Chapter 1037: .Black gold (3/5)

The exclaimer was Lancaster. After running, Wang Bo saw him concentrate on sweeping down the fallen leaves under an oak tree, and his expression was very serious.
Several bodyguards carried guns and watched with interest. Someone laughed: "I didn't expect to be able to dig up treasures during exercise. It is good luck. It seems that the closer the sky is, the closer God is to us."
Lancaster rolled his sleeves away the leaves and dug something out of the dirt with a rubber dagger.
These things are a bit like walnuts, with uneven textures and complex patterns, ranging from light brown to brown-black, mainly spherical and oval-shaped, small similar to beans, and large like walnuts.
At first glance, Wang Bo thought he had dug walnuts from under the tree. Lancaster dug a small ball larger than walnuts, put it on his nose and sniffed. "Snow, unique The smell of the forest, I seem to have the whole wood. "
Then, he handed the ball to Wang Bo.
Wang Bo looked at the ball and asked hesitantly, "Is this, is this truffle?"
Truffle is a general name for a mushroom, classified as Ascomycetes, Western Truffles, Western Truffles. There are about 10 different species, usually annual fungi.
People who have lived in foreign countries for a long time know this kind of mushroom. Most of them grow on the roots of broad-leaved trees and grow under pines, oaks, and oaks. They are very rare.
China is also one of the countries where truffles are produced, but due to the dietary habit and the rarity of this thing, there is not much description of truffles in Chinese food culture.
In foreign countries, especially in Europe, truffles have a special odor and are rich in nutrients such as protein and amino acids, which has led to people's interest in truffles. Western food delicacies, caviar, foie gras and truffles are three of the world's greatest treasures.
Compared with caviar and foie gras, truffles are more precious, because the requirements for the growth environment are extremely demanding, and they cannot be artificially cultivated. The yield is scarce, and only a series of countries such as Italian, France, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, and New Zealand produce this. Precious ingredients.
After listening to his question, Lancaster's face showed an excited smile: "Yes, this is a kind of truffle, a kind of black truffle. I just discovered it just by coincidence. How lucky!"
It is indeed lucky to find truffles. They are generally scattered within one and a half meters of the bottom of the tree, and the most valuable truffles are under thirty to forty centimeters underground.
Because truffles are scarce, truffles are rarely found under a few trees in a forest, even in the place where they are rich, so they are buried deep in the ground, making it even harder to find them.
The black truffles found by Lancaster were also underground, but there were many fallen leaves and the soil was loose. He had previously wanted to dig a pit to be a trench, and he dug out the truffle.
If truffles are dug, it is better to distinguish them. They have strange shapes and aromas of dried fruits. Nobles like Lancaster, who usually eat truffles without touching the truffles, can recognize them at a glance.
Truffles are different from all other natural resources, and they were dug out quickly when found, because its growth cycle is only one year.
Moreover, its size has nothing to do with age, it only grows with the changes of the four seasons, death and birth.
Generally, black truffles enter the maturity period in December until March of the following year. Overripe truffles will decay and disintegrate.
Because the weather in New Zealand is exactly the opposite of that in the Northern Hemisphere, there is no fresh truffle production in Europe this season, but countries such as New Zealand and Australia happen to produce truffles.
Among the many types, black truffles from France and white truffles from Italy have the highest ratings. However, New Zealand truffles are also quite famous, because when they are produced, most of the producing countries have no truffles, and they are rare.
After digging these truffles, Lancaster cut the largest one with a saber, exposing the dark black fungus meat, with an intricate marble-like texture on it, which is a bit like good beef.
After packing up the truffles, the group did not train, and Lancaster left with the group.
Wang Bo smiled and asked, "Are you no longer looking around? Maybe you can find other truffles."
Lancaster shook his head with regret: "Truffle nutrients come from attached tree roots and soil. If truffles have been grown in a place, the nutrients of the land and plants will be absorbed by the truffles, and other things will not grow for a period of time. Of course, there will only be one truffle in a piece of land, not a large number. "
Wang Bo felt that it was not necessary. He believed that these truffles were related to the heart of the woodland just used.
However, this is only a guess, because the heart of the woodland is not so powerful, and just after using it for one night, such truffles can be born out of thin air.
After years of research, he discovered that the heart of these territories can only play a role in optimizing and promoting the site. For example, the heart of the pasture can change the quality of pastures and optimize the breed of livestock.
However, it cannot give birth to an animal out of thin air.
In the same way, the heart of woodland can improve the quality of the land, the environment, and the truffle to survive better, but it is impossible to change some truffles, and it is impossible to do it in one night.
But even if it can only improve the environment and become suitable for truffle growth, this is hard to come by.
Truffles can't stand any slight environmental changes during the growth process. Its pickiness to the environment is astounding. It is one of the few delicious foods in the world that cannot be cultivated in an orderly way. Symbiotic relationships gain nutrients.
In addition, truffles prefer alkaline soils. High-quality truffles are mainly produced in calcareous terrain, such as Alba in Italy, Perico in France, and Yunnan in China, all of which are located in calcareous terrain.
The Southern Alps also belong to lime-quality landforms, so other regions also have truffle production. However, the occurrence of mechanized farming methods, soil sprayed with pesticides, excessive or low rainfall, and changes in forest tree species has caused truffle production to decline year by year.
Lancaster is no longer looking for truffles here. He said that after returning to the UK, he would buy a sow specially trained to collect truffles and go on a treasure hunt here.
There is a truffle hunter in Europe who uses sows as a powerful aid in harvesting black truffles.
The sow's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, and truffles buried underground at a depth of 25 cm to 30 cm can be heard from 6 meters away. This is because the smell of truffles is similar to that of androstenol, which induces sow sexual impulses, so the sow has a crush on it.
Lancaster usually has nothing to do in London or Yorkshire. He likes hunting, and excavating black truffles is also regarded as a hunting operation among European nobles. (To be continued.)