Chapter 44

On October 1, the team dug soil to grow wheat. When they set out, everyone took a basket.

The reason for carrying the basket is that when digging sweet potatoes, only the positive roots are dug, and there will always be omissions; Especially this year, I didn't turn the vines more than a month before digging sweet potatoes. When I cut the vines, I found that a large number of vines grew small sweet potatoes.

When digging, we talked and dug, but we didn't slow down the progress.

Long Jianhua remembers eating a sweet dried sweet potato in his previous life. He tried to ask for advice. As a result, everyone knows how to do it: air dry the sweet potato until it softens, wash and slice it, then steam it and dry it. The description of this production method is very simple, but it takes a long time; The other is very simple. Slice the sweet potato, go through it in boiling water, and then take it to dry. This is hard.

In the process of digging, long Jianhua threw the broken sweet potatoes to nearby people every time, and only those in good condition were included in the back basket.

In the morning, he dug more than ten kilograms of small sweet potatoes. The smallest one was only as big as his little finger and the largest one was only an inch; In the afternoon, he only dug half a basket. The next day, just one and a half hours after digging in the morning, it was announced that the work was finished, and it was arranged to distribute sweet potatoes in the afternoon.

Long Jianhua wondered why he only dug so little soil.

Daniel Chen said with a smile, "we don't like noodles. We have no choice but to eat flour Baba. Besides, there are too many plants. There are not so many plant ashes in the team, so we can't get back the seed money. "

Only then did long Jianhua understand the reason. People in the ninth team generally don't like noodles. They grow wheat mainly to feed pigs; As for fertilizer, it is also very helpless. In addition to farm fertilizer, it is plant ash, and these are limited. We can't compete with rice for fertilizer. In terms of chemical fertilizer, ammonium bicarbonate is easy to buy, but urea is difficult to buy.

Then he smiled and was ready to continue looking for sweet potato. After planting hybrid rice in the first half of next year, there will be no problem with rations. If you don't plant it, don't plant it. Planting wheat purely by manpower does not make money; Even planting hybrid rice is not valuable. It's just to solve the problem of rations.

Chen Daniu shouted, "Jianhua, go dig Jue with us and let you see how the fern powder you eat is made."

Long Jianhua suddenly became more interested and walked up the mountain with him with his basket on his back. He did not expect that many people went to dig Jue. Men and women were walking up the mountain.

As Chen Daniu walked, he introduced fern powder to long Jianhua.

You can cook. You can eat it fresh or make jar dishes.

After growing up, the tubers grow up, dig them out in the autumn, wash them, dry them in the sun, and then grind them into powder; But this fern powder tastes bad and not slippery; The best thing is to mash the cleaned fern root, filter it again and again to see no impurities, then precipitate, and dry the precipitate. This is the real fern powder. The fern powder is light purple, good-looking and delicious.

After digging a lot of fern roots with them, I went home to eat lunch and then went to his house. I met Zou Shuxian and went home after washing fern roots; Chen Yuanshan is cleaning the stone mortar and wooden pestle in the corridor, while Chen Daniu carries out a large flat bucket and puts it on the terrace.

Zou Shuxian threw the fern roots into the stone mortar. Chen Daniu stepped down on the wooden pestle and raised his feet. The wooden pestle smashed into the stone mortar. The fern roots inside were crushed to make juice. The fluffy fern roots in the mortar were gradually crushed. Zou Shuxian continued to throw them inside until the slurry reached 30% of the mortar, and then scooped the slurry into the barrel.

Chen Yuanshan took the bucket, poured the slurry into the three layers of gauze tied at the four corners, kneaded the gauze into a ball and squeezed it hard; When there is little dripping liquid, unfold the gauze, let the water in the bucket enter it, and then cycle

Long Jianhua stood and watched silently for a long time, feeling very powerless.

The present conditions can not be improved to save time and effort; Also have to sigh the ancients, their wisdom is too powerful.

Chen Yuanshan smoked and asked, "Jianhua, haven't you seen it? How do you feel?"

Long Jianhua smiled, "I don't know how much I can harvest in the end, otherwise it will be too hard. If there is electricity, it will be much easier to use mechanization. "

Suddenly he thought of another medicinal material, "Uncle Yuanshan, is there Pueraria in the team?"

Zou Shuxian answered, "Gegen, it's everywhere."

Chen Yuanshan shook his head. "If you want to dig Pueraria, it's really time-consuming and laborious. Pueraria lobata grows too deep. Sometimes you can't dig one in half a day. "

Chen Daniu gave his father a knife, "the harder it is to dig, the bigger the tuber. We have dug up a stump before, about twenty kilograms. "

Chen Yuanshan found a kudzu root by the roadside and took off a leaf to show it to long Jianhua. Long Jianhua immediately responded that there were too many things. They were really everywhere.

Immediately, long Jianhua said goodbye and went home. He was going to dig Pueraria.

When he was a child, he saw that Grandpa occasionally drank kudzu root tablets in water, and grandma occasionally gave his family fresh kudzu root ribs and stewed chicken; Later, the frequency was less and less. By the late 1960s, I never ate it again.

He learned that Pueraria is known as southern ginseng when he was busy on several mountains in his previous life. At that time, he knew that it was because the economic situation at home did not allow, so his grandparents didn't continue to use Pueraria.

Don't say it's here. Even if it's not here, he has to go to the medicine shop to buy it back so that grandparents can eat and drink.

At home, pick up a hoe, tie a scabbard, carry a basket on your back, and walk to the canyon in the South

Chen Daniu stepped on the wooden pestle and said, "what does Jianhua want to do to dig Pueraria and sell it for money? That thing is really hard to dig. If you want to sell it for money, you might as well dig grass roots. "

Chen Yuanshan said dully, "I guess someone in his family needs it, otherwise he won't suddenly think of it. If he doesn't, we'll help him dig some. We rural people have nothing else but strength. "

Long Jianhua had good luck. Find a Pueraria vine at the foot of the canyon, cut it off and dig it. After digging more than three feet down and digging a pit with a radius of more than four feet, I saw Pueraria.

Unexpectedly, he dug another foot and a half down, and then pulled out the Pueraria. The cylindrical Pueraria is two feet long.

Looking at this Pueraria, long Jianhua felt a little strange“ The kudzu root seen before is spindle shaped, like sweet potato, and this is similar to a cylinder; I have some doubts in my heart. I wonder if I admit my mistake.

However, this doubt was soon dispelled. The leaves were provided by Chen Yuanshan. He had dug them before and processed them into pueraria powder. There would be no mistake.

Then dig the next one, and finally it's a cylindrical one.

The stem of the third kudzu vine was twice as thick as that of the two plants just now. He dug a pit nearly six feet deep and five feet large, and then dug out the kudzu vine; The Pueraria lobata is more than three inches thick, five feet long and weighs thirty or forty kilograms. It took a lot of effort to pull it out of the big pit dug by itself.

After taking the three Pueraria roots home, he came to Chen Yuanshan's house with a small one. Only then did he learn that the pueraria root has two shapes, one is similar to the cylindrical one, and the other is similar to the sweet potato.

Long Jianhua was completely relieved. He ran home to wash and peel the pueraria, then cut it into thin slices, put it in the basket, and take it out to dry tomorrow.