Xu Shi'an drove and pulled Xu Chenghou and Xu Haibo, Xu Haitao, Xu Haiyuan, and Xu Jinping.

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

The so-called Kaifeng fork road is a road that forks out to the east halfway from the Songjiang River to Quanyang.

This road belongs to the firewood transportation road of the Forestry Bureau, and this road will also split the road when it goes inside.

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

The Xu family's ginseng land is in the north of the road that has just passed the fork in the road for more than ten miles, and it is not far to go inside, and there used to be a few ditches and ponds.

The year before last, Xu Shiyan bought this piece of land with a small area, 3,000 zhang.

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

The ginseng area is small, Xu Shiyan didn't bother to think about it, just someone said that he wanted to package the ginseng, so he directly contracted it to others.

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

When I got here, I entered the field with a familiar car and led the child straight to my own ginseng field.

"In this way, second brother, you lead Xiao Tao, and you two go to pinch your family's ten zhang.

Xiaobo and Yuanyuan are in a group, I am with Pingping, and we are pinching this one.

Let's get to work, this little thing won't be done in a day. ”

As soon as he arrived at the pool skewers in his own ginseng land, Xu Chenghou hurriedly arranged the work.

"Yes, then do as my father tells me.

That, Dad, don't worry, do it slowly, Xiao Tao and I can finish pinching the ginseng seeds very quickly, and I will come over for you when the time comes. ”

Xu Shi'an nodded, and instructed the old man again.

Pinching ginseng seeds, generally in pairs, kneel face to face on the top of the pool.

Reach out and pinch off the tender stalks underneath the red ginseng fruit, and then put the ginseng fruit in the basket.

Some ginseng grows shorter, and you have to use your hands to remove the ginseng leaves so as not to miss them.

Speaking of this work, it is not tiring, but it is mainly because you have to hunch your body and work under the canopy, which is tiring your waist.

Children can be better, short, small and dexterous.

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

That's why Xu Shi'an specially instructed his father, for fear that his father would be reckless and tired.

"Alright, let's get to work.

Yuanyuan, Pingping, you two have no strength in your little hands, if you can't pinch it, just use scissors.

Didn't your grandmother bring scissors for you two when you went out in the morning? ”

For adults, it is the fastest to pinch directly.

But for children, people are small and have no strength, and their little hands are tender, so if they pinch them with their hands, even if they can be pinched, it is estimated that if they don't pinch a few, they will have a headache for their tired fingers.

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

It's better to work hard than a child's hand to hurt.

"Hey, got it, grandpa."

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

Under the ginseng shed, there are ginseng seedlings more than one foot high, on the top of the blue-purple main stem, five palm-shaped compound leaves are born, and on the top, it is a red and bright ginseng fruit.

The Xu family's mallet is very careful, and the base fertilizer used when planting ginseng is chased with soybean cake water this spring, and foliar fertilizer is sprayed in summer.

Therefore, the leaves of this ginseng grow very well, and the green ones are black.

The flowers of ginseng seeds are also big, and they are almost the same as Xu Jinping's fist.

The red and bright ginseng fruits, full and round and shiny, look particularly rare.

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

When the basket was full, he carried it to the head of the pool and poured it into the woven bag.

The pool is wide, and one person can't reach it all, so you have to work in a group of two people face to face.

Xu Jinping's little arms are short, and he definitely can't reach the middle, so Xu Chenghou stretched out his hand inside.

The grandparents and grandchildren cooperated well, although they couldn't work as fast as Xu Shi'an, anyway, after a while, they could carry a basket of ginseng fruits and pour them into a woven bag.

When you're tired, take a break and then pick up again.

By noon, Xu Chenghou and Xu Jinping had done most of their work.

The weather was hot, and everyone didn't go to see the ginseng house at noon, just on the ground, took out the dry food and water they brought, and nibbled on it casually.

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

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

Xu Shi'an and his youngest son finished pinching their ginseng seeds in the morning, and helped Xu Chenghou and them in the afternoon, so the work was finished before three o'clock.

So he drove the car and pulled the ginseng seeds, went down the mountain directly, sent Xu Chenghou's three grandchildren home, and then drove back to the farm.

When Xu Chenghou's grandfather and grandson returned home, it was still early, so they hurriedly poured the ginseng fruit out of the woven bag and took the red ginseng fruit off the flower receptacle one by one.

The red is easy to fall off when touched, and occasionally there are half-green and immature flowers, so they are picked off one by one, in fact, most of them are deflated.

Pick off the small red kidney-shaped fruits one by one, and you also need to crush the thin peel on the outside and wash it with water.

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

After stepping on it for a while, I saw some reddish-brown juice flowing from under the woven bag, that is, the juice that flowed out of the flesh that had been trampled up.

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

Of course, the average ginseng farmer doesn't care much, they are all like Xu Chenghou, and they directly step on it and flow it into the ditch.

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

Wait until the juice that comes out of it is getting less and less, pour some water into it, tie your pockets tightly and step on it for a while, then pour it into a large basin and rinse it with clean water.

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

In this way, scrub and rinse again, and finally leave the snow-white ginseng seeds, take them out, pour them on a fork that has been laid with gauze, and drain the water.

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

Therefore, when the sun is poisonous during the day, it should be placed in a cool place, and it should be brought out in the morning and evening when the sun is not so strong.

If it is not dried in time, the seed kernels will be powdered.

If it is exposed to the sun, it is easy to roast and will not sprout, so this thing is particularly delicate.

Dried ginseng seeds, if the ginseng seeds are directly sent that year, this is called water seeds.

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

If you keep it properly for a year, the ginseng seeds will be sent out in the summer of the next year, which is called dry seeds.

The germination rate of dry seeds is high, and the seedling retention rate is also high, which is much better than that of water seeds.

Xu Shiyan did not lack ginseng seeds, so he naturally refused to send water seeds.

After the ginseng seeds are dried, they can be put away, and they will be dried next summer, and they will be sown in the fall.

(End of chapter)