Xu Errui was listening nearby. Seeing that his mother was about to change someone, he hurriedly said: "Mom, you said there are refugees on the road. Is it convenient for Xiaoman to go?"
He still felt that Xiaoman was too young to be of much help, and he was also worried that his mother would be in trouble.
Jiang Zhi "Duo Duo" cut the medicine: "Xiao Man is impatient and can't be stopped by force. Besides, his father and Dazhu are here, and they will always convince him.
If he really wants to go down the mountain with me tomorrow, you'd better pick him up halfway. "
It was only a matter of time before Xiaoman went down the mountain. His family needed to go out alone, and it was not convenient for Chunfeng to show up.
Xiao Manye and Xu Dazhu know their children's tempers and will warn them carefully.
"Okay, I'll come down early!"
It would be fine if he picked him up on the way, so Xu Errui felt relieved.
"By the way, have you finished the charcoal kiln I asked you to clean up a few days ago? The oilcloth and soil on the top must be covered tightly." Jiang Zhi suddenly remembered something.
"Well, it's done. I've also shoveled a layer of soil on the kiln wall!"
Well, Jiang Zhi is very satisfied.
Xu Errui doesn't have any insight. The only good thing is that he is very obedient. Now he remembers every word of his words.
In the summer, Jiang Zhi thought of planting fungus and put aside the mushroom sticks that had grown longer than the fungus.
Even a simple planting shed requires digging a pit one meter deep and covering it with plastic film to keep it warm and moisturizing.
It is troublesome to dig pits on this mountain, and when there is a lot of rain in winter, water will accumulate in the pits, and there is no membrane, so it has been shelved and has not been implemented.
Fungus does not need sunlight to grow and prefers a warm and humid environment. Some scattered light is enough.
So Jiang Zhi now thinks of those abandoned charcoal kilns.
His own charcoal kiln has collapsed. Xu Errui only needs to clean out the earth and rocks inside, cover the collapsed top, and pile in fresh sweet potatoes.
Depending on the sweet potato's respiration, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide indicators are normal.
Anyone who has ever been into a sweet potato cellar will know that in winter the temperature inside is higher than outside, and white steam will come out as soon as the cellar door is opened.
Sometimes there are too many sweet potatoes piled up, which will cause excessive humidity, and there will be water droplets on the sweet potatoes and the cellar walls.
It was so wet and humid that fungi would grow if you dropped a stick.
This also reminded Jiang Zhi of other people’s techniques for growing Ganoderma lucidum.
Ganoderma lucidum and fungus are all fungi. As long as you can grow Ganoderma lucidum, you can grow fungus.
In other words, as long as Jiangzhi finds Ganoderma spore powder, he can theoretically grow "Millennium Ganoderma" which is worth the price of tofu in modern times.
Jiang Zhi told Chunfeng about growing fungus, and Xu Dazhu said it was very good. He organized a charcoal kiln to grow fungus, and the sweet potatoes harvested by the two families also found a place to put them, killing two birds with one stone.
I didn't plan to have a sweet potato cellar at first. I thought there would be no harvest, so I just needed to find a section of gutter behind the house to fill it up.
Unexpectedly, in the past few days, all the sweet potatoes were dug out from the ditches in the rocks. The yield was unimaginable in previous years, weighing a thousand kilograms.
Although the sweet potatoes growing in the grass nests are riddled with holes by grass roots, the ones in the cracks of the rocks are squeezed into strange shapes, and some sweet potatoes are just a bunch of tendons...
Ugly, ugly, but they are genuine sweet potatoes, and there are plenty of them. Just simmer them and you will have a bowl of fragrant sweet potato soup.
Little Man also picked out some prettier sweet potatoes, tied them into knots with rattans, and hung them under the eaves. The dried sweet potatoes would taste particularly sweet.
There are enough sweet potatoes in the mountains, so you don’t have to worry about going hungry.
The grain harvest in the mountains this year was really too low. One grain of millet was planted in the spring and two grains were harvested in the autumn. There was no idle land and the farmers starved to death.
At this time, under the cliff, Xiaoman said something!
"Xiao Man, you have only had a peaceful life for a few days, and there is already grass growing under your feet? Your Aunt Jiang is going down the mountain for something, why are you following her?"
Little Man's hands were constantly cutting bamboo chopsticks with a knife, and he did not delay in teaching his little grandson.
Xiao Man squatted next to help sort out the bamboo pieces and argued: "Sir, I don't want to play, I think I should go get some food.
Aunt Jiang’s family exchanges medicinal herbs for food, so we use the rabbits in the pen. If we raise too many, it will be troublesome to feed them grass. Besides, I want Nini and my eldest brother to eat more refined food. "
Little Man stopped what he was doing and looked at Xu Dazhu beside him.
Xu Dazhu was playing with his straw sandals. When he heard Xiao Man's words, he also put down the grass in his hand.
Both of them knew that Xiaoman was right, they wanted to find a way to exchange for some food and oil.
The two times Jiang Zhi went down the mountain to exchange medicinal materials for supplies, Xiao Manye didn't get any food, only some salt.
Those medicinal materials were picked by others, and he was eating and drinking for free. He couldn't afford to lose this person.
But people can't live on one breath, and they have to think about other people in the family.
"It would be great if you had someone as stable as Er Rui!"
Master Xiaoman had been down the mountain before, so he knew that the people in the medical shed would not be in trouble. At this time, he wanted Xiaoman to find some food, but he was worried that Xiaoman would conflict with the refugees.
Xiaoman frowned: "Master, I know the importance now. Besides, I am sixteen years old. My eldest brother started supporting the family when he was sixteen. You can't just let me do everything!"
Speaking of what happened back then, Mr. Xiao Man felt bad. Dazhu was his helper when he was sixteen years old. He worked in the town under the sun in summer and sold charcoal in winter.
Seeing that the days were getting better and better, the sky fell overnight.
Xiaoman is now sixteen years old...
Thinking that although this child is impatient, he is still quite sensible. Mr. Xiao Man sighed: "You can go down the mountain, but you have to be obedient. You must do what Aunt Jiang says. You can't come up with your own ideas."
Xiaoman nodded repeatedly: "Master, I will definitely be obedient!"
Xu Dazhu thought for a while: "Sir, you have to tell Aunt Jiang that Xiaoman is causing trouble to others!"
"Yes! I'll take Xiaoman over in a minute!" Xiaoman cut the bamboo chopsticks again. This kind of thing requires parents to come forward.
After dinner, Mr. Xiaoman took Xiaoman to the cliff and told him about following him down the mountain: "Er Ruiniang, don't worry, we have told Xiaoman to be obedient. If he dares to talk stubbornly, you will whip him hard!"
Jiang Zhi asked Xiaoman to tell his family, not that he had no confidence in him. Although Xiaoman was impatient, he still knew what was good and what was bad.
Seeing that Master Xiaoman was speaking too harshly, he hurriedly said: "Xiaoman is sensible and obedient. Let him go down the mountain with me tomorrow! If you have something you want to change, bring it with you!"
Now that the matter was settled, Xiaoman's family began to pack things.
Xiaoman said he would sell some rabbits, which is true. Rabbits are so fertile.
I picked up two little rabbits after the wildfire, and gave birth to the first litter at the end of May. After that, there were five or six babies every two months, and the rabbit pen was full of rabbits.
Now the first rabbit is about to give birth again, and the number will double. It will be impossible to raise rabbits. Just hunting rabbits is a big project, and Nini has long been laid off.
Although there is spring phoenix grass for rabbits now, with the coming of winter, there is a lack of tender grass outside. It is troublesome to feed only hay. Some of them must be sold or killed for meat.
There is no shortage of meat now, so it is more reliable to replace it with grain and cotton.
In addition, Xu Dazhu has made a lot of straw sandals these days. They are all made of coir and hemp leather. They are smooth and strong. The two families can't wear them all, so they can get rid of some.
Chunfeng also picked up a lot of dried fungus and fungi, which can be exchanged for food.
Unexpectedly, I packed up a basket of bits and pieces. It would be great if I could exchange them for food. If there is no food, I would exchange them for salt.
The next morning, Xiaoman finally followed Jiang Zhi down the mountain with the hope and advice of the whole family.
