The difficulty is, how can you cultivate mycelium?

Wei Lan wrinkled his eyebrows and took a deep breath, before he could think deeply, his wrist was grabbed from behind, and then the whole person fell into a wide and warm one.

"Huh?"

"There's no hurry to grow mushrooms, now I'm busy with another thing?"

Wei Lan's eyes couldn't hide her confusion, "What's the matter?" ”

Gu Chao put the envelope in the palm of her hand and put it away, "I remember that there is still an army green coarse cloth left at home?" ”

Gu Chao's idea was very simple, he wanted a big bag that could hold things and was easy to carry, and a small bag that could hold photos.

Wei Lan's first thought was about his shoulders and wallet.

The photos in the envelope Gu Grandma and Gu Chao have seen them successively, and Wei Lan has just gotten his hands on them, so he has a chance to see them now.

In the photo, her eyebrows are picturesque, Gu Chao is tall and straight, with a handsome face with deep contours and sharp edges, and a military double-breasted uniform wearing a majestic and martial arts, which is more and more eye-catching.

Wei Lan's slender fingers stroked it nostalgically, "I know, I'll study it when I come back from the big cafeteria at noon." ”

"You can make a small bag first, and the big bag is not in a hurry to use, so there is no need to worry." Gu Chaojian's eyebrows stretched, pinched her hand and rubbed it, "Don't be too tired, huh?" ”

"Got it!" Wei Lanying's white face bulged, her smile was like a flower, she walked towards the front yard with Gu Chao, and then pulled back to the topic just now, "What do you think of the idea of that mushroom?" The mushroom growth period is short, if it is successful, don't say that you will go to the mountains to pick up mushrooms in the future, you will definitely be able to eat it for the brigade, and you can also make a side business! ”

"You can try." Gu Chao bowed, "If you need anything, tell me, I'll do it." ”

"Good!"

*

Time flies, the first year of the sunflower project, the first batch of seeds planted on the day, ushered in a timely spring rain, the members gathered in the field to raise their hands and cheer.

At the same time, Gu Chao put his bags on his back, took advantage of the fact that the sky was not completely dark, lightly dropped a kiss on Wei Lan's forehead, and waved his hand to embark on the second journey to Haishi.

At a glance, the ridge path is curved and slender, and the afterglow of the setting sun blurs his background and elongates his shadow.

Wei Lan propped up the courtyard door and stood on tiptoe for a long time, until night fell, Gu Chao's back disappeared completely, and she lost her sight and tied the courtyard door into the house.

The old lady in the kitchen was busy back and forth, and the little girl with red rope pigtails sat at the mouth of the stove to light the fire, and the fire in the stove reflected her little face.

Seeing this scene, Wei Lan's heart warmed, and the loss dissipated, she pursed her lips and hooked a shallow and gentle smile on her face, and walked over quickly, "Grandma, I'll come!" There is porridge in the rice, I fry a plate of grandma's pickled side dishes, and eat it with porridge for a while! ”

"Other families are worried about making a meal of rice and eating a full stomach, just you girl, just thinking about rice soup and cooking porridge, and not knowing the ...... of dry food and bitter grass" Grandma Gu scolded with a smile on her face, and while Wei Lan was busy, she bowed neatly and brought out a pitch-black jar from under the cupboard.

Dust had accumulated on the jar, and the radish tassels had been pickled for some time.

Grandma Gu opened the jar, took out enough to fry a plate, and then covered the jar and put it back under the cupboard.

Pinch a little from the plate and put it in her mouth, the taste is a little too salty, Grandma Gu took the water again, drained the water and cut it into small cubes and put it on the cutting board, ready for Wei Lan to use for a while.

*

……

Before Gu Chao left, Wei Lan finished making a bag for him, and after finishing the work in the big canteen at noon every day, he devoted himself to cultivating mushrooms.

Some things have been thinking about without a clue, but fortunately, there is a Ji technician in the team who is proficient in agriculture.

Although Ji Huaiyuan has not practiced mushrooms, after some comprehensive theoretical knowledge, Ji Huaiyuan still gave a lot of useful suggestions.

For example, in the artificial culture of mycological bacteria, it is necessary to have an environment where no other strains exist.

"How do you achieve a sterile environment?" Wei Lan sat on the threshold of the big cafeteria, the bamboo strip in his hand was scratched on the ground, and he muttered unconsciously in his heart.

Peating, sowing, twenty acres of land before and after a busy week, this week, Gu Chao used the bamboo basket that had been braided to catch about seven or eight catties of yellow eels.

Wei Lan asked Grandma Gu for help in the morning to fill the bucket with more than a dozen yellow eels, about three catties of yellow eels, and after arriving at the big canteen, she asked Fan Xiao and Li Jiandang to help slaughter them.

Wei Lan planned to do what he did last time at noon, and at this time, Li Sangsang and Jiang Lihua were scalding the yellow eels that had been killed in the basin with hot water.

Seeing that the bloody and reddish yellow eel meat was scalded white by the hot water, Li Sangsang glanced at Wei Lan several times, and finally couldn't help but open his mouth, "Wei Lan, what are you muttering?" What exactly is sterility? ”

Suddenly being named, Wei Lan was stunned for a moment, then looked at Li Sangsang and thought for a while before explaining, "Hmm...... Sterility means the absence of bacteria. I'd like to try it and see if we can grow our own mushrooms, and if we can, maybe add a ration to the team in the future. ”

Speaking of being able to add rations, Li Sangsang subconsciously felt that this attention was good, but she was shallow in reading, and Jiang Lihua might not understand things, so she didn't understand it.

"Mushroom...... Aren't the mushrooms on the outside just growing in the soil or on rotten wood? Li Sangsang blinked, "Or, let's come back with some rotten wood too?" ”

Wei Lan shook his head and smiled helplessly, "It's not all wood, you can see that there are some rotten wood on the firewood stack outside, and they don't grow mushrooms." ”

Li Sangsang nodded thoughtfully, feeling that it made some sense.

Jiang Lihua looked up at the two of them with a smile, poured out the water in the basin, and brought the corn starch and salt prepared in advance to Wei Lan, "Add all of this?" Mix well and marinate? ”

Wei Lan looked at the yellow eel in the basin closely, and pondered for a moment before saying, "You can pour all the cornstarch into it, and the salt should be less, and I'll pick up some garlic." ”

Wei Lan went into the house to get garlic, and Li Sangsang followed behind like a little tail, "It's not that if there is wood, mushrooms can grow, so what if there is no environment without that kind of fungus?" Can it? ”

When it comes to rations, Li Sangsang sees it as particularly important.

"Hmm......" Wei Lan sighed, and only after thinking seriously did he speak: "That should be okay, cultivate mycelium in a sterile environment, and then find a dim and damp place to put it, and it should be okay to spray some water from time to time." ”

This is the case with the very cheap mushroom packs sold on the Internet stores in later generations.

Well...... Bacterial Pack......

Thinking of the fungus bag, there were still many thoughts flashing in his mind, and just when Wei Lan thought he had grabbed one of them, Li Sangsang suddenly said: "I don't understand what you said about sterility or anything, but I remember that when I was very young, there was a problem in a nearby place, and it seemed to be talking about preventing some virus infection, and burning those dead people's clothes or something with fire......

When it came to speaking, Li Sangsang's loud voice suddenly lowered, and he frowned and said with uncertainty on his face: "But the burn will be gone, let's burn this wood, burn it...... Isn't the fire even stronger? Burn cleaner? ”

Wei Lan pulled the bamboo sieve to find the garlic, Li Sangsang knew that he had said something stupid, and shrunk his neck and stepped back, "That, that, I just said nonsense, Wei Lan, you just have to go in and out of your right ear......"

Li Sangsang was afraid that Wei Lan would scold her for being stupid, but before she finished a sentence, Wei Lan turned around suddenly, grabbed her arm with both hands, and pulled her to jump up excitedly.

Wei Lan's peach blossom eyes were round and shining, and her cheeks were pink with excitement, "Ahhhh Sang Zao'er, you are amazing!! High temperature! It's hot! ”

Li Sangsang's eyes widened, stunned, "Huh? Yes? What, what? ”

Did she help in any way?

But what did she help?

High temperature can kill bacteria, fire is definitely not possible, then, the existing conditions can only be through high temperature cooking!

To solve the problem of bacteria, the plan to plant mushrooms is like opening up the second vein of Ren Du, Wei Lan said to do it, and it was too late to explain to Li Sangsang, she rolled up her sleeves and ran to the door of the kitchen stove.

"Don't burn this one, save some for me!" Wei Lan picked up the basket of sawdust with both hands, turned his head left and right to look, pulled a sieve nearby, and filled the sawdust into the sieve.

Sawdust is the product of sawn wood and firewood, and it is not boiled, but it is a good thing to preserve Mars, and the brown rice should be simmered for a while, and the big canteen that the captain considered might be used, so he asked people to collect and send it.

The sawdust was mixed with a lot of tiny wood chips and firewood, and some of Wei Lan's palms and fingers were painful at both ends, but she was now full of this matter and didn't feel it at all.

It wasn't until the sawdust in the sieve was spiky and there was time to sit down that Wei Lan realized a little rustling pain.

The index finger was black and dirty, and Wei Lan wiped it on his shirt at will, and his slender eyebrows raised excitedly, "That's all, leave it to me!" ”

"What do you want to do here? Can you grow mushrooms? ”

Li Sangsang frowned and squatted down to look.

I can't think of any help or effect that these dusty wood chips can provide for growing mushrooms.

"I don't know if I can grow mushrooms, but ...... I think there is hope for 30% of the current situation. ”

"The basin is a bit heavy, you guys come here and help!"

Jiang Lihua's voice came from outside the door, and the two of them quickly went out to help.

Wei Lan's heart is all about mushrooms, and there have been several mistakes in cooking, just talking about cutting the green onion and ginger foam of pickled yellow eel, and twice almost cut his fingers.

Li Sangsang couldn't stand it anymore, and pushed her aside, "Oh, you go and get busy with big things!" I'll do this, and when you fry it later, you can tell me how to fry it. ”

"It's not a big deal, it's not a big deal!" Wei Lan was embarrassed.

"It's just a little bit of a thing, we're busy." Jiang Lihua, who was washing rice, turned her head and winked playfully, "I think no one should want to eat fingers, at least I don't want to." ”

In addition to the large canteen for people who work on the 20 acres of land where sunflower seeds are planted, technicians such as Zusun and Jiang Lihua also eat here.

Jiang Lihua's tone of half persuasion and half ridicule made Li Sangsang laugh more than once, "Poofhahaha, eat your fingers hahaha, Sister Lihua, how did you think of that?" ”

Jiang Lihua glanced at Li Sangsang, "What do you want to get, what am I saying not the truth?" ”

Wei Lan was blushed by the two of them, so she had to retreat to the side and plan carefully.

The kind of mushroom bags sold in later generations are wrapped in plastic film, and the mycelium inside is basically fully developed, and mushrooms can grow just by waiting for people to draw openings on the massage and spray water droplets from time to time to keep them moist.

Wei Lan is starting from scratch, high temperature can solve the problem of bacteria, provide an environment for the development of mycelium, and the wood chips can be used as fungus packs.

Suddenly thinking that there seems to be no way to find the sturdy plastic massage in the later generations, Wei Lan pinched the stone and wrote and drew on the ground unconsciously, so what should I do?

Strong......

Tightness......

"There it is!" Wei Lan's eyes lit up and he had an idea, and wrote three words on the ground as "temporary notes".

Perhaps, canned bottles can be replaced.

Not only can you cultivate mycelium, but it is also good to transform it into a "trial fungus pack" in the future.

Just do it, and in the next few days, Wei Lan will implement the plan to the end.

In order to sterilize the sawdust at high temperature, a cloth pocket was specially sewn to contain the sawdust, and it was compacted before throwing it into the pot to cook.

The same goes for cans and bottles, wash them and put them in a pot to cook, then carefully take them out and put them in a quiet place to let them cool.

In fact, this will still breed new bacteria, but this is already a relatively complete and practical method at present, Wei Lan plans to try it first, see the situation and then slowly improve the plan.

There are ready-made mushrooms in the big canteen, which have been picked one after another in the past few days.

In this weather, it is the season to pick mushrooms in the mountains, and many women will also pick them up when they have time, but they still have to do farm work in the end, so Wei Lan and them took the opportunity and picked a lot of them back.

Even if the amount is not large, it cannot be eaten all at once, let alone in the case of a large amount, it is even more impossible.

There are about two or three types of mushrooms, including large and sturdy oyster mushrooms, thumb-sized straw mushrooms, and egg-sized shiitake mushrooms.

The spores are dusty, and it is difficult to see them with the naked eye, let alone collect them, and Wei Lan is a layman, so he can only operate by perception and feeling.

Picking out a cluster of oyster mushrooms that looked older, Wei Lan steamed and killed bamboo skewers and gently scraped them on the umbrella surface of the top of the oyster mushroom, and finally broke off the bamboo skewer that scraped the umbrella surface and put it into the canned bottle, covering the surface with the same sterilized wood chips.

The same method is implemented on the shiitake mushrooms, the straw mushrooms are too common, Wei Lan thought about it, and only two empty cans were left, so he simply gave up.

In order to prevent the bamboo skewers from collecting spores unsuccessfully, in the second test sample, Wei Lan's method was more simple and rude, directly taking a part of the surface of the mushroom and putting it into a canned bottle, covering the surface with sawdust, and then tightly closing the lid and putting it under the writing table in the room.

Taking the spores is only the first step, whether you can grow mushrooms, and whether you can grow mycelium in these bottles after a week.

Wei Lan put the bottle away, and suddenly felt that this was a bit sloppy.

He took out the notebook from the drawer, tore out a page, folded it in half and divided it into four small slips of paper, and wrote down the time and bamboo skewers and mushroom parts respectively.

After that, Wei Lan divided four pages into the notebook, and wrote down the numbers of the four cans and bottles on a note under each page as a record.

I've been busy with engagement in the past two days, I'm in a hurry, and the update is slow, I hope the friends who are still watching don't mind! ～

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