Qi Sheng was knowledgeable and recognized the snow fungus at a glance. He was a little surprised because snow fungus was rare in the area, especially in this season. It could be sold for a lot of money if picked.
"Madam, are you planning to sell snow fungus?" Snow fungus is very popular among the powerful and wealthy businessmen, and it will definitely fetch a good price.
After spending a few days together, Qi Sheng realized that Yun Yuan didn't really want to use his money, or she didn't dare to use it casually. She really wanted to keep the money for her studies.
He felt a little distressed, knowing that she was well-intentioned and it was just her nature. If she had any ideas about making money, he would support her unconditionally.
He thought: People who are suppressed for a long time will fall into self-doubt. If his wife can make money, and he accompanies and encourages her, she will definitely become more cheerful and confident.
She suffered a lot in the past ten years, and he will treat her well in the rest of his life.
Yun Yuan didn't know what he was thinking, so she shook her head slightly and carefully put the basswood away.
"There are too few snow fungi here. I plan to study how to grow them. If I succeed, we will have more than enough to eat."
Qi Sheng was afraid that she would be upset, so he said tactfully, "My lady, your idea is very good. Many knowledgeable people have the same idea as you, but they all failed without exception."
Seeing Yun Yuan frown, Qi Sheng changed the subject and said, "But I believe my lady can do it."
Yun Yuan nodded with a smile on her face and said confidently, "Just wait. In less than half a month, I'll be able to cultivate mushrooms. Then we can eat one and throw one away."
Qi Sheng twitched his lips, "I'm optimistic about you."
The morel chicken soup was indeed delicious. The next day, Yun Yuan listed a series of items needed and went to the county town in person.
The yield of basswood cultivation is too low due to the "seven-day harvest and eight-day harvest" method, and it can only be harvested once a year. Yun Yuan plans to use the bagging method to grow it.
The first step is to cultivate the fungus strain. The yield of directly crushing the snow fungus to make the fungus strain is very, very low, so it is important to cultivate the mother strain first.
There were no test tubes, no agar as a coagulant, and no potassium dihydrogen phosphate and glucose. After repeated experiments, Yun Yuan finally successfully replaced agar with a small amount of starch, and then added maltose, bone meal, soybean powder, water, etc. to make a simple culture medium, stuffed it with cotton, wrapped it with paper, and put it in a steamer for high-temperature sterilization.
After cooling, take it out and use a needle that has been sterilized with fire to cut the white fungus into small pieces and put them into the slope. Then use fire to sterilize the bottle mouth, plug it with cotton and wrap it with paper.
After a week, because there was no sterile operating table, only one of the twenty jade bottles was successful, and the others were contaminated by bacteria.
Even so, Yun Yuan was very happy.
Everything went smoothly afterwards. The tubes were transferred to expand the culture and separated from the ash fungus. A mother culture the size of a mung bean could be used to expand one bottle, and one bottle of mother culture could be used to expand 30 bottles. There would also be contamination from other bacteria, so not many were actually successful.
Greenhouses also need to be built.
Qi Sheng was drafted into the army. According to Yun Yuan's suggestion, he chose a place with "three parts sun and seven parts shade" to build a greenhouse to provide shade and moisture.
One person's strength was not enough, so Qi Sheng asked his second uncle Qi's family for help.
Second Uncle Qi was the son of Qi Sheng's nominal grandfather's younger brother, that is, the son of his third great uncle, so they were cousins. Unlike his grandfather's family who treated him badly, his third great uncle had great respect for scholars, especially Qi Sheng, who was good at reading, and was willing to help with everything.
Yun Yuan is very busy every day. She has to prepare sawdust, wheat bran, corn cobs, etc., and clean the plants infected with various bacteria and re-cultivate them. When the white fungus is used up, she uses basswood with mycelium.
The greenhouse has been built and the fungus strains have been prepared, all that’s left is inoculation.
"Sister, why are you still here? Dad is back and he broke his leg."
When Yun Yuan arrived, Yun's father was lying on the bed howling.
As soon as Yunmu saw her, she said angrily, "What are you doing here, you clingy thing?" She had not forgotten that Yun Yuan did not cooperate on the wedding day, making the villagers laugh at her. She lost face and dared not walk around in the village.
Yun Qiao watched the show with glee, filial piety was paramount, as long as his parents stood on his side, Yun Yuan would not be able to do anything.
"When it comes to betrayal, who can compare to you? You withheld your own children's things to subsidize your uncle's family. I have never had enough to eat since I was a child. Don't you feel guilty?"
"Okay, you dare to talk back, get out of here!"
Yun Yuan walked out without looking back.
"Come back!" Yunmu was used to bossing Yun Yuan around, and she said in a commanding tone, "Your father has a broken leg and needs to go to the clinic. Go back and bring ten taels of silver."
The news of Qi Sheng building a house spread throughout the village, and he also spent money to buy a lot of translucent oil paper. Although he couldn't come up with ten taels of silver, he could at least come up with five or eight taels.
She waited for Yun Yuan to bargain, but Yun Yuan just smiled and said, "Why?"
She didn't want to come at first, but thinking about the time when Yun Lan got into trouble, she hesitated and came anyway.
In the original owner's memory, Yun's father was a man without his own opinion and was completely controlled by Yun's mother. He loved Yun Lan the most, followed by Yun Qiao, and the original owner was ranked last. Perhaps the hens in the family were more favored than her.
So Yun Yuan was not surprised at all when she heard her father's scolding.
"Why? Because I'm your father! I've raised you for over ten years, and all I want is ten taels of silver. You ungrateful bastard! You should have been drowned in a bucket of urine the moment you were born!"
Yun Yuan scoffed, "Just ten taels of silver? Just for ten taels of silver, Mother would marry me off to a sickly man without blinking an eye! You just got back and don't know, but we've already signed an agreement to sever ties. Strictly speaking, Qi Sheng and I have nothing to do with you anymore."
Father Yun was stunned for a moment: "You want to sever ties with us? And why Qi Sheng? Shouldn't you marry Qi Han?"
"That's something you should ask your good wife and little daughter."
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