The happy little days of the Ye family

No one comes here on weekdays in the valley. Mushrooms are everywhere, and many of them grow directly outside. You can see them without picking up fallen leaves.

The red mushrooms are bright and eye-catching and the most conspicuous. As soon as they came down from the small valley, Ye Qingqing discovered a small piece of red mushroom.

Although red mushrooms are not big in size, they are delicious, and restaurants in town and county have long been selling them.

Fresh red mushrooms can be sold for 30 yuan per catty, which is more expensive than meat.

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"A lot of red mushrooms, sir, come here quickly." Ye Qingqing waved to Tang Xiaojing excitedly.

"Hey, here it comes! Qingqing, you are lucky. You found such a large area of ​​red mushrooms right after you came here."

Tang Xiaojing was looking at Ye Qingqing. He didn't pay attention to his steps for a moment and crushed the red mushrooms at his feet.

Tang Xiaojing looked at Ye Qingqing with a guilty look on his face. He saw her lowering her head and concentrating on picking mushrooms, and didn't notice him at all.

Tang Xiaojing quickly kicked the fallen leaves aside to cover the broken mushrooms, and then picked the mushrooms as if nothing had happened.

But this time Tang Xiaojing paid more attention and did not step on the mushroom again.

Russulas are only as big as a toe, and most of them like to hide under leaves.

Ye Qingqing took a small stick and carefully picked up the fallen leaves at his feet one by one. Small and cute red mushrooms appeared in front of you.

After the two of them had picked all the small pieces of red mushrooms, the small basket in Ye Qingqing's hand was already half full.

Ye Qingqing weighed it and found that it was about a pound.

"Not bad, I got it for 30 yuan."

After hearing Ye Qingqing's words, Tang Xiaojing handed over the basket in his hand:

"I still have it here."

Ye Qingqing lowered his head and looked at the basket in Tang Xiaojing's hand. Most of it was filled with red mushrooms, and there were also a few morels and seven or eight straw mushrooms.

After pouring all the mushrooms into the basket behind him, Ye Qingqing carried the small basket and transformed into a little girl picking mushrooms.

Continuing to walk forward, Ye Qingqing was suddenly attracted by a large tree as thick as a bucket, with dense black fungus growing on the trunk.

Fungus is particularly delicious when dried and used to make steamed buns, and it can also be used in cooking.

After drying, it is more expensive than dried mushrooms. Ye Qingqing will naturally not let go of such a good thing.

Except for the small finger-sized fungus, everything else was picked cleanly.

Behind the tree trunk, there are several strange mushrooms growing. The color looks familiar, but the shape is a bit strange.

Ye Qingqing looked at it carefully and smelled it, and then confirmed that it was shiitake mushrooms.

Although it looks a bit ugly, it is still edible, and it won’t look the same in the stomach.

Ye Qingqing picked them all happily.

It had rained a few days ago, and there are several springs in the valley. The humidity here is quite heavy, and many nearby trees are covered with dense black fungus.

In addition to black fungus, there are also many ground vegetables at the bottom of the trunk.

The ground vegetables are delicious, but they are too difficult to take care of, and Ye Qingqing is busy picking mushrooms, so he has no time to care about them.

After picking all the black fungus nearby, the basket behind Ye Qingqing was mostly filled.

It had rained at night, and these black fungus were quite heavy after being filled with water. The straps on the shoulders made Ye Qingqing's shoulders feel a dull pain.

Putting the backpack on the ground, Ye Qingqing was about to find two leaves to cushion it. Unexpectedly, he lowered his head and saw several big bags bulging in the fallen leaves at his feet.

Based on her many years of mushroom picking experience, there must be a mushroom nest here, and it is quite big.

These bulges are so big, they are probably rare treasures, maybe tiger palm fungus.

Ye Qingqing looked excited and hurriedly opened the fallen leaves at his feet. Unexpectedly, there were two bulges in a row, with fist-sized stones underneath.

Ye Qingqing didn't give up and opened the bulge next to him, and then a giant mushroom bigger than his fist appeared in front of him.

The mushroom has a special pattern on it. If you look closely, it is obviously the shape of a tiger's claw.

Obviously, this is the tiger palm fungus she saw at her parents' house.

The smile on Ye Qingqing's face bloomed like a flower, "After two days of searching, I finally found you."

Although the tiger palm fungus on his hand was not as big as the one Ye Xilin and the others found in Langshan, it was still not small. Ye Qingqing weighed it and found it was about half a catty.

"Look what I found?" Ye Qingqing shook the tiger palm fungus in his hand with a face full of joy.

Tang Xiaojing was immediately happy when he saw the big mushroom on Ye Qingqing's hand clearly, "Tiger palm fungus, I didn't expect to find it."

The two of them ignored chatting and quickly searched the area.

Tang Xiaojing was lucky. After a while, he found a tiger palm fungus weighing about a kilogram in a bush.

There were a lot of thorns growing on the grass, and Tang Xiaojing had several cuts on his hands because of the tiger palm fungus.

As soon as he got the giant mushroom, Tang Xiaojing found that the back was already riddled with bugs.

The smile on Tang Xiaojing's face suddenly disappeared, and he cursed:

"Such a big tiger palm fungus was blinded in vain."

Ye Qingqing took the tiger palm fungus and felt heartbroken when he looked at the area on it that had been eaten by insects.

500 Wen was just gone, her little money.

Tang Xiaojing was about to comfort his wife, but Ye Qingqing suddenly laughed.

"If we cut off the bad parts, half of it will be left. Why don't we keep it for ourselves and eat it? We'll just have a taste of what these 500-yen-a-pound mushrooms taste like."

Ye Qingqing drooled looking at the tiger palm fungus on his hand, and suddenly felt no pain anymore.

Tang Xiaojing smiled and said, "Okay, I have eaten such expensive mushrooms before, so I just want to try them."

Ye Qingqing put the tiger palm fungus in the backpack behind him. As soon as he turned around, he saw a small pile of rotten weeds in front of him, with a small bump on it.

"Is it the tiger palm fungus again?"

Ye Qingqing quickly used a stick to pull away the weeds, and was disappointed to find that there were many straw mushrooms growing underneath.

"Straw mushrooms are not bad." Ye Qingqing comforted herself.

Not far away, Tang Xiaojing discovered several particularly large morels.

The top of the morel is blunt and round, with a morel-like pit on the surface. Below it is a white cylindrical rod, and the whole fungus is long and strip-shaped.

Morel

Morels like to grow in cooler places, usually found in deep mountains, and only grow from March to May or August to September every year.

Because the quantity is rare, the price is very expensive. Fresh morels cost 80 Wen per catty, and dried ones can be sold for 180 Wen per catty.

The environment in the valley is pleasant and seems to be a paradise for morels. You can spot these little guys every few steps, and they are right next to each other.

Tang Xiaojing had just finished picking a nest of morels, and after taking two steps, two more cute fungi that had just sprouted appeared in front of his eyes.

There were too many mushrooms in the small valley. Tang Xiaojing, who originally planned to pick some herbs to go back, could no longer remember it.