Chapter 862 Collaboration to Dig Truffles (1) Before
the troops 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, so they had nothing to do. Worried, he ran towards the castle.
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 to greet them. The owners of the castle
were an old couple in their sixties, whose surname was Luo Xi is very cheerful and optimistic. They have several children in their family. Only one couple likes to run their own farm and ranch. The other children pursue their own careers. Because the farm and ranch are very wide, they rent out part of it to others. They run their own business.
The son and his wife of the host couple took care of the grape picking work. The old couple welcomed the guests and shook hands with them. When they welcomed the little oriental girl, the hostess was so happy that the girl called her "Grandma Rosie". Her fat body was about to fly away, so she had to take her children and guests to have afternoon tea. It was
hard to refuse the warm hospitality, so everyone went to the castle hall where the host lived to have afternoon tea and taste wine. After that, the host personally accompanied the guests to see the guest rooms. , the castle is very wide, the guest rooms are on the second floor, and 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 one guest room, and Ferrari and his son share one. The other three people shared a room. The chef and the old butler Enzo shared a guest room; Roberto and Ferrari's father's rooms were adjacent to each other, little classmate Le's room was next to Roberto's, and Milo's room was next to classmate Le's. , the rooms of the Ferrari family's bodyguards are naturally close to the owner and the young master.
The guest room is about ten square meters, clean and tidy, with all the supplies neatly placed, and the bed is very wide and can sleep three people. It is
still early, Le Yun put her luggage downstairs and dragged 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 many truffles. The child was very active, and Milo was very willing to risk his life to accompany the gentleman and accompany the
little guy along the road outside the castle. He wandered around for more than seven days before returning in the dark.
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 accepted the invitation happily and had a very lively conversation with the guests. Milo and Le asked questions about the ownership of various farms and pastures that they had written down when they went to see the scenery. There were two farming and pastoral areas in Rossi. They are run by themselves, two are rented out, and a few 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. They had a great conversation and made an appointment to send the two guests off tomorrow morning. Go digging for truffles on a farm.
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 and arrived in Florence in the afternoon. , went to stay in different places, and in the evening, the Count of Ares, who returned to his family to search for treasures, also arrived.
Several counts waited until midnight and turned into bats and went out for a walk. 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 respective 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. It is the last day of October and is also the eve of Halloween every year in Europe.
While many people were preparing for Halloween, Le Yun and Milo had breakfast. Each brought a special hoe for digging truffles and a bag, and went to find the owner of another farm with Grandma Rosi.
Grandma Rosi drove the two lovely children to the gate of a certain farm they were talking about. The owner of the farm was already waiting at the door and communicated with the grandma for a while. Because Mrs. Rosi was the guarantor, they did not ask for their IDs. First, we collected US$10,000 in advance, gave them a permit, and let the two of them enter the farm and ranch.
During the truffle digging season, farmers and ranchers will hire guards to prevent others from sneaking into the ranch to dig for truffles. The guards will patrol and sometimes check the passes issued by the farm. Those who do not have a pass will break into the ranch to dig truffles. , fined if caught.
Grandma Rosie sent the two children back to the castle, and then she and her husband took out a pine-hunting dog, and sent a group of men to her farm and pasture. She personally taught the dog how to command the dog to look for truffles, and then handed the dog over. Give it to Mr. Ferrari to take the dogs and look for truffles.
While Roberto and Alessandro took their dogs and accompanied Amedeo in a wheelchair to look for truffles, Le Yun and handsome guy Milo ran far away from the farm gate to start looking for truffles.
Some trees in farms and pastures are planted to provide growing places for truffles. 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 boy sniffed for a while, ran to a place, picked up a sharp hoe, dug two hoe, and made a mark: "Miro, dig down, this place is left to you." I dug a lot of truffles, and I will make your favorite dumplings and biscuits." "
For my share, can you come to my house to make them?" Milo's eyes were shining.
"No problem, we agreed. If you dig out five, you can only share one for yourself. If there are more,
you won't be given." "Okay, I know. Just look for it and I'll get to work." Milo put on his gauze gloves. , wielded a hoe and started working as a digger.
There were coolies to help with the work, so 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 and told Milo the direction. She ran again and squatted a few meters away. She dug her lower body into the ground by herself. She was born into farm work, and her nose was very sensitive. 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. The white truffle is undoubtedly a very strange fungus. It does not require photosynthesis when buried in the soil. Its color and skin are like potatoes, with many ridges. The head is like a lump.
When I saw a lump, I pried the soil around it, and soon I pulled out a big lump that was bigger than a rice bowl. It was very light, and it felt heavy because it was still covered in soil.
Le Yun didn't even take a closer look. She took advantage of the empty space and backfilled the soil. She picked up the hoe and ran to another place a few meters away to dig a hole. When it was more than ten centimeters deep, she found a hole as big as an adult man's fist. The lumps were thrown back into the space, filled with soil, and then moved to another place.
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. He dug for a while and dug up the soil until he reached about thirty centimeters and found it. He carefully dug out the soil and dug out a truffle. In a big hole, dig out the truffles, a piece as big as a duck egg, remove some soil, put it in a self-sealing bag and put it back in your backpack. If you don't backfill it all carefully, roughly put the soil back into the big hole.
After backfilling the soil a little, I ran to find the place where Xiao Lele had marked, and dug hard until it was more than 20 centimeters deep and dug out a small lump as big as an egg.
Little Lele's nose was so good that she didn't miss two places. Milo happily ran to find the child with the results of his victory. When he found her, she was digging hard, and in a moment she pried out a small lump on her index finger. She didn't say anything. He said, bury it under the soil, backfill the soil, bury the hole well, and restore the turf that was dug out.
"Xiao 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 anyway. Why did the child plant it back again?
"It hasn't grown up yet. It's 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 can't bear to take away such a small inoculum. I didn't see anyone else find it. Dig it away, don't feel bad." Le Yun patted the soil in her hands and asked Milo how big the truffles he dug were.
Milo took out the two truffles he dug. The child grinned happily and took out a lump as big as an egg from his backpack. He smiled happily and said, "Miro, we have gained something. We are very lucky." , for our bread, work hard!"
"For the bread, come on!" Milo clenched his fists happily.
Putting away the truffles, the two of them got to work excitedly. Classmate Le was responsible for the search. He asked Milo to dig for it first, then found it and marked it, and then he went to look for it himself. Sometimes the distance was too far and was not reserved for the handsome Milo. Take action.
There was dew in the farm and pasture in the morning, and the humidity was very high. The two of them wore waterproof and moisture-proof mountaineering clothes, so they were not afraid of getting wet. It was not until about nine o'clock in the morning that the gray sky clouds dispersed and the fog began to clear, showing signs of clearing up.
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 Miro 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. People in the farm and ranch were looking for truffles, and occasionally met with Miro or an oriental girl. When we met, we were surprised to see that they didn't have a pine-hunting dog or a truffle-hunting pig. Fortunately, we were relieved to see that the bags the two of them were carrying 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 did not know what kind of grass roots they were. She collected them as precious as truffles.
The little kid knew plants and had different hobbies. Milo struggled for a long time and simply pretended that he didn't see what she was doing. He worked hard and tried to complete the work in a short time. Then he asked the children to find truffles to prevent her from digging for grass roots. .
The two friends, one big and one small, tried to avoid other people and went to places with few people. One was responsible for looking for truffles based on their smell, and the other was digging happily. They happily carried out the cleaning work. They ate the bread and ham they brought for lunch and drank milk. Or mineral water, rest for an hour, and find truffles with great excitement.
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