When harvesting Gastrodia elata, we also harvest Asarum seedlings.
Nowadays, this asarum is not expensive, it depends on the harvest.
Asarum with more than two leaves, roots, and intact leaves costs one penny for two.
Large seedlings are not recommended as their roots are too long and difficult to survive. Small seedlings are best, they are cheap and easy to survive.
Plant it on a pond and slowly grow it. It will grow into a mound in three years. Just before planting, you can dig it out and dry it for sale.
Asarum can be dug year-round. It is easier to see in spring when the grass in the ground has not grown up.
Most of the time, I go to the mountains to collect large leaves of celery, and when I encounter asarum, I just dig it out.
Just in time for the May Day holiday, many students followed their parents to work in the mountains, and they dug some in the woods along the way.
It's good to sell them for a few cents when you come back and buy popsicles to eat.
Asarum flowers and produces seeds, which can be propagated by seeds or by cutting the roots.
Set up an Asarum nursery, and when more and more seedlings are planted in the future, there will be no need to purchase seedlings.
Anyway, no matter what industry it is, it will definitely be difficult to develop initially and the investment will be huge.
Once it forms a large scale, it can circulate on its own and make money.
If a business owner has a big business, he doesn't care about the investment and just develops slowly. This is not a matter of urgency.
Xu Shiyan is mainly responsible for the comprehensive utilization of ginseng fields. During the rest of the time, he leads the technical team to prepare fertilizer for ginseng fields and distribute ginseng seeds.
Anyway, he is always busy, and he has no time to spare.
At the other end of the farm, the flower shed was quickly built with a large frame, and the next step was to install glass windows for insulation and heating.
Su Anying learned to ride a bicycle in order to take care of the breeding farm. Xu Shiyan bought a bicycle ticket and bought one for his wife.
Su Anying rides to the breeding farm every morning and looks at the work there. If there is anything missing, she quickly arranges for someone to buy it.
Not to mention, Su Anying's ability is really nothing to say.
I took over the breeding farm and learned how to manage and take care of the animals every day. It didn't take long and I learned almost everything.
Not only Su Anying is busy working on the farm, most of the wives of Huang Shengli, Feng Chao, Zhao Jianshe and others are also cultivating flower seedlings and raising animals on the farm.
The weather is getting warmer, and the Clivia seedlings raised by Huang Shengli and others have been moved to the breeding farm.
The garden shed was temporarily unavailable, so a wooden shed was built to protect it from wind and rain. It was easier to manage it centrally than to take care of it separately for each household.
Most women like flowers and plants. The green Clivia seedlings are quite rare and can make money. Who wouldn’t take care of them?
Needless to say, those furry and cute animals are all money. For the sake of money, you have to take good care of them.
In order to run back and forth to the breeding farms, most women learned to ride bicycles.
Nowadays, the conditions of every household are pretty good, and it is not difficult to buy a bicycle.
So the women prepared meals in the morning, and after their children went to school, they rode their bikes to the farm to work.
Come eleven o'clock at noon, and then ride home for dinner.
Su Anying fed the two children in the morning and went out. She went home at noon and fed them twice more. When she returned in the evening, the children were under her care.
Perhaps because there are so many people in the family, the two children, Xu Jinhui and Xu Haiqing, are not very attached to their mother.
During the day, I played with my two aunts and grandma. If I was hungry, I would eat something, or drink some goat's milk or something.
When mother comes back, she will take a bite when she is given milk. She won’t be greedy if she doesn’t. It’s just that she cannot live without her at night and must be coaxed to sleep by her mother.
Su Anying discussed with her mother-in-law that considering this situation, it was better to wean her baby when she turned one year old. Breast milk was unnecessary anyway, so it would save her worries to stop breastfeeding as soon as possible.
Zhou Guilan originally disagreed with weaning too early, but seeing the attitude of the two babies, she had no choice but to nod in agreement.
It was the end of May when I was so busy.
"Yingzi, don't go to the breeding farm tomorrow. We will fry the soy beans later.
It will be cooked in the pot tonight, and it will be sent to the mill to be rolled out tomorrow morning. We will make the sauce tomorrow."
On the night of May 29th, Zhou Guilan came to see Su Anying and told her about making sauce.
It doesn’t matter what the bean paste is, as long as the weather is warm and the sun is good, you can make it at any time.
When the Xu family makes soy sauce, they always choose the eighth, eighteenth and twenty-eighth days of April in the lunar calendar. On these days, they go to the mill to roll the soy beans and soybeans into a lake shape.
The soy sauce starter placed in the bean straw first evaporates and becomes lighter, and then slowly ferments.
After two months of fermentation, the surface is covered with green hairs, some of which are slightly cracked.
Break open the sauce starter. If the fermentation is successful, you will see that there are not only green hairs, but also red mycelium, with a slightly sour aroma.
The sauce made with this kind of sauce primer will not taste bad.
If it is not fermented well and there is only green hair with a strong musty smell, then it is not good.
The resulting sauce was not tasty and had a musty smell.
Zhou Guilan is very good at making sauce starters. A few days ago, she broke apart all the sauce starters, washed them clean, and stacked them together again for fermentation.
The sauce made by secondary fermentation has a stronger aroma.
The two families couldn't make too little sauce, so in the evening Su Anying and Zhou Guilan fried forty pounds of soybeans together.
The soybeans are screened in advance with a curtain to remove the beans, stones, straw, etc., and then they are fished out with water and dried. They are very clean.
Stir-fry slowly over low heat until the beans are slightly charred and red and emit a special aroma, but cannot be stir-fried, then put them in a basin and leave them.
The fried beans need to be boiled until they are completely cooked.
Zhou Guilan has her own secret recipe for making sauce. The soybeans are mixed with some peas to make the sauce sweeter.
When cooking the beans, put a piece of Schisandra vine and a bundle of Artemisia japonica inside.
The sauce beans will have a natural aroma, and the sauce made without any other seasonings is particularly delicious.
"No wonder when I eat the sauce made by my aunt, I feel that it is different from the sauce made by my mother. It turns out that there are still these words."
Sister Su Anfang also helped fry the beans and fry the soybeans. After seeing what Zhou Guilan put into the soybean pot, the two of them suddenly realized.
No wonder Xu’s sauce tastes particularly delicious, as there is a secret recipe behind it.
“This is a method passed down from my mother-in-law.
The place where my family lived used to be very bad. Every time I went out, there were stone cannons everywhere, making it difficult to leave.
To buy something, you have to go to Niumaowu, which is quite far and inconvenient.
At that time, our family had a hilltop, and there were Schisandra chinensis on the mountain, and Artemisia catnip was more common, and it was everywhere on the edge of the garden.
So I use these two when cooking beans, and the soy beans will be very fragrant.
In fact, Schisandra vine has many uses, including stews.
Not to mention the artemisia, put some in the stewed fish to remove the fishy smell and still taste fresh."
Seeing that Su Anfang and the others were curious, Zhou Guilan had to tell her something.
"When we lived in the big camp and the big house in the past, when it was time to eat, people would come to our house and ask for miso.
Some people borrowed bowls from home without taking them, and forgot to return them over and over again.
All year round, I don’t even know how many bowls are thrown away.”
Northeastern people are like this. They cannot eat without soybean paste. If anyone has good soybean paste, everyone else will ask for it.