Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

After all the dried vegetables are dried, it is time for lunch.

After lunch, Xu Han went to the pumpkin field outside. After late autumn is the season when pumpkins grow wildly.

There weren’t many pumpkin shoots we dried last time. After drying, there were only a few left. Xu Han planned to pick more today.

All of them were dried into pumpkin shoots. After all, there were quite a lot of pumpkins planted. Xu Han had not planted all the pumpkin seedlings in the wasteland, so he planted them on the other side of the stream. He did not take care of them and just let them grow.

After picking all the tender pumpkins on the wasteland, I came to the river and took a look. Although they had not been taken care of, there were still quite a few pumpkins, because pumpkins are not prone to insects and do not require much care.

I picked all the tender pumpkins here. By the time I finished picking them all, it was already mid-afternoon.

Today we picked at least 2,000 kilograms of tender pumpkins. A small pumpkin weighs 5 or 6 kilograms, and a large one weighs more than 10 kilograms.

So Xu Han picked at least 300 pumpkins today, and planned to cut all of them into pumpkin shoots.

There were about a thousand pounds of tender pumpkins in the space, and they were all taken out and cut into pumpkin shoots.

It would be good if we can have more than 300 kilograms of pumpkin shoots after drying. After all, pumpkin shoots will become very light after drying.

Xu Han returned home, found a shady place, moved out the chopping board and chairs, and started cutting the pumpkin shoots.

Cutting all the pumpkins is a big task and not easy, but fortunately they are tender pumpkins and do not require much effort.

But cutting back and forth makes my arms very tired.

After cutting some, Xu Han began to mix the pumpkin with wood ash. In order to make pumpkin shoots, Xu Han also deliberately kept the wood ash in the hole of the pot and did not spread it all on the ground as fertilizer.

But when I was halfway through cutting, I found that there was still not enough wood ash. There was no way, I couldn't dry it all this time, so I could only wait a little longer.

Let’s do it next time! It just so happened that Xu Han’s arm was really painful and couldn’t be cut anymore.

Xu Han boiled a pot of hot water for herself and took a good hot bath to relieve the aches and pains in her body.

After dinner, she started making clothes for the two of them. Today she made thin jackets, which was more time-consuming. In one night, Xu Han only made one and a half.

A thin jacket requires two layers of cloth, with cotton stuffed in the middle. Plus, it was Xu Han’s first time making one, so although she knew the steps, she wasn’t very skilled yet, so it took a lot of time.

On the fifth day, after getting up, Xu Han spread out yesterday's pumpkin shoots to dry. She took the fallen wood ash to the sweet potato field outside and sprinkled it on it. It could also be used as fertilizer and could not be wasted.

Today Xu Han planned to make chicken mushroom oil. She had agreed to make it for Lu Chuan, but because it was too troublesome to clean, she never had time to make it.

Finally having some free time today, Xu Han decided to start frying chicken in fir oil.

After Xu Han finished her breakfast and took care of the livestock, she moved a small chair to the river.

Although you can wash at home, the water tank at home needs to be filled with water!

If you move the water tank away, the water in the pipe will drip directly onto the ground. If you move too close, it will splash onto your clothes. It is more convenient to wash by the river.

When I passed by the pumpkin field, I picked some pumpkin leaves to use to wash the chicken mushrooms later.

First, scrape off the dirt at the root of the chicken mushroom with a bamboo knife, and then wipe the chicken mushroom with pumpkin leaves.

Because there is running water on this side of the stream, it is very convenient to rinse. I rinsed until noon and washed a whole basin of chicken mushrooms.

Xu Han took the chicken mushrooms home and started preparing the oil for frying them.

First, tear the washed chicken mushrooms into small pieces by hand, then add oil to the pan, heat it up, add the chicken mushrooms, and stir-fry continuously.

The oil is very turbid when the chicken mushrooms are first added because there is water in the chicken mushrooms.

By the time the chicken mushrooms are fried into golden brown, the water has boiled away and the oil has become clear.

At this time, add appropriate amount of salt to the pot for seasoning and it is ready to be served.

Xu Han took out a small portion, put it in a basin to cool, and then put it in the jar.

Both Lu Chuan and Xu Han like spicy food, so Xu Han added some chili shreds and peppercorns to the pot with the remaining chicken mushroom oil, stir-fried it a little and it was ready to serve.

There are two flavors of chicken mushroom oil, the spicier one and the less original one.

After it was done, Xu Han ordered herself a bowl of noodles. It tasted especially good whether mixed with chicken mushroom oil or rice noodles.

Xu Han first put some original chicken mushroom oil into the noodles, took a bite, and it was indeed very fragrant and delicious.

I also had a serving of chicken mushroom oil with chili peppers, which was fragrant and spicy, and also very delicious.

I don’t know when Lu Chuan will come back. When he comes back, I must let him try this. It’s really delicious.

After lunch, Xu Han took advantage of the bright sunshine to turn over the dried vegetables in the yard and continue drying them.

Then she went back home to continue making clothes. Today Xu Han planned to finish all the thin cotton coats for both of them.

Lu Chuan made a set of navy blue and a set of gray, while Xu Han made a set of light pink and a set of light yellow.

When she first came here, Xu Han was a little uncomfortable wearing such brightly colored clothes.

Later, I made myself a light grey set, but I have to say it made me look older, not at all like something a little girl would wear, and it was too grey and ugly.

Later, after wearing more brightly colored clothes, I got used to it. After all, I didn’t buy these fabrics at a high price, so I became less picky.

Xu Han used some of the dyed fabrics as linings for clothes, or hid them away.

Fortunately, the batch of fabrics I bought last time were washed and soaked in explosive salt after I came back, and the color bleeding was also dealt with. Although there are still some, it is much better now.

Fortunately, the damage to that batch of fabrics was not particularly serious, and most of them are still in good condition!

If you really can't put it together, you can just leave it as a shoe sole.

In the afternoon, Xu Han heard the sound of a dog barking outside, and hurried out of the yard to take a look. Sure enough, it was Lu Chuan who came back.

I have already reached the river and am heading home!

Xu Han quickly went to greet him, "You are finally back, are you hurt?"

"I'm not injured. Look, I'm fine!" After saying that, Lu Chuan turned around and showed it to Xu Han.

Xu Han felt relieved when she saw that Lu Chuan did not have any serious wounds.

However, the clothes on his body were already in tatters, with large and small scratches from the branches, making him look particularly disheveled.

The two quickly returned home, and Lu Chuan sat on a chair to drink water and rest.

Xu Han went to make noodles for him. Coming back at this time, he definitely didn't have a good lunch.

Xu Han took out the remaining noodles in the space, started to boil water to cook the noodles, and then took out the chicken mushrooms that she had just made today and mixed them in the noodles.

"Go wash your hands quickly. I just fried some Alpinia hornbeam oil this afternoon. It's the best to mix with noodles! Try it."

"Okay, I'll go wash it now." Then he went to wash his hands.

"Is it delicious?" Xu Han asked.

"It's delicious and fragrant. The taste is different from that of chicken mushrooms." Lu Chuan replied.