Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

After tidying up the things in the woodshed, the two had lunch and went to the walnut tree with their tools to pick walnuts.

When they arrived at the place, Lu Chuan first climbed up the tree and shook the branches. Many ripe walnuts fell down as soon as they were shaken.

After the walnuts fell to the ground, some of them broke directly, revealing the walnut fruit inside.

Lu Chuan took a long bamboo pole and started hitting the remaining walnuts on the tree, while Xu Han was picking up the walnuts below.

This way the process will be much faster as there is no need to take them down one by one.

Some of the walnuts that are picked still have the walnut peel on. This needs to be peeled off slowly after you take them home.

After hitting this tree, the two went to other walnut trees nearby.

They kept picking all the walnuts nearby until it got dark, and then they started to go home.

After returning home and finishing dinner, I sat in the yard and used a small wooden stick to knock the inedible pulp off the walnuts.

If the skin cannot be knocked off, use a knife. Gently cut the skin off the walnut, and the rest can be peeled off by hand. Ripe walnuts are very easy to handle, and the flesh and walnuts are separated.

When peeling walnuts, you must wear gloves, otherwise your hands will be stained yellow by the peel, which cannot be washed off at all. It will only fade away slowly over time.

Xu Han didn't want her hands to turn black, so she first put on a layer of eating gloves, and then a layer of cloth gloves to completely block the contact between the walnuts and her hands, and then put them down.

The processed walnuts need to be placed in the yard to dry for a few days, and then stored in the warehouse after drying.

After processing today's walnuts, the two went to rest. They still had to go to the mountains to pick walnuts tomorrow!

By the way, if you come across sea buckthorn, pick it up and take all that is edible.

Now that the weather is getting colder, some rhizomes of medicinal herbs are about to enter a dormant period. After a while, it will be a good time to pick them.

At that time, you can also pick some and take them to the county pharmacy to exchange for money.

Most of the medicinal herbs such as leaves, flowers or seeds are not very valuable, they are troublesome to pick and they do not weigh much.

Of course, except for precious medicinal materials such as Dendrobium, the price will be much more expensive.

Xu Han didn't have enough time to do these things, so she never went to collect herbs for money.

However, when the rhizome medicinal herbs are suitable for picking, you can still go look for some, as they are much more valuable than herbs.

Lu Chuan knows much more about medicinal herbs than I do, so I will need to go look for them with him when the time comes.

Don't be in a hurry to collect herbs, you can still wait a while!

Right now, the most important thing is to pick mountain products and buy grain.

The next morning, the two set out into the mountains to pick walnuts and sea buckthorn.

The two of them did not plan to go back today, so they stayed in the cave directly to save some time.

So when the time came, Xu Han put the bed and other things into the space so that she could take them out and use them directly when the time came.

The two first came to a walnut forest with about ten walnut trees.

Maybe over time, the walnuts that fell from the walnut tree took root and sprouted nearby.

Then after a long period of accumulation, it has now become a smaller walnut forest.

I heard from Lu Chuan that there is a bigger walnut forest deep in the mountains! The two planned to go there early tomorrow morning. After all, they had been traveling for a while today and it was not late.

We can't finish them all if we go there, so let's pick them here first! We'll go there early tomorrow morning.

Putting down the backpack, Lu Chuan climbed up the tree and started shaking the trunk.

Xu Han waited first, until Lu Chuan finished shaking the tree, and then started picking walnuts below. No matter whether he was shaking the tree or hitting the walnuts, the walnuts would always fall everywhere after falling from the tree.

So it is inevitable to spend more effort when picking up.

Fortunately, the dogs at home are very good. Yesterday, when they saw Xu Han picking walnuts alone, they began to imitate Xu Han, picking up the walnuts with their mouths and putting them in the backpack.

Xu Han was both happy and surprised to see their actions. Could it be that the dogs had become spirits? They were so smart and intelligent. It was really not in vain that she raised them, as they could now help her with work.

So today Xu Han specially prepared bamboo baskets for the dogs, letting them carry the baskets to pick up walnuts.

Before letting the dogs start working, Xu Han specially took out the beef bones that had been cooked for them from the space. Each of them had a lot of meat on it, so they could chew the bones and eat the meat.

After the dogs finished eating, Lu Chuan also finished shaking the walnut tree, and then Xu Han took the dogs to start picking walnuts.

With the addition of the dogs, the process was indeed much faster. After the dogs filled the bamboo basket, they would bring the basket over and hand it to Xu Han. Xu Han would pour the walnuts into the backpack and then repeat the process.

However, not all dogs are obedient. For example, Peanut and Heifeng started to have fun while picking up the trash.

Lu Chuan scolded them, and they behaved well for a while, then continued to slack off. By the end of lunch, all the other dogs had lunch, but they didn’t!

"You two deserve to have no lunch. You ate my beef bones and still don't work! If I can't let you spit them out, I'll deduct them from your lunch." Xu Han pointed at the two naughty kids and said angrily.

When we started picking walnuts in the afternoon, the other dogs had meat bones as snacks, but Heifeng and Huasheng did not.

This trick was quite effective. Seeing this, Heifeng and Huasheng didn't dare to slack off in the afternoon and started picking walnuts honestly.

The two of them picked all the walnuts nearby, and then went to pick the nearby sea buckthorns. The sea buckthorns in the deep mountains are quite large, of course there are also very small ones.

They are wild! They can’t all be big, nor can they all be small.

Xu Han was not greedy and picked whatever she could find. She kept the big ones to eat raw and the small ones to make wine.

When the sun set, the two returned to a nearby cave.

Xu Han cleaned the cave inside and out, while Lu Chuan went to collect firewood.

The cave was very large. Xu Han swept the dust inside and fumigated it with mugwort to drive out all the snakes and insects inside to prevent her from being bitten while sleeping at night.

After Lu Chuan came back, he first built a fire and boiled water so that he could wash his face and feet.

After cleaning the cave, Xu Han took out the bed, table and chairs, had a simple dinner, and prepared meals for the dogs.

Then they soaked their feet and took a rest.

The night in the mountains was already very cold, but luckily the fire was still burning...

The next day, after they got up, they had breakfast, put their things into the space, and set off to the new walnut forest.