Chapter 371 Gentian: A Little Treasure Among the Grass

"What's wrong?"

Xiulan also heard the noise in the house.

"Nothing, it just looks like a pheasant flew out." Lin Heng said looking at the mountain.

After a while, his uncle came over with a large bundle of rye grass. He looked at Lin Heng and said, "You might have a pheasant nest in the past few years."

"It's unlikely. The pheasants haven't started laying eggs yet?" Lin Heng said.

"It has started to rain. We will know after a while when the grass is cut." Lu Honghai said and continued to move the grass.

"Let's start too." Father Lin said.

Lin Heng nodded, and went to move the grass chopper over with his father. The machine worked very efficiently and chopped the rye grass into pieces in just a few strokes.

After chopping, the two first filled a bag to test the effect. They filled the plastic bag, placed the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner at the mouth of the bag, squeezed it tightly with their hands, and then turned on the vacuum cleaner.

After just a few beeps, the air in the bag was sucked out, as if a vacuum had been drawn.

Pull out the tube and tie the mouth of the bag with a rope, and the bag of green storage is packed.

"Okay, it's fast enough, and the effect is much faster than pressing it with our own hands." Father Lin said with satisfaction.

In the past, the most time-consuming and labor-intensive process of making green storage was to manually squeeze the air out of the bag. With this vacuum machine, the speed of making green storage can be increased by at least three times.

"And the fermented stuff is also very effective." Lin Heng said with a smile.

There are very few green storage balers in China now, and most of them are imported. A vacuum cleaner can also have the corresponding effect.

After the plastic bags are packed, just use another set of snakeskin bags. The main function of the snakeskin bags is to protect the plastic bags from being worn. Once the green storage is leaked, it will be dead.

The two of them took action and packed up all the rye grass piled here in a short time.

"You guys are so fast today." Lin Heng's father was a little shocked when he came down.

"Lin Heng bought another vacuum cleaner. This thing is very easy to use."

Father Lin showed off his son's new vacuum cleaner to his younger brother.

"This thing is good and powerful." Lin Xutao worked as a green reserve for his help, and he immediately understood when he saw this thing.

With the help of the new machine, they were doing the work quickly all morning, while those on the mountain were doing the mowing and transporting things slowly.

During lunch, they made an unprecedented green storage from two acres of land, weighing about 8,000 kilograms, and the warehouse was filled with less than half of it.

Lunch was cooked by Xiulan. The main course was bear ribs, which were not only stewed but also braised. Some of the other dishes were relatively normal, including bacon and a bit of leftover mutton from the last barbecue.

After dinner, we worked longer in the afternoon until dark, cutting three acres of rye grass and one acre of alfalfa.

The yield per mu of ryegrass and alfalfa is about the same. The yield per acre is about 4,000 kilograms. Today, six acres of land were cut, yielding 24,000 kilograms of forage, all of which was turned into green storage.

Lin Heng plans to make 30,000 kilograms of green storage, and the rest will be dried into hay and stored.

Although silage is rich in nutrients, it also has shortcomings. In addition to unstable nutritional content, it is highly acidic, which can cause miscarriage in cows and ewes. Pregnant cows and sheep cannot be fed.

When alfalfa was planted, he mainly used it to make silage, which is richer in nutrients than ryegrass.

After dinner in the evening, when his parents went back, Father Lin and his uncle talked about Widow Zhang.

At first his uncle was a little shy, but Lin Heng and Xiulan also tried to persuade him.

After asking about the widow's mother, she said it was pretty good. The most important thing was that her uncle was already very old and didn't have that many choices.

"Uncle, don't worry about having no money. Just follow me and grow some Chinese herbal medicine. For example, astragalus, hay, gentian, etc., you just plant it and I will harvest it. You can easily earn six to seven hundred yuan a year. " Lin Heng looked at his uncle and said.

His uncle hunted all year round and saved a lot of money, mainly because he did not have a stable source of income.

"You accept them all?" Lu Honghai was a little confused.

Lin Heng explained: "Actually, it's not just you, uncle, but also my third uncle, my third dad, and my younger uncle. I'm going to let them all plant it. I'll pay for the seeds in advance, and I'll buy them back at the market price two years after planting." , you just need to plant it.”

In this model, if he takes it back and sells it directly, he will make a small profit. If he saves it and waits for two years to sell it, he will make a small profit, but he will not lose money anyway.

Just like the turmeric, ginger and mulberry he asked the purchasing station to stock last year, he made a fortune from selling it.

"Isn't this guy helping us? How can he make money by himself?" Lu Honghai still didn't understand.

"The market price I'm talking about is the price at the purchasing station. If I sell it, I'll still make some profit." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll go back and plant some, but I don't need you to pay for the seeds." Lu Honghai said with a simple smile.

"It's okay. We'll discuss this later." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After finishing speaking, Lin Heng took the children and Xiulan home. His uncle also went to live in the old house to help get things, and Caiyun helped take Xiaoxia.

He didn't want the dog he saw in the morning, and said he would order a smart one next time.

After returning home, his uncle's bed was arranged by Caiyun, and Lin Heng and the others went home directly.

Early the next morning, another two acres of ryegrass were cut and all of them were made into green storage.

Just when the grass was about to be cut in the morning, Mother Lin exclaimed: "There really is a pheasant nest, and five eggs have been laid."

After a while, she came down with the eggs, looked at Lin Heng and Xiulan and said, "Do you think we should hatch these pheasant eggs and raise them?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "I don't think it's necessary. It's not easy to raise, and it's not as heavy as a domestic chicken."

"I think we should raise them. Let's try. We don't need these eggs." Xiulan was quite interested in raising pheasants.

"Then I'll listen to my daughter-in-law and take them back to hatch them now." Mother Lin thought for a while and said, taking the eggs into the house and taking out last year's hatching box to hatch them.

In the afternoon, they cut three acres of pasture grass and dried them for hay, and left one acre of ryegrass and one acre of elephant grass uncut, leaving fresh grass for cattle and sheep.

Because Lin Heng and his father joined in the afternoon, they finished their work at more than three o'clock.

The ryegrass he planted is perennial, just like alfalfa. With fertilizer and water, it can be harvested continuously for three or four years.

After three or four years, when the yield decreases, it will be replanted.

During lunch in the afternoon, Lin Heng repeated what he said to his uncle yesterday to his third father and third mother.

After hearing what Lin Heng said, his third mother Li Xue immediately agreed: "That's no problem. We will plant as many seeds as you provide."

"Lin Heng, can we plant too?" Liu Juan beside him asked with some interest.

Lin Heng provides the seeds and Lin Heng collects them. They just need to plant them. This is a good deal no matter how you look at it.

"Of course."

Lin Heng smiled and nodded, and then said: "I'm going to let you plant ginseng. This thing is planted in the forest and doesn't take up space. I'll ask my aunt these two days. You can think about how many acres you can plant. Just report to me when the time comes."

They say that this place is at the junction of the north and the south, but strictly speaking it still belongs to the north, so ginseng is more suitable. It's not that they can't plant things like Panax notoginseng. They can dig Panax notoginseng in the mountains. The main problem is which one is easier to survive.

"Are there any requirements for ginseng planting?" Lin Heng's third father asked.

"Of course there are. If you grow forest ginseng that doesn't need to be taken care of, there's actually nothing to take care of. It just takes a long time, usually three to seven years to grow, and the value is also very high."

"If you take good care of it, you also need to weed and loosen the soil every year, so that the yield will be higher."

"If you want a short cycle, you can choose Scutellaria baicalensis, Astragalus membranaceus, Gentiana scabra, and Licorice, which can be harvested in two or three years. And they are all relatively easy to grow, and you only need to weed and manage over the winter. On average, the annual income per mu is between 150 and 250, depending on the yield."

Lin Heng said while eating vegetables, and everyone else stopped and listened to him attentively. If it were in the past, people might not be like this, and they might even suspect that there was something fishy going on.

But now that Lin Heng's industry is so big, they don't think that others would fool them with such things.

After a little thought, Li Xue immediately said: "Then we are willing to plant this kind of short-term, easy-to-make, which of these is the most valuable?"

"If the short-term most valuable is definitely Gentian, but it takes three years to mature, followed by Astragalus and Scutellaria hay, but Astragalus is the easiest to grow." Lin Heng looked at his third mother and said.

Lin Heng's third father thought for a while, looked at Lin Heng and said: "Let's do this, we mainly plant Astragalus, and then plant some ginseng, and I will think about how much to plant when I get back."

His choice is the most pragmatic, long-term and short-term mixed planting, short-term money can be used, and long-term can also make a lot of money.

"Let's plant some ginseng." Lin Yue said.

"I listen to Lin Heng, I haven't planted it myself, I don't know which one is suitable." Lu Honghai said.

"Then let's plant Astragalus and ginseng. Ginseng is planted under fertile and tall forests, and it doesn't need much care.

And Astragalus is drought-resistant and dry-resistant, so it is more suitable to plant some sunny broken land."

Lin Heng also tends to plant both of them, taking into account both long-term and short-term.

After they made up their minds, they first figured out how much to plant, and then Lin Heng bought the seeds for them.

After lunch, everyone went home. They wanted to ask everyone to help plant alfalfa and astragalus, but tomorrow is Qingming Festival, and everyone has to go back to visit the graves.

Lin's father and mother went to find the matchmaker who often acted as a matchmaker in the village to go to Zhang's house to talk about this matter.

Zhang's real name is Zhang Gaolian, and she is 33 years old this year. She was originally married to Baima Village and gave birth to a son and a daughter.

Her husband and children were caught in the river seven years ago and were all washed away by a flood, and then she was driven back to her parents' home by her in-laws.

Zhang Gaolian was hit so hard that she was a little mentally abnormal. In recent years, she has recovered and has the idea of ​​finding a man again.

After hearing about it, Lin's mother tried to test it, but people disliked it at the time. At the beginning of this year, she expressed her desire to try it again.

While Lin's mother went to do business, Lin Heng went to see the fry. They had basically digested the yolk and turned into small black dots.

Lin Heng tried to crush an egg yolk and mixed it with a lot of silkworm pupa powder to feed them.

"It's OK."

Seeing the fry chasing and eating, Lin Heng was immediately happy. As long as they can eat, it's good. As long as they open their mouths, they are easy to raise.

However, he soon discovered a problem. The fry only eat the ones floating on the water surface, and the bottom of the water is invisible.

He tried to stir up the bottom of the water, but the effect was not very good.

As a result, he dared not feed more for the time being, fearing that the water quality would deteriorate.

"You said we should feed them first, and then let the water flow after two hours. Do you think it will work?" Lin's father thought.

"You can give it a try." Lin Heng nodded. The environment in which plum fish live is originally a stream with a relatively fast current.

It is also simple to create a stream. Just open the water on one side and release the water on the other side. You only need to use a sponge to block the front of the water to prevent the fish from being washed away.

The impact of the water coming down from the mountain is very strong and has a strong wave-making ability.

Or you can filter the water that comes out and use a water pump to circulate it.

After the two fed the fry, they tried to release the water. The bottom food was blown up, and the fry became more active and would chase after it.

"It seems feasible. After each feeding, releasing the water for two hours can not only remove food residues, but also increase the dissolved oxygen content."

After observing for a full half an hour, Lin Heng nodded affirmatively.

Without sufficient equipment, this is the simplest way.

After the fry were done, Lin Heng and Xiulan pushed the stroller and took Xiaoxia back.

"Tomorrow is Qingming Festival. Do you want to eat Qingtuan?" Xiulan sat down and looked at Lin Heng and said.

"Just make your decision." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan was speechless: "I asked you because I couldn't decide."

"Then don't eat it. It tastes average anyway. It's better to eat some other wild vegetables. If mom and the others have some, just take some." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's it." Xiulan agreed immediately.

Lin Heng drank a glass of water and rested for a while. He went to the study to find white paper and cut Qingming hangings with Xiaoxia.

"I can cut it, Dad!"

Xiaoxia said while holding the folded paper. What Lin Heng didn't expect was that she really cut out a rough shape.

"Great!" Lin Heng smiled and praised her.

"I can also cut little white rabbits~" Xiaoxia raised her little head.

The father and daughter worked together, one seriously and the other playing, and soon they also cut the Qingming hangings.

The next day was Qingming Festival. Xiulan, who woke up in Lin Heng's arms in the morning, said: "It should be raining outside, otherwise it wouldn't be so cold."

"It should be." Lin Heng nodded, because he couldn't see clearly with the curtains drawn.

After staying in bed for two minutes, the two were ready to get up. Lin Heng opened the curtains and it was drizzling outside.

"I said I wanted to wear this dress today, but it seems I can't wear it." Xiulan said helplessly while holding a sky-blue plain cheongsam.

This was made by Lin Heng when she was pregnant. It was made according to her body proportions before pregnancy. There were three pieces in total, one sky-blue, one navy blue velvet cheongsam, and one light yellow printed cheongsam.

"It's okay, just don't go out. I really want to see it." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan shook her head and refused mercilessly: "I'm afraid of the cold, wait until next time."

After putting on the clothes, he went out for a simple exercise. Lin Heng played with the bow and arrow for a while. After breakfast, because it was drizzling, the adults went to the grave today. Lin Heng and his eldest brother asked his father to go to the grave together.