Wolf King

Next to the favorite activity room of the tribal and middle-aged people, there are more semi-underground mushroom houses: dig out an underground space with a depth of about one meter and an area of ​​twelve square meters, and use an extra mud brick to build a height of about one and five meters on the ground. There is an interlayer wall in the interior, the wall is covered with thick mud with a lot of straw, and the top is covered with a thick layer of reed grass.

This mushroom house was built a month ago, and the root of the wall on the west side is connected to the floor heating exhaust vent of the mobile house.The smoke from the floor heating straight tunnel flue is introduced into the soil wall interlayer of the mushroom house for a little Increase the temperature of the mushroom house-Flammulina velutipes is a cold-tolerant fungus, but the temperature is too low and the hyphae will not come out, and it will be prone to deformed mushrooms when it comes out, so it is necessary to keep the indoor temperature between 10 and 20 degrees.

Thrall carefully removed the three-story gate made of animal skins, reed grass covers, and wood. After entering the dark mushroom house, he closed his eyes to adapt to the slightly invisible light in the lower room, and then turned around, making it airtight. The hide curtain was gently removed and set aside.

When the wind is not blowing or the wind is not open to the door, you must remove the skin to ventilate the mushroom house... Thrall doesn’t know what the principle is, but this does not prevent him from implementing the regulations set by the cub Ayun .

In the mushroom house, there are sixteen cultivation tanks made of soil and wood with a height of about 30 centimeters. The long troughs are made of small squares made of wooden boards. Acorn shells, oak wood shavings, finely cut grass cuttings of reed straws, and the cub Ayun specially made it, which he called natural soil fertilizer, but in Thrall's view it was completely garbage stuff.

These useless things are mixed with water and stacked in a small square. After the excess water is filtered from the soil foundation made of mud from the lower part, the oak tree section with natural mycelium is buried in it; after that, keep the mushrooms The temperature in the room is higher than the outside, but it does not make people feel warm (that is, about 10~20 degrees), and replace the fresh air in the room under the premise of opacity every day; only one day, oak trees The mycelium on the segment began to germinate. Ten days later, the mycelium covered the entire surface. After the shock, Thrall performed the next step after the shock, removing the miscellaneous bacteria and transferring more mycelium to the incompletely germinated small Inside the square; half a month later, sixteen cultivation tanks and hundreds of small squares have grown dense, white mushroom stems of varying lengths. (If it is a sales of Flammulina velutipes, in this process, it is necessary to cool and homogenize to ensure that the length of Flammulina velutipes is the same, and also to provide a light source manually to ensure that the growth direction of the mushrooms is the same, so I don’t pay much attention to what I eat.

At the beginning, Thrall was responsible for the cultivation of Flammulina velutipes, but Thrall refused. In the human kingdom, he likes to eat this kind of mushroom, but it’s just not called this name... he remembers that this is a delicious mushroom collected by the mushroom farmer in the forest. It is not something that can be grown like beans. When the cub Ayun told him to work and told him to follow the regulations for patient cultivation, Thrall only felt that Ayun seemed to have bad intentions-if the culture tanks made of garbage waste could not grow Flammulina velutipes, this "Ayun" is Wouldn't he blame him?

This anxious state of anxiety disappeared shortly after taking up the job of the mushroom house caretaker, because Thrall saw first-hand how the hyphae germinate and grow thin in the cultivation tank mainly made of oak wood chips and acorn shell powder. The delicate mushrooms-this is like a wonderful miracle revealed by the magic spells cast by the Druid. In the snowy winter, in this simple and dark and damp semi-underground mushroom house, the mushroom collectors are in spring and autumn. The cherished delicacies that can only be found in the mountains and forests during the season appeared in the world little by little with his hands.

Thrall took off his vine straw shoes and stepped into the room wearing only animal skin. Ayun repeatedly reminded him that the growth of Flammulina velutipes needed a clean environment. Before that, he would feel impatient. Now, he almost abided by A Yun's proposal. Regulations... Before coming to the mushroom house, he even went to clean clothes.

Increasing the temperature with fire smoke will cause the humidity in the mushroom room is not enough. To ensure the humidity, the ground and the surrounding area of ​​the mushroom farm should be spread with enough water. Thrall uses sprayed snow water for spraying every day. Sprinkle water on the mushroom body; in order to make the mushrooms grow neatly, each bunch of mushrooms should be covered with a loose straw bundle made of straw (the role is similar to a set of paper tubes)-indoor cultivation of mushrooms is a delicate job , The Snow Werewolf could not do it, and replaced it with Thrall.

"It has grown to be longer than my palm. Can it be harvested in two days?"

After sprinkling the clean snow, Thrall wiped the sweat and sat down and looked at the vigorous white tender elves in a room with faint light. His chest was full of unprecedented satisfaction...Ayun said that after cultivation, the average Mushrooms can be produced once every thirty to forty days. In this way, does he solve the amount of enoki mushrooms consumed by the whole family alone? Snow wolves eat as much as they want, which is more than enough~

This is really...absolute security! The snow wolves will always need him, always respect him, even if he wants to leave the snow wolves, they will fall in love... He is no longer a pitiful worm that has no choice but to suffer from the pity of the snow wolves. With his own hands, people who are needed by the snow wolf and can provide delicious mushrooms in such heavy snow days.

"...No, even if the snow wolves love me because of mushrooms, it is because he "has let him have such value. And..."he" didn't tell me what the "soil fertilizer" was in the end. I still want the'earth fertilizer' provided by him when it is mushrooms, otherwise..."

Awake from the joy of fullness and think about his situation, Thrall felt cold. If the needle mushrooms can be cultivated in such a simple way, why in the human kingdom, why don't those mushroom collectors cultivate themselves but go deep into the forest? Obviously, even if he paid a lot of hard work, the key to the growth of these delicious mushrooms is the "earth" that the young cub Ayun did inadvertently added to the cultivation tank... which means, His sense of security and demanded status were still held by Ayunka in the neck.

Thrall felt anxiety again. The human mindset always allowed human creatures to stand out in race competition, but humans are also easily caught in thinking traps and seeking trouble, which is the so-called thinking too much... Thrall’s front Half of his life is a sentence of ups and downs, and this experience makes him less likely to be as simple as the Snow Werewolf. After ventilating and ventilating the mushroom room for half an hour, Thrall left the mushroom room and returned to the No. 2 chase where he is now resident. He sat cross-legged and let everyone make the kang head look forward to him. Kang to wear shoes to find Xiao Yun.

The activity room was still full of acorns, dried meat strips, and three or two cubs of vine weeds; crowded, everyone did not disturb Xiao Yun, who occupied a corner of the room, Several piles of wool and many altar jars were piled beside Xiao Yun. At this moment, he was pinching a curl of hair with his hand, and his expression was cold and deep.

"Ayun." Thrall sat carefully not far from Xiao Yun, with a joyful smile on his face, and gestured with his hand, "The needle mushroom has grown so high, and the umbrella cover has a large nail cover. , The mushrooms are strong and the roots are so thick, can they be harvested?"

"It's Thrall." Xiao Yun returned to his mind. "Well... this batch of enoki mushrooms seems to have been cultivated for a month. It can be harvested. Looking back, you can see that the mushroom body is not heavy. God, let the water evaporate and then harvest."

"Is it necessary to continue cultivation after harvesting? Should the medium in the cultivation tank be changed?" Thrall took the topic rhythm particularly naturally and carefully.

"Of course continue to grow, not too much green food. During this time, in addition to bean sprouts is meat, several people have got angry." Xiao Yun nodded, but before Thrall was happy, he continued, "culture medium No need to change, when you are harvesting, be careful not to damage the part of the stem base and the connection of the culture medium, as long as the damaged and stunted areas are removed. The enoki mushrooms can not only be harvested once, continue to take care of it, but also harvest Two or three crops."

"..." Thrall's chin dropped indefinitely, and the ecstatic expression on his face was a little awkward-it is certainly a good thing that such a delicious mushroom can be cultivated and harvested several times at a time, but the "soil fertilizer" he wanted would not fail Yet?

Unable to stop Thrall at this point, he quickly adjusted his emotions and asked in a natural tone: "So this time, do you want to add the kind of "soil fertilizer" you gave last time to the culture medium?"

"Well--" Xiao Yun was a little embarrassed. He didn't know whether he added the self-made phosphate fertilizer during the second planting. He just remembered that the elder sister farted to throw the roots of Flammulina velutipes bought in the market into the cup. At that time, some wet tissues were stuffed into the bottom of the cup, and some water was added with baking soda.

Xiao Yun's hesitation raised Thrall's whole heart. When Xiao Yun asked him to add "soil fertilizer", he was still very resistant to cultivation. He didn't take a closer look at the mud that looked like a mixture of debris. The **** has been mixed into the cultivation tank, and now he thinks he really regrets it... Isn't that soil fertilizer a hard-to-make alchemy product, magical creation or something? !

Thrall was so regretful that he knew how green it would be to secretly stay a bit!

Just when Thrall regretted it, Xiao Yun said: "Otherwise, if you add a little more, the mycelium needs nutrition to develop."

With that said, he yanked away the pile of wool at his feet, took out a clay pot with a lid and sealed the lid with mud from the root of the wall.

Thrall stared at the jar in astonishment, wait, so important things are just casually placed in the activity room where people come and go? !

Xiao Yun picked up the pottery jar and walked out of the activity room. Thrall quickly got up to catch up with him. Then he saw... Xiao Yun used his claws to shave off the seal mud, so he opened the cover casually. A quite indescribable smell flew out of the can.

Xiao Yun shook the bottom of the tank, Thrall heard a water ringing, stretched his neck, and saw that Xiao Yun tilted the body, pour a little bit, and the contents came out to view on the lid... Thrall was a little ignorant at that time, and was volatile. There is a lot of debris in the faint, indescribable smell of water, one of which is a little white-eh, is it dazzling, how does this look like a kind of bone? !

...Mysterious creations made of bones that can nourish crops in particular? Thrall came to this conclusion in his mind, and suddenly felt a cool rush from the bottom of the foot to the sky, what kind of witchcraft is this? !

The cub Ayun seemed to be very satisfied with his work. He poured the liquid bones in the lid back into the jar and turned his head to say to Thrall: "You take this and wait until this stubble mushroom is harvested. Sprinkle this into the cultivation tank. Remember not to sprinkle too much, the medium is almost wet."

"..." Thrall's goal was achieved, but he was not happy because of it, and he looked at Xiao Yun with a trembling face, trying to reach out and hesitating.

"It's okay, take it, use it, and return the jar. I will ferment another jar for next time." Xiao Yun clearly misunderstood Thrall's reaction and thought about it. "Otherwise, you will be responsible for Flammulina velutipes anyway. Cultivate, after that, you can make phosphate fertilizer and ferment yourself. I will teach you how to do it."

This sharp turn was too fast, Thrall couldn't react at all for a while, and was stunned.

"What's your reaction? Don't want to learn?" Xiao Yun frowned, and the subordinates who flicked their hands when they were light and fearful were not good subordinates.

"Think!" Thrall blurted out, gritting his teeth, his expression a little bit grim, what about witchcraft, and no place of justice could judge him in this place!

Xiao Yun didn't even realize what kind of mental journey Thrall had gone through. He was very satisfied with Thrall's industriousness, wit and wit, and immediately pulled Thrall to learn witchcraft... No, he learned how to self-cultivate the soil fertilizer of Flammulina velutipes:

The leftover trotters, bones of the tribe, the freshwater fish offal caught by the horns, the scales of the fish, the small freshwater crabs touched by the river bank, the bird droppings picked up at the edge of the jungle, the hair cut off by the clan, the mixed hair picked up in the sheep pen, Plant ash... These things are poured into the tank, sealed with a little water, placed in a place with heavy moisture for one fermentation; after ten days, the lid is opened, the fermented things are poured out, the big bones are smashed and smashed and stirred , Re-packed in the tank, soaked in water, secondary fermentation... If so, you will obtain pure natural and pollution-free hand-made phosphate fertilizer, which can be used after mixing with water.

Xiao Yun directed Thrall with the integrity of the Chinese to make the soil of the balcony vegetable garden. These things are easy to obtain, and many are readily available in the tribe. Although the process is cumbersome and the fermentation time is longer, there are It’s always better than nothing; however... he doesn’t know how similar the materials he uses are to the witchcraft and black magic materials that have been criticized in this world, and how dark the materials look to the aboriginal Thrall Department... So Thrall followed him to learn and memorized the materials in the same way, with goose bumps behind his back and a chill in his heart.

"It turned out to be some kind of witchcraft... I learned these things and I will be treated as a believer in black magic..."

Pour out the phosphate fertilizer in the clay pot and set aside. After working hard for a long time to fill in the new fermented material, after sealing the mouth with mud, Thrall collapsed and sat on the ground, his mind cluttered.

"What about witchcraft, what about black magic... It wasn't these things that made me fall to this point." Holding the clay pot with both hands, Thrall's face sneered with self-deprecation, "The church... the priest... They are glorious and noble, but they will not come to save the fallen me."

A pit was dug in the back of the chimney exhausting smoke between the No. 2 chase, the pot was buried, and water was sprinkled on the soil layer. After completing the fermentation preparation, Thrall firmly returned to his tent and replaced it. Clean special clothing, drill into the mushroom house, remove the hides and let the room ventilate.

"I'm going to live anyway, I'm not willing...witchcraft, devil, let me survive, it's more important than anything."

Thrall's eyes gradually became firmer as he watched the enoki mushrooms squeezing close to each other on the cultivation tank.

"Ah, ah-sneeze!"

"I wipe...I can't catch a cold, and I don't run out every day to play with snow..." Xiao Yun rubbed his nose and glanced at his head every morning. His eyes retracted, staring at the pinch of hair in his hands.

There are two types of long-haired sheep raised by the tribe. One is the outer layer of long-haired hair, which is more than 20 centimeters in length. The cuticle is extremely thick, odorous, and thick in fat. It has serious knots and a few lumps.

The other is the inner layer of fluff. This fluff has Xiao Yun's understanding of the concept of Zhongyuan wool. Although it is also very odorous, the fat is thick and dirty, and it is also caked. At least it is relatively clean and fine.

Since the winter, the tribe has slaughtered more than ten long-haired sheep with signs of being older or showing signs of illness. The meat was eaten and the skin was taken by Thrall to make the hide. The wool was gathered by Xiao Yun. These days he has been thinking about death , That's how these original Maos come in handy.

The fluff is relatively easy to handle. Xiao Yun took a piece of fabric owned by Thrall, wrapped it in the snow and soaked it. After changing the water several times, the dirt on the hair was basically removed, and then still wrapped in cloth The boiled boar oil handmade soap gently boiled in the boiling snow to remove some of the lanolin and residual dirt.

Wash the fluff, squeeze the dry water, and spread it on the floor heater to dry it, then you will get the rough processed raw wool.

Unlike the imaginary white wool, the rough hair is slightly yellow and slightly curled. At this time, the original wool can not be used for spinning immediately. You need to first use a special comb to loosen and fluff the comb; Xiao Yun, it is difficult for him to find the long thorns on the thorns everywhere on the grassland and dry them. Afterwards, insert it into the mud board with smooth surface. After the mud board is dry, the original wool comb with full flavor is made.

After roughly combing the original wool into a fluffy softness, you can start spinning by hand. What the spindle looks like. I saw it in the elementary school textbook. Xiao Yun directly took a pig bone as a spindle, and a little thought about how to spin the original wool into a thread... let alone, this is really a technical job, thanks to Xiaoyun Primary School When I saw the little old lady spinning twine in the countryside, otherwise he really couldn't figure it out.

With great patience and staying a few days and nights, Xiao Yun processed the down hair of a dozen sheep into raw wool and woven it into thick wool (the thin one was afraid of breaking, and he thickened it deliberately). Wooden chopsticks into thin pieces, grind thick sweater needles...

Xiao Yun is a big man, and he has never knitted sweaters in his life. Thanks to his elder sister who likes to play with DIY when she is fart, often knits a scarf, puts on slippers or knits clothes for cats at home, Xiao Yun I saw a greasy taste; I remembered the old lady's tricks, coupled with constant trial and error, and really let him weave a wool vest out.

Then this wool vest was put on the patriarch... Xiao Yun also expected him to live a few more years, otherwise he would have to succumb to training from the beginning when the next patriarch was replaced, which was too troublesome.

It is said that Xiao Yun should be happy with the use of wool, but the fact is that Xiao Yun can't be happy... The reason is that the sheep's fluff is too little, and the hair of a dozen sheep has not been woven. Look, it's good to be able to weave five sweaters with two catties... An adult long-wool sheep's fleece has not been weighed for one kilogram after being roughed out. Who should I justify?

We must know that the sheep raised by modern farmers can produce 15 kilograms of hair a year...the sheep can continue to be raised after the hair is cut. But the long-haired sheep raised by the tribe can only cut off the inner fleece when they are slaughtered...

Xiao Yun knew that the later the jealousy was born, the better, and he could not let the tribes have the idea that there is a balance in the tribe and a bowl of water in the tribe without basic fairness. Let's first consider the utilization rate of raw wool-an adult long-haired sheep only has more than one catty of fluff, but the long hair is too much and heavy. Problem.

... and Xiao Yun hit the south wall.

This thick long hair is really like a hell... It is easy to make a thick and heavy tent after felting. I want to make it softer and have a wider range of application. Xiao Yun is really bald. You can't even touch the threshold.

Tossing around, Xiao Yun had to use experimental methods to try to process:

First of all, it is processed according to the method of fluff, but the finished product is still agglomerated flakes, and it is not easy to tear it with claws.

Xiao Yun was soaked in hot water in a rage, and the original wool felt directly...

Change to warm water, do short-term repeated immersion while keeping the water temperature as constant as possible. Each immersion should not exceed 20 minutes, and the water temperature will change. Change the water quickly. It is difficult to open, and the hair is stiff.

This made Xiao Yun very passive, so he simply gave up the treatment-Ya boiled a pot of black beans, made yeast, brewed vinegar (the process is extremely rough and simplified, inedible), and then used vinegar to wash hair...acetic Won't it soften the hair? Why give me a soft look? !

Then he succeeded.

Although the ball is still a little hard in his hand, at least the hair ball that does not stick is washed out with vinegar.