A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

And winter food...

She had to save more money as soon as possible before autumn and winter to buy enough cloth and other things she needed. Once it snowed, according to the production conditions in ancient times, who would be able to eat when the ground was frozen, let alone buy vegetables?

Speaking of fabric, she couldn't help feeling strange when she thought about what happened this morning.

I have to ask Gu Zhou when I get back. She feels that the cloth shop is very strange. It is too enthusiastic... and too gentle to them, two skinny, dark-skinned kids who look like they don't have much money.

Could it be that she had misunderstood him? Or was she overthinking?

Shen Wu shook his head and stopped thinking about it, continuing to wonder how his family had spent the winter in the past.

When she was a child, her family was still engaged in farming. After paying the grain every year, they would sell the remaining crops and use the land to grow sweet potatoes, yams, radishes, etc.

We have a special sweet potato cellar at home where we can grow and store vegetables, and we can bury radishes and other vegetables in it so they won’t go bad until spring.

Thinking of this, she licked her lips, missing the taste of sweet potatoes and potatoes. In modern times, she is a potato lover! Sweet potatoes, white potatoes, and potatoes are all her favorites! She buys them in bags and eats them home. She can't get enough of them even if she eats them every day.

She saw that there was no cellar in the house to store things, so she could make dried radishes. They were best eaten when steamed and dried. Just wash off the dust from outside, add some oil to the pan, and stir-fry them, and they would be delicious even if eaten as vegetables.

Get more onions, ginger, garlic, etc., leaving the roots and stems, and bury them in the soil to let them hibernate. Then make a small mound of soil at home to bury them. As long as you do it well, you can still eat them for a long time.

Thinking of this, Shen Wu thought of another dish.

Pickled mustard greens!

Her family in the Central Plains does not have the habit of making pickled plums, but they have made pickled radish leaves. In modern times, because she was craving for it, she learned a lot of tricks from the Internet, and she succeeded in modern times, so... it should have worked in ancient times as well.

The more she thought about it, the hungrier she became. When she thought about pickled mustard greens, she thought about pickled mustard greens sesame cakes. She thought about making some and keeping them at home so she could heat them up and eat them when she was hungry.

As I was thinking, the car arrived at the village. The sun was high in the sky, and some people working in the fields were going home in groups of three or five, carrying their hoes on their backs.

When they saw the eldest uncle and the third uncle, they greeted them with a smile.

"Uncle sells tofu!"

"Hey! I'm so greedy that I feel anxious if I don't make tofu for a day."

After they said this, Shen Wu and Gu Zhou didn't want to disturb them any further, so they said hello and went home with their backpacks on their backs.

On the way, Gu Zhou took Jiang Yu to greet all the uncles and aunts in the village. Shen Wu's face was almost stiff from smiling all the way. When they were almost near her yard, there was no one around. Seeing that there was no one, her face fell and she looked expressionless.

Gu Zhou thought she was unhappy like this, and just as he was about to speak, he heard her say this.

"Are you familiar with that cloth-selling place?"

Gu Zhou saw her puzzled look, nodded, walked around the branch with branches sticking out, and said: "Mom used to..., I went to my house a long time ago. When I was young, my mother took me to buy cloth. She said the cloth inside was good. There was a lady who was in charge before. Every time she saw me, she would hug me for a long time."

Shen Wu didn't understand. Gu Zhou's family was quite poor, so how could they be related to such a wealthy cloth shop?

Gu Zhou saw her confusion and explained, "My father used to be... a juren, and he served as a minor official for a period of time. I was the only child in the family at that time, and we had plenty of money and food. My mother also learned embroidery for a period of time, and sometimes she would go out to sell some embroidery fabrics and so on."

Still wrong? Shen Wu couldn't figure out what was wrong for a moment, so he simply stopped thinking about it and changed the subject to talk about wintering.

"Is the winter hard for you? What do you eat and what do you cover yourself with? Is there anything you can grow in winter? How do you keep warm?"

Gu Zhou thought for a while and said, "As far as I can remember, the winters have been hard to bear. It was better before I came back with my parents, but life has become much harder after I came back. It was common for people to freeze to death in winter. Some people burned firewood to keep warm and died without knowing it. Others started a fire in the house and were burned down in heavy snow. In the past, our family would follow the villagers to burn charcoal for heating. In recent years, our family has been poor, so my father, my mother, and I would chop more firewood and bring it back, dry it thoroughly on a sunny day, and put it in the side room in front of the university. In winter, we would burn firewood directly on the floor of the main room to keep warm."

He said a long string of things before he took a breath and continued, "There's not much to eat in winter. The radishes and millet seeds we planted before are for the winter. When the time comes, the radishes will be dried and the millet seeds will be shelled, and we can make soup and rice. But...but this is not very good. The dried radishes are less than the fresh ones. Sometimes when there is almost nothing to eat, my father will go to the mountains to catch some game to satisfy our hunger."

Shen Wu was silent for a while, and seeing that they were only halfway up the slope away from home, she said, "Do you believe me? Although I'm not sure if I can survive this winter, but... I can at least let your family have warm clothes to wear and food to eat."

Gu Zhou felt that her sudden words were nonsensical and he didn't know what she was thinking about. A smile broke out on his serious face: "I believe you!"

Your home? Gu Zhou smiled, he just felt very warm.

"Okay!" Shen Wu felt full of strength because he trusted her so much! As the eldest sister, she must protect the family!

"Then let's go collect the things I mentioned earlier this afternoon! We need to prepare winter clothes early. I've been listening to what the grandfathers said today, and I'm always uneasy."

She paused and continued: "And those shoes..., I'll make a pair for winter! If you hold cattails or something in them, it will be warmer, at least your hands and feet won't be frozen."

Gu Zhou nodded excitedly upon hearing this and talked about the past: "One year...it was very cold...my father didn't take me up the mountain and chopped a lot of firewood by himself. His hands and feet were frozen. Later, he lit a lot of fires but couldn't warm them up. When the weather got better, my father's hands and feet were numb."

Shen Wu was silent for a moment, then suddenly felt sad and said with a smile: "Let's go! We're home! I'll go back and cook! Someone is waiting for me at home."

Pushing open the courtyard door, the aunt was just about to put her younger brother on a bamboo chair and go cook, when she saw the two of them coming back, she said in a complaining tone: "If you don't come back soon, the child will cry of hunger."

Shen Wu was stunned for a moment and then laughed out loud. She took off the backpack and motioned to her aunt to look at her little brother in the chair. He was happily patting the small platform on the chair and saying something.

"Aunt, you are so devoted to us, how could you let my little brother go hungry? He lives such a leisurely life, better than both of us."

Shen Wu washed her hands and walked over, pinching her younger brother's face: "You feel a little fatter."

The aunt glanced at her speechlessly and said: "The child is still growing. If you make the older ones for him when you have time, won't he get fat?"

Shen Wu squatted down and pretended to tickle her little brother's feet, and the child giggled at her.

Gu Zhou brought the backpack into the house and couldn't help but laugh when he saw her mischievous look as she didn't let her younger brother off the hook.