Chapter 25: The Harvest Season
The next day, Liu Chong drove the Wrangler that Cai Hongming bought for his wife to Gulang early in the morning.
The newly bought car should be run away, so that the parts of various parts inside can be run in to enhance the service life of the car. Cai Hongming asked him to go to Tuoba Niu to change the glass when he went to the county. Sometimes the wind and sand in the desert are very strong, and the rolled up stones can sometimes smash the glass windows when they hit the windows, but it is better to replace them with bulletproof glass.
Today I want to harvest sweet potatoes, and I use a sweet potato harvester to harvest sweet potatoes.
Harvesting sweet potatoes is still very troublesome, unlike harvesting corn, all of which are mechanical. When harvesting sweet potatoes, the first thing to do is to cut off the sweet potato vines on top. This requires manpower, Cai Hongming followed the work all morning, and he was so tired that his back hurt. Although the person who practices martial arts is in good health, he can't stand the toss of bending over and cutting sweet potato vines all morning. So in the afternoon he was so tired that he didn't want to move, so he sat aside and rested. However, the sweet potato vine has been cut, so there is nothing to do, just use the sweet potato harvester to harvest it and put it on a truck to transport it to the warehouse.
Because it is a raw land, these sweet potatoes harvested this year are not very large, at least not as big as the sweet potato that won the Guinness World Record, which is about five or six catties.
Liu Chong left, Pan Haimin took his stick and drove the sweet potato harvester, and Chen Dashan was driving the truck. The rest of the people had nothing to do, and they had a whim and wanted to build a soil nest to pay tribute to sweet potatoes.
So, they set up a soil nest on the ground where the sweet potatoes had been harvested, and finally built a soil nest more than one person high, and Cai Hongming didn't know what to say. With such a high soil nest, how many sweet potatoes do you have to bake? These guys are all about tossing. You must know that the sweet potato that has just been dug out of the soil has a lot of water, and it is not very sweet, so you have to let it go for a while to let the moisture in it disappear, then it is delicious.
But it's clear that they don't mind eating sweet potatoes that aren't sweet.
Cai Hongming saw them doing this, and his mind also came up, so he went to the rice field to catch a few fat crucian carp, and after shooting them to death, he didn't remove the gills and cut the internal organs, so he pickled them with ginger and garlic, salt and soy sauce vinegar. After marinating and flavoring, I cut a palm leaf and wrap it. Covered in a layer of mud. Put it in a dirt nest and bake it. This was not enough, after getting it, he also ran inside to catch two fat hens raised by Uncle Fu, and after killing, he stuffed various medicinal herbs into his stomach, and then sewed his butt with a needle. Wrap it in palm leaves. Paste the mud and bake together.
Uncle Fu was also excited to watch it from the side. Go to the ostrich and bring out an ostrich egg for him to help roast.
The taste of ostrich eggs with natural food and water jade toad liquid is different from that of eggs and duck eggs, with a different grass fragrance, and Silly Afu can't forget it after eating it once. If it weren't for Cai Hongming's disagreement. He probably wants to eat ostrich eggs every day. Seeing his eager gaze looking at him with an ostrich egg, Cai Hongming had nothing to say, so he had to help roast it.
If you bake an egg, it's a little troublesome, so you can't put it in directly.
If this is the case, the egg will explode when it is cooked, and the contents will squirt out. It is necessary to first wrap the outside with a layer of hard clay and then cover it with a layer of pasty soil.
Cai Hongming baked too many things, and the earthen nest built by Li Chun and others was more than one person high and burned firewood, and he couldn't accommodate it, so he built one himself and burned it next to it. The nest he built was different from theirs. They were all made of large pieces of earth, flat on top, and a large pot was placed on top of them. In the pot, shiitake mushrooms, golden needle flowers, bacon, dried fish, mustard greens and other miscellaneous things are put together to form a mixed stew, and when the things below are baked, the stewed vegetables in the pot are also ready.
The stewed vegetables are fragrant, and the roasted fat hens and fat crucian carp and ostrich eggs are also delicious.
And the sweet potatoes roasted by Li Chun and others were more than one person high, but no one ate them.
The main reason is that the newly unearthed sweet potatoes have a lot of water and are not sweet at all, and there are Cai Hongming's roasted little hens, crucian carp, ostrich eggs, stewed vegetables and other pearls in front, and eating those makes people feel pan-flavored.
More than 200 acres of sweet potatoes were harvested in three full days.
In the end, Cai Hongming looked at a warehouse full of sweet potatoes, only to realize that he was bad. He originally thought that an acre of sweet potatoes would only harvest about one or two thousand catties at most, but he didn't expect that after fertilizing and watering the jade toad liquid, the yield per mu would be about five thousand catties.
What is this concept?
If it is calculated at one mu and five thousand catties, then two hundred and fifty mu is one hundred and twenty thousand catties. In the past, he thought that except for some of the sweet potatoes that were sold at the barbecue stalls, the rest were kept as livestock feed, but now he found that it was impossible, so many sweet potatoes, the ostriches and yaks at home could not eat them day and night, not to mention that it was impossible for these livestock to eat all of them.
Cai Hongming scratched his head, it seemed that he had to find another way.
In fact, there is already a set of mature methods in my hometown. That is to make the excess sweet potatoes into sweet potato flour, and then process the sweet potato flour into vermicelli, vermicelli, and flour chips. Dried sweet potatoes can also be processed into dried sweet potatoes, which taste good. This is going to buy a batch of machinery, this is not in the plan, but seeing the warehouse full of sweet potatoes, he can only do this.
Buying sweet potato machinery does not mean that you want to buy it, but also depends on the quality, shop around.
His wife has nothing to do at home, Cai Hongming handed over this great task to her, he just needs to wait for her to contact the manufacturer and go over to see it in person.
After the sweet potatoes are harvested, the rice harvest begins. The paddy fields are full of water, and before harvesting, the water is drained, and the fish and loaches that are kept in the fields are caught.
The weather is cold, and the crucian carp and loaches raised in the rice fields have burrowed into the mud and are difficult to catch. But Cai Hongming had a way, so he took some sweet potatoes and boiled them and kneaded them, stirred them into a paste with jade toad liquid, and then poured them into the rice field where a gap had been cut.
The crucian carp and loaches in the field suddenly rushed over frantically, and Pan Haimin on the side was amazed, but there was no ambiguity in their hands, so they hurriedly picked up the net and scooped it up.
Those fish don't like to eat sweet potatoes, but they like to stir the sweet potato sap. The jade toad liquid is transformed by the jade tripod absorbing the essence of Haoyue, and the aura is condensed, and it is strange that those fish don't like it, so as soon as they smelled that smell, they immediately pounced.
After a while, a bunch of crucian carp were caught.
On the ground next to him, Cai Hongming had already asked people to lay out two large pools with canvas, and the loaches and crucian carp were fished up from the rice fields and put down, and the pools were crowded in a while, and fish could be seen swimming everywhere.
Cai Hongming had already contacted the person who collected the fish, and came to collect the fish in the afternoon.
Fortunately, it was Gulang who collected the fish. The fishmongers in the county knew that he was a man, and if someone else told him to come to the desert to collect fish, they would have to think of him as a madman.
In the afternoon, the fishmonger who collected the fish drove over, and when he saw Cai Hongming using canvas to set up the temporary fish pond on the side, he found that he had brought too few cars to collect the fish, so he hurriedly called people from the county and tossed until midnight before transporting all the fish away.
Nowadays, the price of local wild loaches on the market is about 28 yuan per catty, and the non-wild ones range from a dozen to more than 20 yuan.
The batch of loaches raised by Cai Hongming in the rice field is good, the appearance is similar to that of the local loaches, and the taste is the same, but the fishmonger still pressed a few yuan and counted twenty-four yuan for him. Because of the polyculture with crucian carp, the loach per mu only collected more than 80 catties, which is less than 800,000. However, it doesn't matter if the crucian carp is wild or not, anyway, as long as it is alive, it is worth five yuan per catty. The crucian carp has a little more money, a total of more than 1.7 million, and the two kinds add up to more than 2.5 million, and this year has not been in vain.
However, Cai Hongming still feels a little at a loss, because crucian carp is too cheap, and it seems that he will have to change something to raise next year.
After catching the fish in the rice field, the water is released and the rice harvest begins.
Harvesting rice is the most trouble-free, and there is no need for manpower at all, as long as people drive machinery. But even so, Cai Hongming and his team were still busy for nearly a week before drying all the harvested rice and returning it to the warehouse. Next, when I have free time, I will grind the dried rice into rice and pack it, and then find a place to sell it.
Because rice is a new variety, the yield is very high, more than 1,000 catties per mu, and a total of almost 500,000 catties have been harvested.
So much, if there is no accident, it is estimated that Cai Hongming will not be able to eat it for a lifetime. It's just that he didn't think about just staying and eating it himself, and he planned to take it out and sell it. He already has a plan in mind, and when the new store in the county is built, he will sell sweet potato porridge, rice and noodles during the day and barbecue at night. Next to the store, open a store for the products in the West Capital Shengjing, and then form a one-stop production and marketing, self-produced and self-sold. If it tastes good, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell anything here in the future, but you have to worry about not having anything to sell.
PS: There is a chapter on it Cai Tianshou should be Cai Tianfu, and it was written incorrectly. Cai Tianshou is the second uncle.
The end of the year is coming, only to find that I didn't do anything this year, and all the things that were planned were in vain, so I had to temporarily rescue them, so I was very busy and tired, but I will also set aside some time code words, thank you for your support. (To be continued......)