Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 301 Discovering the Treasure in the Mountain
Li Caifeng looked around and asked curiously: "You have guests today."

Lin Heng was confused: "No."

"Then you eat the roast duck yourself?" Li Caifeng asked in disbelief.

Lin Heng smiled and nodded: "That's right. It's raining and everyone wants to eat it because there's nothing to do. So I killed one and roasted it."

"Okay." Li Caifeng took a deep breath and felt a little uncomfortable thinking about the cornmeal steamed buns she had eaten in the morning. She couldn't bear to eat chicken and duck if it wasn't the Chinese New Year.

"Try the venison, I hunted it before." Lin Heng handed over three dried venisons. He was not a stingy person, so long as he didn't offend him.

"I can't have this." Li Caifeng waved her hands repeatedly. Although she was poor, she was very concerned about face.

"Just try it, it's nothing." Lin Heng said sincerely. He really wanted to share it rather than give it away in a condescending manner, and finally stuffed it into her hand.

After taking a bite, Li Caifeng suddenly felt like swallowing it all in her tongue. It was so delicious and fragrant. She had never tasted such fragrant meat.

Thinking about it carefully, the last time she ate meat was when she was planting rice a month ago.

Xiulan took a bottle, and Mo Mo came out and said with a smile: "This bottle should be enough. You can use it and send the rest back to me. There is no need to pay back this worthless thing."

Unconsciously, it was already one o'clock at noon. Xiulan put down her sewing and came over and asked, "Are you going to have roast duck for lunch?"

Lin Heng likes to eat it with vinegar and garlic chili, which makes the taste richer.

Pour some boiling water in the pot, quickly stir-fry the fresh cowpeas, bitter melon, and spinach in the water, let them cool and then serve them cold.

"I think it's enough. You can mix it with some cold vegetables." Lin Heng nodded, walked over and opened the bucket. The charcoal fire was almost extinguished, and a strong aroma of barbecue wafted out.

The two dogs, Xiongba and Fengsheng, were eating the bones very happily down there, squealing and squealing, but they didn't dare to take them from people's hands. They could still tell the difference between a full meal and a full meal.

Lin Heng blew off a piece of duck skin and fed it to her, and his big, smart eyes suddenly turned into small crescent moons.

Hang the duck upside down at the bottom of the bucket, place the big bucket on the fire pit, and bake it in a closed manner. This way, the temperature will be high and it will cook faster, and no one will need to look after it.

"Whatever, as long as it doesn't stop, that's fine. I can go out for a walk. Are you going?" Lin Heng turned around and asked.

"I really hope the rain stops soon!" Lin Heng went downstairs and took a book to read. He didn't bother Xiulan while she was sewing clothes on the desk.

Fengshou didn't understand before. He was taught a lesson by Lin Heng many times and even had Xiong Ba clean him up a few times. Now he is much more honest.

After sending Li Caifeng away, Xiulan glanced at the river and then looked at her watch. It was already eleven o'clock in the morning, and the rain still didn't stop.

He went upstairs and took a look, and after confirming the position where the large cabinet should be moved, he lay on the window sill and looked at the vast world outside.

Xiulan nodded: "Very good, I'll go get the cold dishes right now."

When she returned to the house, she continued to do the sewing work that she had not finished yesterday, and made new clothes for the unborn child in her belly.

"Wow, it's crispy, sweet, and delicious!"

Xiulan shook her head: "Let's wait until the weather clears. It's mud outside right now. I'll continue making clothes."

"Dad, play with me." Xiaoxia ran over and clung to him.

When Lin Heng took the roast duck and cut it, there was a little tail behind him, looking at her with big eyes.

"Thank you." Li Caifeng said quickly, feeling a little ashamed. She used to often target Xiulan because of her good looks, but she was still so kind now that she was so rich and never took revenge.

Lin Heng continued to roast the duck. After another hour of roasting, the outside of the duck turned into a pleasant caramel color, exuding the aroma of fat and honey.

"Is this color OK?" Lin Heng said with a smile. The burgundy roast duck is full of color, flavor and flavor.

Xiaoxia jumped up and after eating, she hugged Lin Heng's legs and continued to act coquettishly.

Xiulan dipped in some barbecue ingredients and tasted it, and praised: "It's very fragrant, and the grilling is so good."

"Dad~ I want to eat~"

"The rain has stopped!"

"Then let's play drawing." Lin Heng took a pencil and paper and went to the mat to play with him.

The skin of this roast duck is crispy and sweet, and the meat is soft and chewy. It tastes much better than the half-month-old stuffed duck.

After eating, Lin Heng went out and found that the rain had turned into a weak drizzle, and he immediately became happy.

After the roast duck was ready, he went to prepare the barbecue ingredients for the roast duck, a dry dipping sauce made of cooked peanuts, cumin, fennel, sesame and other spices, and a soup made of vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and chili. Dips.

"Good time!" Xiaoxia growled while eating.

Xiulan looked at the sky with dark clouds and shook her head: "I guess I just took a rest, it will continue to rain like this."

"Okay!" Xiaoxia said happily, as long as there are people to play with, she is happy.

Xiaoxia acted coquettishly and cutely.

Lin Heng took it out and unloaded it from the bamboo tube, and went to the old house to get a rice bucket one meter high and fifty centimeters in diameter.

"It's okay." Xiulan waved her hand.

"Okay, I'll go to Hongfeng Mountain for a walk and pick up some grass." Lin Heng spread his hands and said.

The roast duck Lin Heng has also been cut into long strips. It is still steaming and tastes just right.

However, she stopped eating after taking a bite and planned to take it home for her son and husband to try.

"Let's wait for your mother and we can eat right away." Lin Heng touched her little head and said.

A bite of roast duck and a bite of cold vegetables, the combination is not boring at all. It took three people half an hour to kill this big duck, which was still more than three kilograms.

When I went outside, the cold wind mixed with drizzle hit my face. The ice-cold feeling was very comfortable, and the air after the rain was no longer so hot.

Lin Heng walked along the road to Hongfeng Mountain, looking at the scenery inside and outside along the way.

On the Hongfeng Mountain side, it has stopped raining now. Father Lin and Mother Lin also came out. Father Lin came to check the water level in the shrimp pond, and Mother Lin went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.

Seeing Lin Heng coming over, Lin's father said, "I'm afraid we don't need to add more water to this shrimp pond. The water level has increased by 20 centimeters under this rain."

"No need for the moment." Lin Heng nodded, looking here and then at the forest musk deer, cattle and sheep to observe their health conditions.

"There are enough fungi here!"

Lin Heng looked at a few delicious porcini mushrooms growing on the roadside and muttered to himself. This period was the season when porcini mushrooms were producing large quantities of mushrooms, and the output was extremely large.

He walked around and picked up seven delicious palm-sized porcini mushrooms and two green-headed mushrooms, which were enough for tonight's dishes.

“I don’t know what happened to the mushroom tree last year this year.”

Holding the porcini mushrooms, Lin Heng thought of the trees full of shiitake mushrooms he encountered last year. It was so fun to pick them that time.

He decided to go up the mountain as soon as the rain stopped and the weather cleared up. His hands were already very itchy, and he was very hungry for hunting. He wanted to go into the mountain immediately and teach those prey a lesson.

He has also read several hunting books these days and learned a lot of hunting knowledge, which he can't wait to verify.

Because fur could not be manufactured artificially in this era, wild animal fur and other resources were extremely precious and could be exported in exchange for foreign exchange, so there were also specialized hunting books for sale.

Lin Heng originally dismissed this, thinking that those scholars should know nothing about hunting. But after reading it, his attitude changed. There are indeed many practical methods on it, which benefited him a lot.

On the pasture land, a new round of pasture has grown again under the influence of the rain. The pasture seeds have been harvested, and the land can be opened up to expand the scale of planting in the second half of the year.

He cut a bundle of fresh grass and went home. As soon as he came down, Mother Lin brought a bag and handed it to him: "Take these pumpkin tips back to Xiulan, she likes to eat them."

"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, carrying the grass and pumpkin tips back home.

"hiss!!"

Hong Zao, who had been eating hay for two days, neighed when she saw the grass and wanted to eat it. The cow also raised its head and stared at the grass on Lin Heng's shoulder.

"Everything is available!" Lin Heng smiled and put the grass down and gave it to them.

After looking at them twice, he went over and let them out for a walk. Locking them up for a long time was not good for their health. More exercise would make them less likely to be depressed.

Although there are a lot of fruits and melons in the back mountain, chickens only peck at the seedlings when they are young, but they don't peck at them much when they grow up. And even if they peck to pieces, they are just fed to pigs. Anyway, they are grown everywhere.

And they prefer insects and earthworms to vegetables.

Lin Heng found a big, fleshy caterpillar on the konjac. This guy gnawed half of the konjac leaves clean.

"Cuckoo!!"

He caught the bug in his hand and called out, and a group of chickens ran in front of him. The leader was a big rooster with white feathers, black beak and black feet, which stretched its neck and looked at him.

"Eat it!"

Lin Heng threw the insect away, and the big white rooster flew up, pecked the insect in mid-air, and then ran away with fluttering wings, followed by a group of hens chasing it with clucking sounds, trying to grab the food.

The big white rooster found a place and pecked out the bugs and swallowed them. Then he turned back and looked at the hens arrogantly. He grabbed one and jumped on his back, which was a breeding technique.

After looking at Lin Heng twice, he turned back to the house, handed the bag to Xiulan and said, "The pumpkin tips and a few mushrooms I picked up can be cooked for dinner tonight."

Xiulan took it and looked at it and said, "This fungus is beautiful. I really want to pick it up when the weather is fine." Lin Heng looked at her and said, "Just stay at home and pick some up at Hongfeng Mountain. I will wait until the child is born." I can go pick it up with you every day.”

Before, he could still go for a walk in the mountains without showing off his feelings, but now he didn't dare to run around. The leaves in the forest were very slippery, and he would be heartbroken if he fell.

Moreover, the mountains are far away from the hospital, so it is difficult to deal with any problems.

"I know, just saying it." Xiulan pursed her lips, a little unhappy.

Lin Heng looked at her and said, "I'll take you fishing in the Heihe River in a few days, and I'll help you."

The riverside is much safer than the mountains. It is generally flatter and less likely to fall.

Xiulan looked at him: "Okay, then you have to listen to me."

"No problem, I'll listen to you." Lin Heng said with a smile.

The rain stopped for a while, and the three of them were playing in the yard and picking some vegetables.

It's just that the rain didn't stop for long before it started falling again. The light rain was not enough to splash water on the ground, but it kept falling.

It’s not boring at home. I can read books with Xiaoxia, or chat with Xiulan and discuss some of the contents of the books she reads. As she reads more books, the two of them have more topics in this regard. stand up.

In the evening, we had rice and bacon fried with the mushrooms Lin Heng picked up.

After eating, Lin Heng suddenly wanted to write a diary, so he found a notebook and started writing in the room.

He also thought about the novel he was going to write, a novel based on his miserable life in his previous life.

However, the more books I read, the less I knew where to start. It took me a long time to write an outline.

Time flies, and soon it is the morning of July 17th.

"The rain finally stopped."

When he got up in the morning, Lin Heng walked over and opened the window and took a deep breath. It had been raining for too long this time.

Seeing the blue sky and sunshine for the first time in a long time, I felt a little excited. He doesn't hate rain, but he hates it when it rains endlessly and makes people feel depressed.

"Honey, get up and go out to exercise!"

Lin Heng returned to the bed and shook Xiulan.

"Ah~ It's nice that the weather is sunny~"

Xiulan pulled Lin Heng up and yawned loudly.

After getting up and washing up, the two of them ran to the front yard to exercise, because here they could get the long-lost sun. After being away for so many days, they really missed the feeling of the sun on their bodies.

"Stretch me!"

Xiulan stretched out her hand in front of Lin Heng and said coquettishly.

"Okay." Lin Heng took her hand and stretched it, and then Xiulan did breast expansion exercises on her own, exposing the huge outline of her breasts.

After the two of them finished exercising, Xiulan held up a small bucket and said, "I'm here to milk the cow today."

"Okay." Lin Heng went to the back mountain with her to take a look, and found that there were two ripe watermelons here, so he picked them back.

"Let's have some in the morning, I haven't eaten for a long time." Xiulan said looking at the watermelon, she was greedy.

"I just picked something to eat. The melon happened to be cold in the morning." Lin Heng nodded.

Breakfast only consisted of eggs, milk, and a watermelon. The watermelon grown on the farm was particularly tangy and sweet, and the three of them couldn't put it down.

After eating, the sun was getting stronger, and the water on the green bricks in the yard quickly evaporated. Lin Heng uncovered the three-wheeled tarpaulin and dried it in the sun.

It was just a clear day and it was impossible to do farm work, and people in the village gathered in groups on the mountain to pick mushrooms. Lin Heng went to his eldest brother's house to discuss with him about going hunting in the mountains tomorrow.

"Second Dad, my parents went out to collect fungi on the mountain early in the morning. My brother and I are the only ones at home." When he opened the door, there were only Lin Tao and his brother in the yard.

"Okay." Lin Heng was helpless, thinking that brother and the others were really proactive, running to pick up fungi so early.

Back at the house, Xiulan saw that he was bored and said, "Hurry up and pick up the fungi. Let's eat some for dinner. I'll be at home. You don't need to accompany me."

She had already seen that Lin Heng wanted to go out for a walk. After all, they were both people who couldn't stay at home.

"Then I'll go to the back mountain to pick up some." Lin Heng said with a smile. He really wanted to go into the mountain.

"Go ahead, go ahead." Xiulan waved her hand.

Lin Heng picked up the basket and took two bags, then took Xiongba and set off into the mountains.

This time he did not go to the back mountain, but headed straight towards Shuijinggou. He just hurried on without picking up anything on the way. His goal was the place where a large amount of Ganoderma lucidum was found in Baishigou last year.

We set off at half past nine. One person and one dog traveled very fast and arrived at the mountain of Baishigou at half past ten.

"It's just ahead!"

After walking for a while, Lin Heng discovered the X-shaped mark he made last year. Although the wound on the big tree had healed, he still recognized it at a glance.

I came to the tree with excitement and took a closer look, but I was a little disappointed. Last year, I couldn't see the red Ganoderma lucidum everywhere. I only found some Ganoderma lucidum that was late and full of worms.

Ganoderma lucidum is only useful if its back is white. The black ones don't have much medicinal effect anymore, let alone the ones with worms.

Picking up several in a row was not enough, which made him a little depressed. The reality was too different from his imagination.

"Wang Wang!"

At this time, Xiongba made a sound from somewhere below.

Lin Heng came over and saw two very beautiful Ganoderma lucidum. He happily picked them up and touched Xiong Ba's head.

Xiongba stuck out his tongue and was very excited. He liked to come to the mountains with Lin Heng. Staying at home was too boring.

One person and one dog continued to search nearby and found a few more. Lin Heng also found a few very beautiful wrinkled porcini mushrooms, which were much more delicious than delicious porcini mushrooms.

"Not bad!"

In the end, Lin Heng was satisfied. Although it was not as good as last year, he still picked up twelve very good red Ganoderma lucidum.

Putting the Ganoderma lucidum into the bag, Lin Heng led Xiongba towards Baishigou. Nothing had changed since he had been here for more than half a year, except that today the water flow in the mountain stream was very fast, and a white waterfall could be seen.

When he came to the forest on the edge of Baishigou, Lin Heng saw many fragrant mushrooms on the rotten wood. They were light yellow and not big, but they were all very plump.

This is a very delicious mushroom, and it is also a purpose of his coming here.

After picking up a circle along the edge of the ditch, his basket could no longer hold it. He estimated that he picked up seventeen or eighteen kilograms of mushrooms, as well as some green-headed mushrooms and white fungus.

"Come on, let's go home."

After touching Xiongba, Lin Heng walked back with him.

I wasn't as anxious when I went back as I was when I came here. I just found a road and looked for fungi along the way.

"Oh my God, so many chanterelles!"

When he came to an acorn forest, Lin Heng was shocked by the swarms of chanterelles in the forest. They were not only big but also numerous. They were here to repay a favor.

"Damn, it's been raining for too long!"

Lin Heng knelt down and picked some and was immediately disappointed. Many of them had insects. The fried meat with chanterelles was particularly delicious, but it was also very insect-friendly. As long as it rained for two more days, most of the things he picked up would have insects.

After giving up at least one tenth, Lin Heng finally picked up ten kilograms of chanterelles. The resources in this deep mountain are so good.

The mushroom resources in this deep place were so good that he didn't even bother to pick up the most delicious porcini. Only chanterelles, green head mushrooms and so on were enough to pick up. From time to time, there were also egg mushrooms and wrinkled cap mushrooms. Appear.

In addition, he also dug more than a pound of wild gastrodia elata. It’s not that there was only this much, but he was only willing to dig so much, and he couldn’t finish it if there was too much.

"and many more!!"

When he was about to leave, Lin Heng suddenly saw something special. When he walked in and took a look, he was stunned.

"It's really anemone!" Lin Heng came closer and was stunned when he saw it.

This is a good thing, even in the Qinling Mountains. It is not only medicinal but also ornamental.

Although it is called anemone, it is actually an orchid and is very beautiful when it blooms.

As a traditional Chinese medicine, it has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, activating blood circulation and relieving pain, softening hardness and dispersing stagnation. It is used in rural areas to treat joint pain, bruises and injuries.

The purchase price is not low either, it costs twenty or thirty yuan per catty.

After searching around the area, he found a lot more, which made him suddenly excited.

"If you encounter it, I will dig you home." Lin Heng found a wooden stick, dug it back with the soil from the root and placed it at the bottom of the basket.

After getting ten of them with soil, he pulled out more than twenty others by their roots. He didn't dig up the remaining small ones. He was not the kind of person who fished for nothing unless he was too poor to do anything.

(End of this chapter)