Starting from the spring city of Kunming, to the place where there are bacteria, this is probably the common wish of many tourists and diners inside and outside the province.
It was another sunny morning, when the first rays of morning glow quietly shone into the room through the curtains, and when the birds on the osmanthus trees outside the Nanhua Hotel also chirped happily, Mr. Zhuang's mood also improved.
"Hurry up and get up and come to the wild mushroom kingdom of Nanhua", if you don't taste the taste of wild mushrooms, wouldn't you have to come for nothing. Mr. Zhuang's wife also began to go from room to room to wake up his companion from Guangzhou.
As early as before New Year's Day, when Mr. Zhuang, who had been engaged in the tea industry in Kunming for a long time, returned to Guangzhou, Mrs. Zhuang and her Guangdong girlfriends and colleagues were ready to invite them to come to Yunnan in a "group" around the Spring Festival, and the destination was to "go to a place with wild mushrooms".
Mr. Zhuang has been in Yunnan for nearly 20 years, and every time he goes to western Yunnan, Dali, Baoshan, Dehong, and Lincang, as long as there is a season of wild mushrooms, he will find a lot of excuses to let himself stay in Nanhua for one night, and have a good meal of wild mushrooms before leaving.
I remember that once it coincided with the opening of the two-tier tourist train from Kunming to Dali, and Mr. Zhuang's friend specially made a few round-trip packages for him, so that Mr. Zhuang could have time to taste the wild mushrooms of Nanhua, the "kingdom of wild mushrooms".
And Mr. Zhuang and his entourage were on the way back to Kunming from Dali, and they got off at Nanhua Station, which can be regarded as a loyal "iron fan" of Nanhua wild mushrooms in the current fashionable parlance.
Once, the author and Mr. Zhuang took a car to Fengqing together, and talked about Mr. Zhuang's unit, there was a girl from Qujing who had just graduated from school, and once she once talked about it in a somewhat bitter tone, my family was very poor, and I could have chosen a better university when I went to college, but because Yun Normal University not only has free tuition, but also has a living allowance, I applied for Yun Normal University.
The girl's neighbor told the editor that every year after the exam, the girl would buy a ticket to rush back to Qujing as soon as possible, in order to go up the mountain to pick up wild mushrooms, and then get it to the side of the highway to exchange it for money to subsidize the tuition fees for her younger siblings.
Because she is always the first person in the village to go up the mountain to pick up fungi, so the harvest is also the best, and she reliably picks up fungi and buys fungi every holiday to earn 7 or 8,000 yuan.
A few years ago, the editor also often went to Lincang, Baoshan, Binchuan to interview some articles related to tea and planting, I remember that two of them are famous tea bosses in Shuangjiang, among which Mr. Wang will invite me to go down to western Yunnan every time he participates in the tea exhibition and tea fair outside the province, and then stay in Nanhua and Nanjian for one night, the main purpose is to be able to taste the wild mushrooms of Nanhua and Nanjian, and also to not make himself too tired.
This year, the climate is a little cold, but Mr. Zhuang, his wife and friends have felt the beauty of wild mushrooms by tasting the truffles of Nanhua, and Mr. Zhuang's wife is sure that when the Nanhua Wild Mushroom Festival kicks off, they will also come to Nanhua, Yunnan Province to enjoy the fun of "going to the place where there are mushrooms".
Author: Zhang Yaohui (Kunming)
Editor: Chen Xi (Kunming)
Editor: David Chen (Zhaotong)