Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 429 - Chapter 429 429. Black fungus and chestnut_1

Chapter 429: 429. Black fungus and chestnut_1 Chapter 429: 429. Black fungus and chestnut_1 Anticipation mounted, and Teacher Qiaoqiao’s class finally began once again.

At 3:00 PM, almost all the “little friends” who had received the notification and had been waiting in the live-streaming room saw his fair and handsome face at the first opportunity.

[aswl]

[The host doesn’t seem like a country person at all]

[Help! How can he look so good even wearing a straw hat!]

[Is he really not using any filters? Why is he so fair?]

[You people are so shallow! I’m different, I’m here to learn skills!]

[Teacher Qiaoqiao, please teach more skills; I must not lose in the autumn recruitment!]

[As long as my resume has enough skills, sooner or later I will get the offer I desire!]

Qiaoqiao placed his phone under the shade of the trees, by now he was also filled with excitement at the thought of the upcoming class reunion:

“Little friends, have you all mastered the knowledge I taught before? Today I’m going to teach you how to pick black fungus. Once you’ve learned, you can go home and practice.”

[I’d be willing to practice, but first, I need to have a fungus culture bag.]

[Wait a minute! That’s not a culture bag behind the host, those are logs of alder wood!]

[Oh boy, black fungus grown on alder wood outdoors must taste exceptionally good!]

[There’s nothing not delicious at the host’s home]

[There’s also nothing cheap at the host’s home… The poor ones shed tears]

[Put up the link, put up the link]

The live stream room was bustling with excitement in an instant.

However, Qiaoqiao was already standing by his grandmother’s side, seriously observing her at work.

Grandmother was fully equipped too, wearing a straw hat and armguards, but upon entering the Chestnut Woods, she was taken aback:

“It’s quite cool here… Oh, and I don’t hear any mosquitoes–oh my, the chestnuts are growing really well this year! Look at these spiky husks, they’re so plump. What month is it? ”

Wu Lan also smiled with great satisfaction: *Mom, you say we didn’t understand those days, we had the child study that ‘what’s it called’ major; had we known, she should have learned farming, now she would definitely be an expert!”

“Look at everything Tantan grows, it’s all good!”

*Indeed,” Grandmother agreed wholeheartedly: “It’s the poverty from when we were younger that held back Tantan’s natural talent.”

“Speaking of technology, it’s great. Look at how it nourishes everything we grow…”

The two of them talked as if it were a matter of great importance, bewildering everyone in the live streaming room.

Everybody listened to their conversation silently–

With the host’s produce tasting so good, they had thought it was the result of deep expertise cultivated over many years, yielding new varieties and recipes…

Ttar it was actually a cross-disciplinary achievement!

Once again, the crowd marveled at the profound influence that unique varieties and cultivation had on the taste of agricultural products, but Qiaoqiao looked at the large basket by Grandmother’s side and wondered:

“Grandmother, isn’t it tiresome to carry such a big basket? Why don’t you use a smaller one?”

He was referring to the kind of small basket used for picking tea leaves.

Grandmother laughed: “You see, Grandmother will teach you how to pick black fungus–”

With her left hand, she straightened a diagonally positioned, bowl-thick stick right in front of her, and rapidly, with a flick of her right hand, the suitably sized black fungus was plucked and fell perfectly into the basket below.

When cultivating these black fungus sticks, there was a method to it–vertical gaps the width of two fingers, horizontal gaps of three fingers, arranged in neat rows.

Grandmother’s harvesting was swift, sweeping through a row effortlessly and smoothly.

In no time at all, she had picked clean a whole long stick from top to bottom, leaving only the small, immature ones at the top.

Thanks to the large basket, Grandmother didn’t even need to shift her position, immediately she propped up another stick–

“(o) wow!”

Qiaoqiao understood.

The barrage also became clear–

[These black mushrooms are so small, the ones in restaurants sometimes take up a whole chopstick’s worth when you pick them up]

[To the person before, what you’re eating is grown from fungus bags, they are larger]

[Yep, those short and fat white fungus bags, they yield a lot, with layers of big black mushrooms on top, you can grab a handful at a time]

[Right, the ones cultivated on basswood like these are naturally smaller, but look at the growing environment–forest, abundant sunshine and rain, almost indistinguishable from wild ones, the taste must definitely be different]

[True, I went back to my hometown last week and it had just rained; I found some wild black mushrooms on the mountain, all of them were really small]

[The products from the streamer’s home are genuinely ‘you get what you pay for’]

[Post the link, post the link]

[I can’t mention it, mentioning it makes my mouth water, I really want a cold black mushroom salad tonight]

[So jealous of the streamer who can eat good stuff right away]

And just then, Wu Lan spoke up,

“Qiaoqiao, you must remember that these black mushrooms can’t be eaten right after picking. You have to sun-dry them and then soak them before they’re edible; otherwise, they’re toxic.”

Qiaoqiao nodded obediently, “Seventh Uncle told me, fresh mushrooms contain a photosensitive substance that can cause dermatitis and breathing difficulties if eaten. They must be sun-dried first.”

It was Wu Lan’s first time hearing this.

They only knew that’s how they should be eaten but didn’t know the reason why; now, he couldn’t help but praise him,

“My son is really smart!”

Qiaoqiao lifted his head proudly, but then remembered he was live streaming and suddenly became modest,

“I need to teach the kids, can’t miss the details.”

Barrage: …

[Yes, yes, yes, here is a 300-month-old kid]

[Not gonna lie, just the other day I saw someone on a farming channel eating mushrooms directly]

[I don’t care, I don’t care, post the link! I want to buy now!]

[What’s the price for the streamer’s black mushrooms, please be a bit cheaper than white fungus!]

[Ah, chilled white fungus soup! Can’t think about it, can’t think about it, I’ll drool just by thinking about it]

[To the person before, white fungus is so expensive, did you really buy it?]

[Bought it, it’s as if I hadn’t, 80 yuan for 10 grams to stew a pot, I eat it alone, a little more water and it can stretch for a day.]

While the barrage chatted away, Qiaoqiao had already learned,

“Alright, this is how to pick black mushrooms.”

He took the phone again,

“Now, let me show you what black mushrooms look like–”

You could see clusters of small, adorable, plump black mushrooms growing out of the holes in the dark brown, uneven tree bark. When you touched them with your hand, they were springy and very pleasing to the touch.

Not gonna lie, the texture is so much better than white fungus.

While Qiaoqiao was watching, he suddenly couldn’t help but stare at the chestnut tree above him,

“Mom, can we eat the chestnuts now?”

Upon hearing this, both Wu Lan and grandma laughed,

[“We can. It’s just that they’re too small. If you peel them, they’ll probably be the size of a fingernail,”]

“But I think this chestnut bur is big.”

[“Big it may be, but the inside hasn’t fully developed yet, wait a little longer. This year we’ll pick more young chestnuts for our Qiaoqiao to eat.”]

Qiaoqiao was instantly satisfied again, “Do we still have to go through the trouble of picking chestnuts to sell this year?”

In Qiaoqiao’s memory, using tongs to gather chestnut burs on the ground and then going home to break them open with scissors seemed easy, but when you actually do it repeatedly, you either scrape your fingers with the tongs or your palms get rubbed raw by the scissors–it hurts.