Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack-Chapter 80 - 0. Trial planting of wood ear mushrooms (recommended 3000+)

Chapter 80: 080. Trial planting of wood ear mushrooms (recommended 3000+)

Of course, for Shuzhen, this is just routine, without a hint of difficulty.

Just by standing in front of the corn and silently activating her superpower, the corn cobs, already filling with grain and about to mature, turned yellow and hard at a speed visible to the naked eye, advancing from tender white to golden. Maturing twenty days early was no problem at all.

With the thought that more grain meant more food security, Shuzhen also quietly used her powers to make these corn cobs a bit larger and thicker. The small seeds at the tip, which typically didn’t grow, matured fully, while the secondary cobs, which usually had seeds growing on only one side or didn’t grow seeds at all, were made robust and full with her help.

Not a small amount, in the front and back gardens, a quarter acre of land was worked up by her to yield at least an extra two hundred pounds of corn kernels.

Shuzhen was delighted: No wonder the novel Yanzi read to her had protagonists always brimming with superpowers and feeling like they owned the world. Golden fingers, they’re just too overpowered, aren’t they?

If she weren’t afraid her husband would get suspicious, she wouldn’t have hesitated to do more. Shuzhen felt that with just a little more effort, she could create miracles of high yield without any pressure.

Instead of now having to precisely control her power on the corn cobs, fearing the corn stalks would grow too tall and turn yellow too quickly, making the gap with the previous situation too suspicious.

Buzzing with excitement after ripening all the corn, Shuzhen turned her attention to the mushrooms and wood ear fungus in the basket, flipping them upside down.

Once she was done, she directed her efforts at the beans, cowpeas, and pumpkins in the garden.

Looking to produce more fresh beans, cowpeas, and pumpkins to eat fresh and dry.

So that in the winter when it’s freezing and barren, with only cabbage, sauerkraut, and potatoes to chew on, there will be plenty of dried vegetables for a change of taste.

After picking several large baskets full of beans, more than twenty pumpkins, and three baskets of cowpeas, Shuzhen embarked on the task of slicing and drying the vegetables.

Tiring her wrists to pain yet failing to finish a large basket of beans, Shuzhen frowned, rubbing her wrist and pondering: Since she has the ability to control plants, could she directly control these beans, cowpeas, and pumpkins to shape themselves into slices and threads as she desires?

After a long while of effort, staring at the beans until her eyes felt sore, she still saw no change.

Yet, those growing on the vines were more obedient and agreeable, shaping themselves as desired.

This means her ability only works on plants growing on vines or seeds or fungi planted in the soil. But it cannot affect vegetables, fruit detached from the vine, or pre-trimmed fungi?

Shuzhen’s face was puzzled. She couldn’t understand what this was all about.

But after testing all the plants in the front and back gardens and the various mushrooms and wood ear fungi in the basket, she knew this was indeed the truth.

This should be counted as a limitation on the use of her power, right?

Shuzhen, helpless, had to abandon the shortcut idea of using her power to dry vegetables.

Resignedly, she picked up the knife again, cutting for a while, resting for a while, over and over.

When Lianshan returned, she had already combined two baskets of half-dried wood ear fungi. In the empty baskets, she laid a cover of bean threads, bean slices, cowpea threads, and pumpkin slices.

But without Shuzhen’s golden finger, the harvest of Lianshan and his group decreased sharply.

After flipping and tossing all morning, they could barely fill their baskets.

The burlap sacks they painstakingly carried all the way remained completely unused.

Firmly believing yesterday was a chance encounter, today’s normalcy didn’t disappoint them.

After a cheerful half day of work, they even gathered many stumps overrun with wood ear fungus spores. After much hard work hauling them back, it was all to test if Shuzhen’s idea for planting wood ear fungus could become a reality.

Though sawing tree roots and carrying tree roots almost tired them out like dogs.

Yet when they thought about not having to run into the mountains in the future, searching fruitlessly over hills and fields, but just tending them carefully at home, harvesting crops of black wood ear fungus to sell...

The exhausted few immediately rejuvenated, full of enthusiasm.

Since there were few mushrooms and they were of mixed types, they didn’t bother concentrating them for drying.

Taking advantage of the early day, they let Lian Yue and Su Hongying take them home individually for sorting and cleaning.

The men grumbled as they hauled the rotting wood stumps packed into sacks to Shuzhen’s place, putting them in the small shed where Lianshan used to stay.

Planning to experiment there to see the feasibility of artificially cultivating wood ear fungus.

If it worked, they wouldn’t be too late to head up the mountain for more stumps.

Yesterday’s newly born idea for getting rich had the stumps filled with spores brought home by the men today. Shuzhen was overjoyed, wanting to give Lianshan a big thumbs up, sending him non-stop streams of praise.

Amazing, how thoughtful is he?

Having received her full compliment and adoring look, Lianshan felt all his exhaustion melting away.

The doubt over whether their effort might be in vain vanished, feeding the dogs. As long as the wood ear didn’t grow, as long as his wife was happy, the trip was worth it!

With a great relationship between the couple, even if the brother/uncle took all the credit, neither Lian Hai nor Ning Jianshe minded at all.

But Liu Shouren and Liu Shouyi’s expressions were a bit off. While it was good for their sister and brother-in-law to get along well, forgetting their brothers for their brother-in-law didn’t feel quite right?

Compared to the external, disconnected men, the three siblings were kin, after all!

If Lianshan knew about his two brother-in-laws’ grievances, he’d surely think to himself: Parents when young, husband and wife when grown-up. Even parents must come behind, let alone you two just being brothers? My wife, my children, and I are the true loving family, never parting in this lifetime.

Working together to load those stumps into the shed, the brothers turned and headed home. Their unwillingness to stay and delay until dinner clearly showed their reluctance to impose on the couple for a meal.

Money was hard to earn, and food and other essentials really precious in those days. Unless necessary, even relatives and friends avoided eating at each other’s places.

Though regretting it, Shuzhen understood and appreciated their goodwill.

She just wanted to quickly pull her husband to start on nurturing wood ear fungus and raising worms to feed chickens. Improving their standard of life as soon as possible so that when life became plentiful, relatives wouldn’t have concerns about staying for meals.

Acting quickly on her thoughts, after dinner, she put down her chopsticks and began researching with Lianshan. They first planned to harvest the corn in the gardens and set up a worm bed to raise worms for chicken feed. The remaining space was to be used for planting cabbage and turnips, ensuring fresh vegetables in winter.

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