After returning from the county, it’s time for yellow gardenia and diffusa to mature.
Gao Mingcheng, like everyone else in the village, is devoted to picking medicinal materials. To make money, no one will take too much.
Yellow gardenias need to be steamed and greened first and then dried. Gao Mingcheng and Duomei continued to work together. He picked the medicinal materials in the mountains, and Duomei was responsible for processing the medicinal materials at home.
The closer October comes, the more medicinal materials accumulate at home. The medicinal materials are afraid of moisture, so most of them are piled on the wooden bed given by Gao Yue. If there is not enough space, a row of low shelves are temporarily made to prevent the medicinal materials from being directly stored. Just make contact with the ground.
There is no need to find a carpenter to make this shelf. Gao Mingcheng made it himself using the wood. Although the workmanship is rough, it is durable.
There are many yellow gardenia trees in the mountains. They don't actually plant them here specifically, but it may be that the climate and terrain are very suitable for the growth of yellow gardenias. They can be seen everywhere, whether at the foot of the mountain or on the mountain, and they grow well.
At first, some people went to the mountains to pick the flowers to eat when the gardenias were in bloom. Later, after they learned that yellow gardenias could be sold for money, they were reluctant to pick the flowers and eat them. If any ignorant children picked the flowers to play with, they would be punished. Got some scolding.
Yellow gardenia has a wide range of uses. It can be used as medicine and as a dye. Therefore, it is one of the medicinal materials that is traded in large quantities at the medicine fair, and it has always been easy to sell.
When Gao Mingcheng was picking medicinal materials in the mountains, he took a look at the beehives. He hadn't checked for a while. The beehives were full of honey!
Judging by the color of the honey, it's almost ready.
Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng didn't say anything, went home and got a honey shaker, ready to shake honey.
He also plans to bring this batch of honey to the medicine fair to sell. You must know that honey is not only a tonic, but also an auxiliary medicine. Some pills need to be mixed with honey.
After two days of busy work, Gao Mingcheng shook the honey from all the beehives. Next, the honey shaking time will change from one month to two months or even three months.
After winter comes, the number of flowers in the mountains decreases and the honey source is lacking, so the honey produced previously will be consumed to maintain life.
In order not to waste honey, some specialized beekeepers will choose to give sugar water to their bees.
This is because they shake all the honey away, and without food, the honey cannot survive the winter safely.
Gao Mingcheng had no intention of feeding the bees sugar water. Although he raised forty boxes of honey, they were scattered in the mountains, so there would be no nectar sources at all. In addition, he would not be so diligent in shaking the honey. The honey in the beehives , enough for the bees to eat by themselves.
As time goes by, the number of medicinal materials at home increases day by day, but the cash in hand decreases day by day.
Soon it was October 12th, and Gao Mingcheng had already announced that he would no longer accept medicines.
Zhangshu's medicine fair is from October 16th to 18th. Last year, he had to catch a train and was afraid of being delayed, so he went two days in advance. But now he drives there by himself, with plenty of time and flexibility, so he will leave on the 15th. That’s it.
In the days before departure, Gao Mingcheng wanted to check all the medicinal materials at home one by one to see if they were all qualified.
Most of these medicinal materials were purchased by Duomei, but Gao Mingcheng would always feel uneasy if he didn't take a look for himself.
I checked all the medicinal materials and found nothing that was fake. Then I continued to dry out what should be dried and put away what should be put away.
Over the past month, there have been changes in the village. Some of the medicinal materials that used to be everywhere have completely disappeared, and the whole village has become a lot tidier.
Gao Mingcheng carried a bucket and strolled to Xiaofu Mountain. He first filled the bucket with water from the pond at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain, and then came to a shady place.
There is a piece of bare yellow land here, and there is a deep pit about thirty centimeters in which some sand and seeds are placed.
This kind of seed is the seed of Polygonatum japonica.
When he dug up Polygonatum japonicum in the mountains, he collected the seeds of Polygonatum japonicum. If he planted it with seeds, he would not be able to harvest it that year, but if he planted it with seeds, he could plant a large area at once.
It’s just that the seeds of Polygonatum sibiricum need to be hidden in sand.
What is Shazang?
After taking out the mature seeds, you must immediately mix one part seeds and three parts sandy soil evenly, store them in a pit 30 cm deep in the shade, and keep them moist.
Although it has entered October, there is almost no rainfall and the weather is still hot and mostly sunny. Gao Mingcheng will be going out to do errands soon, so before going out, water the sand pile to keep the seeds inside moist. , it is a very necessary thing.
After pouring the water, Gao Mingcheng continued walking towards Xiaofu Mountain.
Now that the felling of Xiaofushan is almost complete, the workers hired at the beginning have jumped from tree cutters to earth diggers.
Under Gao Mingcheng's instructions, they cleared a sunny hillside first. If Xiao Jinfeng brought him sugar orange saplings from Guangdong, they could plant them here.
Cutting down a tree is not easy, but digging the soil is also difficult. Before digging, you need to clean out the tree pockets and then clean out the large rocks. After this cleaning, the soil on the surface will have a certain degree of softness.
Finally, dig holes according to the spacing of the saplings and wait for the saplings to be planted.
Gao Mingcheng saw some stones piled on the ground. These stones were stained with loess and were obviously dug out of the ground.
He went to find a load to transport the piled stones to the foot of the mountain.
These stones were large and small, so he smashed the larger stones directly, because he planned to use these stones to pave the road, which would make it easier for vehicles to pass through and prevent the wheels from sinking into deep pits.
Working back and forth, Gao Mingcheng was in a good mood. Although there was a bare mountainous area in front of him, he was already imagining the scene a few years from now.
By then, there will definitely be forests of fruit trees and lush greenery, with fruit flowers in spring and fruits in summer and autumn.
On the ground, there are native chickens that are responsible for cleaning up pests in the orchard. When the native chickens are well fed and drunk, they will lay eggs with green eggshells in the chicken coop.
This kind of green eggshell is a variety they introduced from other places. Everyone thinks that eggs with this kind of green eggshell are more nutritious than eggs with yellow eggshells. In later generations, people here will treat them as It was operated as the brand of 'Oriental God Eggs' and then sold in gift boxes as a local specialty for tourists to buy.
It’s hard to say whether it’s an IQ tax, but it’s definitely more delicious than foreign eggs.
Gao Mingcheng worked on this job until evening. When he left, he saw that a small hill had been piled with stones at the foot of the mountain.
It was getting late, so Gao Mingcheng did not continue to pave the road with stones, but took the tools and walked out. When he walked to the vegetable field, he only needed to take a look to know whether his wife was here to pick vegetables today.
If he didn't pick it, then he would take some vegetables back appropriately, but if he did, it wouldn't be necessary.
(End of chapter)
