Chapter 177: Fair scales in the water (1/2)
Ning Fei walked outside, found a clearing with few trees around, and began to build a frame and prepare to cook.
It was just about noon at the moment, and the weather was warm.
Inside the reindeer tribe, many people noticed Ning Fei not far away as they walked out.
Someone asked the hunter, “Who is that man?”
The hunter replied, “Someone from the grasslands, seems to be a Taoist priest.”
At this, people didn’t say much, they just felt curious and occasionally stepped out of the tribe and glanced over at Ning Fei for a few moments.
After Ning Fei had cleaned up, he said to the netizens.
“It is often said that brocade scales are in the water, fragrant mushrooms are in the forest, rare birds are in the sky, and strange beasts are in the mountains.”
“There really are so many treasures here.”
“We’ll have fragrant mushroom and rabbit meat for lunch, now I’ll go find some mushrooms and wild vegetables and come back first.”
Hearing Ning Fei’s words, many netizens burst into laughter.
“It’s time for another treasure hunt session in the mountains for Lord Ning Guan.”
As expected, Ning Fei wandered around the mountains for just about half an hour or so, and had already picked mushrooms by the time he returned.
“This one is a purple painted face mushroom, the finest of mushrooms, one of the Four Treasures of the Deep Mountains.”
“This is a wood ear mushroom, also known as black pine mushroom, the meat is tender, very chewy and very expensive.”
“This is a chicken blood mushroom, which is very helpful in preventing diabetes.”
“This is porcini mushroom, the ‘big brother’ in wild edible mushrooms, the larger ones with umbrella caps are 20cm in diameter and all 5cm thick, and taste particularly fresh and fragrant when stewed with meat.”
Ning Fei set up a rack, took the small pot out, then poured all the water in the cup and began to slowly boil it, preparing a pot of mushroom stew with rabbit meat.
He took the time to glance at the live stream pop-ups and found that [Herb Merchant] had rewarded him with five super rockets and had attached a message that read.
“Master Ning Guan, can you sell me some wild black pine mushrooms?”
Seeing [Herb Merchant]’s message and pop-up, Ning Fei laughed, “Why did you remember to buy mushrooms from me?”
Netizens felt curious and couldn’t help but ask.
“Who can take a look at it? How much is the value of what a medicinal material merchant wants to buy.”
“Black pine mushrooms are particularly expensive. The price is a few hundred dollars a catty if it’s ordinary, and about two thousand a catty if it’s wild.”
“How much is it? Two thousand a catty?”
After hearing the price, many netizens instantly became unsettled.
Just now Ning Fei had casually picked some. It was almost more than two catties.
Wouldn’t that mean that Ning Fei relied on picking mushrooms, in half an hour, he earned four to five thousand yuan.
You could make that much money picking mushrooms?
“Really? I want to go digging for mushrooms in the Great Xing’an Mountains.”
“That’s deep in the mountains and the place is special. It’s not easy to find.”
“Wild black pine mushrooms are really expensive, but it’s worth it because the nutritional value is very high.”
“I want to buy it too, Master Ning I’ll buy a catty of black pine mushrooms!”
“Give me a catty too!”
Everyone yelled again.
After seeing these pop-ups Ning Fei smiled helplessly and said:
“Sorry everyone, there aren’t that many black pine mushrooms left.”
“There’s still a little over a catty here, first come first served, so I’ll give it to [the herb merchant].”
“I’ll find a courier for you to send it to after I leave.”
Hearing Ning Fei’s words, the other netizens were envious. The herb merchant was extraordinarily happy.
He knew that wild black pine mushrooms were truly a delicacy on earth. When stewed with meat, the taste could not be more delicious.
There wasn’t much water in the pot. Ning Fei saw that the water was boiling, so he added some seasoned onion, ginger and garlic to it. The taste was seasoned well.
And then, the rabbit meat was then removed by Ning Fei. He used a knife to skilfully cut all the rabbit meat and put it into the small pot.
The conditions in the wild are a bit worse, so frying some rabbit meat in advance will be better.
However, Ning Fei was not that particular, he poured in some water and put in the cleaned mushrooms.
Next, it was a long wait.
Halfway through, Ning Fei took the water cup again and went to the reindeer tribe.
When the tribesmen heard that he had come to fetch a cup of water, they were very welcoming and helped him fill the cup thoroughly.
At the same time, Ning Fei also observed the reindeer tribe a little.
In his mind, he thought, “The astrological signs indicate the presence of creatures rich in aura here, and they don’t seem to be in the tribe.”
“Could it be nearby?”
After fetching the water, Ning Fei smiled and said thanks, and then swirled back to the fire.
He was in the middle of a clearing, with the dense forest surrounding him, and Black Handsome followed him, resting comfortably beside him.
It wasn’t long before the little falcon also flew back, having been missing all this time as it had wandered off somewhere.