Nongmen Space: Farming lady is not easy to mess with

Chapter 188 Mulberry branches and fungi
Considering that there are many children in the village, Shu Yingtong chose the location of the pond not too far from the enclosure, so that he can see the general situation without being next to it.

It is a child's nature to love to play with water, not to mention that there are freshwater fish in it, so potential dangers have to be guarded against.

The two ponds each occupy one side, separated by a large distance.

"Girl, we haven't heard that fish can be raised, and everyone has called, how to dig a pond, I listen to your orders!"

Huzi's father led a dozen or so men to the side, carrying shovels and shovels, and stood vigorously aside, his big white teeth gleaming in the sun.

The girl said that every family that has spare time will provide a laborer to dig two ponds, one of which is considered to be in Nancun.If you raise a big fish, you can catch it for free during festivals and festivals. If you want to eat, you can buy it from Qiuyan, which is the price in the village.

Daughters-in-law and children love to eat boiled fish with sauerkraut. Fish farming is great. Cook it every once in a while. It's so beautiful!
Shu Yingtong was bending over to draw a line. A long pole was installed on the wooden funnel. As she walked and retreated, the lime in the funnel fell from the bottom to the ground to form a straight line.

"Just dig according to the size of the marked line, and the depth should not exceed four feet five. Going up, east, down, and west is conducive to lighting the fish pond and avoiding wind and waves. The middle is deep and the sides are shallow, and the water inlet and outlet and water collection tank are marked on the drawing."

She pointed to the drawing on the ground pressed with stones, "When the water is dug to the bottom, it will be drained first, then the bottom of the pond will be covered with sand, gravel and clay, and finally the whole pond will be sprinkled with quicklime clear pond."

"Okay! Remember it!" Dad Huzi picked up the drawing and found that it was drawn in detail, and all the partial drawings were marked with dimensions.

After reading it carefully, I knew all the words written on it.So he called Guo Wanggen's family, Zhu Yu and Qiuyan who were waiting on the side to share the work together.

Shu Yingtong packed up his things and put them aside, "Zhu Yu, I'm going to Xiumei Mountain." After speaking, he picked up the bamboo basket next to him and walked eastward.

"Hey, I got it! It rained a few days ago, pick up more fungus and come back~"

Zhu Yu turned her head in response, walked to the middle of the pond to be dug on the left, spat into her hand, rubbed it, and started digging with the pick.

Qiuyan and several other daughters of the Guo family were waiting to transport the soil with a dustpan.

There are many hard rocks in the barren land, and digging the soil is a purely labor-intensive job. Huzi's father only let Zhu Yu go with them, and the other women and daughters are all digging the soil.

Shu Yingtong took a basket and walked along the Jinyang River towards Xiumei Mountain. The emperor bamboo grass on both sides of the river had grown to knee height.When the temperature warms up, the green fodder used to strengthen the embankment will be available.

Beicun lives in dormitories, and there is no way to raise them at home for the time being. She plans to raise them in the open air at the foot of the mountain and hire some villagers there to work.

At the same time, survey the terrain and plan slopes. If the terrain is flat and close to the water source, you can try to plant drought-resistant crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, sunflowers, and sesame.

The main purpose of entering the mountain this time is to collect mulberry branches and put them in the space for cutting and raising seedlings.

The bark of the mulberry tree is solid, and after several months of cultivation in the space, it is equivalent to planting biennial seedlings in the ground, and they can bear fruit in the same year.

It can be shaded by planting on the edge of the pond. The sweet and sour taste of mulberry is good, and you can also make mulberry wine.

The beginning of spring has passed, and the entire Xiumei Mountain has changed its appearance of dead branches and leaves.The tender green branches trembled against the breeze on the brown branches of the deciduous trees, the earth rejuvenated, and the mountains were reborn.

There have been two rains in the past few days, and the spring rain is as expensive as oil. The villagers not only don't think they can't dry their clothes for a few days, but thank God for the food.

Groups of women and girls digging wild vegetables and collecting fungus can be seen everywhere, and they greeted Shu Yingtong warmly when they saw him.

"Is the girl here to pick up the mushrooms too? Ah, there are only a few of them. I have so many. You can take some back and eat!" The woman stood up and greeted with a smile. She poked her head around and quickly poured it into Shu Yingtong's basket.

"No, I still have to go in." Shu Yingtong stretched out her hand to stop her, with a faint smile on her lips.

There are people all around the forest, and she didn't come here specifically to pick up fungus, so she didn't fight them much.

Going further in here, the forest is denser, and there are not many people.One is that there is no way to go and it is difficult to open the way by themselves, and the other is that they are afraid that there will be wild boars in it, and they will not be able to deal with it.

"You're welcome, I came early, I have quite a lot!" The woman had a loud voice, she couldn't move the basket, her eyesight was so fast, she quickly reached out and grabbed a handful into Shu Yingtong's basket, grinning, "Take a little, I'm leaving ha~"

"Thank you." Shu Yingtong smiled and nodded in thanks, looking at her in a hurry as if she was afraid that she would catch up with her back and laughed a little.

This woman is indeed more competitive than others. Others can only fill one bottom, and she already has half of the basket.

The cuffs were wet from the dew on the tips of the grass blades, the blue coarse cotton padded jacket was darker from the elbows to the cuffs, the cloth shoes on his feet were wet from the uppers to the calves, and a hatchet was pinned to his belt.

The hand that was grabbing the fungus just now was also frozen purple, and the back of the hand that was covered with cracks like a bowl was covered with chilblains.

She didn't even know the woman's name, but today she was forced to accept her kindness, and if she met again, she might give her a jar of chilblain ointment.

Shu Yingtong held the hatchet to open the way, chopped off many mulberry branches and threw them into the space.The leaves of wild mulberries are small, and the mulberries taste very sour when they are not fully ripe. She wants to improve the varieties of salsa.

After finishing all the main work, Shu Yingtong began to look for outcropping fungi in places with more humus and fallen leaves.

There are many kinds of mushrooms in early spring. She peeled off a bunch of dry pine needles, inserted a small wooden stick into the soil at the foot of the tree and pried it up, and a small clump of light brown tea tree mushrooms that had not yet opened their umbrellas was pried up.

Fungi do not grow alone. When the spores are mature, they will be scattered everywhere when the wind blows.She walked around in a circle, and sure enough, she found a few more clumps.

Passing by a cluttered forest of masson pine and fir trees, although the hair was a little messy from being hooked by thorny bushes, the harvest was still very satisfactory.

The yellow boletus mainly produced here has a good taste, thick meat, thick stipe, and delicious taste. It is delicious whether it is made into soup or fried.

Picked some oyster mushrooms, gallinaceous fungus, blue head fungus and big red fungus one after another.

I also encountered some poisonous mushrooms such as colorful ghost umbrellas.

She only collects the edible fungi in her knowledge base, and has no risky thoughts about other fungi.

Passing by two dead and fallen linden trees, she was attracted by the gratifying growth of wild fungus on them.

Wild fungus cannot be eaten fresh like mushrooms. Fresh fungus has a light-sensitive substance, porphyrin.

It is insoluble in water, and the skin is easily exposed to sunlight after eating to induce skin diseases.

The fresh fungus can only be picked and dried in the sun, and soaked before cooking.

Shu Yingtong picked the larger fungus, looked at the two linden trees lying on the ground, and tapped the bark lightly with her fingers.

The fungus here is pure wild, and the price is not low.She doesn't want to build an artificial fungus shed. She doesn't have plastic film to make a shed, and even if she had one, she doesn't want to do it.

Industrial plastic waste is difficult to degrade, and she does not have a machine to produce it.

However, it is still feasible to collect linden tree borer plug mycelia for semi-artificial and semi-wild plantation.

Just as she was contemplating, the painful groans of human beings nearby sounded a little old in her ears.

"Ouch... Ouch..."

(End of this chapter)