Besides clothes, he also bought Shumei a mirror, as she had been pestering Lin Guoqing for it for a long time. He also bought a pen for Shuying and Shugan.
As for Shuchao, before leaving, he said that he didn't want a pen but wanted some new and unique toys, but Lin Guoqing righteously rejected him.
I had originally brought him some snacks, but after the beating he gave me today, the snacks were confiscated.
All these odds and ends add up to about two or three hundred.
After the New Year, I had eight or nine thousand yuan left after building the house. Adding the income of the past two months and deducting the money spent on building the chicken coop and mushroom house in the previous few months, I still had less than 5,000 yuan left.
Chen Chunhua decided to use the remaining money to build a chicken coop, and put the remaining 4,000 yuan in the savings bank.
"Now we don't pick out the breeding eggs from the free-range chickens in the chicken coop. We sell them as soon as they lay. Once the peak egg-laying period is over, we sell the chickens too. I think we can make back the money we spent on building the chicken coop. Then we'll have a place to raise chicks from the eggs laid by the new batch of chickens..."
"You decide what to do. The money is in your hands anyway."
Chen Chunhua was used to discussing these matters with Lin Guoqing, so that he would have a rough idea of where the family's money was being spent. Lin Guoqing was also used to Shen Chunhua managing the family's finances, and he just wanted to participate.
"Hey, where are the mushrooms and nutrients I bought?"
"Why not put it on the table? Don't worry, no one dares to mess with your precious things."
When Liu Ni went to buy pork, Chen Chunhua went to the vegetable market with her to find some mushrooms, but there was basically nothing there. The supply of non-staple food and vegetables in Shanghai has always been tight, especially when the weather is hot. After all, this stuff depends on the weather.
The vegetable market opens at five in the morning, and everyone carries their baskets to pick the freshest vegetables. By the afternoon, there is basically nothing good left.
The pile of mushrooms she bought were all from roadside stalls that produced and sold their own mushrooms. Whenever she saw something different, she would buy some.
There are shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, Agaricus bisporus, and white enoki mushrooms.
Chen Chunhua currently cultivates only two types of edible mushrooms in her mushroom house, both of which she digs and cultivates from the mountains. One is the oyster mushroom, and the other is the golden enoki mushroom, with a yellow cap and an orange stem that resembles a small deer antler. Its official scientific name is actually the hairy-legged shiitake mushroom.
Later, the enoki mushrooms that appeared on the market were all white. In fact, they were all obtained by using strains isolated from individual winter mushrooms. After a lot of domestication, hybridization, and breeding, the white enoki mushrooms were finally obtained.
White enoki mushrooms, originally imported from Japan, are a modified variety. They are soft, resist opening, grow quickly, yield high yields, resist bacterial growth, and are water-resistant, making them more suitable for large-scale factory production and long-distance transportation.
In fact, China has also independently cultivated golden enoki mushrooms. The most representative one is "Sanming No. 1", which is still sold on the market. It tastes better than white enoki mushrooms, but there is a big bug.
The problem is that it grows too fast and has a very short maturity period, making it inconvenient to store and transport over long distances, so it is rarely seen on the market.
Chen Chunhua didn't want to raise that one, she just wanted to see if she could grow a white one.
Early the next morning, Chen Chunhua was busy. The chickens and ducks, which had not seen the boss for three days, warmly welcomed her inspection and fluttered their feathers around her.
Lin Yulan just received a gift from her daughter yesterday, and she still couldn't stop smiling. When she saw Chen Chunhua, she also grinned, telling her that she had laid a lot of eggs in the past two days.
"Jinzhou comes to the village early every morning to help deliver eggs, and then goes to work. I don't even know what time he gets up."
During the days when Chen Chunhua was away, Qi Jinzhou drove his big truck to help deliver the goods. Today was no exception. As they were talking, Qi Jinzhou's truck arrived at the door.
"Auntie, I'm here to pick up the eggs."
Qi Jinzhou was not shameless enough to call Lin Yulan "Mom" directly, but when he got out of the car and saw Chen Chunhua, he blurted out "Auntie".
"Aunt, are you back?"
"Yes, Jinzhou, you've worked hard these past two days. You had to rush over from the city so early in the morning... I can just take you there myself later. You won't be able to sleep well if you don't do it."
Chen Chunhua is also very optimistic about this kid. If there is anything, he will really come to help. It's a pity that he has not married Sanni yet. If he gets married and lives in the village... Chen Chunhua really wants to pay him to help deliver the goods. This truck is much faster than a tricycle.
"It's okay, it's okay. My car can come quickly. I've already arrived today, so I'll just drop it off first."
Without saying a word, Qi Jinzhou put the baskets of eggs that Lin Yulan had already stacked up onto the truck bed. He also took out the money he had received yesterday, remembering clearly which restaurant had given him how much money.
"Jinzhou, take this jar of biscuits with you. Leave it in the car and eat it whenever you're hungry." Chen Chunhua gave the biscuits that she had originally given to Lin Yulan to Qi Jinzhou. "I brought them back from Shanghai. They're very fragrant."
Qi Jinzhou didn't push or shove, he just grinned and said thank you, aunt to Chen Chunhua, then drove away.
"Jinzhou is a very honest child." Lin Yulan is the mother-in-law who likes her son-in-law more and more and has nothing but praise for Qi Jinzhou.
Chen Chunhua looked at her jokingly, "If you like it so much, just set the date quickly. I don't think Sanni will object."
"Then I still have to ask Sanni first, haha."
According to what Qin Jiefang said before, their chicks would be delivered this afternoon. Chen Chunhua and Lin Yulan cleaned the chicken coop together before going to the mushroom house.
The mushroom house is next to the river and has thick walls. Once the door is opened, the grounded house is five or six degrees cooler than outside. The temperature these two days is actually not suitable for growing mushrooms, but it is very suitable for cultivating mycelium.
She planned to do an experiment according to what she learned in the book. She placed the mushrooms she brought back on the table and took out the things she had prepared early in the morning.
Enoki mushroom is a wood-rotting fungus with a strong ability to decompose lignin and cellulose. Chen Chunhua took several large glass wide-mouthed bottles, mixed sawdust, rice bran, sugar and gypsum in proportion, added 1.4 times the amount of water, and filled each bottle to the shoulder.
After filling the bottle, use a pestle to make a hole from the center of the bottle mouth to the bottom, and then plug it with a cotton plug.
The book requires that the culture medium be sterilized at a pressure of 1.1 kilograms per square centimeter for 1.5 hours. Honestly, Chunhua, an illiterate person, has no idea what 1.1 kilograms per square centimeter means...
So she chose to use an earthen steamer to cook it for a full six hours, and then wait for it to cool down before inoculating it.
She had used potato agar as a culture medium before, and the effect should be similar. The inoculated bottles should be placed in a dark environment at 23-25 degrees. The temperature in the mushroom house is just right now.
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Comrade Chunhua is self-taught and working hard to become the Mushroom King.
It feels like it's Monday again after just the weekend, and I have to take a day off this week. I'm really crying (???)
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