Her Cultivation Diary-Chapter 1829 - 1664: Yunyun’s House’s Vermicompost

Qiaoqiao has been livestreaming quite diligently lately, while Yunyun in the village, who used to wander around holding her phone for livestreams every day, has quieted down now.

Yun Duo went over in the evening after work and dinner—mainly because her sister’s home-cooked meals weren’t as tasty as the ones at the cafeteria.

As usual, her brother-in-law wasn’t there. Now that the temperature has risen, he’s been tending to his land all day and night, and he can’t rest easy until he takes a look at it in the evening.

The two sisters chatted idly for a long time, and Yun Duo curiously asked, "Sis, didn’t you want to start your own account and gradually gain popularity to sell goods? Why haven’t you updated it at all lately?"

Now that she’s been working for a while, she’s gained some insights: "If I have some free time, I could help manage your livestream room."

This summer, Yunyun unavoidably got a bit tanned, but the sisters still looked fresh and eye-catching. At this moment, she said:

"Don’t try to impose the work experience you have at Qiaoqiao’s onto me. There are so many agricultural livestreams out there, who’s exactly like Qiaoqiao?"

"Some people just have that luck, that appealing look that makes people like them, and that’s their skill. Your sister has been livestreaming in a muddled way for more than half a year without even gathering 1,000 followers. How can I compare to others?"

Yun Duo also laughed, "Qiaoqiao is irreplaceable, no doubt. But when you’re livestreaming, I can help you check the comments."

Yunyun shook her head, "Now, many beautiful spots in the village belong to Qiaoqiao’s family. I stopped streaming in the spring—using someone else’s scenery to boost your own traffic isn’t the way to do things. Besides, Song Tan even pointed out a path for me."

She enthusiastically sat beside her sister, "Your brother-in-law is almost ready to sell the vermicompost, but I’m hesitating whether to ask Qiaoqiao or Secretary Xiaozu to help with the village livestream."

Before starting on this vermicompost, Yun Duo had already done her homework and talked to Secretary Xiaozu, asking her to give a shout-out in the livestream room.

For farmers to find their own path and use the village’s shared sales channels, Secretary Xiaozu’s action in assisting farmers is only appropriate.

However...

Yunyun was a bit conflicted, "Your brother-in-law has been tossing and turning, sleepless at night, and he’s under a lot of pressure. I didn’t expect this vermicompost to actually have such a high yield. We’re afraid we can’t sell it all and won’t recover the cost..."

After spending these past six months together, Yun Duo indeed changed her impression of her brother-in-law, whom she didn’t think much of before—

No matter how others see him, he works incredibly hard. Listening to his wife, that’s also first-rate.

Talking about this vermicompost, when Yunyun wanted to lend a hand, he wouldn’t even let her, doing all the work himself from dawn to dusk.

Other families with production facilities seem to have it easy, but they also have machines to help.

Their family’s business is small, to save costs they haven’t set up any machines, relying entirely on manpower.

Others build cement pools; her brother-in-law bought bundles of bamboo to assemble a plastic canopy.

It’s not durable, and bamboo isn’t as sturdy as steel angles, can’t be built too high, and isn’t as well-ventilated as others...

But talking about whether it’s cheap or not!

Others use grinders to crush the worm feed; her brother-in-law takes a chopper to carefully chop it once or twice a day.

The worm cultivation bed is a thick plot of land, and to avoid hurting the worms and maintain efficient fermentation, others use a turning machine.

He could turn from morning till night, turning this section today, that section tomorrow, cautiously never taking a break all day long.

The cultivation bed also needs to maintain a certain level of humidity, but can’t be too wet, so a spraying system is required.

They just have two acres of land, and installing this spraying system isn’t too expensive, it could be rigged up with two spray nozzle watering cans, or a hose faucet.

The kind gardeners use, a set that costs several hundred yuan would do just fine.

But to control costs, he persistently carried a spray canister in the scorching heat, watering it over and over again.

If you meet someone a bit more insightful, they would indeed say, "Money should be spent where it’s needed," isn’t this the wrong way to do it!

But for Yunyun’s husband, it seems worthwhile!

Every flat piece of land at home is used for this vermicompost; digging the worm bed is just like plowing the land and weeding.

Spraying is like applying pesticides.

Setting up a shed, ventilating, drying, protecting from rain and cold every day, it’s just a bit of a hassle, not that much effort at all.

As for how tedious it is to crush the feed...

When farming, you have to worry about whether it’s raining or sunny!

This is just an alternative way of farming, if too much money is invested in farming, wouldn’t it lead to ruin?

And so far, the family only has three machines, which really can’t be replaced—

A separation sieve, used for sorting the vermicompost.