I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 442 Wei Lan’s big plan

 The difficult thing is, how to cultivate mycelium?

Wei Lan frowned and took a deep breath. Before he could think deeply, his wrist was grabbed from behind, and then his whole body fell into a wide and warm place.

"Well?"

“There’s no rush to grow mushrooms, why don’t you do something else first?”

Wei Lan couldn't hide her confusion, "What's the matter?"

Gu Chao put the envelope on her palm and put it away, "I remember there is some military green coarse cloth left at home?"

 Gu Chao’s idea is very simple. He wants a big bag that can hold things and is easy to carry, and a small bag that can hold photos.

The first thing Wei Lan thinks of is her backpack and wallet.

Grandma Gu and Gu Chao have seen the photo in the envelope one after another. Wei Lan just got it and now has a chance to look at it.

In the photo, she has a picturesque face, Gu Chao stands tall and straight, and has a handsome face with deep and sharp edges. She wears a military double-breasted uniform that looks majestic and powerful, making her even more eye-catching.

Wei Lan caressed it with her slender fingers, "I know, I'll study it when I get back from the cafeteria at noon."

"You can make small bags first. Don't be in a hurry to use the big bags." Gu Chao Jian's eyebrows stretched, he squeezed her hand and rubbed it, "Don't be too tired, eh?"

"I got it!" Wei Lanying's white face puffed up, with a smile like a flower. She walked to the front yard with Gu Chao on her arm, and brought back the topic, "What do you think of the mushroom idea? Mushrooms have a short growth period. If successful, From now on, don’t talk about going to the mountains to collect fungi yourself, maybe you can still feed the team, and you can even make it a side job!”

"You can give it a try." Gu Chao nodded, "If you need anything, just tell me and I'll do it."

"good!"

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Time flies. In the first year of the Sunflower Seed Project, on the day when the first batch of seeds were planted, a timely spring rain ushered in. The members gathered at the head of the field and raised their hands in cheers.

At the same time, Gu Chao put his luggage on his back and before it got completely dark, he gently kissed Wei Lan's forehead and waved as he set off on his second journey to Haishi.

At a glance, the path between the fields is winding and slender, and the setting sun blurs the background and lengthens the shadow.

Wei Lan held the courtyard door with her hands and stood on tiptoe to look at it for a long time. It wasn't until night fell and Gu Chao's back completely disappeared that she lost her sight and closed the courtyard door and entered the house.

The stooped old lady was busy going back and forth in the kitchen. The little girl with a red braid sat at the mouth of the stove to light the fire. The bright and dying fire in the stove illuminated her little face.

Seeing this scene, Wei Lan felt warm in her heart, and her sense of loss dissipated. She pursed her lips with a gentle smile on her face, and walked over quickly, "Grandma, let me do it! Get some rice and porridge." , I will stir-fry a dish of side dishes made by grandma, and I will eat it with the porridge later!”

"Other families only focus on filling their stomachs when cooking a meal of rice, but you, a girl, only focus on rice soup and porridge, and don't know about dry food and bitter herbs..." Aunt Gu cursed, but the smile on her face did not diminish. While Wei Lan was busy, she bowed and neatly took out a dark jar from under the cupboard.

The jar has accumulated dust, and the radish tassels inside have been pickled for a while.

Grandma Gu opened the jar, took out enough to stir-fry for a plate, then covered the jar and put it back under the cupboard.

Pinch off a little bit from the plate and put it in your mouth to sip. The taste was a bit too salty. Grandma Gu poured it over with water, drained it and cut it into small cubes and put it on the cutting board for Wei Lan to use later.

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Before Gu Chao left, Wei Lan finished making the bags for him. After finishing his work in the canteen at noon every day, he devoted himself to cultivating mushrooms.

 There are some things that I have been thinking about and have no clue. Fortunately, there is a technician in the team who is proficient in agriculture.

Although Ji Huaiyuan has not practiced the convenience of mushrooms, after some comprehensive theoretical knowledge, Ji Huaiyuan still gave a lot of useful suggestions.

For example, artificial cultivation of Bacteriaceae requires an environment in which no other bacterial species exists except the bacterial species.

"How can we achieve a sterile environment?" Wei Lan sat on the threshold of the large dining hall, scratching the ground with a bamboo stick in his hand, and muttered his thoughts unconsciously.

Digging holes and sowing seeds took a busy week on the twenty acres of land. During this week, Gu Chao caught about seven or eight kilograms of eels in bamboo baskets he had made one after another.

 Wei Lan asked Grandma Gu in the morning to help put a dozen eels, weighing about three kilograms, into a small bucket. After arriving at the cafeteria, she asked Fan Zhuo and Li Jiandang to help butcher them.

Wei Lan planned to do the same thing as last time at noon. At this moment, Li Sangsang and Jiang Lihua were scalding the killed eels in the basin with hot water.

Seeing the **** and red eel meat turned white by the hot water, Li Sangsang glanced at Wei Lan several times, and finally couldn't help but said, "Wei Lan, what are you muttering about?" What is sterility?”

Wei Lan was stunned for a moment when his name was suddenly called. Then he looked at Li Sangsang and thought for a while before explaining: "Well...sterile means no bacteria. I want to try it and see if we can grow our own mushrooms." , if it works, I might be able to add a ration to the team in the future.”

　　Speaking of being able to increase food rations, Li Sangsang subconsciously felt that this was a good idea, but she was only a shallow reader. She might not understand things that Jiang Lihua didn't understand, let alone things.

"Mushrooms...don't the mushrooms outside just grow in the soil or on rotten wood?" Li Sangsang blinked, "How about we bring back some rotten wood as well?"

Wei Lan shook her head and smiled helplessly, "Not all wood will do. You can see that there are some rotten wood on the firewood pile outside, but no mushrooms have grown on them."

Li Sangsang nodded thoughtfully, feeling that it made sense.

Jiang Lihua raised her head and glanced at the two of them with a smile, poured out the water in the basin, and brought the cornstarch and salt prepared in advance to Wei Lan, "Add all these in? Just mix well and marinate?"

Wei Lan looked closely at the eel in the basin, considered it for a moment and then said: "You can pour all the cornstarch in, but less salt. I'll pick up some garlic."

Wei Lan went into the house to get garlic, and Li Sangsang followed behind like a little tail, "Mushrooms can grow if there is wood, but what if there is no such bacteria? Is it possible?"

 Li Sangsang regarded it as particularly important when it came to food rations.

"Hmm..." Wei Lan said "tsk" and thought about it carefully before speaking: "That should be possible. Cultivate the mycelium in a sterile environment, then find a dark and humid place to store it, and spray it from time to time. A little water should be enough.”

 The mushroom bags sold very cheaply on online stores in later generations are like this.

Hmm...bacteria bag...

Thinking of the bacteria bag, many thoughts flashed through his mind. Just when Wei Lan thought he had caught one of them, Li Sangsang suddenly said again: "I don't understand the sterility you are talking about, but, I I remember when I was very young, there was trouble somewhere nearby. It seemed that they were trying to prevent some kind of virus infection, so they burned the dead people’s clothes and everything on fire..."

When the words came to light, Li Sangsang suddenly lowered his voice, frowned and said uncertainly: "But it will be gone as soon as it is burned. We are wood. Once it is burned... won't the fire be stronger? It will burn cleaner?"

Wei Lan pulled the bamboo sieve to look for garlic for a moment. Li Sangsang knew that he had said something stupid, so he shrank his neck and stepped back, "That, that, I was just talking nonsense, Wei Lan, your left ear goes into the right ear Just go out..."

Li Sangsang was afraid that Wei Lan would scold her for being stupid, but before she finished her sentence, Wei Lan suddenly turned around, grabbed her arms with both hands, and pulled her excitedly to jump up. Wei Lan's peach blossom eyes were wide and bright, and her cheeks were pink with excitement, "Ahhh! Sang Zaoer, you are so amazing! High temperature! High temperature!"

Li Sangsang's eyes widened and he was dumbfounded, "Ah? Ah? W-what?"

 Did she help with anything?

 But what did she help?

High temperature can kill bacteria, but fire will certainly not do it. So, under the current conditions, high-temperature cooking can only be used!

 Solving the bacterial problem, the plan to grow mushrooms was like opening up the two channels of Ren and Du. Wei Lan did it as she said. She didn’t have time to explain to Li Sangsang. She rolled up her sleeves and ran to the door of the kitchen stove.

"This part is all burned, leave some for me!" Wei Lan picked up the basket of sawdust with both hands, turned his head left and right, looked around, pulled a sieve nearby, and put the sawdust into the sieve.

 Wood chips are the product of sawing wood and firewood. They are not easy to burn, but they are good for preserving sparks. The brown rice needs to be simmered for a while. The big canteen that the brigade leader was considering might use it, so he asked someone to collect it and send it to him.

The sawdust was mixed with many small wood chips and firewood, and some of them were so sharp that it hurt Wei Lan's palms and fingers. However, she was preoccupied with this matter right now and didn't feel it at all.

It wasn’t until the sawdust in the sieve started to peak and she had time to sit down that Wei Lan felt a little rustling pain.

With his index finger black and dirty and bloodshot, Wei Lan casually wiped it on his clothes, his slender eyebrows raised in excitement, "That's all, leave it to me!"

 “What do you want with this? Can it grow mushrooms?”

Li Sangsang’s brows were knitted and he knelt down to look at her.

I can’t even imagine what help or role these dusty sawdust can provide in growing mushrooms.

“I don’t know if mushrooms can grow, but... I think based on the current situation, there is a 30% chance.”

 “The basin is a bit heavy, please come over and help me!”

 Jiang Lihua's voice came from outside the door, and the two of them stopped caring and hurried out to help.

Wei Lan was preoccupied with mushrooms and made several mistakes while cooking. Just cutting the green onion and **** paste for marinating eel, she almost cut her fingers twice.

Li Sangsang couldn't stand it anymore, so he pushed her aside and said, "Oh, go and do the big things! I'll do these, and you can tell me how to fry them later."

 “It’s not a big deal, basically it’s not done yet!” Wei Lan was a little embarrassed.

“It’s just this little thing, we can handle it.” Jiang Lihua, who was washing rice, turned her head and winked playfully, “I don’t think anyone wants to eat their fingers, at least I don’t want to eat them.”

In addition to feeding the people who work on the 20 acres of land where sunflower seeds are grown, the large canteen also eats here, including technicians Zusun and Jiang Lihua.

Jiang Lihua's tone was half persuasive and half ridiculing, making Li Sangsang laugh non-stop, "Pfft hahaha, bite your finger hahaha, sister Lihua, how did you think of it?"

Jiang Lihua glanced at Li Sangsang, "What do you want to get? I'm not telling the truth?"

Wei Lan was so embarrassed by the two that she had to step aside and start planning seriously.

The fungus packs sold in later generations are all wrapped in plastic film, and the hyphae inside are basically fully developed. They just wait for people to make openings on the massage and spray water droplets from time to time to keep them moist, and mushrooms will grow.

Wei Lan is starting from scratch. High temperature can solve bacterial problems and provide an environment for hyphae to develop. The wood chips can be accumulated to make bacterial bags.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that there seems to be no way to find the kind of sturdy plastic massage in later generations. Wei Lan was holding stones and unconsciously writing and drawing on the ground. What should she do?

 Strong…

 Tight sealing…

 “Yes!” Wei Lan suddenly had an idea and wrote three words on the ground as a “temporary note”.

 Perhaps, cans and bottles can be used instead.

Not only can mycelium be cultivated, but it is also good to transform it into a "trial fungus package" for observation later.

 Just do it, and in the next few days, Wei Lan implemented the plan to the end.

In order to sterilize the sawdust at high temperature, a cloth bag was specially sewn to contain the sawdust, which was pressed tightly before being thrown into the pot for cooking.

The same goes for cans and bottles. Wash them and put them in a pot to boil. Then carefully take them out and put them in a quiet place to cool down.

 In fact, this will still breed new bacteria, but this is already a relatively complete and practical method. Wei Lan plans to try it first, see the situation, and then gradually improve the plan.

There are ready-made mushrooms in the large cafeteria, which were picked one after another in the past few days.

This is the season for picking mushrooms in the mountains, and many women will pick them up when they have time. However, they still have to do farm work, so Wei Lan and the others took the lead and picked a lot.

Even if the quantity is not large, it is impossible to finish it in one sitting, let alone if the quantity is large, it is even more impossible.

There are about two or three kinds of mushrooms. There are oyster mushrooms with huge and strong petals, straw mushrooms as big as thumbs, and a few shiitake mushrooms as big as eggs.

 Spores are in the form of dust and are difficult to see clearly with the naked eye, let alone collect. Wei Lan is a layman and can only operate based on perception and feeling.

Wei Lan picked out a cluster of old-looking oyster mushrooms. She cooked and sterilized bamboo skewers and gently scraped the umbrella surface from the top of the oyster mushrooms. Finally, she broke off the bamboo skewer that scraped the umbrella surface and put it in. Inside the can, the surface is covered with sawdust that has also been sterilized.

The same method was implemented on shiitake mushrooms. Straw mushrooms were too common. Wei Lan thought about it and gave up with only two empty cans left.

In order to prevent failure in collecting spores with bamboo sticks, in the second test, Wei Lan's method was simpler and cruder. He directly took part of the mushroom surface and put it into a can. The surface was covered with sawdust, and then the lid was tightly closed and placed Enter the room and go under the desk.

Collecting spores is only the first step. Whether you can grow mushrooms depends on whether mycelium can grow in these bottles after a week.

Wei Lan put the bottle away and suddenly felt that it was a bit hasty.

 Tear off a page from the book from the drawer, fold it in half and divide it into four small pieces of paper. Write the time, bamboo stick, mushroom part and other information respectively.

 After that, Wei Lan divided the notebook into four pages, and wrote the numbers of the four cans and bottles on corresponding slips of paper under each page as a record.

I have been busy with engagement matters these past two days, and my updates have been slow. I hope those of you who are still reading don’t mind! ~

 (End of this chapter)