Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 231
After returning from the county, it is time for the yellow gardenia and diffusa to mature.

Gao Mingcheng, like everyone else in the village, devoted himself to picking medicinal materials, making money, no one would think too much.

The yellow gardenia needs to be steamed and dried before drying. Gao Mingcheng and Duomi continue to work together. He picks medicinal materials in the mountains, and Duomi is in charge of processing the medicinal materials at home.

The closer to October, the more medicinal materials are piled up at home. The medicinal materials are afraid of the tide, and most of them are piled up on the wooden bed given by Gao Yue. Just make contact with the ground.

There is no need to find a carpenter to make this shelf. Gao Mingcheng made it with the wood himself. Although the workmanship is rough, it can be durable.

There are many yellow gardenia trees in the mountains. They didn't plant them here, but it may be that the climate and terrain are very suitable for the growth of yellow gardenias. Whether it is at the foot of the mountain or on the mountain, they can be seen everywhere, and they grow well.

At first, some people went to the mountains to pick flowers and eat them when gardenias were in bloom. Later, when they knew that gardenias could be sold for money, they were reluctant to pick flowers and eat them. To some scolding.

Yellow gardenia has a wide range of uses, it can be used as medicine or as a dye, so it is one of the medicinal materials that are traded in bulk 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 situation of the beehives. Good guy, he hasn't come to check for a while, the honeycomb is full of honey!

Judging by the color of the honey, it is almost ready.

Seeing this, without further ado, Gao Mingcheng went home and brought the honey shaker, ready to shake the 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 blended with honey.

After working hard for two full days, Gao Mingcheng shook the honey from all the beehives. Next, the time to shake the honey will change from one month to two or even three months.

After winter, the flowers in the mountains decrease, and the honey lacks nectar sources, so they will consume the honey they brewed before to maintain their lives.

In order not to waste honey, some professional beekeepers will choose to drink sugar water for bees.

This is because they shake all the honey away, and the honey cannot survive the winter without something to eat.

Gao Mingcheng didn't intend to feed sugar water to the bees. Although he had raised forty boxes of honey, they were scattered in the mountains, so there was no shortage of honey sources. In addition, he didn't shake the honey so diligently, and the honey in the beehives , enough for the bees to eat by themselves.

As time goes by, the medicinal materials at home are increasing day by day, while the cash in hand is decreasing day by day.

It will soon be NO.12 in October, and Gao Mingcheng has already said that he will no longer accept medicine.

Zhangshu’s drug fair is from October 18th to NO.15. Last year, because he had to catch the train and was afraid of delays, he went there two days in advance. Now he drives by himself, with plenty of time and flexibility, so start on NO.[-] That's fine.

In the few days before departure, Gao Mingcheng had 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 Duomi, but Gao Mingcheng was always worried if he didn't take a look for himself.

Check all the medicinal materials, and find no fake ones, and then continue to dry those that should be dried, and continue to put away those that should be put away.

In the past month, there have been changes in the village. Some medicinal materials that could be seen everywhere have completely disappeared at this time, and the whole village has become much cleaner.

Gao Mingcheng carried a bucket and strolled to Xiaofushan. He first filled a bucket of water in the pond at the foot of Xiaofushan, and then came to a shady place.

There is a piece of bare yellow land here, and there is a deep pit about [-] centimeters in it, with some sand and seeds in it.

This seed is the seed of Huang Jing.

When he dug Huang Jing in the mountains, he collected the seeds of Huang Jing by the way. If he planted with seeds, he could not harvest that year, but with seeds, he can plant a large area at one time.

It's just that the seeds of sealwort need to be stored in sand.

What is Shazang?
That is, after taking out the mature seeds, one part of the seeds and three parts of sand should be mixed immediately, and stored in a pit [-] cm deep in the shade, and kept moist.

Although the time has entered October, the weather is still hot because there is almost no rainfall, and the weather is mostly sunny. Gao Mingcheng will go out to do errands soon, so before going out, water the sand pile to keep the seeds inside moist , is a very necessary thing.

After pouring the water, Gao Mingcheng continued to walk towards Xiaofushan.

Now the felling of Xiaofushan has almost been carried out. The workers hired at the beginning have changed from tree fellers to earth diggers.

Under Gao Mingcheng's instructions, they cleared out a sunny hillside first, and if Xiao Jinfeng brought him Tangerine saplings from Guangdong, they could plant them here.

It is not easy to cut down trees, but it is also difficult to dig soil. Before digging, you need to clean out the tree pockets, and then remove the large stones. 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 up on the ground. These stones were stained with loess and were obviously dug out from the ground.

He went to find a load and transported the piled stones to the foot of the mountain.

These stones were big and small, and he smashed the bigger stones directly, because he planned to use these stones to pave the road, which would also facilitate the passage of vehicles 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 mountain in front of him, he was already imagining the scene a few years later.

At that time, there must be a forest of fruit trees, full of greenery, with fruit flowers in spring and fruits in summer and autumn.

On the ground, there are native chickens who are responsible for cleaning up the pests in the orchard, and the full-fledged native chickens will lay eggs with green shells in the chicken coop.

This kind of green eggshell is a variety they introduced from other places. Everyone thinks that eggs with green eggshells are more nutritious than eggs with yellow eggshells. It was operated as the brand of "Oriental Divine Egg", and then it was packed in a gift box as a local specialty for tourists to buy.

Whether it is an IQ tax is hard to say, but it is indeed better than foreign eggs.

Gao Mingcheng worked on this job until evening. When he left, he saw that a small hill had been piled up with stones at the foot of the mountain.

It was getting late, Gao Mingcheng did not continue to pave the road, but went out with tools. When he walked to the vegetable field, he only needed to take a look at it, and he knew whether his wife had come to pick vegetables today.

If he didn't pick it, then he would take some vegetables back, but if he picked it, then he didn't have to.

(End of this chapter)