Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 326 Planting Sweet Potatoes

The next morning, everyone got up early. Today was the day to plant sweet potatoes, and everyone was busy.

Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest first went to the wasteland outside to dig holes for planting sweet potatoes.

Grandpa Zhao is responsible for cleaning the yard and feeding the livestock.

Xu Han was not idle either. After making breakfast, she ran to the backyard where sweet potato seedlings were grown and started cutting the sweet potato vines.

Put all the cut sweet potato vines into a winnowing basket and take them out and plant them directly later.

The sweet potato vines were planted earlier this year, so the sweet potato seedlings grew particularly well, with thick and old roots. Such sweet potato seedlings have a higher survival rate.

If the sweet potato seedlings are too tender, it won’t work. The sweet potato seedlings grown in this way will easily be burned by the sun and will take a long time to adapt.

Xu Han kept cutting until a large winnowing basket was full, and only when she heard Grandpa Zhao calling for breakfast from the front yard did she stand up and walk to the front yard carrying the winnowing basket.

Put the dustpan under the eaves first to prevent it from being wilted by the sun.

Then he washed his hands and went into the room to call Mu'er to wake up.

When Xu Han entered the room, Mu'er had already woken up and was teasing her younger brother next to Ze'er.

"Oh! You two are awake? How come you're so great? You didn't cry today, maybe you knew mommy was busy." Xu Han kissed Mu'er and said.

"Mu'er is awake and helping to look after his brother."

"Mu'er, you're great. I'll give you a small cookie as a reward later." Xu Han praised Mu'er while changing Ze'er's diaper.

"Okay, I want to eat two." Mu'er stretched out her two fingers and said in a baby voice.

"Okay. Eat two." Xu Han said lovingly.

It was rare that both children were so well-behaved, and Xu Han was in a particularly good mood.

After taking care of the two children, the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan also came in.

Then everyone sat together and started to eat today's breakfast.

After breakfast, Lu Chuan took the sweet potato seedlings that Xu Han had just cut outside.

The whole family went to the wasteland outside in a mighty manner.

Xu Han put Ze'er on a small cart beside her, gave him a toy to play with, and planted sweet potatoes with Mu'er.

"Mu'er, mother will give you a small task. Can you complete it?"

"Okay, I can definitely complete it." Mu'er said confidently.

"Then listen carefully, do you see the pit dug by the Taoist grandpa and dad in front?" Xu Han said, pointing to the sweet potato pit nearby.

Hearing this, Muer nodded, "I see."

"There are sweet potato seedlings here. Now you and mother need to throw the sweet potato seedlings into the pit. Only one can be put in a pit, okay?" Xu Han said as he demonstrated.

Mu'er listened very carefully, took her small basket from Xu Han's hand, and learned from him.

"Hahaha, you have been teaching you to farm since childhood. Such a young child has to help you farm. Only you can think of this." The Taoist priest said with a smile.

"I'm teaching him, letting him participate in the farming process, letting him know that every grain of rice is hard-earned and that food should not be wasted. He should develop good behavioral habits from an early age." Xu Han defended himself with his neck stiffened.

"Xiao Han is right. Even though he is young, all children can understand. Look how hard Mu'er is working." Grandpa Zhao explained for Xu Han.

"Boys should exercise more and not be pampered." Lu Chuan also said.

"Okay, okay, you are all right. I'll listen to you." The Taoist priest saw that everyone had the same idea, so in order to avoid being attacked by the group, he quickly changed his words.

So today we have one more helper in planting sweet potatoes.

Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest were responsible for digging the pit, Mu'er was planting the sweet potato seedlings, Xu Han was planting and burying the sweet potato seedlings at the same time. Grandpa Zhao was fully responsible for burying the sweet potato seedlings.

Finally, with Xu Han's sweet talk and praise, Mu'er was extremely satisfied with her work and unexpectedly persisted for a long time.

Of course, encouragement from others was indispensable. In this way, Muer slowly lost herself in the encouragement and worked hard on farm work for a long time.

Only after the sun gradually grew bigger did Xu Han take Mu'er and Ze'er home.

They continued to plant sweet potatoes outside, so Xu Han took the children home first and let them play inside the house first to avoid being exposed to the sun outside.

Xu Han took advantage of this time to cut some more sweet potato seedlings. The ones cut in the morning had been used up, so she needed to cut new ones in the afternoon.

After cutting the sweet potato seedlings, she went back into the house to see the children.

I won’t make lunch today as I don’t have time. I’ll just eat the food in the space.

Anyway, there are many kinds of food in the space, almost whatever you want to eat is available.

Around half past eleven, the three of them came back from outside.

After lunch, the sun was still very strong. It was very hard to work outside at this time, but we were not in a hurry anyway, so we all decided to take a nap before getting up to work again.

People are not made of iron, and they can't just work all the time. They still need to take a break, otherwise even the best body will soon be ruined.

Moreover, the entire spring plowing period is about half a month, not just one or two days. Over a long period of time, the physical damage will definitely be very serious.

Although Xu Han wanted to grow more food, she also had to consider everyone's health and tolerance...

Xu Han was half asleep when she heard Lu Chuan say, "Wife, we are going to plant sweet potatoes outside first. You stay at home with the children and come out after they wake up."

"Okay, I understand." After saying that, Xu Han slowly sat up. After a while, she finally woke up completely.

After waking up, Xu Han didn't stay in bed anymore. She got up and tidied up the things in the room.

Then he went to the backyard to wash the clothes that Ze'er had wet with urine in the morning, otherwise they would have a smell after a long time.

After Xu Han finished washing the clothes, Mu'er had woken up, but Ze'er was still asleep. Xu Han simply put Ze'er in the cart and pushed him to the sweet potato field again.

"You guys are pretty fast. You've planted so much in just half a day." Xu Han said with a smile.

"Girl, didn't you say that sweet potatoes can be made into wine? Should we plant more?" As soon as the Taoist priest said this, everyone else looked at Xu Han at the same time with expectant expressions.

"There are about five acres of sweet potatoes here, which should be enough for food. If you want to make more wine, it will definitely not be enough.

But I'll make some for you to taste, and if you drink it regularly, you can still make some sweet potato wine."