Three hundred and twentieth seventh chapter hit the curtain
It was a small accident, but no one took it to heart, and they didn't mention it to their family when they got home.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the year is over, and every household begins to prepare materials for ginseng.
The light transmittance of PVC plastic film sophora flavescens is much better than that of wooden sheds, which is beneficial to increasing ginseng production.
So many people are starting to think about using plastic film for their newly planted sticks.
Using plastic film sophora flavescens is completely different from the previous wooden sheds.
Under the plastic film, a curtain made of branches must be laid. The process of weaving the curtain is called curtain making in the local area.
Usually two or three people make a wooden frame according to the width of the pool, and four or five nails with equal spacing are nailed on both ends of the wooden frame.
Bundles of wire are wrapped around wooden sticks in advance and twisted into tassels.
Then wrap the wire around the nail, and then pull it to the nail at the other end of the wooden frame to fix it. Pull four or five wires in total.
Various branches as tall as a person were cut back from the mountain, put together in groups of two, and carried horizontally on the wire.
Hold the wire tassel in your hand, wrap it around the branch, and then wrap it with the wire underneath seven or eight times.
At a distance of about two fingers' width, put two branches together, and just like that, little by little, weave the branches together with wire.
In the end, it was knotted and fixed, removed from the iron nails, and rolled up into a curtain one foot long, waiting to be transported to the mountain to bloom the spring sophora flavescens.
So after the fifteenth day of the year, workers at the field began to go up the mountain to cut strips and make curtains.
Xu Shiyan plans to use plastic sheds for his and his parents' new plantings in the spring, so curtains will be necessary.
So I asked the leader for a few days off, and Su Anying and I went up the mountain to cut branches for two days and brought them back by horse-drawn carriage.
Then they made a wooden frame, wrapped the iron wire, and the couple made a curtain at home.
"I heard that polyethylene blue semi-transparent film is being studied, which seems to be slightly harder than the yellow plastic film currently used.
When that kind of plastic film comes out, we won’t build curtains. We’ll just use bow strips underneath and make them a little denser. This will save us having to build curtains every year.”
While working, Xu Shiyan chatted with his wife.
PVC plastic film is soft and has strong light transmittance, so it is not the best choice for ginseng.
The blue polyethylene plastic film currently being studied is better. It is not only thick and stiff in texture, but also anti-aging. It is mainly beneficial to the growth of ginseng.
It is said that sunlight passing through the blue greenhouse can promote photosynthesis.
Xu Shiyan didn't know much about this. Anyway, he only knew that Shen Di had been using this kind of plastic film since it appeared.
"You can use anything. I think this is better than using a wooden shed.
You said it has been distributed to every household now. Who has so many boards and sophora flavescens all over the mountain?
Nowadays, the forests are not harvested casually. It would be a waste to use wooden boards.
This plastic shed can be used for three years. I calculated that day and found that the price is not bad, and the used plastic film can still be sold as scrap after three years."
Su Anying continued while working.
When Xu Shiyan heard this, he turned to look at his wife. Not to mention, his wife had grown up very fast in the past year or so. She was no longer the housewife who only knew how to hang around the pot.
The weather was not warm in the first month of the year either. A few words would bring a chill to their stomachs. The couple could no longer care about chatting. They just kept their heads down and worked quickly.
Many people in Donggang Township have switched to plastic sheds, so during the end of the first month and the beginning of February, when I go outside, I can see many people opening curtains outside.
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The curtain is one foot long. Thirty feet of ginseng soil is enough to make more than thirty curtains.
The work of Xu Shiyan and his wife was not slow, and they finished it in two days.
The couple agreed on this matter and did not want Sister Su Anfang to interfere.
Especially Su Anfang, who is getting married in a few months, so she should stay indoors and take care of her skin. If the cold wind blows outside on a cold day, her face will become chapped.
After the curtains are finished, they are rolled up and piled in the yard. They will be transported to the mountain after a while.
Xu Shiyan had to find time to do some other work on Sundays. He had no choice but to do it. He had a job and was busy fermenting Armillaria bacteria at the factory.
In the blink of an eye, March 1st is coming, and the children who have had a crazy winter vacation are about to start school.
On February 29th, elementary school returned to school. Xu Haiyuan went to school carrying his schoolbag early in the morning.
When you arrive at school, you first hand in your vacation homework and then clean up. Then the teacher calls a few sturdy boys to go to the office to hold books and distribute them.
First-grade primary school students, in addition to mathematics and Chinese, also have science, politics, art, music, etc.
The teacher handed out all the books and told the children to be sure to find some thick paper to wrap the book covers when they got home, as the new books would be worn out quickly.
New books were distributed and back to school was over. The teacher asked the children to go home quickly and not to run around outside.
Xu Haiyuan returned to his grandparents' house with a small schoolbag on his back, "Grandpa, do we still have kraft paper at home? I handed out a new book, and the teacher asked me to wrap it in thick paper."
There were no ready-made plastic book covers in these days, and even calendar paper was rare. The only thing that could be used to cover books, besides newspapers, was kraft paper.
I dare not talk about other things, but I still have the kraft paper at home. Xu Shiyan ordered a lot of it from his work and kept it for the lake bed.
Regardless of whether the kang mat was laid in the past or fiberboard is laid now, the kang surface must be covered with paper first, otherwise it will be completely dusty.
Generally speaking, after the kang tray has been installed for at least two years, it is necessary to open it and clean the hole. Once it is opened, the kang surface needs to be cleaned again.
Last autumn, Xu Chenghou went to the kang once, and Xu Shiyan asked for a lot of kraft paper, but he didn't use so much, so Zhou Guilan put away the rest.
When she heard that her eldest grandson wanted a book wrapped in brown paper, Zhou Guilan hurriedly rummaged through it and found a large one.
Xu Chenghou took his grandson's textbook and compared it, cut it to a suitable size, and then patiently wrapped the book cover for his eldest grandson.
Although Xu Chenghou is a rich and powerful man, he is quite lucky in doing these jobs, and the book cover is very straight.
Xu Haiyuan lay on the kang and watched his grandfather wrapping the book cover intently. When it was done, he took a pen and wrote his name on the book cover.
After wrapping the book cover, it doesn't count, you still have to staple the book.
Students in lower grades of primary school are required by their teachers to use this folder.
There are two types of binders, one is with springs, just clip the notebook directly in, and the other is with holes punched in and a string threaded through it.
The ones with springs are worry-free and can be clipped, but they are not strong and the book will fall off if you apply too much force.
Especially after handing in the homework, the teacher accidentally dropped the homework book while grading the homework.
Xu Haiyuan's notebooks are all black with holes for stringing, and the bottom two corners are made of red cloth painted with a layer of paint.
Xu Chenghou used a large awl to penetrate the two books, then shook the awl and pulled it out.
Find a shoelace, or ask Zhou Guilan to get some wool, pass it through the newly drilled hole, fix the clip and book together, and tie the shoelace or wool firmly.
Still the same, Xu Chenghou stapled a notebook, and Xu Haiyuan took it and wrote his name on it.
When everything is done, including the books, they are all put into the schoolbag. "Thank you, grandpa."