Chapter 261 Raising earthworms and growing mushrooms
The eldest sister's temperament really made Han Mingxiu's headache. People say, "Pity people must have something hateful." This sentence is indeed true. When Han Mingxiu saw her ungrateful and kind-hearted look, she was so angry that she didn't want to care about her.
However, I can't put this heart down.
Although the eldest sister has a weak personality and is kind-hearted, she is really good at treating her, and she loves her like her mother. She loves her, and cares about her.
From childhood to adulthood, my elder sister has been taking care of her and caring for her as if she was taking care of her children. In the past year since she came back to live, my elder sister has basically never let her wash her clothes. As soon as she took off her clothes, my elder sister would take them to help her wash. In winter, she would help her burn the kang hot every night, and then bring the hot foot wash water to her house...
Thinking about her concern and care for herself, she couldn't bear to ignore her, so she had to try every means to hone her personality, making her less cowardly and unstoppable...
Without Han Mingxiu's help, Han Zhide's house was also built. As for whether he borrowed the money for building the house or saved it secretly, Han Mingxiu didn't know.
After building the house, Han Zhide also invited guests to the whole village to have dinner at their house to celebrate their happy event when building a new house.
Of course, this meal is not for free, but a gift must be given.
Although Han Zhide is not very popular in Sun Aotun, he is all from the same village after all. He has been with everyone for so many years and has done nothing for his family for so many years. So when he drinks, almost all the people in the village carry two kilograms of rice, and I bring two kilograms of white flour to receive the gift.
Han Mingxiu was not invited, but Han Zhide probably deliberately wanted to kill her. He invited all the people in the village, but they did not invite the two sisters.
However, Han Mingxiu didn't care at all. He didn't invite him, and even if he invited her, she wouldn't take her. At this moment, she was busy growing mushrooms.
In mid-June, the weather in the north gradually became hotter. Traces of earthworms can also be found along the riverside, corners of the walls, and deep in the woods.
The people from Sun Aotun went out to dig earthworms everywhere. After digging all the earthworms in this village, they went to other villages or mountains to dig. The production team required the villagers to pay three kilograms of earthworms per household. There are now 72 households in the village, and a total of more than 200 kilograms of earthworms were paid.
After handing over the earthworms, Han Mingxiu was responsible for handling these earthworms as a breeder at the village earthworm breeding base. She evenly scattered the earthworms in the grove at the west end of the Tun, covered them with cow dung and leaf-decay soil, and officially started the breeding business.
Others also began to raise earthworms in the field they divided into, as she looked like her.
However, there are also some people who are afraid that the earthworms will be lost and move them to their own gardens to raise them. They are basically raised as Han Mingxiu said, and they are raised with leaf rotten soil and cow manure. If they cannot get cow manure, they will use pig manure instead. They can also put some rotten vegetable leaves, rotten grain bran and other things in it to increase nutrition to the earthworms.
In addition to raising earthworms, Han Mingxiu cut off all the mushroom roots of the mushrooms picked last summer and scattered them in the cow dung and leaf deer soil, waiting for mushrooms to grow.
She had never raised mushrooms and didn't know how they were raised. I only remember that when I was eating mushrooms, I poured the picked mushroom roots and dirty water into the cesspool outside, and the mushroom roots grew mushrooms in the cesspool.
(The so-called manure pit is a large pit dug by rural people next to the pigpen. They throw pig manure, chicken manure, duck manure, various raw poultry manure, and straw ash that cooks and burns the kang every day in that pit. In spring, the fermented manure is taken to the ground as fertilizer. The household waste at home is usually dumped in that pit. At that time, it will rot and ferment with the manure, becoming the best farm fertilizer...)
In the past, because most of the pig manure in the cesspool at home was dirty, she thought it was dirty and she didn't eat mushrooms, so she picked them all and fed them to the pigs.
But the feces in the woods are all cow dung, which is cleaner because cows only eat grass and food. Unlike pigs, pigs are omnivorous animals and eat everything. The shit they pull is smelly and dirty, and it looks disgusting.
The cow dung has no smell or even no peculiar smell. In some parts of our country, people use dry cow dung as firewood to cook!
Moreover, the woods are not full of cow dung, only about 4 of cow dung, and the rest are all leaf-deep soil, so she will not dislike the mushrooms she grows, and she will not feel guilty even if she sells them to others.
When Han Zhide was treating her, Han Mingxiu was still concentrating on raising her earthworms while growing her mushrooms. How could he have the time to get angry with him?
It was God who made the whole world. Han Mingxiu sprinkled mushroom roots into the woods and it started to rain.
It started with a drizzle, and then it was pouring heavily. The heavy rain kept falling, but it made the people in the village very happy. With this rain, not only did the crops leverage the power, but also the earthworms they raised leverage the power.
You know, if it doesn’t rain in 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 earthworms leveraged their power, but also those mushrooms would definitely be able to release a lot of them when they had this rain. Isn’t there a song that sang like this - ‘After the rain, the mushrooms are covered with fragrance, tenderness and chubby’?
After the rain stopped, Han Mingxiu put on her boots and trotted to the grove. Sure enough, he saw mushrooms drilling out of the ground of the grove. On the leaf-decay soil, in the cow dung pile, and in the grass... Looking around, there were all small mushrooms that had just been drilled out.
"Haha, it worked, oh yeah—"
Han Mingxiu looked at the large area of mushrooms, as if she had seen a bunch of rubles, and clenched her fists happily and almost jumped up.
The mushrooms grow very fast and can be picked in about a week.
Han Mingxiu happily collected all these mushrooms into the space. The growth cycle of mushrooms is very fast. As long as there is enough rain, one crop can be harvested in seven or eight days. In this way, by the autumn harvest in October, you will receive about 100,000 kilograms of mushrooms.
Oh, 100,000 kilograms, if you get Su Guo, you can exchange a lot of money...
Han Meixiu thought beautifully and began to fantasize about what good thing she wanted to exchange for the 100,000 kilograms of mushrooms...
Because of the work of raising earthworms, Han Mingxiu became very leisurely. He basically stayed in the woods for about an hour every morning and went for about an hour in the afternoon. Most of the two hours were spent picking mushrooms and observing that mushrooms grew quickly and that kind of mushrooms were easy to serve.
While observing, we accumulate experience in raising mushrooms!
If it was too long and it didn't rain, she would secretly water the woods to ensure the humidity required by her mushrooms and earthworms. Under her careful breeding, not only did the mushrooms harvest one after another, but the earthworms were also breeding very successfully. When she secretly lifted the rotten leaves or cow dung with a small pick, she would see groups of earthworms rolling, which was so irritating.
As for collecting earthworms, soaking earthworms, chopping earthworms, and drying earthworms, all the work of Xiaosuo is done.
When the earthworm is dug out, you cannot feed the animals directly. You have to put them in the water and soak them for a day before the earthworms spit out all the mud in their stomachs.
After soaking, you cannot feed the animals directly. You have to cook the earthworms in a large pot first, kill the bacteria and parasites on the earthworms completely, and then chop them into the feed after cooking. At this time, you can feed the pig fire to other animals.
If there are too many earthworms, you can also dry the excess in the sun, put it in a bag and keep it for feeding it to the animal.
Han Mingxiu's work was almost taken care of by Xiao.
Xiaosuo is already twelve years old, because now he eats at Han Mingxiu's house every day, and his food is getting better and his nutrition is getting better. He looks much taller and stronger than before. This set of work is not difficult at all.
With his help, Han Mingxiu had a lot of free time to do other things.
She was still the same as before, going to Grandma Huo on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays every week, giving Grandma Huo some delicious food, helping her with some work, and talking with her.
Now all production teams have started construction. Aunt Huo earns work points in the production team every day and is not at home usually, so Han Mingxiu doesn’t have to worry about meeting Aunt Huo at Grandma Huo’s house, so she can bring delicious food to Grandma Huo as she pleases, and talk to her and chat with her...
In addition, she went to the county town every Sunday, and gave vegetables and food to Mr. Gao and Uncle Zhou and others. She took good care of those people. Everyone was very grateful to her, and Uncle Zhou and Uncle Gao even regarded her as their daughters!
Chapter completed!