"The first batch of growth takes about ten days. Mushrooms do not need sunlight and cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, but they need to be well-ventilated and kept at a temperature between 22 and 30 degrees Celsius."
"Okay, I'll make you a water sprayer tomorrow. The mushroom spawn needs to be kept moist, but not waterlogged..."
Gu Yunyang explained many key points, and Gu Honglan wished she could take out a piece of paper and write them down.
But they hadn't received much formal education and didn't know many characters.
Gu Yunyang kept it all in mind, and finally said, "I'll say it a few more times, so you all remember it. If you have any questions later, you can come to me."
"Once you've all memorized it, when other people in the brigade want to plant it, I'll talk to the brigade leader and let them teach you. You'll get work points in return."
He's teaching everyone, so he definitely won't be credited with work points.
However, Gu Honglan and the others were not brigade cadres, so asking them to help pass on the knowledge would earn them work points.
This can also be seen as a way of supporting and taking care of the older sisters.
The main concern is taking care of Daya.
After repeating it three or four times, Gu Hongmei and the others took notes separately.
Only then did I write down all the key points that Gu Yunyang had mentioned.
Gu Yunyang emphasized again that if there was anything, they should go directly to him and not be afraid of trouble.
"Once you learn how to do it, you can harvest these mushrooms about every ten days. You can harvest them four more times, with each harvest about fifteen days apart. Each mushroom bag will yield about one and a half to two pounds."
Mushrooms are still relatively expensive.
In the past, they would only go up the mountain to pick mushrooms when it rained.
You can't collect much at once.
The prices offered by purchasing stations or supply and marketing cooperatives are not cheap.
Fresh ones, a little over one or two cents a pound.
Dried ones are more expensive, costing seven or eight cents a pound. Good quality ones can cost more than a dollar, or even two dollars a pound.
Shiitake mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms are even more expensive.
However, growing shiitake mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms is even more difficult.
After Gu Yunyang left, Gu Honglan and Gu Hongmei looked at the fifty mushroom bags in the corner of the room.
"If one weighs two jin, wouldn't fifty of them weigh a hundred jin?"
"If one jin costs 15 cents, then 100 jin would be 15 yuan?"
Their breathing became rapid, and the sisters were all unable to control themselves.
This is truly a golden goose!
"No, this is even better than a chicken-butt bank."
"My brother has gone to great lengths for us."
"Although we are not related in name, my brother is really good to us."
"But, should we really teach it to the rest of the team?"
"What are you thinking? If we don't teach him, Yunyang won't be able to keep his job as the brigade secretary. And if we get reported, that would be terrible."
The next day, when Gu Honglan went to work...
The news had already spread throughout the entire brigade.
"Honglan, you've really started growing mushrooms?"
"Can those mushrooms really grow on their own?"
Gu Honglan responded with a smile, "Yes, you can grow them yourself. But we've only just started; we received the mushroom bags last night. The mushroom bags are made of various materials and are for growing mushrooms. They're like our rice paddies."
"No, it won't happen that quickly. They said it would take ten days to two weeks to see results. We'll definitely let you know when we've successfully grown them."
"Don't worry, Secretary Gu just wants us to experiment first. We used five eggs for each mushroom bag."
After discussing it, Gu Honglan and the others realized that this mushroom bag was not cheap, but it was also very effective.
Two eggs were too few, so they said five eggs.
An auntie said curiously, "Didn't you say it was two eggs per egg?"
Gu Honglan glanced at the aunt and knew she was a notorious opportunist in the brigade. She immediately said, "Two eggs were the initial estimate. After all, Secretary Gu only read about it in a book and had never cooked it herself."
Five eggs are the cost.
Besides, how much do five eggs cost?
One mushroom bag is said to be able to be used for five cultivations, with each cultivation yielding about 1.5 to 2 pounds of mushrooms.
It still depends on how well you serve them.
Do the math, are five eggs expensive?
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