Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 138 It’s really it, making a lot of money

Lin Heng came over and picked the red Ganoderma lucidum first. He took a look at the bottom of the cap and it was still white. The spore powder was not scattered and it was still usable.

After picking the Ganoderma lucidum, Lin Heng looked at the ground. The ground here was bulging, and there was a gap even if it rained.

He crawled and smelled it, and a special fragrance was refreshing, which made him feel excited all of a sudden.

"Am I really lucky?"

Lin Heng couldn't believe it, so he broke off a dry pine branch to dig.

After digging twice, a small black ball was brought out. When I picked it up, I saw it was dark brown, with some very small bumps on it, and the texture was very complex, as if it was a devil fruit.

Lin Heng was so excited that he couldn't speak for a moment. He found the black truffle without relying on Xiongba. This must be such good luck.

He picked it up and smelled it. The smell was very strange. It smelled fresh and musky at first before the ground was broken.

But now, why does it smell like heather? The next time I smelled it, it felt like sheets that hadn't been washed in years.

After covering the area with pine needles and inserting a wooden stick to mark it, Lin Heng quickly ran towards his wife.

Xiulan had followed Xiongba a long way, and when she saw Lin Heng running over, she quickly shared her harvest: "Xiongba and I found another three or four kilograms of matsutake, which adds up to hundreds. Come and take a look. "

Lin Heng walked up to his wife and looked at her bag, then picked her up and spun her around. However, the pine needles on the ground were too slippery and the two fell directly together.

"Oh, what are you doing? You're not so excited to find so many matsutake mushrooms, are you?"

Xiulan looked at him helplessly. Like a child, there were many pine needles in her hair.

She sat up and picked pine needles, and then picked them for Lin Heng.

"Guess what I found?" Lin Heng looked at Xiulan with an expression of excitement that could not be concealed.

"What? A large piece of matsutake?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.

Looking at Lin Heng's expression, Xiulan showed an expression on her face that she wanted to believe but couldn't believe it: "Could it be a black truffle? It's impossible. I've been married to you for almost three years and I heard that someone was selling it. Once.”

Lin Heng grabbed her hand, then put the black truffle in his hand on her hand, and said with a smile: "Then look at what this is?"

Seeing what was in her palm, Xiulan couldn't help but open her mouth: "Oh my god, it's really a black truffle."

She picked it up, smelled it, looked at it again, looked at Lin Heng again and smiled softly: "I feel a little unreal, why don't you let me pinch it?"

"Pinch it." Lin Heng grabbed Xiong Ba's head and stretched it over.

Xiongba: "???"

"You're just kidding, hurry up and dig truffles. If someone robs you, you'll regret it for the rest of your life." Xiulan touched the dog's head and stood up.

"Walk slowly, what is this black truffle you smelled just now?" Lin Heng asked curiously while walking.

"It's strange. It feels like musk, but also like honey. It's very complex." Xiulan smelled it again before speaking.

"I smell like unwashed sheets!" Lin Heng laughed.

Soon the two of them and the dog arrived at the place: "This is it. I was originally picking Ganoderma lucidum, but I found that the land next to it was cracked!"

"I dig."

Xiulan took her little hoe and dug lightly, and she brought out five or six.

"Oh my god, this is too much. Husband, you must be so lucky today." Xiulan was simply stunned.

"You don't understand. There are a lot of these things when you find them. The ones with fragrance are mature, and the ones without fragrance are not yet mature." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then we have to dig them all?" Xiulan asked while digging.

“Black truffles are purchased regardless of whether they are mature or not. They export the mature ones and sell the immature ones to domestic high-end hotels.

But if we dug them all, we might be gone the next year. "

Lin Heng was also thinking about this problem. In his previous life, he had seen some cases of digging black truffles in other provinces. They often found them in one place and dug up all the nearby acres of land.

This is like the Prisoner's Dilemma. You keep the immature ones with good intentions, but others may not keep them.

And if you keep it, it may not be yours next year.

Therefore, most people choose to maximize their profits and poach them all at once.

"Then we'd better dig them all out, otherwise we won't have them if others dig them up." Xiulan said without hesitation.

"I think so too, but let's leave some of it unexcavated. We should still be able to dig it out in a year or two. Cover it thickly with pine needles, so it won't be easily discovered by others." Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

"That's okay, just leave some." Xiulan nodded.

Let Xiulan dig here, Lin Heng took one and gave it to Xiongba to smell. Just as he was about to speak, he ate it in one bite.

"You stupid dog is robbing food every day, right? If you can't find the black truffles, I'll let you starve for three days!" Lin Heng pinched the dog's mouth and gave it two slaps.

He didn't even eat it himself, but this guy tasted it first.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba yelled, as if he was saying that he had worked so hard but got nothing.

Seeing Lin Heng raise his hand, it quickly put its nose to the ground and looked for it.

Lin Heng ignored it and dug up the black truffles with his wife first.

Each time they dug out several pieces, the two of them felt very excited.

After digging a piece of two square meters, the number of truffles gradually became scarce.

Xiulan dug and Lin Heng picked. He separated the mature and immature ones to avoid confusion.

After searching for a while, Xiulan stopped and kept some seeds.

She turned to look at Lin Heng: "This piece is gone, how much have we dug?"

"It should add up to thirty kilograms. There are ten kilograms of mature ones in this bag and twenty kilograms of immature ones in one bag."

Lin Heng held two bags and said with a smile, this is what it is like.

Either it can't be found, and if it is found, it weighs at least ten pounds.

It grows in patches underground.

"Oh my God, isn't that three hundred yuan?" Xiulan was stunned. This was the first time for her to earn so much money from mountain products.

"More than that, I'm talking about the price at the purchasing station. In fact, this thing can be sold for fifteen yuan wet and five or sixty-one pounds dry." Lin Heng said with a smile, this time he was really prosperous.

"This is great. Once you dig truffles, you can almost earn back the money you spent on the red dates." Xiulan opened the bag and looked at it again and again.

"Just tell me if I'm good or not?" Lin Heng wanted to put his hands on his psoas, but he was so awesome.

"Awesome, so awesome." Xiulan nodded repeatedly.

After looking at the black truffles in the bag, the two hid them at the bottom of their backpacks, and then began to restore the land here.

First restore the plowed land to its original state, and then cover it with pine needles until no traces can be seen.

"Okay, it took another hour, it's half past two." Lin Heng looked at his watch and was so excited to meet the black truffles that he wasn't even hungry anymore.

Now that I have finished digging, I feel my stomach growling with hunger.

"It seems that Xiongba doesn't have much development." Xiulan said while looking at Xiongba who was still rummaging around.

"This thing is like this. There is one under one pine tree, but not the other one. Let's eat first."

Lin Heng really couldn't bear it anymore.

"Okay, let's find a place to wash our hands first." Xiulan nodded.

This place is not far from the ravine. Down to the ravine there are only some pools formed by the rain, but no streams.

After washing her hands, Xiulan took out their dry food from the backpack. These were soft pancakes baked last night, including fermented bean curd and spicy and sour potato shreds.

The spicy bean curd is packed in cans, and the spicy and sour potato shreds are packed in plastic bags.

Lin Heng took his Baidu Steel dagger and whittled a pair of chopsticks. Xiulan put her hands together and asked him to lay the soft cake on it, smear it with fermented bean curd, and roll it up with shredded potatoes.

"Open your mouth!" Lin Heng handed the rolled pancake to his wife's mouth.

Xiulan flipped up her messy hair, opened her red lips and took a big bite. Her cheeks were bulging and she nodded: "It's delicious!"

Lin Heng took a bite by himself, nodded and said, "My wife's craftsmanship is really good."

Then he handed the burrito to her mouth, and the two of them sat on the stone and ate one bite at a time.

Xiulan took out water and fed Lin Heng a sip, then took another sip herself.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba ran down from the forest and squatted in front of the two people and shouted.

"Here, eat it yourself!"

Xiulan took out the rice prepared for it and put it in front of it.

After glancing at the two of them, Xiongba lowered his head and started eating.

Although Lin Heng and Xiulan's clothes were dirty, they ate with gusto.

After eating, Xiulan rested on Lin Heng's shoulder for a while. Suddenly her eyes lit up and she pointed to a tree in the distance and said, "Hubby, there are so many August melons!"

"It's just a little high and out of reach." Xiulan added. "I'll chop down a tree for you." Lin Heng stood up and pulled her to the tree. He cut the tree as thick as a bowl with ten hatchets.

If you step on the tree and press down, you can easily get the August melon.

"There are so many, I must be twenty or thirty." Xiulan said with a smile, put on her gloves and reached out to pick them.

She now pays great attention to taking care of her hands because Lin Heng said he likes her small hands with thin skin and tender flesh.

Lin Heng also came over to pick them. The August melons were almost purple at this moment, and they broke open with just a light touch.

"Twenty-five, that's a lot of trees." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan took off her gloves, opened one, ate half of it, and stuffed the other half into Lin Heng's mouth.

"puff!!"

After a while, the two of them spit out a lot of August melon seeds.

"The August melon is still as sweet as ever." Xiulan said with emotion.

"It's a pity that there are no Schisandra chinensis. I kind of want to eat it." Lin Heng said with a smile. Schisandra chinensis is sweet and sour and tastes better.

"Let's go to Sanyegou to pick after two days of drying. There are many there." Xiulan said and ate another one. She quite likes sweets.

"Wang Wang!"

After finishing the rice, Xiongba ran over and smelled the August melon, wanting to nibble on it.

"Here!" Xiulan picked a piece of fruit pulp and threw it to it.

Xiongba took two mouthfuls and swallowed all the seeds. There was no such thing as spitting out the seeds.

The two rested for a while, then packed up their things and continued searching.

"Xiongba, look for it again, there might be some nearby."

Lin Heng took out another ripe black truffle and let it smell it. The pine forest was huge, so look for it slowly.

Lin Heng and Xiulan picked up some pine milk mushrooms together. They had picked up enough and were not in a hurry.

When you see something suspicious, use a small hoe to dig around.

For three hours, Lin Heng and the two men searched the forest with more force. Except for finding half a catty of matsutake mushrooms, no black truffles were found.

"This is not normal!"

Lin Heng felt it was a bit fake. In his previous life, he had seen videos of people digging for black truffles. He dug up several acres of land nearby and could dig out hundreds of kilograms.

"Be content, this is already a big fortune." Xiulan was very open-minded.

"Then go home, it's almost time."

Lin Heng nodded. There was nothing we could do about it, but autumn was still very long, so there was plenty of time to search.

After picking up their things, the two of them walked back along another untraveled ravine.

Walking through the oak forest, there are many brown yellow umbrellas. They smell pretty good, and there are a lot of them everywhere.

As a result, I picked up more than a dozen of them in a row and when I opened them, I saw that they were all hollowed out by insects. I immediately lost the mood to pick them up.

"But I did pick up enough today." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After walking a few more steps, several hairy chestnut trees appeared in front of her. Xiulan walked over to the tree and took a look. She turned around and said in surprise: "There are chestnuts, and there are quite a few."

"Then pick up some." Lin Heng put down his backpack and walked over with the bag.

Hair chestnuts are much smaller than chestnuts, most of them are as big as the first section of the thumb, only half the size of chestnuts, and less than one-third as small as chestnuts.

However, there are many hairy chestnut trees, they taste pretty good, and they can be sold for money, so they are picked up in rural areas.

Whether you eat chestnuts directly or stir-fry them, stewed chicken and stewed pork legs are all delicious and no one can resist them.

While picking chestnuts, Lin Heng also saw a red-haired squirrel squatting on a tree, holding a chestnut in his hand.

He could only watch, because today he only wanted to pick mushrooms, and he didn't even bring his bow, arrows or slingshot.

The two picked it up for half an hour before stopping and falling together. Xiulan estimated: "It should be more than ten kilograms."

"The chestnuts on this tree have just started to fall. There should be more in a while."

Lin Heng took a look at the thick chestnut tree. In fact, if he picked it carefully, he could pick up at least ten more pounds on the ground.

But it was already half past six, and it would be dark if she didn't go back. Xiaoxia didn't know whether she was crying or not, and both of them were a little worried.

Lin Heng took this road to see if there were any schisandra chinensis or something like that, but after walking for a while, he couldn't go any further. He didn't encounter anything, so he had to climb up the ridge and take the path back.

At this time, there were many people picking mushrooms on the mountain and walking back. Lin Heng and the two were walking when someone suddenly said to them from behind: "Lin Heng, you are still going up the mountain to pick mushrooms."

Lin Heng turned around and saw that it was Uncle Li Baigen of the Li family who knew how to weave in the village. Following him were his second son Li Shixing and his youngest daughter Li Shixia.

"Uncle Li, you, a rich man, are also picking up mushrooms." Lin Heng smiled casually. He was not very familiar with this person.

"It's far worse than you." Li Baigan smiled and said, "I see that both of your backpacks are full. You picked up some fungi."

"Just pine fungi, broom fungi, and some chestnuts." Lin Heng said with a smile. He tied the pockets of the black truffles so they wouldn't be discovered.

"I smelled a scent, and I thought you had picked up matsutake mushrooms." Li Shigen said with a smile.

Lin Heng was stunned, thinking that this person had a dog's nose and could smell everything.

"No, you smelled it wrong." Lin Heng shook his head, looked at him again and said, "What kind of fungus did you pick up?"

"It's almost the same as you, but I came across a tree of wild grapes. Do you want to eat some?" Li Shigen came over with a bamboo basket containing a basket of wild grapes.

"You're so good. I've been searching for a long time and couldn't find it." Lin Heng was shocked. The wild grapes in this basket were so beautiful.

He reached for a bunch, took a bite, nodded and said, "It's very good, thank you."

"You can also take some of our chestnuts." Xiulan handed the chestnuts over.

"No, no, I picked it up at home." Li Shigen waved his hand and said.

"The scent is coming from your baskets. Did you really pick up matsutake?" Next to her, Li Shixia moved her nose and her voice was crisp.

"You kid..." Li Shigen glanced at his daughter helplessly.

Just know it, don't say it.

"Hahaha, it's true, a little, but not much." Lin Heng laughed and glanced at the fifteen-year-old girl.

Li Shixia was a little curious, so she picked up matsutake mushrooms once, but she didn't see them this time.

But her nose was very sensitive, and she felt that the smell emanating from their backpacks was not just matsutake, which was strange.

However, she did not dare to speak again after her father warned her.

"You're so lucky, it's enviable." Li Shigen couldn't help but show envy when he heard that it was true.

"Haha, let's not talk anymore. We have to go home quickly to take care of the children." Lin Heng quickly found a reason to run away. It seems that the snakeskin bag is not very effective in blocking out the fragrance.

The two of them were probably used to smelling it all the time.

"Then take some more wild grapes and give them to the children at home to taste." Li Shigen said again, forcing a few bunches of wild grapes to Lin Heng.

After saying a few polite words, Lin Heng quickly ran away with his wife.

"Dad, they must have picked up a lot of matsutake." Li Shixia sniffed and said.

"I guess so. We must have found a nest of matsutake mushrooms. Otherwise, how could we have so much money to collect mulberry trees?"

Li Shigen is a little envious, but you can't find this thing unless others tell you.

However, none of them guessed that what Lin Heng found was not matsutake, but the more precious black truffle.

The two of them walked home quickly. Father Lin looked curious. The two of them didn't even say hello to him and hurried home. Did they find something good?

After thinking for a while, he followed Lin Heng to the yard and looked at them: "What good things did you find?"

"This thing is so good, I don't want you to see it, Dad." Lin Heng chuckled.

"Is it matsutake?" Father Lin turned around and closed the courtyard door, walked over and asked.

"There are indeed matsutake mushrooms, but they are not the best." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Ah? What else is there?" Father Lin was puzzled.

Xiulan took out the bag and opened it. Father Lin looked up and sat down on the bench in a daze: "Oh my god, how did you find out about this?"

"Lin Heng was wandering around, he was lucky enough to come across him." Xiulan said with a smile.

Father Lin calmed down for a while before he came back to his senses and patted Lin Heng on the shoulder: "You are really destined to chase the mountain. Go and pay homage to the mountain god. You might as well accept the mountain god as your godfather."

"Dad, this is too outrageous." Lin Heng said helplessly.

Most of his harvest relied on the dog Xiong Ba and his own bow and arrow. Today, he felt that even if he didn't see the truffle, Xiong Ba would have found it.

"I have to take you to pay homage another day. No one will be lucky." Father Lin shook his head.

The three of them were happy when there was a quick knock on the courtyard door, and Caiyun's voice came from outside: "Second brother and second sister-in-law, are you at home? Something big has happened."

Hearing this, Lin Heng and the others couldn't help but be stunned. What kind of big event was this? Caiyun was so excited that she hurriedly walked out.

(End of this chapter)