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Erdaohe's group, no, to be precise, three groups of ordinary people spontaneously gathered together to form a group, and at this time they were being divided into four small groups, each taking his place.

The first team stayed in the military tent to roast mushrooms.

Represented by Mrs. Xu, the family of four includes a young woman with a daughter who is only four or five years old, and an old woman who was blown up by the wind and broke her leg. Mushrooms picked this morning.

The old lady Xu and the young woman took good care of the old woman who broke her leg. The old woman couldn't move because they went outside the tent to pick up a lot of stones despite the rain, and took out a share of the old woman.

No way, if you want to preserve the mushrooms for a long time, you must dry them.

There is no reason to not pick such expensive matsutake mushrooms all over the place, let alone tolerating the hard-picked mushrooms being ruined for nothing.

But it's raining outside, and it's not like having a kang at home.

If there is a kang, it can be spread on the hot kang to dry and stringed up, but at present, we can only use local materials.

The old lady Xu thought of the hot stones given by Huo Jiajun. They were warm for most of the night, and after being heated, they looked like a little hot treasure on her belly. The ground is used as a temporary hot kang to dry the mushrooms.

It just so happened that the Huo family's military tent dug up ground stoves everywhere, unlike their stupid gathering of firewood along the way to put pots on the firewood, they dug holes directly in the ground, which was convenient for them to have many sources of fire.

And even Shitou would like to thank Huo Jiajun.

In the words of granddaughters, you can’t burn stones easily and they will be broken. It’s better to use pebbles. Only this kind of stone is very hard and has good heat resistance.Once it is used wrongly, and the stone containing carbonate is heated like granite, it will not only explode but also catch fire.

Presumably Huo Jiajun should also understand this aspect.

That's right, although the army withdrew, there were still a lot of small pebbles piled up outside the tent for future use by those who would sleep on the mountain.

Mrs. Xu and the young woman transported baskets of stones into the tent.

After transporting, first throw those small pebbles into the fire to heat them up, then take them out and spread them beside the stove, then spread a layer of straw on top, and finally spread the mushrooms on it to dry.

After the amount of work was done, at the end the curtain was lifted and looked around, mushrooms were spread everywhere.

This was not enough, so Mrs. Xu put the basket upside down on the fire, and spread mushrooms on the bottom of the basket, without wasting any space, and then threaded the mushrooms on the side of the basket.She even puts a layer of mushrooms on the lid of the pot when she boils water.

A steward from the Huo family's army lifted the curtain and came in. Mrs. Xu didn't know if she was a lieutenant general or something, but she was wearing a helmet, so she should be an officer.

He may have never seen a person who can survive in the wilderness like this, and he was silent for a moment when he opened the curtain, probably because he couldn't stand it anymore, and said: "There is another big tent that can be vacated, and there is no place to dry it. That side, it's dangerous to squeeze, don't catch fire."

Mrs. Xu and the others were very happy, and thought: To tell the truth, they have sent the second echelon to pick mushrooms in the rain. The tents are really not enough, and they can be put in another big tent.

When the military master left, the three women got together to discuss and raise funds for some salt and sauce brought by each family. The newly picked mushrooms later, if there are broken ones, they can be dried in the sun and ready to be fried. Half a barrel of mushroom sauce was sent to the guard team left behind by Huo Jiajun.

"Thanks to their care for these two days."

"No, without them, our life and death would almost be unpredictable."

This is true, what if you pass by the mudslide landslide and get buried in it, or pass by the broken bridge and fall into the river.

Mrs. Xu understands more and more why there is so much difference in the price of cotton cloth in the county and town. .

During the period, the three women worked without delay in chatting.

No matter what time it is, it can't affect the business: chatting.

Mrs. Xu could tell from the words of those two people that the conditions of those two were not bad.

That's right, when going out these days, the family can't go out without any spare money or a livestock cart.

Like the family of four who opened a farm equipment shop, Mrs. Xu asked for the address.Looking back, the guy who bought it in spring can't wait to use it.

And the old woman who broke her leg was more able at home.

Although the old woman didn't say how many acres of land the family has, but in the situation that there is not enough food to grow in this year, the family can spare 600 acres of good land to plant [-] mu of yellow mushrooms (niang three times). , More than [-] catties can be harvested in two days.

A pound of mushroom mothers toss and sell in Fucheng wholesale for eight cents, and the seedlings can bear fruit from around August until the first frost. One can imagine how much the family will earn after a few months of accumulation.

Mrs. Xu also asked for the address, and planned to wait for the next batch of goods to earn some spare money, so that the third child could turn around and buy some mushrooms for her granddaughter.

By the way, she also asked if Mrs. Picking Mushroom hired someone?

"Hire it, or else you won't be able to do it."

"How much do you pay for a day?" Picking mushrooms is hard work, and Mrs. Xu wanted to inquire about the price of hiring someone to do the work, so as not to be taken advantage of by hiring someone to help her granddaughter make soap.

"Five copper coins an hour, if you can work five hours a day, then everyone rushes to do it."

Mrs. Xu understood.

The old woman with a broken leg said with a bitter face: "Take out the money for working for others, the expenses on the road, the fodder for mules and cattle, and the fruit sold is nothing more than a smooth surface of donkey dung. The little money will be used to buy food to fill the stomach, and the price of food is one day. My family has lost all potatoes and sweet potatoes this year. Thanks to the rainwater on the ten acres of Guniang Yangzi's land on Gaogang, otherwise it will be over. .”

Speaking of this, the young woman felt the same way, and echoed:
"In the past, we were prone to severe droughts. How could we hear that there was so much rain? This year, the sky seems to be leaking, and now there is a strong wind. To tell you the truth, our people have been burning incense everywhere since the beginning of spring. Li, the general of Baishan Bog, Jiudingshan Black Amu, did not expect to be more and more energetic, this god seems to be drinking too much, and it is raining heavily. Not only the potatoes and sweet potatoes in my family are completely extinct, but also the beans in the back garden The shelves are all gone, and in previous years I could dry a lot of shredded beans, but this year I saved a handful.”

The two looked at Mrs. Xu.

Only then did they realize that they talked about their own family affairs, but they didn't know anything about Mrs. Xu's situation.

Xu's sweet potatoes got up early, so they didn't stop production, but they were reduced and not sweet at all, including those that Mrs. Xu spent money to save.

Mrs. Xu just said: "If my family is confident enough, they can pick mushrooms like this."

Also.

I heard that Mrs. Xu shared the mushrooms with more than a dozen families, unlike the young woman and the old woman with a broken leg who would work together after picking and drying their own share.

There are indeed more than a dozen companies. Can't you pay the Erdaohe boys? Can't you give some mushrooms to take home?Treat it as hard work.

The two women were quite loyal enough to express: "I will just stay idle when I go back to the cave. I might as well help you hang out in the sun, or else I will just stay and make trouble."

The four or five-year-old girl also said, "Grandma Xu, let me pick mushrooms for you."

"Hey, what a treasure, as sensible as your sister Tian Xin."

"Then can I get wild boar skin when I grow up?"

"I can get it."

After that, only the little girl was happy, and all of them were worried: "I don't know when we will be able to leave."

It must be waiting for the mud and rocks blocking the road to be pushed away and the broken bridge to be connected. Otherwise, even if they followed the big troops this morning, it would be more troublesome. After all, they are both goods and livestock carts.

"My house has not been repaired for several years, and there is a patch of clouds in the sky. I don't know if there is a strong wind blowing at home, and whether the roof will be lifted."

Mrs. Xu couldn't talk about this topic at all. Her family built a new house and lived by the river. She couldn't stand the strong wind and rain, but it was useless to worry.

But this morning, when she just woke up in the cave, she spat and spit, like a mental illness, and kept talking to herself with our habitual jingle in the Northeast: It’s okay, nothing happened, to comfort her own nightmare last night.

She dreamed last night that the thatched roof of the new house was torn off, and her original old lady fell from the roof and broke her leg and went to her house.

But when I woke up in the morning, I found that it was my granddaughter who had numb her leg.

She also has a knee injury. She fell off the car yesterday and broke a piece of skin, which was bloodshot. She never dared to tell her granddaughter, for fear of thinking about it.

at the same time.

Most of the strong guys in the second echelon were going through the woods with baskets on their backs and continued to pick mushrooms.

After harvesting, it will be sent to Mrs. Xu for drying.

The third echelon is the representatives of the three groups of ordinary people, who are cleaning up the excrement in the horse shed of Huo Jiajun.

They intended to collect cow dung pulled by their own mules and oxen, so that the fat and water would not flow into outsiders' fields.

Dried cow dung can be used as firewood, but a lot of firewood is needed to dry the mushrooms.

For example, Erdaohe and his party have always used the bags prepared in advance to pack the cow dung along the way, because this thing has too many benefits. On the one hand, it can be used as firewood when staying overnight, and on the other hand, the cow dung is lit. Mosquitoes and insects are gone, much better than that wormwood.It would be even better if there are leftovers, and they can be fertilized by taking them home.

But I didn't expect to see horse manure piled up into mountains.

It is heard that a horse pulls eight times a day and pulls forty catties a day. One can imagine how much Huo Jiajun pulled.

When the boys saw it, they called him a good guy.

I mainly lamented that Huo Jiajun's quality is too high, because I asked them when they met each other: "Do you want it?"

Xu Youcang felt distressed: "I want it, but I can't pull it back."

Seeing things ruined is like being stabbed in the heart.

The general in charge of the horse shed was also very sorry: "Using this thing to burn meat is delicious, really."

I thought, if this can be pulled to the garrison, or pulled to a village for the common people, these horse manures will be of great use.

Looking at the guards of the horses, he also introduced the usage to Xu Youcang and the others in detail:
For example, horse dung bricks are thrown out like adobe, and it is especially warm to build a house with this kind of bricks.

Commander Jia said long ago that when they returned to the station, they would throw horse dung and bricks to build the camp wall.

When the family members and military households of the soldiers and generals moved in, they would use horse manure to loosen the soil and fertilize the land to grow vegetables and food.And only horse manure will keep the land warm.

Isn't there such a saying?Cow dung is cool, horse dung is hot, and sheep dung is a good compromise.This is good because it has a wide range of applications. Sheep manure is used for planting flowers and vegetables, but horse manure is most suitable for reclaiming fertile land in the Northland.After fermentation, it is not very flavorful, but also very powerful. I don’t believe that drinking a glass of water with horse manure will make you feel hot after drinking it.

So, what a pity, it would be great if it could be given to the villagers for free.

Even if it is impossible for the common people to get so many horse dung bricks to build houses at once, if only a layer of horse dung is put on the outside of the house, the wind will not penetrate in winter and the sun will not shine in summer:
"You can use it even when you build a cellar. We tried it when we were in the Northwest. The cellar was filled with a layer of horse manure. In the hottest summer season, the cellar was cool and cool. Holds ice cubes."

After listening to the other boys, they thought to themselves: What this military master said is very good, but you should stop talking, lest they feel even more distressed if they cannot be dragged away after hearing this.

Xu Youcang gritted his teeth and said: "I want, if I can't pull this trip, I will make a mark first, and pass by here to pull up the mountain next time."

His family wants to build a house, and his family wants fertile land.

He heard from his mother that the family would also build a big pancake oven and an oven for steaming and roasting dried sweet potatoes in the yard. If there were horse dung bricks, it would not cost money.

And the next time he went to Fucheng to deliver the goods, the cart would probably be empty when he sold the goods, plus he was carrying it on his back, so he should be able to transport a lot of horse dung back.

You can't be greedy and expect Huo Jiajun to go to his yard to pull ready-made ones.

It's good to have this, just when he comes next time, the horse manure will freeze and it will be easier to pick it up.

The Erdaohe boys listened: "Come on, Brother Youcang, let's carry horse dung to the foot of the mountain together. In case you have to go up the mountain next time, there will be no danger of wild beasts eating it in the deep mountains in winter. If you don't need it, you can give it to passers-by." Come to light the fire to keep warm, and pick it up."

This job can't bother Huo Jiajun.

However, right now we need to pick some dung that are a little dry, and send them to the tent to roast mushrooms first, while the other side is waiting to be used as firewood.

Xu Youcang dug out the lump pulled by mules, cows and horses earlier, and grabbed it with his hands...

It was at this time that Xu Tianxin entered the tent to look for her third uncle.

She belonged to the fourth echelon of people who did private work and tanned pigskins.

In her group, she is the leader and Liu Laozhu is the member.

Xu Tianxin wants to interject a word first, do you know how smelly wild boar skin is?For the family members, she first soaked in plant ash water by the stream, and used the saponification reaction of plant ash and fat to clean.

I really can't stand the stinky smell and use soap again.

Then he and Grandpa Lizheng found plants containing tannins in the woods.

The so-called tannin, in natural plants, is fig, walnut, pine, etc. She finally found the pine, chopped the bark, chopped it and soaked it together with the skin.

I heard that if you want to tan leather without spending money to buy Glauber's salt and yellow rice noodles, there is only this simple method, which is to rub the leather vigorously with your hands for an hour or two so that it is not easy to deform, and the leather produced will be fine and soft.

But she rubbed her hands so that she was curled up in the cold of the stream, and hurt by the pig hair.She was reluctant to throw away the pig hair, and wanted to make toothbrushes, shoe brushes, and pig hair hats and gloves, but she couldn't stand the panic, and almost cried to the third uncle for help.

But she didn't expect to see a scene that stopped her when she came in: "...Third Uncle, is that dung dry?"

Xu Youcang grabbed it and let go: "I didn't do it, why did you come here by yourself? Where is your grandpa?"

"Grandpa Lizheng was smoked and fell by the stream."

Xu Tianxin also wanted to faint. In the words of the family members in the live broadcast room, he left the smell of wild boar skin and entered the dung pile again, and the screen was filled with the smell.

The guards of Huo's army couldn't see Xu Tianxin's disgust, so they blocked Xu Tianxin that night, insisting that she smell the dried horse manure that could be used as fuel.

The guard believed that if Xu Tianxin could get Jia Tong to lead him as a little friend, then he was not an outsider, but also their little friend.

Xu Tianxin had no choice but to take the scorched yellow dry horse manure, which was the same color as millet cake. She also went out to sniff it for the live broadcast: "Huh? Don't say hey, Liuwei Dihuangwan taste."