of a hen. Each hen took an egg from under the belly, and first took a photo of it towards the sky, and found that there was no chick in the egg, and it was too late. It doesn't look like there are chickens. Such eggs are suitable for frying. Otherwise, when the eggshell is broken and a chicken falls out of it, it will be bad.

It may be a good thing for some students who like to eat live beads, but Zhang Chi can't stand that, and eating eggs is more in line with his eating habits.

Grabbed a few eggs, hummed a little song when I got home, simmered the rice first, washed the mushrooms and tore them into strips by hand, smashed a few eggs, put some pepper and salt to remove the fishy smell, and added some bottom taste.

Put oil in the pan, pour the beaten egg liquid into the pan, scratch the eggs a few times, put the eggs out, add some oil, put the mushrooms in and fry, after frying, put the eggs in peace, and start Seasoning, wait for the seasoning to be adjusted, a plate of mushrooms and scrambled eggs will be ready.

The mushrooms are so fresh, the eyebrows are so fresh with the egg, but Zhang Chi feels that he can't eat it after two bites. It's okay to eat something too fresh with the first chopsticks, but it will be a bit bitter afterward.

He opened a bag of pickled mustard, put the leftover rice paste into his stomach, and while eating, Zhang Chi wondered: Why is there no movement from the neighbors?

Could it be that I feel a little less righteous and violent?Or is there too many cows, and you can't tell if there are thousands of heads missing?

This is a bit too irritating!