newbobooks Chapter 508: It's Fermented
Chapter 508: It's Fermented
Gradually, people stopped playing football outside the yard and moved to the wheat field, which was wide and flat.
At first, the villagers used to come to visit every day, but later they stopped coming.
Even the old people gradually disappeared.
From autumn to winter, from winter to spring.
Another year has passed.
Zhou Guo's compost composting finally made a huge breakthrough.
Although it has not been fermented yet, there is only one last step left.
The whole family was very happy. If they had a constant supply of fertilizer, there would be no need to worry about the harvest from the fields.
It was the time of the year when mushrooms came out. She finally came out from the backyard and followed the villagers to the mountains to pick mushrooms for a few days, bringing back many varieties of mushrooms.
Last winter, she dug an ice cellar next to her house, put a lot of ice in it, and stored the fungus strains she dug back in it.
In late autumn last year, she used dried sheep mushrooms as seeds and planted a batch in the vegetable garden, the back mountain, and the deep mountains. In the end, not a single one grew. If this works, she will continue planting this autumn, and she will have an endless supply of sheep mushrooms by this time next year. Then the few lines she has grown will come in handy.
With such good lines, you don't have to wait for pine mushrooms all year round.
Seeing that she had been there for a few days, the villagers stopped going. It was also because they had made a fortune from selling pine mushrooms last year. Some of them tentatively asked Li: "Mother Guoguo, Guoguo can harvest pine mushrooms and sell them, but do you harvest goat mushrooms?"
"Yes, goat mushrooms are not cheap either. We can sell them for 40 wen per pound in the county town. If we go as far as the prefectural capital, we might be able to sell them for 80 wen per pound. Your Guoguo is so good, why don't you continue this business?"
Li said, "She is still locked up in the backyard, fiddling with her fertilizer. If the fertilizer is not made soon, I'm afraid she won't be in the mood to harvest the pine mushrooms this year."
This shocked everyone, "No, you should persuade her to go out for a walk, don't let her go crazy again."
Li smiled bitterly, "I came out. I went up the mountain to pick mushrooms for a few days. Otherwise, I would have to stay in the backyard for a year."
Considering her temper, everyone had to go to the backyard three times a day to check on her, for fear that the child would really fight with the manure pile and not come out.
I looked around and shook my head. There was no place to step in the backyard.
Seeing that there was only one step left, Zhou Guo was so busy that she forgot to eat and sleep. She only came out from the backyard after the sheep mushroom season was over and the seedlings were about to be planted in the fields.
After planting the seedlings, he plunged back in.
Mrs. Li looked at her worriedly as she worked without eating or drinking. She only ate, drank, defecated, urinated and practiced in the backyard. She asked the old man with a worried look on her face, "Sir, what do you think of this child? She studies harder than her two brothers. If this continues, I'm worried that her health will collapse."
The old man took a sip of tea, shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry about her health. Fortunately, she has not forgotten to get up and practice every day. She is as strong as a bull. There will be no problem."
He sighed and said, "I didn't expect this kid to be so persistent. He won't let go of what he wants to do until he can accomplish it. Even ten cows can't pull him back. I don't know whether this is good or bad."
Summer passes and autumn comes.
As the day approached, everyone in the village was looking at Zhou Guo, waiting for her to come out from the backyard.
Zhou Guo lived up to everyone's expectations and raised his head from the backyard when the first pine mushroom emerged in the mountains.
Her compost pile was finally fermented successfully!
She used a rake to dig it open carefully, and the familiar hot steam inside hit her face. It was the fertilizer that had been fermenting for more than a year. No one knew better than her what effective fertilizer looked like. After working day and night for more than a year, she finally turned these wastes into treasures.
She thought that she would laugh and shout loudly after fermentation was completed, but it turned out that she was very calm, and did not seem very excited. It was probably because all her emotions were used up and lost in the repeated failures that were about to succeed.
I calmly spread out the manure, shoveled it into the manure pile, and cleaned up the mess in the yard. It was dark by the time I finished cleaning up.
As usual, she went to the front yard to fetch some water, washed her hands, and prepared to eat.
At the dinner table, Li tentatively said, "They went up the mountain today and found some pine mushrooms in the mountains."
Everyone looked at her.
Zhou Guo picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and nodded, "Got it, let's start collecting the mushrooms. I'll go find Wu Jiang and the others tomorrow."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the table stopped eating.
Zhou Xing asked, "Are you not going to mess with your fats anymore?"
Zhou Guo shook his head, "I won't tinker with it anymore."
The crowd cheered.
The old man didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Zhou Gu said, "It's better not to tinker with it. It's obvious that you can't figure it out, but you still lock yourself in the back all day. I'm worried about you. If you can't figure it out, you'll go crazy. It's better to make money."
Zhou Guo nodded without saying anything, and buried his head in his food. After he finished, he asked Li, "Mom, is there any hot water? I want to take a bath."
Li was stunned, "Yes, the big pot is boiling."
She stood up and said, "Okay, I'm done eating. I'm going to take a shower first. I stink all over. Change into clean clothes."
After saying that, he went to get a bucket of hot water.
The people at the table were left staring blankly at her back.
After a while, Zhou Mi asked suspiciously, "Did you hear what she said just now? She stinks all over? Ah? Is that what she said? Is that right?"
No one spoke.
He continued, "That's not right. Since she moved into the backyard last year, when has she ever felt that she stinks? Every day when she doesn't take a shower, she falls to the ground and starts sleeping. What's wrong with her?"
Zhou Xing said happily, "What else could it be? She must be trying to make money. She can't just go and collect and sell mushrooms. I told her that she would definitely remember something like making money."
Everyone nodded, but there was no perfect explanation.
Zhou Guo threw away her stinky clothes. Over the past year, she had only worn these two sets of coarse cloth clothes. From today on, she was going to start wearing new clothes.
He leaned his head on the edge of the bucket, put his hands on both sides, and sighed comfortably. There was nothing in his mind at this moment.
It seemed like I had been walking for a very long time, and finally I reached my destination. My whole body and mind, from my hair to my toenails, was relaxed. It felt really good!
She took a comfortable bath and washed her hair, then put on a moon-white silk Taoist robe that she had specially asked Li to make for her. She tied her hair on top of her head and tied it tightly with a hairband of the same color. Compared with those more complicated hairstyles, she felt that this hairstyle was most suitable for her and was the simplest.
A big golden lock hangs on his chest.
After putting it on and looking down, I felt very beautiful. It was a pity that I didn’t have a fan, otherwise if I waved it, wouldn’t I look like a handsome little scholar?
As soon as she walked out the door, everyone in the yard was stunned.
He stared at her in silence.
Zhou Guo turned around and asked, "How is he? Is he handsome?"
Everyone nodded blankly.