Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

After buying the medicinal herbs, they went to the grain store again. This time, they did not go to the previous two grain stores, but went to a new one.

After all, it has not been long since he bought the food. If he goes to buy large quantities of food again, he will definitely be suspected of having ulterior motives. It would not be worth it if he was arrested by the government at that time.

Xu Han and Lu Chuan never thought of telling the government about the drought, or revealing it to other people.

The two of them had no power or influence. If they were taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives, they wouldn't even know how they died. All they could do was to remind others when the weather changed in the later stage.

Xu Han didn't want to be burned to death. It was up to them to believe it or not. It was more important to save herself first.

After arriving at the grain store, I directly bought 3000 kilograms of black flour. This time I didn’t buy white flour, rice, etc.

A total of 18 taels of silver were spent. After this purchase, there was a total of one pound of food, enough for two people and two dogs to live for seven years. However, Black Spot will give birth to babies later, and this food will definitely not be enough.

The specific amount of supplement to be taken will need to be decided after Black Spot gives birth to a few babies.

After the autumn harvest, black spots should appear. At that time, you can buy new grain instead of ground grain. Buy wheat and rice directly. They can be kept outside for a longer time. After all, there is not enough space in the space for so many things!

After the shopping, the two went to the market to see if there were any fresh fruits. As expected, there were only peaches for sale. This season is the best time to eat peaches. Other fruits are not on the market yet!

I bought everything along the way. I bought eight baskets of peaches, plus the four baskets I bought before. After eating one basket, I have a total of 11 baskets of peaches left. These are not enough to eat!

It seems that I need to buy some more when I have time! I will save it for later!

Eight baskets of peaches cost 600 coins in total. I also bought some food and miscellaneous items, which cost me 400 coins.

Every time she buys something, Xu Han would sigh: Money really doesn’t last long!

After buying these things, they remembered that the roast chicken they bought before had been eaten, so they went to the place where roast chicken was sold again and bought 18 servings of roast chicken directly, spending another 700 Wen.

这次来县城卖猎物一共挣了11两银子，买东西花了21两2钱，所有的钱加在一起一共还剩下174两银子及3两铜钱。

After buying what they needed, the sun was at its highest and hottest, so the two decided to find a teahouse to rest for a while and then return home when the sun was not so strong.

We came to the teahouse, ordered a pot of tea and some melon seeds and peanuts, and ate the melon seeds while listening to the opera.

This was Xu Han's first time to listen to an opera! Her Chinese blood was instantly awakened, and she listened to it with great interest. She didn't even want to go home when the time came.

If Xu Han wasn't afraid that it would be unsafe to travel after dark, she would have listened for a while longer!

By the time we got home, the sun had already set.

Xu Han came to the sweet potato field and picked some sweet potato stems, planning to make a cold sweet potato stem salad. It was delicious and appetizing.

Choose sweet potato stalks that are tender at the tip, so that they don’t have any stringiness when eaten. Cut them into pieces of appropriate size and stir-fry them in a pan.

Then prepare the garlic and mash it, add soy sauce, vinegar, MSG, sesame oil, pepper and salt to season, and pour it directly on the sweet potato stems! It's done.

Then take out the roast chicken you just bought today, tear it into pieces and put it on a plate.

Cook a portion of West Lake beef soup and white rice, and tonight's dinner is ready.

After the two of them finished eating, Xu Han lay down on the reclining chair in the yard, rocking it and fanning herself with a cattail leaf fan. It was so comfortable.

Have a good night's sleep...

When she got up in the morning, Xu Han rubbed the dried mugwort into moxa wool.

Then I put on the backpack and went to the nearby pine forest to pick up some pine cones to use.

The pine cones in this pine forest do not have pine nuts. Although it is a pine forest, there are not many pine trees.

In a short while, all the pine cones were picked up, filling three large backpacks.

After returning home and having lunch, I put the pine cones into the jar, sealed it, and started to burn fire around the jar to turn the pine cones into charcoal.

After all the pine cones were processed, Lu Chuan had returned and started helping Xu Han grind the carbon into powder.

At this moment, Xu Han suddenly remembered that there was no millstone at home.

So he said, "It seems that there is no grinding wheel at home. Let's find someone to make one! We will need it to grind flour in the future, and we can also make tofu ourselves!"

Speaking of this, Xu Han suddenly wanted to drink soy milk. It had been a long time since she had drunk it.

"Okay, next time we go to the county town, find someone to make one. I know there is a stonemason in the village where we went to exchange leek roots last time."

"Okay, don't forget it!"

Seeing Xu Han's expectant look, Lu Chuan nodded hurriedly and said, "I won't forget it."

While Lu Chuan was grinding carbon powder, Xu Han took a backpack and went to the sweet potato field outside the yard to pick sweet potato leaves.

Sweet potato leaves are a very good vegetable with high nutritional value. Xu Han also likes to eat them very much. They are delicious whether they are fried spicy sweet potato stems or eaten cold.

The most delicious one is the sweet potato leaf steamed bread, which is Xu Han’s favorite.

The sweet potato leaves are growing very well. Pick the tender ones and fill a basket first. Then pick more when it rains and they are even more tender.

Just pick off the leaves one by one. There will be a small piece of sweet potato stalk and leaves. You can pick them when you want to eat them.

In a short while, the basket was filled with sweet potato stalks.

When I got home, I tied the sweet potato stalks together with straw ropes and stored them in a space.

For dinner, Xu Han fried some spicy and sour sweet potato stems.

Cut the sweet potato stalks into sections and clean them. Heat oil in a pan, add chili peppers, peppercorns, and shredded ginger, then add the sweet potato stalks and stir-fry. Add a large amount of vinegar and fresh chili peppers and stir-fry evenly. Then add seasonings and it is ready to serve.

Take out the braised lamb chops and steamed rice from the space. Pair it with a drink and you can start eating.

Both of them like this spicy and sour sweet potato stalks very much. It is sour and spicy and delicious!

After dinner, Xu Han evenly mixed a certain proportion of moxa, charcoal, realgar and elm powder, added water to make a dough of moderate hardness and began to roll it into strips.

Then roll the long strips into the shape of mosquito coils and place them on a wooden board to dry in the shade!

Don't expose it to the sun directly, as it will break easily. Just put it on the corridor to dry!

Not much was done this time. Just some experiments to see how it works. Xu Han still did it according to her memory of watching videos before.

I don't remember the specific ratios very clearly, I just know roughly which material is more and which material is less, and I made it based on my estimation.

After everything was done, it was already around half past ten.

After a quick wash, I prepared for bed. It was another busy day!