Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 51 Dragon Stewed Hazel Mushrooms

However, this also shows from another perspective how rare the black tiger is.

This is what a smart hunting dog does. If it is not hunting, it is just helping its owner to pick up prey. It will not bite and destroy the prey in the hope of eating the meat, but will bring it back to its owner.

Chen Weidong rubbed Heihu's head and said, "Well done." Raising a dog is like raising a child. You need to praise them more often so that they will work harder.

As if hearing what Chen Weidong said, the black tiger snorted softly, and shook its body violently, causing water droplets to splash everywhere.

During this effort, three greyhounds and a water rat were caught. Chen Weidong was very satisfied with the harvest.

Carrying the prey, Chen Weidong led the black tiger back without staying any longer. He glanced at the two wooden clamps and found nothing. He could only wait until tomorrow to come back and take a look.

However, when Chen Weidong arrived at the small valley, he found that one of the four traps was triggered. When he walked closer, he saw that the trap he originally used to catch rabbits had actually caught a pheasant. The pheasant's legs were also broken and it was struggling.

Chen Weidong put the pheasant into a sack, set up the trap again, and continued walking back. Not long after, he saw two wild mushrooms on the hillside next to him. Chen Weidong estimated that there should be more higher up, but he would need to climb up to see them.

So Chen Weidong asked Hei Hu to be on guard, and he climbed up the hill to start picking.
In fact, there are many wild mushrooms of this kind in the mountains of Northeast China, probably dozens of species.

Some grow in open spaces in forests and mountains, some grow on trees, and some grow in fields, grasses and roadsides.

Wherever there is open space, there are a variety of mushrooms growing.

The mushroom that Chen Weidong picked is hazel mushroom, one of the most famous wild mushrooms in Northeast China. Hazel mushrooms can be found in many shrubs or oak forests.

The mushrooms picked by the little guys on the mountainside before were hazel mushrooms. Chen Weidong also remembered that he caught a flying dragon today, and stewing hazel mushrooms with flying dragon would surely be even more delicious.

Chen Weidong picked more than a dozen hazel mushrooms, almost a handful, and when he felt that he had enough, he looked up.
Suddenly, at the root of an oak tree not far ahead, a cluster of bright orange-red things appeared. The overlapping pieces looked very much like a rooster's comb at first glance, which attracted Chen Weidong's attention.

This is a bunch of tree chicken mushrooms, a very large bunch of tree chicken mushrooms.

The tree chicken mushroom is a specialty of the mountains in Northeast China and a very precious mountain delicacy.

Because it looks like a rooster's comb and tastes like chicken breast, the locals call it tree chicken mushroom.

Not to mention the taste of the flying dragon stewed with tree chicken mushrooms, and then Chen Weidong smiled bitterly again.

The best time to pick tree chicken mushrooms is in April and May. It is a bit late now as the Greater Khingan Range has entered late autumn.

At this time, the tree chicken mushroom has become very woody and inedible.

In the end, Chen Weidong gave up on this tree chicken mushroom because he found a few hazel mushrooms next to the oak tree. After picking them, he left with Black Tiger.

Although there are still many hazel mushrooms in this area, they are scattered and Chen Weidong does not have time to pick them all, so he can only come back to pick them when he has free time.

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"Woooooo~"

"Dad, I'm back!
"Dad, what a big mouse! Why are you catching mice?"

"Si Nicole doesn't eat mice~"

"Don't worry, I won't give it to you!"

As soon as the six little girls saw Chen Weidong coming home, they immediately jumped and skipped to his side.

"Wu Ni, daddy doesn't have time to hug you now!" Chen Weidong pinched Wu Ni's little face as she rushed towards him.

"Wu Ni, wait until Daddy is done with his work!" Wu Ni said in a baby voice.

"Well, so good~" Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting greeted them, put away their guns and other equipment, filled a basin with water, and began to deal with the greyhounds and water rats.

Chen Weidong is already familiar with the greyhounds. The water rats and yellow skins are skinned in the same way.

As for the sachet of the water rat, Chen Weidong carefully peeled it off, hung it up with wire, and waited for it to dry.

Considering that one flying dragon was not enough to eat, Chen Weidong killed the pheasant with a broken leg and a wild rabbit. The children were at the stage of growing up, and with a black tiger, the family had no worries about leftovers.

"What are you four squatting here looking at? Help daddy wash all those mushrooms on the ground."

Chen Weidong couldn't help laughing when he looked at Sanni, Sini, Wuni, who were staring at each other, and Liuni, who was squatting foolishly like her sister.

"it is good!"

The three little girls immediately started to work hard. Sanni, who was running in the front, felt something was wrong.

Looking back, she found Liuni still squatting there stupidly, so Sanni went back to Liuni and carried her away in her arms.

"Be careful!"

Chen Weidong reminded her, but Liuni seemed to have long been accustomed to the violence of her sister's childcare. She was carried and dragged by Sanni without making a sound. She looked silly and cute, which made Chen Weidong, who was standing beside her, laugh.

Liu Xueting was not idle either. She had already steamed the rice. Dani and Erni were helping to boil the pot in the kitchen.

Seeing Chen Weidong kill a pheasant, Liu Xueting came over and was busy dealing with the pheasant.

Chen Weidong skinned the rabbit skillfully, scraped off the oily skin on a few small pieces of fur, and cleaned them.
Chen Weidong hung the greyhound skins out to dry, and stuffed some straw into the rabbit skins, yellow fox skins, and water rat skins to make them tight.

Hang them on the trees in the yard to dry. After all this work, it was already dark, and then Chen Weidong started to cook.

The flying dragon had also been cleaned up by Liu Xueting. Chen Weidong took a look at it, picked up the flying dragon, chopped it into small pieces with a knife, and soaked it in water.

Then I went to get the hazel mushrooms that the little guys had washed,

When stewing Feilong soup, stewing it with mushrooms is the best match and the soup will be the most delicious.

Freshly picked hazel mushrooms like the one Chen Weidong picked need to be simply blanched in water. If they are dried hazel mushrooms, under normal circumstances, they need to be soaked in warm water for two hours before they can be fully expanded.

After frying the hazel mushrooms, Chen Weidong brushed the pot and scooped some water from the water tank. After the water boiled, he took out the flying dragon, poured it into the pot, blanched it, and then took it out for later use.

Then after he cleaned the pot, he added a lot of oil. When the oil was hot, he added onions, ginger, and garlic and started stir-frying. After the aroma came out, he added the flying dragon meat and continued to stir-fry until it changed color.

Then add water and start to stew the soup. When the pot boils, put the blanched hazel mushrooms in.

"Da Ni, Er Ni, you two can go play, and leave the rest to Dad!"

Chen Weidong reduced the heat at the bottom of the pot and continued to simmer over low heat.

After a while, Liu Xueting came over with a pheasant in her hand and said, "Weidong, the pheasant has been plucked clean!"

"Dad, Si Ni also helped Mom pluck pheasant feathers!"

"Wuni, work too!"

The two little guys said in proud voices.

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