Reporter Li Yurong
On February 13th, the fourth day of the first lunar month, the reporter walked into the mushroom shed of Liu Changjian in Maoji Village, Xiongzhai Town, Zhengyang County, a fragrance of mushrooms came to the nose, the mushroom shed was full of vitality, and the fresh and fat oyster mushrooms were like a small cloud sticking out of the head from the mushroom stick, which was very gratifying, Liu Changjian and his wife Cao Aiping were picking mushrooms, and they were very busy.
Every year the Spring Festival is the peak season for mushroom sales, starting from December before the year, picking at four or five o'clock in the afternoon every day, sorting, packing, and it has to be busy until 12 o'clock at night to load boxes of mushrooms on the car and transport them to Xinyang market for sale. Cao Aiping said that picking more than 1,000 jin a day, hundreds of mushrooms, is the Chinese New Year's Eve, she asked her husband Liu Changjian to go to Xinyang Market to deliver mushrooms, she made New Year's dinner, posted door paintings, and sold more than 1,000 yuan. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was an endless stream of customers who came to the mushroom greenhouse early in the morning to buy mushrooms, and she sold them for more than 3,000 yuan that day.
These days the weather is warm, the mushrooms are growing fast, and I am busier. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, she went to her parents' house and couldn't take care of it, and she hurried back to work in the mushroom shed in less than an hour at her parents' house.
Maoji Village is a well-known "mushroom village". In the 80s of the 20th century, the villagers of Maoji Village went to Xuehai to learn mushroom planting technology, and began to explore the cultivation of mushrooms in the village after coming back.
Liu Changjian told reporters: "Growing mushrooms is really hard, tired is tired, but this year, the income is also good, during the Spring Festival this year, mushrooms are sold for 5 yuan a catty." As the saying goes, there is a reward for paying, and it is worth being busy and tired, and now I am growing more and more mushrooms, and our family's life is becoming more and more rushing. ”
Before the Spring Festival, the price of mushrooms is high, so we will heat the greenhouse to make the mushrooms grow quickly. In the mushroom shed of villager Zhou Xia, Zhou Xia said while picking mushrooms that planting mushrooms every year has become her family's "homework" to get rich, and her family has been planting them for more than 10 years, so she has embarked on the road to prosperity.
In Maoji Village, like Liu Changjian, Zhou Xia hard work to operate mushroom planting, villagers who struggle on the road to increase income abound, the reporter saw Xiang Haihua, Xiang Lianhua, Xiang Sihua brothers are mushroom greenhouses in front of the house, villagers plant mushrooms every household, during the Spring Festival, they are still busy in the mushroom shed, busy out of their own happy year, with hard-working hands to create a happy life.