Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

Xu Shi'an drove, pulling Xu Chenghou and Xu Haibo, Xu Haitao, Xu Haiyuan, Xu Jinping and others.

Together with Zhao Jianshe and Huang Shengli, they went to the venue on the side of the Kaifeng fork.

The so-called Kaifeng Fork Road is a road that forks east on the way from Songjiang River to Quanyang.

This road belongs to the firewood transportation road of the Forestry Bureau, and this road will diverge if you go inward.

There are Kaifeng Forest Farm, Xilinhe Nursery, Shuguang Forest Farm, Qianchuan Forest Farm, Shengli Forest Farm, and Dajianchang Village under Donggang Town.

The Xu family's ginseng land is just ten miles north of the fork in the road, and it is not far to walk in. It used to be a few ditches and ponds.

The year before last, Xu Shiyan bought this area with approval of ginseng soil. The area is not large, about 3,000 feet.

At the beginning, each family kept fifty feet, and sold the rest.

The area of ​​the ginseng land is small, so Xu Shiyan didn't bother to think about it. Someone said that he wanted to buy ginseng, so he directly gave it to others.

Here, Xu Chenghou has been here before. When it snowed before, he went up the mountain to work.

Arriving here, he walked into the arena with ease, and led the child straight to his own ginseng field.

"Well, second child, you lead Xiaotao, and the two of you go and pinch your ten feet.

Xiaobo is in a group with Yuanyuan, and I am with Pingping, we will pinch this end.

Let's hurry up and work, this thing will be finished in a day. "

As soon as he arrived at the head of Chi Chuan in his family's garden, Xu Chenghou hurriedly arranged work.

"Sure, then do as your father tells you.

Well, Dad, don't worry, take your time, Xiaotao and I will finish pinching the ginseng seeds very quickly, and come over to replace you when the time comes. "

Xu Shi'an nodded, and instructed the old man again.

Pinch ginseng seeds, usually in groups of two, kneeling on top of Chi Bangzi facing each other.

Reach out and cut off the tender stems under the red ginseng fruit, and then put the ginseng fruit into the basket.

Some ginsengs grow shorter, and the ginseng leaves have to be pushed apart by hand, so as not to miss them.

Speaking of this work, it is not too tiring, the main thing is that you have to bend your body to work under the shed, and your waist is tired.

Children can be better, short, small and nimble.

At Xu Chenghou's age, it's really not easy to do this job again.

That's why Xu Shi'an specially asked his father, because he was afraid that if his father tried to be brave, he would be tired again.

"Okay, let's get to work.

Yuanyuan, Pingping, you two have little hands, if you can't pinch, use scissors.

Didn't your grandma bring scissors for you two when you went out in the morning? "

For adults, it is fastest to pinch directly.

But for children, they are small and have no strength, and their hands are tender. If they pinch it with their hands, even if they can cut it off, it is estimated that they will have a headache after pinching a few flowers.

So when she came out in the morning, Zhou Guilan specially brought scissors for the two children and asked them to use the scissors to cut down.

Just put in a little effort, it's better than a child with a sore hand.

"Oh, I see, Grandpa."

The two children agreed with a crisp voice, and then they carried the basket and scissors, starting from the end of the pool skewer, and knelt on the pool gang to work.

Under the ginseng shed, there are ginseng seedlings more than one foot high. On top of the blue-purple main stem, there are five palm-shaped compound leaves in whorls, and above it is a bright red ginseng fruit.

The Xu family took good care of the mallet. The base fertilizer used when planting ginseng was topped with bean cake water this spring, and foliar fertilizer was sprayed in summer.

So the leaves of this ginseng grow very well, the green ones turn black.

The flowers of ginseng seeds are also big, about the same size as Xu Jinping's fist.

The blossoming red ginseng fruits are plump, round and shiny, and they look extraordinarily rare.

Both Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping took scissors and carefully cut off the ginseng fruit one by one and put them in the basket.

When the basket was full, he carried it to the head of the pool and poured it into the woven bag.

The face of the pool is wide, and one person cannot cover all of them, so two people have to work face to face.

Xu Jinping's small arms are short, so she must not be able to reach the middle, so Xu Chenghou stretched his hand in.

The grandparents and grandsons cooperated well, although they were not as fast as Xu Shian and the others, anyway, after a while, they could carry a basket of ginseng fruits and pour them into the woven bag.

When you are tired, take a break, and then do it again.

By noon, Xu Chenghou and Xu Jinping, who were about twenty feet long in length, had done most of the work.

The weather was hot, so everyone didn't go to see the small house at noon, just on the ground, took out the dry food and water they brought, and took a bite casually.

Huang Shuqing, Feng Bin, and Sun Yu also came up the mountain. The big guys got together and exchanged meals with each other.

For children like Huang Shuqing who don't like studying very much, working in the mountains is much more interesting than reading at home.

Xu Shi'an and his youngest son finished picking up their own ginseng seeds in the morning, and helped Xu Chenghou and the others in the afternoon, so the work was done before three o'clock.

So he drove the people and ginseng seeds, went straight down the mountain, sent Xu Chenghou's grandparents and grandchildren home, and then drove back to the farm.

The three of Xu Chenghou and his grandson returned home, and it was still early, so they hurriedly poured the ginseng fruit out of the woven bag, and rolled off the red ginseng fruit one by one from the receptacle.

The red ones fall off easily when you touch them. Occasionally, if there are half-green flowers, you just pick them off one by one. In fact, most of these flowers are flat.

To pick up small red kidney-shaped fruits one by one, the thin outer skin needs to be crushed and washed with water.

Xu Chenghou led his grandson, put the small fruit into a woven bag, and asked Xu Haiyuan and the others to step on the bag with their shoes on.

After stepping on it for a while, I saw some reddish-brown juice flowing out from the bottom of the woven bag, that is the juice that flowed out from the crushed pulp.

It is said that this juice can also be used as medicine, and Sanshenchang is researching ginseng fruit granules.

Of course, the average ginseng farmers don't care much, just like Xu Chenghou, they just step on it and pour it into the ditch casually.

The children stepped on it for a while, turned the woven bag over and shook it, and continued to step on it.

Wait until the juice flowing out of it is getting less and less, pour some water into it, tie the pocket tightly and step on it for a while, then pour it into a large basin and rinse it with clean water.

The good seeds that are ripe will sink to the bottom of the water, and those that float on the surface of the water are all shriveled, and most of them will float out.

In this way, after scrubbing and rinsing, the snow-white ginseng seeds are finally left, fished out, poured on the fork that has been covered with gauze, and drained.

Ginseng seeds should be dried in the sun, but not exposed to the sun.

Therefore, put it in a cool place when the sun is poisonous during the day, and take it out when the sun is not so strong in the morning and evening.

If the drying is not timely, the seed kernels will be powdered.

If it is exposed to the sun, it will be easily roasted and will not germinate, so this thing is very delicate.

Dried ginseng seeds, if the ginseng seeds are directly grown in the same year, this is called hair water seeds.

Since the ginseng seeds have not gone through the dormancy period, the germination rate is not high and they are easy to rot.

If it is kept properly for one year, ginseng seeds will be grown in the next summer, which is called dry seeds.

Dried seeds have a high germination rate and a high seedling preservation rate, which is much better than water seeds.

Xu Shiyan had no shortage of ginseng seeds, so naturally he refused to produce water seeds.

After the ginseng seeds are dried, just put them away, wait for the dry seeds next summer, and then sow them in autumn.