Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 371

Chapter 371: Chicken of The Woods Mushroom ( 1 )
Tonight, in addition to snacks, due to the upcoming Qingming Festival, there are more orders for cold food, wine, fruits, and vegetables than usual. Although she doesn’t plan to sell tonic wine, she can still sell some fruit wine or rice wine.

Without spiritual grass powder, the healing effect of fruit or rice wine is much lower than that of tonic wine. But due to its cheap price, the demand is higher. In addition, Lu Jueyu also uses natural raw materials in her space to make handmade soaps, lipsticks, whitening creams and some blushes.

The maples in her space are also ready for sap extraction. Every 20 hours, a maple tree can produce 40 liters of maple sap, which can then be processed into 10 liters of maple syrup. There are now two thousand maple trees in her space. So, in one hour outside, her space can produce 60,000 liters of maple syrup.

She opened the factory settings and set up maple syrup production. Each jar was filled with 250 ml of maple syrup. She will sell it for 50 yuan per jar. When Li Chenmo woke up, she had put everything into the bamboo basket. After freshening up, they left the space and waited for Zhang Dongmei and others to come over.

At the same time, Dong Li and Dong Huang were collecting firewood at the foot of the mountain when they saw a familiar figure picking wild vegetables from behind. Seeing him, they walked over and shouted, “Uncle!”

Hearing their voices, Xiao Li turned around and asked with a smile, “What are you two doing here at this time? The sun has already set, and it will be dangerous to wander here at night. You’d better go back quickly.”

Dong Huang had a good impression of him and said with a smile, “Uncle, we are collecting firewood for Uncle Li. Are you picking wild vegetables?”

Xiao Li nodded and said, “If you need more firewood, Uncle can help you pick it up.”

“Thank you, Uncle. But we have collected enough firewood today. Uncle, do you need help? We know a place where wild vegetables are hidden.” Dong Li said.

Xiao Li looked at the pathetic amount of wild vegetables in his basket and asked, “Can you share that place’s location with me?”

Dong Li nodded, pointed in one direction, and said, “Uncle, you only need to walk for ten minutes to get there. There are many wild fruits there too.”

Hearing his words, Xiao Li nodded. Since Li Lingyun was injured the last time they went up the mountain, he has never gone up the mountain again. Now, he can only live on what little food he saved up from last year’s harvest and the wild vegetables he foraged daily.

Although Li Lingyun and Lu Cheng asked him to come to them when he needed help, Xiao Li was very embarrassed to always bother them with his problem. He caused his friends too much trouble already. He didn’t have the nerve to borrow food from them. Therefore, he could only endure his hunger, work harder, and strive for more work points.

He patted Dong Li on the shoulder and said, “Thank you, little friend. I will pick some wild fruits for you two later.”

He raised his head and saw that the sun had set, and urged them, “It’s getting dark, you should go back.”

Dong Li and Dong Huang nodded and said, “Goodbye, uncle.”

Xiao Li watched them walk back until he could no longer see their backs and then walked in the direction Dong Li pointed. He carried a bamboo basket on his back, hoping that there would be no wild animals. Otherwise, he might lose his life for some wild vegetables.

After walking for nearly ten minutes, he finally saw a few patches of wild vegetables and some wild berries. When he saw those fruits, his eyes lit up and he quickened his pace. He first picked wild berries and some peaches and then dug wild vegetables.

As he was digging for vegetables, he noticed that some of the trees were covered with mushrooms that were densely packed with orange color and resembled flowers. Curious, he walked up to the tree and smelled the mushrooms. The strong smell of fungus made him frown.

He didn’t know if the mushroom was edible, but he could ask Doctor Xie later. Now, he should go find some food and go back. The sun had already set, and Xiao Li did not dare to stay in this place for too long. When he had filled his basket with mushrooms, fruits, and wild vegetables, he quickly left the foothills and walked back to the village.

Since there was no sunlight, he could not take a shortcut and had to take a detour. Although it took him longer to get home, it was also safer. When he walked through the hill near the village, he saw Li Lingyun and Li Chenmo chatting in front of a house.

When he was still a few meters away from them, Li Lingyun saw him and said, “Xiao Li, have you just come back from the foothills?”

Xiao Li walked up to him and said, “Brother Yun, Brother Chenmo, what a coincidence.”

Li Chenmo glanced at Xiao Li’s bamboo basket and saw the chicken of the woods mushrooms, and asked, “Brother Xiao, where did you find these mushrooms?”

Xiao Li put the bamboo basket on the ground and said, “I found it near the foot of the mountain. I don’t know if this mushroom is edible, and I plan to ask Doctor Xie about it later.”

Hearing his words, Li Chenmo nodded and said, “This mushroom is edible. It tastes like chicken or crab. You can fry it with some wild vegetables.”

When Xiao Li and Li Lingyun heard what he said, they both looked at him in surprise.

“Third brother, you are so knowledgeable. No wonder so many women fall for you.” Li Lingyun said with a teasing smile.