The happy little days of the Ye family

There was a big bulge in the fallen leaves in front of Li Guoer. Based on her years of experience in picking mushrooms, there must be something big inside. To be able to grow so big is probably a rare treasure.

Li Guoer was not interested in the aeruginosa discovered by Ye Xilin at all and was carefully picking up the fallen leaves on the ground.

Soon, a giant mushroom as big as her face appeared in front of her.

The mushroom was not only very big, but also very plump, with black patterns on it.

The pattern on it is in the shape of a tiger's claw, so it's obviously a good-looking tiger palm fungus.

Tiger Palm

The meat of tiger palm fungus is thick and tender, with strong fragrance and special taste. It is a very rare and precious mountain delicacy.

It is said that tiger palm fungus has the effects of relaxing muscles, activating blood circulation and aphrodisiac, and rich people like to eat it very much.

The picking time of tiger palm fungus is in August and September, and it likes to grow deep in the grass in the mountains. It is rare in quantity and can be sold for 500 yuan per pound.

And the flower in Li Guoer's hand weighed a pound and a half.

Before marrying into the Ye family, Li Guoer and Li Orion would go deep into the mountains to look for tiger palm fungi every autumn. Unexpectedly, they could find this thing at the foot of Langshan Mountain.

Ye Xilin quickly picked off all the aeruginosa around him, and then ran to Li Guoer with a curious look on his face.

"This mushroom is too big."

This was the first time Ye Xilin had seen a mushroom that was bigger than a palm. It also had strange patterns and didn't look like it was edible.

"I've never seen this mushroom in the village. Are you sure it's edible?" Ye Xilin asked cautiously.

Seeing that he looked like he had never seen the world, Li Guoer began to show off the tiger palm fungus in his hand.

"Don't you understand? This is a tiger palm fungus. It costs 500 yuan per pound. Just this one can be sold for to yuan."

Ye Xilin didn't quite believe it, "Just this mushroom is actually worth seven to eight hundred coins? No, it can even buy half a pig."

"This tiger palm fungus was a tribute more than 100 years ago. I heard that an emperor at the end of the previous dynasty especially liked to eat it. It is said that it cost fifty taels of silver per pound at that time."

"Fifty taels of silver per pound, isn't it made of gold?" Ye Xilin was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

Li Guoer glared at him, "Don't interrupt."

"This is a matter of the previous dynasty. Later, when the dynasty changed, the status of this tiger palm fungus plummeted, and soon it was no longer a tribute."

Ye Xilin originally thought that 500 yuan per catty was too exaggerated. Now that he heard that it used to cost 50 taels per catty, he felt that the 500 yuan was nothing, and said with a pity on his face:

"There's a huge difference between 50 taels and 500 wen. It would be great if it were still 50 taels per catty now."

Li Guoer smiled and said: "If it really costs 50 taels per catty, it would be our turn to pick it. My father and I went to the county to sell this thing a few times in the past two years, and we didn't know many people."

Hearing that Li Guoer had sold it several times before, Ye Xilin was finally relieved. At least it was not a poisonous mushroom.

Ye Xilin took the tiger palm fungus from Li Guoer's hand, looked at it carefully for a while and then said excitedly:

"These mushrooms grow in clusters. There might be some around. Let's go look for them."

Ye Xilin even called Snowball and Sweet Potato over, and let the two big guys smell the tiger palm fungus for a long time, asking them to look for it together.

The two of them started searching carefully in all directions, focusing on the place where they had just found the tiger palm fungus.

Not long after, Ye Xilin found a tiger palm fungus smaller than a fist under a bush.

Although it is not big in size, it is very fleshy and heavy in the hand, probably weighing seven or eight liang.

Moreover, the texture of the tiger paw on it is clearer, and the quality is very good.

"Hahaha, Guo'er, look what I found!" Ye Xilin immediately started to show off.

"Stop being so upset and keep looking."

Li Guoer searched a lot and only found some ordinary straw mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, which made her feel bad.

Good things like tiger palm fungus are hard to come by. The two of them searched for a long time and finally found only these two.

Ye Xilin was in a very good mood and comforted Li Guoer:

"These two flowers add up to more than two kilograms, which is more than one tael of silver."

"That's right. We've already searched here. Let's go somewhere else. Don't waste time here."

Ye Xilin took out a bamboo tube of water from the basket on his back. The two drank the water and continued walking to the left.

After walking for about half a quarter of an hour, the two came to a pine forest. In fact, it is not accurate to say pine forest, because there are also some unknown small trees mixed in.

Mushrooms are particularly easy to grow under pine trees, and Ye Xilin soon discovered a small patch of pine mushrooms.

These pine mushrooms are probably just grown. They are not big in size, but they are very fresh and juicy.

Small mushrooms like this are the most delicious. Ye Xilin took them all in his hand without saying a word.

Li Guoer on the side was also very lucky. Although she didn't find a large amount of mushrooms, various mushrooms such as red mushrooms, colinus, morels, straw mushrooms, and oyster mushrooms popped up one after another.

The basket of mushrooms behind me was already more than half full.

As soon as Li Guoer raised his head, a large bright yellow mushroom came into view. When he took a closer look, it turned out to be a porcini mushroom!

The porcini mushroom was bigger than her fist, and Li Guoer was immediately delighted.

However, when I took a closer look, I was disappointed. The porcini mushroom looked fine on the outside, but inside it had been ruined beyond recognition by insects.

Seeing this miserable situation, Li Guoer's heart ached like a knife. It was such a pity for such a good mushroom.

"Wow, this water is almost turning into essence."

Not far away, Ye Xilin found a tree that was too big for two people to hug together.

Before he had time to look at what kind of tree it was, Ye Xilin was attracted by the dense nest of oyster mushrooms under the roots of the tree.

These oyster mushrooms are like open oil-paper umbrellas, each one particularly juicy and plump.

Ye Xilin was immediately happy and quickly collected all these cute little guys, so that the whole family would be in order.

The mushrooms under the tree grew particularly well, filling the basket in Ye Xilin's hand to the brim.

"Not bad, not bad. It's enough to stir-fry a plate of vegetables."

Ye Xilin poured the mushrooms into the basket behind him, and then he had the time to look at the big tree in front of him.

The tree trunk has a strange shape, with thick roots protruding from the ground, and there is a tree hole above the trunk that can accommodate a person.

The tree hole was right at Ye Xilin's chin. Ye Xilin looked at this mysterious tree hole and immediately became curious.

"I heard that the little squirrels on the mountain like to hide their food in tree holes like this. I don't know if it's true?"

Ye Xilin stood on tiptoes and looked into the tree hole. He saw that it was dark inside and could not see anything clearly.

Before he could see clearly what was going on inside the tree hole, a little guy suddenly poked his furry head out.

It's a cute little squirrel.

The little guy wasn't afraid of people, so he stared at Ye Xilin with big eyes and small eyes.

At this time, Li Guoer came over, and the little guy climbed up from the trunk to the top of the tree in a few seconds, his big fluffy tail swaying in the air.