Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 222 Harvesting Poria cocos and Ganoderma lucidum (seeking tickets)
The matter of the water dispute has been temporarily settled, but the weather is still hot, the sky is clear, the white clouds are light, and there is no sign of rain.

The faces of the villagers are still full of sadness, because they know that if there is no rain, the production will definitely be reduced this year.

From a national perspective, there is no shortage of food now. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy rice and vegetables.

But for the people in the village, money is very precious.So as soon as Gao Mingcheng came back from the county, the person who had previously hired to cut trees came to the door and asked Gao Mingcheng if he could continue to cut trees.

They desperately want to make money.

Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed and let them start working.

The mountain of [-] mu is not too big, but it takes a lot of effort to tidy it up.

Cutting down trees is just the first step, and then we have to dig out all the roots in the soil, otherwise we can't plant fruit trees.

After these roots are dried, they can also be used to burn fire, and one root can burn for a long time, which is a favorite fuel for many people.

In addition to the tree-cutting workers who were in place, other villagers also came up to ask Gao Mingcheng if he could collect medicinal materials.

Different medicinal materials have different harvesting times. It is now the end of August, and the Poria cocos and Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains can be harvested. As for the yellow gardenia and Hedyotis diffusa, we have to wait.

These two medicinal materials can only be harvested from September to October. After harvesting, Hedyotis diffusa only needs to remove impurities and soil, and then dry it in the sun.Yellow gardenia is more troublesome. It needs to be steamed and dried, and then dried.

Gao Mingcheng let the words out, saying that he could accept it, and let everyone just go to the mountains to collect herbs, and he could even tell relatives and friends that he could accept the goods from several nearby villages.

This year, there is no need to squeeze the train with medicinal materials. With Xiao Jinfeng's truck, the more goods the better.

With Gao Mingcheng, the women and children in the village get busy first. As for the men, some of them are cutting trees for Gao Mingcheng, and some of them are doing their own field work.

In fact, women do things like picking herbs better, they are more careful and tenacious.

Gao Mingcheng also went into the mountains to collect herbs. Like last year, he went straight to the deep mountains to collect herbs. As for the herbs at the foot of the mountain, he gave the villagers the profits.

He took the digging tools and went with two bags, one for Ganoderma lucidum and the other for Poria cocos.

When the body of Ganoderma lucidum no longer grows, the color changes from light yellow to reddish brown, the color of the cap and the stipe are the same, from soft to hard, and when spore powder is ejected, it means that the body of Ganoderma lucidum is mature and can be harvested.

Ganoderma lucidum is also a kind of fungus, without any root system, you can break it off with your hands, which is what Gao Mingcheng did last year.

But then at the medicine fair, he made friends with some people with his three-inch tongue, and learned from them that when harvesting the ganoderma, it is necessary to cut the ganoderma from the base of the ganoderma with a sharp knife!
Because of doing so, you can leave the peduncle 0.5 cm to 1 cm, let the incision heal slowly, and then form the cap primordium, and then grow into a new fruiting body. Depending on the volume of the growing wood, it can be harvested continuously for 2 -3 years.

After learning this, Gao Mingcheng felt a million regrets!

This year he brought a knife and scanned the forest with a pair of eyes. He quickly found the place where the ganoderma grew.

Ganoderma lucidum is an annual, and it is useless to keep it too long, because it will eventually lignify and lose its medicinal properties.

He often walks in the mountains, and has also specifically searched for the growth points of Ganoderma lucidum and Poria cocos, so now he only needs to go to the place he remembered before, and he will be able to gain something.

At this moment, the Ganoderma lucidum is basically mature, but the Poria cocos is not necessarily so.

First of all, the Poria cocos he planted must be immature. He planted it in May, and it usually takes about ten months to grow. Then this batch of Poria cocos can be dug in the spring of next year.

As for the wild Poria cocos, you need to observe whether it is mature. The Poria cocos can be excavated when its outer skin is yellowish-brown. If the outer skin is yellowish-white, it is not mature, and if it is black, it means that it is over-ripe.

But harvesting wild poria cocos is more complicated, because they hide better.

At this time, it is necessary to observe the growth of the pine trees and the ground conditions around the stump in the pine forest. After finding the growth point of the poria cocos, use an iron cone probe to probe, search and dig.

Use an iron cone probe to insert into the ground, and detect lumps at a depth of 10-20 cm. When you pull out and see white Poria cocos powder, you can dig and harvest.

As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.After Gao Mingcheng learned this method, he asked a blacksmith to make an iron awl tool, and it was quite easy to use at the moment.

He brought a special small hoe, which can also be called a medicine hoe, which is easy to carry and dig. With this small hoe, he quickly dug out a few Poria cocos, which looked like black bumps.

This is fresh Poria cocos, after which it has to go through a series of processing and processing, and it is the finished product after it is made into a block of dried Poria cocos.

The wild Poria cocos is small in size and has firm flesh, while the artificially planted one is larger and the flesh is not as firm. In the market, the price of wild Poria cocos is higher than that of artificially planted Poria cocos.

Gao Mingcheng walked and dug all the way. It didn't take long for the Poria cocos bag to be filled first, while the Ganoderma lucidum bag was only half a bag, which seemed light and flimsy.

Well, it seems that next time I bring a few more bags, anyway, he can afford it!
I ran all the way down the mountain, and when I got home, I poured the Ganoderma lucidum into a bamboo sieve to dry. This is easy to handle. After removing the rotten wood and soil, it can be dried in the sun.

Poria cocos is much more complicated. There are two ways of processing it, one is raw and the other is cooked.

Before drying, the poria cocos needs to be washed clean, then piled up in a sheltered place indoors, covered tightly with straw or sacks, made to sweat and precipitate water, then spread out to dry, and piled up repeatedly until the skin shrinks and turns brown. Peel off the outer black skin with a knife, choose a sunny day, cut the poria cocos into small pieces, spread the white and red pieces on the bamboo sieve to dry.

Cooking and sun-drying is to cut off the outer skin of fresh Poria cocos, put it on the steamer, steam it to dryness, and then use a knife to slice it first, then cut it into strips, and finally cut it into cubes, and then dry it in the sun.

These two methods generally have a drying rate of about 50%, that is, one catty of fresh products can obtain half a catty of dry products. high quality.

But when cutting, there are always some corners that are not formed. In order to sell these parts at a higher price, it is best to dry these parts separately. Then you can sell them at a lower price, or you can keep them for your own use.

Poria cocos is a mild medicinal material that can be eaten every day. It has the effect of diuresis, dampness, spleen and nerves, and is suitable for most people to take.

Gao Mingcheng would rather keep it for himself than sell it at a lower price.

As for the processing method of Poria cocos, Gao Mingcheng chose raw sun drying.

Although raw drying takes a long time, it is actually more convenient if the amount is large.

Because the poria cocos must be steamed first, but once the quantity is large, it must be steamed every day. There is firewood at his house, but it is not a friendly thing to cook on a hot day.

After disposing of the Poria cocos in the bag, he took a few more bags and went into the mountains again.

Relying on his strong physical fitness, he went into the mountains like searching for something out of a bag. As long as he was willing to spend time and energy, he could bring out the treasures in the mountains little by little.

There are many pines of masson and red pine in the mountains, and Poria cocos and Ganoderma lucidum like to grow in this kind of forest.

In the next few days, according to Gao Mingcheng's plan, he searched forest after forest, and he gained a lot every day.

When he was busy in the mountains, Duomi contracted the work in the family's field. If someone came to sell goods, she would also inspect and receive the goods.

After the villagers get busy, they see the hope of making money, so even if there is a drought, the grain production in the field will decrease, and the sadness will gradually disappear.

After the news of Gao Mingcheng's collection of medicinal materials spread, villagers from other villages also went to the mountain to collect medicinal materials.Last year, people in these villages envied the people in Gaojia Village, and now it's their turn to sell medicine.

On this day, Gao Mingcheng came down from the mountain carrying two big bags of Poria cocos, and he saw several plastic bags piled up in the corner at a glance.

These are the medicinal materials received these days.

Many beauties are turning over the dried Ganoderma lucidum in front of the bamboo sieve. This batch of Ganoderma lucidum has been dried and can be packed in bags.

Seeing Gao Mingcheng came back, she said, "Mingcheng, the skin of the first batch of poria cocos has shrunk and turned brown. Go and see if it can be cut into pieces tomorrow."

Gao Mingcheng responded, came to the empty room, lifted the covering straw, and observed the poria cocos underneath, it was indeed shriveled and turned brown.

Seeing that the whole house was piled up, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but regret it. It seems that when the house was built, it was still small!

His backyard is enclosed, and there is still some space, and he plans to build another room.

Many families raise pigs in the backyard and build a row of pig pens, but Gao Mingcheng has no plan to raise pigs, and the cow pen is also on the side of the kitchen, not behind it.

I planned this in my heart, but because of the lack of water, I planned to find time to build it after the spring of next year.

Building a house also requires a lot of water.Now there is still water in his well, but it cannot be abused.

Many beauty has never dealt with Poria cocos, so Gao Mingcheng plans to stay at home tomorrow and teach many beauty how to deal with it.

As for choosing a sunny day to cut into pieces and dry it, there is no need to worry about it at all. It has been sunny every day recently, and if it rains, the villagers will be very happy.

"Tomorrow we can cut into pieces." Gao Mingcheng said as he came out, and saw Duomei holding a small bag of cassia seeds.

Cassia seed is a commonly used medicine, which has the functions of clearing liver, improving eyesight and laxative.It is also a species with extremely strong vitality. After the seeds are soaked in boiling water, they can still germinate.It is widely distributed in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and they naturally have it here.

But their village is relatively small, so these cassia seeds must not be collected from the village.

Seeing Gao Mingcheng looking over, Duomei said: "The cassia was sent by the people from Dongjia Village. I asked if I would take it. I heard from her that the village, roadside and wilderness in their village are full of cassia. This kind of thing."

Gao Mingcheng said: "This stuff is easy to sell. Next time she comes back, tell her that she will harvest a lot! In addition, you pick some seeds with full kernels and keep them. I plan to sprinkle them in the wasteland at the foot of the mountain next year and plant them myself. shipment."

Cassia seeds are easy to sell and easy to grow, and there are many open spaces in the mountains, so they can be planted in fruit forests.

When the fruit tree seedlings are far apart from each other, there is a large open space, and a small piece of cassia can be planted in the middle to increase income.

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