Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Today we have another difficult task, which is harvesting potatoes!

The growth cycle of potatoes is relatively short. In some places, three crops can be planted a year. They are planted at the beginning of spring. Now the leaves of the potatoes have turned yellow. If they are not dug out, they will sprout in the ground!

Xu Han took a backpack and a hoe and went to the wasteland outside and started digging potatoes.

Simply pull up the potato vines with their roots, then dig out the potatoes left in the ground and pile them all on the ground. After they are all dug up, sort them by size and collect them.

Digging potatoes is relatively strenuous, but after so much training, Xu Han is already able to harvest potatoes by herself and does not need Lu Chuan to stay at home to help harvest potatoes.

And you can't rely on Lu Chuan for everything. Try to do what you can yourself.

Xu Han spent the whole day digging potatoes. There was less than an acre of land, and it was very slow for one person to dig potatoes.

When Lu Chuan came back in the afternoon, he saw Xu Han digging potatoes in the field and quickly took the hoe from Xu Han's hand.

He asked out loud, "Why don't you wait for me to come back? I can do all the heavy work! Just tell me next time and don't do it yourself!"

"It's okay. Digging potatoes is not very tiring. I can do it too! You dig first! I'll go pack the potatoes." After saying that, he ran away without waiting for Lu Chuan to reply. Mainly because he was afraid that Lu Chuan would continue to talk about him!

Xu Han took the backpack and picked out the big ones first, then started to pack the small ones.

I worked until dark before I finally processed all the potatoes and put them directly in the cellar. They won’t sprout for the time being!

At dinner, Xu Han made a spicy stir-fried cabbage, a chicken and mushroom dish, and a kelp and egg soup.

It’s another delicious meal. The food eaten after hard work becomes especially delicious!

The next day, Lu Chuan went to collect prey as usual. He would come back early today to help Xu Han plant the onion seedlings he had grown earlier.

After Xu Han finished cleaning up, she planned to cook the sheep's trotters first. The sheep's trotters of the sheep that Lu Chuan had hunted before had not been eaten yet, and there were still some sheep's heads, sheep's stomachs and the like left over.

Take advantage of the time today to make a spicy lamb trotter and lamb head to eat!

First put the processed lamb's trotters into the pot, add onion, ginger and cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, and blanch them in water.

After blanching, take it out and set aside, then use the same method to blanch the two sheep's heads!

Heat oil in another pan, add scallion, ginger and bean paste and stir-fry until fragrant, add water and then add star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves and other spices, then add chicken essence, oyster sauce, salt and vinegar to season.

Vinegar is added because it is easier to remove the bones when cooking later.

Add plenty of peppercorns and chili peppers. After adding everything, put the sheep's feet and head in, bring to a boil over high heat and simmer slowly.

After adding firewood, Xu Han went to the wasteland outside the yard and pulled out the onion seedlings that she had planted before. Because of the drought later, onions and ginger were considered necessities for cooking, so Xu Han planted a lot of onions and ginger.

Pulling onion seedlings is also a very stress-relieving job. Xu Han likes to harvest any amount of them and is addicted to it.

Pull and sort them out at the same time. Pick out the large onion seedlings separately and put the small ones aside to plant them separately later. This way, they can be harvested together when it is time to harvest.

When Lu Chuan came back, Xu Han had not finished pulling out the onion seedlings.

"You should dig the trench for planting onions first! Dig it deeper. You will need to cultivate the soil later so that the onion bulbs can grow longer!"

"Okay, I'll go dig the ditch first!"

Lu Chuan returned home, put away today's prey, went to the tool shed, got a shovel and a shoulder pole, and went to the backyard. He first shoveled some earthworm manure to use as base fertilizer when planting onions later.

There are quite a few chickens and ducks at home, and there is a lot of feces every day. With the addition of two people and two dogs, we have accumulated a lot of organic fertilizer recently.

Usually, apart from fertilizing the vegetables, there is still some left over.

Lu Chuan came to the wasteland carrying a shoulder pole, took out a shovel and started digging a ditch. He dug it very deep and put a thin layer of base fertilizer in the ditch.

After the secondary treatment of earthworms, the base fertilizer has been well fermented and can be used directly. But you can't put too much, otherwise it will burn the onion seedlings.

When it was lunchtime, they hadn't started planting yet! So they decided to go home for lunch and take a break in the afternoon before continuing.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I smelled the aroma of braised lamb's trotters. It was so fragrant that my mouth was watering.

Xu Han took out the sheep's hooves and head, broke off the big bones inside, and put them into the pot to heat them again.

On the other side, take out the flour and start kneading the dough. Make some simple vegetable noodles for lunch today.

The noodles are ready, and the sheep's head and sheep's trotters can also be served.

It tastes better if you add some garlic sauce to eat it together. It is refreshing and fragrant.

After lunch, the two of them took a brief rest, took a nap, and avoided the scorching sun outside.

When I woke up again, it was already around three o'clock. I washed my face, cleared my head, and went out to plant onions.

After Lu Chuan finished digging all the onion ditches, Xu Han had also prepared the onion seedlings and they could be planted directly.

First, place the onion seedlings evenly into the onion trench, then cover them with a layer of soil, water them to help them take root, and cover them with another layer of soil, and you're done.

The two of them continued planting until the sun went down before they finished planting all the crops.

At dinner, Xu Han had no appetite after a tiring day, so she made two vegetarian dishes, one was scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and the other was salad with cucumbers.

Take out the pickled cucumbers you made earlier and pair them with rice porridge for a refreshing and heat-relieving experience!

"I've finished the salted eggs I pickled last time. I'll make some salted duck eggs tomorrow! I'll also make some pickled chili peppers. They'll be delicious with porridge in the morning and evening!"

"Okay! Just do it as you like! Everything my wife cooks is delicious!"

"The Dragon Boat Festival is over now. Don't you want to go bull hunting? I'll take you to see it later!" Lu Chuan suddenly said.

"Really? Can we go now?" Xu Han asked with great anticipation.

"Well! We can go now. I was hunting in the mountains recently and didn't find anything unusual. The last incident with the sheep should have been caused by the tiger. Now that the tiger is gone, we won't encounter any particular danger when we go to the cattle herd!"

"That's great, when are we going and do I need to prepare anything?"

"It's been too hot these past two days. It's probably going to rain soon. Let's wait until it rains before we go. Otherwise, it's easy to get sick if we get caught in the rain on the mountain!"

"You don't need to prepare anything special. It'll be pretty much the same as the last time we went to the reed marsh! But the cattle are quite far from here, so it might take us a little longer!"

"Okay, I got it. I'll take care of my family's affairs in the next two days, and then I can go to the cattle herd!"

As Xu Han spoke, she was thinking about what she needed to bring!