Chapter 261: Raising Earthworms and Growing Mushrooms
The eldest sister's temperament really gave Han Mingxiu a headache, and they all said that "poor people must have something to hate", this sentence is really true, as soon as she saw her bad and kind appearance, Han Mingxiu was so angry that she didn't want to care about her.
However, I can't give up this heart.
Although the eldest sister has a weak personality and is very good-natured, she is really good to her, loves her, and cares about her like a mother.
From childhood to adulthood, the eldest sister has always taken care of her and cared for her like her own child. In the more than a year since she came back to live, the eldest sister basically didn't let her wash her own clothes, and always took her clothes off as soon as she took them off. In winter, I helped her burn the kang every night, and then brought the hot water for washing her feet to her house......
Thinking about her care and care for herself, she couldn't bear to ignore her, so she had to try her best to hone her temperament and make her less cowardly and bottomless......
Without Han Mingxiu's help, Han Zhide's house was also built, as for whether he borrowed the money to build the house or saved it secretly, Han Mingxiu does not know.
After building the house, Han Zhide also invited a guest to invite all the people of Tunzi to their house for dinner to celebrate the happy event of their family building a new house.
Of course, this meal is not for free, it has to be courtesy.
Although Han Zhide's popularity in Sun Aotun is not good, but after all, he is a Tunzi person, and he has been with everyone for so many years, and he has not had anything to do for so many years, so as soon as he set out the wine, almost all the people in Tunzi carried two catties of rice, and I brought two catties of white flour to the ceremony.
Han Mingxiu was not invited, Han Zhide probably deliberately wanted to knock her, and the whole Tunzi was invited, so they didn't invite the two sisters.
But Han Mingxiu didn't care at all, he didn't invite himself, even if he invited her, he didn't bring it, at this moment, she was busy planting mushrooms.
In mid-June, the weather in the north is getting warmer. Along the river, in the corners of the walls, and in the depths of the woods, you can also find traces of earthworms.
Sun Aotun's people went out to dig earthworms everywhere, and when the earthworms in Bentunzi were dug up, they went to other tunzi or mountains to dig. The production team asked the villagers to pay three catties of earthworms per household, and there are now a total of 72 households in Tunli, with a total of more than 200 catties of earthworms.
After the earthworms were handed over, as the keeper of the earthworm breeding base in the village, Han Mingxiu was responsible for handling the earthworms.
Other families followed her example and began to raise earthworms in the plot they had been assigned to.
However, there are also some people who are afraid that the earthworms will be lost, so they move the earthworms to their own homes to breed. Basically, they are raised according to what Han Mingxiu said, using humus soil and cow dung to raise, and if you can't get cow dung, you can use pig dung instead, and you can also put some rotten vegetable leaves, rotten grain bran or something in it to increase nutrition for earthworms.
In addition to raising earthworms, Han Mingxiu cut off the mushroom roots of the mushrooms he picked last summer and sprinkled them in the cow dung and humus soil, waiting for the mushrooms to grow.
She had never raised mushrooms and didn't know how they were raised. I just remember that when I used to eat mushrooms, I poured the removed mushroom roots into the dung pit outside with dirty water or something, and the mushroom roots grew mushrooms on their own in the dung pit.
(The so-called manure pit is a big pit dug by the general rural people next to the pigsty, and the pig manure, chicken manure, duck manure, all kinds of raw poultry manure and the straw ash of cooking and burning kang every day are thrown into the pit to ferment, and then the fermented manure is pulled into the ground as fertilizer in the spring, and the domestic garbage at home is generally poured into the pit, and then it will rot and ferment with the manure to become the best farm fertilizer...... )
In the past, because there was a lot of pig manure in the manure pit at home, she was dirty, and she didn't eat the mushrooms, so she picked them off and fed them to the pigs.
But the dung in the grove is all cow dung, and the cow dung is relatively clean, because the cow only eats grass and grain, unlike pigs, which are omnivores, eat everything, and the pulled out is also more smelly, dirty, and disgusting to look at.
Cow dung has no smell, and there is not even any peculiar smell, and the people in some areas of our country still use dry cow dung as firewood for cooking!
Moreover, there is not all cow dung in the grove, only about 1/4 of the cow dung, and the rest is humus, so she will not dislike the mushrooms she grows, and she will not feel sorry for selling them to others.
When Han Zhide was treated, Han Mingxiu was still concentrating on raising her earthworms and growing her mushrooms at the same time, how could he have the kung fu to be angry with him?
It was also God who perfected people, and the day Han Mingxiu sprinkled the mushroom roots into the grove, it began to rain.
At first, it was a light rain, and then it was a heavy rain, and the heavy rain kept falling, but the people in Tunli were happy, and with this rain, not only the crops borrowed, but even the earthworms they raised also borrowed.
You know, if it doesn't rain for a few days, they will have to carry water to water the earthworms, which will save a lot of trouble.
Han Mingxiu was even happier, because not only the earthworms borrowed their strength, but those mushrooms would definitely be able to emit a lot with this rain, isn't there a song that sings like this - 'After the rain, the mushrooms are spread all over the ground, fragrant and tender and chubby'?
After the rain stopped, Han Mingxiu put on his boots and trotted to the grove. Sure enough, I saw mushrooms on the ground of the grove one after another. On the humus soil, in the cow dung heap, in the grass...... As far as the eye can see, they are all small mushrooms that have just been drilled out of the ground.
"Haha, it worked, oh yes-"
Han Mingxiu looked at this large piece of mushrooms, as if he had seen a lot of rubles, clenched his fists happily, and almost jumped up.
Mushrooms grow very quickly, and in about a week, they can be picked.
Han Mingxiu happily collected all these mushrooms into the space. The growth cycle of mushrooms is very fast, as long as the rain is sufficient, you can harvest a stubble in seven or eight days, so that when the autumn harvest is in October, you can receive about 100,000 catties of mushrooms.
Hey, 100,000 catties, if you get Su Guo, you can exchange a lot of money......
Han Mei pondered beautifully, and began to fantasize about what good things she was going to exchange for those 100,000 catties of mushrooms......
Because he took over the work of raising earthworms, Han Mingxiu became very leisurely, basically staying in the grove for about an hour every morning and going for about an hour in the afternoon. During these two hours, she spent most of her time picking mushrooms, observing that kind of mushrooms grow fast, and which kind of mushrooms are easy to serve.
While observing, I accumulated experience in mushroom farming!
If it doesn't rain for a long time, she secretly waters the grove. Make sure she's got the humidity she needs for her mushrooms and earthworms. Under her careful cultivation, not only are the mushrooms harvested one after another, but the earthworms are also successfully farmed. When she uses a small pickaxe to stealthily lift rotten leaves or cow dung, she will see swarms of earthworms rolling.
As for the work of collecting earthworms, soaking earthworms, chopping earthworms, and drying earthworms, all of them are done by small locks.
When the earthworms are dug up, they cannot feed the animals directly, but must be soaked in water for a day until the earthworms vomit all the mud out of their stomachs.
After soaking, you can't feed the livestock directly, you have to boil the earthworm in a large pot first, completely kill the bacteria and parasites on the earthworm, and then chop it and mix it into the feed after cooking, then you can feed the pig fire to feed other livestock.
If there are too many earthworms, you can also dry the excess in the sun and put it in a bag to feed the animals later.
Han Mingxiu's work was almost all undertaken by Xiaosu.
Xiao Suo is already twelve years old, because he eats at Han Mingxiu's house every day, the food has come up, and the nutrition has also kept up, and he has grown much taller and stronger than before. It's not a hard job at all.
With his help, Han Mingxiu has a lot of free time that can be used for other things.
As before, she went to Grandma Huo's every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to bring some delicious food to Grandma Huo, help her do some work, and talk to her.
Now that all the production teams have started, Aunt Huo earns work in the production team every day, and she is not usually at home, so Han Mingxiu doesn't have to worry about seeing Aunt Huo when she goes to Grandma Huo's house, so she can bring delicious food to Grandma Huo as she likes, and talk and chat with her......
In addition, she still goes to the county seat every Sunday to send vegetables and food to Uncle Gao and Uncle Zhou, and takes good care of those people, everyone is very grateful to her, and Uncle Zhou and Uncle Gao treat her as their daughter!