Traveling through 1942 with space

Looking at his cheap cousin who was so excited about a few kilograms of food, Hou Xiaoge suddenly felt that life was actually very simple. It was just about having enough food and clothes.

It was not yet dark when the two brothers returned to Erda's yard, but all the younger generations had already returned, leaving only uncle Erda and his uncle-in-law.

However, the atmosphere in the yard was rather solemn at the moment. Except for my aunt and second aunt, the other cousins all lowered their heads and said nothing.

Hou Xiaoge asked her aunt in a low voice and finally understood the reason.

It turned out that the brothers didn't get much in the afternoon. Hou Xiaoge saw only half a pound of unknown wild grass and a little more than a pound of tree bark, and the rest were a dozen insects like grasshoppers.

"Second aunt, aunt-in-law, don't be anxious or angry. Brother Erhuan and I just dug out three pounds of food from the vole hole." Hou Xiaoge said as he handed over the bamboo tube in his hand.

When the cousin next to him heard Hou Xiaoge talking about food, he hurriedly took out the food from his pocket.

"Oh my God! So much wheat." Second Aunt stood up suddenly.

"Erhuan, Heiwa, you two have done a great job today!" The aunt also excitedly pulled Hou Xiaoge.

"It was all luck. We happened to come across a rat hole covered by weeds and loose soil. My cousin and I gave it a try, and unexpectedly we actually dug out a lot of food." Hou Xiaoge was not proud. He smiled and explained to the two the process of digging out vole holes in the fields.

"Okay, okay, good kid, Second Auntie has known since you two were young that you are the better one."

While Second Aunt was excitedly praising the Hou Xiaoge brothers, she also kept picking up the wheat grains that were scattered by her cousin when he was taking out the food and put them into a sack.

After the second aunt and the younger sister-in-law went back to the house to take care of the two younger children, all the brothers in the yard gathered around.

"Brother Heiwa, Brother Heiwa, please tell me how you found the rat hole. You actually took out so much food. How long will it take to feed them?"

Zhou Kangzhan from his aunt's family looked at Hou Xiaoge with longing, hoping to learn some skills of finding rat nests from Hou Xiaoge.

"That's right, that's right, Brother Heiwa, please teach me, I want to learn too."

"Me too!"

For a while, Hou Xiaoge became a hot commodity because of a rat hole. He had never been so charming in his two lives.

"I'm a little tired, let Brother Erhuan tell you! We both dug out the food together." Hou Xiaoge waved his hand and shifted his firepower directly to his cousin Erhuan.

Erhuan was at an age when he was very proud of himself, so he loved this trick. He waved his arms and started bragging about how he dug the rat hole, which caused the little brothers to exclaim in surprise from time to time.

Just when Hou Xiaoge closed his eyes and checked the space in the ring, his uncle and others also returned home.

The group's harvest was obviously very good. In addition to a large basket of wild vegetables, there were also several small trees that had not yet shed their bark.

Hou Xiaoge simply stood up and greeted a few people, then continued to lie down with his eyes closed to rest.

It turned out that my uncle and his friends knew that the family had little food left, so they took the risk and teamed up with a dozen men from the village to go to the nearby woods to dig wild vegetables.

After the younger sister-in-law and the second aunt found out, they started nagging at the few people, saying that the forest was too dangerous, with too many jackals, tigers and leopards, and that if people entered the forest, it would be easy for these animals to remember the scent and run out to take revenge.

Hou Xiaoge knew that what her aunt and second aunt said was right, but she also admired the courage of her uncle and his companions.

After all, at this time it is really the survival of the fittest, and people can do anything to survive.

However, their behavior was still quite dangerous. These days were not the later times. There were wolves, tigers and leopards everywhere near the mountains. Wild boars and black bears also appeared frequently. It was very dangerous for ordinary people to enter the forest.

Moreover, during times of famine, these wild beasts would often come down the mountains in groups to prey after tasting human flesh, so it was very dangerous to go into the mountains.

In addition, the refugees were so hungry that they barely had the strength to walk, let alone fight wild beasts. Encountering wild boars, wolves, or the like was like having their food delivered to their doorstep.

Of course, the most worrying point is that most of these animals have territories. Once they smell the scent of humans intruding, they will deliberately come down the mountain to take revenge.

This is very scary and impossible to guard against.

Originally, we only had one meal a day at noon and did not eat dinner. Most of the time, we went to bed hungry.

However, they picked a lot of wild grass this afternoon, plus they had a lot of food to supplement. Second Aunt and Younger Sister-in-law suddenly felt their grain bags were full, so they decided to have an extra meal tonight.

Everyone who heard the news was naturally very excited, and they almost praised Second Aunt and Sister-in-law to the sky.

However, when dinner started to cook, Hou Xiaoge no longer had any expectations.

A pile of chopped weeds, mixed with two or three pounds of crushed bark powder, and finally about three or two pounds of wheat were added into it. After boiling for about twenty minutes, a pot of green and granular paste was ready. This was everyone's dinner today.

Looking at the half bowl of green porridge in his hand, Hou Xiaoge found it hard to swallow.

He tried taking a small sip, and a strange taste of sourness and bitterness immediately filled his entire mouth, but in front of everyone, Hou Xiaoge could only force himself to swallow it.

After trying hard to finish half a bowl of porridge, Hou Xiaoge just felt uncomfortable in his stomach. He really didn't know how his previous life had survived.

After dinner, it was getting dark. In order to reduce exercise, everyone started packing up and going back to sleep.

During this period, Hou Xiaoge finally found out why the two brothers did not live with everyone.

It turned out that the previous life was unhappy with the fact that his uncle and his friends had lost his father a few days ago, so he took his younger brother to live alone out of spite.

During this period, the uncle and aunt also tried to persuade the two brothers to live with them, but Hou Xiaoge refused.

Hou Xiaoge was just happy to have the two brothers living separately, and this way he could feel more at ease entering and leaving the planting space.

Seeing that they couldn't persuade Hou Xiaoge, the uncle and aunt gave up, but no one else was worried.

The courtyard where the two brothers lived was right next to theirs, and half of the boundary wall between the two courtyards had collapsed, which meant that the two families lived in one courtyard, so it was easier to take care of each other if anything happened, and they didn't have to worry too much.

After saying goodbye to everyone, Hou Xiaoge took the sleepy little Shuanniu back to the room where he slept last night. After spreading the mattress on the kang, Hou Xiaoge let the sleepy little guy sleep on it.

After the little guy fell asleep, Hou Xiaoge covered his brother with a black bed sheet and got off the kang.

Today, I heard from my aunt that there are wild beasts everywhere at night. Hou Xiaoge still thinks it is better to be careful and it is best to block the windows and doors when sleeping at night.

After all, he has a ring space where he can hide at any time, but the ring space cannot accommodate other intelligent creatures.

As the saying goes, don't be afraid of a thousand things, just be prepared for the worst. If a bad guy or a wild beast breaks in, I can hide, but my brother will be in danger.

Hou Xiaoge came to the yard and first propped up the gate with wood, then collected dozens of adobe bricks from the collapsed boundary wall to block the broken windows.

Returning to the room and closing the door, Hou Xiaoge moved a large stone to prop up the corner of the door. Then he looked at his sleeping brother and entered the ring space with peace of mind.

Although Hou Xiaoge had not entered the planting space for only half a day, part of the spiritual field was already green.

Especially in the areas where wild vegetables and weeds are planted, many leaves are already more than four or five centimeters long and it seems that they can be eaten tomorrow.

After cutting some grass leaves with a kitchen knife and throwing them into the rat's nest to feed the rats, Hou Xiaoge took a hoe and started digging trenches.

Hou Xiaoge decided to keep two kilograms of the five kilograms of wheat he harvested from the first rat hole digging in the afternoon as food, and to plant the remaining three kilograms tonight.

However, using mental power to farm is too tiring, so Hou Xiaoge decided to use manual farming.

Of course, three pounds of seeds can only be planted on one acre of land, which is no problem with his current physical strength.

Hou Xiaoge was a rural child in his previous life and had quite some experience in growing wheat.

First, use a hoe to dig a shallow trench about eight centimeters deep in the soft spiritual field, then use mental power to evenly sprinkle the seeds into the trench, and finally use the hoe to dig another trench next to the shallow trench just dug, and the turned-over soil just covers the seeds in the first trench.

This process was repeated over and over again, one ditch after another, and soon the wheat in one mu of land was planted, and Hou Xiaoge did not feel very tired.