Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 119
With Chuntao's marriage settled, Fang felt relieved.Leap May this year, it is already the beginning of Leap May at this time, if it is in previous years, it will be June.The early potatoes in the garden should be up, so Yun Song naturally took the children to get the potatoes out.After raising the potato field, let it dry for a few days and turn it over again to plant cabbage.

At this time, Gastrodia elata has been unearthed in the forest, and the dates are also ripe.Yuxian remembered what the boss Yue said, and thought it was an opportunity to make money, so she discussed it with her parents.Fang also agreed, but felt that there were too few dates to pick in his family, and it would delay the digging of Gastrodia elata.Yuxian thought for a while, then said to her parents: "Father, mother, can we tell the people in the village to pick them. We will send them to us, so we don't have to worry about it. There are quite a few children in the village, and one person can pick at least twenty catties a day, which is a lot of money? I guess we can make some money by brewing wine."

"Mother, Yuxian's method is good. If this is the case, it won't delay us to dig Gastrodia elata. After all, Gastrodia elata sells for more money." Da Lang also agreed with Yuxian's method.

"Little sister, how many catties of dates do you need to brew a catty of wine?" Erlang thought more carefully.

"I haven't done too many calculations, but at most two catties can brew a catty of wine. We can count three catties for one catty, which is the cost of three Wen. In addition to buying jars, a twenty-jin jar It’s about ten renminbi, so the cost is not very high. I just don’t know how much it can be sold for. I remember that when my third uncle got married, the jar of wine seemed to cost a tael or two, right? We should be able to sell it for that money.” Yu Xian calculated.

"More than that, the wine I bought that time was not very good. Good wine is more expensive. We farmers usually drink wine made from rhubarb rice. How can we afford wine? The wine you brew is not as good as The bought ones are poor, and they are very special, so they should be sold more expensively." Erlang did the math, and felt that the profit was still huge.

"Okay, let's do what Yuxian said, and I'll talk to a few good families in a while, and ask them to pick dates if they have nothing to do at home. I guess others will pick them as soon as they see that they are making money." I sent it to our house. Yuxian, do you have any requirements for Dianzao?" Yun Song also agreed with Yuxian's idea.

"Father, as long as there are no green fruits, no branches and leaves, and the fruit pieces are intact." Yuxian said the request.

"Okay, Dad understands, I'll go to Huzi's and Shuanzi's homes, and your great-grandfather and second-grandfather's homes. Of course, this matter can be settled with us first, as well as Zhuzi's and Chunsheng's homes. Let’s talk about it. There are children in every family, and children can do this job.” Yun Song said and went out.

"Father, wait, you have to find a way to bring back more jars, one that can hold about twenty catties. If it is too big, it may not be fermented well, and if it is too small, the jars will be wasted." Yu Xian hurriedly warned.

"Sure, it's easy. I'll go to town and buy it later." Yun Song went out.

"Then let's dig Gastrodia elata for a while. We are at home in the afternoon, and we can help collect those who deliver dates. Those who pay for the scales have to be busy." Da Lang also made up his mind. . "Let's go, let's go into the mountains and dig Tianma."

The children in the family were dispatched together, and Bowen and the others were even more happy.These days, the children of Tong's family have dug up a lot of medicinal materials, but they haven't seen Gastrodia elata yet.Yuxian naturally wanted to follow up the mountain, and she thought that she might find something else.The ten children, some carrying baskets on their backs, and some carrying the small heads that Yunsong had beaten specially, went into the forest just like that.Da Lang and the others had dug Gastrodia elata last year, so of course they all knew each other.Not long after entering the forest, Xiaosan saw several trees, and it was a good start, and everyone was very happy.The three Bowen brothers and Haoyu saw it for the first time. Yuxian explained it to them again, and also explained the method of digging Gastrodia elata. Finally, Yuxian said: "Brothers, if we dig up the very small one this year , also picked them up, and took them home. I want to see if it is possible to cultivate Gastrodia elata artificially, in that case, the output will be much larger.” Yuxian remembered that Gastrodia elata could be cultivated in her previous life, and she wanted to try it.

"Okay, don't worry, it's easy." Da Lang nodded, and then the children dispersed to find Gastrodia Ma.After a while, I heard one by one shouting, "I have two here." "I have four here." Everyone was very excited.Yuxian also saw several trees, and Haoyu was always by Yuxian's side, helping her dig out.Some Gastrodia elata were under the roots of the trees. Haoyu took a small tool to cut off the roots, and then dug out the bottom. The two of them cooperated very well.

"Brother Haoyu, thanks to your strength, otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle it." Yuxian praised Haoyu.

"You didn't discover it, and I don't know much about it. We can dig more by cooperating in this way. You are responsible for the search, and I will do the digging. I am a boy, and I am more powerful than you." Hao Yu scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"Okay, let's divide the work and cooperate, so we won't be slower than my elder brother and the others."

In one morning, they dug up about [-] catties of Gastrodia elata. After all, there are many people and strength, and no one else has dug this thing yet, so there is also a lot of Gastrodia elata.Not many, Yuxian probably won't dare to say it in the future, there are quite a few people in the village staring at their house now, and there will always be someone who can see what they are doing.At that time, it may not be as easy to dig as it is now, which is why Yuxian wants to cultivate Gastrodia elata.

It was almost noon, and the children stopped and went home.When they got home, Fang had already prepared the meal, and Yun Song also came back, saying that he had already made an agreement with others.Everyone hastened to eat, and they still have to listen to Mr. Yuan's lecture in the afternoon.Except for the busy farming season, Yuan Qingyun did not allow the children to delay their studies during the rest of the time.

In the afternoon, the three children of Zhuzi's family brought Dian dates.Zhuzi's daughter-in-law followed behind, and when they arrived at Tong's house, she asked the child to put down the Dianzaozi and leave. Fang pulled her and said, "Guizhi, what are you doing? We all agreed, and we can't let the children waste their efforts. We They are for sale, not for home use. Dalang, hurry up and find a scale, and after weighing it, I will calculate the money for your brother Guan."

Dalang agreed, and ran to find a scale. He weighed all the dates, and they weighed fifty catties in total.The children of the Guan family picked them very cleanly, and there were no leaves in them.Yuxian also came over and asked to pour the jujubes on an old mat first, and she had to pick and choose again. You must pay attention to this food.Da Lang took out fifty Wen and gave it to the eldest son of the Guan family.

"Sister-in-law, it's not a big deal, it's just a matter of helping, why do you still ask for money?" Zhuzi's daughter-in-law felt embarrassed, so she refused to let the child collect money.

"Guizhi, the children picked it up with great effort. Besides, we have to collect it for a while until the Dianzizi are gone, so we can't always ask the nephews to help. Good boy, take the money and keep it. It would be nice to buy some food." Fang persuaded Zhuzi's daughter-in-law to accept the money.

"Okay, sister-in-law said so, then we will accept it, and let them pick it tomorrow. I didn't expect a few children to earn fifty yuan a day, more than his father. Sister-in-law, there are still We're going to go back first." Zhuzi's wife took the child and left.

Yuxian looked at the dates and thought they were not bad, and there were no impurities in them. "Mother, it's better to collect them like this in the future, so we don't have to work hard to pick them again." Then he put the Dian dates into the jar at home, and smashed the Dian dates with the rolling pin at home while loading them.Fill a jar and seal it. Chunmei and the others also came to help.

At this time, there were a few more deliveries here, and Dalang and the others were busy weighing them and counting the money, and the Tong family was very busy all of a sudden.On the first day, a total of [-] catties of dates were harvested.

Those who came to deliver the jujubes tasted the sweetness. At this time, even helping others is only paid 500 Wen a day, but a child can earn [-] Wen a day, which is amazing.So the next day, many people went up the mountain to pick the dates.In the east and north of the village, there are large fields of dianzi, and there are plenty of jujubes in the dianzi. In the past, no one paid any attention to it, but now it has become money.At this time, the people are still very real, they are all picked very clean, there is no impurity in it, which saves Yuxian a lot of trouble.On the second day, more was collected, more than [-] catties, and on the third day it was even more. Even the people in Xijiang Village knew about it, and some people picked it up and sent it to Tong's house.Later, it was about seven to eight hundred catties a day. After collecting them for seven days in total, the ones that were close to the place were gone, and the ones that were too far back were laborious and dangerous, so no one delivered them.The Tong family had almost collected, about five thousand catties in total, and the last house was full of jars.

Dalang and the others naturally dig gastrodia elata every morning, and of course dig more during this good time, and it will not be easy to dig after this season.Fang led a few girls to boil Gastrodia elata at home, and then dried it in the sun.The weather was not bad these days, but it rained one day. When it rained, I put Gastrodia elata on the kang to dry, and it worked.In more than half a month, Da Lang and the others dug up about [-] catties of gastrodia elata, leaving more than [-] catties of small ones. Yuxian buried those small ones with the soil he got from the mountain.

Next, Yuxian asked her brothers to go up the mountain to cut down some broad-leaved trees such as birch and oak.Those that are not as thick as the mouth of a bowl are cut into pieces of wood less than a foot long, and then buried on the mountain, where they dug Gastrodia elata.I also put some black mycelium picked off from the old Gastrodia elata.Although Yuxian didn't know how to cultivate Armillaria armillaria, she guessed that it would allow mycelia to grow on wood. Isn't it the same for wild Gastrodia elata?She just imitated the growth environment of wild Gastrodia elata.

A few days ago, Yun Song had planted cabbage, radish, and mustard greens in the garden where potatoes had grown.It is said that the first radish and the second volt vegetable, but here, it has to be planted seven or eight days earlier, otherwise it will not grow well in autumn.These dishes are all prepared for the winter, and they can't be sloppy at all. The taste of eating vegetables last year made Fang's queen terrified.

　Three more sent.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)