Chapter 025 Raw wool processing
Next to the clan's favorite activity room, there are more than a semi-subterranean mushroom room: dig out a meter or so depth, an area of twelve square meters of underground space, the ground with extra mud bricks to build a height of about one meter five, the interior has a mezzanine wall, the wall batter on the thicker, mixed with a large number of grass bar mud, the top covered with a thick layer of reed grass roof.
This mushroom room was built a month ago, the west side of the wall root part and the activity room warm smoke discharge port connected, the undersurfing straight hole-type flue smoke into the mushroom house wall mezzanine, to slightly improve the temperature of the mushroom room - golden needle mushrooms are cold-resistant bacteria, but the temperature is too low to come out of the mycelium, hair is also prone to malformed mushrooms, so the indoor temperature needs to be maintained between 10 to 20 degrees.
Sal carefully removed the three-story gate made of animal skins, reed grass covers and wood, entered the dark mushroom house and closed his eyes to accommodate the slightly invisible light in the lower room, then turned around, gently removing the breathless animal skin curtain and putting it aside.
When it's not windy or the wind isn't opening to the door, take off the animal skin and breathable the mushroom room... Sal doesn't know how to do this, but that doesn't stop him from implementing the rules set by his cub, Ayun.
The mushroom house contains sixteen culture grooves made of earth and wood, about thirty centimeters in height, long striped grooves made of small squares made of wooden planks, and squares covered with acorn shells, oak wood chips, reed straw sticks finely cut into grass chips, and grass chips made by the cub Ayun, which he calls natural soil fertilizer, but which salsa sees as completely rubbish.
These useless things are mixed with water and stacked in small squares, After the excess water is filtered out of the soil base reached by the lower mud, the oak wood section with natural mycelium is buried in it; Surprised Sal after the shock to carry out the next operation, the clutter culled, will be more mycelium transferred to the germination of incomplete small squares; (If it is the sale of gold needle mushrooms, the process needs to cool the margin mushroom length is consistent, but also artificially provide light source to ensure that mushroom growth direction is the same, their own eat not so much attention).
At first let Sal to be responsible for the cultivation of golden needle mushroom work, Saar is refused. He also liked to eat this mushroom when he was in the human kingdom, but he didn't call it that name... He remembers that this is a mushroom picker in the forest to pick delicious mushrooms, is not like a kind of beans to grow things, in the cub Ayun and he confessed to work, told him to abide by the rules of patient cultivation, Sal only felt that Ayun seems to have bad intentions - if these with garbage waste to make the cultivation tank can not grow golden mushrooms, this "Ayun" will not put the responsibility on his head?
This anxiety and anxiety disappeared shortly after taking on the role of mushroom housekeeper, as Sal saw first-hand how mycelium in a culture tank dominated by oak wood chips and acorn shell powder sprouted and grows fine, tender mushrooms - it was like a miracle of Druid's magic spell, in the snowy winter, in this shabby, dark, damp semi-subterranean mushroom room. Mushroom pickers in the spring and autumn festival can find from the mountains and forests of the treasured delicious actually through his hands little by little appear in the world.
Sal took off his rattan shoes, only wearing animal skin stepped into the room, Ayun numerous times reminded him that the growth of golden mushrooms need a clean environment, before he would feel impatient, now, he is almost piously abide by the rules put forward by Ayun ... Before coming to the mushroom house, he would even go and change into cleaner clothes.
To increase the temperature of the fire smoke will lead to the humidity in the mushroom room is not enough, in order to ensure humidity, mushroom field ground and around to sprinkle enough moisture, Saar daily use of burned snow water spraying, this process can not be sprinkled with water to the mushroom body; Relatively neat, each bunch of mushrooms to be set with a straw rod made of a more relaxed grass bundle (acting like a set of paper cartridges) - indoor cultivation of mushrooms is a meticulous work, snow werewolves can not do, replaced with Saar will be free to swim.
"It's longer than my palms, and it's going to be harvested in two days?"
Sprinkle clean snow water, Saar wiped the sweat sitting up, by the faint light to a room full of vibrant white elves, chest full of unprecedented satisfaction ... ... Ayun said that after the success of cultivation, on average, 30 to 40 days can be out of mushrooms once, so that he alone to solve the whole family to eat the amount of golden mushrooms? Snow wolves eat as much as they want, and more than enough to eat.
Absolute security! Snow werewolves will always need him, always respect him, even if he wants to leave the snow wolves will love... He is no longer a poor man who can have no respite from the mercy of the snow werewolves, but a man who is truly needed by the snowwolves on his own hands to be able to provide delicious mushrooms on such a snowy day.
"... No, even if the snow wolves love me because of mushrooms, it's 'he' who gives him that value. And... 'he' didn't tell me what 'earth fertilizer' was in the end, and the next time I grow mushrooms, I still want 'he' to provide 'tranditional manure', otherwise..."
From the full joy of waking up to think about his situation, Sal felt a cold heart. If it is only so simple to grow golden needle mushrooms, then in the human kingdom, those mushroom pickers why not cultivate their own but hard to go deep into the mountains? Obviously, even if he paid a lot of hard work, but the key to the growth of these delicious mushrooms is the original cub Ayun did unknouingly let him add to the culture tank of those "tranditional manure" ... This means that his sense of security and the status of being demanded is still stuck by Ayun's neck.
Sal feels anxious again, the human way of thinking always makes the human creature stand out in the race competition, but human beings can easily fall into the trap of thinking and self-seeking trouble, that is, so-called thinking too much ... Sal's first half of his life was called a ups and downs, an experience that made him less likely to be as simple as a snow werewolf. After ventilated the mushroom room for half an hour, Saar left the mushroom room and returned to the second chase where he now lives, sitting cross-legged on everyone's default to give him a head to look ahead and think for more than half an hour, and finally made up his mind to wear shoes to find Xiao Yun.
The activity room was still full of acorns, air-dried meat strips, and packed with cubs of three or two groups of rattan grass; crowded, everyone did not bother Xiao Yun, who occupied the corner of the room, in Xiaoyun's side piled up several piles of wool and many jars of altar, at this moment, he was holding a roll of hair with his hand, expression cold and deep.
"Ayun." Sal carefully sat not far from Xiaoyun position, face with a happy smile, with his hand than rowed said, "Golden needle mushrooms grow so high, umbrella cover also has a large nail cover, mushroom body strong, a root has so thick, is it enough to harvest?"
"Sal." Xiao Yun returned to his god, "Hmm... This batch of golden needle mushrooms also seems to have been cultivated for a month ah, that is can harvest a, look back at the mushroom body water is not heavy, breathable ventilation for two days, let the water evaporate, and then harvest.
"After the harvest, will you continue to cultivate it?" Do you want to replace the culture base in the culture slot? "Saar is particularly natural and careful with the rhythm of the topic.
"Of course continue to plant, green food is not too much. This time in addition to bean sprouts is meat, several people have ignited. Xiao Yun nodded, but did not wait for Sal happy, he continued, "the culture base does not have to change, you harvest attention not to destroy the bacteria handle base and the part of the base connection, as long as the bad and stunted places off the line." This golden needle mushroom can not only be collected once, continue to take good care of, but also can receive two or three.
"..." Sal's chin dropped indefinitely, and the ecstasy on his face was a little awkward - it was certainly good that such delicious mushrooms could be cultivated several times at a time, but the "tranditional manure" he wanted didn't fail?
In this regard to stop Sal can not be willing, he quickly adjusted his mood, in a very natural tone asked: "Well, this time, the culture of the kiri or not to add the kind of 'tranditional manure' you gave last time?"
"Hmm-" Xiao Yun is a little embarrassed, this secondary planting also without homemade phosphorus fertilizer he really do not know, just remember the old sister idle farts to the market to buy the root of the golden needle mushrooms into the cup to raise, there are a few wet paper towels to the bottom of the cup, put a little added soda water.
XiaoYun's hesitation let sal whole heart up, when Xiaoyun let him add "tranditional manure" when he was still very resistant to cultivation work, did not look closely on those who look like mixed debris mixed into the training tank, now he remembers really regret not ... Is that earth fertilizer hard to get out of alchemy products, magical creations and things like that?!
Sal was really remorseful - I knew how good it was to secretly stay a little bit!
Just when Sal regrets, Xiao Yun opened his mouth: "Otherwise, how much plus a little, mycelium to develop or need nutrition."
Then he pulled the wool from his feet, pulled a lid under the wall and sealed the open pot with mud.
Sal stared at the jar in amazement, and so on, so important things are casually placed in the activity room of people coming and going?!
Xiao Yun picked up the pot and walked out of the activity room, Sal got up and couldn't keep up, and then he saw... Xiao Yun with claws to cut off the mud, so casually opened the cover, a can not be said to be stinky, but also quite indescribable taste from the mouth of the tank floated out.
Xiaoyun shook the bottom of the tank body, Sal heard a sound of water, elongate the neck to see Xiaoyun tilted the irrigation, poured some content out on the lid to view ... ... Sal was a little shy, waving a faint, indescribable smell of water soaked in a lot of debris, one of which is a little white things - er, is not his eyes, this looks like some kind of bone? !
... Mysterious creations made from bones that particularly nourish crops? Saar's mind came to this conclusion, suddenly feel a cool feeling from the soleplate of the foot to the heavenly cover, this, what kind of witchcraft is this?!
The cub Ayun, seemed satisfied with his work, pouring the liquid bone in the lid back into the jar and turning his head to Saar and telling him, "You take this, and when the golden needle mushrooms are harvested, sprinkle this water into the culture tank." Remember not to sprinkle too much, the culture base is almost moist on the line."
"..." Sal's purpose was achieved, but he was not happy about it, looking at Xiao Yun with a trembling face, trying to reach out and hold back.
"It's okay, take it, use it, return the jar, and I'll ferment another can next time." Xiao Yun obviously misunderstood Sal's reaction, thought of the next way, "Otherwise, anyway, you are responsible for the cultivation of mushrooms, after the sex you come to make phosphorus fertilizer fermentation, I teach you how to do."
The sharp turn was so fast that Sal completely reacted for a time and went straight there.
"How did you react?" Don't want to learn? Xiao Yun frowned, fear of heavy, trouble on the hands of subordinates are not good subordinates.
"Learn!" Sal blurted out, gritted his teeth, his expression a little sloppy, what about witchcraft, and there was no religious judge in this place to judge him!
Xiao Yun did not realize what kind of heart course Sal has gone through, he was very satisfied with Sal's show of hard work and wisdom, immediately pull Sal to learn witchcraft ... ... No, learn how to make your own soil fertilizer to grow enoki mushrooms:
The tribe eats the remaining pig's hoofs, pig bones, freshwater fish offal from the horns, fish scales, small freshwater crabs from the banks of the river, bird droppings picked up on the edge of the jungle, hair cut off by the clansmen, weeds picked up in the sheep's circle, grass and ash... These things poured into the tank, with a little water seal, placed in a humid place a fermentation; ten days later open the lid, the fermented things poured out, the large pieces of bone or something smashed and stirred, again into the cylinder, bubble water, secondary fermentation ... If so, it obtains a pure natural non-polluting manual phosphorus fertilizer, which can be used after water.
Xiao Yun is entirely to Chinese to make balcony garden soil fertilizer integrity attitude to point to Saar, these things are easy to obtain, many are ready-made in the tribe, although the process is cumbersome point, fermentation time is a little longer, but there is always better than no; He did not know how similar the materials he used to the world's repulsed witchcraft and black magic materials were, and how dark the material seemed to salsa of the First Nations... So Sal side followed him to learn, the same way to remember the material, the side behind the goose bumps, the bottom of my heart cold.
"It's some kind of witchcraft... I'll also be treated like a believer in black magic if I learn these things...
Pour out the phosphorus fertilizer in the pot spare, he ran hard for half a day loaded with new fermentation into, with mud will be sealed, Sal suddenly empty, paralysed sitting on the ground, his mind in a mess.
"What about witchcraft, what about black magic... It's not these things that hurt me to get to this point. "With both hands on the pot, Sal's face came up with a sneer, "The church... The god... They are glorious and clean, but they will not come to save the fallen me. "
In the second chase between the smoke chimney after digging a hole, the pottery pot buried in, and sprinkled water on the soil layer, finished fermentation preparations of Sal face firmly back to his tent for clean special clothing, drilling into the mushroom room, remove the animal skin to allow indoor ventilation.
"I'm going to live anyway, and I'm not willing to... Witchcraft, the devil, can keep me alive, more important than anything else. Looking at the growing grooves crowded with densely grown golden needle mushrooms, Sal's eyes grew firmer.
"A sneeze, ah - sneeze!"
"Oh, no!... I can't catch a cold, and I don't run out every day to play with snow..." Xiao Yun rubbed his nose, looked down every morning to run to the snow to play with the cubs, and took his eyes back, staring at the hands pinched a ball of hair.
Tribal sheep have two kinds of hair, one is the outer layer of long hair, the length is more than twenty centiters, the horn layer is very thick, smelly, thick grease, knot serious, several pieces.
The other is long in the inner layer of fluff, this fluff is more Xiaoyun understand the concept of Central Plains hair, although it is also very smelly, thick and dirty grease, but also lumps, at least relatively clean, relatively fine.
Since the tribe into the winter slaughtered more than a dozen older or sick sheep, meat to eat, skin to Saar to take to make skin, hair to Xiaoyun closed over, these days he has been wondering about the dead, is how to put these original maoists in use.
Fluff is relatively easy to deal with, Xiao Yun took a piece of Saar-owned cloth, wrapped in fluff soaked in snow water, after several times of water, the dirt on the wool basically removed, and then still wrapped in cloth in the open snow water with his brewed wild lard hand soap gently kneaded, remove part of lanolin and residual dirt.
Wash the fluff, squeeze the dry water, spread over the ground heating to dry, if it is obtained rough processed raw hair.
Different from the imaginary white wool, the roughed fluff is slightly yellow and slightly curly. At this time the original hair can not be used immediately for spinning, need to use a special comb will be combed loose, comb fluffy; This is difficult to fall Xiao Yun, he found the grassland everywhere on the thorns on the long thorns, dried and inserted into the surface of the smooth mud plate, to the mud plate dry, the original flavor of the wool comb to do so.
After roughly combing the original hair into fluffy softness, you can start spinning by hand. Spindle what kind of, primary school textbooks have seen, Xiao Yun directly took a piece of pig bones as a spindle, a little pondering how to make the original wool textile into a line ... ... Don't say, this is really a technical job, thanks to Xiaoyun primary school in the countryside to see the little foot old lady spinning line, otherwise he really can't figure out.
With great patience, stayed for a few days and nights, Xiao Yun is only a dozen sheep's fluff processing into raw wool and then textile into thick wool (fine he is afraid of broken, specially bold), and then, is the wood chopsticks into fine pieces, grinding out thick sweater needles ... ...
XiaoYun a big man, this life has not woven sweaters, thanks to his old sister idle farts when love to play DIY, often knit a scarf hook slippers or to the cat at home weaving small clothes or something, Xiao Yun looked tired;
Then this wool vest was worn on the maemp... Xiao Yun also expects him to live a few more years, otherwise the next chief of the family to change him from the beginning to teach, too much work.
According to the way to use wool Xiao Yun should be happy, but the fact is Xiao Yun can not be happy... The reason is that the cashmere on the sheep is too little, a dozen head of cashmere he has not finished weaving, from the rest of the amount, can weave five two-pound sweater even good ... An adult long-haired sheep's fluff removed after roughing has not yet a kilogram of weight, this special to whom to reason?
Know that sheep raised by modern farmers can produce fifteen kilograms of wool a year... The hair-cut sheep can continue to be raised. But tribal sheep, basically only slaughtered when the inner fluff cut off...
Xiao Yun is well aware that jealousy of this emotion the later the better, in the case of basic fairness can not let the clansmen have a thick and thin, a bowl of water end uneven ideas, so he first stopped pointing to the idea of the clansmen to prepare sweaters, first to ponder the utilization rate of raw wool - an adult long-haired sheep only more than a pound of fluff, long hair is more and more heavy, thirty pounds up, to be able to make good use of this thing, then there is no problem.
... Then Xiao Yun ecounter a big problem.
This thick, long hair, it's the same as hell... Felt after making a thick and heavy tent is easy, want to make it a little softer, a little wider scope of application, Xiao Yun can really head bald also can not touch the threshold.
Toss to toss, Xiao Yun had to use experimental methods to try processing:
First of all, in accordance with the fluff method of processing, the finished product is still a lumpy flake, want to tear with claws are not easy.
Xiao Yun in a rage with hot water to soak, get, the original wool directly felt...
Change to warm water, in the case of trying to keep the water temperature unchanged for a short period of repeated immersion, each soak not more than twenty minutes, water temperature to change hastened to change water ... This time the original hair obtained a little soft so little, but still difficult to comb, hair hard to tie hands.
This makes Xiao Yun very passive, so he gave up treatment - Ya cooked a pot of black beans, his own yeast, his own vinegar (the process is extremely rough and simplified, inedible), and then take vinegar to wash hair ... Can't acetic acid soften hair? Give me a soft look?!
And then he succeeded.
Although he has a little hard but at least not hand-wringing hair ball, is washed out with vinegar.