Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

First go to the sweet potato field, cut all the sweet potato vines, put them aside, and then start digging sweet potatoes.

The soil was very soft, and the sweet potatoes were very easy to dig. They all grew very big. As expected, the sweet potatoes grown in the stubble land were larger.

Xu Han dug an acre of sweet potatoes by herself, and it took her half an afternoon to finish digging all the sweet potatoes.

Then I leveled the soil again. There was no need to loosen the soil for the newly dug land. I could just plant wheat tomorrow.

Xu Han worked until dark before going home. Her shoulders were sore after a day of hard work, so she boiled a pot of hot water for herself and took a bath first.

As she was soaking in the water, Xu Han gradually felt sleepy. She startled and quickly got out of the water. If she fell asleep, she would definitely catch a cold, so she decided not to soak in the water anymore!

After cleaning up, I had dinner by myself and then went straight to bed.

The next day, I got up early in the morning and went to plant wheat.

First, use a hoe to dig a trench, then spread the wheat seeds evenly, and finally cover them with a layer of soil.

This process was repeated until all the wheat seeds were planted, which was estimated to be a little more than an acre.

Fortunately, Xu Han planted it close to the onion field, otherwise the sweet potatoes dug yesterday would not be enough!

Another day passed. Today ended early. In the evening, Xu Han sat in the house processing the remaining lotus seeds.

Lotus seeds are really hard to handle! I haven't finished them after so many days. Fortunately, there are only a few left. Xu Han soaked the old lotus seeds in water in advance, so they are easier to peel after soaking.

Fortunately, I can finish all of them today, so I don’t have to peel lotus seeds tomorrow. My fingers are sore from peeling them these days.

Today, Xu Han worked overtime and peeled all the lotus seeds in one go. It was almost twelve o'clock before she went to rest.

Have a good night’s sleep…

On the third day, after Xu Han got up, she walked around the yard, thinking about what to do that day!

Then it occurred to me that the winter melons outside have matured on a large scale and there are a lot of them, but there is no place to store them, so I might as well make them into dried winter melons!

Then he took the scissors and went out to pick winter melons from the winter melon field.

Each winter melon is very big, some weighing dozens of kilograms, and they take up a lot of space when stored. So Xu Han decided to dry more winter melons, otherwise there would be no place to store them.

I used scissors to pick the ripe ones with white frost and started harvesting them. I put the picked winter melons directly into the backpack. The backpack was too small, so it was full after I put one in it.

After picking dozens of them, Xu Han stopped. She wanted to dry so many of them first. If she cut too many, there wouldn't be enough space in the yard to dry them.

After picking the winter melons, Xu Han tied a few ropes in the yard to dry the winter melons later.

Then he moved the chopping board out to the yard and started cutting the winter melon.

Peel the skin of the picked winter melon and cut it into round slices, which you can hang on a rope to dry later.

After cutting the winter melon, remove the pulp and cut one end of the circle so that it can be hung on the rope later.

The winter melon is very big and difficult to cut. If it is cut, it cannot be hung on a rope to dry in the sun, so it is still quite difficult to cut.

After cutting a few, I took the wooden basin to dry the winter melon rings.

Winter melon peel can also be dried and made into tea, but there are already many beverages for making tea, and the tea made from winter melon peel is not tasty, so Xu Han threw away all the winter melon peels.

Xu Han spent the whole day repeating the actions of cutting and drying the winter melons. By mid-afternoon, the yard was already full of winter melons, and Xu Han finally stopped.

Winter melon and pumpkin shoots are very watery, and there will not be much left after drying. After this batch of winter melon is dried, make some more and save them for later.

After Xu Han finished drying the winter melon, she took the basket and went out again, wanting to see if there was anything else nearby that she could pick.

I took a walk outside and harvested some wild wolfberries and some sea buckthorns that were almost finished, and there was nothing else.

Xu Han had picked up almost everything nearby. Seeing that it was getting late, she went home.

After returning home, Xu Han washed her hair before it got dark, and then went to the backyard to take care of vegetables.

The weather is getting cold, and it’s time to plant garlic, but I don’t have any garlic seeds at home yet. I must buy more next time I go to the county town.

We need to plant more garlic, as it is indispensable for daily cooking. Now there is no other open space except the vegetable garden.

We still need to plant early vegetables in the vegetable garden! We can’t plant them here by then, so it’s better to plant them outside so as not to delay the planting of early vegetables in spring.

But the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the wasteland outside have not been harvested yet! It should be in time.

Xu Han remembered that her mother always waited until the peppers and tomatoes were pulled out before planting garlic!

The peppers and tomatoes have not been harvested yet, so it’s still possible to go to the county town in a couple of days to buy garlic seeds.

The onion seedlings that were grown some time ago have grown up and it’s time to plant them soon. These have to be planted outside.

We will still be able to plant some vegetables next year. Although there will be drought, we can still ensure that summer crops can be harvested. Of course, the yield will definitely be lower.

After all, it won’t be that fast when the drought reaches a point where there is no water. After the high temperatures and scorching sun in summer, water resources will become particularly tight around autumn.

But this is considered a deep mountain, so the water resources are relatively abundant and there is a lot of running water nearby.

The speed of drought is slower than that of the outside world below the mountain. We don’t know exactly how long it will last. We can only wait and change plans based on the situation.

Now we must first live in the present. Since we knew in advance that there would be a drought, we must use this time to do what we should do, and leave the rest to God.

Xu Han watered the onion seedlings again before returning to the front yard. It was almost dark, so she put the dried winter melon into the space and took it out to dry tomorrow.

After dinner, he took out the chickens and ducks that had not been processed in the space and started processing them.

On the fourth day, after getting up, take out the things that need to be dried and hang them up.

The persimmons have been dried and are being pinched aside. They can be collected at noon.

After pinching the persimmons, Xu Han went to the fish baskets and collected the fish. She had forgotten to collect the fish baskets last night.

Recently, Lu Chuan has been in charge of collecting the fish baskets, and Xu Han didn't even think about collecting the fish baskets yesterday.

When we arrived at the place and put away the fish basket, we found it was filled with fish and shrimp. A few of them had escaped, but the final result was still very good.

After collecting the fish, Xu Han put the fish basket back in the basket and slowly went home.

When passing by the wasteland, I saw a batch of ripe peppers, so I picked them and used them to dry.