The whole family traveled through the hidden mountains, and the general always came to get the wool
Chapter 6: Reclamation and Farming
"Su Weixi, the eyes under your eyebrows have grown white, where are you going to throw them?"
Su Weixi looked back and saw that the weeds and small stones he had just thrown on the ground had accidentally hit Su Ma. He immediately stepped forward to apologize, "Mom, I was wrong. I was just thinking about what to eat for lunch."
"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat." Su's mother patted the mud off her clothes. "You go back and cook first. Your father and I will finish the work on this piece of land."
"Yes, mother." Su Weixi said, said hello to Su's father and walked towards the house.
While having dinner last night, the family of three discussed whether to reclaim the land and cultivate it first or to explore the forests in the valley.
Finally, we reached a consensus that since it was early summer, we should first reclaim the land and plant some fruits and vegetables for daily needs to prevent any accidents from happening in the space.
When stockpiling supplies, Su's father prepared several small diesel tillage machines and several large barrels of diesel based on the advice given by Su's mother.
Therefore, after breakfast in the morning, the reclaimed area was marked out, and Dad Su used a tiller to plow out a barrier of more than one meter, and then burned the weeds in the middle with fire.
To prevent fires, each burn is done in small areas.
After all the weeds were burned, Su's father was responsible for plowing the land with a tiller, while Su's mother and Su Weixi followed behind to pick up some small stones and weeds.
It is thanks to this tillage machine, otherwise with the three of us who have not worked for many years, we really don’t know when we will be able to reclaim the land.
When they were building the house, they found that the land in the valley was fertile black soil without any big rocks. Therefore, it was relatively easy for Su's father to use a small tiller and he could till one acre of land in one hour.
Because it was land reclamation, the land needed to be plowed repeatedly. The family of three worked for two days and finally plowed out ten acres of land.
I don't plan to take up too much land, for fear that I won't have enough energy to take care of it.
After the land reclamation was completed, we started planning what to plant. We didn't plan to plant too complicated vegetables. We planned to plant corn on three acres, wheat on three acres, potatoes on three acres, and some daily vegetables on the rest.
Rice is not considered for the time being because there are no paddy fields.
Land reclamation can be done with the help of a tillage machine, but farming can only be done manually. After a month of hard work, I finally finished planting the ten acres of land.
The main vegetables grown are radishes, cabbages, green beans, lettuce, cucumbers, and pumpkins, which are basic and common vegetables.
Su Weixi wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes in winter, so he also planted some sweet potatoes.
During this period, I remembered that I often needed some seasoning vegetables for cooking, so I opened half an acre of land in the backyard and planted onions, coriander, garlic and the like.
After finishing planting all the crops, the three of them were so exhausted that they lay down at home to rest for a few days.
After a good rest, we wanted to explore the valley, but it started to rain again, so we had to give up the plan for now. We took advantage of the one hour a day when three people could enter and exit the space at the same time to organize the supplies in the space.
When we built the house before, a lot of supplies were used both for building the house and for eating daily food.
Although there is a list, there are also some supplies that the three people had suddenly thought of stuffing into the warehouse before the time travel. Now they have to look for them to see if there are any suitable supplies for current use.
After an inventory, it was found that the steel bars, cement and bricks used to build the house had been almost used up, but other supplies were still sufficient.
To Su Weixi's regret, the space still does not have an automatic supplement function like the novels he has read.
Some materials, once used up, cannot be produced according to the development trend of this world. Therefore, they must be kept until they are absolutely needed.
What made the three people most uncomfortable during this period was that, in the farm and villa that they had traveled through together, except for the door of the villa which could be opened and people could move freely inside, everything else was static and could not be used.
It was at this time, looking at the 0% progress bar on the TV screen, that the three of them remembered what Wang Ba had said before: to do good deeds and accumulate energy for its recovery.
"When the war is over, we must go out into the world outside the valley." Father Su said solemnly after taking a sip of Maozi.
"Ah? Why? This world is so strange to us, and it's full of uncertainties. It's so nice for our family of three to live here. We don't have to worry about food and drink." Su Weixi, who was gnawing on grilled lamb chops with his mouth full of meat, asked in confusion.
"Yes, husband, let's not go out. It's so dangerous outside." Su Ma also thought that Su Weixi was right.
"We have no worries about food and clothing now because we have Xixi's space, but what if one day we can't get in? Only when Wang Ba wakes up can we know more."
"Then you don't have to leave the valley to do good deeds." Su Weixi retorted weakly.
"Then what good deeds do you think you can do in this valley? And Wang Ba's awakening is secondary. What I am most worried about is whether there will be any backlash against you if you don't do good deeds." Father Su said worriedly.
Su Weixi knew that his father was worried about him, so he stopped talking.
"We must do good deeds for our daughter." Su Ma agreed, but then she began to worry, "But we are trapped here by the war, how can we do good deeds?"
After saying this, both mother and daughter looked worried.
"Okay, it's not as complicated as you think. Let's wait until our lives in the valley are stable and find a chance to secretly see how the war is going outside before making a decision." After saying this, he saw that the mother and daughter still looked worried.
Father Su immediately added: "It doesn't mean that we have to leave the valley to live, we just go out from time to time to see if we can do something."
The rain continued for five or six days, and the sky was finally no longer foggy. Su Ma suggested going to the mountain to see if there were any mushrooms.
So the three of them packed up and went up the mountain. Dad Su also took the original owner's bow and arrow to see if he could hunt some prey.
This deep mountain is seldom visited and indeed rich in species. The three not only found a bamboo forest with many bamboo shoots, but also picked some chicken mushrooms.
The bamboo shoots can be left for later digging. On that day, the three of us mainly picked chicken mushrooms. We didn't like other wild mushrooms very much, but we liked chicken mushrooms, so we focused on picking chicken mushrooms.
Chicken mushroom is a good thing. When it is fresh, it can be fried with meat and it is more fragrant than meat. It can also be used to make chicken mushroom oil. Adding some to noodles will make it extremely delicious.
Maybe because no one goes in and out of the mountains, the fungus is not easily destroyed. Whenever we find chicken mushrooms, they are always in pieces. After working for a whole morning, we can pick a basket of them.
I didn't bother to go any deeper and went straight home to process the chicken mushrooms while they were still fresh.
After arriving home, Su Weixi quickly made a pot of chicken mushroom soup and fried chicken mushroom with meat. When stir-frying the chicken mushroom, he also added fresh peppercorns picked from the mountain. This was what he had eaten when he traveled to a southwestern province in his previous life. The Su family members liked it very much.
The Sichuan peppercorns were discovered when they were going down the mountain. Su Weixi thought that he could pick some more and bring some back, storing some of them in the space as fresh peppercorns for future use, and drying some of them as reserve seasoning supplies.
The lunch made the family of three very satisfied. They didn't plan to go into the mountains again in the afternoon. Su Weixi prepared oil for frying chicken and asked Su's father and mother to help wash the chicken mushrooms.
Of course, Su's father, a man who dotes on his wife, couldn't bear to see his wife get too tired, and was also afraid that his daughter would complain that he was partial. In the end, Su's mother and Su Weixi acted as supervisors while eating melon seeds, while Su's father was responsible for washing the chicken mushrooms.
After Su's father had processed all the chicken mushrooms, Su Weixi started to make chicken mushroom oil.
Heat the pan and add a large amount of rapeseed oil. After the oil is hot, squeeze out the moisture from the chicken mushrooms and fry them in the pan. When the surface feels slightly yellow, turn the heat to low and slowly boil off the moisture from the chicken mushrooms.
After cooling, it was bottled and sealed. The bottles were glass jars that Su Weixi took out from the space. There were five 500 ml jars in total.
The next day, the three of them started to go to the mountains to dig bamboo shoots, preparing to make some dried and pickled bamboo shoots.
Bamboo shoots are heavy, so they are transported back using Su Weixi's space. I go to dig them every morning and peel them when I get back in the afternoon. I slice some of them, blanch them in water and dry them to make dried bamboo shoots. I cut the rest into shreds and make pickled bamboo shoots.
In this way, after working for a week, we only dug up one-third of the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest.
Su Weixi was so tired of cutting the bamboo shoots into shreds for making pickled bamboo shoots that he ended up cutting them into chunks about the size of a rice bowl, soaking the chunks in sour water, and then cutting them into shreds when eating.
The remaining bamboo shoots do not need to be dug up. Instead, they are allowed to grow into bamboos, which will continue to grow and you will have a constant supply of bamboo shoots to eat.
Despite this, more than a dozen jars of pickled bamboo shoots were made, and there were several sacks of dried bamboo shoots. Add to that the pickled and dried fish that was made earlier, and there was a lot of stuff left.
So they decided to use the currently unused room in the house as a warehouse temporarily, and then let Su's father go up the mountain to chop wood and come back to build a warehouse.
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