Returning to the mountain village, starting with mushroom picking to get rich

The mushrooms sold in the market are basically the fruiting bodies of mushrooms.

No one sells mycelium.

However, fungi themselves grow from mycelium.

Its cap, stipe, and other parts are essentially tightly bound together after mycelial differentiation.

When farmers and people harvesting mushrooms, they often accidentally pull up the undifferentiated mycelium at the base of the stem along with the mushroom.

Wild mushrooms, especially those sold by mountain herders, often come with soil attached.

These soils that nurture fungi contain a large number of mycelia that are difficult to see with the naked eye.

Yang Lin bought two kinds of button mushrooms at the Wuyou County farmers' market.

One type is the oily mushroom, which has a hemispherical cap, a distinct pale yellow or lemon yellow color, smooth edges, and a sticky texture.

One type is the large white button mushroom, which is slightly whitish in color and has a relatively large and flat cap.

Both types of button mushrooms are edible and have high nutritional value.

The first mushroom I put into the flowerpot was a yellow button mushroom.

Under Yang Lin's control, the mycelium that had been quietly dormant in the flowerpot suddenly "came to life".

Countless mycelia gathered together, forming a clump of milky white, visible down, which in an instant completely covered the yellow button mushroom on the flowerpot.

Immediately afterwards, tiny mycelia, like vines, tightly wrapped around every corner of the oil mushroom.

It continuously devoured the oil mushrooms on the flowerpot, allowing Yang Lin to decipher their information.

A few minutes later, the mushroom on the flowerpot had disappeared.

Yang Lin got his wish and obtained a small amount of information about the oil mushroom.

This information is only fragmented and not complete.

We must prevent him from creating the mycelium of the oil mushroom.

However, Yang Lin was prepared.

He bought more than just one mushroom at the market.

One flower isn't enough, so let's have two; two aren't enough, so let's have three...

If one flowerpot can't hold so many mushrooms, then pour all the soil from dozens of flowerpots together.

Then he placed the five or six catties of oil mushrooms he bought from the market one by one on the mound of earth.

"It's done!"

About twenty minutes later, the mycelium in the mound had consumed a sufficient number of *Pleurotus ostreatus* mycelium.

We have grasped the biological information of the oil mushroom.

Yang Lin placed his hand on the mound of earth in the living room and retracted one of the mycelia.

With another shrug, several tiny, pale yellow, oily mushrooms sprouted from his palm.

This is the third type of mushroom he created, the oil mushroom.

Oil mushrooms are not a rare or expensive fungus, nor are they a mainstream edible fungus. Wild mushrooms are priced at several tens of yuan per kilogram.

It doesn't have much commercial value, and there's no large-scale cultivation of it on the market yet.

It can be used to enrich the company's product portfolio and meet the niche needs of some people.

Next, Yang Lin followed the same method.

Twenty minutes later, Yang Lin mastered the fourth fungus, the large white mushroom.

Compared to the oil-scented button mushroom, the large white button mushroom has certain commercial value.

Although it doesn't have a mature and large-scale consumer system like shiitake mushrooms, the white button mushroom has also developed large-scale cultivation technology.

It is quite popular among a certain group of people.

In the provinces of Liang and Minzhou, it also has a special commercial name: Jinfu mushroom.

The market price is between 18 and 30 yuan per kilogram.

It's a bit taller than shiitake mushrooms.

If the yield can be properly controlled, the profit that mushroom farmers can make from planting one acre of white button mushrooms will be much higher than that from planting shiitake mushrooms.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the mushroom farmers use the strains created by Yang Lin.

The large white button mushroom failed to become a behemoth-like commodity in the edible fungi industry, except for its taste.

Its planting cost and difficulty are also major factors.

The reason it can sell for more than 20 yuan per kilogram is because its production cost is relatively high.

For other mushroom farmers, the profit from growing one acre of large white button mushrooms may not be much higher than that from growing one acre of shiitake mushrooms.

The risks involved are several times greater than those of shiitake mushroom cultivation.

Only the strains created by Yang Lin can bring the planting risks of different strains to the same level.

This allows mushroom farmers to consistently produce a variety of niche mushrooms.

Yang Lin was in high spirits after obtaining two new strains in succession.

Using a broom and shovel, Yang Lin put the mycelium soil back into the flowerpot, washed his hands clean, and then went to the kitchen again.

The old hen and termite mushrooms in the pot have been simmering for an hour.

Just standing next to him, Yang Lin couldn't help but drool.

"Having eaten stewed free-range chicken with matsutake mushrooms... even the emperor... is no match for me..."

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The next day, Yang Lin took 100 jin of matsutake mushrooms and took a taxi to Chuncheng, intending to buy them at the two major mushroom trading markets.

"Boss Yang, what brings you here?"

Upon Yang Lin's arrival, many merchants at the Junma Wholesale Market turned to look at him and greeted him.

Both major trading centers have trade relations with Yang Lin, and Yang Lin already has many acquaintances here.

The shiitake mushrooms he produces are only able to be distributed through the two major trading markets in Kunming.

"Boss Zhang, I recently got some mountain produce. I was wondering if you buy it here?"

"What could be so special that you, as the big boss, would personally make the trip?" the merchant surnamed Zhang asked curiously.

"Want some matsutake mushrooms from the countryside?" Yang Lin asked.

Upon hearing this, the merchant's eyes lit up immediately: "Termitomyces mushrooms? How many do you have!"

"Not much, only about a hundred catties, 0.05 tons."

"Pfft!" The merchant surnamed Zhang spat out a mouthful of water. "Boss, your magnanimity is truly extraordinary. You even measure the price of termite mushrooms by the ton."

Yang Lin laughed and said, "Sorry, I've always been wholesaling shiitake mushrooms, so I'm used to using tons."

The merchant surnamed Zhang held up five fingers: "I trust the boss's mushrooms. They're 120 yuan a pound. I'll only take 50 pounds at most."

"I'm afraid if I have too much, I won't be able to sell it all at once and it will rot in my hands."

"No problem." Yang Lin nodded in agreement. There were many merchants in the wholesale market.

His target was never a single person.

Soon, without Yang Lin having to say anything, another merchant next to him heard that Yang Lin had bought 100 catties of matsutake mushrooms in the countryside.

He hurriedly offered to say that he could also get 50 jin of matsutake mushrooms.

Yang Lin led the two men to the car, unloaded the goods, weighed them, and collected payment—all in one smooth motion.

Having come all this way to the provincial capital, I'm determined to recoup some of my losses.

Given his current status, no one would suspect him if he occasionally collected a hundred or so kilograms of matsutake mushrooms in the countryside.

Then, Yang Lin greeted the merchants in the group and the wholesale market, saying that he wanted to buy some button mushrooms to try and stock up as gifts. Immediately, countless merchants rushed to sell their mushrooms to Yang Lin.

The buying and selling in the market is not static.

When doing the mushroom business, Yang Lin was the supplier, and the merchants in the trading market were the buyers.

Now, with different types of mushrooms, Yang Lin is the buyer, and the merchants are the suppliers.

With the active supply of hundreds of merchants, Yang Lin only needed one morning to buy up all kinds of edible mushrooms of the Tricholomataceae family that could be found in Nanzhao Province.