Wolf King

Next to the favorite activity room of the tribe, there is an additional semi-underground mushroom house: dig out an underground space with a depth of about one meter and an area of ​​twelve square meters, and use extra mud bricks to build a height of about 1.5 meters on the ground. There are interlayer walls in the middle, the walls are pasted with thicker mud mixed with a lot of grass straws, and the top is covered with a thick layer of reed grass roof.

This mushroom house was built a month ago. The base of the wall on the west side is connected to the floor heating smoke exhaust port of the activity room. Raise the temperature of the mushroom room - Flammulina velutipes is a cold-resistant fungus, but if the temperature is too low, the hyphae will not grow out, and deformed mushrooms will easily appear if the temperature is too low, so the indoor temperature should be kept between 10 and 20 degrees.

Thrall carefully moved the three-story door made of animal skins, reed grass covers, and wood. After entering the dark mushroom room, he closed his eyes and adjusted to the faint light in the lower room, then turned around and opened the airtight room. The animal skin curtain was gently removed and put aside.

When the wind is not blowing or the wind direction is not facing the door, the animal skins should be taken off to let the mushroom room breathe... Thrall doesn't know the reason for doing this, but this does not prevent him from implementing the rules set by the cub Ayun .

In the mushroom house, there are sixteen cultivation tanks made of soil and wood with a height of about [-] centimeters. Inside the long tanks, small squares are made of wooden boards. The acorn shells, oak sawdust, finely cut grass clippings of reed grass, and the specially made by the cub Ayun, which he called natural soil fertilizer, but in Thrall's eyes, it was completely rubbish.

These useless things are mixed with water and stacked in small squares. After the excess water is filtered out from the soil base made of mud at the bottom, oak tree segments with natural hyphae are buried in it; after that, keep the mushrooms The temperature inside the room is higher than the outside but does not make people feel warm (that is, about 10~20 degrees), and the room is replaced with fresh air every day under the premise of being opaque; in just one day, the oak trees The hyphae on the section began to germinate, and ten days later, the mycelium covered the entire surface of the material. Saar, who was extremely surprised, performed the next step after being shocked, removing the miscellaneous bacteria, and transferring more mycelium to the incompletely germinated small In the square; after half a month, dense white mushroom stalks of varying lengths have grown in sixteen cultivation tanks and hundreds of small squares. (If it is a enoki mushroom for sale, the temperature needs to be lowered during the process to ensure that the length of the enoki mushroom is the same, and the light source must be provided artificially to ensure that the mushroom grows in the same direction, so you don’t have to pay so much attention to what you eat)

At the beginning, Sal was asked to be responsible for the cultivation of Flammulina velutipes, but Sal refused.He also liked to eat this kind of mushroom when he was in the human kingdom, but it was not called by this name... He remembered that it was a delicious mushroom picked by the mushroom picker in the forest, and it was not something that could be grown like beans at all. When the cub Ayun explained the work to him and told him to abide by the regulations and cultivate patiently, Saar only felt that Ayun seemed to have bad intentions—if these cultivation tanks made of garbage did not grow Flammulina velutipes, this "Ayun" Isn't it going to throw the responsibility on him?

This anxious and anxious state of mind disappeared not long after taking on the job of the custodian of the mushroom house, because Saar saw with his own eyes how the mycelium germinates and grows in the culture tank mainly composed of oak wood chips and acorn shell powder. Delicate and tender mushrooms—this is like a wonderful miracle performed by the magical spells cast by the druids. In the snowy winter, in this simple, dark and damp semi-underground mushroom house, the mushroom pickers live in spring and autumn. The rare delicacies that can only be found in the mountains and forests in the seasons appear in the world bit by bit through his hands.

Sal took off his rattan straw sandals and stepped into the room wearing only animal skins. Ayun reminded him countless times that the growth of Flammulina velutipes needs a clean environment. According to the rules... Before coming to the mushroom house, he would even change into cleaner clothes.

Raising the temperature with fire smoke will lead to insufficient indoor humidity in the mushroom house. In order to ensure the humidity, enough water should be sprinkled on the ground and surrounding areas of the fruiting field. Saar sprays with burnt snow water every day. During this process, do not put Sprinkle water on the mushroom body; in order to make the mushrooms grow more neatly, each bunch of mushrooms should be covered with a relatively loose straw bundle (similar to a paper tube) - indoor cultivation of mushrooms is a delicate job , the snow werewolf can't do it at all, and Thrall can do it with ease.

"It has grown longer than my palm, can it be harvested in two days?"

After sprinkling the clean snow water, Sal wiped off his sweat and sat up, looking at the vigorously growing fairies in the room with the faint light, his chest was filled with an unprecedented sense of satisfaction... Ayun said that after successful cultivation, the average Mushrooms can be produced once every [-] to [-] days. In this way, wouldn't it be possible for him to meet the needs of the whole family to eat Flammulina velutipes?The snow wolves can eat whatever they want, there is still more than enough~

This is really... an absolute sense of security!The Snow Werewolves will always need and respect him, and even if he wants to leave the Snow Werewolves, they will be reluctant to part with him... He is no longer a needless wretch lingering on the pity of the Snow Werewolf, but a man who really depends on him. People with their own hands are needed by the snow wolves, who can provide delicious mushrooms in such a snowy day.

"...No, even if the snow wolves love me because of the mushrooms, it's 'he' who let him have such value. And...'he' didn't tell me what the 'soil' is in the end. The next time I cultivate mushrooms I still want the 'soil and fertilizer' provided by 'him', otherwise..."

After waking up from the joy in his heart and thinking about his situation, Thrall felt a chill in his heart.If Flammulina velutipes can be cultivated so easily, then in the human kingdom, why don't those mushroom pickers cultivate themselves but go deep into the mountains and forests?Obviously, even though he has put in a lot of hard work, the key to the growth of these delicious mushrooms is the "soil" that the first cub Ayun deliberately let him add to the cultivation tank... This means, His sense of security and his status as being needed are still stuck by Ayun.

Thrall felt anxious again. The human thinking mode can always make human beings stand out in the race competition, but human beings are also easy to fall into the thinking trap and ask for trouble, which is the so-called overthinking... Thrall's past Half of his life can be called ups and downs, and this kind of experience makes it even more impossible for him to be as innocent as the snow werewolf.After ventilating the mushroom room for half an hour, Sal left the mushroom room and returned to the No. [-] Chase Room where he was currently staying. Get off the kang and put on your shoes to find Xiao Yun.

The prefab room was still full of acorns, hung strips of dried meat, and cubs weaving rattan and grass in groups of twos and twos; everyone didn’t bother Xiao Yun who occupied a corner of the room, There were several piles of wool and many jars and jars beside Xiao Yun. At this moment, he was holding a curl of hair with his hands, with a cold and deep expression.

"Ayun." Saar carefully sat down not far from Xiao Yun, with a joyful smile on his face, he gestured with his hands and said, "Enoki mushrooms have grown so tall, and the umbrella cover is as big as a fingernail." , The mushroom body is strong, and each root is so thick, can it be harvested?"

"It's Sal." Xiao Yun came back to his senses, "Well... It seems that this batch of Flammulina velutipes has been cultivated for a month, so they can be harvested. Look back and see if the mushrooms are full of moisture and can be ventilated twice. day, let the water evaporate, and then harvest."

"Do you want to continue cultivating after harvesting? Do you want to replace the culture medium in the cultivation tank?" Thrall took the rhythm of the topic very naturally and carefully.

"Of course, continue to grow. There are too many green foods. During this time, apart from bean sprouts and meat, several people are getting angry." Xiao Yun nodded, but before Saar was happy, he continued, "Cultivation medium You don’t need to change it. When you harvest, be careful not to damage the connection between the base of the stipe and the medium. Just remove the damaged and stunted parts. This Flammulina velutipes can only be harvested once. Continue to take good care of it, and you can still harvest it Two or three stubbles."

"..." Thrall's jaw dropped infinitely, and the ecstatic expression on his face was a bit awkward - it's a good thing that such a delicious mushroom can be cultivated and harvested several crops at a time, but the "soil and fertilizer" he wanted will be in vain. Yet?

Not reconciled to stopping Thrall at this point, he quickly adjusted his mood and asked in a natural tone: "Then this time, do you want to add the 'soil and fertilizer' you gave last time to the culture medium?"

"Hmm——" Xiao Yun was a little embarrassed. He really didn't know whether he would add homemade phosphate fertilizer during the second planting. He just remembered that the old lady threw the roots of Flammulina velutipes bought in the market into a water cup to grow them. Sometimes, I stuffed a few wet paper towels into the bottom of the cup and put some water with baking soda.

Xiao Yun's hesitation made Thrall's whole heart arouse. When Xiao Yun asked him to add "soil fertilizer", he was still very resistant to the cultivation work. The slag was mixed into the cultivation tank, and now he really regrets thinking about it... Could it be that the soil fertilizer is something that is difficult to get out of alchemy, magic creation, or the like? !

Thrall was so regretful that his intestines turned green—it would have been better if he had known that he had kept a little secretly!

Just when Sal was extremely remorseful, Xiao Yun said: "If you add a little more, the mycelia still need nutrients to grow."

As he spoke, he pulled apart the wool piled at his feet, and took out a clay pot with a lid and sealed the opening with mud from under the wall.

Sal stared at the jar in amazement, wait, such an important thing is just casually placed in a prefab room where people come and go? !

Xiao Yun picked up the clay pot and walked out of the prefab room. Sal hurriedly got up to follow, and then he saw... Xiao Yun scraped off the sealing mud with his claws, and just opened the lid casually. The smell couldn't be said to be smelly, but There is also a rather indescribable smell wafting from the mouth of the can.

Xiao Yun shook the can, Sal heard the sound of water, stretched his neck to look, and saw Xiao Yun tilted the can, poured some contents out to check on the lid... Sal was a little dazed at the time, volatile There are a lot of sundries soaked in the faint, indescribable smell of water, one of which is a bit white - er, is it his eyesight, why does this look like some kind of bone? !

...mysterious creations made of bones that are especially capable of nourishing crops?Thrall came to this conclusion in his head, and suddenly felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to the top of the sky. What kind of witchcraft is this? !

The cub, Ayun, seemed very satisfied with his work. He poured the liquid and bones from the lid back into the jar, turned his head and said to Sal: "Take this, and wait until the crop of Flammulina velutipes is harvested." Sprinkle this mixed with water into the culture tank. Remember not to sprinkle too much, the culture medium is almost wet."

"..." Saar's goal was achieved, but he was not happy about it. He looked at Xiao Yun tremblingly, wanted to reach out to take it, but hesitated.

"It's okay, just use it, and return the jar when you're done, and I'll ferment another jar for next time." Xiao Yun obviously misunderstood Thrall's reaction, thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, anyway, you will be in charge of Flammulina velutipes in the future Cultivation, you may as well ferment the phosphate fertilizer by yourself in the future, and I will teach you how to do it."

This sudden turn was so fast that Thrall couldn't react at all for a while, and just froze there.

"What's your reaction? You don't want to learn?" Xiao Yun frowned. A subordinate who prefers the light to the heavy and dismisses the trouble is not a good subordinate.

"Think!" Thrall blurted out, gritted his teeth, and his expression was a little ferocious, so what about witchcraft, and there is no religious inquisition in this place to judge him!

Xiao Yun didn't realize what kind of mental journey Thrall had gone through at all. He was very satisfied with Thrall's diligence, studious, smartness, and quick-wittedness, so he immediately dragged Thrall to learn witchcraft... No, to learn how to make soil and fertilizer for growing Flammulina velutipes:

The leftover trotters and bones of the tribe, the viscera and scales of freshwater fish caught by ox horns, small freshwater crabs from the river bank, bird droppings picked up from the edge of the jungle, the hair cut off by the tribe, the miscellaneous hair picked up in the sheepfold, Plant ash... Pour these things into the tank, add a little water to seal it, and put it in a humid place for one fermentation; open the lid after ten days, pour out the fermented things, smash the big bones and so on , put it into the tank again, soak in water, and ferment for the second time... If so, you will get a pure natural and pollution-free handmade phosphate fertilizer, which can be used after adding water.

Xiao Yun gave advice to Thrall based on the integrity of the Chinese in making soil and fertilizer for balcony vegetable gardens. These things are easy to obtain, and many of them are ready-made in the tribe. Although the process is a bit cumbersome and the fermentation time is a bit long, there are some It's always better than nothing; however...he didn't know how similar the materials he used were to the witchcraft and black magic materials criticized and rejected in this world, and how dark the materials used were in the eyes of the aboriginal Thrall Department... So Saar learned from him and memorized the materials one by one, while getting goosebumps on his back and chills in his heart.

"It really is some kind of witchcraft... After learning these things, I will also be regarded as a believer in black magic..."

After pouring out the phosphate fertilizer in the clay pot for later use, he ran for a long time to put in new fermented material, and after sealing the mouth with mud, Sal suddenly collapsed and sat on the ground, his mind in a mess.

"So what about witchcraft, what about black magic... It's not these things that brought me down to this point." Holding the clay pot with both hands, a self-deprecating sneer appeared on Thrall's face, "Church...priest... They are glorious and noble, but they will not come to save the fallen me."

Dig a hole at the back of the chimney that exhausts the smoke in the No. Clean special clothes, get into the mushroom house, remove the animal skins to ventilate the room.

"No matter what, I want to live. I'm not reconciled... Whether it's witchcraft or the devil, it's more important than anything else to keep me alive."

Looking at the densely growing Flammulina velutipes on the cultivation tank, Thrall's eyes gradually became firm.

"Ah-choo, ah-choo!"

"I wipe... I can't catch a cold, and I don't go out to play in the snow every day..." Xiao Yun rubbed his nose, turned his head to look at the cubs who had to go to the snow every morning to roll and play, and put Looking back, he stared at the ball of hair in his hands.

The long-haired sheep raised by the tribe have two kinds of wool. One is the outer long hair, which is more than [-] centimeters long.

The other is the fluff that grows on the inner layer. This fluff is more similar to Xiao Yun's understanding of the concept of Zhongyuan wool. Although it is also extremely smelly, thick and dirty with grease, and clumped, at least it is relatively clean and thin.

Since the beginning of winter, the tribe has slaughtered more than a dozen old or sick long-haired sheep. The meat is eaten, and the skin is taken to Thrall for leather making. The hair is gathered by Xiao Yun. He has been thinking about it these days , is how to use these raw wool.

The fluff is easier to deal with. Xiao Yun took a piece of fabric owned by Sal, wrapped the fluff and soaked it in snow water. In the boiled snow water, use the wild boar oil handmade soap he brewed to gently rub and wash to remove part of the lanolin and residual dirt.

Wash the fluff, squeeze out the water, and spread it on the floor heating to dry, so that the rough processed raw wool is obtained.

Different from the imaginary white wool, the fluff after rough processing is slightly yellowish and slightly curled.At this time, the raw wool cannot be used for spinning immediately, and it needs to be combed with a special comb to make it fluffy and fluffy; Finally, insert it upside down into a clay board with a smooth surface, and when the mud board dries in the shade, the original wool comb will come out.

After the raw wool is roughly combed to be fluffy and soft, the yarn can be hand-spun.What the spindle looks like, I have seen it in elementary school textbooks, Xiao Yun directly took a piece of pig bone as a spindle, and thought about how to weave raw wool into thread... Not to mention, this is really a technical job, thanks to Xiao Yun Elementary School When I was in the country, I saw an old lady with little feet spinning hemp thread, otherwise he really couldn't figure it out.

With great patience, after several days and nights of staying up, Xiao Yun finally processed the fluff from more than a dozen sheep into raw wool and then spun it into thick wool (he was afraid of breaking the thin one, so he made it thicker on purpose), and then, the Wooden chopsticks are broken into fine pieces, thick sweater needles are ground out...

Xiao Yun is a big man, he has never knit a sweater in his life, thanks to his elder sister who likes to play DIY in her free time, often knitting scarves, hooking up slippers, or knitting small clothes for the cat at home, Xiao Yun I was tired of reading it; I tried my best to recall the old sister's technique, coupled with constant fumbling and tossing, it really made him knit a woolen vest.

Then this woolen vest was put on the patriarch... Xiao Yun still expected him to live a few more years, otherwise he would have to fudge and train the next patriarch, which would be too troublesome.

It is said that Xiao Yun should be happy with the use of wool, but the fact is that Xiao Yun is not happy... The reason is that there is too little wool on the sheep, and he has not finished knitting the wool of more than a dozen sheep. Look, it's not bad if you can knit five sweaters weighing two catties... The fluff from an adult long-wool sheep doesn't weigh even one kilogram after rough processing, so who are you going to argue with?

You must know that the sheep raised by modern farmers can produce fifteen kilograms of wool a year...the sheep can continue to be raised after the wool is sheared.But the long-haired sheep raised by the tribe can basically only cut off the inner fluff when they are slaughtered...

Xiao Yun knew that the sooner the emotion of jealousy was born, the better. If basic fairness cannot be achieved, the clansmen should not have the idea that there is favoritism in the tribe, and that the bowl of water is uneven, so he stopped the idea of ​​instructing the clansmen to weave sweaters First, let’s think about the utilization rate of raw wool—an adult long-wool sheep only has more than one catty of fluff, but the long wool is thick and heavy, and can be as high as thirty catties. problem.

... Then Xiao Yun hit the south wall.

This thick and long hair is so special, it looks like hell... It is easy to make a thick and heavy tent after felting. Xiao Yun is really bald if he wants to make it softer and have a wider range of applications. I can't even touch the threshold.

After tossing and tossing, Xiao Yun had no choice but to use experimental methods to try to process:

First of all, it is processed according to the method of fluff, but the finished product is still agglomerated, and it is not easy to tear it apart with claws.

In a fit of anger, Xiao Yun soaked it in hot water, and the raw wool was directly felted...

Change to warm water, and keep the water temperature as constant as possible for short-term repeated soaking. Each time the soaking does not exceed 10 minutes. It is difficult to comb, and the hair is too stiff.

This made Xiao Yun very passive, so he simply gave up the treatment - Ya boiled a pot of black beans, fermented yeast, brewed vinegar (the process is extremely rough and simplified, inedible), and then used the vinegar to wash the hair... acetic acid Doesn't it soften the hair?Why don't you let me take a look? !

Then he succeeded.

Although the ball of hair on his hand is still a bit hard, but at least it is not sticky, it was washed out with vinegar.