Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 75 Small Tree House

I don't know how many years of fallen leaves have been accumulated on this mountain, but it feels soft and soft when I step on it.

After entering the dense forest, the sky was obviously not as bright as before.

The sun that has risen shines on the ground through the gaps between the leaves, and the brightness of the mottled color patches has not decreased, but the high temperature outside has long since disappeared, so walking in the dense forest feels very cool.

Xia Jin just cared about playing along the way, and didn't feel tired. When climbing up the mountain in the dense forest, she asked Liang Dayong what kind of bird was singing on the tree, what kind of flower was blooming in the grass, and what kind of flower was growing on the side of the tree? What wild fruit.

"We all call this Zinier, a wild fruit that grows in the mountains, girls like to eat it." Liang Dayong walked, pulled a vine from the weeds and handed it to Xia Jin.

There are many berries the size of glass balls hanging on it. The green ones are obviously not yet ripe, while the ripe ones are purple-black, which looks really nice against a few small green leaves.

"Well, it's sweet and delicious!" Xia Jin picked a ripe berry and put it in her mouth. She immediately tasted something delicious she had never tasted before, and quickly shared it with her mother and Su Mu.

I also ate a few sumac, all of which were filled with seed syrup, sweet and grassy, ​​and had a unique taste.

Before he had gone far, Xia Jin took a few quick steps to pick a light pink flower in the grass, and then showed it off to Su Mu: "Look, little morning glory!"

"It's not morning glory, it's a bowl of flowers. It is said that if you pick this kind of flower, you will break the bowl when you go home." Liang Dayong corrected her seriously.

The little girl was a little dazed, she didn't know whether to throw away the flowers or keep holding them.After a few seconds, she asked in a low voice: "Brother Su Mu, won't I really break the bowl if I pick this flower?"

"Hahaha, Xiao Nier is really interesting!" Liang Dayong was amused when he heard her whisper, "It's just talking like that, how can you really hit the bowl? You can pick more In the bag, at noon, I will make soup for you with bowls of flowers. The old people in the village say that this little flower is still a medicinal herb."

Xia Jin's mother is a full-time researcher of Chinese medicinal materials. She was walking behind to take pictures of a light green bird on a tree. When she heard them talking about medicinal materials, she stepped forward to look at them and nodded: "It is indeed a medicinal herb. The tender stems and leaves It can be eaten as a vegetable, and the flowers and roots can be used as medicine, but it is a bit toxic and should not be eaten in excess.”

"Poisonous?" Su Mu and Xia Jin were picking flowers in their pockets, and they were about to taste the soup made from the flowers. When they heard her say it was poisonous, they didn't dare to pick any more.

If you get poisoned by eating indiscriminately in the deep mountains, it's really no joke!

"It's okay, it's okay, just don't eat too much. Brother Dayong said it's fine to make soup." Xia Jin's mother hurriedly explained.

Liang Dayong also bent down to help them pick a few flowers and said with a smile: "Look, it scares you, this thing is just to eat fresh, and it's good for the body to pick less and make soup. On the contrary, the mushrooms on the mountain are delicious." Don't pick them randomly, there are a lot of poisonous mushrooms, many people were poisoned by eating mushrooms in the past few years!"

"Ah? I still want to pick mushrooms on the mountain...then I don't dare to pick them casually." Xia Jin stuck out her tongue mischievously, so she had to give up the idea.

When she came, she specially brought a wicker basket from Su Mu's house, hoping to be a little girl picking mushrooms.

But after hearing him say that there are many poisonous mushrooms on the mountain, I was somewhat disappointed. In the past, there were many reports on the Internet that people were poisoned by eating mushrooms by mistake.Given that the remote mountains she is currently in are too remote, she doesn't want to turn a great trip into a nightmare because of her ignorance of wild mushrooms.

"It's not easy to pick up mushrooms? When you reach your destination, I'll take you to pick them up." Liang Dayong didn't expect that people in the city would like to work in the mountains.A few years ago, it was the season of collecting mushrooms and selling them for money. The whole family went to the mountains before dawn, and they had to pick mushrooms before returning after dark.

If so, even a busy season won't make much money.

Because the nearby hills are full of unattractive small gray mushrooms, which cannot be sold at a high price, the business of selling mushrooms has gradually withdrawn from the economic development of Huatanao.It’s just that every year when it’s summer, the villagers will find time to go to the mountains to pick up some wild mushrooms and go home for a tooth festival.

When the children in the village heard that they were going to pick mushrooms, they all ran away faster than rabbits, and no one was willing to work in the woods.

Seeing that the guests in the city liked it, Liang Dayong picked up the barley seeds with a wooden stick while walking, and then explained which mushrooms growing next to the tree roots could be eaten and which ones could not.

Su Mu also took the opportunity to learn a lot about the mountains. When encountering delicious edible mushrooms, he would use his "supernatural powers" to get some and plant them in the space.

During this period of time, the space slowly expanded and there was a lot of open space. He thought that he should plant some flowers, plants and trees in it, and he also happened to plant some wild mushrooms, so as to enrich the dining table in the future.

Near noon, a group of four people, two dogs and a little donkey all reached the top of the mountain.

Xia Jin's mother and daughter looked down excitedly and enjoyed the scenery; Su Mu and Liang Dayong packed up their things and prepared lunch together.

A fire is set up on a large flat stone, and sweet spring water from the road is boiled in a pot; fresh bowls of flowers are put in a bowl and blanched in boiling water and drained; Pour the egg liquid into the pot, and when the egg flower just floats up, throw in the drained egg flower.

Liang Dayong also washed the wild vegetable leaves dug nearby, shredded them, put them in the pot and poured salt, and a very simple but unique soup came out of the pot.

The white flour bag on the donkey's back contains pancakes made of white flour, cornmeal, and soybean flour. The chewy yellow dry pancakes have to be torn into small pieces and soaked in soup to eat.

A bowl of soup is filled with yellow and white frangipani flowers, whole light pink flowers, green wild vegetable leaves, and yellow dry pancakes. The colors are rich and smooth, and the mother and daughter of Xia Jin constantly boast that the taste is delicious. fragrant.

Su Mu saw that the lunch was really simple, so he went to mess with the donkey for a while, and took out a piece of sauced beef, a few salted eggs, and a few sheets of tofu skin from the space.

"It turns out that Muzi loves to eat so much!" Liang Dayong saw what he brought, and hurriedly put down his rice bowl to find some wild garlic in the woods not far away.

Washed and sandwiched in tofu skin, it is full of taste after a bite!One salted egg per person, plus sliced ​​and evenly divided sauced beef, a mouthful of soup and a mouthful of beef, this meal is clean, and everyone is very satisfied.

The little donkey is fine as long as there is grass to eat; the remaining Hei Hu and Da Hui each ate a pot of egg soup soaked in pancakes. Su Mu was afraid that they would not be full, so he secretly added a few pieces of meat to their soup .

After eating and drinking enough, put out the fire with water, and then bury it with soil to ensure that no fire is left behind.

They originally went into the mountain with the idea of ​​relaxation, and naturally they didn't need to hurry when the weather was fine.

As long as they can reach the foothold mentioned by Liang Dayong before dark, nothing else is a problem.

The further he traveled into the mountains, Su Mu found that his ears became more and more clean.The towering trees strive to reach the sky, trying to win as much as possible the warm sunshine above their heads.

The dense leaves are intertwined into countless layers of denser leaf nets, and the sunlight passes through these nets, turning them into strands of light.

The light in the forest was dim, and more small plants were growing freely.In some places where the sun does not shine, the moss and some kind of branches are intertwined and climbed on the tree trunk, hanging down one after another, like a series of low-hanging curtains.The vitality of nature really made Su Mu sigh.

Occasionally, a few birds flew by in the woods, or a squirrel suddenly sprang out from a certain corner, and then ran away without a trace, causing Black Tiger and Big Hui to bark wildly.

Walking in this atmosphere, Su Mu felt for the first time that human beings are so small in nature.He was a little thankful that Peach Blossom Mountain had been artificially protected, so he could see such an indescribable and wonderful scenery; on the other side, Xia Jin’s mother had been pressing the shutter, and she had already thought of the title of this travel note. Traveling is really a rare and unexpected encounter with nature!
"Okay, let's go fast, and we're at our destination. Nier, take a rest and I'll take you to pick mushrooms and cook mushroom soup tonight." Liang Dayong tied the donkey to a small tree, As he spoke, he began to unload things.

Su Mu and Xia Jin looked at each other in blank dismay. This place is obviously a deep mountain and old forest like other places. How can there be any destination for rest?
"Didn't I tell you that it's a tree house? Of course it's on a tree. Look up!" Liang Dayong unloaded his luggage. The man above the big tree smiled and said, "Have you ever seen it before? It's over there!"

"Wow!" Seeing the unexpected scene at the same time, Su Mu and Xia Jin exclaimed in unison.

That big tree can only be embraced by four or five people, and the fluffy canopy above the thick and straight trunk is extremely lush.In the middle of the staggered branches, there is a small house made of planks!

This small tree house is obviously quite old, the humidity in the forest is relatively heavy, and a layer of mottled moss has been covered on the thick wooden boards.

Many vines and unknown slender plants hang down from the higher branches, and the light purple flowers are blooming, decorating the whole small tree house like a fairy tale world!
"Uncle Dayong, you are so thoughtful!" Su Mu stared at the tree house for a long time in a daze, then pushed the frame of his glasses and praised: "This small tree house just built will definitely not lose to the Hollywood blockbuster magic Design! If I have a chance in the future, I will also build one on the tree at home, it is too bourgeois!"

"What's 'boy' not 'boy', I don't understand what you are talking about." Liang Dayong was a little embarrassed by the praise, rubbed his hands and laughed: "At that time, I just saw that the tree was beautiful, and I slept on it. It’s also convenient, so I messed around with one. I haven’t been here for a while, and it’s definitely not very clean inside, so I need to clean it up before I can live.”

Xia Jin’s mother took more than a dozen photos of the small tree house from a different angle, and praised it while taking pictures, “It’s so beautiful, this trip to Huatanao can really kill all my previous trips in seconds, this is the most simple , The natural scenery is hard to see in those scenic spots. I will live in the tree house tonight, I think it should be a very wonderful experience!"

(End of this chapter)