Chapter 862 Cooperation in Digging Truffles (1 update
Before the soldiers arrived, food and grass went first. Alessandro arranged for three chefs and three people responsible for daily purchasing and liaison to arrive at the accommodation. To ensure smooth logistics, they rushed to the castle without any worries.
When Roberto and his group's car drove outside the castle, the Ferrari family were already waiting in front of the castle, and the owner of the castle was also outside. Welcome.
The owners of the castle are an old couple in their sixties, whose surname is Rossi. They are very cheerful and optimistic. They have several children in their family, but only one couple likes to run their own farm and ranch. The other children went to pursue their favorite careers. Because the farm and pasture were very wide, they rented out part of it to others and managed the part themselves.
The sons of the owner and his wife took charge of picking grapes, and the old couple Welcoming the guests, shaking hands with them, and welcoming the little oriental girl, the hostess was so elated that the girl called her "Grandma Rosie". Her fat body was about to fly, so she had to drag the children and guests to drink. Afternoon tea.
It was hard to resist the hospitality. Everyone went to the castle hall where the owner lived to have afternoon tea and taste wine. After that, the owner personally accompanied the guests to see the guest rooms. The castle was very wide and the guest rooms were on the second floor. There are living rooms, restaurants, cafes and large and small kitchens on the first floor, all of which are lent to guests for free use.
Roberto, Milo and Le each occupy a guest room, Ferrari and his son share a guest room, and the others There are three people in a room. The chef and the old butler Enzo share a guest room; Roberto and Ferrari's father's room is adjacent to each other, Le's classmate's room is next to Roberto's, Milo's room is next to Le's classmate, and Ferrari's The rooms of the bodyguards are naturally close to the master and the young master.
The guest room is about ten square meters, clean and tidy, with all supplies neatly placed, and the bed is very wide and can sleep three people. .
It was still early, so Le Yun packed her luggage and went downstairs, dragging the handsome Milo to look at the scenery outside the castle. In fact, she was scouting which direction had the strongest fragrance and where there were more truffles.
< br /> The child was very active, so Milo was very willing to risk his life to accompany the gentleman. He walked with the little guy along the road outside the castle, wandering around until it was dark for more than seven days before returning.
At dinner time, Mr. Ferrari invited Mr. and Mrs. Rossi to have dinner with him. Mr. and Mrs. Rossi dined with the workers in the winery and did not return to the castle.
Mr. and Mrs. Rossi happily accepted the invitation and had a particularly good conversation with the guests. Milo and Le asked for advice on the ownership of various farms and pastures that they had written down when they went to see the scenery. Two of the farming and pastoral areas are run by the Rossi family, two are rented out, and several are owned by other people. .
Milo expressed that he wanted to dig truffles in a certain farming and pastoral area, and asked the old couple to help contact the owner. The old couple happily agreed to help. After dinner, they called the farmer and rancher to talk. VeryHappy, I made an appointment to send two guests to a certain farm to dig truffles tomorrow morning.
When Le students excitedly went to dig truffles, on the same day, Bastian, John, Michael, Philip, Thranduil and Earl Ryan set off from country F. Arriving in Florence in the afternoon, they were divided into groups and went to stay in different places. In the evening, the Count of Ares, who had returned to his family to search for treasures, also arrived.
Several counts waited until midnight and turned into bats and went out for a circle. They met at the predetermined place. No one found the girl, which meant that she should have gone to the place where truffles were dug.
The counts went back to their hotels and waited for dawn. People in Florence immediately rented cars after going to work and drove to Tuscany.
The country has a Mediterranean climate, with rainy, wet and cold winters. That day is the last day of October, and it is also the eve of Halloween every year in Europe.
When many people were preparing for Halloween, Le Yun and Milo had breakfast. Each brought a special hoe for digging truffles and a bag, and they went to find the other one with Grandma Rosi. The owner of the farm.
Grandma Rosi drove the two lovely children to the gate of a certain farm they mentioned. The owner of the farm was already waiting at the door and communicated with the grandmother for a while, because there was Mrs. Rosi as a guarantee. , instead of requiring the two of them to hold their IDs, they first collected US$10,000 in advance, gave them a permit, and let them enter the farm and ranch.
Whenever the truffle digging season comes, farmers and ranchers will hire guards to prevent others from sneaking into the farms and ranches to dig truffles. The guards will patrol and sometimes check the passes issued by the farm. If there is no pass, It means breaking into farms and ranches to dig illegally, and you will be fined if you are caught.
Grandma Rosie sent the two children back to the castle, and then she and her husband led a pinehound, sent a group of men to her farm and pasture, and personally taught her how to command the dog. After looking for truffles, he handed the dog to Mr. Ferrari and asked them to take the dog to find truffles.
When Roberto and Alessandro took their dogs and accompanied Amedeo in a wheelchair to search for truffles, Le Yun and Milo handsome guy ran to the farm far away from the farm gate. place to start the great business of finding truffles.
Some trees in farms and pastures are planted to provide a place for truffles to grow. They are arranged in regular rows, with wide gaps between the rows, and the surface is grass.
Milo was a hard laborer. He followed the children. The little kid sniffed for a while, ran to a place, picked up a sharp hoe, dug two hoe, and made a mark: "Miro, go down. Digging, I’ll leave this to you. I dug a lot of truffles, and I’ll make your favorite dumplings and biscuits.”
“For my share, can you come to my house and make them again?” Milo Eyes sparkling.
“No problem, we agreed, if you dig out five, you can only share one for yourself, and we won’t give you any more.”
"Okay, I know, just look for it and I'll start working." Milo put on gauze gloves, waved a hoe and started to work as a digger.
There were coolies to help with the work. Le Yun spread her short legs and ran again. After running for more than ten meters, she dug two hoes to mark the scented area, told Milo the direction, and ran again. She ran a few meters away and squatted down to dig into the ground by herself. She was born in farm work and had a sensitive nose. She could tell whether she had found truffles by smell when she broke through the soil, so she didn't have to worry about it and dug hard.
Dig down about twenty centimeters deep, peel off the soil, and find a corner of a truffle that is colored like a potato. White truffles are undoubtedly a very strange fungus. They don’t need photosynthesis when buried in the soil. The color The skin is like a potato, with many protruding heads, like lumps.
When I saw a lump, I pried the soil around it and quickly pulled out a big lump that was bigger than a rice bowl for eating. It is very light and has some weight because it is still covered in soil. feel.
Le Yun didn’t even take a closer look. She took advantage of the empty space where no one was around to backfill the soil. She picked up the hoe and ran to another place a few meters away to dig a hole with the hoe. Centimeters deep, I found a lump as big as an adult man's fist and threw it back into the space, filled it back with soil, and then changed places.
Milo was afraid of destroying the truffles that the children had finally found, so he dug more than ten centimeters deep instead of digging slowly. Carefully pry the soil, make a big hole, dig out the truffle, a piece as big as a duck egg, remove some soil, put it in a self-sealing bag and put it back in the backpack, without backfilling it carefully, roughly remove the soil. Get back to the big pit.
Backfill the soil a little, then run to find the place marked by Xiao Lele, dig a hole hard, and dig out a small lump as big as an egg when it is more than 20 centimeters deep.
Little Lele’s nose was so good that she didn’t miss the two places. Milo happily ran to find the child with the results of the victory. When he found her, she was digging hard, and in a moment she pried out the place on her index finger. She buried a small lump in the soil without saying a word, backfilled the soil, buried the hole well, and also restored the turf that had been dug up.
"Little Lele, you finally dug it out, why did you put it back again?" Milo was very surprised. The truffle was a bit small, but it was still a truffle. Why did the child plant it again? Go back.
“It hasn’t grown up yet. It would be a pity to dig up such a small one. Plant it again and let it continue to grow.”
“Others will dig it up if they find it.”
"I couldn't bear to take away such a small inoculum. I didn't see anyone else find it and dig it up, so I don't feel bad." Le Yun patted the soil in her hands and asked the handsome guy Milo how big the truffles were.
Milo took out the two truffles he dug, and the children grinned happily.He took out a lump as big as an egg from his backpack and smiled happily: "Miro, we have gained something, we are very lucky. Let's work hard for our bread!"
"For the bread , Come on!" Milo clenched his fists happily.
Putting away the truffles, the two of them got to work excitedly. Le was responsible for the search. He asked Milo to dig when he found it, then found it and marked it, and then he went to find it himself. Sometimes it was too far away and he couldn’t find it. Reserve it for handsome Milo to do it yourself.
There was dew in the farm and pasture in the morning, and the humidity was very high. The two of them wore moisture-proof mountaineering clothes and were not afraid of getting wet. Until about nine o'clock in the morning, the clouds in the gray sky dispersed and the fog began to appear. Signs of clearing.
By around nine o’clock, the ground is drier, and truffle diggers are flocking to the forest and reserved farms and pastures in large numbers to look for truffles.
The farm where Milo and his children were digging for truffles also had an influx of seven or eight people experiencing pine hunting, leading pine hunting dogs, and one person was leading a pig, all of them looking for truffles. Occasionally, I met Milo or an Oriental girl. I was very surprised to see that they didn't have a pine-hunting dog or a truffle-hunting pig. Fortunately, I was relieved to see that the bags they carried only had three or two truffles.
Milo was even more surprised. He found that sometimes the children were not digging for truffles. She was digging for grass roots. She didn’t know what kind of grass roots they were. She collected them as precious as truffles.
The little one knew plants and had different hobbies. Milo struggled for a long time. He simply pretended that he didn’t see what she was doing, worked hard, tried to complete the work in a short time, and then let the children find it. Truffles, lest she go digging for grass roots.
The two friends, one big and one small, try to avoid other people and go to places where there are few people. One is responsible for looking for truffles based on their taste, and the other digs happily, happily carrying out the cleaning work, and eating their own food for lunch. Bring bread and ham, drink milk or mineral water, rest for an hour, and look for truffles with great excitement.