Lin Shugan took out a few food coupons and gave them to her along with two five-yuan coupons.
"Hey, this is your living expenses for this month. Mom asked me to give it to you."
Both of her high school students receive 10 yuan per month, and they are treated equally.
Lin Shuying looked at the money and finally remembered to ask something, "...Is everything okay at home?"
"Everything is fine, right? ... The younger sister said she wanted bangs like Feng Chengcheng's, and the third sister offered to help, but ended up cutting her hair and it looked like it had been chewed by a dog..."
The youngest sister cried all night long, and then the third sister was beaten by her father and had to climb onto the roof.
Grandma's appetite is getting better and better. Maybe the fish was selling well yesterday, so she bought two roast chickens and ate the whole chicken by herself...
Mom is either reading a book or studying mushrooms in the mushroom house. Dad said if there were a mushroom college entrance exam, she would definitely pass it...
Lin Shuying listened to her brother's mumbling for a while, and suddenly she felt like she was back in the world.
"...Did they ask about me?"
Lin Shugan said "hmm", which made Shuying a little nervous.
"I said you passed the preliminaries. Dad told me not to be nervous or stressed. Many people repeated their studies for two or three years before passing. We all started school early, so we have plenty of time."
He paused and added,
"If you really don't pass the exam, you can always come back and help the farmer at home. You can pick mushrooms or chickens, and you can still make money!"
"Puchi!" Lin Shuying laughed out loud, then quickly covered her mouth because she remembered the environment in the senior high school corridor.
The pressure of preparing for the exam in the past few months suddenly became less severe.
"I know. I think I should still be able to pass the exam. Tell them not to worry about me!"
Before Lin Shu left, he said something earnestly.
"Sister, take some time to wash your hair. You can even cook..."
After saying that, he ran away, and Lin Shuying didn't even have the chance to raise her hand to hit him.
This brat!
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Chen Chunhua actually wanted to care about her eldest daughter's college entrance examination, but firstly, she really couldn't help with her studies, and secondly, she was really busy.
The newly built houses on the farms on the east and west sides of Sihe Village were basically completed in early April, and were put into use immediately after ventilation and disinfection.
She carefully selects the compost for the newly built Agaricus bisporus mushroom house before stacking it. The rice straw must be dry and mold-free, and the cow and horse manure must be free of soil and not deteriorate. It must also be dried together with the wheat straw before use.
This time she also added some soybeans and used the secondary fermentation method. It took her more than twenty days to finally enter the mushroom house to add the ingredients.
During the construction of the mushroom bed this time, she specifically requested that the baffle be raised, and when feeding the culture medium, the thickness of the culture medium was also increased to about 6 inches.
She'd noticed that when she harvested mushrooms before, areas with thicker foliage often yielded more mushrooms, or larger mushrooms. This was probably because thicker foliage gave her more staying power. Consequently, she'd also increased the amount of spawn she'd planted.
The new Agaricus bisporus room, covering over 200 square meters, used approximately 118 bottles of spawn and culture medium. The spawn remaining were the best from the first batch, striving to maximize the yield in the new room.
The original No. 1 mushroom house is now dedicated to growing oyster mushrooms on the ground floor and enoki mushrooms in the basement. The cultivation area for both types of mushrooms has been expanded, and Chen Chunhua has even used cottonseed hulls for both to see if that will yield a bit more than before.
The newly built mushroom house is longer than the others, at 20 meters long, but only 2.5 meters wide and three meters high. It has five layers of bed frames and a cultivation area of up to 1,000 square meters. It is the mushroom house that Chen Chunhua is most satisfied with at present.
The culture medium is made of sawdust, rice bran, gypsum powder, and sugar. Some trace elements and growth hormones are added. The culture medium is then sterilized in plastic bags and inoculated to create mushroom bricks. Shiitake mushroom mycelium cultivation takes longer than the other three types of mushrooms.
The mushroom brick is actually very large, even thicker than the mushroom wood she had pulled before. It may take until winter for the mushrooms to grow, so it is a long-term battle.
Before Labor Day, the batch of mushrooms planted before the New Year have basically been picked, and the harvest is about the same as before the New Year, but this time Shen Chunhua is not so sad because the output is about to be refreshed!
Normally, mushrooms would not grow easily in the summer, but this summer is different.
Chen Chunhua remembered clearly that temperatures across the country were generally low this year, with some areas experiencing extreme cold. Here, the highest temperature seemed to be around 30 degrees Celsius.
She's been taking time out every day lately to wrestle control of the TV from the kids, checking the weather forecast before heading out. The temperature for the entire month of June isn't expected to exceed 25 degrees Celsius.
So she is full of confidence and must harvest the last batch of mushrooms before the temperature rises.
In early June, the first batch of Agaricus bisporus, Oyster mushrooms and Enoki mushrooms can be harvested.
It turns out that no matter what kind of animals or plants they are, they all need to be studied in order to make progress.
The yield of this batch of Agaricus bisporus is significantly higher than the batch harvested before May Day in the old Agaricus bisporus room. The first batch of mushrooms yielded nearly 450 kilograms, and the average yield per square meter can reach about 1.8 kilograms.
Chen Chunhua looked at the numbers on the scale with her eyes curved with laughter, and turned to look at Liu Guoping.
"Has the new batch of material arrived? We'll have to pile it up after we pick two more crops! Don't leave any soybeans behind."
Liu Guoping seemed even more excited than Chen Chunhua, and he kept on promising with a smile, "I definitely won't miss out! Didn't you say that we should add some new ingredients to the old mushroom house? I've already contacted the chef there, and he'll send some more over."
Chen Chunhua nodded, "Then you can cover the soil here first! Wenqin, don't forget to disinfect the mushroom house and don't spill pesticides on the mushroom beds!"
"Okay, I'll move it right away!"
"Oh, I remember!"
"Chuanfang, how's the situation with the Oyster Mushroom?"
"The oyster mushrooms may have to wait another day, but I think the enoki mushrooms are ready to be harvested. Would you like to go and take a look?"
"Let's go! Yuehua, come with us."
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Chen Chunhua's mushroom cultivation base is currently the largest professional one among them, except for the state-owned mushroom station.
The price of mushrooms in the free market has actually increased after the New Year this year, especially after the temperature rose. Lin Guoqing said that in Shanghai, the market price of puffball mushrooms is as low as 1 yuan per catty, and the highest has risen to 5 yuan. The prices of other mushrooms are also rising.
However, the national purchase price is still only 0.5-1.1 yuan per catty, which is a big price difference.
However, storing mushrooms is a problem, especially Agaricus bisporus, which is the most delicate. If it is accidentally bumped or hit, it will turn black, and it can even leak water if pressed for a long time.
Even if she could borrow a car to transport the goods to Shanghai to sell, the bumpy journey, plus the accommodation and meals once she got there, might not mean she could sell all of them at once... Chen Chunhua didn't dare to take the risk, so she finally transported the goods directly to the county supply and marketing cooperative.
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