Transmigrating to the 70’s: The Military Wife As A Farmer

  Chapter 252 Raising earthworms and growing mushrooms

The eldest sister’s temperament really made Han Mingxiu a headache. She said, "Poor people must be hateful." This sentence is true. When she saw her look like she was so bad and kind, Han Mingxiu was very angry. I don't want to care about her anymore.

   But, I can’t let this heart down again.

   Although the eldest sister has a weak personality and a bad use of good intentions, she is really kind to her, like her mother loves her, loves her, and cares for her.

  Since childhood, the eldest sister has always taken care of her like her own children. For more than a year since she came back to live, the eldest sister basically never let her wash the clothes herself, always when she took off her clothes, the eldest sister would wash her clothes. In winter, I help her to heat the kang hot every night, and then bring the hot footwashing water to her room...

  Think about her caring and care for herself. She couldn't bear to care about her, so she had to find ways to hone her temperament and make her less cowardly and bottomless...

  Without Han Mingxiu’s help, Han Zhide’s house was also built. As for whether he borrowed the money to build the house or saved it by himself, Han Mingxiu doesn’t know.

  After building the house, Han Zhide also invited a visitor to banquet all the people from Quantunzi to eat at their house to celebrate their happy event of building a new house.

  Of course, this meal is not for free, it has to be courteous.

Although Han Zhide's popularity in Sun Aotun is not very popular, he is still a member of the village after all. He has been with everyone for so many years of etiquette, and his family has nothing to do for so many years, so he put a drink, almost everything The people in the village are all carrying two catties of rice, and I have brought two catties of white flour.

  Han Mingxiu was not invited. Han Zhide probably deliberately wanted to knock her out. All the people in the village invited them, but they didn't invite them to the sisters.

  However, Han Mingxiu didn't care at all. He didn't invite himself, and he didn't take it with her. At the moment, she is busy planting mushrooms.

  In mid-June, the sky in the north is getting warmer. Traces of earthworms can also be found in the riverside, in the corner of the wall, and in the depths of the woods.

  Sun Aotun’s people all moved out to dig earthworms everywhere. After all the earthworms in this village were dug out, they went to other villages or the mountains to dig. The production team asked the villagers to pay three catties of earthworms to each household. There are now 72 households in Tunli, and a total of more than 200 catties of earthworms have been handed in.

After the earthworms were handed in, as a breeder in the village's earthworm breeding base, Han Mingxiu was responsible for handling these earthworms. She scattered the earthworms evenly in the small woods in Tunxitou, covered them with cow dung and leaf soil, and officially started breeding. .

  Others followed her example and began to raise earthworms in the plot of land they had divided.

  However, there are some people who are afraid of losing the earthworms and move the earthworms to their own gardens to raise them. Basically they are raised as Han Mingxiu said. They are raised with leaf rot and cow dung. If you can’t get cow dung, you can use pig dung instead. You can also put some rotten vegetable leaves, rotten grain chaff, etc. in it. Add nutrition to earthworms.

  In addition to raising earthworms, Han Mingxiu cut off the mushroom roots of the mushrooms picked last summer, and sprinkled them on the cow dung and leaf rot, waiting for the mushrooms to grow.

  She has never raised mushrooms, and she doesn’t know how to raise them. I just remember that when I used to eat mushrooms, I poured the removed mushroom roots together with dirty water and other things in the dung pit. The roots of the mushrooms grew their own mushrooms in the dung pit.

(The so-called dung pit is a large pit dug by ordinary rural people beside the pigsty. Pig dung, chicken dung, duck dung, all kinds of raw poultry dung, and the straw ash used for cooking and burning every day are thrown into that pit. Fermentation. In the spring, the fermented manure is pulled into the ground as fertilizer. The household garbage is usually dumped in the pit. Then it will rot and ferment with the manure, and it will become the best farm manure...)

  Before, because most of the pig dung in the manure pit at home, she was too dirty, and she did not eat the mushrooms, so she picked them off and fed the pigs.

But the dung in the grove is cow dung. Cow dung is relatively clean, because cows eat grass and food. Unlike pigs, pigs are omnivores and eat everything. The excrement it pulls is relatively smelly and dirty. Look at it. It's disgusting.

  The cow dung has no smell or even any peculiar smell. In some parts of our country, people still use dried cow dung as firewood for cooking!

Moreover, the small woods are not all cow dung, only about 1/4 of the cow dung, and the rest is mulch. Therefore, she will not dislike the mushrooms that she grows, even if she sells them to others. Will feel sad.

  When Han Zhide was inviting guests, Han Mingxiu was still concentrating on raising her earthworms while planting her mushrooms. How could he have the time to frustrate him?

  It was also God who made the whole person perfect, and Han Mingxiu sprinkled the mushroom roots into the grove on the first day, it started to rain.

It started with a patter of light rain, and then there was a pouring rain. The heavy rain continued to rain, but it broke the happiness of the people in the village. With this rain, not only the crops are borrowed, but the earthworms they raise also follow it. Up.

  You know, if it doesn’t rain in a few days, they will have to water the earthworms with water. This will save a lot of trouble.

Han Mingxiu is happier, because it is not only the earthworms that have borrowed from it, but those mushrooms will surely be able to make a lot of it after this rain. Isn’t there a song that sings like this-“The mushrooms are all over the floor after the rain, and they are fragrant and tender. Chubby'?

  After the rain stopped, Han Mingxiu put on his boots and ran to the grove. Sure enough, I saw slices of mushrooms on the ground of the small forest. On the decayed soil, in the pile of cow dung, in the grass... Looking around, there are small mushrooms that have just been unearthed.

   "Haha, it worked, oh yeah—"

  Han Mingxiu looked at the large mushrooms, as if seeing a lot of rubles, clenched his fists happily, and almost jumped up.

  Mushrooms grow very fast and can be picked in about a week.

  Han Mingxiu happily collected these mushrooms into the space. The growth cycle of mushrooms is very fast. As long as there is sufficient 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 catties of mushrooms.

  Oh, 100,000 catties, if you get the country of Su, you can exchange a lot of money...

  Han Mi thought about it beautifully, and began to imagine that she was going to exchange that 100,000 catties of mushrooms for something good...

  Because of taking up the job of raising earthworms, Han Mingxiu has become very leisurely. Basically, he spends about an hour in the grove every morning and another hour or so in the afternoon. During these two hours, she mostly used it to pick mushrooms, to observe that the mushrooms grow fast and that they are easy to serve.

  Accumulate experience in growing mushrooms while observing!

  If there are too many days without rain, she would secretly water the grove. Ensure that her mushrooms and earthworms need the humidity. Under her meticulous breeding, not only mushrooms are harvested one after another, but also earthworms are cultivated successfully. When she used a small planing pick to sneak away the rotten leaves or cow dung, she would see swarms of earthworms tumbling.

  As for the work of harvesting, soaking, chopping, and drying earthworms, all of them are done by the small lock.

When an earthworm is dug out, you cannot feed it directly. You have to soak it in water for a day and wait for the earthworm to spit out all the mud in its stomach.

After soaking, you can’t feed the animals directly. You have to cook the earthworms in a large pot to completely kill the germs and parasites on the earthworms. After cooking, chop them and mix them into the feed. Then you can feed them to the pigs. The fire feeds other animals.

  If there are too many earthworms, you can also put the extra in the sun to dry, put it in a bag and save it for later feeding animals.

  Han Mingxiu’s work was almost entirely undertaken by Xiao Xiao.

   Xiaosuo is twelve years old, because now he eats at Han Mingxiu’s house every day, the food has been served, the nutrition has also followed, and he is much taller and stronger than before. This set of work is not difficult at all.

  With his help, Han Mingxiu has a lot of free time to do other things.

  She is still the same as before. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, she goes to Grandma Huo to give Grandma Huo some delicious food, do some work for her, and talk to her.

Now all the production teams have started work. Auntie Huo earns work points in the production team every day, and she is not at home normally, so Han Mingxiu doesn't have to worry about seeing Auntie Huo when she goes to Grandma Huo's house, so she can bring grandma Huo delicious food as he pleases. Yes, I'm talking and chatting with her...

In addition, she still goes to the county town every Sunday to deliver vegetables and food to Uncle Gao and Uncle Zhou. They also take good care of those people. Everyone is very grateful to her, especially Uncle Zhou and Uncle Gao. They all regarded her as their own daughter!

  (End of this chapter)