Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 15 Morel

Mushrooms generally like to grow in shady and wet places. Today they took another mountain road.

Taohua Village was originally located in the mountains, so it didn't take long to find a shady place.

Cheng Xinxin was attracted by the clear and clear bird chirping in the woods above her head, "chirp" and "chirp", the calls were extremely cheerful.

The little girl followed the prestige and saw a pair of beautiful birds singing happily on the top of the branch.

"Dad, Dad, there are two birds! They are so beautiful!" Pointing at the two birds with immature hands, the words were full of excitement.

Cheng He took a few glances and found that the two birds were indeed beautiful, with golden feathers that were very shiny, with black stripes on their heads and black wingtips, and their singing was very pleasant.

He didn't quite understand either, maybe it was an oriole?

Oriole birds are very timid, and usually they can only hear their calls, and it is not easy to see their shapes. I didn't expect to see two of them today.

Cheng Xinxin waved to the two little birds: "Birds, come here! Come here..."

Cheng He raised his forehead, he really has the purest heart of a child, such a timid and fearful bird, she will call her whenever she says.

However, what surprised him was that the two birds really flapped their wings and flew towards her.The golden and shiny wings shone beautifully in the sun.

Cheng He couldn't calm down any longer - even the oriole, who had always only heard its sound but not seen its shape, was willing to pounce on his daughter. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it.

The two birds were perched on Cheng Xinxin's arms, jumping and chirping, their beaks chirping and chirping, as if they were talking about something.

"Hehehe..." Cheng Xinxin smiled very happily. Under the sunlight shining through the treetops, her smile seemed to be shining with golden light.

Cheng He continued to walk with his daughter on his back, and the oriole did not fly away, but was still resting on her arm.

On the small soil slope in front, a brown dome mushroom popped out. This is a kind of wild shiitake mushroom, which is often eaten by the villagers.Cheng He pointed and said, "Look, Xinxin, what is this?"

Cheng Xinxin was chatting affectionately with Huang Li, when she heard her father calling her, she immediately turned her head, looked in the direction he was pointing, and shouted excitedly: "Mushroom, mushroom."

This call startled the oriole, and it flapped its wings and flew away.But it only flew a few meters away, and soon flew back with flapping wings, still resting on Cheng Xinxin's shoulder.

Cheng He was puzzled and thought to himself, could it be that these little animals are all interested in the golden light in Cheng Xinxin's body?
But he also has it, and even more.Why not attract the likes of these little things?

Cheng He can only guess wildly, maybe the daughter is still a child, pure and transparent, similar to these small animals?

Otherwise, there is no other reasonable explanation.

Forget it, never mind, as long as my daughter is happy, that's fine.There are so many unreasonable things in the world, do we have to figure it out?

In fact, he just had a bold idea in his heart: as the saying goes, the poor play with watches, and the rich play with birds.

Don't look at some people who collect dozens of famous watches, it seems very cool, the real rich people show their taste by keeping all kinds of rare treasures.For some rare birds, the transaction price is scary.

The pair of wild orioles in front of me, they look so pleasing, they are pure wild, and they are still in a pair. Just guessing, you know that they are very valuable.

However, this is just an idea. Now the wild oriole has been listed as a rare animal, and it is illegal to catch and sell it.

Let the elves in the forest continue to live in the forest!After all the catches, the forest has become a barren forest, which is meaningless.

Cheng He was very pleased with his awareness.

As soon as Cheng Xinxin was put down in the bamboo basket, she immediately rushed towards the wild flower mushroom.

This time, it can be called a tricky hand to urge the flowers. When the little hand grabbed it, the wild flower mushroom broke immediately. The little girl saw the plucked mushroom in her hand turned into a handful of scum, and sat down on the ground, crying.

Cheng He smiled wryly.

Picking mushrooms also requires a method, and you can't just start like this.But just now the little girl didn't wait for him to teach her, so she went up to pick it first, but she broke it herself and cried.

But this is also good, she picks the mushrooms by mistake first, and then meets the mushrooms later, and then teaches her the correct way of picking, so she will not forget.

Children, don't be afraid of her making mistakes, just be afraid that she won't do it, or dare not do it.

Cheng He picked up the child and coaxed him softly, "Don't cry, we'll see mushrooms later, and we'll pick another good one, shall we?"

Sure enough, Cheng Xinxin stopped crying, but the tears were still on her face, sobbing, she asked, "Are there any mushrooms?"

Cheng He said with a smile: "There must be, let's look further ahead."

Cheng Xinxin nodded and hummed.But looking down at the mushroom that she crushed, she might feel a little distressed, then she stretched out her hand, approached Napoleon's mouth, and said, "This is for you to eat."

Napoleon sniffed and turned his head to one side.

Cheng Xin became impatient, and persistently moved her hand to its mouth again, but Napoleon still refused to eat it, and tilted his head again.

Cheng Xin was so impatient that she wanted to cry again, she said loudly, "Do you want to eat or not!"

Napoleon was startled and hesitated for a while. He backed up a few steps, moved to a safe distance, and looked at his little master from afar.

Cheng Xinxin cried out, "Take it or not!"

Cheng He said with a smile: "Whether you eat raw mushrooms or not, eat them after they are cooked."

Cheng Xinxin asked curiously, "Why?"

Cheng He was often speechless by the child's [-] why questions, and reluctantly explained: "Probably take a partial eclipse."

Cheng Xinxin is also often taught not to have a partial eclipse, so she understands this term very well.

So she pointed at Napoleon righteously again, and said with a righteous face: "Bad puppy, partial eclipse, be careful not to grow taller!"

This is what she is often taught, and now she can finally apply it to others.It is estimated that this little girl has a sense of accomplishment in being a big sister.

Napoleon couldn't understand her words, but he could roughly guess from his demeanor that he was reprimanded.This guy seemed very unconvinced, and he said "Woooooooooooooooooooo" to Cheng Xinxin aggrievedly, as if trying to defend himself.

Cheng He was overjoyed and said, "Let's go, there are mushrooms over there."

Cheng Xinxin's attention was diverted, and she followed behind in a panic.

Based on his childhood mushroom picking experience, Cheng He saw a fallen leaf protruding more than others, so he walked over and said, "There may be some here."

Cheng Xinxin followed and squatted there.

Cheng He gently pushed aside the dead leaves, and couldn't help but gasp, it turned out to be a clump of rare morels!
Morchella is a rare species of edible fungus, named for its uneven surface and shape like morel.It is extremely nutritious and contains a lot of protein and trace elements.

The protein in the human body is composed of 20 kinds of amino acids, and morels contain 18 kinds, of which 8 kinds of amino acids cannot be produced by the human body, but they are very important in human nutrition, so this little morel , is really beneficial.

Pure wild ones are expensive, and now many merchants use planted morels to pretend to be wild ones to make money.But the planted ones, how can they be better than wild ones?

Cheng He was also very happy when he found something good unexpectedly, despite not having much hope.Had this for lunch today.

This time he came first by himself, reached out and held the stem of the mycelium, trying not to touch the cap, and pulled it up gently so that it would not break it when he pulled it out.Then scrape off the mud at the root and put it in the bamboo basket.

Seeing that the mushrooms her father had picked were intact, Cheng Xinxin was immediately convinced, showing admiration in her eyes.

Cheng He smiled lightly: "You come too, slow down!"

Cheng Xinxin carefully followed Cheng He's example, and pulled out a tree as well, screaming loudly with excitement.The sense of accomplishment is indescribable.

Napoleon was terrified of her strange screams, and shrank far away, with his ears drooping, and his head bowed extremely low, with a pitiful appearance waiting to be scolded by her.

(End of this chapter)