Chapter 106: Guiding the Liuhu Forestry Bureau is not going to be a good idea...
The man was in his forties and not very tall. Yan Xue had seen him before and had been to his home once.
It's just not a pleasant sight. Logically, this person shouldn't be in the training center.
Yan Xue couldn't help but look at Zhou Wenhui beside her. Zhou Wenhui had already withdrawn her gaze, her face expressionless, her lips pursed.
But the entrance to the training center was so small that before the guard could ask who they were looking for, they had already seen them. "Wen Hui."
Then he told the guard at the center, "This is my daughter. She works as an accountant at your training center."
The guard suddenly realized, "It's Accountant Zhou." Not knowing the inside story, Zhou Wenhui's face became even colder.
Father Zhou seemed oblivious and walked forward, "Wenhui, Dad came to see you."
Compared with the indifference Yan Xue had seen at Zhou's house, his attitude was much more gentle.
Seeing Yan Xue, he even greeted her, "You're the technician Yan from Wen Hui's unit, right?"
It seemed that he had forgotten that Yan Xue had been to his house, or perhaps he had not looked closely at Yan Xue and Liu Weiguo and his group that day.
Zhou Wenhui's face was tense, and she didn't want to talk to him at all. "What's the matter?"
She was worried that something was wrong at home, but Zhou's father frowned when he heard this. "You are my daughter. If there is nothing wrong, can't I come to see you?"
She couldn't afford that. Who knew how much she would have to pay if he looked at her?
Zhou Wenhui laughed at herself, "You've come at an inopportune time. I have something else to do, so I have to leave now."
As he was about to walk around Zhou's father, Zhou's father's face darkened. "You are really capable. You went home for the New Year and didn't even eat a bite of food at home. Now I can't do that even if I come to see you."
His words were full of accusations and anger, "No matter how bad I am, I'm still your father. How can you treat your daughter like this?"
Zhou Wenhui is a girl with a strong sense of morals. He said it outside, and in front of others, obviously wanting Zhou Wenhui to give him some face.
After all, he is the father. No matter whether he is wrong or not, in the eyes of outsiders, as long as Zhou Wenhui does not give him face, Zhou Wenhui is wrong.
Zhou Wenhui didn't act as he expected. "Didn't you tell me not to go back to the Zhou family to beg for food? How could I dare to eat your food?"
Although his face still looked bad, his voice was calm and composed, unlike before when his face flushed with embarrassment.
Father Zhou was choked. "I was just angry. I'm your father. How can I really not let you come to my house?"
"When I came back three days later, you didn't let me in." Zhou Wenhui's voice remained calm. "You even poured a basin of water outside the door."
Although she originally just wanted to go back to see her mother, her heart still grew colder the moment she was turned away.
Zhou Wenhui looked at Zhou's father and said, "I have a sense of dignity. After what you said, how can I dare to visit your house again?"
Zhou's father's face turned red and blue. "What are you talking about? Even if...even if what I said was wrong, I'm still your father!"
Would he admit that what he said was wrong? Zhou Wenhui not only did not feel relieved, but became more alert. "Are you worried about something again?"
She didn't even wait for Zhou's father to open his mouth to refute, "The Liu family didn't help you get promoted, and I don't have the money to give gifts to your boss."
Zhou's father's face turned blue again because of the choking. He didn't expect that in just a few years, his daughter had changed completely. She became more confident and learned to talk back.
But he also didn't expect that she had insisted on marrying a boy from the ditch, but she didn't spend her whole life in the ditch, but was transferred to the county instead.
Now he is an accountant in the cultivation center, and he is also cultivating wood ear mushrooms. Now who in Chengshui doesn’t know about wood ear cultivation, and who doesn’t know that wood ear cultivation can make money?
Even that boy whom he never took seriously, was said to be doing well in sales and was about to be transferred to sell wood ear mushrooms in Quanchengshui.
Everyone knows that there are extra benefits in sales and you can get good things from outside. Anyone who has heard about this and sees him always says that he is so lucky.
But he didn't enjoy this good fortune. He didn't see any good things and didn't get any honor.
The couple didn't even want to go home, but he risked his life to come and find them, and was scolded.
It turns out that girls are raised by other people's families. It's useless to be nice to them. Once they get married, they will just turn their elbows outward.
Zhou's father also arrived and apologized. Seeing that Zhou Wenhui was unmoved, he could only look at Yan Xue beside him and said, "Look at her, Technician Yan. She's so stubborn. I said something in anger at the time, and she still remembers it."
What kind of parents are not good in this world? Besides, he hadn't bowed his head before. He believed that Technician Yan would understand the situation and help persuade that unfilial girl.
Then he heard Technician Yan say with a smile, "It's too formal to call me Technician Yan. I've been to your house before, with Weiguo. Have you forgotten?"
Father Zhou had really forgotten, but he could recall it as soon as he thought about it. His face froze immediately, and he realized that he might have found the wrong person.
As expected, Yan Xue's smile remained unchanged. "My wife and I were present at the Jiang Debao incident. Wei Guo wanted to hit Jiang Debao, but my wife helped stop him."
Although the person who was stopped was someone who wanted to stop Liu Weiguo, that was not important. Did Qi Fang stop him? Was his stop quite effective?
Yan Xue was telling Zhou's father that I knew everything about you selling your daughter, so you don't have to expect me to help you morally blackmail your daughter.
Father Zhou could also hear it, and his expression became uglier, but he couldn't think of anything to refute for a while.
Yan Xue raised her wrist and looked at her watch. "Uncle, we have to go on a business trip. If we don't leave now, we will miss the bus. I won't say any more to you."
He pulled Zhou Wenhui, and Zhou Wenhui didn't even look at her father. The two of them hurried to the nearby bus stop.
It wasn't until they got off the bus and boarded the train to Baisong County that Yan Xue asked Zhou Wenhui, "Are you still angry?"
"A little bit indeed." Zhou Wenhui smiled bitterly. "When I got married, he didn't even come. He even asked my mother to tell me that he didn't recognize me."
Now that she and Liu Weiguo are living happily and have become successful, he wants to mend their relationship again. Why?
Even though he was old and really felt that he had done something wrong, she was not so angry. But why didn't he come when she and Weiguo were still together?
The only thing that made Zhou Wenhui feel a little better was that Yan Xue was never like those aunts and uncles who wanted to reconcile her and her father whenever they saw her.
Not only did they try to reconcile her, but they also asked her to bow her head to her father and admit her mistakes, saying that her father was just talking. Could there be any grudge between father and daughter that could last overnight?
Yan Xue even smiled at her, "It seems that you are really living a good life, Accountant Zhou." The smile was teasing and cunning.
Zhou Wenhui also smiled a little, "It's true that we are living a good life." She had never imagined it to be so good before.
"That's more important than anything else." Yan Xue looked at her with a smile, and she nodded again, "It's indeed more important than anything else."
The one she will spend her life with is Weiguo. It is enough for Weiguo to understand and support her. There is no need to take everything to heart.
As he was thinking, Yan Xue asked again, "Weiguo has moved to town to work as a salesperson now. Have you two decided where to settle down?"
"I've thought about it." Zhou Wenhui's face warmed up when she mentioned this. "He said he has more free time than me. He commutes back and forth and settles down in the county."
Liu Weiguo knew how to coax his wife, so Yan Xue was not surprised at all. "Then you can take over Airong too."
"Yeah." Zhou Wenhui's face became even warmer. "We plan to find a house near the center and send her to the nursery during the day."
Nowadays, larger companies all have nurseries. You can take your children there when you go to work in the morning and pick them up when you get off work in the evening.
If the unit is small, there are county daycare centers in the county and town daycare centers in the town. There is a nursery of the Forestry Bureau near their center.
Thinking about it this way, life is really getting better and better, and Zhou Wenhui regained her motivation.
The two of them took another bus in Baisong County before arriving at Wugang Town. The Wugang Town Forestry Bureau had already sent someone to wait there. "Would you like to stay in the town for the night, or..."
"Let's go directly to the forest farm." Yan Xue and Zhou Wenhui both came from the forest farm. They didn't care about so many things and cared more about efficiency.
The Wugang Town Forestry Bureau dispatched a motorcycle truck to take them directly to the nearest cultivation base in the town.
Wugang Town only ordered 3,000 bottles of mushroom spores and set up two bases, but in terms of attitude, it is definitely much better than the Liuhu Town Forestry Bureau.
Not only were all arrangements made perfectly along the way, but when we arrived at the first stop, the forestry secretary personally came out to greet us and said, "Thank you for your hard work, two technicians."
The other party shook hands with Yan Xue and Zhou Wenhui one by one, and said earnestly, "Our base will be in trouble for the two technicians."
He personally arranged accommodation for the two in the guesthouse and asked them if they needed to rest. After learning that they did not need to, he took them to see the base.
Their base was also chosen strictly according to the conditions given by Yan Xue. It is close to the water source, well-ventilated, and faces north and south. It can be seen that they put a lot of thought into it.
When they saw Yan Xue and Zhou Wenhui, the people at the base were even more enthusiastic. After the forestry secretary finished his introduction, they applauded for a long time without stopping.
Zhou Wenhui rarely saw such a scene, and her face turned red. When she returned to the guesthouse that night, she couldn't help but say to Yan Xue, "I'm so embarrassed."
"So they are smart people." Yan Xue said with a smile, "Just wait and see, the two bases in Wugang will definitely be established."
People were so warm to them, the secretary personally received them, the whole base applauded and welcomed them, and everyone called them technicians. How could they not teach them well?
Moreover, Wugang Town is not part of Changshan County at all, but it still went across counties to buy this batch of mushroom strains from them. This is not a courage that ordinary people can have.
The next morning, the two rushed to the base. Everything they needed was already prepared, and another group of people had arrived.
This is from another base in Wugang Town, and the team leader is also the secretary of their forest farm. "I have brought the people here, so there is no need to trouble the two technicians to teach them again."
The visitor smiled and said, "But after the teaching is finished, please ask the two technicians to come over to our place and give us some guidance to see if there is anything we are not doing well."
Who could refuse this? Wasn't their attitude good enough? Wasn't their consideration thorough enough? Anyway, Yan Xue and Zhou Wenhui went in the end.
If I go there and see something that's not quite right, I can't help but point it out. If the people at the base don't quite understand something, I'll ask them and I can't help but say a few more words.
Before the two left, the base sent a little girl to give each of them a wreath made of forsythia branches.
"There's nothing good in the mountains right now, and your county doesn't lack what we have. This is a small token of our appreciation. The two technicians have put in a lot of effort this time."
Zhou Wenhui couldn't stop smiling. After getting in the car, she couldn't help but touch the forsythia buds and said, "If we don't leave now, I'll feel embarrassed to stay here."
Yan Xue also laughed, "Yeah, if we don't leave now, I'm afraid that all the things in our heads will be taken out and emptied out."
Zhou Wenhui couldn't help laughing after hearing this. She didn't expect that they were treated so warmly and returned two days late. Guo Changan and Lang Yue'e were also late.
When Zhuang Qixiang asked about this, Guo Changan remained calm. "When they saw that we were the ones going, Donggou had some complaints, but they've resolved it."
Yan Xue was the only person in the center who had been reported in the newspapers, and everyone only recognized Yan Xue. When they saw that it was Guo Changan and Lang Yue'e who went, they couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.
However, Guo Changan's years with Yan Xue were not in vain. He found several problems as soon as he arrived, and each of them was on point.
His own skills are indeed very good. Although his hands and feet are inconvenient, his eyes are like a ruler and he can tell a millimeter more or less at a glance.
Everyone went from being skeptical at first to being convinced, and by the time the two were leaving, they were completely impressed. Later, the secretary of the Donggou Town Forestry Bureau called Zhuang Qixiang and mentioned Guo Changan, "He's from Jinchuan too, right? I can't tell."
Zhuang Qixiang is already used to it. "Without solid skills, I wouldn't dare send anyone to guide you in planting."
After returning from the two towns, they sorted out the remaining strains and checked the inoculation progress at the breeding center.
This year's strains have reached the fifth generation. The fifth generation strains have severely degenerated and have poor resistance to other bacteria. They are no longer suitable for cultivation as strains.
Gao Daidi was already a skilled worker. During the time they were away, she inoculated all the comparison strains and divided them by region.
Then there are the remaining ones sold to the forestry farms in various towns, which total less than 1,000 bottles. Yan Xue has not touched them for the time being, keeping them in case any of the forestry farms needs to be replanted.
If you find that foreign bacteria are growing in the early stage of inoculation and the situation is serious enough that the drill hole must be cleaned, you can actually replant the seed.
The ears of the replanted crops will emerge later, but it will not affect the second and third years. It is better than leaving it empty and suffering reduced yields for three consecutive years.
Sure enough, Chengshui and Donggou replenished some more bottles on their side later, a total of more than 500 bottles, but Wugang did not replenish any.
That left only about 200 bottles. Yan Xue thought for a moment and asked Zhou Wenhui, "Have all the cans from each town been returned?"
Because cans are reusable, the forestry bureaus in each town will require a deposit when taking the mushroom spores away, which will be returned when the cans are returned.
This money also needs to be paid, and Zhou Wenhui knows it best. "They have all been returned. About 100 of them were damaged, and that has been deducted from the deposit."
"Then wash out some of these cans. I'll need them." Yan Xue thought for a moment, "Let's wash out two thousand first."
Guo Changan was also counting the strains at the time, and upon hearing this, he asked, "Are you going to do some experiment?"
"I guess so," Yan Xue said. "I was wondering if wood can be grown, could sawdust be grown?"
"Sawdust?" Guo Changan was really surprised.
"Yes, isn't sawdust also wood, even though it's broken into pieces? And we use sawdust to cultivate stock and cultivars."
In fact, Yan Xue wanted to try whether she could use canning bottles to simulate hanging bag planting. After all, she had used canning bottles instead of plastic bags when cultivating original species and cultivated species before.
But she herself wasn't entirely sure, let alone anyone else. Zhuang Qixiang was even more perplexed when he heard this. "Using sawdust to grow wood ear mushrooms? Don't wood ear mushrooms grow on wood?"
Wild wood ear mushrooms grow on wood. Everyone can understand using wood to grow wood ear mushrooms, but when sawdust is used instead, no one would have thought that their ingredients are actually the same.
Yan Xue did know that growing wood ear mushrooms using sawdust was indeed feasible, as was the later practice of using hanging bags. It also had a short growth cycle and high yield, but the taste and nutritional value were poor.
Of course, I can’t say, “I just want to try it. After all, sawdust is also made from sawing wood, and it can be used to cultivate bacteria before.”
She discussed with Zhuang Qixiang, "We just happened to have some unsold mushroom seeds, so we have to plant them all, otherwise they'll be wasted. Sawdust is easier to work with than wood, and it doesn't take up much space to plant."
The two biggest advantages of hanging bag planting over log planting are that the raw materials are cheap and easy to obtain, and the space utilization rate is high, and it can be planted indoors.
Their cultivation center has a large number of cultivation rooms, which are equipped for this experiment in cultivation. Yan Xue also doesn't want to be left with nothing to do once the strains are sold out in April.
Moreover, there is a major limitation in the planting of logs, which is that natural wood must be used. The tree stumps in the forest are limited, and sooner or later they will not be enough. It is also not convenient to cut down trees specifically for the planting of wood ear mushrooms.
After all, the forests in this era all belonged to the state, unlike later times when they were contracted to individuals, who could plant tree species suitable for growing wood ear mushrooms and cut them down regularly.
After much deliberation, Zhuang Qixiang decided to let Yan Xue give it a try. After all, it was Yan Xue's idea to grow wood ear mushrooms.
Moreover, it would be a waste if these fungi were not planted. To plant them, you need wood, unlike sawdust, which is already available in the center.
Soon 2,000 canning jars were cleaned, autoclaved, and filled with 78% sawdust, 21% rice bran, and 1% sucrose.
Compared with the culture medium of the original species and cultivated species, a different material was used, but Yan Xue actually only knew the ratio and was not clear about the difference in the growth conditions between the mycelium and the fruiting bodies.
This will have to be tried slowly. Before that, everyone in the center heard a piece of news that the Liuhu Town Forestry Bureau might not be doing well this year.
Liu Weiguo had brought the news; he and Zhou Wenhui had rented a house nearby and moved in a few days ago. It was only May, and there wasn't much wood ear mushroom to sell, so he had nothing better to do, so he went up the mountain a few times to gather some.
After plucking the berries, they brought them to the center for distribution to everyone. Even Zhuang Qixiang and the guards got some, which made Zhuang Qixiang feel embarrassed. "I don't need any."
"How could that be possible?" Liu Weiguo was also good at speaking. "My daughter Wenhui works for you and relies entirely on you for care. How could I forget you?"
This made Zhuang Qixiang even more embarrassed. After all, when Zhou Wenhui first came, he had questioned Zhou Wenhui's ability and almost embarrassed Zhou Wenhui.
Liu Weiguo simply picked up a bundle of celery and stuffed it into his hand. "Hurry up and take it. It's not worth much. If we hadn't harvested wild vegetables this year, I could have picked more."
Yan Xue was not polite with Liu Weiguo. A few days ago, when Liu Weiguo and Zhou Wenhui moved, she and Qi Fang went to help and had a meal there.
She noticed a key point in Liu Weiguo's words, "You just said you won't be harvesting wild vegetables this year. Are there very few wild vegetables this year?"
"Not much," Liu Weiguo said. "Last year, there wasn't much snow, and the roots of some wild vegetables were frozen, so they haven't grown much this year."
The roots of prickly ash and Acanthopanax senticosus are still okay, but herbaceous wild vegetables like celery have shallow roots and need to be covered with thick snow for protection in winter.
If there is little snow that year and the roots are damaged, it will be difficult to pull them out the next year. That's why Yan Xue said this business is unstable.
When she asked this question, everyone else also realized what was going on. Zhou Wenhui even confirmed it again: "What about Niu Maoguang? Is there a lot of Niu Maoguang?"
"There's not much big-leaf celery left, so how much more can there be of Niumaoguang?" Liu Weiguo said. "Big-leaf celery is much more abundant than Niumaoguang."
The secretary of Liuhu Town must be worried this year. He just withdrew the mushroom strains and was preparing to pick wild vegetables to earn foreign exchange, but he won’t be harvesting wild vegetables this year.
Everyone looked at each other and thought that it was too early to draw a conclusion since they had just started picking wild vegetables this year. In the end, no one said anything.
Liu Weiguo was in the mountains last year and didn't know about Liuhu Town. He asked Zhou Wenhui, "What's going on? Do you want to eat Niumaoguang? If you want, I'll go up the mountain and pick some tomorrow."
Suddenly everyone's eyes fell on Zhou Wenhui, some smiling, some teasing, making her blush, "Who said I was going to eat Niu Mao Guang?"
"So what do you want to eat?" Liu Weiguo asked her, rubbing his hands. "Just tell me what you want to eat. I'm free anyway."
Everyone couldn't help laughing after hearing this. Yan Xue even pushed Zhou Wenhui and said, "Alright, everyone's here to pick you up. You should get off work quickly. There's not much work to do anyway."
"I'm not here to pick her up from get off work. I'm here to deliver wild vegetables." Liu Weiguo tried to cover up his mistake, but Zhou Wenhui stepped lightly on his foot.
As the two of them walked out, Liu Weiguo turned back and looked at Yan Xue with a smile, "Your Qi Fang is here to pick you up from get off work, and this time he's really here to pick you up."
Yan Xue was the one being looked at immediately. However, Yan Xue was not as shameless as Zhou Wenhui. She looked calm and started packing her things. "Then I'll leave too."
This was very boring. Liu Weiguo stopped teasing her and went out to tease the fat boy on the front bar of Qi Fang's bicycle, "Did Yan Yu miss Uncle Weiguo?"
After Qi Fang bought the bicycle, he installed a child seat on the front bar to carry the little fat boy, and the back seat to carry Yan Xue.
At this moment, the fat boy was wearing a red hat on his head, shaking his short legs and laughing happily, but he just curved his peach blossom eyes and said loudly: "I didn't think about it!"
Liu Weiguo hissed and looked at Qi Fang, "Isn't your son usually very sweet? Why does he act like you when he's around me?"
"Who knows?" Qi Fang helped his son straighten his slightly crooked hat. Seeing Yan Xue coming out, he put his long legs on the bicycle.
He was indeed tall and had long legs, and he could easily support his feet on the ground when sitting in the car. Liu Weiguo glanced at him and walked away silently.
He didn't notice that after Yan Xue got on the bike, she put her arms around Qi Fang's waist. Qi Fang freed one hand to hold hers before riding out.
The little fat boy noticed it and twisted his body to look back, but before he could see it, the car started moving and attracted his attention away again.
This little guy has been addicted to riding in cars recently. His relationship with his father has improved in order to ride in the car. Sometimes he goes for a ride outside and then comes back to stay in the car and refuse to get out.
The family of three left the training center and met Qu Mingli, who had also just got off work, on the way and greeted him.
But I didn't expect Qu Mingli to ride over and catch up again, "Xiao Qi, can you modify the old hydraulic system before Jicai 50?"
Qi Fang sensed something was wrong the moment he heard it. "Hasn't the city already applied to the provincial government for a change?"
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