Chapter 862

"Jane, this is another spot where morel mushrooms often grow," Amery and Bhavia explained as they led Jane and Mina through the mountain trails, pointing to specific locations along the way. This outing should have happened yesterday, but Amery and Bhavia had been busy earning money by accompanying Helen. So right after school today, Jane had immediately gathered the two older girls to return to the mountains. This time, however, she wasn't just mapping the terrain. Carrying a small bamboo basket on her back, she'd brought along the mushroom cultivation bags she'd prepared yesterday. At each location the girls identified as prime morel-growing spots, she carefully placed the bags at measured intervals. These experimental cultivation bags were her first test batch. Once they yielded mushrooms, she planned to deploy them across the mountainside for large-scale cultivation. Before placing the bags, Jane had also collected soil samples from natural morel habitats. She intended to analyze t