Wolf King

In modern times, earthworm farmers may not be able to make a profit. The biggest reason is that the market is saturated, the price of earthworms is rotten, and the selling price is not worth the cost.Therefore, large-scale earthworm farming is generally used as a link in the production chain, and is incorporated into livestock farming such as chickens, ducks, fish, and pigs, in order to maximize the income of self-production and self-sale.

In this world, it doesn't matter... Anyway, the manpower, land, and feed (fermented cow dung) required to raise earthworms are not cost, as long as they are raised, they are pure profits.

Negotiated with the head of the grassroots clan about farming, and the next day Xiao Yun and grassroots went outside the industrial area to find a site. As a result, they found that the previous idea could not be established—it is true that building an earthworm farm here can be effectively borrowed The geothermal heat in the industrial area, but earthworms are quiet creatures. If the surrounding environment is too noisy and the ground vibrates frequently, the earthworms will flee. However, it is unrealistic to reduce the noise at the gray dwarf smelting site...

Xiao Yun had no choice but to change the direction and change the earthworm farm to the greenhouse area—potatoes, wild ginger, and sweet potatoes grown in the greenhouse cannot grow in the climate of minus ten degrees or tens of degrees in winter. Vegetable greenhouses At the bottom, it is necessary to dig out a ring-shaped flue around the bottom of the greenhouse, and leave an interlayer on the wall. Heating through the flue and interlayer keeps the temperature in the greenhouse at around [-] to [-] degrees. The same heating system also supplies Sal’s mushrooms. House, at this moment can only take a little trouble, and then expand the heating system to benefit earthworm farming.

Earthworms are afraid of the cold and heat, and the farm also needs to dig out a semi-underground structure, similar to a mushroom house. Xiao Yun and the grassroots patriarch selected a location and called a work team to start construction.

It has been snowing for more than ten days, the ground is frozen, and the outdoor temperature during the day is more than ten degrees below zero. In this kind of weather, goblins who are afraid of the cold used to hide in the ground below ten meters to barely stay awake and not sleep. Now there is a snow werewolf. The sweater and animal fur coat given to me can only be squatted in the house, unable to go out for activities, so I can’t count on it; fortunately, the gray dwarves cast and forged a lot of iron tools, such as hoes, shovels, hammers and steel brazing for cutting stones, etc. , the construction work team led by Dashui, Qingcao, and Languo is not slow.

Hmm...Compared to digging the soil with claws and claws last winter, this year is not too easy.Although there is still the problem of frostbite, but anyway, there are too many people, and there is no delay in taking turns.

While excavating the foundation, a semi-underground space is excavated. In the underground space, there is an annular flue built with mud bricks. When building walls, it is also necessary to leave a heat-insulating interlayer—the wall interlayer can effectively insulate heat in summer, and in winter Expelling the hot smoke into the interlayer can also effectively increase the temperature inside the breeding shed—in the weather when the outdoor temperature is often tens of minus, the flue around the ground is not enough to keep the indoor temperature of the shed at about [-] degrees of.

A 30-meter-long and 1.2-meter-by-[-]-meter earthworm breeding shed has been completed in line with the specifications of a vegetable greenhouse. A [-]-meter passage is left in the center of the shed, and the two sides are used as breeding beds. Each bed is separated by a brick wall with a width of about [-] meters. Leave a palm-wide drainage ditch and summer ventilation channel between the beds; put fermented cow dung and humus (including chopped weeds, leaves, straw, leaves, and vegetables) into the feeding bed as basic feed, The feed must be fermented and mature, the whole is black, and has no pungent smell. The base material put in must be fluffy to a certain extent and not too tight to ensure that the base material has air permeability.

The decomposed feed is loosely piled up to a height of about [-] centimeters, covered with pig urine on the pottery pipe, then filled with water and squeezed with impermeable pigskin, and sprayed with warm snow water into the base material, when the humidity of the base material When pinching the fingertips to see the water, the earthworms can be dropped into and started to breed.

There is no place to buy good seeds in this place, so we have to catch earthworms ourselves to feed them.In winter, earthworms usually burrow into the deep soil layer and dormant. You can find the dormant earthworms hidden in the soil by digging about one meter underground on the bank of the river... Anyway, Xiao Yun can't tell the types of earthworms, and he doesn't care if they are dug out. What kind of earthworms are they? All of them are framed and brought back to the breeding shed, and they are scattered on the breeding bed with clods of soil.

Xiao Yun and the head of the grass roots stared at the breeding bed closely. In the breeding shed with an indoor temperature of around [-] degrees, no light, and a certain degree of ventilation, the shrunken dormant earthworms gradually woke up and instinctively went to moisten. Drilling in the base material - this is considered a successful seeding.

"Keep the indoor temperature well, ventilate three to four times a day, and pay attention to check the humidity of the material bed. In this weather, you need to spray water every five days or so, and once a day in summer. Pay attention to whether there is water at the bottom, and check if there is any. Is the drainage ditch below blocked..."

Xiao Yun demonstrated spreading the wheat straw on the surface of the breeding bed to keep the base material warm and moisturizing, while explaining the main points of breeding to the grassroots. The grassroots patriarch felt dizzy after hearing a few words, and waved his hands again and again: "I can't remember what you said so much. Hold on, tell me a little bit."

"...Well, in short, to feed this thing, the temperature and humidity in the room must be maintained. In this regard, you can ask Sal about his experience. The temperature and humidity of cultivating mushrooms are similar to raising earthworms."

"Okay, I'll remember this." Grassroots went up and touched the edge of the pile of base materials, "The food for earthworms should be moist, but it should not be wet until the bottom is soaked in water. If there is water, check the material immediately. Drains under the bed”

"Yes." Xiao Yun compared his thumb, "then is the ventilation of the room. When it is stuffy, earthworms will run away. Open the door at least three times a day to ventilate. When ventilating, do not remove the grass shed at the door, and block the light. Earthworms are afraid of light. Yes, this is similar to Sal cultivating Flammulina velutipes."

Grassroots remembered this, and Xiao Yun led her to continue busy collecting earthworm seeds... Breeding is a long-term job, patience, care, and perseverance are indispensable. Du Ermai pointed out that breeding talent is unscientific. Only by taking it slow and letting the grass roots experience the process from planting to harvesting can it be considered a successful teaching.

Xiao Yun had read a book about farming in ancient times before. In it, there was a plot where the main character raises earthworms, raises chickens and ducks to make a fortune by farming, but he didn’t describe the process. How the raised earthworms feed the chickens and ducks are so fat, the Quartet is amazed. During this period, the protagonist is too busy to cook some delicious food at home every day, and still has the energy to talk to the daughter of the official family in the city. A love, income a concubine.

Xiao Yun didn't care about this at the time, and just complained that the father is not a prime minister-level heroine, no matter how much he writes, he can't be the official palace, until readers find fault in the text, saying that modern ecological farming owners can't get rid of it even in the initial stage There are always problems when getting started, the protagonist is so awesome that everything falls from the sky when he throws his hands at the shopkeeper, and he still has the energy to think about his three wives and four concubines... If he pinches him hard, Xiao Yun, who is a diving dog, is very impressed. There was a lot of fun.

After that... When I was bored, I saw a returning college student farmer live broadcasting ecological farm farming on Douyin, so Xiao Yun naturally went in...

I have to say, the reader who was criticizing at the beginning was right... People who engage in ecological farming have time to fall in love?Just pointing at the aborigines can raise everything?Fart!College student farmer information books read pile after pile, leading relatives and folks with at least junior high school education, the young couple are busy around, and the ancient farmers with 100% illiteracy rate are all knowledge absorbed by the system What about an NPC with a conversion rate of 100%?

Anyway, in Xiao Yun’s place, among the snow werewolves, no, grassroots who are not inferior in IQ compared to human beings can’t understand it at a glance. You can act as a hands-off shopkeeper, and you have to come over every day to check the activity of earthworms.

If so, after ten days, when Xiao Yun and Caogen checked the breeding bed together, they found that there were more vermicomposts at the bottom (the difference between vermicompost and base material is more obvious when you look closely, and vermicompost is more like agglomerated soil clods). Then start to add feed for the first time——turn over the material bed loosely first, shovel out the vermicompost at the bottom, then spray the loose feed with a nail rake through water mist to increase the humidity, and then spread it on the base material, about ten cm thick.

Earthworms have to eat feed equal to their own weight every day, half of which is excreted as feces. When adding feed, remember to remove the feces in time to prevent earthworms from getting sick and infected. Don't be lazy.

Xiao Yun checked the worm castings that he had shoveled out, and found no earthworm cocoons, so he dumped the worm droppings at the collection place outside the greenhouse, and put them into use when farming next year.

In the natural environment, earthworms will definitely not produce cocoons in winter. In the greenhouse environment, they can produce cocoons all year round. This is also the advantage of breeding. When adding feed for the second time, Xiao Yun found earthworm cocoons in the vermicompost.

The grassroots patriarch was very happy. He stared at the earthworm cocoon smaller than a grain of wheat for a long time, and firmly remembered its image (smooth surface, black, brown or yellow translucent cocoon body, a bit similar to a chrysalis cocoon, but very small ), and then together with Xiao Yun put the earthworm cocoons mixed with earthworm dung into wooden boxes, and moved them to a place in the greenhouse where the temperature is lower (about 15 degrees) for incubation. Days later, a large number of earthworms hatched from the cocoons. (The temperature required for incubation is slightly lower than the temperature in the growth period. The hatching rate is the highest at around 20 degrees, close to 15%. If the temperature is the same as the growth period, at 90-20 degrees, the hatching rate is only 26%.)

When the temperature and humidity are kept good, several earthworms can be hatched from one worm cocoon. At this time, the density of earthworms in the hatching pile is extremely high, and they need to be reared in separate piles. At the same time, mature earthworms that have been cultured for 40 days can also be hatched. Harvest to free up the rearing beds.

There are many ways to harvest earthworms. Xiao Yun imitated the method of the young live broadcasting couple, transferring the base material of the breeding bed to the outdoor concrete floor, peeling the base material layer by layer from top to bottom, and the earthworms drilled down layer by layer due to their instinct to avoid light. , Hiding at the bottom of the base material, you can concentrate on harvesting.

The empty material bed is supplemented with base material, and one-third of the newborn earthworms in the hatching pile are put into it to continue breeding. One bed of hatching pile can be divided into three to four new beds depending on the number of hatches. (Each bed of new material can be supplemented with some earthworm species collected in the field for hybridization, so as to avoid the degradation of earthworm species due to inbreeding)

The harvested earthworms are put in the sun for 10 minutes to die, or cut into sections or dried and ground into powder, then they can be directly fed to livestock... (the dried earthworms seem to be a kind of traditional Chinese medicine)

The cost performance of excess earthworm farming on the earth is extremely high in this world. The earthworms raised are excellent livestock feed, and the vermicompost produced during the feeding process is also a high-quality fertilizer, which is almost equal to none. The cost is simply a huge profit.

The first batch of harvested earthworms were sun-dried, cut into sections, and bagged. The grassroots patriarch rubbed his hands excitedly: "Ah Yun, these earthworms can make our pigs fatter, right?"

The wild pork that was fanned for a period of time and then killed was really delicious. After eating it once, the status of pork in the eyes of the tribe has been ranked ahead of mutton.

"Yes, this stuff is better than alfalfa." Xiao Yun nodded his head, "In the future, the pigs we raise will have more fat, more lean meat, and more delicate meat. It all depends on this."

Don't mention how happy the grass roots are, jumping around to find the cubs who are responsible for feeding the livestock to fetch earthworms...

Xiao Yun was also very happy to see her excited, interest is the best motivation - don't you think that earthworms are disgusting, those who like to raise them so much are not ordinary people, anyway, he was brave enough to survive the whole process .

In the past 40 days or so, the green dragon has been here twice, each time it was frozen like a fool, and its green hair was covered with icicles, but it was still very determined to satisfy its appetite... Xiao Yun looked at his hang With two tubes of snot and pretending to be cold, I was embarrassed to fool him to work in the extremely cold air, and let him go back after a meal; the flying bun head that he made that day was also taken away by him, along with other regular jewelry Such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, forehead ornaments, etc., use up all the gold, silver and precious stones given by the cheapskate.

He thought that he would have no excuse to come back after giving him all the jewelry, but on the day of harvesting and breeding earthworms for the first time, Xiao Yun heard the scream of the gray dwarf, looked up, and saw that green dragon came again—this time he knew Cold, useless human form, turned into a large green lizard and flew over.

This green-skinned lizard landed on the ground leveled by the snow werewolves before the tribe, leaving a particularly exaggerated indentation on the snow... Then it jumped up and turned into a human shape, and rushed into the activity room with floor heating. Yun followed in and took a look, and saw that this guy was getting dressed in a hurry—not that awesome high-necked robe, but a thick white-haired bearskin coat.

Bare buttocks and a bearskin coat... OK!

"Uh……"

"I'm inspecting the territory, ah, ah, come and take a look." Before Xiao Yun could speak, the green dragon looked over with a serious face.Well, if this guy hadn't been so cold that his skin was green with white, and white with blue, Xiao Yun might have believed it.

"...Welcome, we are honored." What else could Xiao Yun say.

Bring the warm soup on the stove, the bean curd that is going to be added to the tribe at night, put the pickled vegetables and salted radish on a plate, and then heat up the leftover pickled vegetable buns and fried meat pies at noon, a "welcome" feast Even if it's Qihuo... Serious hospitality meals are served on plates!My family is not so particular about eating.

This time, I didn’t say leave after I finished eating. I didn’t know where to take out a book and read it leisurely in the warm activity room; It's a good deal, I still want to eat at night, and I don't bother to bother with you, so I found an excuse to go out to busy with his business - his time is precious!

He walked out here, and the green dragon who sneaked eyes at him over there was greatly relieved... His castle protected by a magic barrier is indeed tall and tall, but it's also very cold~ In previous years In winter, he always sleeps deep in the castle, is there any reason~

It's really not worthwhile to fly back and forth so that it's so cold that it's stupid to only have one meal, and it's worth two meals anyway!The green dragon secretly made up his mind that if the snow werewolf cub wanted to drive him away, he would ask for a cook—he was fooled by the other party about this matter last time, but he never forgot it!

Xiao Yun, who went straight to the industrial area: "Ah, Ah Choo! Ah Choo! Damn it, didn't that stupid dragon catch a cold and infect me?"

In the collective bedroom diagonally across from the activity room, Sal and the four male cat cubs were staring at the door of the activity room, and they didn't see the green dragon come out for a long time.

One of the cubs looked up at Thrall: "Thal, isn't that green dragon leaving?"

Thrall: "..." How would I know!

The five of them sighed in unison... The activity room was occupied by the green dragon, and none of them dared to go in~

One of the cubs looked up again: "Sal, are you teaching us how to grow mushrooms?"

Sal immediately turned his head away and pretended not to hear.

The cubs were unhappy: "We have already taught you to weave blankets, but you still refuse to teach us how to grow mushrooms."

Sal went back to his sleeping place and took an animal fur coat and put it on: "Jean, I'm going to check the mushrooms."

All the cat cat cubs stretched out their middle fingers at Sal's back—that's what Ayun did when he sent that nasty green dragon away!

In the industrial area, Xiao Yun, who was discussing plow making with Balu, said, "Ah, Ah Choo!"

"Ayun, do you have a cold?" Baloo asked with concern.

"Probably not, my nose is not blocked." Xiao Yun was also very surprised, "Forget it, let's not talk about this, Baru, do you think it is okay for me to suggest this processing?"

Of course the gray dwarves can make plows, but what they make is the kind of heavy plow that can be dragged by several cows or horses... Because the technology tree of this world has nothing to do with agriculture, the aborigines can only make plows in Cultivation on the flat plains, the world's established countries adopt the system of enfeoffment of land power, and there is no small-scale peasant economy. Were eliminated, since the Tang Dynasty, those in power have adopted the feudal power distribution system (the alternation of the two power systems can be seen from the history of the demise of the aristocratic family. Everyone knows that the rise and fall of the feudal dynasty is inseparable from the out-of-control land annexation, and land power There is no land annexation in the enfeoffment system, because the production resource of land is all in the hands of those in power, and the peasants are all serfs), the small peasant economy prevails, and all kinds of plows will naturally be born.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there are no light plows in this world. For example, the tauren use light curved shaft plows...

It's not that Quyuanli is bad, but after thinking about it, Xiao Yun still hopes to put more effort into the plow. After all, the Snow Werewolf has few people, so he can't pull Quyuanli alone to plow the land like the Tauren. Come here, so Xiao Yun asked whether it is possible to make a plow-type plow—Xiao Yun had seen a plow-type plow pulled by a tractor on the earth before in the countryside. The scene of turning over the weeds in the soil was deeply impressed in his mind. Using the super drag force of the snow werewolf in the wolf form to pull the plow for plowing work, the efficiency was just as high as terrific.

Xiao Yun spoke cheerfully, while Balu had a frowning face... You clearly said that you don't like heavy plows, but the plow you asked for is different from heavy plows. At least half of the heavy plows are made of wood. The steel structure is heavier!

However, the sketch of the plow that Xiao Yun reluctantly drew, Baru was also very moved. The heavy plow is heavy because it is not flexible enough to turn, and this kind of plow spreads out in a fan shape and the drag force is concentrated on one point. It's equally heavy, but at least it's not too hard to turn.

"We can try to make a set of molds, and make a sample first." Balu touched his chin cautiously, "There is no way to form such a large all-steel plow in one piece, we can only make components and assemble it... we You have to study the assembled parts first."

The forging process of the gray dwarves is more than just forging. Not to mention labor-intensive forging one by one, the problem is time-consuming and low output.If conditions permit, they also have the skill point of mold casting - making molds with mud and sand, pouring molten iron into them, the efficiency is higher than hammering pieces one by one, so I don't know where it goes.

Of course, forging is still required to make ironware that requires high performance. The overall compactness of cast ironware is poor and the impact resistance is not strong.

Xiao Yun nodded, and immediately took out the wood chips and kneaded clay he brought over: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome to figure out the components, just make a model and see the general structure."

So the two played handmade models in the busy industrial area...

It’s not easy to just know the general shape and figure out the structure and components. Even the plow with a relatively simple structure is not so easy. What shape does the coulter have and what function does it have? Where things are designed, it is quite a technical threshold for laymen to ponder.

Xiao Yun, who made himself dizzy, went back to the tribe with a group of gray dwarves to eat. When he saw the green dragon leisurely occupying the activity room waiting for the meal, his eyes suddenly flashed—wait, this guy can use magic to create food out of thin air. To make a rope for tying wild boars, the rope is still so tough that even adult wild boars can’t break free. Isn’t it easier to make a model of an object and analyze parts with the ability to create things out of thin air than to use wood chips and clay?

Baloo saw the green dragon shrinking his neck subconsciously, looking up at Ayun who could give them a sense of security, and then he saw... a not-so-kind evil smile appeared on Ayun's face, and he strode towards the green dragon...

Baru: "??"

Xiao Yun smiled like a flower (...), and approached the green dragon with great enthusiasm: "Your Excellency, my family is really lucky to know a dragon like you, but you can only come here once in a while. It is a great pity that we have to go back..."

Green Dragon:"??"

The lifespan of the dragon clan is there, no matter how long it takes to live stupidly, it will learn from experience and lessons. At that time, the green dragon who was coaxed by Xiao Yun and flew around for a day or two to catch wild boars, after thinking about it, it was natural. I can recall it... But he did enjoy the offerings from the Snow Werewolf, and he felt something was wrong but he had no reason to be angry.

This time Xiao Yun is driving a rainbow fart, Green Dragon sounds comfortable and comfortable, and he must be alert in his heart-what does this guy want me to do this time?

The author has something to say: The title of this chapter should be called: "You can also use local materials to make a fortune after traveling"_(:з」∠)_