After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 32 Guiding the maze
Then Chunniang chopped up a golden ear and put it in a pot.

After the stew is finished, feed some to the chicken, observe for a long time, and see that there is no abnormality in the chicken, so I taste it myself.

Ying Bao actually didn't want her to taste it, after all, she was still breastfeeding, it would be bad if her milk was affected.

But Chunniang insisted on tasting it by herself, drank half a bowl, and waited for a long time for her to feel better before allowing her daughter to eat.

Take a sip of Yingbao, the golden ear soup is soft and sticky, with a little sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, it would be better if you add some honey.

"It's delicious." Ying Bao ate half a bowl in one go, licked his lips and said, "Let Dad take it to the pharmacy in the town tomorrow, if it doesn't work, go to the county seat."

She was sure that this was the golden ear. The taste and appearance were the same as what Sister Wen said, and even the taste was similar.

Some ancestors of Sister Wen's family used to work in the imperial hospital. It is said that they specially treated the royal family and nobles. Later, when they got old, they retired and returned home.

Therefore, most of the Wen family's men studied medicine and opened pharmacies widely, and they are very famous in various places.

Sister Wen has been fascinated by her since she was a child. She not only understands medicine, but also knows how to distinguish medicine. She often tells Yingbao what she learned when she was a child.

Of course, Yingbao also likes to listen.

"Yeah." Chunniang said with a smile, "When your father comes back, mother will tell him."

In the evening, Jiang Sanlang came home barefoot from the fields, put down the sledge on his shoulders, washed his feet with water, put on the cloth shoes brought by his daughter, and then sat down to eat dinner.

Seeing a bowl of yellow paste on the table, he asked curiously, "What kind of porridge is this?"

Chunniang pursed her lips and said with a smile: "It's golden ears. Bao'er picked them up. You can try them to see if they taste good."

Jiang Sanlang picked it up and took a big sip, clicked his mouth, and praised: "It tastes good, smooth and warm in the stomach."

Chunniang pursed her lips and said with a smile: "This thing is worth a lot. Grandma Xicun said that the drug store in the county town sells dozens of taels a box."

"Huh?" Jiang Sanlang's eyes widened, "Really? Which grandma in the West Village said it?"

Ying Bao at the side: ...

So, one lie really needs countless lies to complete.

The next day, Jiang Sanlang took a mulberry stick full of golden ears to the town and showed it to Li Langzhong.

Li Langzhong picked it up and smelled it, he was very surprised, "This is indeed a golden ear, a high-quality nourishing treasure."

He raised his old eyes and asked, "Has your Erlang ever eaten this?" He was still thinking about how Jiang Erlang's lung disease was cured.

Jiang Sanlang was taken aback, and quickly shook his head, "No, this thing is...I just found it recently. I cooked some last night and tasted it, and it tastes good. I heard that this thing...well, it can sell for money, so I brought it here Let's see if it's true."

Li Langzhong stroked his beard and nodded: "It is indeed golden ears, but this is the first time I have seen fresh ones. I didn't expect that such a precious medicinal material can be produced in our small place. However, if it is sold, it needs to be dried. Just do it."

Jiang Sanlang was a little disappointed when he heard the words.

When he was about to take back the mulberry linden, he heard Li Langzhong say: "If this fresh golden ear is attached to the tree, it may not be broken in a day or two, but you can take it to the county to have a look."

Chuanhe Town is too small and has limited purchasing power. Even if golden ears are a rare item, they cannot be sold.But if it is dried, he can buy some.

Jiang Sanlang's thoughts moved slightly, and he quickly thanked: "Thank you, Mr. Li, for your guidance."

Then he cut off two big golden ears with a knife and gave them to Li Langzhong.

Li Langzhong laughed and said: "This thing is precious, I can't take it for nothing, how about this, I have a method to quickly dry medicinal materials, you can go back and try it, and see if it can be used to bake golden ears."

Jiang Sanlang was overjoyed, "That's a good relationship." He said and gave a deep bow to Li Langzhong: "Thank you for your enlightenment."

Li Langzhong smiled, not hiding his secrets, and told Jiang Sanlang the way to make golden ears.

"When the old man was young, he learned how to dry snow fungus from his master, which is probably similar to golden ears.

First, clean the snow fungus and dry them in the bamboo plaques. Do not put them too densely, and expose them to the sun for three or four days until they are completely dry. "

Li Langzhong took out a whole snow fungus and handed it to Jiang Sanlang: "Just dry it like this."

He pointed to the roots on the back of the snow fungus, "Be sure to dig out all the back stalks, otherwise it won't be fully exposed in the sun, and it will easily turn black and mold."

Jiang Sanlang nodded repeatedly.

"There is another way, which is to build an oven in the yard with a sandwich." Li Langzhong picked up a pen and drew a rough shape on paper.

"That's it. Put the golden ear ends into the interlayer of the oven, and bake it on a warm fire overnight, and it will be dried quickly. But the temperature should not be too high or too low, just twice as high as the dog days."

Jiang Sanlang listened carefully to Li Langzhong's explanation, and asked for the sketch to study carefully.

After coming out of the pharmacy, he went home directly and told Chunniang what Li Langzhong had said.

"Li Langzhong also said that as long as we can find more golden ears, if the dried ones are in good condition, he can buy them at a rate of ten per catty."

"Oh, really?" Chunniang was so excited.Immediately turned around and asked her daughter, "Bao'er, where did you find it? Minger's mother will go look for it with you."

Yingbao: "It's in the woods, but there shouldn't be any more."

Chunniang felt slightly disappointed, and heard her daughter say again: "But we can plant."

Yingbao pointed to the golden ears on two mulberry trees and said, "Use these as seeds. Let's find some dead mulberry trees, dig a few holes in them, separate the golden ears from the roots, and plant them on the dead trees."

"Ah?" Is it okay?

Not only Chunniang was stunned, Jiang Sanlang was also shocked by the little girl's words.

They have never grown mushrooms, let alone golden ears.

"Is this really feasible?" Chunniang asked.

Without waiting for the girl to answer, Jiang Sanlang said without hesitation: "It should be possible, listen to the girl, let's see it in various ways."

In fact, whether it works or not, Jiang Sanlang will give it a try.

A catty of sun-dried golden ears can be sold for ten bucks. This is a great opportunity, how can I let it go so easily.

Just do it.

Jiang Sanlang immediately went up the mountain, picked up a lot of dead mulberry trees and brought them back, and according to the little girl's instructions, he got some rice husks, chaff and sawdust, and put them into a stone mortar to grind them for later use.

Then cut holes in the mulberry wood, pour the sawdust and chaff into it, and pour water.

Then divide the root part of the golden ear into several parts and plant them in the holes filled with debris.

After planting the golden ear, sprinkle water on it, place the mulberry wood in a newly built bamboo shed, and wait for bacteria to emerge.

Of course, Yingbao would sprinkle Sangmu with the pool water in the cave every day to keep it moist.

After more than ten days, little golden ears finally grew back on the mulberry wood, and the growth was very gratifying.

During the period, Jiang Sanlang also built a drying furnace in the yard, the kind with interlayer, tried several times, finally found the right temperature, and successfully dried seventeen golden ears.

It is the first time to dry the golden ear, although it is not perfect, but it is already very good, and the color of the golden ear is also acceptable.

Jiang Sanlang was very happy, and immediately showed it to Li Langzhong.

Li Langzhong was also very surprised. He didn't expect that Jiang Sanlang could successfully dry golden ears in just ten days.

He weighed more than a dozen dried golden ears with a scale, a total of four and two eight.

According to the agreement at the beginning, ten pennies per catty, four two-eight is four pennies and eight hundred coins.

Li Langzhong handed the money to Jiang Sanlang, smiled and said: "Sanlang, if you still have some, you can sell them to the old man together."

(End of this chapter)