Traveling through 1942 with space

"Okay, eat quickly, be careful not to let others smell the food." Hou Yangmin glanced carefully at the refugees in the distance and whispered.

It is rare to have a normal meal on weekdays, but tonight's dish was so delicious that everyone licked their tongues clean.

After eating and drinking, the adults surrounded the children and fell asleep tiredly leaning against the wall.

Hou Xiaoge and his brother leaned against each other, and after everyone fell asleep, they put the quilt in their own position and then slipped into the planting space.

I haven't been in the space for two days. The wheat has already headed for ear. The sorghum stalks have grown taller than a person and have also headed for ear. Hou Xiaoge estimates that they can be harvested the day after tomorrow at the latest.

The weeds that had already been cut have now bloomed. If Hou Xiaoge had come in a day later, the weed seeds would probably have been everywhere.

At this time, there was a noise in the grass and a clucking sound was heard. Hou Xiaoge used his mental power to investigate and found that the old hen was actually laying eggs in the haystack.

Two minutes later, the old hen successfully laid a small egg, and then clucked proudly. Hou Xiaoge didn't hesitate to drive the hen away and took the egg.

Due to food shortages during disaster years, farmers could only raise one or two hens at most, and would not keep any roosters. Therefore, there was no need to expect the eggs to hatch chicks. Hou Xiaoge could only eat them to supplement their nutrition.

Looking at the eggs, Hou Xiaoge felt that he had not eaten proper food for a long time. He happily used a clay pot to collect some spiritual spring water and boiled the eggs.

After the eggs were cooked, Hou Xiaoge chilled them with cold water.

Carefully peeling the eggshell and looking at the white and tender egg white, Hou Xiaoge felt how wonderful life was.

The egg was very small, but Hou Xiaoge did not eat it in one bite. Instead, he savored it in small bites, reminiscing about the long-missed egg flavor.

"Well! Not bad, I'll have an egg every day from now on." After eating the egg, Hou Xiaoge was satisfied that he had completed half of the egg and milk project for himself.

After eating the eggs, no one threw away the egg shells, so Hou Xiaoge could take them out and use them as nutritional supplements when he had time.

After enjoying the delicious eggs, Hou Xiaoge picked up a sickle and began to harvest the weeds. After harvesting the weeds this time, Hou Xiaoge decided not to plant weeds anymore as it was too wasteful of land.

This time, there were a lot more wild vegetables than last time, and we harvested over a hundred kilograms.

After harvesting the weeds, Hou Xiaoge moved his mind, and the majestic spiritual spring water flowed into the weeds. After more than ten minutes, the grass became soft, and Hou Xiaoge also went into the field with a hoe.

It is easy to plant but difficult to dig, especially weeds, which have a very developed root system. It took Xiaoge almost an hour to clean up the grass roots in this half acre of land.

After processing the grass roots, Hou Xiaoge took them to a breeding area to dry them, so that they can be eaten by humans or used to feed livestock.

After cleaning up, Hou Xiaoge checked the rabbits and mice he raised.

Drinking the spiritual spring water and eating the lush wild grass, the little guys grew very fast. After only three days in the space, the little guys had passed the lactation period and entered the growth period.

The first batch of furry little mice now weigh more than one or two catties and are barely enough for a snack.

But Hou Xiaoge was not in a hurry. A little more than one ounce was too small. He would raise it for another month. By then, it would be equivalent to more than two months in the outside world. With spiritual spring water and plenty of food, it should be no problem for it to grow to eight ounces to one pound.

Hou Xiaoge did not move the mice, allowing them to continue growing in the same nest.

Rabbits have to separate broods, otherwise they are likely to fight, and male rabbits are more likely to attack baby rabbits.

The big male rabbit and the female rabbit continued to be kept in the same nest to raise their puppies, and Hou Xiaoge kept the remaining six little rabbits in two nests together.

A rabbit hutch is not big, with an area of about 80 tiles. Two rabbits can huddle together without running around. They just need to eat and sleep, and they will grow faster this way.

After dividing the nests, Hou Xiaoge took a bamboo from the storage space, cut a few sections and made a few small bowls for the rabbits to drink water.

After the spiritual spring water was poured into the small bowls, the little rabbits drank it happily one by one.

The rabbits drank happily, and a lot of fresh grass fell from the sky and covered the rabbits.

After seeing that it was delicious food, the rabbit, which had been a little frightened just now, started to chew it with its big teeth bared.

The remaining old hens had no cage at the moment, so Hou Xiaoge had to cover them with a cage and then sprinkle a handful of grass inside, otherwise they would run out and dig for food in the fields.

After settling the breeding area, Hou Xiaoge did not continue digging the foundation, but came to the planting area.

Today, Hou Xiaoge exchanged a lot of seeds with the villagers of Wangjiazhuang. He hasn't had time to look at them carefully, so he'd better plant them quickly.

"Wow! Now we will have food and vegetables in the future." Hou Xiaoge was delighted after opening the straw paper bags one by one.

There are more than a dozen kinds of seeds in total, among which Hou Xiaoge is familiar with watermelon, pumpkin, red beans, mung beans, soybeans, chili peppers, garlic cloves and onion seeds.

There were several small packages of black granular seeds that Hou Xiaoge didn't recognize. He guessed they were seeds of rapeseed, green vegetables or cabbage.

There are also three or four packets of small yellow seeds similar to cucumber seeds. Many seeds of this type of vegetable look very similar. Hou Xiaoge is not a professional, so it is difficult for him to distinguish them.

However, no matter which type of seeds, the planting method is similar, which is nothing more than sowing seeds or planting in nests.

As a farmer's son, Hou Xiaoge is very familiar with this. Watermelon, pumpkin, garlic and beans are all good crops.

Seeds with very small grains, such as onions, green vegetables, and peppers, have to be sown, but after the seeds come up, they must be thinned out or transplanted, otherwise they will grow too densely together and will not grow large, which will affect the yield.

After weighing the seeds, Hou Xiaoge estimated that even if he planted the remaining three-odd acres of land, there would still be some seeds left.

The first things planted were several kinds of beans, garlic and cucumber seeds, but Hou Xiaoge planted the watermelon on the hillside so as to save some flat land.

Originally, we were going to make ridges, but the temperature, rainfall, and other factors in the planting space were all controlled by Hou Xiaoge, so there was no need to make ridges. We could just dig holes and plant the seeds.

Hou Xiaoge did not plant too many varieties of each category, just planted a dozen or so nests. Anyway, crops grow fast, so he can make adjustments based on the situation when the time comes.

Because the quality of seeds varied greatly in that era, Hou Xiaoge planted two or three seeds in each nest, with beans planted thirty to forty centimeters apart and watermelons planted one meter apart.

After planting the seeds, what's left are the granular seeds. First, use a hoe to dig trenches, then use your mental power to let the seeds fall automatically, and then use a hoe to cover them with soil.

After planting these vegetables, the entire planting space, except for the breeding area and part of the land on the hillside, has been fully planted.

At that time, Xiaoge still had one vegetable that he hadn't planted, and that was pumpkin.

Pumpkin Hou Xiaoge just laughed, this thing can be planted in any corner, but you have to build a frame behind it, otherwise one vine can climb half an acre of land. But this thing is really high-yielding.

In the previous life, when Hou Xiaoge was a child, he went to his grandmother's house to play. His grandmother planted five or six ox-leg pumpkins in the apple orchard. The apple orchard was turned into a spider web cave. The pumpkins were as tall as children, and each pumpkin weighed twenty to thirty kilograms.

Five or six trees gradually pulled seven or eight carts, but they couldn't finish eating or delivering all the food, so most of it was fed to the pigs.

I just don’t know what variety of pumpkin seeds this is. It’s probably an old variety from this era, and one weighs at least five or six kilograms.

Pumpkins have a large yield and can be used as a vegetable as well as a staple food. Hou Xiaoge planted pumpkins in all the areas except for the watermelon planting area, and planted the remaining seeds in the breeding area.

In fact, there are not many pumpkin seeds. Hou Xiaoge planted more than a dozen nests in total, but Hou Xiaoge is very much looking forward to these dozen nests of pumpkins, hoping that they can bring him surprises.