So Wen Xi put down the backpack and basket, took out a few distinctive-looking mushrooms from them, and explained to Gu Huaian, "This is a blue-headed mushroom, it's green and very easy to recognize; this yellow one is an egg yolk mushroom, and this one is a boletus mushroom... You don't know mushrooms now, so just know a few. If you know too many, you won't be able to remember them all. Just pick the ones I mentioned, and don't pick the others. If you pick a poisonous one, you'll probably be poisoned to death. And you can dry the leftover mushrooms and save them for the winter."

Gu Huaian listened to Wen Xi's words and nodded seriously, "Wen Xi, thank you."

"Wait until around the Mid-Autumn Festival, then you can plant winter vegetables, such as yellow heart cabbage, radish, cabbage, and coriander. You can then exchange some seeds with your neighbors." Thinking of how difficult it was for everyone when they first arrived, Wen Xi couldn't help but remind them, "The double-season early rice will be ripe for harvest in late July. By then, you will have to harvest the rice and plant rice seedlings. It will be very busy and tiring. You must prepare protective gear. There are also many leeches that suck human blood in the rice fields. It's too hot to wear boots. It's best to wear long pants. Don't worry about whether your pants are dirty."

"I haven't experienced these things yet and I don't know anything. Thank you for reminding me." Gu Huaian said gratefully.

Wenxi nodded and went down the mountain with the mushrooms. On the way down the mountain, he met other people who were going down the mountain. Unexpectedly, everyone had a great harvest. This shows how many mushrooms there are on the mountain in this season.

Wen Xi returned home, poured the mushrooms on the kitchen floor, then slipped into the system kitchen, filled himself a bowl of watermelon, enjoyed the delicious meal, and then went out with the backpack and basket.

This season happens to be the time when these mushrooms grow wildly, so she has to stock up more, otherwise she won't be able to experience this kind of fun when she returns to the city in the future.

When he returned to the mountain again, Wenxi did not go to the places he had been to before, but went to other places. While walking, Wenxi actually saw a pepper tree.

The tree with only a few branches is full of small green fruits, about the size of mung beans, but like cherries, they grow many in a bunch.

Wenxi leaned over and sniffed the scent, confirming that it was Sichuan peppercorns, but the peppercorns were not yet ripe, so Wenxi did not touch the peppercorns. Instead, he noted the location of the peppercorn tree and went to other places to continue picking mushrooms.

Suddenly, a short, sharp "crackling" sound came over. Shen Jiaojiao, who was picking mushrooms, was startled and looked around in panic, "What's that sound?"

"This is the cry of a wild rooster. It's the breeding season now, so male pheasants often make crowing sounds." Lin Qing happened to be not far from Shen Jiaojiao, so he explained.

Shen Jiaojiao's eyes suddenly lit up. She heard that pheasants were particularly easy to catch when they were hatching eggs. She wondered if she could show off her skills in this!

So a hint of excitement flashed in Shen Jiaojiao's eyes. She put the mushrooms in her hand into the basket, then crawled in the grass towards the place where the pheasant made the sound, but she saw a pheasant squatting in the grass in the other direction. She didn't know if it was hatching eggs there.

After all, Shen Jiaojiao had no experience in catching pheasants, and her hand accidentally pressed on a branch, which then broke crisply. Then she watched the pheasant fly into the air and escape, abandoning its eggs.

But the pheasant didn't fly very high before it fell into the grass with a plop. Shen Jiaojiao hurriedly stood up, ran over there, and then held down the pheasant that was struggling to escape.

Lin Qing, who was not far away, withdrew his hand and concealed his merit and fame.

Shen Jiaojiao clamped the pheasant's neck between her wings and carried the pheasant back to the place where the pheasant had just laid its nest. There were actually eight pheasant eggs!

"Comrade Lin Qing, everyone who sees it gets a share. How do you want to divide the pheasant? Should we divide it after it's cooked, or..." Shen Jiaojiao looked at Lin Qing and asked.

What if she monopolized the pheasant and pheasant eggs, making Lin Qing unhappy and letting the matter leak out?

"No need, you caught the pheasant yourself, you can keep it for yourself. I will pretend I didn't see it." Lin Qing said and turned to leave.

Shen Jiaojiao didn't want to make this public, so she quickly poured out the mushrooms in the basket, put the pheasant at the bottom, and then put the mushrooms back. This way, everyone would see a full basket of mushrooms, and no one would imagine that there was a pheasant in it.

Shen Jiaojiao put eight pheasant eggs in the basket, and then covered them with a layer of mushrooms. The mushrooms were actually very light and could not be crushed at all. After that, she hurried down the mountain and did not continue picking mushrooms on the mountain.

After Wen Xi filled his backpack and basket again, he went home. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Shen Jiaojiao sitting by the well and cleaning a pheasant.

"Jiaojiao, where did you get the pheasant?" Wen Xi asked curiously.

Shen Jiaojiao smiled happily, "I caught this pheasant. Am I awesome?"

Wen Xi had never thought that Shen Jiaojiao could actually catch a pheasant. The pheasants and rabbits she had brought back before were all signed out through the sign-in system. Wen Xi gave Shen Jiaojiao a thumbs up and said, "That's great. I'll make chicken and mushroom stew for you tonight."

Pheasant meat is tough and firm, making it difficult to stew. Now it is almost noon, so it is obviously too late to stew the pheasant.

"There are still eight pheasant eggs!" Shen Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows proudly.

"Really? Give me the pheasant eggs quickly. I'll find a way to hatch the pheasant. We'll start raising it from the moment it hatches. I should be able to make the pheasant as obedient as a domestic chicken." Wen Xi said anxiously.

The main thing is that she signed for an incubator, and she wanted to hatch both pheasant eggs and wild duck eggs.

Shen Jiaojiao immediately gave the pheasant eggs to Wen Xi. Wen Xi hurried back to the room with the pheasant eggs. After locking the door, he put the pheasant eggs into the incubator. The incubator could hold a hundred eggs, but at the moment, not even two rows were full.

Because the time schedule in the system kitchen is different, a few minutes outside is equivalent to a few hours inside, so Wen Xi moved the incubator to the system kitchen.

In this way, pheasants and wild ducks will hatch in just a few days.

After putting the pheasant eggs and wild duck eggs away, Wenxi came out and began to prepare lunch. Having picked so many mushrooms today, he naturally had to make mushroom soup. The mushroom soup was particularly fresh and had a unique mushroom aroma. It was very delicious.

Wenxi took out the meat that had been sprinkled with salt but had not been cooked yesterday. He washed the salt off first, then cut it into shreds and made a dish of stir-fried pork with shredded pork, and also made a dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The lunch for the three of them was solved.

After the meal, the three of them went for a nap because it was too hot in the afternoon and it was not suitable to go even to the mountain. Wen Xi locked the door and went straight into the system kitchen.

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