Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 575 Temporary Workshop

After listening to what was said, Xu Han shook Lu Chuan's arm even harder and asked impatiently, "What? Is there anything else? Stop keeping me in suspense and tell me quickly."

The man whose arm was being shaken looked as if he was enjoying his wife's rare act of coquettishness.

When Xu Han's patience was about to run out, Lu Chuan spoke up, "Yunyun and Yunhua both wrote to say that they would definitely come back to celebrate the New Year this year."

After Lu Chuan finished speaking, Xu Han covered her mouth in surprise, her voice twice as high as before, "Really? Are they really coming back to celebrate the New Year this year?"

No wonder Xu Han was so excited when he heard the news. It was really because of the war in recent years that they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun were busy every day, so busy that they didn't even have time to communicate with them, let alone come back, so Xu Han hadn't seen them for a long time.

The last time I saw Zhao Yunyun was when Ze'er was very young. Now Ze'er is four years old and I haven't seen him for several years.

After getting a positive answer again, Xu Han danced with joy. All the fatigue in her body disappeared in an instant. She pulled Lu Chuan and kept talking about how to celebrate the New Year this year.

Finally, Lu Chuan saw that it was getting late and advised, "There is still more than a month before the Chinese New Year. Don't worry, just take your time to prepare.

But it’s getting late today, and we have work to do tomorrow, so let’s go to bed.”

After saying that, he pushed Xu Han down and made her lie down. Xu Han was still very excited, and her mind was constantly thinking about various things. No one knew what time she fell asleep that night.

The next day, unsurprisingly, she woke up late again.

Maybe it’s because she’s the last one to get up every day in recent days, and after it happens so often, she’s become thick-skinned.

After Xu Han put on her clothes, she opened the door and walked out. The cold air blowing in her face made her shiver.

Wrapping myself in my jacket, what came into view was not a vast expanse of white. After all, it was only the first ten days of October. Although it was snowing, due to the temperature, the snowflakes instantly turned into rain after falling to the ground.

After a night, there was no snow accumulated on the ground, but the roads were wet, just like it was raining.

She looked up at the sky. She had no idea when the snowflakes had turned into sleet, floating sparsely in the air without any threat.

Xu Han picked up the oil-paper umbrella beside her and went to the kitchen as usual.

After arriving at the kitchen, Guo Daya saw her and didn't say much. She started preparing water for washing and breakfast as skillfully as usual.

After breakfast, Xu Han didn’t plan to go to the shop, but she felt bored after staying at home for a while, so she finally went to the mountain goods shop with an umbrella.

This sleet lasted for three days in total, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, which made people very unhappy.

I want to do something but I can't go out, and I'm bored staying at home.

During the three days of snow, all the sweet potatoes stored in the workshop have been processed, and they are stacked in jars against the wall inside the shop to ferment.

The smell of a lot of sweet potatoes piled together and fermenting is really unpleasant, and as time goes by, the smell becomes stronger and stronger.

Especially when all the lids are opened, the smell is stronger and more pungent.

The neighbors living near the workshop were very curious about the smell of rotten sweet potatoes coming from the shop.

A woman asked curiously, "It smells so bad, could it be that the sweet potatoes we harvested have gone bad?"

"Oh, who knows. There have been people coming in and out for a while. If this is all broken, I guess we'll lose a lot of money."

Another person came over and interrupted, "That's impossible. I've seen people coming in and out of the shop these past few days. They definitely won't sit there and watch the sweet potatoes go bad."

Another man also said, "What do you think they are going to do with all these sweet potatoes?"

The woman who was asked narrowed her eyes and said, "How would I know? If you are curious, just go and ask."

The person being criticized snorted coldly, "Your calculations are so bad that they are falling on my face, why don't you go and ask?"

"Isn't this what you asked me? I'm not curious."

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, the people around them hurriedly advised, "Okay, okay, both of you should stop talking! I think even if we go and ask them, they won't really tell us.

If we want to know what they are doing, we just need to wait. They have harvested so many sweet potatoes, they will definitely sell them.”

Of course, Xu Han didn't know about this. But Lu Chuan and Han Qi, who were always alert, noticed that there were always people staring at the door of their shop in recent days.

However, the shop was closed too tightly, and they were cooking sweet potatoes and other things in the yard, so they naturally had no idea what was going on inside.

Of course, Xu Han didn't really think about hiding the fact that she was making wine with sweet potatoes from them.

Even if they knew that sweet potatoes could be used to make wine, they certainly didn't know how to make it. Even if they figured out how to make wine, they wouldn't be able to do it if they didn't know the subsequent purification and distillation.

The workers in the workshop have all signed indentures, and of course no one is stupid enough to risk their lives to tell others about it.

That's why Xu Han dared to use this big shop as a temporary sweet potato wine workshop, otherwise she wouldn't dare to do it so blatantly.

However, this also made Xu Han feel that it was indeed a bit risky to temporarily brew wine directly in the county town.

Apart from anything else, there are a lot of people around, so they will definitely be able to guess the raw materials and other things. I won’t say whether they can guess the rest, but it is always too much of a concern.

It seems that we have to build a workshop outside the county town next year. There is no big problem in brewing wine in the county town for a short time, but something will definitely go wrong over a long period of time.

Let’s get back to the topic. On the fourth day, the long-lost sun finally appeared in the sky.

Xu Han got up very early that day, had breakfast early, and came to the temporary workshop with Lu Chuan.

However, the servants arrived earlier than them. When they arrived, the servants were scrubbing the tools that had been used in the past few days, and the floor and other things needed a thorough cleaning.

Otherwise, the cooked sweet potato juice will drip onto the ground, making it sticky. Not only will it be difficult to clean up after a long time, it will also easily damage the floor.

The sweet potatoes were cooked the day before yesterday, and after they had cooled down, they were all packed into jars yesterday morning.

We cleaned the whole afternoon yesterday, and there was still a little bit left to do, so we started again early this morning.

When Juxiang saw the two of them coming in, she quickly said, "Hello, Master and Madam. We'll be done cleaning up here soon. There's only a little left. Sister Li is leading people to do the final finishing work."

Xu Han nodded, and Juxiang continued, "It has been raining for the past few days, and today the sky is finally clear. I wonder if anyone will come to sell sweet potatoes."