Farming Beneath the Changbai Mountains

In mid-July, the ginseng seeds turned red again, and people in the village came to pinch the ginseng seeds. Jinghan and the others stopped other work and concentrated on pinching off their own ginseng seeds. After all the ginseng seeds at home were ready, Jinghan and the others went into the mountains again.

Jinghan had the idea of ​​growing mushrooms in her heart, so when she went into the mountains, she paid special attention to whether there were any mushrooms. If you want to grow mushrooms on wood, you must naturally choose strains that naturally grow on wood. While walking, Jinghan heard Wenxuan shouting, "Sister, what do you see over there? Why is it so yellow?"

Jinghan raised her head and looked in the direction Wenxuan pointed. It turned out that there were several big tree stumps in front, and the stumps were actually covered with elm yellow mushrooms. Oh my gosh, this elm yellow mushroom looks so good, doesn’t it? From top to bottom, they are all densely packed. How many are these? Jinghan hurried forward and came to the big tree stumps.

The elm mushroom, as the name suggests, is a mushroom that grows on elm trees. In a natural environment, after the elm tree dies, the elm yellow mushroom will grow. However, it usually takes many years after the tree dies and rots before it can grow again. These tree stumps are naturally all elm trees, and each one is quite thick. It would take an adult to hold them together. The trees are covered with bright yellow eucalyptus mushrooms, and you can smell a unique aroma of elmium yellow mushrooms when you walk in.

"Come on, let's start picking mushrooms. It looks like there are a lot of them. Wenchang, go back to my father and the others as soon as possible. Just tell me to let them carry the big basket at home. That way they can hold a lot. If you carry this on your back, It’s too troublesome to put much in the basket.” Jinghan asked Wenchang to go back and report that there were too many elmgrass mushrooms here and the four children couldn’t get them back.

After hearing this, Wenchang hurried back. Fortunately, they often come to the mountains, so they are familiar with the road and are not afraid of getting lost. After Wenchang left, Jinghan led Wenxuan and Jingwan down to pick mushrooms. "Gently put these mushrooms into the basket on your back. We will take them to the town and sell them later. Who can eat these? Besides, it is too hard to dry them in the sun and is not suitable. I want to town People on the street don’t often get to eat this mushroom, right? It should be easy to sell,” Jinghan said while working.

About half an hour later, Mr. and Mrs. Zhixin and Mr. and Mrs. Zhiming came. Both Zhixin and Zhiming were carrying big baskets. I have a lot of this basket at home. When I mix loess in autumn, I use this big basket. There was a layer of white cloth inside the basket. Although it was old, it was washed very clean.

The adults came to see the situation and began to put mushrooms in the basket without saying a word. With the adults joining in, it didn’t take long to pick all the mushrooms. The four large baskets, plus the children's four small baskets, were all full.

Jinghan specially got a large piece of mushroom with wood on it, and she wanted to use this piece to cultivate the bacteria.

Zhixin and Zhiming carried the big basket, while Xue and Zhu helped carry the basket, and everyone returned to the venue together. Mrs. Chen, who had been waiting outside, was quite surprised when she saw these elm mushrooms. "Why did you get these old ones? We can't eat them, and they will rot if we keep them."

"Grandma, have you forgotten that you can still sell it? I don't think people in this town can often eat this, right?" Jinghan said with a smile.

Mrs. Chen clapped her hands, "No, how could I have forgotten this problem? Not to mention the people in the town, even we don't get to eat this stuff often. Okay, it's only the end of the year, and there's still time. Come on. Zhiming, are you driving the oxcart to the town to sell the mushrooms? Jinghan is also following you. You should be smart enough to sell more. Come on, I will bring you some dry food on the way. Eat when you're hungry." Mrs. Chen said and went into the house to get something. After a while, she took out everything including the scale.

It happened that Zhiming also got into the car and put all the four big baskets of mushrooms on the car, while leaving the four small baskets behind. He had to keep some for his own consumption, right? Jinghan also jumped into the car, took what Chen handed over, and then Zhiming drove away.

"If it sells well, buy a piece of meat and we'll make dumplings for dinner tonight, just stuffed with elm, yellow mushrooms and leeks." Mrs. Chen ordered.

Jinghan nodded, indicating that she remembered.

The oxcart wandered all the way to the town, and Jinghan said she would go to Baiweilou first to see if she could get some. When he met Manager Sun, he immediately decided to order a basket. This thing is a rare item. Judging from the sales volume of Baiweilou, one basket is absolutely no problem. Zhiming took down a basket and weighed it on a scale. The basket weighed thirty pounds. After loading up the household items from the restaurant, the big basket was weighed and found to be exactly seven kilograms, that is, this basket of mushrooms weighed twenty-three kilograms. Manager Sun gave ten cents for a pound, and a basket of mushrooms was two hundred and thirty cents. He counted the money on the spot and handed it to Jinghan.

Jinghan took the money, then said goodbye to Manager Sun, and went to the market with Zhiming. At this time, it happened to be early noon, and many people were buying vegetables at the market. When they saw that there was a seller of elm yellow mushrooms here, they all gathered around and asked about the price. Jinghan sold it to the restaurant for ten cents per catty, and the retail price was even more expensive, so she shouted out thirteen cents per catty.

Some people turned around and left when they heard it was so expensive. But many people say it is not expensive. After all, this thing comes from the mountains and is not easy to find. It is normal for it to be expensive. "Come on, little girl, weigh me three pounds. How many times can I eat this thing a year? Aren't you just trying to be fresh?" an old woman said.

With the first one, the rest of the people also came to buy. You wanted three catties, and she wanted two catties. After a while, two more baskets were sold, and one basket was left. Jinghan quickly set aside about five or six kilograms of elm yellow mushrooms, which she was going to send to Huixin. This thing is something new, so we should let them all try it.

A few more people came here to buy mushrooms. After a while, all the mushrooms were sold out except for those left by Jinghan. Jinghan was afraid that someone else wanted to buy it, so she quickly asked Zhiming to drive away from the place. The uncle and nephew went to buy meat, and then came to Huixin's house.

Huixin and Jingya had just finished cooking, and when they were about to eat, they heard someone knocking on the door outside. Wenhan ran out and saw that it was his third uncle and his younger sister who were here, and quickly let them in.

When Huixin saw that her brother and niece were coming, she quickly grabbed two more sets of bowls and chopsticks, "Third brother, Jinghan, I didn't know you were coming back, so I didn't prepare any good food at home, so just make do with some food with us. "

Zhiming was not polite and led Jinghan to sit down and have a meal together. After eating, Zhiming left the mushrooms with Huixin and then walked back with Jinghan. In the car, Jinghan calculated today's harvest and found that she sold more than 900 yuan in total, which was almost one tael of silver. Jinghan couldn't help but make a face, this thing is really a good price.

After returning home, she handed the money and meat to Chen, and then Jinghan went to bed. She got up a little early in the morning. She had been wandering around in the bullock cart for a long time. Now she was really tired and fell asleep directly on the kang. Jinghan woke up after half an hour of sleep. She was still thinking about cultivating bacterial strains, so she got up to prepare materials.

In Jinghan's previous life, her neighbor's house sold edible mushroom strains. Jinghan often went to his house to play, and later worked at his house. So I basically understand the cultivation of this strain. However, there are many things that are not available here. Jinghan has no idea whether the strain can be cultivated. At this point, we can only experiment a little bit.

Jinghan got some sawdust and soaked it in water, as well as bean cake water, sucrose and so on, and boiled it in a pot. After the water has cooled down, tie up the remaining elm yellow mushrooms with a rope, hang them above the prepared culture solution, and then cover them with a thin cloth to avoid dust. This thing cannot be done overnight, so Jinghan is not in a hurry, just leave it there.

Here, Mrs. Chen and the others have already begun to make dumplings. The leeks and elm mushrooms are mixed with meat. The bright yellow and green color makes them look appetizing. After the dumplings were wrapped and all the workers came back, the dumplings were cooked in the pot and everyone ate dumplings stuffed with yellow mushrooms. The taste is different from that of mountain vegetables. Everyone nodded and praised it after eating it.

Three days later, Jinghan lifted the thin cloth on the culture medium and saw that some white floc began to appear in the culture medium. It should be that the spores of the mushroom fell into the culture medium and began to develop. Jinghan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that there might be hope of cultivating the bacteria. According to this situation, in two days, the mycelium should be spread throughout the culture medium. Jinghan began to prepare the next level of culture medium again.

This time it's a culture medium, so you have to use some solid matter. Jinghan prepared sawdust, which was available at home. The sawdust left over from sawing firewood was piled together to keep for the fire in the winter. In addition, there are bran, bean cake powder, corn flour, sucrose, gypsum powder and other things, which Jinghan prepared according to a certain proportion. There were some things that were not available at home, so Wenchang and the others were asked to buy them in the town.

The culture medium is prepared and steamed in a pot. After it cools down, the culture liquid is mixed in and placed in a large container to continue culturing. This process took about seven or eight days. Jinghan was very patient. She put down the culture medium and followed Wenchang and the others to collect the ginseng seeds.

Just like last year, there are always fallen ginseng seeds in the ginseng fields where goods are made. We had already tasted the benefits last year. This year, Mr. Xue, Mr. Zhu, and even Mr. Chen and the old man came to collect the ginseng seeds. Only Zhixin and Zhiming wanted to collect the ginseng soil and did not participate. Everyone worked hard for three or four days before we were done. This year it was almost the same as last year. We got twice as many ginseng seeds as our own. The old man immediately decided that he would need thirty feet of ginseng soil next year. The old man was very serious and must develop ginseng so that he could have a few hundred feet of ginseng in the future.