Chapter 1602: Mugwort Sorting

Xin Jun's return also meant that it was really going to be busy next.

The mugwort harvested during the Dragon Boat Festival had now become brittle after two days of drying.

One-third was separated and hung upside down to be stored in the warehouse again. After three years, when rubbing mugwort velvet again, the effect would be long-lasting, soft, and heavy.

The rest had to have the leaves beaten off first.

In the factory yard, tall shading nets were pulled up. The employees wore thick labor protection gloves, pinched the bottom of the mugwort, and stripped it off handful by handful.

If it weren't for repeating this action, it would actually be quite stress-relieving.

On the other side, the elderly sat in front of large winnowing baskets, rubbing and picking out the stems of these stripped mugwort leaves.

This was a delicate job, and there was no order.

Everyone chatted while working, their hands didn't stop, earning a hundred or eighty yuan a day, feeling beautiful in their hearts.

Although because mugwort leaves are light, it's not easy to blow fans, and because there is broken velvet, it's not easy to enter the room. But now, early in the morning and late in the evening, doing it in the yard blocked by the shading shed, the temperature wasn't that high.

So when the Old Song house asked in the village, saying that it was prioritized for the five-guarantee households, someone immediately signed up.

Grandma Lianhua was the first to respond enthusiastically.

Because she earned a salary helping Liu Liu take care of the children this year, she had to push down many jobs. Now that it was hard for Liu Liu to take a few days off to get vaccines and handle procedures for the children, she immediately caught up with this opportunity.

The five-guarantee households were also happy.

They have subsidies daily, cadres come to visit during festivals, plus the Old Song house will send rice, flour, grain, oil, cotton jackets, small cotton pants during festivals... The days now are so comfortable.

Doing some small jobs occasionally like this, although the money earned is not much, it is not hard work. Just sit here and be delicate, pick the stems, like installing bait before, everyone is willing.

The clean broken leaves will be sent to another open space.

Thick plastic film is laid on the ground, and another group of men and women with strength receive slightly higher wages, holding wooden sticks to beat evenly on the ground.

This is the key action to beat mugwort leaves into fine mugwort velvet.

Using a pestle and mortar is also possible, but it is not as evenly turned over as this large area. Although mixers and crushers are high-efficiency, the high temperature of the knife head will also damage the quality of mugwort leaves.

Anyway, there are many people who can be used now, so let's do it delicately.

And Xin Jun was full of expectation: "Can these mugwort sticks be rubbed tonight? If so, I will ask Dr. Doctor Xiao Guo to help me moxibustion. I feel exhausted after going home this time."

Although compared to before, he didn't exert much effort, and didn't use himself to burn oil and light lamps, but for some reason, the heavy feeling of fatigue was still pressing on him.

Song Tan looked at his face, indeed not as energetic as before leaving. Considering he still had to change shifts with Zhang Yanping, she quickly said:

"Qiao Qiao, take a piece of mugwort paper and rub one for Teacher Xin first."

Qiao Qiao responded. With last year's experience, he quickly rolled a mugwort stick, filled it with mugwort velvet, and sealed it. He handed it to Xin Jun:

"Teacher Xin, you must rest well."

"Otherwise, you won't have the strength to see the photos of me at the amusement park."

Xin Jun laughed.

Sure enough, Qiao Qiao is still the most thoughtful in the world: "Okay, I will look at it after I rest well tonight."

The new batch of employees who have been regularized are not idle now.

When they were ox-horses in the city before, commuting back and forth every day consumed all their strength, uncontrollable staying up late, and uncontrollable lack of sleep.

But in the mountain village now, lack of sleep is a joke. Now they have even developed a wonderful biological clock of falling asleep at 9 o'clock.

Heaven pity, at their age, they have never had such a wonderful biological clock in elementary school.

Sleeping well at night, eating well during the day, they have endless energy.

Now they are arranged to tidy up mugwort stems, and they are very motivated.

Originally, according to Song Tan and Dr. Doctor Xiao Guo's plan, these mugwort stems could also be crushed and made into inferior mosquito coils for outdoor use.

But after trying several times, the smoke was too big, so they gave up and changed to drying and crushing, then filling them into pillows.

This time, crushing doesn't need to be manual.

Employees operate the crusher, just need to grasp the time and strength, and don't crush them too finely to seep out powder.

This kind of pillow with granular feeling is not prickly to sleep on, but like the rice husks and buckwheat husks slept on when young.

Plus there is a light bitter fragrance of mugwort, before it was made, employees asked: "Can we buy this?"

Yes, this kind of mugwort derivative product, if not made into pillows, can only be used for composting.

After all, because the mugwort oil content is too low, if made into mosquito coils, it is too choking in pig pens and cow sheds.

But...

"Each employee is limited to one, and this pillow needs to be taken out for drying frequently."

With such a large yard in front of and behind the dormitory building, they like to take quilts and pillows down to dry the most, this is not a disadvantage at all!

Everyone just asked: "How much is it?"

Cheap ones are for their own use, expensive ones are for resale, hehe!

Song Tan didn't stop it either, roughly calculated: "199."

She found She Min again: "Estimate how much is needed for a pillow, how many can be made, and prepare to hang a link on the online store."

She called Qiao Qiao again: "Do you want to live stream making this mugwort pillow?"

This has no technical difficulty. Whether it is letting villagers sew pillowcases at home to sell, or buying ready-made ones, this pillow only needs to be filled.

The disadvantage is that because it needs to be poured out and turned frequently, it cannot be strictly sewn and fixed in zones.

Song Tan remembered this and instructed She Min: "The details page explains that if the sleeping posture is not good, these mugwort stems will all be rubbed to the top, it is recommended for those who are used to old-fashioned pillows to buy."

She Min nodded: "If you don't live stream today, can I try sleeping on one first?"

After going home for the Dragon Boat Festival, her subjective initiative at work has greatly increased.

Song Tan nodded: "This has a little effect on insomnia and cervical spine, but don't publicize it, just feel it yourself."

She didn't exaggerate the effect. These stems usually have to transport nutrients for the leaves, so the spiritual energy absorbed is also very rich.

It is just smoky when burned, not that the effect is not good.

This kind of granule is padded between the head and neck, and the spiritual energy contained overflows slightly. The effect within a year is always good.

She Min nodded, and then picked up the camera to take photos seriously.

At the same time, Dr. Doctor Xiao Guo also came up the mountain to ask her:

"Are the olive oil and packaging boxes ready? Your small canning machine must also be cleaned and disinfected."

"In addition to mosquito repellent sachets and mugwort sticks, mugwort mosquito repellent cream must also be made. This harvest is dozens of acres. Except for the border, the online store inventory should be very sufficient."

?? Late! Thank you all for waiting!

? Recently the editor said my writing has improved a lot, hehe! The new career line has also been sorted out, I will try my best to write more in July.

? Grateful (^^)! ===== CHAPTER 1603 =====