Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Hericium erinaceus

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhide and Huixin also went home respectively, and Brother Wenhan was no exception, they all returned to school.Of course Jingya followed, otherwise Huixin would be too busy.

The mountain returned to calm again, and everyone was still doing their own things, and everyone was busy with things.Jing Han, Jing Wan, and Jing Xian still went to see those tussah silkworms in the morning, and then came back around noon.This tussah silkworm really changes every day. Now after a period of dormancy, it has changed into various colors, yellow, green, and some have patterns on its body, which are absolutely different from silkworms.

Generally, tussah silkworms will cocoon after four periods of dormancy, with an average interval of eight or nine days between each dormancy.Therefore, it usually takes about fifty days from the hatching of the larvae to cocooning, and sometimes it will be slightly delayed due to the weather.

In addition to delivering fish to the town in the morning, Wencheng followed Zhiming to learn how to identify medicinal materials and medicinal properties, and these children had a very fulfilling life every day.

In the blink of an eye, it was already June, and the tussah silkworms that were kept quietly had passed three dormant ages, and were about to go dormant for the fourth time.After being busy in the morning, Jinghan went into the forest with Wencheng and the others in the afternoon.At this time, Gastrodia elata came out very well, so naturally we had to hurry up.Zhiming took everyone walking in the middle of the forest, Jinghan had sharp eyes, and found a handful of white things on a big tree. "Third Uncle, do you think it's Hericium erinaceus?"

Zhiming raised his head and looked in the direction Jinghan pointed, and it turned out to be a big Hericium erinaceus. "Yes, Jinghan, look at the tree opposite to that tree, there should be another flower." This Hericium erinaceus has a habit of growing in pairs, on two opposite trees .

Jinghan heard Uncle San's reminder, so she looked around in the woods.Sure enough, at the place opposite to that tree, there was really a tree with a white Hericium erinaceus growing on it.Jinghan shouted happily, "Uncle San, you are so right, there are really some here. Uncle San, if you find a way to get me the mushrooms, you'd better bring more wood. I want to take them back and cultivate them. If the fungus is successful, we can grow Hericium erinaceus." Last year's yellow elm mushroom was successful, which greatly boosted Jinghan's confidence.

After hearing this, Zhiming quickly climbed up the tree, according to Jinghan's intention, cut a large piece of wood off the trunk with a knife, and then carefully came down from the tree with the mushroom.Then I went up to another tree and took down another mushroom in the same way.Zhiming really admired this little niece's idea. Last winter, he made a lot of money just by selling mushrooms.The family members have already discussed it, and no matter what Jinghan wants to do, they must fully support it.

Jinghan carefully held the two mushrooms and put them in her back basket.The fruiting bodies of these two Hericium erinaceus have grown very large and should be used to cultivate strains.With these, Jinghan can cultivate Hericium erinaceus.

Accidentally found Hericium erinaceus, Jing Han couldn't calm down, told everyone, and then went back to the venue.She has to quickly cultivate the fungus. If it is too late, the mushroom will rot or something, that would be a pity.Jinghan trotted all the way back to the venue, and started poking about her set of things.

Seeing Jinghan's appearance, Mrs. Chen knew that she must be up to something again, she smiled and said nothing, but told Mrs. Xue not to enter the house to disturb Jinghan.

With the experience of cultivating elm yellow mushrooms, Jinghan just slightly adjusted the formula of the culture medium, and basically the operation is the same, just waiting to see if mycelia can be formed in the culture medium.After finishing all this, Jinghan came out of the house, just in time to see Mrs. Chen and the others picking vegetables there. "Grandma, I found another kind of mushroom. If we grow this kind of mushroom, we can grow it in summer, and then we can harvest it and sell it in the sun. The price of Hericium erinaceus is not low." Jinghan told Chen happily. Shi said.

Chen looked at Jinghan's excited demo, and stretched out her hand to pull the little girl over, "Jinghan, you are also eleven this year, and grandma knows that you want to earn more money to make life easier for the family. However, You also have to be careful to protect yourself. Look at your little face, it's all tanned. You've been running up the mountains all day long, and you don't even care about eating well. How much do you let grandma and your mother watch over you? Is it uncomfortable? Our family can get by now, but we raise you dark and thin, what is this?" Chen looked at Jinghan's slightly dark face with distress, and touched it with her hand , and not as soft and delicate as a child of this age.

"Grandma, it's fine, just wait until winter. Isn't it busy?" Jinghan didn't care too much, being exposed to the sun all day long, it's already pretty good to be able to look like this.This is because her skin is good. If it were someone else, she would have to look for it in the coal pile now.

Chen made Jinghan's words dumbfounding, "Okay, you're the one who talks too much. When your mother goes to town someday, ask her to help you buy some noodles or something. You're a girl, and you need more when you grow up. When you get married, you have sunburned your face, what can you do in the future?"

Jinghan made a face and ran away.

Four or five days later, Jinghan went to look at the culture solution of Hericium erinaceus, and sure enough, there were a lot of white hyphae growing in it.Jinghan can rest assured that if there is mycelium growing, the bacteria should be able to be cultivated.

Everyone in the family knows that Jinghan can grow mushrooms among strains, so when they go up the mountain, they will pay special attention, and they will find a way to get back fresh mushrooms, so that Jinghan can experiment.After experimenting, Jinghan came up with a few kinds, such as yellow elm mushroom, Hericium erinaceus, oyster mushroom, and fungus.It would be nice to have these. Many mushrooms cannot be cultivated under the current conditions.

Zhixin and Zhiming got a lot of wood and asked Jinghan to grow mushrooms. The wood was planted with fungus and Hericium erinaceus, because these two can be grown and sold in the sun, so there is no need to grow them in winter.In this way, you only need to take time to manage it.The fungus trees that planted elm yellow mushrooms last year were all put outside after the next year, and Jinghan didn't manage them specially. The price of selling them in summer was not high, and there were not enough people at home, so Jinghan originally I didn't plan to go out for mushrooms next day.It's just that you don't need to take care of this thing. When the weather is hot, it will naturally produce mushrooms.In the past few days, a lot of mushrooms have grown on those fungus trees. It seems that they really have to be picked and sold, otherwise it would be a pity to waste them?

So this morning, Jinghan saw that the yellow elm mushrooms were almost grown, so she led Jingwan and the others to pick off all the mushrooms and put them in a big basket.Anyway, Wen Cheng is going to the town, so let him sell it along with it. No matter how much it sells, it's still money, right?
After all this work, Jinghan has to hurry to see those tussah silkworms.It should be cocooning for a while, and you have to pay more attention at this time. When the cocoon is formed, you have to harvest it quickly.

When I came to the forest, I saw that the leaves on the oak trees began to curl. This is the cocooning of tussah silkworms.From the looks of it, it's only a day or two before we have to go down to pick cocoons.I am afraid that the whole family must mobilize to finish this job as soon as possible.Fortunately, the work in the ginseng field is not too busy, and it will take half a month to pinch the ginseng seeds, that is, the ginseng soil. Zhixin and the others are digging there, and it seems that it will be soon.

"Second Sister, is it time to pick silkworm cocoons soon? I remember it was like this last year." Jing Wan asked.

Jinghan nodded, "Well, it should be soon. Some of the cocoons picked this year will be kept as seeds, and the rest will be spun out of silk. See if you can sell them at that time. If no one wants them, just We can keep it for ourselves." Jinghan is really not sure about this, I don't know if people here will know this thing.

"What's the point? If someone buys it, we sell it. If no one buys it, can't we keep it for ourselves? I think since it is a silkworm, it can produce silk anyway, and it should be used for spinning or something, right? "Jing Xian said on the side.She is also eight years old this year, and she has learned a lot from following Jing Han in the past two years.The girls of Xu's family also learned to read and write with their brothers. Nowadays, the girls, not to mention full of knowledge, can read books without any problem.

Jing Han put her arms around Jing Xian's shoulders, and said with a smile, "Isn't it? If no one wants it, we will spin and weave cloth at home, and we will make a silk dress for Jing Xian to wear." Jing Han knew this It's a bit difficult. After all, people in the north rarely engage in these weaving jobs, and they are not very good at this.

Jing Xian wrinkled her little nose and snorted, "What's so rare about silk clothes? They can't match the cotton cloth we wear. We can't wear them for work. Is it possible that we can still be like those ladies who are bored all day long?" At home, don’t step out of the gate? I’d rather not wear it then.”

Jing Han looked at the little sister in front of her, the girls of the Xu family were all outstanding, and the little Jing Xian in front of her was probably the most outstanding one.At such a young age, she is already a little beauty.His complexion is pale and rosy, even though he follows Jing Han all the time, he is still fair and delicate.Such a person is called the mad sun, that is to say, they will not get dark no matter how much they are exposed to the sun.With two curved crescent eyebrows, a pair of big watery eyes, a bright red mouth, and a delicate little nose, I really don't know what kind of stunning beauty this little Jingxian will have when she grows up.

Stretching out her hand to touch Jing Xian's little head, Jing Han knelt down and looked at Jing Xian, "It turns out that Jing Xian doesn't like silk and satin, but only cotton clothes?"

Jingxian looked at Jinghan with big eyes, "Second Sister, I like our current life. We are busy and make people happy. After our family's life is better, are we going to go down the mountain to buy a house? Like that Will our big family be separated? I don’t want to be separated. I want to be with my second sister. Let’s raise silkworms, grow mushrooms, and plant sticks together. I like the feeling of being together as a big family now. I don’t like living in our own house before. In the county." Jingxian asked, holding Jinghan's hand.

(End of this chapter)