Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 118: Harvesting sweet potatoes, onions and ginger.

"Okay, while the weather is good, I'll nitrate the rabbit skin first. When the weather gets cold in a while, you can use it to make clothes or something." Lu Chuan replied.

Lu Chuan knew how to nitrate leather himself, and he sold all the remaining furs at home.

Ever since Xu Han came, the family has never sold the leather again and has kept it all.

Now the family has accumulated a lot of furs, all piled up in the warehouse.

You have to find time to sort them out. If you have too many, you can't use them all. You can sell some of them in winter when furs are expensive. It would be a waste if you can't wear them all.

The most important thing is that there is no place to put them at home. Now Mr. and Mrs. Lu’s rooms, warehouse, woodshed, and cellar are all full of things, and the space is also full. There are still many sweet potatoes that have not been collected!

When you have free time, you should tidy up the rooms in your home and organize them properly so that you can put more things in them.

After dinner, Lu Chuan scraped the grease off the rabbit skin in the house, and Xu Han also helped.

The next day, Xu Han got up, had breakfast, spread out the wild chrysanthemums to dry, then took her backpack to the sweet potato field and started picking sweet potato leaves.

The sweet potato leaves have been hit by frost and have turned black, but some have been blocked and have not been hit by frost.

You have to pick those that have turned completely black, as they taste better.

The dried sweet potato leaf noodles are particularly delicious, with a special dried vegetable flavor. They taste even better when added with shredded beef.

Xu Han picked some large, clean leaves, but after picking for the whole morning, she didn't see much, so she decided not to pick any more.

In the afternoon, it is better to put the cut sweet potato leaves aside and pick them slowly when you are free!

When it was lunch time, Xu Han took the basket and went home. When she got home, she first poured the sweet potato leaves into a winnowing basket to dry them in the sun.

Turning around to look at Lu Chuan's progress, because some rabbit skins had accumulated in the space before, Lu Chuan had not yet nitrated all of them.

It takes more than one or two days to nitrate fur. Today is just a simple process, and it will require multiple processes in the future.

The entire nitration process is not completed until the rabbit skin is completely softened and has no odor. All that remains is to use the rabbit skin to make clothes or something.

Lu Chuan had already tanned the sheepskin and cowhide and put them in the warehouse! In addition, there were a lot of rabbit skins that he hadn't sold yet and were all saved!

Xu Han helped to deal with it, and then the two of them went back to the front yard to eat lunch.

Xu Han took out today's lunch directly from the space. It was already late, so she didn't cook. They were both hungry, so it was faster to eat ready-made food.

After lunch, we went to the sweet potato field together with sickles and hoes.

Xu Han was responsible for cutting the sweet potato vines, while Lu Chuan dragged the vines out and placed them on the edge of the field.

The wet sweet potato vines were very heavy, and Xu Han couldn't carry so many at a time. It was very tiring and a waste of time, so Lu Chuan took over the job.

After cutting some sweet potato vines, Lu Chuan began to dig the sweet potatoes. Since the sweet potatoes grow in the ground and cannot be touched or seen, the first time he used the hoe, he directly dug them into two halves.

Unconvinced, Lu Chuan dug it again, and it was undoubtedly rotten again. This time, Lu Chuan didn't dare to be careless anymore and began to dig the sweet potatoes seriously.

Although there are still some rotten ones, fortunately there are more intact ones. After slowly finding the techniques, the number of rotten sweet potatoes has decreased.

But there will still be some, after all, you can't see the sweet potatoes, so you can only dig them blindly based on your feeling and experience.

The two worked until dark and finally finished digging up all the sweet potatoes from more than an acre of land.

There are still nearly five acres of sweet potatoes left to be dug!

When the land was first cleared, apart from the area for planting pumpkins and winter melons, six or seven acres were cleared on the east side of the road, and the same amount was cleared on the west side.

One side is used to grow corn and soybeans, and the other side is used to grow sweet potatoes.

Originally there were not so many sweet potato seedlings, but after the sweet potato vines grew up, Xu Han cut some off and planted a lot more, which is why there are so many sweet potatoes now.

Later, Lu Chuan and Xu Han opened up more than two acres of land to grow cabbage and radishes.

Now, in addition to sweet potatoes, there are also cabbage, onions and ginger in the fields that have not been harvested.

It’s time to harvest these too. Those stored in the cellar should all be harvested after the sweet potatoes are harvested.

It’s going to freeze soon, so you can’t get frozen, otherwise all your efforts will be in vain.

The two returned home, took a rest, had dinner and went to bed.

On the second day, Lu Chuan and Xu Han spent the whole day harvesting sweet potatoes in the fields. They had lunch and dinner with the food in the space.

Finally, we managed to bring all the sweet potatoes from the field home before dark.

In the blink of an eye, it was the third day. Today, Xu Han and Lu Chuan had to bring all the remaining onions and ginger from the fields home.

The cabbage can be kept for a while. After a few days, when the crops at home are processed, there will be space for harvesting the cabbage.

Now there is no place to store the harvested potatoes. The cellar is full, the warehouse is full, and even the corridor outside is piled with sweet potatoes. We are afraid that they will freeze at night, so we cover them with oilcloth!

Sweet potatoes and potatoes are both high-yield crops, and together they cover almost 13 mu of land! There is definitely not enough space.

The two of them first came to the onion field, and Lu Chuan was responsible for picking the onions, which meant digging them out.

Xu Han was responsible for organizing the onions, plucking off the old leaves, arranging them neatly one by one, tying them into a bundle with ropes, and then cutting off half of the top onion leaves to save some space.

The bundled onions can be stored in the cellar for a long time without becoming dehydrated.

The two of them worked together and by lunch time they had dug and processed all the onions.

Xu Han returned home, washed her hands, made a cup of tea for herself and Lu Chuan, sat down to rest for a while, then took out lunch from the space and started eating.

After lunch, they went to harvest ginger. Lu Chuan was still in charge of digging the ginger out of the soil.

Xu Han cut off the ginger stalks with scissors and separated the old ginger and the young ginger into different places.

This process was repeated until dark, and the last bit of ginger had not been dug out yet. We had no choice but to wait until tomorrow to harvest it.

Fortunately, there are not many left, and it won’t take long to collect them all.

Although it is dark now, it is only a little after five o'clock. Unfortunately, it gets dark early and there is nothing to do after dark.

After returning home, Xu Han took out the ingredients for hot pot from the space. These were the leftovers from the previous hot pot, so there was no need to prepare anything else and she could just take them out and eat them directly.

While eating hot pot, the two discussed how to deal with the crops piled up in their house.