Author: Erzi Congzhou

The people who live on the mountain mostly rely on wood. There are two large wooden buildings here, but they must be a bit old, and the wooden planks and walls have turned brown and black.

The wooden house was built on a stone foundation, and a dam had been leveled on one side, with a lot of wood piled on top. It looked like it was what Team Li had said about building a new house.

The bacon was already stewed in the kitchen, and there was a half-roasted chicken on the dam. When Zhou Zhi smelled the smell coming from the steamer on the open stove beside the open dam, he praised: "Bamboo fungus! What a good thing!"

Dictyophora fungus is a magical fungus. Dictyophora fungus has a strange smell and is unpalatable.

It is necessary to make bamboo fungus into dried mushrooms so that its umami substances can be decomposed and formed. After that, they need to be soaked in water and steamed in a steamer. When the peculiar smell evaporates and the mushroom aroma comes out, you can make dishes.

This is the authentic way people in the mountains make bamboo fungus.

"There's not much to entertain in the mountains, there's just a lot of these things." Sister-in-law Three said, "Everyone, sit down wherever you want, and I'll take care of the food."

"Don't treat us like guests." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Let's help too, let's make it faster together."

"Oh, why is this so embarrassing?" Sister-in-law Three smiled and said, "Just let Dingding and Yao Guer start fighting."

"Let Dingding and Yao Gu take the girls around." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Find a beautiful place to take pictures. We are all experienced at work. Sister-in-law, you can't trust us, right?"

After saying this, the third sister-in-law couldn't refuse anymore: "Then you go to the vegetable field behind to pick some vegetables. The corn is still tender now. If you like it, bring some and cook it."

"Monk, you go, I will cook the chicken offal." Zhou Zhi sent Yang and them away: "My third sister-in-law and I are setting up the dragon gate formation while we are working!"

Many people find the intestines and crops of chicken offal to be dirty, but Zhou Zhi has no taboo at all. The third sister-in-law is relieved that a city girl who can handle chicken offal will not be pretentious.

While Zhou Zhi was pouring water over the opened chicken crop, he commented: "I ate all the bran leaves and sweet potatoes. This chicken is definitely delicious."

"This is the silky chicken brought back from Hongshui. Let's try to see if it's different from the variety from Jiachuan." Sister-in-law three cut the bamboo shoots quickly. At this time of the year, bamboo shoots are the most abundant in the mountains. If you can't finish them, they have to be boiled.

Smoked and dried into dried bamboo shoots.

"The Jiachuan Silky Chicken is all black, including the internal organs. The Hongshui Chicken only has black skin, meat and bones." Zhou Zhi has discovered the difference: "Actually, no matter what kind of chicken, I think as long as it is not forced to grow, it will grow naturally.

They’re all delicious.”

"Yes, like the three-yellow chicken and the reed flower chicken, it naturally eats grains for half a year, and the white-cut chicken and pepper chicken are as delicious as the chicken." Just looking at the way Sister-in-law 3 handles the bamboo fungus, you can tell that she is an expert, and she talks about it very clearly.

"Third sister-in-law, I have a question that I haven't been able to figure out." Zhou Zhi asked: "Three-yellow chickens and reed chickens are big and meaty. Since the quality of meat is mainly affected by the raising methods, isn't raising fine-bred chickens using traditional methods the best of both worlds?"

"Well, the third brother thought the same way at the time." The third sister-in-law couldn't help laughing after hearing Zhou Zhi's question: "I just didn't consider how much these guys can eat sperm!"

Zhou Zhi gave Third Sister-in-law a few words and immediately understood: "It means that fine-bred chickens are only suitable for raising when they are half a year old. If they are older than that, it is no longer worthwhile."

"Yes!" Third Sister-in-law said with a smile: "Our silky chickens are small and can withstand extensive farming. They consume only half of the feed of fine-bred chickens in one year, but are two-thirds as big as fine-bred chickens. Free-range chickens are rough

In terms of raising chickens, local chickens are actually more cost-effective than well-bred chickens.”

"There is another more important thing. Even if you have a lot of money and feathers, native chickens are much more disease-resistant than foreign chickens. Foreign chickens are so stupid that they don't even know how to hide when an eagle comes!"

The two of them chatted and prepared the ingredients on hand for cooking. The third sister-in-law breathed a sigh of relief: "Elbow is really a good helper."

At this time Dingding ran back, took down a backpack from the pillar of the house and ran towards the back. The third brother who had just put away his things saw him: "What are you doing like a dog chasing you?"

"There are a lot of Santang mushrooms growing in Baogu field!" Dingding shouted: "Sister asked me to come back and get the backpack!"

"Really?!" Zhou Zhi suddenly became interested: "There are a lot of mushrooms here, huh?"

"It rained a little the day before yesterday." The third brother said: "Since the three mushrooms have come out, let your sister go to a few mushroom nests to have a look."

"Eh!"

"Dingding, wait for me..." Zhou Zhi couldn't sit still now: "I'll take a look too!"

There are more than a dozen banana trees beside the corn field. When they are not green and yellow, they can also be used to feed the pigs.

A cluster of gray-white mushrooms sprouted from the loess under the banana tree. Aunt Lu was digging carefully with a bamboo stick while Jiang Shuyi and others watched with interest.

"It's really three hall mushrooms." Zhou Zhi looked around: "Then there should be two more halls. Why don't you go look for them?"

"I'm afraid there are snakes." Jiang Shuyi said, "My aunt told us not to look for them randomly."

Zhou Zhi pulled out two bamboo sticks used for climbing beans from the ground: "Dingding, let's go look for them."

Sandang mushroom is actually the chick fir, one of the most delicious mushrooms. It is called this name because it has a habit of finding one place, and usually there will be two more places not far away.

"The ones in Baogu are usually pickle sticks," Dingding said, "Actually they're not poisonous."

Pickle sticks are called different places, and the amazing thing is that the name refers to different snakes in different places.

In the Jiachuan area, this name refers to the red chain snake, which is relatively brightly colored, causing many people to regard it as a venomous snake, but it is actually not poisonous.

The two of them searched again in the Baogu field, and sure enough, they found two pieces of mushrooms among several Baogu fields.

"Brothers and sisters all stutter!" Dingding was very happy.

"Stuttering share" is a dialect, which means good luck in the mouth. Zhou Zhi felt that this child was a good character. Whenever he had something delicious to eat, he would think of his elder brothers and sisters first. He smiled and said, "You also have stuttering share."

"My uncle said he wanted to go to Guwozi to have a look, so I'll definitely go there." Dingding said, "My uncle usually doesn't talk empty words."

"We're here to help!" Liang Hong came over with the girls. Now that Zhou Zhi and Dingding were there, the snake didn't seem so scary anymore.

Digging mushrooms on the yellow mud ground is actually a technical job. Fortunately, with Ding Ding's guidance, there were no big mistakes and the chicks that were taken out were perfect.

The stem of the chicken fir is as thick as a little finger, and there is an unopened gray cap on it. This mushroom is the most delicious.

After picking the chicken fir trees, everyone became highly motivated and followed Lu Yaogu to the hillside to look for the "mushroom nest".

The mushroom nest is a fixed place where mushrooms are produced. Every family in the mountains has a map of the specialties in the mountains and forests near their home. Among them, the mushroom production area is an important configuration. A good mushroom nest can even produce one or two hundred kilograms of mushrooms every year.

Mushroom nests are usually found in Qinggang Forest, which is a shrub used for firewood in rural areas. Mushrooms like to grow in it.
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