Traveling through 1942 with space

After spending more than three hours, Hou Xiaoge finally finished planting all the land. Looking at the neat and uniform spiritual fields, a sense of accomplishment immediately surged in his heart.

However, Hou Xiaoge couldn't rest after planting the land. He had only dug one-tenth of the foundation of the breeding area, and there was still a long way to go! But as more and more livestock were brought in, construction was imminent.

This time, Hou Xiaoge did not choose to dig and then build, but instead repaired the foundation dug in previous times and built a few livestock pens first.

It took another two hours to connect the foundation that had been dug previously, and a grid-shaped foundation with a total area of 40 square meters was finally completed.

It was much easier to compact the foundation. Hou Xiaoge directly used the force of space to throw the stone mill weighing two to three hundred kilograms directly down from the space warehouse dozens of meters high. He repeated this process over and over again. After hundreds of times, the foundation was compacted as flat and solid as the drying yard.

The only pity is that there is no lime to use as an adhesive, so we can only sprinkle wood ash to get a starting point.

After preparing the foundation, it was time to mix mud and build the walls. Since the wheat was not ripe yet, Hou Xiaoge didn't care and just started mixing the mud.

The area from the foundation to the bottom floor might be often bullied by enemies, so Hou Xiaoge directly built a wall with blue bricks for the bottom half meter.

Moreover, in order to make the width of the wall similar to that of the adobe, the blue brick wall is built to a thickness of forty to fifty centimeters, so it is not afraid of an eight-magnitude earthquake outside.

Just like that, he applied a row of mud, then placed a row of bricks in the space warehouse, and finally compacted them. This was very efficient, the only thing that was slow was that Hou Xiaoge couldn't keep up with the speed of applying mud.

After the blue brick wall is almost completed, the adobe wall will be built.

The adobe wall is built much faster. Just apply mud and then stack the adobe bricks, which are the size of 60-inch floor tiles, on top of each other.

When the height reached almost two meters, Hou Xiaoge stopped. This height was enough and he didn't need to build a roof, just a circle.

"I am so tired. A kid has worked for more than ten hours and is more self-disciplined than a beast of burden.

It's almost time, let's eat something and go to sleep, we have to travel tomorrow." Hou Xiaoge looked at the sky outside and felt that it was around four o'clock, and the roosters were already crowing.

For today's meal, Hou Xiaoge decided to have something nice and eat some noodles.

Take out about 300 to 400 grams of flour from the flour that you changed yesterday, then add water and start kneading the dough.

After the dough is kneaded and allowed to rise twice, start rolling it out.

After the dough is rolled out and the water is boiled, add the noodles directly. After the water boils twice, add the wild vegetables and finally boil the water to scoop out the noodles.

"The noodles are very good, but they have no taste. There is not even a bit of salt, otherwise I would have ordered a bowl of authentic Qinsheng oil-splashed noodles." Looking at the white noodles in the wooden bowl, Hou Xiaoge slurped them up without caring whether they had any taste or not.

The noodles after adding water weighed more than half a pound, and were eaten up directly by Hou Xiaoge's nine-year-old stomach. Even so, Hou Xiaoge felt that he was only 70% to 80% full and could still eat more.

"Oh! There's not even a hint of garlic. It's really unpalatable." After finishing the noodles, Hou Xiaoge complained while squatting on the ground and drinking a bowl of noodle soup.

"Forget it, let's eat and drink enough and go out to sleep." After dinner, Hou Xiaoge hurried out and still had three or four hours of sleep.

When Hou Xiaoge woke up again, he was woken up by his younger brother.

"Brother, you slept so soundly that I called you several times but couldn't wake you up." Xiao Shuanniu said with a sigh.

"Oh! Brother was really too tired yesterday." Hou Xiaoge said perfunctorily, then stood up with his tired body.

After packing up, Second Aunt boiled a pot of water and filled everyone's bamboo tubes. Then she gave each person a piece of dry food and they set off again.

Along the way, Second Aunt and Sister-in-law discussed the "rumors" they heard in the morning from time to time.

It turned out that after dark last night, refugees would occasionally sneak to buy food from the people in Wangjiazhuang, and several people were robbed.

Adults can easily understand this situation. If you have money, it will be too conspicuous to buy food during the day, so you can only go secretly at night.

But night is the time when evil spirits come out. Some hooligans sleep during the day but become energetic at night and specifically target refugees who have some money.

If you only have a little money and are weak, then I'm sorry, if you are not careful you may lose both your money and your life.

I was busy in the space for more than ten hours yesterday and only slept for three hours. Today, Hou Xiaoge walked around feeling groggy and not energetic at all.

Of course, Hou Xiaoge didn’t have the strength to walk, he was just too sleepy.

However, as we walked along the way, we met obviously more and more refugees, and they were all heading in the same direction, northwest.

Along the way, Hou Xiaoge saw many old people and children who could not walk, or were lying or sitting numbly on the roadside. These old people and children were all skinny and most of them were just waiting to die.

Of course, there were also some victims with ruddy faces who were staring at these people. Once these old people and children were completely dead, they would be carried away immediately.

At first, Hou Xiaoge didn't take it seriously, thinking that it was a special team organized to collect corpses. However, when he accidentally heard his second aunt and sister-in-law whispering, Hou Xiaoge immediately felt horrified, and his sleepiness disappeared completely.

It turns out that these ruddy-faced refugees are not the corpse-collecting team organized by the government, but real demons.

In his previous life, Hou Xiaoge had only seen the history of cannibalism in textbooks, but he never imagined that one day cannibalism would actually happen in front of him.

Only at this time did Hou Xiaoge truly feel the horror of the famine, and believed what the corrupt official in the TV series said.

"People who are about to die of starvation are no longer human beings, they are animals."

And just now my uncle also said that if you meet someone talking about white meat in the future, you should be careful, because white meat is human flesh.

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Tired, anxious and shocked, it was noon by then. After another two hours of sleep, Hou Xiaoge finally recovered.

"Brother, you're finally awake. You were dazed all day today and I thought you were sick." The younger brother Xiao Shuanniu happily ran to Hou Xiaoge and said with a worried look on his face.

"No, I told you this morning that I didn't sleep well last night.

You see, I am very energetic right now. I feel like I can kill a cow with one punch." Hou Xiaoge jokingly flexed his biceps.

"Brother, you are bragging. Last year, you wanted to ride the landlord's cow, but the cow pushed you away for ten feet. You had to lie down for two days before you recovered." The little guy said with disbelief and contempt.

"Go away, little brat, you know nothing. I was talking about feelings. You don't even know that. " Hou Xiaoge became furious. He raised his hand and slapped the little guy on the butt, then left with a laugh.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the Hou family's fleeing team finally arrived at Fan Town, a famous market town in Luoning County.

On the way, Hou Xiaoge heard from his uncle that Fan Town was a gathering place for Hui people.

Hui people like to eat beef and mutton, and they are good at doing business, so Fan Town is a famous cattle and horse town within dozens of miles, and the livestock trade is very prosperous.

This is indeed the case. As Hou Xiaoge walked along, he saw many people leading their livestock to Fan Town, giving people the illusion that there was a prosperous market even in a year of famine.

The first thought that popped into Hou Xiaoge’s mind was why no one was snatching it.