Prehistoric Survival Records

Chapter 72 Cultivation of Edible Fungi

Dig the fungus bed with a lot of robes and mycelium from the place marked by the orcs after harvesting the fungus, put it into the culture medium, press it loosely into about three centimeters and cover it lightly, close the door during the day for shading, and open the door at night to keep it cool and ventilated , Sprinkle a little water a day to keep it moist, and the rest is waiting.

Half a month later, the mycelium was covered with twelve culture mediums. Although Rieger pointed out that mushrooms need to grow in a dark and low-light environment, and the light is too strong, the mushrooms cannot grow, but the fungus seed is really amazing and naughty. Wiping this kind of thing, he still walks into the fungus room from time to time to check his head. It’s not fun for him to go by himself. Every time he goes to his buttocks, he will drag a bunch of little kids behind him. Rigg sometimes goes in to observe the mycelium, and he finds that there are a few ladders. They were all cubs, each staring intently at the culture medium. Fortunately, the mushrooms were not called Wei Jie, otherwise they would have to be watched to death.

Lige blasted it a few times, but it was useless, so he had to settle for the next best thing, telling them to pay attention to shading, so as not to destroy the growth environment of the fungus. After observing it a few times, they found that the cubs were very obedient, and every time they had Pay attention to closing the door, and let them go.

Appropriately increasing the temperature will help mycelium germinate. After the mycelium is unearthed, it is necessary to increase the humidity. For the time being, I dare not hand over the delicate work of managing the bacteria room to the orcs. I can only work hard every day with the shower Cover the soil layer with a little bit of wetness to create a moist environment for the growth of fungi.

About two weeks later, umbrella caps began to emerge one after another. First, the white and tender petioles protruded from the culture medium with fingernail-sized round heads. Mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms opened their umbrellas in those few days, and this is the fruiting.

Mushroom production management is the most important management step in mushroom cultivation, which directly affects the quality and output of mushrooms. In order to raise the first batch of mushrooms well, Lige simply drove away all the guys who came to visit, without even thinking about it. Go back to sleep, let Charlie deliver two meals a day, and concentrate on taking care of these mushrooms in the rest of the time.

The most important thing in the fruiting period is water and temperature management. There is nothing to say about the temperature, and it is well maintained. The main job of Lige is to add humidity to the canopy. In the early stage, the moisture should be kept at about [-]% to [-]%, and the humidity needs to be increased later. From eighty to ninety, Rieger kept the air around the canopy moist by watering a little more.

A week passed, and Rieger's painstaking efforts were not in vain. Clumps of fat and tender fungi grew densely in twelve mediums. The brown medium was dotted with yellow, yellow and white mushrooms, just like condensation on black soil. Blossoming frost flowers, beautiful and magical, amazed all the orcs who got the good news and squeezed in to watch.

He wiped and picked a fat white jade mushroom, put it under his nose, took a deep breath, and said with a calm expression: "Er Bao, I like to eat this mushroom the most, but I searched around, why is this mushroom so long?" Not much."

Rieger explained to him: "The hyphae of these fungi are transplanted from the forest, and the distribution is too scattered. What kind of mushrooms can grow depends on luck. When I plant a batch of mushrooms, I will look to pick more white jade. The mycelium species of mushrooms, and oyster mushrooms are also delicious, as well as shiitake mushrooms and enoki mushrooms. Basically, these are delicious and easy to grow mushrooms. Yes, although it is delicious, firstly, there are few mycelia, and secondly, it is not easy to serve. These mushrooms are also low-toxic, and they are okay to eat occasionally. If you plant them in batches, forget it. To be on the safe side, we should plant delicious and economical mushrooms. .”

As for which types of fungi to focus on, Lige has already thought about it. There must be oyster mushrooms, as well as shiitake mushrooms and enoki mushrooms. White jade mushrooms can be planted appropriately.

With this experience, Rigg already knows how to grow fungi.

Pick out some miscellaneous bacteria first and let the orcs eat them. It is inevitable that some dog urine moss or other poisonous mushrooms will be mixed in, and they will be dug out and thrown away together with the underground cultivation soil, and then filled with decomposed cultivation soil to make up for it. this one.

Spray the disinfectant on the fungus bed again, apply fertilizer, and start to focus on cultivating the hyphae of oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms and white jade mushrooms.

When Rieger finished everything and came out of the bacteria room, there was only a small tail left in autumn, and the heat of the sun was no longer to be feared.

Looking at the yolk pie-like sun in the sky, Lige suddenly remembered something. The crops left in his experimental field were now mature and ready to be harvested, and they rushed to the edge of the field non-stop.

Fortunately, although most of the crops were harvested, the two farmers took good care of the rest. There were no weeds in the field, and the plants grew strong.

The leaves and pods of the soybeans have become golden and can be harvested long ago. The wild ginger is also growing old on the ground, becoming a veritable old ginger.

Rieg asked the orcs to gather up the last batch of crops, and then transported wet garbage such as crop stalks and flax husks to the ground, piled them into a small hill and started burning them. The ground becomes the nourishment for the coming year, and this year's busy farming has come to an end.

Lige went back to the tribe to check the inventory. Now there are 100 catties of soybeans (including [-] catties of bean seeds) and [-] catties of potatoes in the tribal warehouse. These days, they have picked up several thousand catties of chestnuts and stored them for feeding. Thousands of catties of acorns and rye vegetables from pigs, some wool from deer and sheep, and only more than [-] catties of red pepper and dozens of catties of peppercorns left after picking them up on the road. , They are tribes on this grassland, and they are already considered to be the largest tribe in stock. According to Nora of the dog tribe, the tribes on this grassland, including them, are either nomadic tribes, moving wherever they follow the cattle and sheep, Either it is a tribe of beasts, such as the tiger tribe and the wolf tribe, which are top hunter tribes. They hunt and eat when they are hungry, and sleep when they are full. There is no concept of food storage. By preying on small animals and collecting wild fruits, they can barely survive the day. Don't even think about storing food, so maybe their tribe is now the largest land rich man on the grassland.

Li Zhizhi Ge Ke, who is a tribe of local rich men, was far from being dazzled by this little wealth. He no longer had to worry about food in winter, so he focused his attention on clothing.

Rieger did not forget the first winter in this world, how it was frozen for thousands of miles, and how he spent those deadly cold days shivering under his father's belly. Such days must never be repeated.

But judging from the prey that has been brought back in the past few months, there is no species with rich hair that is suitable for taking off to keep out the cold. Whether it is a one-horned cow or a wild boar, they are all short-haired animals, thick and short, like stubble. Yes, masochists use them.

Lige thought about it again and again, but he could only think of the long-haired deer and sheep in the forest. Without other substitutes, the wool of deer and sheep seems to be the most suitable thing for winter clothes at present. If you can find it next year Cotton seeds are just fine, maybe you can wear a real big cotton jacket.

So Lige decided to let the tribe's warriors go to the forest, not only to get deer wool, but also to bring back some chili and Chinese prickly ash. There are not many of these two things in stock. Spicy hot pot is more interesting. It is best to dig another pepper tree and plant it nearby. For pepper, you can spend time planting a field in the tribe next spring, so that you don’t have to worry about these two seasonings in the future.

With this idea in mind, Lige immediately went to discuss with Bu, and Bu had been doing well in the past six months, since it was Lige's proposal, and it was for a major event in the clan, naturally there was no disagreement.

Before leaving, the female made linen clothes for each of the soldiers, and Lige brought them enough food to eat back and forth, straw hats, coir raincoats, water cans, and animal skin tents to shelter them from the wind and rain, and told them to pay attention Be safe, go early and return early.

The two fathers are also members of the hunting team, so they will naturally go. Rieger and Charlie nestled in the arms of the fathers and coquettishly for a while, and then gave love to Momoda.

Bu looked at the sky and thought it was time for the hunting team to set off. After waving goodbye to his fathers, the hunting team set off.

The soldiers walked for half a month, and when they came back, it was already late autumn. According to Lige's request, they brought back hundreds of catties of deer and sheep wool, hundreds of catties of red peppers, and two pepper trees with soil on their roots. And - hundreds of live deer and sheep.

Everything else was expected by Rieger, but when he saw a large herd of deer and sheep, Rieger was solidly surprised and asked his fathers what was going on.

"Erbao, don't you like raising small animals? My fathers thought you would like deer and sheep, so they caught a lot of them and brought them back."

Well, this reason is very strong. It really is the orcs of the Jiufang tribe with extraordinary strength. Even the deer and sheep are black forest species, you can catch them as soon as you say. Seeing the sluggish appearance of these sheep, I don’t know the way. How much has I suffered, it is simply—a beautiful job.

So I cleaned up the sheepfolds for the deer and sheep overnight, chopped rye vegetables to feed the sheep, and then transported two pepper trees to the edge of the field to plant them, and became neighbors with the apple trees, and the smelly pile of wool had to make room overnight Since we got so much wool, we must have killed a lot of sheep accordingly. Excluding those eaten on the road, those who could not finish eating were brought back. Fortunately, the lamb was rubbed with salt to keep it fresh, and the temperature along the way was not high. High, but some meat still has a faint taste, so I have to pack it out quickly to prevent it from really spoiling.

Fresh mutton is cut with a stone knife and hung on hemp ropes to dry.

Those mutton meats that already had a little smell were washed in the river water and baked on the carbon pile overnight to become dried meat. Although the meat had no smell after being rinsed with clean water, for the sake of the orc's sensitive sense of smell, Rieg used a lot of meat to dry it. Honey and salt, the meat was processed into plain jerky and honey jerky, and the rest were baked into strange jerky.

The orcs' mouths have been tricked for a long time. When the food is abundant, they refuse to eat meat with a bad smell, but after Lige's manipulation, these jerky meats have become the most popular snacks, adults and children alike. love to eat.

——On the first night after the hunting team came back, except for the soldiers who were exhausted all the way, Rigg told them to go to bed first, and the rest of the tribe were busy all night to pack the pile of things.

While flipping the jerky, Rieg looked at the rising sun in the east and yawned big.

Yawning seemed to be contagious, one after another, the orcs who stayed up all night yawned one after another.

After drying the last batch of jerky in his hand, he put it on a high shelf to cool naturally. Rieger said that he couldn't hold it anymore and was going to sleep.

After everyone finished the work at hand, they stood up staggeringly and went to sleep.

I'm tired after working all night.

This sleep lasted until dusk the next day. Rigg wiped his eyeballs and stood up. The two fathers had already rested. Seeing that Rigg got up in a mess, he quickly grabbed him, combed his hair, and wiped his hair. face, and then fed broth.

Seeing his brother wake up, Charlie rushed over energetically, and gave Rig a loving rub with his little brush-like wings.

Rigg's skin was burning hot from his brother's enthusiasm early in the morning, and he hurriedly pushed Charlie away, complaining: "Charlie, what's stuck on you, it hurts so much."

Charlie blinked innocently, nothing at all.

But Quinn thought of something, and hurriedly pulled Charlie to the fire, raised his little wings for a closer look, and then announced: "Charlie's wing feathers have grown out, it's great, and the fluff is about to retract."

When Rieg heard this, he quickly went to Charlie to take a closer look. Sure enough, under Charlie's fur, a large black wing feather shone faintly in the firelight, and it had grown a lot compared to when he came.

Charlie's fluff is tender yellow, and his wing feathers are glossy black. I only noticed such an obvious thing today. Although I have been too busy recently, I have indeed ignored it to a certain extent. I lost Charlie, I really feel sorry for Charlie when I think about it.

Compared to Rieger's concern, Charlie himself didn't mind at all. He lightly pecked his brother's earlobe, and soon Riger's ears were red, and he hurriedly hid, no longer caring about guilt.

The author has something to say: After a while of busy work, it will be winter.

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