Chen Shu went to pick up a package.
It had come from Bai City: mushrooms Lawyer Wei had sent them.
Wild mushrooms had not yet hit the market in large quantities. They would probably have to wait until next month, when summer began, for the best mushroom-eating season. Lawyer Wei said he had spotted someone selling them while shopping for groceries by the roadside. They looked good, so he had bought some and sent most of them over.
It was rare for Lawyer Wei to be so thoughtful.
Chen Shu received a large foam box. Inside, alongside ice packs, were several kinds of mushrooms. They all looked to be of good quality.
A quick look revealed six kinds in all: morels, almond mushrooms, black termite mushrooms, bamboo fungus, chanterelles, and bruising boletes.
There were even bruising boletes?
Chen Shu was a little surprised.
Bruising boletes generally appeared no earlier than late spring, and often could not be bought until early summer. Today was only the first day of the third lunar month. It was rather early.
If only they could have waited another ten days...
Then we could have eaten them at the birthday dinner.
But cheap, high-quality wild mushrooms were hard to come by at this time of year. Getting any at all was good enough; he could not ask for too much.
As Chen Shu considered how to cook them, he took out his phone and sent a message to the group chat.
Chen Shu: [Photo]
Chen Shu: Lawyer Wei sent us loads of mushrooms.
Chen Shu: Anyone up for a meal?
Chen Banxia: Lawyer Wei sent mushrooms?
Chen Banxia: How come I didn't know?
Chen Shu thought for a moment—
Chen Shu: You're not his biological child, of course you wouldn't know.
Chen Banxia: You're the one