Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 319: Turning the Pile

Xu Han cleaned the Taoist priest's room at home.

All the quilts were taken out and hung out to dry, and the clothes for this season were also taken out and hung out to dry, so that they can be worn directly when the Taoist priest comes.

These clothes were washed and put in the closet last year, so they just need to be taken out and dried in the sun, and they don’t need to be washed.

By the way, the cabinets in my house are now modern wardrobes, and all the clothes are hung in the cabinets with support frames.

This way you don’t need to fold clothes and it is also very convenient to take them out.

These cabinets were made during the drought when a few people were idle at home with nothing to do, so Xu Han drew the pictures and asked Lu Chuan and others to make them.

The wardrobes are made very simply, without any complicated patterns, just a simple look.

There is a large wardrobe in each room. In addition, Xu Han built a whole row of wardrobes in Lu's father and mother's room so that clothes that are not often worn can have a place to hang up.

It also saves them from being piled up in a mess, which looks confusing.

Now no one lives in Mr. and Mrs. Lu's room. Over time, it has gradually become a cloakroom for the family of four.

After Ze'er came into being, Xu Han found that the house became a little crowded.

There was a kang, two small beds, and gradually more and more things piled up, so Xu Han simply moved the wardrobe into Lu's father and mother's room.

Normally, Mu'er sleeps alone, and only in winter will she sleep on the kang with Xu Han.

It's not that she didn't let him sleep, it's mainly because Xu Han was restless when he slept and kept rolling around. Xu Han was afraid that he would accidentally kick Mu'er down, so she let her two sons sleep by themselves.

In addition to the wardrobe, Xu Han also asked Lu Chuan to help make a few small sofas, which were filled with worn-out clothes and worn-out quilts.

It's stuffed full and soft.

Everyone has one in their room, and they can sit or lie down on it.

However, there is no sofa in the main room. Firstly, it is inconvenient, and secondly, there is not enough space to put it.

After cleaning the room, Xu Han took the opportunity to cook a lot of rice.

When I have time in the next two days, I will cook some dishes and keep them in the space.

Spring plowing is about to begin. It will be very tiring to work every day and no one will want to cook by then, so Xu Han prepared some meals in advance.

You can just eat it when the time comes, no need to drag your tired body to cook.

After three days of busy work, there was still no sign of the Taoist priest.

By the morning of the fourth day, Xu Han couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Why hasn't the Taoist priest arrived yet? Didn't he say he would be here in ten days? It's already the eleventh day. Did something happen on the way?"

Grandpa Zhao was quite open-minded, "Don't worry, Xiaohan, with the Taoist's skills, there are few people in this world who can hurt him.

He definitely didn't want to come to work, so he walked away slowly."

Xu Han felt relieved after hearing what Grandpa Zhao said.

Thinking about it carefully, what Grandpa Zhao said was right. After all, I have seen the Taoist priest's skills, and there are really few people who can beat him.

However, Xu Han didn't believe at all what Grandpa Zhao said that the Taoist priest was walking slowly because he was lazy. After all, the Taoist priest didn't know that everyone was waiting for him to work.

Xu Han changed the subject and said, "Let's go check out the compost pile after dinner. It's been fermenting for four days. I checked it yesterday and the temperature was just right. We can start turning the pile today."

"Okay, let's go after dinner." Lu Chuan agreed.

After breakfast, everyone worked together to clean up the house, and a group of people walked towards the fertilizer pile with tools in hand.

After arriving, Xu Han directed the two people to lift the oilcloth.

Then I put on gloves and put my hands into the fertilizer pile to feel the temperature.

"The temperature is quite high, we can turn the pile over now."

"How do you turn the pile?" Lu Chuan asked with a puzzled look.

"Just turn them all over, turn the inside to the outside and the outside to the inside. Stir it again and cover it again."

As Xu Han spoke, he picked up a shovel and started working. Seeing this, Lu Chuan and Grandpa Zhao also followed suit and started working.

"Wow, the temperature in here is really high. Smoke comes out when I dig with a shovel." Grandpa Zhao said with a frown after being smoked.

"It stinks! It's even stinkier than the last time we dealt with the manure pile." Lu Chuan said, caught off guard by the smell.

"This is because the manure pile is fermenting. When you turn the pile, the smell will become lighter and lighter. When there is no smell, the manure is fermented."

Even though Xu Han had taken some precautions, she was still overwhelmed by the smell.

Xu Han quickly took out a mask from the space and gave one to each of them. After the three of them slowly got used to the smell, he continued to work.

"You know what? It's only been four days. Look, the dead grass inside has started to rot. Maybe this will actually work."

Lu Chuan grabbed a handful of dirt, looked at it, and said excitedly.

"Now the temperature is slowly rising, it won't take long for everything to ferment.

If it’s fast, it can be fermented in less than 20 days, and if it’s slow, it will take about a month.”

"Wouldn't that be too late to grow sweet potatoes?"

"It's okay. If you want to grow sweet potatoes, just use wood ash. We have a lot of wood ash saved up at home, which is enough.

When the sweet potatoes grow up, we can just apply some manure." Xu Han explained.

"That's fine. After the sweet potatoes are planted, we can plant corn and soybeans right after it rains."

Grandpa Zhao looked up at the sky and said, "The ground has become dry, and judging by the sky, it should rain soon."

"It's time to rain. It hasn't rained for a few days."

The last time it rained was about ten days ago. If it doesn’t rain again, we’ll have to start watering the fruit trees and vegetables again.

There were three of them, each in a pile. After they finished turning over the papers, it was still early, around ten o'clock.

Xu Han took the children home, while Lu Chuan continued to work in the wasteland with Grandpa Zhao.

These days, both of them have been making ridges for the sweet potato field. The sweet potatoes grown in ridges will be bigger. Sweet potatoes like sandy soil, but there is no sandy soil near their home.

So make the soil softer so that the sweet potatoes can grow bigger.

Moreover, the sweet potatoes grown in ridges are easy to manage, whether it is weeding or turning over the vines later.

In the afternoon, after Xu Han finished her housework, she took a hoe and went to the field to weed.

The weeds in the vegetable garden and potato field grow very fast, so Xu Han will come out to weed whenever she has time.

Anyway, my house is close to the fields. The fields are right outside the yard. I don’t need to walk far and I can come out to weed whenever and wherever I have some time.