Chapter 249 Ginseng Breeding
The surface of the cured meat that has not been over-summered does not have even a trace of mold, so it can be directly cooked after being cleaned.
After such a long time, the salt has already penetrated into every part of the bacon. When cut, it is red and white in color, and exudes a faint meaty aroma.
As soon as Xiulan put the meat in the pan and fried it, a rich aroma came out immediately. The fat turned translucent and the lean meat became more red and bright.
Fry it for a while, add the chopped garlic and stir-fry for a few times before serving.
When the rice is cooked, eat it with the fried bacon with garlic, it is instantly delicious.
The aroma of young garlic is unique, a bit similar to that of garlic sprouts, but with a different flavor. It is simply too delicious when combined with the aroma of bacon.
After finishing the rice, Lin Heng ate two chopsticks of garlic and bacon, and praised his wife's cooking skills.
“This meat is delicious.”
Xiaoxia nodded and said that it was a bit difficult to eat with a spoon.
Lin Heng took the bowl and fed her, but she didn't know how to use chopsticks yet.
After dinner, Lin Heng sat in the yard to bask in the sun as usual. Half an hour later, he got up and went into the house to get rice, corn and soybean seeds to give to his father.
I bought two bags of rice seeds and three bags of corn and soybean seeds, which are more than enough for the little land at home now.
When Father Lin got the seeds, he looked at the package curiously. He was shocked when he saw the words "yield 1,000 to 1,200 kilograms per mu" written on it.
"Can this really achieve a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu? This can't be a lie, right?" Lin's father was full of doubts.
You know, his family's rice yield per mu last year was only more than 300 kilograms, which is equivalent to three times the amount. How can he not be excited? "Yes, isn't this false propaganda? The corn yield per mu is 1,200 kilograms, and the soybean yield per mu is 400 kilograms. It's too much!" Lin's mother looked at the corn and soybean seeds again and again, but still didn't believe it.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "They wrote this only after they had grown so many seeds. How could the seeds purchased by the Provincial Agricultural Science Institute be falsely advertised?"
Then he added: "As long as you apply fertilizer well, spray pesticides in time, and don't have any major diseases or insect pests, then there will be no problem."
This yield per mu is considered average. It would be horrible if hybrid rice could produce 3,000 kilograms per mu. Of course, hybrid rice is said to be very unpalatable.
"Don't even mention one thousand kilograms. Even if I had eight hundred kilograms, I would be able to buy seeds and plant crops every year." Father Lin nodded.
Mother Lin also nodded: "Yes, even 800 kilograms is more than double our yield per mu last year. Ten mu of land can produce 8,000 kilograms, and we won't have to eat cornmeal anymore."
"I think there will be no problem. Many farmers in Ancheng are buying it." Lin Yue said as he walked into the yard.
Hearing their eldest son say this, the two elders became excited.
After putting the seeds into the house, Father Lin led the cow to continue plowing the field, and Lin Heng followed to pick up eels.
The fields seemed to be too dry in the afternoon, and there were very few eels. I didn't see a single one after plowing a field.
"Dad, let me plow it."
Lin Heng said something and went over to take the plow handle. With a light shout, the big yellow ox pulled the plow forward quickly, and the soil was turned up and rolled to the side. This process was extremely squeezing.
"These cows and horses are so easy to use. It's a pleasure to drive them!"
After plowing a field, Lin Heng sighed and said, "It is such a pleasant thing to drive the oxen to plow the fields."
"Give it to me."
Father Lin laughed and carried the plow to the field below.
Lin Heng sat on the edge of the field and enjoyed the breeze for a while, watching his father and elder brother taking turns plowing the fields. Xiongba squatted beside him, sticking out his tongue and pricking up his ears, always paying attention to any movement around him.
Before he knew it, the sun had set. Lin Yue was holding the wooden bucket and shook his head, saying, "Brother, I didn't catch anything this afternoon. Just one fish."
"That's normal. There are no eels in this kind of dry fields." Lin Heng was not surprised by this. Eels are all in that kind of muddy fields.
Lin Yue said: "Just eat the eels in the room. There aren't many anyway and they won't sell for much."
Lin Heng nodded: "Keep it for now, and eat it when you have time in a few days."
On the way back, the three of them discussed the work to be done tomorrow. They had already found the right people and notified everyone else. His uncle also asked the people who came down the mountain to go to the market to take the letter back.
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The next morning, Lin Heng got up at seven o'clock just after dawn. After exercising, he drove to the town.
At this time, only a few houses in the town were open, Wang Zhou hadn't even gotten up yet, and the door of the purchasing station was closed. Lin Heng parked the car on the road and waited for a while, then saw Liu Haigui and five other people coming over, carrying a tool bag in his hands.
"Squeeze it."
Lin Heng looked at Liu Haigui and said that he was too lazy to make a second trip. No one would care anyway, so it didn't matter if he was overloaded.
"Can seven people fit in it? And can it be driven?" Liu Haigui was a little skeptical about the horsepower of the car.
"Try it. If you can squeeze it in, there's no problem." Lin Heng said. There is no problem with the horsepower of the car.
After some attempts, they actually sat down. There were three people sitting behind Lin Heng, and three people squeezed in the sidecar next to him.
After sitting down, Lin Heng drove slowly towards Hongfeng Village. The horsepower of the car was more than enough, as he was worried about an accident if he drove too fast.
At 7:52, a car of people arrived at the foot of Hongfeng Mountain.
"Boss Lin, you are digging fish ponds. This is a big project." Liu Haigui was shocked when he saw so many fish ponds.
"Yes, your job is to build the pond warehouse."
Lin Heng nodded, and he drove the car directly along the road in the middle of the fish pond to the top where the house was to be built. All the people from the village who came to work had already arrived, and his father and elder brother were watching.
His third father, uncle and others also came and stood together. When they saw Lin Heng coming, they were shocked at the horsepower of the car, which could actually pull so many people.
Lin Heng parked the car, took out his workbook and started to register. Ordinary workers in the village were still paid 80 cents a day, without meals.
After registering the work book, Lin Heng began to assign work.
Lin Heng looked at the mustache man and said, "Liu Haigui, you guys will start by laying the foundation today. Is it enough for you six big workers and twelve small workers?"
"Enough, enough." Liu Haigui nodded.
"Okay." Lin Heng assigned him twelve small workers, including his father, who mainly played a supervisory role.
After the division, Liu Haigui led his men to start measuring and laying out the lines, preparing to lay the foundation. Because the warehouse was only one floor and three meters high, the foundation did not need to be very good, and it could be built with large stones and concrete.
Twelve people were assigned, and Lin Heng still had 15 people including himself.
“All of us will go to the Red Maple Mountain area and help me cut down small trees and dig up the forest land.”
Lin Heng looked at the crowd and said, these people all came with hoes and machetes.
When he arrived at the wooden house on Red Maple Mountain, he began to process the trees in the forest, preparing for the planting of ginseng under the forest later.
"Except for the trees I planted on purpose, all the trees thinner than my arms were cut down. These six people are enough. The remaining nine people will use hoes to loosen the soil and remove weeds and some small tree roots."
"The trees we cut down won't be wasted. We can just build a circle around Red Maple Mountain to prevent cattle and sheep from coming in."
After that, Lin Heng led everyone to work together. Hongfeng Mountain originally had many tall trees, and the distance between trees was relatively large. After this treatment, the distance between trees became even larger.
This semi-shady environment is very suitable for the growth of ginseng. After a few years when the ginseng is harvested, he should have earned enough money to build a villa in the mountains.
"You and the diesel saw are really fast."
Seeing Lin Heng using a diesel saw, someone smiled and said.
"This has no disadvantages except that it is a little expensive. It is very fast and effortless to saw trees." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"But it's not without its drawbacks. It's hard to saw trees that are only two or three centimeters thick," he continued.
"Can I try it?"
Some people really wanted to give it a try, so Lin Heng was happy to lend them the diesel saw.
He bought twenty kilograms of ginseng seeds. One kilogram of seeds can plant almost one acre of land, so he only needed to open up more than twenty acres of land in the forest.
The forest on Hongfeng Mountain is not a shrub forest. This kind of tall forest covers more than 100 acres. Lin Heng chose the most suitable one on the top of the mountain, which is rich in humus and has plenty of scattered sunlight.
After working here for two hours, Lin Heng handed over the supervision work to his third father and went down the mountain to take a look at the house building technology here.
When Lin Heng came down, they had already laid out the lines according to the blueprint and started digging the foundation.
In the warehouse, the foundation was dug and then poured, and then the walls were built. In the incubator, the incubator pool inside the house needed to be taken out, bricks and cement were laid, and drainage pipes and water inlet pipes were installed before the foundation could be poured and the walls could be built.
Lin Heng took a ruler and a level and measured it. Liu Haigui's technique was okay and there was nothing to complain about.
"Boss Lin, just rest assured when I tell you to." Liu Haigui said with a smile.
"Yes, it's okay." Lin Heng nodded.
"By the way, are you planning to use steel structure or wood for the top of this warehouse?" Liu Haigui asked again.
"Let's use wood. It's very troublesome to transport the steel structure from the city." Lin Heng shook his head.
If it was a steel structure, he wouldn't have to buy so many bricks. Wouldn't it be better to use steel structure entirely?
The roof still uses wooden beams and then paved with ceramic tiles. However, this time the wooden main beams have to be purchased, because the big trees in his house are too far away, and he doesn't want to cut down the red maple trees on the mountain for the time being.
But wood doesn’t cost much these days, so it doesn’t matter.
The sun set in the blink of an eye. Today, only a small part of the foundation was dug. The efficiency of digging on Hongfeng Mountain was not fast. A little more than one acre was dug a day.
There are still many kinds of tree roots and vines in the forest, which is equivalent to reclaiming the land. It is very laborious to dig, so it is normal to be slow.
The next day, Lin Heng took a look at the work here and went back. He dug a lot of humus soil from the mountain and poured it into a vegetable plot in the front yard. He was preparing to grow ginseng seedlings.
The growth time of ginseng seedlings is relatively long. He took out the 20 kilograms of seeds he bought, poured them all into a wooden basin and soaked them in warm water.
Two days later, when the seeds have absorbed enough water, sow them in the prepared humus soil, sprinkle them with water and cover them with a film.
It takes one or two months for ginseng seeds to germinate, and by the time they germinate, it will be the Qingming Festival. Lin Heng does not plan to grow seedlings at home, but waits for them to show white buds and then plant them directly in the forest.
This will have a much higher survival rate than sowing it directly.
In a blink of an eye, it was already the fourth day of work, and Lin Heng went to check the progress of the work.
On the construction side of the site, the foundation has been dug and the pouring was completed yesterday.
Liu Haigui and several other skilled workers are now building an indoor incubation pool. An 80-square-meter incubation pool is built in an incubation room. It is one meter high, ten meters long and eight meters wide, and requires bricklaying and cement application.
Although they were digging the foundation these two days, the workers were not idle either. They have already built two hatching pools, but they have not yet applied cement.
On this side of the mountain, after three days, we had worked on almost four acres of land. After all, it was all done by manpower, so we couldn't ask for too much.
But now the tree sawing work has been completed, and Lin Heng is very satisfied after seeing it. At a glance, the forest is very transparent, the messy small trees are gone, and the branches of the big trees have all been cut down to two or three meters high, so people walking in the forest will no longer be scratched by the treetops.
"Lin Heng, I was the one who ordered the cutting of these branches. Is it okay?" Li Baiquan said with a smile.
"I thought that since you want to grow ginseng, you need to let more sunlight in, so I cut some branches of the big tree." He explained with a smile.
"That's great, uncle-in-law, you're very thoughtful." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
After watching for a while, Lin Heng went to check the wooden house. The door here was not locked, so they could come and drink water when they were tired.
On the way back, Lin Heng looked at the Dendrobium officinale he planted on the tree. They were dormant in winter, and after a closer look, he found that some of them were still alive.
After checking the progress of the work here, Lin Heng drove away again. Blowing in the cold wind that was not too cold anymore, he arrived at the door of Liang the Carpenter in Baima Village in a short while.
When Lin Heng came over, Carpenter Liang was having breakfast. Seeing Lin Heng, he quickly stood up and said, "Oh, what a rare guest. Come in and have a seat. Let's talk first."
"No, I just ate." Lin Heng shook his head: "I came to tell the carpenter that you can go up and help tomorrow. I need your help to make the beams and other things. The salary is still one dollar and fifty cents a day."
"We'll talk about this later. Even if you don't want to eat, just drink some water."
Carpenter Liang put the bowl down, took Lin Heng's arm and said politely.
"All right."
Lin Heng couldn't really break free, so he could only follow in, drink a sip of tea, and entertain the guests warmly.
"I've finished my tea, so I'll be leaving now."
Lin Heng finished a cup of tea, then stood up and said goodbye with a smile.
Carpenter Liang couldn't help himself and sent him to the road, saying, "Go slowly. I'll come up early tomorrow morning."
"good."
Lin Heng nodded, but instead of driving back, he drove to the town.
He went to the town to see who was selling plastic pipes. Not only did he need to build a water supply and drainage system for the hatchery ponds, he also wanted to plan an inlet and outlet drainage system for all the shrimp ponds.
With such a system, changing water is much more convenient. He has also planned to dig an aeration pool of nearly 400 square meters next to the top hatching pool.
Place the purchased aerator in the aeration pool, introduce mountain stream water, turn on the aerator to oxygenate the water, and then transport the oxygenated water to each shrimp pond through pipes, thereby increasing the oxygen content of the water.
Although this method is troublesome, it can actually increase the nutrient content of the water, thereby preventing shrimp from lacking oxygen, and it can also appropriately increase the breeding density.
It can be said to be a way to kill two birds with one stone.
He came to town this time just to look at the pipes, ask about the prices, then go back to measure the required quantities and place an order.
There was only one store in town that sold plastic pipes. After asking around, I found out they didn't have any suitable ones, so I had to buy them from the city.
Lin Heng immediately decided to calculate the size himself and buy it in the city, thus avoiding the need for middlemen to make a profit from the price difference.
The ginseng seeds were changed to 20 jin. There were some minor problems in the previous writing. Thank you for your understanding.
(End of this chapter)
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