Chapter 280: Vehicle distribution at vegetable base
Now that mushroom cultivation has achieved initial success, the next step can be carried out.
Li Youran made an order and arranged for the logistics department to purchase a batch of wood for the cultivation of edible fungi.
In nature, most wild mushrooms usually grow in places such as decaying trees and humus soil leaf litter in forests. Their nutritional structure may seem monotonous, but in fact they are of better quality and taste. Compared with those grown in artificial environments,
Mushrooms grown on culture media formulated with nutrients from various complex materials are much stronger.
Therefore, Li Youran decided to adopt the most traditional method of mushroom cultivation, because this method is closest to the natural growth state of wild mushrooms.
In addition, he conducted some analysis on different environments in space. It is obvious that there are very few microorganisms in the space environment of plots 1 to 3. It is speculated that there may be some kind of substance that suppresses the reproduction of various fungi, so the food
Vegetables can stay fresh for a long time.
Land No. 4 is different. There are many microorganisms, which is why vegetable leaves become moldy. Mushrooms are fungi. The success of the experiment shows that the environment in Land No. 4 is suitable for the growth of various fungi.
Moreover, the rapid growth of crops in space is not only due to the fertile land. It is estimated that the water, soil, and air inside may contain some unknown energy. Of course, this is just speculation, and no one can tell him accurately.
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In addition, there is also the purchase of bacterial strains. It is best to find some rare varieties, such as morels, porcini, hericium, etc. The space and land are small, and every inch is precious. If you only plant common varieties, it will be economical.
Obviously not cost-effective.
As for matsutake, known as the king of mushrooms, it is said that its fruiting bodies can only be kept fresh for seventy-two hours after being picked, and they seem to have to rely on the roots of trees to sustain their growth. Of course, what will happen if they are taken into space?
Unknown, this is more difficult, let’s talk about it later.
In the vegetable base of Tonghezi Village, Shunzi and three other people are working in the fields. It is already late September, and the afternoon sunshine is no longer as harsh as July and August, and has gradually become softer.
Shunzi bent down and pulled up a handful of weeds from among the cabbages and threw them onto the ridge of the field.
Weeds in the field grow very quickly, with a batch growing in a few days. This is also because the water used for drip irrigation is very special, which not only promotes the growth of vegetables, but also brings side effects.
Since it has been determined that no pesticides and chemical fertilizers can be used in vegetable bases, herbicides are naturally excluded, so weeding can only be done by hand, which has become the most time-consuming work for base personnel every day.
"Hey, take a rest." Shunzi straightened up and moved his waist. It was quite uncomfortable to keep pouting like this.
Shitou'er, wearing a single vest, was pulling weeds five meters in front of him. The transparent mobile phone case on his waist was exposed, and the silver light of his mobile phone was particularly dazzling.
"Hey, Shitou'er, when did you change your mobile phone?" Shunzi asked curiously.
"Oh, I just bought it when I went to town the day before yesterday." Shitou'er turned around and said.
"Let me take a look, where is the one that Brother Shuanzhu gave you?" Shunzi asked, stepping forward and taking out the mobile phone from his belt, holding it in his hand and looking at it.
The mobile phone has a very fashionable style, a large screen, and is a brand-name product.
"That one was given to Jianping. Hey, be careful with it. It cost two thousand yuan." Shitou'er reminded.
"I said Shitou'er, you are so extravagant now, buying such an expensive mobile phone. You spend all the money you earn on it, and the family doesn't care about it." Shunzi took the mobile phone in his hand and looked at it over and over, liking it very much.
But he was criticized repeatedly.
"Who said I don't care? I just sent five thousand yuan to my family a few days ago. I don't smoke and I don't play with money, so of course I can save some." Shitou'er retorted disapprovingly. Now the monthly bonus is quite high.
The money will naturally become abundant.
"Okay, you can do it. I see that you bought new clothes, leather shoes, and a mobile phone. You probably want to get close to the girl at the village canteen, right? That girl is really good. Haha." Shunzi teased.
"Go, don't talk nonsense." Shitou'er angrily snatched the phone back and put it into the case.
"Hey, you still don't admit it. If you don't admit it, don't blame me for intervening. I'm handsomer than you. Hey, it's ridiculous to say that I don't have a mobile phone on my waist. Also, you have to go to the hair salon to get a good look.
The entire head shape is now similar to that of a potato egg." Shunzi was still reluctant.
Shitou'er stared and was about to say something insulting to him, when Xilin came over from the melon shed.
"Brother Shuanzhao hasn't come back yet?" he asked Shunzi.
"It will take a while. There are many procedures for picking up the car, so it won't be that fast." Shunzi replied.
Li Shuanzhu left at noon today. There was a call from Baozi Pu to inform him that the car for the vegetable base had been bought and he was asked to pick it up. In addition, he and Shunzi both passed the driving school test not long ago and received
The car book that I have been in love with for a long time.
This news makes Li Shuanzhu and all the staff feel very excited, because it means that the overall quality of the vegetable base has been improved a step further.
Xilin asked, turned around and walked back, when he heard a croak, a strong big forest frog jumped up and almost hit him in the face.
"This poor toad is not afraid of being stepped on." Xilin cursed and tried to kick him, but the frog croaked twice and jumped away.
"That's because it likes you, why don't you get close to it properly?" Shitou'er grinned happily when he saw this. Over time, the forest frogs here have become very courageous, and they are not afraid of them at all.
Perhaps due to the water, the forest frogs in the vegetable fields are very strong now. They are all good high jumpers. They eat a lot and eat a variety of foods including spiders, locusts, stink bugs, flies, mosquitoes, mole crickets, moths and butterflies, etc.
They are all their food, whether they are crawling on the ground or flying in the air, as long as they are of the right size, they are all food targets.
Even when Shitou'er and the others wear singlets and work in the fields, they almost never get bitten by mosquitoes.
Some time ago, there was a commotion with snails where the radishes were planted on the edge of the plot. They are very good at eating leaves. One night, the tender green radish leaves turned into riddled with holes. Snails have a very strong reproductive ability.
The little snails are popping out in piles, which is very annoying.
At first, they used the old method of greeting them with chili pepper water and pepper water. But the snail is different from other pests. It has a special ability to resist pesticides. No matter what tricks you use, it only needs to shrink into its shell and everything will be fine.
Neither Sichuan peppercorns nor chili peppers could penetrate into the shell, so they all failed.
I heard that there is a special snail-killing agent in the city, but it is the same as weeding and cannot be purchased and used. It made several young men very anxious at one time.
Later Jianping came up with an idea and said, aren't there forest frogs in the field? Let's see if they eat snails.
Since the vegetable field is quite large, the activities of forest frogs are not evenly distributed. For example, there are almost no traces of them in the radish field.
So Shitou'er and the others tried to find a way to blast the forest frogs from all over the country, and they spent a lot of effort.
But the hard work was not in vain. A large number of snails became the prey of the forest frogs. The forest frogs once again proved that their title of "guardians of the forest" was not in vain. Of course, they should be called guardians of the vegetable garden here.
Later, Li Shuanzhu went online to check information, and found out that snails were actually included in the second diet of wood frogs. Wood frogs' favorite food is insects.
Li Shuanzhu was very happy and decided to use the forest frog as a long-term breeding target in the vegetable base. When the breeding season comes next year, he can also expand the team of forest frogs.
Raising forest frogs in the north generally has a problem of overwintering, but this problem is easy to solve for vegetable bases, because in a while, glass greenhouses will be installed before the weather gets cold, and then just let these little guys move in with them.
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"Didi." A crisp trumpet sound came from the north.
Shunzi looked up and immediately shouted:
"Hey, Brother Shuanzhao is back."
The three people in the vegetable field stopped what they were doing and ran together toward the north road.
There was a brand new silver-gray van parked on the side of the road. Li Shuanzhu opened the door and stepped out of the driver's seat, his face full of excitement.
It's no wonder that in Lijiagou Village, motor vehicles are still a rarity, let alone driving one.
"Hold on brother, is this the car at our base?" Shunzi and the other three crossed the ditch and ran all the way to the front.
"Yes, this is a Scenic Express, a luxury model with a displacement of 2.8 liters. It burns diesel and has eleven seats. The company spent more than 90,000 yuan to buy it." Li Shuanzhu introduced it to everyone.
Today I went to the logistics department to pick up the car. Feng Daniu, the black-faced guy, gave him a good training. First, he asked him to memorize all the parameters and performance characteristics of the car. Then he sat in the passenger seat and asked him to drive to the street outside.
He drove around for a while and tested his driving skills before giving up.
Shunzi and others looked at the new car back and forth, touching it here and there and admiring it.
"Brother Shuan Zhu, our vegetable base can be regarded as replacing a shotgun with a cannon." Shitou'er was very excited.
"Brother Shuanzhu, please take us for a ride." Xilin requested eagerly.
"Xilin, why do you act like you've never been in a car?" Shunzi teased.
"I used to take other people's cars, but this time it's our own. Can this be the same?" Shitou'er spoke to Xilin on the side.
"You're right, it's our own car. From now on, we will point to it when we deliver food to the vegetable field and buy ingredients. Okay, Shunzi, you drive." Li Shuanzhu patted the car door and motioned for Shunzi to get in the car.
Shunzi responded and excitedly climbed into the driver's seat, touching the steering wheel and gear knob. Li Shuanzhu sat in the passenger seat.
Xilin and Shitou'er also got on the bus one after another, so except for Jianping who was cooking at the station, all the staff of the vegetable base were here.
Turn on the ignition and add fuel, the engine emits a uniform and powerful roar, the car starts slowly, and then accelerates forward amidst the laughter of everyone.