Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 61

Jinghan had nothing to do this day, so she went for a walk in the ginseng field.She happened to go to the area where the goods were going to be made this year. This is the place of key care. If you don't pay attention, if you lose the mallet, you will lose money.

Under the wooden shed is a lush green leaf.At this time, the ginseng has grown to the extreme. In good places, it can be more than a foot high. It has purple-black stems with six palmate compound leaves in turns.Looking at the vibrant ginseng in front of her, Jing Han is naturally very happy. This year is a good year, and it seems that the ginseng harvest will be good again.

The wind blows, and the ginseng leaves sway, revealing a little red inside.red?what is that?Jinghan hurried to the front, pushed aside the ginseng leaves and saw that it was a ginseng seed.Jinghan looked at it, and then remembered that when pinching ginseng flowers, they usually go through it all over again. Some ginsengs come out later, and the ginseng flowers grow small, so they will fall at that time.After that, no one will pay attention to it again. At this time, it will grow into ginseng seeds.

It seemed that something flashed in her mind, and Jinghan was rummaging back and forth in the pool.Sure enough, many ginseng seeds that had fallen like this were found.The ginseng seeds for these ginsengs are bigger than the frozen ones, and the seeds seem to be fuller.Jinghan carefully pinches off the ginseng seeds, not too hard, or it will fall off, after all, it is too ripe.

After looking at it, there are more than a dozen flowers that can be pinched out of a ten-foot-long mallet.Jinghan hurriedly went to the next row to have a look, and sure enough there were also there.If these ginseng seeds are not picked off, you will be blind.When the goods are shipped this fall, the ginseng seeds will be knocked off.The ginseng seeds grown artificially cannot survive in the wild, and even if the seedlings emerge in this soil, they will rot.

Jinghan hurried back to her house, quietly found a basket, then dragged Wenhan and the others out, and everyone came to the place Jinghan had just looked at. "Brother, look, there are ginseng seeds hidden in the leaves of these mallets, shall we pinch the ginseng seeds?"

Wen Han looked towards the place Jing Han was pointing at, and sure enough, he found some red dots. "Is this okay? These are not our sticks." Wen Han hesitated.

"Why not? There are only a dozen or so flowers in one foot, and how much can a family get? Who cares about these? Besides, how can they have the time to pinch these ginseng seeds? But we are different, we It’s okay to be idle. And this year, these goods will have more than 2000 feet. If they are all like what we saw, then we can make a lot of them. Anyway, if we don’t make them, the ginseng seeds will fall into the ground, what? It’s useless, isn’t it?” Jinghan analyzed with her brother, in fact, in the previous life, if the ginseng spectators were busy, they would pick up the ginseng seeds that others missed.There are also some people who will wait for others to finish playing the mallets, and then use the four-toothed teeth to rummage in the ground to pick up those missed ginseng beards or small mallets.This kind of behavior is called blocking, which means picking up leaks.So there will be sticks and sticks, such as blocking seeds.

Jinghan didn't follow her when she started to participate in the past, so naturally she didn't know if there was anyone blocking the stick here.But this kind of behavior, in the previous life, was a benefit of the ginseng people.Some ginseng spectators can block a lot of sticks and beards in a year, and they can make some money just from these.

After hearing Jing Han's words, Wen Han lowered his head and thought for a while, and felt that what Jing Han said made sense. "Okay, then we will listen to you. Be careful when we pinch, and don't knock down other people's ginseng leaves."

Wen Cheng and Jing Wan all nodded, they understood this without Wen Han's instructions.

Jinghan warned again, "Be careful when you pinch, the ginseng seeds are too ripe, they will fall off as soon as you touch them, and if they don't work, just roll them off."

Everyone nodded, and then each found a place to pick ginseng seeds.Still the same as before, two groups, kneeling on the surface of the pool facing each other, and then poking ginseng leaves with hands to find ginseng seeds.For these children, with sharp eyes and quick hands, it is very suitable to do this job.After a while, Jing Han and Jing Wan searched for five or six feet. Looking at the ginseng seeds gradually increasing in the basket, Jing Han couldn't say how happy she was.There are about two thousand feet of sticks in the ginseng yard, which are basically the same as what they saw, and there will be missing ginseng seeds in every foot.Calculated in this way, the ginseng seeds they got would be twice as much as what they kept at home.This is a lot, maybe next year, the family can ask for more ginseng soil, and then sow more seeds.In a few years, we will be able to plant more ginseng at home.

The Xu family's children are not stupid, so they can naturally figure this out.So each one of them put all their energy into it, staring at the ginseng leaves, for fear that a few ginseng seeds might fall.

Looking for ginseng seeds one by one in this way, although there are only ten or eight in one foot, it is not tiring.But they have to be pulled next to each other, so it's not too fast.In the morning, Jing Han and Jing Wan only found about [-] feet, and Wen Han and the others were about the same. Adding the three groups together, it would be good to find a hundred feet.

However, looking at the basket full of ginseng seeds, everyone felt that it was worth the effort.Picking these in one morning is about one-fifth of what I keep at home, which is only a hundred feet. If I pick them all, how much will I have?So the eyes of the little guys were shining with silver, and they were all very excited. "Let's go to eat quickly, and then pick it up in the afternoon. It's all ripe, and in a few days, it won't fall to the ground with the wind?" Wen Cheng said.

Everyone agreed, so each carried a basket and walked towards the house.

Mrs. Chen was talking to Mrs. Xue when she saw a few little guys coming back with baskets.Mrs. Chen was a little surprised, "Didn't you watch them go out this morning? Why did you come back with a basket? It looks like there is something in it."

After hearing this, Mrs. Xue stood up, just in time to see something red in Wenhan's basket, "I don't know what it is, it's red."

At this time, Jinghan and the others got closer, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law only saw that the basket contained ginseng seeds. "Where did you get this from? Didn't we finish picking the ginseng seeds in our field? Who didn't pick this, and you went to pick it? Wenhan, you are the boss, and you have to take your younger brothers and sisters to do some serious business. How can you secretly pinch other people's ginseng seeds? If the villagers know about it, shall we still look at ginseng here?" Mrs. Xue gave Wenhan a general training.

"Mother, can you ask me to train people after you understand? This is what we found in the ginseng field where we were making goods this year after they had pinched the ginseng flowers. What was it stolen? Brother training you who come up like this and cover your head and face, you What does Big Brother think? Is our child the kind who steals other people's things with dirty hands and feet?" When Jing Han heard her mother's words, she immediately became furious.

After hearing Jing Han's words, Mrs. Xue froze there.Looking at my daughter, and then at my son with aggrieved face, I feel regretful in my heart. "This, alas, mother is impatient." Xue knew that she was wronged, and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, Jinghan, don't get angry there, your mother is afraid that you will go the wrong way and go to steal other people's things. Wenhan, you are a good boy, your mother has wronged you." Chen hurriedly Help Yuanquan.She loved these children, and she didn't have the airs of an elder, so she quickly pulled Wen Han and patted Wen Han on the head. "Good boy, hurry up and take your siblings to wash their hands, let's eat."

Mrs. Chen looked back at Mrs. Xue, "Meilin, you are not usually so irritable, what's wrong today? Even if the children are really wrong, you have to tell them well. The children in the family , It’s very worry-free, you can’t talk like this in the future, just ask again.”

Jinghan came out after washing her hands, and leaned against her grandma, "Grandma, I saw ginseng seeds falling from the ginseng fields that were making goods this morning, so I wanted to ask my elder brother to pick them together, otherwise I would be blind." I left. I was in a hurry, and I forgot to tell you." Jinghan explained the matter carefully, "Grandma, is there a problem with this? Will the villagers not let me go?"

It just so happened that the old man came back with Brother Zhixin, and heard Jinghan's words. "Jinghan, these should be fine. In this way, many people in our village are digging the soil at the other end of the new ginseng field. You can ask them in the afternoon and see what they say. Let's let the matter go. It's better for them to know, so don't let people say something at that time." The old man sat there and drank some water before speaking.

Jing Han was right when she thought about it, she thought it was nothing, but what if there was someone so narrow-minded?Wouldn't it be time to drop the conversation? "Grandpa, I'll listen to you. I'll ask in the afternoon."

"What are you asking? Didn't our family have such a little thing before? Didn't we just knock it off when we started to get ginseng? Who would pay attention to it?" Zhixin also drank a glass of water and hugged his head in the afternoon. Dude, this throat is smoking.

"Let's ask, be on the safe side. By the way, why didn't you see people from the village coming to drink water?" Mrs. Chen was a little surprised. In the past, these people would come to drink some water at noon and rest for a while.

"Mom, they're all on the other side of the new house. It's a bit far away from the convenience. They don't want to come here. The water on the other side of the new house is enough for them to drink." Zhixin explained.

Everyone put the table outside and ate together.Naturally, there is nothing delicious, it is still corn tortillas, and the dishes are naturally beans and eggplants.The beans are stewed with bacon, which tastes very fragrant, and the eggplants are steamed in a pan, and then they are eaten with miso or garlic sauce.People in the Northeast love to eat pickled vegetables. Many things can be dipped in sauce, such as green onions, garlic, radishes, cabbage, raw peppers, and fresh gherkins.Xue's sauce is also very delicious. This year I was on the mountain and didn't grind it, so I made bean paste. Sometimes Jinghan likes to eat the bean paste in it, and drinks water vigorously when she eats too much.

(End of this chapter)