Chapter 253 The old house is converted into a flower shed
Xu Shiyan came to see Guo Shouye because he wanted to take advantage of Guo Shouye's connections.
Yang Chunming and others are all farmers, and most of their relatives are old farmers. With insufficient connections, it is difficult to find more Clivia seedlings.
But Guo Shouye is different. He is in the forestry system and has acquaintances in forestry bureaus in various places.
If Guo Shouye can help, it will be easier to acquire Clivia seedlings.
"Clivia? What do you want that thing for?"
Guo Shouye didn't quite understand what Xu Shiyan meant. He had nothing to do but collect Clivia seedlings? What's the use of that thing?
"Brother, I plan to set up a Clivia flower company. I can think of ways to sell it, but now we are short of flower seedlings.
I asked a lot of people to help me find out. I don’t know how many people I know, so I asked them when I had time.
Especially if our county belongs to several other bureaus or elsewhere.
If you want to inquire, just tell me the address, and I will figure out the rest."
If you ask someone for help, you have to speak clearly. There is no point in hiding it.
As for whether Guo Shouye helped collect flower seedlings and spread the news, others would learn from it.
Xu Shiyan is not worried about this.
What does this mean for him? It is incomparable to those big Clivia farmers, not even a drop in the bucket.
Clivia was designated as the city flower in 1984, and dozens of flower companies suddenly appeared in the provincial capital, buying flower seedlings from all over. At that time, there was an influx of people in the provincial capital who were obsessed with Clivia.
With Xu Shiyan’s little capital, I don’t even know if he can make a big splash out of it, so what are he afraid of?
He just used his rebirth to gain an advantage and earn a little money to spend.
"Flower company? You really can think of it. This thing is not easy to handle. You should be careful."
Okay, this is easy. Your sister-in-law’s natal family is from the Lushuihe Forestry Bureau, and her relatives also live in Quanyang, Linjiang, and Sanchazi.
It just so happens that the Chinese New Year is coming soon. When I visit relatives, I will help you find out."
When Guo Shouye heard this, he realized that it was not difficult for him to handle such a trivial matter. He could just talk, what's the point?
"Hey, thank you, brother, you have helped me a lot.
Well, brother, I just came back yesterday and I have a lot of things at home, so I’ll come and chat with you another day.”
Xu Shiyan took a look and saw that he had been out for a long time. He hadn't gone to see the breeding farm yet, so he quickly told Guo Shouye and left the bureau building to go home.
There is indeed a lot of work at home, and the three houses on the east end need to be reorganized.
The kang was removed, walls of fire were placed in the north and south, and a stove was needed in the middle of the ground.
Winter is cold, and Clivia needs a certain temperature to grow. If it's too cold, it won't grow at all.
In addition, a flower stand must be set up.
If you want to grow more flowers, you must make efficient use of space. Just placing a layer on the ground is a waste of space.
Yesterday, we made an agreement with Huang Shengli and the others that we would all do this work together.
In the morning, Huang Shengli, Sun Xiaofeng and others came over. They first dug up the kang and piled the adobe bricks and kang surface soil in the middle of the ground.
After cleaning, smash the adobe and mix it with mud to use as a fire wall.
When Xu Shiyan arrived home, Huang Shengli and others were all in disgrace and were pouring soil out of Tengkang Cave.
"Third brother, oh, you are back. The kang in your house is infested with rats. The rats are nesting in the kang hole.
It's a good thing that the kang was dug out. If we were to light a fire directly, there would be smoke everywhere and choke someone to death."
Zhao Jianshe had several streaks of black ash on his face and all over his body, and he looked completely out of shape.
These three old houses in the east end have been vacant. Xu Shiyan planned to renovate them when he got the chance some year, so he didn't care.
As soon as this house is left unoccupied, it will definitely deteriorate quickly. If there is no fire in the kang, it is normal for there to be rats in it.
Xu Shiyan walked into the house and took a look. The kangs in the east and west rooms were all removed, and the stove in the outside room was also removed.
In this way, the house will look particularly empty, leaving enough space for growing flowers.
"Well, okay, that's good. Thank you for your hard work, brothers. I'll go back to the house and change some clothes later, and I'll come over to work too."
Can Xu Shiyan still be idle with his own affairs?
So I went back to the house, changed into some tattered work clothes, and together with Zhao Jianshe and others, tidied up the old house inside and out.
All unnecessary things were cleared away, and excess adobe piles were piled outside.
After the house is cleared, we start pounding adobe bricks, kneading mud, laying firewalls, and building stoves.
Xu Shiyan led the people to work on this end, while Xu Chenghou rummaged through the wood and helped make the flower shelves.
After all the houses were tidied up, the fire walls and other items were burned and dried, and the flower shelves were installed, the three old houses were transformed into flower sheds.
After five or six days of busy work, the flower shed was finally completed.
When everything was ready here, each family handed over the collected seeds to Su Anying and Xu Shiqin.
Xu Shiqin was recuperating at home and had nothing to do. She was an expert in raising Clivia, so she happened to come over to help.
Xu Shiyan handed the flower shed to his wife and sister. He had to go to work on the breeding farm. This year's musk deer had not been harvested yet.
Generally speaking, non-species musk deer can collect musk from October every year to March of the following year.
To breed musk deer, you need to stagger the mating period and collect musk deer in September to October, or after December.
I was too busy in the autumn to take care of it. As soon as winter came, Xu Shiyan went out to the provincial capital again. This delay lasted until the end of January and the beginning of February.
If there is too much incense in the sachet, it will easily form large pieces, and the musk deer will also suffer when collecting incense.
Male musk deer will only secrete musk in two years. The peak period of scent production is three to ten years. After fifteen years, they basically no longer produce scent.
There are fifteen adult male musk deer in the farm, and each musk deer can extract fifteen to twenty grams of scent.
The musk was taken and sent to the Tonghua Medicinal Materials Purchasing Station. Xu Shiyan signed a purchase agreement there, and the musk and velvet antlers produced every year were sold to the other party at market prices.
Just this crop of musk alone can bring in a small profit of ten thousand yuan.
After a few years, those young musk deer will grow up, the scale of the farm will expand, and the profits will be even greater.
As there are fewer and fewer musk deer in the wild, musk deer will become more and more expensive.
By the time Xu Shiyan came back from Tonghua, there were only a few days before the New Year.
And the things he mailed from the provincial capital finally arrived at the local post office.
Xu Shiyan pushed a cart to the post office and picked up several packages.
Fortunately, everything was well preserved, especially the box of books, which were sealed very firmly and were not scattered or lost.
After moving the things home, Xu Shiyan didn't bother to dismantle the rest, so he piled them in the west room first.
On the other hand, I couldn't wait to open the box of books.
When I was in the provincial capital, I was anxious and didn't look at the books. I only heard Mr. Chu say that some of them were from his family and some were textbooks from the Agricultural University.
Xu Shiyan took the books out of the box one by one, sorted them into categories, and put them on the bookshelf in the east room.
Halfway through the process, I discovered that there were several manuscripts inside, all written by Mr. Chu himself.
There are medical records from Mr. Chu's medical practice over the years, and there is also a book that turns out to be a secret recipe passed down from the Chu family.
The Chu family has been practicing medicine for generations, and their ancestors even had imperial doctors. The secret recipe can be said to be a treasure, and its value is immeasurable.
Xu Shiyan's hands trembled with fright, and he almost dropped the manuscript. A letter inside fell down.
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