The dust settled for the time being, but the weather was still hot, the sky was clear, the white clouds were light, and there was no sign of rain.

The faces of the villagers are still full of sadness, because they know that if it doesn't rain again, the output will definitely be reduced this year.

Nationwide, there is no shortage of food, and as long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy rice and vegetables.

But for the people of the village, money is precious. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng had just returned from the county, and the person who had hired him to cut down trees came to the door and asked Gao Mingcheng if he could continue to cut trees.

They are desperate to make money.

Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed and let them start working.

The 300-acre mountain is not huge, but it takes a lot of effort to tidy it up.

Cutting down trees is only the first step, and the next step is to dig up the roots of the trees in the soil, otherwise you will not be able to plant fruit trees.

After these roots are dried, they can also be used to make fires, and one root can burn for a long time, which is a favorite fuel for many people.

In addition to the workers who were cutting down trees, other villagers also came up to ask Gao Mingcheng if he could collect medicinal herbs.

Different medicinal herbs, the harvest time is different, it is now the end of August, the mountain cocos and Ganoderma lucidum can be harvested, as for the yellow gardenia and the white flower snake tongue grass, this has to wait.

Both herbs can only be harvested from September to October, after which the herbs only need to be removed from impurities and soil, and then dried. Yellow gardenias, on the other hand, are more troublesome and need to be steamed and then dried in the sun.

Gao Mingcheng let the words out, saying that he could collect them, so that everyone could just go into the mountains to collect medicine, and even inform relatives and friends that he could collect the goods from several nearby villages.

This year, you don't have to carry medicinal herbs to squeeze the train, there is a truck on Xiao Jinfeng's side, so naturally the more goods, the better.

If Gao Mingcheng is obtained, the women and children in the village will be busy first, as for the men, some men are cutting trees for Gao Mingcheng, and some men are doing their own work in the field.

In fact, women do this kind of thing better, they are more careful and tenacious.

Gao Mingcheng also went into the mountains to collect medicines, and like last year, he went straight to the mountains to collect medicines, and as for the medicinal materials at the foot of the mountain, he gave the profits to the villagers.

He took his digging tools and went with two more bags, one for Ganoderma lucidum and one for Poria cocos.

When the body of Ganoderma lucidum no longer enlarges, the color changes from light yellow to reddish-brown, the cap and the stipe are the same color, from soft to hard, and spore powder is ejected, it indicates that the body is ripe and ready to be harvested.

Ganoderma lucidum is also a kind of fungus, there is no root system, you can break it off with your hands, which is what Gao Mingcheng did last year.

But then at the medicine fair, he made friends with some people with his three-inch incorruptible tongue, and learned from their mouths that when harvesting Ganoderma lucidum, it was necessary to use a quick knife to cut off Ganoderma lucidum from the base of the Ganoderma lucidum stalk!

Because in doing so, the stalk can be left 0.5 cm to 1 cm, allowing the incision to heal slowly, and then form a cap primordium, which will then grow into a new fruiting body, which can be harvested continuously for 2-3 years, depending on the volume of wood grown.

After learning this, Gao Mingcheng had a kind of regret that he was wrong!

This year, he brought a knife, and a pair of eyes scanned the forest, and soon found the place where the Ganoderma lucidum grows, as long as it is a mature Ganoderma lucidum, then he will directly cut it off.

Ganoderma lucidum is an annual species, and it is not beneficial to leave it too long, because it will eventually lignify and lose its medicinal properties.

He often walks around the mountains and has deliberately looked for the growth points of Ganoderma lucidum and Poria cocos, so now he only needs to go to the places he remembered before to make a profit.

At this time, the Ganoderma lucidum is basically ripe, but Poria cocos is not necessarily.

First of all, the Poria cocos he planted must not be ripe yet, he planted it in May, and it generally takes about ten months to grow, so this batch of Poria cocos can be dug in the spring of next year.

As for the wild poria cocos, it is necessary to observe whether it is ripe, when the skin of the poria cocos is yellow-brown, it can be harvested, if the skin is yellowish-white, it is not ripe, and if it is black, it means that it is overripe.

Harvesting wild poria is a bit more complicated because they are better hidden.

At this time, it is necessary to observe the growth of pine trees and the ground around the stump in the pine forest, find the growth point of Poria cocos, and use an iron cone-shaped probe to search for and excavate.

Insert an iron cone detector into the ground, detect the lump at a depth of 10-20 cm, and see white Poria powder when pulling it out, you can dig and harvest.

As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. After Gao Mingcheng learned this method, he asked a blacksmith to make an iron awl tool, which was quite easy to use at this time.

He brought a special small hoe, which can also be called a medicine hoe, which is easy to carry and dig, and with this small hoe, he quickly dug out a few Poria cocos, which looked like a black pimple.

This is fresh Poria cocos, and then it has to go through a series of processing and processing to make a block of dried Poria cocos, which is the finished product.

Wild Poria cocos is smaller, the flesh is firm, and the artificially planted will be larger, the flesh is not so firm, in the market, the price of wild Poria cocos is higher than that of artificially planted Poria cocos.

Gao Mingcheng walked all the way, digging all the way, and it didn't take long for the bag containing Poria cocos to be filled first, while the bag containing Ganoderma lucidum was only half a bag, which looked light and fluttering.

Well, it looks like he'll have to bring a few more bags next time, he can afford it anyway!

After running all the way down the mountain, after returning home, first pour the lingzhi into a bamboo sieve to dry, this is easy to handle, after removing the rotten wood and soil, you can dry it.

Poria cocos is much more complicated, it has two ways to concoct, one is raw and the other is cooked.

Before drying, the Poria cocos needs to be washed, and then stacked in an indoor sheltered place, covered tightly with straw or sack, so that it sweats, precipitates water, and then spreads out to dry and then repeatedly stacks the cover, until the epidermis shrinks and browns, peel off the black skin with a knife, choose a sunny day, cut the Poria cocos into small pieces, and spread the white pieces and red pieces cut out on the bamboo sieve to dry.

Cooked and dried is to cut the skin of fresh poria cocos, put it on the steamer, steam it through water, and then use a knife to slice it first, then cut it into strips, and finally cut it into cubes, and then dry it in the sun.

These two methods, the general drying rate is about 50%, that is, a pound of fresh products, can obtain half a pound of dry products, the quality of the product is to dry the foot, remove the skin, into a square block, uniform thickness, white for high quality.

But when cutting, there are always some corners that are not formed, in order to sell at a high price, this part is best to be dried separately, and when the time comes, you can sell it at a lower price, or you can keep it for your own use.

Poria cocos is a peaceful medicinal material, it is the kind that can be eaten every day, it has the effect of diluting water and dampness, strengthening the spleen and soothing the nerves, and is suitable for most people to take.

Rather than selling it at a lower price, Gao Mingcheng prefers to keep it for his own use.

As for the treatment of Poria cocos, Gao Mingcheng chose to dry it raw.

Although it takes a long time to dry raw, it is actually more convenient if there is a large amount.

Because it has to be steamed first, but once the amount is large, then it has to be steamed every day, and the firewood is available in his house, but the fire on a hot day is not a friendly thing.

After disposing of the Poria cocos in the bag, he took a few more bags and entered the mountain again.

Relying on his strong physical fitness, he entered the mountains as if he was looking for things, as long as he was willing to spend time and energy, he could transport the treasures in the mountains little by little.

In the mountains, there are many masson pines and red pines, while Poria cocos and Ganoderma lucidum like to grow in this kind of forest.

In the next few days, in Gao Mingcheng's plan, he searched for mountains and forests one by one, and there was a rich harvest every day.

When he was busy in the mountains, many beauties contracted the work in the family's fields, and if someone came to sell the goods, she would also inspect and receive the goods.

After the villagers got busy, they saw the hope of making money, so even if the weather was dry, the grain production in the field would be reduced, and the sadness would gradually dissipate.

After the news of Gao Mingcheng's collection of medicinal materials spread, villagers from other villages also went into the mountains to collect medicines. Last year, the people in these villages were very envious of the people in Gaojia Village, and now it is their turn to sell medicine.

On this day, Gao Mingcheng came down from the mountain carrying two large bags of Poria cocos, and at a glance he saw several plastic bags stacked in the corner of the wall.

These are the herbs received these days.

Many beauties are turning the dried Ganoderma lucidum in front of the bamboo sieve, and this batch of Lingzhi has been dried so much that it can be packed in bags.

Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming back, she said: "Mingcheng, the skin of the first batch of Poria cocos has shrunken and browned, you go and see if it can be cut tomorrow." ”

Gao Mingcheng responded, came to the empty house, lifted the straw covering, and observed the Poria cocos below, which was indeed already wrinkled and brown.

Seeing that the room was full, Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but regret it, it seems that when he built the house, it was still small!

He's fenced off in the backyard, and there's still some space, and he's planning to build another room to come out.

Many families will raise pigs in the backyard and build a row of pigsties, but Gao Mingcheng did not plan to raise pigs, and the cattle pen was also on the other side of the kitchen, not repaired at the back.

I plan these things in my heart, but because of the lack of water, I plan to find time to build them after the spring of next year.

Building a house also requires a lot of water. He still has water in his well, but he can't abuse it.

Many beauties have never dealt with Poria cocos, so Gao Mingcheng plans to stay at home tomorrow and teach many beauties how to deal with them.

As for choosing a sunny day to cut pieces and dry them, there is no need to worry about this, recently it has been sunny every day, and if it can rain, then the people in the village will be happy.

"Tomorrow you can cut into pieces." Gao Mingcheng came out and said, and saw many beautiful people carrying a small bag of cassia seeds in their hands.

Cassia is a commonly used medicine, which has the functions of clearing the liver and eyes, and laxative. It is also an extremely vigorous species, and the seeds can still germinate after being soaked in boiling water. It is widely distributed in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and they naturally have it here.

However, their village is relatively small, so these cassia seeds are definitely not collected from the village.

Seeing Gao Mingcheng look over, Duo Mei said: "This cassia was sent by someone from Dongjia Village, and asked me if I would accept it, and I heard her say that the village edges, roadsides and wilderness of their village are full of this kind of thing. ”

Gao Mingcheng said: "This thing is easy to sell, next time she comes back, tell her that she will collect a lot!" In addition, you can pick some seeds with full kernels and keep them, and I plan to sprinkle them in the wasteland at the foot of the mountain next year, and plant a batch of them myself. ”

Cassia seeds are easy to sell and plant, and there are many open spaces in the mountains, which can be interspersed and planted in fruit forests.

When the fruit trees are seedlings, they are far away from each other, leaving a large open space, and it is completely possible to plant a small piece of cassia in the middle to increase income.

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