eurekapd Chapter 522: Dried Sheep Mushrooms Become Female
Chapter 522: Dried Sheep Mushrooms Become Female
After a long pause, Li pointed at the piles of fertilizer with trembling fingers, looked at Zhou Guo and asked again, "Can these really be used as fertilizer?"
Zhou Xing was also incredulous. She thought Zhou Guo must have lost his mind and was crazy about making compost, so he said these were fertilizers.
Zhou Guo didn't laugh this time. He nodded very seriously, "Really, I've shown it to Master."
When they heard that even the old man knew about it, the two were willing to believe it. They looked at the piles of fertilizer in shock for a long time without saying a word.
They had never seen so much manure before. Even though there were more livestock and manure in the family in the past two years, it had never been piled up like this. There were hundreds of them, which together formed a mountain of manure.
Why worry about whether there is enough fertilizer? Not to mention that the family has a total of more than ten acres of land, even if it is more than a hundred acres or a thousand acres, which is more than the land of the big landlords, it is enough.
Li thought about the few acres of land at home, looked at the endless piles of fertilizer, and asked, "There is only a small amount of land at home, why do we need so much fertilizer?"
Zhou Xing was also puzzled. "Yes, why build so many houses, row after row? What's the point of building so many?"
Zhou Guo said, "We don't have any land now, but that doesn't mean we won't have any land in the future. We may have a dozen acres now, but we may have hundreds or even thousands of acres in the future. As long as we have money, we will always have land. Besides, these fertilizers are very useful. We can't use them all ourselves, so I plan to sell them to people who don't have enough fertilizer."
"Sell it?!" Li and Zhou Xing were very surprised. "Who are you going to sell it to?"
Zhou Guo said: "I'll sell it to anyone who doesn't have it."
However, she believes that these days, unless the family is a large-scale livestock breeder, every family is short of fertilizer.
Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Those with little land can barely even get enough food, so how can they buy your fertilizer? Those with a lot of land, the big landlords, don't lack fertilizer either. So, after your fertilizer is fermented, we can only use it ourselves and can't sell it."
Zhou Xing looked at her with some sympathy. It was so pitiful. She had worked so hard and spent so much money to build such a manure fermentation farm, but in the end it was of no use. Those who could use it couldn't afford it, and those who could afford it couldn't use it.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Mom, sister, don't worry, the mountain man has a clever plan."
Li asked curiously for several times, but nothing came out of her, so she stopped asking and said, "It's okay if you don't tell me. Mom is idle at home all day and has nothing to do. You asked Wu Jiang and the others to pick up the firewood and hay at home. I think I should come to the mountains too."
"Ah?" Zhou Guo was stunned. "Why are you here? You can grow vegetables, cook, and wash clothes at home."
Li said, "Your sister is enough for that kind of work. What am I doing at home? I just need to find something to do. There has to be someone to look after these women, right?"
Zhou Guo touched his nose and said, "I asked Master to watch over it for me."
"What? You asked the master to show you the manure pile?" Zhou Xing and Li were surprised.
Li said, "Then I have to come. Master, you know more about composting than I do. Besides, how can an old man manage such a group of women? Come here, mother, let Master do something else."
Zhou Xing's eyes sparkled as she discussed with Li, "Second Aunt, you are tired, I will switch with you so that you can have some time to rest."
Li smiled and said, "Okay, I'll let you enjoy being a young lady."
Zhou Guo was silent and had to turn around to find the old man, hoping that the old man would not be angry.
When he heard that he didn't have to watch the manure pile anymore, the old man was so happy that he almost jumped three feet high, rubbing his hands excitedly, "Okay, okay, it's best for your mother to come. She's a woman, and she's a good worker. She knows how to do everything inside and out. She knows much more about composting than I do. I'll go and keep an eye on the small flower mushrooms for you."
Zhou Guo breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little embarrassed. It turned out that his master really didn't like looking at the manure pile.
Just as the old man was about to leave, he paused, turned around and looked at her, and said, "Those ten jars of Lihuabai you promised me?"
Zhou Guo said, "Don't worry, I promised you that I would buy it back for you. It just so happens that I will go to the capital to collect rent in a few days, so I can just bring the wine back for you."
The old man left with satisfaction. It was much more fun to look after a mushroom farm than a fertilizer farm. There were many young men there, and they were much easier to manage than women.
After everything was taken care of, Zhou Guo began to prepare the culture medium for the sheep mushroom.
I also spent a lot of money to buy a piece of oilcloth and built a small shed.
She locks herself in there every day, starts over again after failing, and never gets tired of it. After all, she doesn't have that many mushroom strains, so she has to find a way to turn the dried sheep mushrooms into mother strains. Then she will have an endless supply of sheep mushroom mother strains.
Li took some time to come up and take a look. She was helpless and said, "This kid just came out of the manure pile, why did he lock himself in this shed again? What is he doing? Isn't the manure pile fermented?"
Ask around, how many people are there in Wujiang?
Wu Jiang and his friends had no idea. "Madam, the boss didn't tell us what she was doing. We are small-time people, so how can we ask the boss what she is doing? We just do whatever she tells us to do."
Li shook her head, lifted the curtain and went in. She saw all kinds of strange things on the floor, including various wood chips, suspicious soups, pastes, jars and mud. Zhou Guo was sitting in front of these things, tinkering with them intently.
She looked for a while and went out again, returning to the composting plantation.
When all the mushroom strains in the ice cellar were planted in the ground, the small flower mushrooms were also planted.
Zhou Guo's mother seed was finally configured. Having learned from the previous failures, this time it was surprisingly smooth.
She looked at the evenly distributed white threads in the jar and couldn't help but burst out laughing. She really did not disgrace her ancestors, no, her descendants. With just that little bit of memory, she actually succeeded in turning the dried sheep mushrooms into the mother seed. God was helping her!
After the mycelium is formed.
She planned to go to the provincial capital to collect rent and buy some things.
Before leaving, I asked Wu Jiang to go to the county town to buy more cans, and go to each village to collect more bran and saw more wood chips. This weather is perfect for planting.
When Zhou Su saw that she was going to the provincial capital again, he also wanted to go.
Zhou Guo took him along as well, there was nothing wrong in letting him see the world.
This time, only the two siblings were traveling together. In order to prevent him from suffering on the road, Zhou Guo specially harnessed a horse-drawn carriage to go out. If she were alone, she could ride a fast horse and reach the city in three or four hours.
But the time spent driving the carriage on the road was more than half longer.
They set out in the morning and at noon Zhou Guo chose an open area near the water and stopped.
He said to the excited Zhou Su, "Let's go downstairs and get some food. You pick up some dry firewood and I'll build a stove."
The gates of Yunzhou close early in the afternoon, so they will definitely not be able to catch up at this speed. Since they can't catch up, they will definitely have to stay in the wild for a night. Anyway, there is no such rush, so they can just walk and play leisurely as if it were a holiday.