Be Careful General's Wife!

As soon as the morning sun flooded the land, there appeared at the gate of the city. Many people with baskets and baskets on their backs were lining up to enter the city.

Baskets and panniers were covered with dewy grass.

"Are you also going to the city to sell mushrooms?" Several women in the line started chatting.

"Well, my Huzi cracked some hickory nuts a few days ago, and now they're dried, so I'll bring them back and sell them together."

"Hey, there are mushrooms in your back basket. It seems that your family has picked a lot."

"That is, before dawn, our family went up the mountain with torches, and we went home to sleep after picking."

"No wonder there are so many. My mother-in-law only knows to let me and my two girls go up the mountain. This little girl has sharp eyes like adults. She picked all morning and only got one basket."

"Not bad." The woman who spoke turned up the volume, "Your basket is full of matsutake, and you can sell it for a lot of money."

The woman with a turban on her head showed some pride on her face. This basket of matsutake weighed at least two or three catties. Although it was more than one catty and the head was smaller, the price might be lower, but it could be sold for a tael of silver.

In the past, they didn't dare to think about earning a tael of silver in half a year, but now, they can earn a tael of silver in a day.

Because the mushrooms in the mountains can be sold for money, people in every village now regard the mountains in their own villages as golden bumps, and people from other villages are not allowed to go up the mountain, only people from their own village can go up the mountain.

In order for the mushrooms to be picked for a long time, the villagers can rely on these mushrooms to make a lot of money. The village chief repeatedly ordered the mushrooms to be picked raw and not damaged. The places where the mushrooms were picked were covered with soil and hay.

When the people in the village go to the mountains, whether they can pick them and how much they can pick depends on their own skills and luck.

Because there are too many people picking, and the fresh mushrooms have to be picked on the same day, the number of mushrooms that each person can pick is still very limited. If you can pick two or three catties in one morning, that's a lot.

In order to collect more mushrooms, some people had to push deeper into the mountains.

There are ferocious beasts in the deep mountains, and they dare not go alone, they all go together.

"Have you ever eaten this matsutake?" the woman wrapped in a headscarf looked at the others and asked.

"How can we be willing to eat such an expensive matsutake?"

"I'm all over the nearby mountains and forests and I don't know what's going on. There are very few matsutake mushrooms. I haven't even picked a few, let alone eaten them."

"Matsutake matsutake, there are few mountain pine forests in your village, so it must not grow very long. I am reluctant to eat matsutake, but I have eaten a few crushed chicken fir. I tear it into strips, add salt, add a little lard, sprinkle Add a few chopped green onions, the taste is really more delicious than meat."

"I have fried porcini mushrooms with spicy peppers. It is delicious and can be eaten with rice. It is really better than meat."

"To tell you the truth, I secretly fried matsutake with pork and ate it. The taste is really gone. I wouldn't change it with chicken, duck and fish." She smacked her lips as she spoke, as if reminiscing.

The fact that mushrooms can be sold at such a high price has also made the people of Tongyuan County curious about this mushroom, wanting to know how delicious this mushroom is, so that it can be sold at a higher price than meat.

So one by one, they also took the courage to pick some edible mushrooms to eat, and fell in love with the taste of these mushrooms every time they ate them.

Fearing that the people would pick poisonous mushrooms to eat, the county government also drew pictures of various edible mushrooms, described the characteristics of the mushrooms, and posted them in prominent places on the city gates and streets.