Chapter Twenty-Seven: Planting Fungus
I haven't noticed this piece, this is located in the right forest area of the jujube forest to the old house of Huoquan, there are many trees here because of the lack of light and low nutrition and rot, and the rotting wood encounters fungi, it will grow such a sufficient fungus, and this area is just blocked by the nearby higher trees, coupled with sufficient rainfall is difficult to drain, the air is more humid, with sufficient conditions for the growth of wild fungus.
"Great, black fungus is full of a lot of protein, raditene, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients, has always been known as the 'king of vegetarian food', but also has nourishing, stomach, blood activation, we have recently eaten more of this, it will be very beneficial to the body, we now need to urgently supplement these nutrients." Song Bailu said.
"Well, then pick it back, dry it and then cook it to eat, otherwise the fresh wild fungus is mostly poisonous, and I'll see if I can find some mother seeds here, and then put it in a snakeskin bag with sawdust, put it in it, and see if it will cultivate mycelium, if it is successful, I will make more wood segments here, make holes in the top and put mycelium, and artificially raise fungus." I said.
"Good idea, you can give it a try, if it succeeds, our survival will be more guaranteed." Song Bailu said.
I nodded, just thinking that when chasing Bigfoot, it had pulled down a whole tree, and smashed one with stones, and the two broken trunks, Yun Wen should remember which direction, their segments can be used to try to artificially grow fungus, as long as it is successful, we can at least have more food security, more nutrition.
After collecting all the wild fungus here, I specially used a bayonet to cut open the wood of the fungus, cut open a layer of wood bark, and used the plastic bag of food in the backpack to take away the whole small wood chips, this rotten tree can grow wild fungus, and there is a mother seed of fungus on it, put it in the culture medium, maybe you can cultivate mycelium, and if you have enough mycelium, you can cultivate the fungus independently.
The island is barren and everything is worth trying, so I cut off some of the decaying parts of the tree that grew over the fungus and smashed them into the grocery bag to find the mother seed as much as possible.
After finishing this, Bai Lu and I went back to the old house, Yun Wen quickly stepped forward to greet us, and Yingchun was too lazy to come.
I asked Yun Wen if she remembered the broken tree, and she vaguely remembered it, so we discussed finding the broken tree together tomorrow.
In the evening, I sawed some tree trunks with a saw, and put all the sawdust that fell on the stones into the snakeskin bag I had made before, and there were exactly three bags to use as a culture medium, so I asked Yun Wen to take them and boil them in high-temperature water for sterilization and disinfection.
However, the temperature also needs to be kept at a constant temperature, so I arranged for Yingchun and Yunwen to work with me to make a small earthen house that can maintain the temperature.
Since fresh wild fungus is best left uneaten, tonight's meal is still a soup with some crab meat and some wild vegetable roots.
"Hey, I have a question I want to ask, seeing that winter is coming, should we think about the problem of wintering, the crab meat is gone, the dried fish will last for three days at most, and the rest of the days are dry and red dates, how to spend it? Have you thought about it? Song Yingchun chewed two mouthfuls of crab meat and said.
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, welcome spring, let's not be too anxious." Yun Wen said.
"Just your stupid white sweet fantasy every day, can you not be in a hurry? I would like to ask Zhou Bo this question, what do you want to do? Can just a fungus planting project be solved? Song Yingchun asked.
"First of all, if we can successfully plant fungus and complete the project of the constant temperature room, I can tell you that every month we will have a large number of fungus to eat, which greatly reduces the probability of us starving to death, and secondly, Yunwen is not a beautiful fantasy, things can only go step by step, although I don't have a specific winter plan now, but I can do the current thing first, it is an explanation." I said.
"Zhou Bo, although my sister asked recklessly, I think it is necessary to think about it in advance, the wheat is too far away, and the mass production of fungus is not enough to survive the difficult period, this is a problem." Bai Lu said.
Bai Lu said this, and I could only say: "Okay, I know, wintering is a big deal, I can't think about it, give me some time." ”
Such an answer seems to give the Song sisters a little peace of mind, the food problem was originally very strict for us, but now that the cold winter is approaching, everyone's anxiety is normal.
And just like that, we finished our last meal of crab meat, full of worries.
In the evening, I let myself keep the first shift, Yunwen kept the second shift, and the sisters assigned the remaining two shifts by themselves (anyway, after I arranged it, it was also yang and yin), and then let them rest.
The temperature has indeed dropped sharply recently, even if I put on my coat and sit by the campfire, I also feel the cool breeze through the bones, shivering all over my body, I don't know how much colder than the previous two days, here about two hundred steps on the right, is the cliff, under the cliff is the vast sea, so the sea breeze blows frequently, and relatively unsheltered, blowing straight ahead.
Just as I was lamenting the chilling and desperate arrival of winter, Yun Wen walked out of the house.
"Why didn't you sleep? Won't they let you sleep? I asked.
She shook her head, pulled my coat open with her hand, slipped in, and wrapped herself in it with me, the temperature of the two of them making the cold wind a lot less affected.
"No, don't think about it, they've been very nice to me lately, I'm just afraid you'll be too cold to be alone." Yun Wen said.
Her body was relatively preserved because she was squeezed together with the other two girls, and she really warmed me up a lot with her soft skin, and it also made me blush and beat a lot.
"Thank you." I said.
"It's okay, it's nothing compared to what you've done to me. By the way, Zhou Bo, can I help you a little? There's no reason to leave everything to your own, and I hope I can do my part about this winter. Yun Wen said.
"Of course I feel good if you think so, but I don't really have anything you can do to help." I said.
"Now it takes a month to cultivate the fungus, and the food can only be provided for three days, and the twenty-seven days during this period are food gaps, and you are worried about this matter, right? I think I can help you with some. Yun Wen said.
"Is there any way to do it?" I asked.
"Do you remember that map? I've kept it, and there are a lot of areas marked on the ground, and when I have time during the day, I'll take you for a walk, and maybe you'll be able to find some food to fill the gap. Yun Wen said.
"Winter is coming, it's the same everywhere, and if it's easy to run into that Bigfoot monster on the mountain, we're in danger of being injured at that time." I said.
"That's because you know too little about this island, so you think so, I've memorized the map, I might be more objective, this island is far more intricate than you think, but these complexities may lead us out of the predicament and survive the winter crisis." Yun Wen said.
"So mysterious?" I said half-jokingly.
"Not at all, first of all, I can tell you that there is a shortcut to another area without encountering Bigfoot, and the resources on that side may be more abundant and the food is more complete...," Yun Wen said.