Chapter 42: Dendrobium
The conditions of the demon refining pot space are unique, and Xiao Ping doesn't want to use it to grow ordinary crops. He thought about it for a long time but didn't come up with any good ideas, so he went to consult the more experienced old peasant Wang Cannon, hoping to get some inspiration from him.
"Valuable herbs or economic plants?" Wang Dacang gave the answer after a little thought: "Of course, it must be the dendrobium on Baiyun Mountain!" ”
Xiao Ping asked with interest: "Dendrobium? Is it worth it? ”
Wang Cannon said: "Dendrobium is a kind of herb, known as the first of the nine immortal grasses, the wild Dendrobium sold for more than 30 yuan a gram in the first two years, and it must be more expensive in the past two years." Dendrobium officinale is the best quality of wild dendrobium, and it has been sold for more than 801 grams this year. However, there are fewer and fewer things now, and I can't find much of them all day after going into the mountains, and they are all dug up. ”
Hearing Wang Cannon say that Dendrobium officinale was very scarce, Xiao Ping was even more happy, and hurriedly said to him: "When will we go up the mountain to find out, a friend of mine is engaged in herbal medicine planting, and he must be very interested in Dendrobium." ”
"Cheng, I'll come to you early tomorrow morning." Wang Cannon was a straightforward person, and immediately agreed.
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Xiao Ping and Wang Cannon went up the mountain. Don't look at Baiyun Mountain, it is not too high, and it is located on the outskirts of Suzhou City, but some places are still rugged and dense, and wild dendrobium grows in such inaccessible places. Even for people like Wang Dapao, who live under the mountain, it is not easy to collect herbs in such a place, and it is even more difficult for people in the city.
Fortunately, Xiao Ping's physique was definitely not comparable to ordinary people, and he followed behind Wang Dacang, going up and down the steep hill without feeling any difficulty at all. Even Wang Dacang was surprised by Xiao Ping's performance and praised him several times along the way.
Just as Wang Cannon said, wild dendrobium is really very rare. The two searched for most of the day on the mountain, and only found a total of six or seven fresh dendrobium trees. If these herbs are dried, they will weigh only a few grams at most. It took so much effort to earn less than three hundred yuan, no wonder there are fewer and fewer people going up the mountain to find dendrobium.
However, Xiao Ping didn't come to dig the dendrobium to dry it and sell it for money, but planned to transplant these valuable herbs into the space of the demon refining pot. Therefore, when digging Dendrobium officinalis, he and Wang Cannon were very careful, not only trying to keep the root system intact, but also bringing mud balls, which could greatly improve the survival rate of transplantation.
By the time Xiao Ping returned to the farm, it was already getting dark. Although the day in the mountains is very hard, it is not in vain to be able to get wild dendrobium. When everyone went back in the evening, Xiao Ping took the dendrobium into the demon refining pot space and planted these precious herbs far away from the spring.
Although dendrobium is also very precious, it is not as eye-catching as wild ginseng. Therefore, Xiao Ping plans to diversify the space of the demon refining pot, which can be regarded as opening up a new financial route. The reason why he planted Dendrobium officinale at the edge of the space of the Demon Refining Pot was to leave enough space for them to grow.
Xiao Ping first dug a few small pits several inches deep in the grass of the space of the demon refining pot, and carefully planted the dendrobium in it. Then cut off most of the long stem of Dendrobium officinale and cut it into small segments of inches for cuttings. According to Wang Dacang, Dendrobium can also be reproduced by this method, and Xiao Ping certainly wants to try it.
After carefully planting all the collected dendrobium, Xiao Ping scooped some water from the spring and poured all the herbs on them. The environment of the demon refining pot space was already extremely conducive to the growth of plants, and the spring water coming out of the spring was also similar to the effect of the spiritual liquid, under the combined effect of the two, some wilted dendrobium stretched out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon became very spiritual. …,
Seeing that the dendrobium was thriving in the space of the demon refining pot, Xiao Ping was also relieved. I believe that these Dendrobium trees will soon be able to recover their growth and reproduce more seedlings in a short period of time, and Xiao Ping will have one more way to make money.
Before leaving the space of the demon refining pot, Xiao Ping went to see the swordfish in the waterhole again. After absorbing large pieces of jade and fossils, the area of the waterhole also increased to about 150 square meters, and the depth also increased. The only constant is that the water quality in the pool is still very clear, and Xiao Ping can see every pebble at the bottom of the pool clearly.
To Xiao Ping's surprise, the number of forage fish and fish insects he had put into the waterhole had not decreased significantly. It seems that they are also very adapted to life inside the demon refining pot, and their reproduction rate is much faster than outside, and they have formed a relatively balanced small ecosystem in the waterhole.
This is of course a good thing for Xiao Ping, which means that he will not need to put the fodder in the waterhole in the future, and the saury will have enough food to eat. In fact, after a few days of well-fed days, there was also a noticeable change in the cultivation of saury. They were swimming leisurely in the pool, much larger than when they were first put into the pool. Xiao Ping noticed that one of the saury fish had a visibly bulging belly, which was obviously a female fish, and there should be fish roe in the belly. Xiao Ping was overjoyed by this change, and perhaps by next spring, the fish pond would be able to raise saury fry.
Xiao Ping stayed in the demon refining pot for a while before leaving this magical space. In the following period, all aspects of the farm were developing in the direction of improvement. The vegetables are growing well, the blueberry trees are strong, and the sea bass in the pond is growing rapidly.
After absorbing a large amount of jade and fossils, the amount of spiritual liquid produced by the Demon Refining Pot also increased to fifteen drops each time. Xiao Ping used ten of them to raise fish and water blueberry trees, and the extra five drops were taken to strengthen his body, and the spiritual liquid was barely enough.
After receiving the final payment for the fish pond and the cement road, the engineering team worked harder. The renovation of the small building is proceeding quickly, and it seems that it will not be long before it is completed. Xiao Ping is very much looking forward to this, hoping to live in a renovated small building as soon as possible.
However, within a few days of such a peaceful day, another trouble came to the door. There was a batch of vegetables that seemed to be ready to be harvested, but it was robbed for several nights in a row. Several vegetable plots on the edge of the farm were badly damaged, and many greens were secretly poached at night, leaving only empty vegetable plots. There are more vegetables that have been trampled and broken by these guys while stealing them, and they are useless. What's even more infuriating is that these guys also damaged the newly built vegetable greenhouse when stealing vegetables, which caused Xiao Ping to suffer a lot of losses.
The vegetable stealing incident made Xiao Ping very angry, and he lost hundreds of catties of vegetables in a few days, and 10,000 yuan was inexplicably gone, and no one could be calm.
Looking at the messy vegetable field, Xiao Ping said fiercely to a villager: "Old Zhou, from tonight onwards, everyone will take turns on duty, and we must find out this gang of thieves!" ”
Lao Zhou is an honest middle-aged man, and after listening to Xiao Ping's words, he hesitated: "Boss...... Isn't that good? ”