Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

After finishing, Xu Han took the basket and left the house. The wolfberries on the hillside had turned red in the past two days.

Now is the time to pick them. You can pick some and make tea with them.

Or it is very good to add a little when making soup, or it can be used to make wolfberry wine. It has many uses!

Wild wolfberries are easy to find, and their red fruits are particularly eye-catching. In the past, they could often be seen in modern times, on roadsides and river banks.

Xu Han also picked them with her mother! Of course, she also knows how to process them.

Just after leaving the house and not far away, she saw a wolfberry tree. Xu Han took out a small bamboo basket, put on gloves and started picking wolfberries.

The wolfberry tree is very short, and you need to bend over when picking the fruits, which makes it difficult to pick them.

After Xu Han finished picking wolfberries from the tree, she went to the hillside behind the house.

There are a lot of wolfberry trees growing on the hillside over there, forming a large area. More importantly, because they grow on the slope, you can pick the fruits without bending down.

After arriving, I immediately started picking wolfberries, but because the wolfberries were too small, I didn't pick many after half an hour.

Because some wolfberries have not turned red yet, and we cannot just cut off the branches, it would be too troublesome.

Xu Han thought that there was a large area here anyway! There would still be a lot after picking all of them, so it would be easier to pick some red branches first, cut them off and take them home to pick them slowly.

Picking them one by one is really too slow. I don’t know how long it will take to finish picking all these flowers!

So I took out the scissors and started pruning the branches, specifically picking out those that had turned completely red, and leaving those that still had a lot of green wolfberries on them.

After cutting off the red branches, you can slowly pick these, or do it again after a while.

After pruning for about an hour, I finally finished pruning all the ripe branches. There was still time, so I picked up the backpack and started picking the ripe wolfberries from the wolfberry branches.

When you get tired of picking, take out the bamboo tube, drink some water, eat some fruit and take a rest.

We can eat lunch here directly. We can just take out some food from the space and have two bites of it. It is quite convenient.

It was already past two in the afternoon when they finished picking all the wolfberries. Xu Han picked up the basket and went looking for wild wolfberry trees near her home.

There are still quite a lot of wild wolfberry trees here, but they are scattered, not like the large ones just now.

The most common ones are five or six growing together, and some are even just one.

It is easier to pick fruits this way, as the branches are not so messy. You can pick all the fruits at once by just grabbing a branch, unlike the ones just now where they are all intertwined and you have no idea where to start. The speed is actually a bit slower.

You have to keep bending over when picking, or you need to squat to pick. Fortunately, there are not many, and you can finish picking them in a short while.

They walked and stopped along the way near their home. In the blink of an eye, the sun set and Xu Han started walking home, continuing to pick fruits as she walked.

When I got home, it was already dark. I went to the kitchen to boil water for myself to take a bath, added firewood, and went to the backyard.

He replaced the food for the chickens, ducks and geese and added more water before returning to the front yard.

After the bath water was boiled, I fetched the water and went to take a bath.

After taking a shower, I returned to the main room. After having dinner, I sat in the main room and started picking the wolfberry branches that I had cut today.

I have to say that it is faster to pick the fruits while sitting on a chair. You can pick a handful at a time. It is much faster and less tiring.

By ten o'clock, Xu Han had picked all the wolfberry branches. This time, she picked three baskets of wild wolfberries in total.

These are enough to last for a long time. After all, wolfberry is just an extra ingredient and you can’t eat much of it.

After a while, when they are ripe, you can pick some more. They won’t take up much space, so it’s better to have more than less!

After cleaning the house, Xu Han went to bed. Lu Chuan was often not at home during this period, and Xu Han had gotten used to it. It was quite comfortable for her to live alone.

I really don’t know what Lu Chuan would think if he knew Xu Han’s idea.

The next morning, after Xu Han finished her breakfast and cleaned up the house, she hung out the things that needed to be dried and began to prepare to process the wolfberries.

Fortunately, after a few days of exposure to the sun, all the dried fruits except raisins have been dried.

Now only pumpkin shoots and peppers need to be dried. Otherwise, there will be no space to dry wolfberries!

The picked wolfberries cannot be dried directly, otherwise the wolfberries will never dry out and will always feel wet.

You need to wash the freshly picked wolfberries in alkaline water. After washing, pour them directly into a winnowing basket and spread them out to dry.

Because it is wet, it needs to be dried in the sun for about a week to completely dry.

After picking the wolfberries, Xu Han went to the backyard and picked all the ripe vegetables. Now that the weather was cold, there were not many vegetables left.

Except for peppers and tomatoes that are still growing wildly, other vegetables are not growing much. It will be time to pull them all out and plant new ones after a while.

Peppers and tomatoes should be pulled out after the frost. It doesn’t matter if it’s sweet frost, as they won’t kill them, but if it’s bitter frost, they’re done for!

So be sure to pull all of these out before the bitter frost comes.

After picking the vegetables, there seemed to be nothing important to do for a while. The dogs had just finished their staple food, so Xu Han went to the kitchen again to ferment the dough so that she could make steamed buns for the dogs later.

I went to the backyard again and took out three baskets of potatoes from the space. I washed them and cooked them all. They would last for a few days.

We can’t feed them all potatoes, but we can’t feed them all buns either. Even the black-faced ones are too expensive for them!

After all, the puppies are getting older, and of course their appetites are getting bigger.

Ordinary people really can't afford to raise them, so only Lu Chuan and Xu Han are willing to feed them, and meat is their staple food every day.

But the dogs are very hardworking and at least the money they earn is enough to support themselves.

You can't let them eat when they earn money for you! That's really heartless.

Regardless of whether the dogs found the ginseng or not, Xu Han never thought of withholding their food and had already included their rations in the stockpile list.

In addition to their daily companionship and the affection they have for them, they can also count on them to protect them during famines!

Although I can’t say how good they are at eating, but I make sure they are full.

It is not a famine year now, and Heifeng and Heidian can usually obtain meat for the dogs themselves, and they can also feed their puppies at the same time.