Chapter 259 Picking Ginseng Seeds
After the house he visited was built, Zhou An and himself had to do it slowly. So the next day Zhou Anguo and Zhou Antai took his wife and children home.
Zhou Tiantian and others were tired and couldn't stand these days, so they rested at home for three days.
Three days later, Zhenyuan and others estimated that the families had almost finished picking ginseng seeds, so they planned to go up the mountain to pick up bargains.
If we follow the term "ginseng" in terms of ginseng, it is called "ginseng seeds".
The Han Zhenyuan brothers go up the mountain at this time every year, and the Han family never stops them.
Anyway, no matter how much the things the children get back with their abilities, they don’t want them at home, so they keep pocket money for them.
What is different this year from previous years is that there are more Zhou Tiantian, Zhou Yanyan and Chang Yanzhe.
Although this matter is a convention, it is not easy to make public after all.
It just so happened that Jiang Juntao was about to preview his second year of high school. Before Jiang Junqi finished her summer homework, she was punished by Cao to do her homework at home.
So I didn't tell these two people, and Chang Yanzhe just said that he wanted to go up the mountain to collect herbs.
Early in the morning of August 10th, Zhenyuan, Zhenhui, Zhou Tiantian, Zhou Yanyan and Chang Yanzhe went up the mountain with a lot of food.
The Han Zhenyuan brothers do this every year, so they are naturally familiar with it.
After arriving on the mountain, he directed Zhou Yanyan and others to take a small basket to the ginseng land where he made the goods this year.
Open the dense ginseng leaves and search for the ginseng seeds that are as bright and plump as red coral beads.
Ginseng flowers are umbrella-shaped inflorescences, and ginseng seeds all grow on umbrella-shaped stalks, each of which is red and beautiful.
When picking ginseng seeds, you should pick them together with the umbrella-shaped pedicel below. You cannot pick ginseng seeds directly, otherwise the ripe ginseng seeds will easily fall into the soil.
Fortunately, this life is not difficult, and Zhou Tiantian and Zhou Yanyan quickly mastered the skills.
Of course, there are not so many ginseng seeds leaking. Some are 100 to 1000, while others can meet more than ten to 100.
This depends on whether the person who pinched ginseng flowers was careful in his work. If he caught up with the careless work, he would have really met many people.
When ginseng grows to make goods, it usually grows in the soil for six years. Compared with those five years, ginseng seeds are bigger and fuller, which is very gratifying.
Everyone was very patient and could just flip it down one by one, and they could pick a full basket in the morning.
The whole group of children is about 10,000 yuan to make sticks this fall. These ginseng seeds alone are enough for the children to search for a few days.
I picked ginseng seeds during the day, stopped at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and went back to wash ginseng seeds.
The ginseng seeds are wrapped with a layer of peel, and the peel needs to be separated and cleaned before the ginseng seeds can be dried.
When washing ginseng seeds, you must first remove the ginseng seeds from the pedicels, put them into a bag, and then take off your shoes and socks and step on them.
The crust of ripe ginseng seeds is fragile and can easily be broken, and then a reddish-brown slurry will flow out of your pocket.
Originally, Han Zhenyuan said he wanted to go to the river to wash, so it was easy to do. While stepping on it, the slurry washed away with the river water.
But Chang Yanzhe refused to let him go. He said that the peel outside the ginseng seeds contains a lot of beneficial substances, which can be extracted as medicine and can also be used as skin care products.
When Han Zhenyuan heard that he had no choice but to step on ginseng seeds on the side of the house.
They made a special groove, with wooden boards horizontally on the groove, and pockets containing ginseng seeds on the head.
When people step on it, the juice is left in the trough. Chang Yanzhe then found a way to collect the juice, and after he went down the mountain, he found a way to extract the active active ingredients inside.
"Brother Six, do you see if I'm almost stepping on this bag?"
Zhou Tiantian and Chang Yanzhe stepped on a bag. After trampling for a long time, they opened the bag and asked Han Zhenyuan to see if it was OK.
"Well, okay, you two can add water to clean this one."
Han Zhenyuan looked at it and could no longer see the red fruit in his pocket, and the seeds and flesh had separated.
Then he nodded and asked Zhou Tiantian and the others to pour the ginseng seeds into the basin and add water to rinse them.
Rinse the clean water several times, then use a hedge to remove all the floating ones on it, keep the sinking bottom, and spread them flat on a sieve with gauze to dry.
"I'll control the water tonight. Let's collect it early tomorrow morning. When my dad comes, he will take it down. My breasts know how to dry them."
Ginseng seeds cannot be exposed to the sun in the sun, so the seed kernels inside are cooked and placed in a cool place to dry.
There are not so many sieves on the mountain, and the other one is not easy for others to see the Han family drying so many ginseng seeds, so the best way is to send them down the mountain and let old Mrs. Han watch the drying at home.
Although picking ginseng seeds seems to be quite easy, it is actually not easy. You have to kneel on the surface of the pond, that is, pick them on the ground.
Especially for the few ginseng seeds, one of them has to walk under the ginseng shed, or you will kneel forward.
After a day, my waist and legs couldn't stand it.
In addition, it was quite laborious to wash ginseng seeds at night, so when everything was over, everyone was so tired that they lay on the kang and didn't want to move.
In mid-August, there is still one month before the ginseng is taking part in the sport. At this time, the ginseng is growing rapidly.
From now on, it is also the most difficult time to see ginseng. There are always some thieves who are thinking about valuable ginseng.
So after Han Liwei, Han Liren, Han Zhensheng and others had dinner at home, they would come up the mountain to live, and even Zhou Anhe came here in the evening.
Anyway, he had to dig soil in the ginseng area and live nearer here. Even if he walked over in the morning, it would be faster than rushing to come from the bottom of the mountain.
There is not much work at the foot of the mountain now, so Zhou Anhe asked Han Caiying to stay at home. He went to dig the soil during the day and stayed here at night, and helped a group of father-in-law.
After all, this place is a garden where you can participate. It is calculated as ten thousand feet a year. If you spend three years a cycle, this area will be more than 30,000 feet a year.
Such a large area of ginseng land, there are houses in all four corners.
In the evening, Han Liren and his brothers lived in one place, and Han Zhensheng and Zhou Anhe lived in one place.
Once there is any movement, you will rob it. When other directions hear the movement, they will come to support it.
In the big house in the middle, Mr. Han, Zhenyuan, Zhenhui, Chang Yanzhe live in the east room, and Zhou Tiantian and Zhou Yanyan live in the west room.
The children were tired during the day and fell asleep quickly after lying down. However, Mr. Han couldn't sleep. He had to wait for the first half of the night and lead the dog around to walk the venue at night.
Zhou Tiantian was on the mountain, so A Tai naturally stopped sleeping with Ah Huang, but let Zhou Tiantian sleep with her arms around her.
Zhou Tiantian slept until midnight, and didn't know what dream she had, so she sat up all of a sudden.
Atae, who was originally sleeping with her hugged, was also awakened. His ears moved. His big green eyes were as bright as light bulbs.
Atai jumped to the ground without saying a word, opened the door and walked out.
Atai came outside and shouted loudly towards the northeast, then rushed towards the northeast quickly.
The children sleeping in the room were awakened by Ate's roar, "Sixth Brother, get up and see, it's wrong to call Ae's yell like this, it probably discovered something."
Chapter completed!