Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

  Chapter 506 Pinch Ginseng Seeds

  Xu Shian was driving, pulling along Xu Chenghou, Xu Haibo, Xu Haitao, Xu Haiyuan, and Xu Jinping.

   Together with Zhao Jianshe and Huang Shengli, they went to the venue on the other side of the Kaifeng fork.

  The so-called Kaifeng Fork Road is a road that forks eastward on the half way from Songjiang River to Quanyang.

   This road belongs to the firewood transportation road of the Forestry Bureau, and this road will diverge if you go inward.

  There are Kaifeng Forest Farm, Xilinhe Nursery, Shuguang Forest Farm, Qianchuan Forest Farm, Shengli Forest Farm, and Dajianchang Village under Donggang Town.

  The Xu family's ginseng land is just ten miles north of the fork in the road, and it is not far to walk in. It used to be a few ditches and ponds.

  The year before last, Xu Shiyan approved the ginseng soil and bought this area. The area is not large, about three thousand feet.

  At the beginning, each family kept fifty feet, and sold the rest.

  The area of ​​the ginseng land is small, so Xu Shiyan didn't bother to think about it. It happened that someone said that they wanted to buy ginseng, so they directly gave it to others.

  Here, Xu Chenghou has been here before, when it snowed before, he went up to work on the mountain.

   Arriving here, he walked into the venue with ease, and led the child straight to his home.

   "Well, second child, you lead Xiaotao, and the two of you go to pinch your house.

  Xiaobo is in a group with Yuanyuan, and I am with Pingping, we will pinch this end.

  Let's hurry up and work, this thing will be finished in less than a day. "

  As soon as he arrived at the head of Chi Chuan in his own garden, Xu Chenghou hurriedly arranged work.

   "Success, then do as father ordered.

  That, Dad, don’t worry, take your time, Xiaotao and I will finish pinching the ginseng seeds in no time, and I’ll come over to help you when the time comes. "

  Xu Shian nodded, and instructed the old man again.

  Pinch ginseng seeds, usually in groups of two, kneeling on top of Chi Gangzi facing each other.

   Reach out and cut off the tender stems under the red ginseng fruit, and then put the ginseng fruit into the basket.

   Some ginsengs grow shorter, and you have to poke the ginseng leaves with your hands, so as not to miss them.

  Speaking of this work, it is not too tiring. The main thing is that you have to bend your body to work under the shed, and your waist is tired.

  Children can be better, short, small and dexterous.

  At Xu Chenghou's age, it is really not easy to do this job again.

  That's why Xu Shi'an specifically asked his father, for fear that his father would be brave and tired again.

   "Okay, let's work quickly.

  Yuanyuan, Pingping, you two have little hands, if you can't pinch, use scissors.

  When you went out in the morning, didn’t your grandma bring scissors for the two of you? "

  For adults, it is fastest to pinch directly.

  But for children, they are small and have no strength, and their hands are tender. If they pinch them with their hands, even if they can be cut off, it is estimated that after pinching a few flowers, their tired fingers will hurt.

  So when she came out in the morning, Zhou Guilan specially brought scissors for the two children and asked them to use the scissors to cut down.

   Just put in a little effort, it's better than a child with a sore hand.

   "Hey, I see, Grandpa."

  The two children agreed crisply, and then they carried the basket and scissors, starting from the end of the pool, kneeling on the pool to work.

  Under the ginseng shed, there are ginseng seedlings more than one foot high. On top of the blue-purple main stem, there are five palmate compound leaves in whorls. On the top, there is a bright red ginseng fruit.

  Xu’s family took good care of the mallet. The base fertilizer used when planting ginseng was topped with bean cake water this spring, and foliar fertilizer was sprayed in summer.

  So the leaves of this ginseng grow very well, green and black.

  The flowers of ginseng seeds are also big, similar to Xu Jinping's fist.

   Blooming red ginseng fruit, plump, round and shiny, looks extraordinarily rare.

  Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping both took scissors and carefully cut off the ginseng fruit one by one and put them in the basket.

  Wait until the basket is full, then carry it to the head of the pool, and pour it into the woven bag.

  Chi face is wide, and one person cannot cover them all, so two people have to work face to face.

  Xu Jinping's small arms are short, so she must not be able to reach the middle, so Xu Chenghou stretched his hand in.

  The grandparents and grandson cooperated well. Although they couldn't work as fast as Xu Shian and the others, anyway, after a while, they could carry a basket of ginseng fruits and pour them into the woven bag.

  When you are tired, take a break, and then do it again.

  By noon, Xu Chenghou and Xu Jinping, who were twenty feet long, had done most of the work.

  The weather was hot, and everyone didn't go to see the small room at noon, but just took out the dry food and water they had brought, and ate casually on the ground.

  Huang Shuqing, Feng Bin, and Sun Yu also came up the mountain. The big guys got together and exchanged meals with each other.

  For children like Huang Shuqing who don't like studying very much, working in the mountains is much more interesting than reading at home.

  Xu Shi'an and his youngest son finished picking up their own ginseng seeds in the morning, and helped Xu Chenghou and the others in the afternoon, so the work was done before three o'clock.

  So he drove the people and ginseng seeds, went straight down the mountain, took Xu Chenghou, his grandparents and grandchildren home, and then drove back to the farm.

   Xu Chenghou and his grandpa and grandson returned home early, so they quickly poured the ginseng fruit out of the woven bag, and rolled the red ginseng fruit off the torus one by one.

  The red ones fall off easily when you touch them. Occasionally, if there are half-green and unripe flowers, you just pick them off one by one. In fact, most of these flowers are flat.

  Pick off a small red kidney-shaped fruit, and you need to grate the thin outer skin and wash it with water.

  Xu Chenghou led his grandson, put the small fruit into a woven bag, and asked Xu Haiyuan and the others to step on the bag with their shoes on.

  After stepping on it for a while, I saw some reddish-brown juice flowing out from the bottom of the woven bag, which is the juice that flowed out from the crushed pulp.

   It is said that this juice can also be used as medicine, and Sanshenchang is researching ginseng fruit granules.

  Of course, the average ginseng farmers don't care much, they are just like Xu Chenghou, just step on it and let it flow into the ditch.

  The children stepped on for a while, turned the woven bag over and shook it, and continued to step on it.

   Wait until the juice flowing out of it becomes less and less, pour some water into it, tie the pocket tightly and step on it for a while, then pour it into a large basin and rinse it with clean water.

  Good mature seeds will sink to the bottom of the water, and those floating on the water surface are deflated, and most of them will float out.

   Just like that, scrub and then rinse, leaving the snow-white ginseng seeds in the end, take them out, pour them on a fork that has been covered with gauze, and drain the water.

   Ginseng seeds should be dried, but not exposed to the sun.

   It is necessary to put it in a cool place when the sun is poisonous during the day, and take it out when the sun is not so strong in the morning and evening.

  If the drying is not timely, the seeds will be powdered.

   If it is exposed to the sun, it will be easily roasted and will not germinate, so this thing is extraordinarily delicate.

  Dried ginseng seeds, if the ginseng seeds were directly grown in the same year, this is called hair water seeds.

  Because the ginseng seeds have not gone through the dormancy period, the germination rate is not high and they are easy to rot.

  If it is kept properly for one year, ginseng seeds will be grown in the next summer, which is called dry seeds.

  Dried seeds have a high germination rate and a high seedling preservation rate, much better than water seeds.

  Xu Shiyan has no shortage of ginseng seeds, so naturally he refuses to produce water seeds.

  These ginseng seeds can be dried and put away, waiting for the seeds to dry next summer, and then planted in autumn.

  (end of this chapter)