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Liu Caixia took Liu Caiyun, Liu's mother and Liu Xiaolu out to chop branches and pick up some firewood.

The firewood at home must be collected and drained to drain the water from the kang. Otherwise, if you continue to burn firewood without storing it, there will be no firewood to burn.

I brought Liu Xiaolu along to save trouble. I would chop some of the fruits and put them in the space, then take them out when I get to the vicinity of the cave. This way I would not have to walk a long distance.

The four of them had to walk a little further this time, as some of the dead branches around them had been picked up almost completely.

In order to maintain the ecological balance, they never touch the lush old trees, but only cut down some damaged or densely packed small trees.

Such densely packed small trees will affect the growth of surrounding trees and will prevent them from growing larger themselves. Properly cutting some of them down will actually be beneficial to the ecological balance.

As for the pine and cypress trees, we will have to look for them in the forest. With Liu's mother around, we will have no problem finding them.

This time, the four of them went out and passed by the place where the internal organs and garbage were buried yesterday. They looked at the things buried in the soil and saw that they did not attract any wild animals to dig up the soil.

Liu Caixia sprayed some floral water on it, which she found in Liu Xiaolu's space.

The smell is quite pungent, not to mention mosquitoes, even animals probably don't like it.

This way, it is relatively safe, and some rotten leaves from the surrounding area are piled on top.

The four returned with a full load. With the help of Liu's mother, they cut several bundles of fresh cypress branches. Fresh branches were necessary for stewing bacon.

They also picked up a lot of bundles of firewood, which were all dead branches that had been rained on, big and small. As long as they had not rotted into ashes and could still be burned, they collected them.

When he reached the vicinity of the cave, Liu Xiaolu released him from the space.

Liu Caiyun dragged two large bundles of fresh cypress branches by herself, and the others also held a bundle each and put them back at the entrance of the cave first.

The four of them walked back and forth several times before they placed all the firewood and pine and cypress branches on the open space at the entrance of the cave.

Liu Caiyun took a hatchet and first cut off the branches and cut them into sections. The remaining three people moved them to the fire to roast them, and then cut the trunk into sections and chopped them into firewood.

What happened next was the work of Luo Hong and Liu Caiyun. They were both very strong and without much effort, they filled up a corner of the cave with firewood again.

After collecting the firewood, Liu's mother asked Liu Caiyun and Luo Hong to help move some stones and loess, and simply built a stove for smoking bacon.

Since there are no steel bars or iron rods to hold the wild boar meat, if other materials are used to hold the wild boar meat, it will easily be burned by the fire below.

At that time, all the meat will fall into the fire below, and it will either be smoked or burned directly.

Liu's mother really had no other choice but to raise the stove hole higher and use strong bamboo poles to hold the bacon, sprinkling water on the poles from time to time to prevent them from drying out and catching fire.

In any case, someone has to watch over the smoked bacon at all times. The fire cannot be allowed to burn, nor can it be allowed to go out. In any case, the requirements are quite high.

Liu's mother kept watching over him the whole time. Except for when she went to the toilet to have someone watch over her for a while, she would sit there even when she ate.

The meat needs to be turned over halfway through the process to ensure that it can be smoked from all sides. The bacon smoked with traditional fragrant trees such as pine and cypress has a strong aroma.

The bacon smoked with cypress leaves has a light fragrance, and it doesn't take long for the fragrance to waft out.

The children all came to ask: "Grandma, this meat smells so good!"

Mother Liu patiently comforted them: "You can't eat them yet. We just turned them over. Just wait a little longer. I'll make you some mushrooms with bacon tonight."

The three children were drooling. Not to mention the children, even the adults couldn't help swallowing their saliva when they smelled the aroma and heard what Liu's mother said about fried bacon with mushrooms.

After this batch of bacon was smoked, Liu's mother untied the palm leaves and waterproof cloth covering it. The exposed meat looked very beautiful, red with a hint of yellow, and had the aroma of bacon.

There is also a fresh fragrance of leaves, unlike other materials which have a dark scent.

Liu's mother also added a lot of spices to the pine and cypress branches to enhance the flavor.

Originally, bacon is best smoked for two days, but they have more meat.

Liu's mother spent almost a whole day smoking the first batch, and collected it when she was ready to cook dinner in the dark.

In the evening, everyone ate the bacon fried with mushrooms as they wished. The bacon was cut into slices and fried with soaked dried mushrooms, and some Jerusalem artichokes and Sichuan peppercorns were added.

Finally, we put some wild garlic and wild vegetable leaves picked from the mountains into the pot. The fried bacon, which had more meat than vegetables, was eaten up by everyone and everyone was still wanting more.

Seeing that everyone looked hungry, Liu's mother smiled and said, "Okay, we can cook it for lunch tomorrow. Don't eat too much at night and go to bed early!"

The children cheered sincerely, “Yeah…”

They lived quite contentedly in the cave, with food and drink and without having to worry about anything.

Life in the cave goes on day by day.

On the other side, Liu's father and Lin Weizhong and his son finally entered the county town three days later.

The three of them met a lot of people along the way, even though it was raining.

Occasionally, when the rain is lighter or stops, many people go in groups to the nearby mountains and forests to dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms.

I also met travelers hiding from the rain in some dilapidated houses. Everyone was struggling but still managed to survive.

In some villages, people take advantage of the rainy days when the land is moist and use the breaks to work on the land near their homes.

The climate here is not very cold in winter, and it snows occasionally, so we can grow some crops like sweet potatoes. After so many days of rain, some leaves that were planted earlier have already grown out.

Sweet potato vines are edible vegetables. Villagers take the opportunity to cut the vines and take them home to make some dried vegetables, which can be eaten in the winter. When the sweet potatoes are ripe, they go to the fields to harvest them, which serve as winter food.

As we all know, after it has rained for so long, the weather will surely get colder and colder, and winter is coming soon, so we must store enough food to survive the winter.

You can go to the mountains to collect firewood at any time. There is plenty of dry firewood in the mountains, so you can go to the mountains to collect firewood when the weather is fine.

It was already afternoon when Liu's father, Lin Weizhong and the other two entered the city.