Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 77 Ginseng Seeds

In the following days, Jinghan and the others went to check on those bugs every morning.Sometimes, Jinghan also took a big pair of scissors to cut off the branches where the bugs gathered too densely, and then moved them to other trees.In this way, they will not die because they are too dense.

Every time Jing Wan stays far away, she is a little afraid of these bugs.But Jingxian is not afraid, and together with Jinghan, she dares to cut branches and so on.After seeing these bugs, Jinghan and the others went to dig Gastrodia elata. There are really a lot of Gastrodia elata in this forest, and they can dig up twenty or thirty catties every day.

They didn't go to that forest that day, but went to the old forest to the south.While walking, Jinghan saw a few brightly colored mushrooms growing on the fallen log next to her.This mushroom is light pink in color, and it grows into a large piece, which looks very beautiful. "Oh, it's the tree chicken mushroom, I met something good today." Jinghan shouted.

Generally, the brighter the color of mushrooms, the more poisonous they are, but this tree mushroom is different.This tree chicken mushroom grows very brightly, but it is edible, and the taste is very delicious.This thing grows very fast. When you see it today, it is only a little bigger than a fingernail, and tomorrow it will grow bigger than an adult's palm.Therefore, it must be picked in time, otherwise it will become old. Once this thing is old, it will be as hard as wood and cannot be eaten.

Jinghan hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, and pinched it with her hand, the main body of the mushroom was still quite tender.Quickly broke off the mushroom and put it in the basket.There were several pieces of tree chicken mushrooms growing on this fallen tree, and Jinghan broke them off. "At noon today, let's eat fried chicken with mushrooms and leeks. Just this year, our family also has leeks." The fried leeks with chicken and mushrooms is extremely delicious, and it is also a special delicacy in the Changbai Mountain area.

Wenxuan and the others have never seen this tree mushroom, but they believe in Jinghan, as long as Jinghan says it can be eaten, it is edible.Everyone continued to move forward and went to Tianma.

At noon, the children returned to the venue. "Grandma, today we met the tree chicken mushroom, can we fry the tree chicken mushroom today?" Jing Han took out the mushrooms she picked and asked Chen.

"Hey, this is a rare thing, okay, I'll go cut some leeks, and I'll eat tree chicken mushrooms fried with leeks at noon." Mrs. Chen certainly knows this kind of mushrooms, so she quickly took a sickle and went to the vegetable field to cut leeks .

Jinghan took off the leaves and branches from the mushrooms, washed them with water and gave them to Mrs. Xue.Xue cut the mushrooms into strips, and then scalded them with hot water to remove them.Here, Jingwan and Mrs. Chen picked out the leeks and washed them, Mrs. Xue also cut them up, and kept them for cooking later.

Stir-fried leeks with tree chicken and mushrooms is very simple, just stir-fry the two kinds of vegetables in the pan, but the heat and other things in it can only be determined by those who often cook.Xue's stir-fry is an expert at cooking, so this matter is naturally not a problem for her. After a few stir-fries, a scent wafts out of the kitchen.Jinghan sniffed, it really smelled like this, it was really fragrant.

For lunch, there are pancakes and porridge. Of course, the dishes are freshly fried tree chicken mushrooms and leeks, as well as cabbage, cucumbers and so on.Add a bowl of doenjang and it's a meal.

Zhixin and the others went to the field to weed weeds, and they are all back now, Mrs. Chen hurriedly asked them to wash their hands so that they could eat.Everyone sat at the table, and the old man saw the dishes on the table, "Oh, there are still good things here. Come to Zhixin, let's eat quickly, there is still this tree mushroom at noon today, everyone come to try Taste it, it’s rare to find something just right.” The old man picked up a chopstick and put it in his mouth, “Well, it tastes good, this taste is really fresh.”

The big guys all moved their chopsticks, and all went to taste the tree chicken mushroom.Fortunately, there are quite a lot of tree chicken mushrooms today, which is enough to eat.The children liked it very much. When Xue and Zhu saw it, they just ate two chopsticks and left it to the children.

"It would be great if we could have this tree chicken mushroom often." Wen Chang said while eating.

The old man laughed when he heard it, "Wenchang, this thing is not often available. There are quite a few on the mountain, but ah, this thing grows fast. Today you see it grows small, but you can look at it tomorrow. Maybe you will get old. It’s really lucky that you can meet so many young chrysanthemums.” The old man told the children about chrysanthemums. "Speaking of which, we really have a lot of delicious mushrooms in our mountains. You have quite a lot of mushrooms like elm yellow mushroom, tree cockle mushroom, Hericium erinaceus. This elm yellow mushroom is even more delicious. , but it can’t be dried in the sun. It’s good to have a small basket in the sun, and it doesn’t taste good once it’s dried. Hericium erinaceus can be dried in the sun, but it’s too few. That's right. Not to mention the tree chicken mushrooms, which have a short time, and when they get old, they will be like wood and can't be eaten. Oh, it would be great if there were more of these mushrooms." The old man sighed.

When Jinghan heard this, her heart moved, yes, how could she forget this?In the previous life, didn't there already be artificially cultivated mushrooms?Now that they are on the mountain, there is no shortage of wood. As long as they can get the fungus and plant it on the wood, isn't it the same as the wild one?By the way, she should think about this.Delicious and nutritious, these mushrooms are a rare treat.People here generally use it as a gift or something, which is very popular. If it can be grown, it should sell well, right?Jinghan felt that she had found a good way.

Don't be too anxious about this matter, if you want to do it little by little, you have to cultivate the bacteria first.With a plan in mind, Jinghan began to slowly figure out how to plant this mushroom.

Although she had thought about cultivating mushrooms artificially, it was not something that could be done in a hurry, so Jinghan still did what she should do every day.I still go to see those bugs in the morning, and then go to the forest to collect medicinal materials during the day.Wenchang went into town with Zhiming every morning to sell fish and crayfish.Sometimes, they would also pick up wild animals in the traps. In summer, if they couldn't eat them, they would spoil, so they usually brought them to the town to sell.

The work in the ginseng field is endless. This year, Zhixin discussed with the old man and asked for [-] feet of ginseng soil.In this way, the ginseng seeds that were harvested last year can be sprinkled, and after a slow development, a lot of sticks can be planted.The ginseng seeds are not directly sprinkled on the ground to germinate, but need to be fermented to open. Only the ginseng seeds that have opened the mouth will germinate when sprinkled on the ground.

This process of fermenting ginseng seeds in advance to make them open is called making ginseng seeds.The ginseng seeds are divided into dry seeds and water seeds, and the dry seeds are usually in June.Find a place in the ground, tamp it down with loess, then spread a layer of thin cloth, and spread a mixture of sand and black soil on it, and ginseng seeds will be mixed in it.The ginseng seeds are naturally those dried in the sun last year, soaked in water a little bit, mixed into the sand, and covered with a layer of soil.Finally, a shed should be built on the land to prevent the rainwater from falling in and causing the ginseng seeds to rot.

The ginseng seeds are basically the same, the only difference is that the ginseng seeds picked in the past are directly mixed with soil for fermentation, and then the seeds are sown in autumn.Compared with the water seeds, the dry seeds have a better germination rate and the emergence of seedlings is uniform.The water seeds are prone to mildew and uneven emergence, and many of them will not emerge until the third year after the seeds are sown.Therefore, if ordinary people are not in a hurry to use ginseng seeds, they will dry them in the sun, hang them on the beams of the house, and wait until the next year to dry the seeds.

The Xu family got a lot of ginseng seeds last year, but this year they had to use fifteen feet of ginseng soil just to sow the seeds.Therefore, the place where the ginseng seeds are grown this year is much larger than in previous years. A wooden shed was built on it, and the grass was covered with it, so that the rain would fall into it.

Village head Zhou had already led the villagers to divide the ginseng soil, and now Zhixin and Zhiming are busy digging the ginseng soil.Since Zhiming has to go to the town every day, and this year has an extra ten feet, the digging is slower.Fortunately, with that kind of wide pickaxe, it can be stronger than in previous years.Digging the soil was tiring, so Mrs. Chen asked Zhiming and the others to buy some meat from time to time, and the food was pretty good.

In the spring of this year, Mrs. Chen caught two piglets, and now they are half grown.Every day, Jinghan and the others are responsible for harvesting some pigweed, adding some corn navel, bean hair, acorn fruit, etc., and the two little pigs are very happy to eat.The number of geese in the family has also increased to more than 50. The Chen family has a unique skill, that is, it can hatch chickens and geese on the kang.This year, she purposely kept around sixty goose eggs, and then fifty of them hatched, which is not bad.Now these little geese have just hatched for a long time, and it's fun to waddle.As a result, the children have another job, which is to pick some lettuce and mother-in-law every day, and then chop them up and feed them to the goslings.These two things are also medicinal materials, which can be sterilized by fire, and the goose is very good to eat.

The days passed by in such a busy way, and those bugs that Jinghan was looking forward to with all her heart actually formed cocoons.Looking at the curled leaves on the oak tree, Jinghan was overjoyed.The tussah silkworm spends the winter in chrysalis, so Jinghan cut off all the cocoons and leaves with scissors, and put them in a cool place.As long as the temperature is not enough, these silkworm cocoons will not move, and will remain in this state until next spring.

Jinghan carefully stored the silkworm cocoons, and the family members naturally saw it.They asked what it was, and Jinghan told them that it was a silkworm that could pull out silk.Just like the mulberry silkworms raised in the south, except that this kind of silkworms eat oak leaves and are raised in the wild.Of course, Jinghan can't say that she knew her, she can only say that she went to town once and heard it from others.

After hearing what Jinghan said, the family members didn't believe it, but no one poured cold water on it.Over the past year, everyone has seen Jinghan's ability, this little girl is full of ghost ideas.If Jinghan really produced this kind of silkworm, even if he couldn't sell the silk, he could use it for his own home, right?
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