Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 116 Harvest

The next day, after breakfast, the two of them started digging potatoes with baskets on their backs.

This crop of potatoes is much more than the previous one. The potatoes from six acres of land are enough to last for a long time.

Some of the potatoes harvested previously were used for potato seeds, some were dried, some were eaten for daily cooking, and most went into the stomachs of the six dogs.

Xu Han often stewed potatoes in broth for the dogs to eat. Now there are not many left, and this batch of potatoes is ready to be harvested, so we can continue.

The soil is very soft, so digging potatoes doesn't take much effort. Just hold the potato vines and pull them out.

Then you can bring out a lot of potatoes, and the rest can be dug out with a little tool, without even digging the ground.

Lu Chuan was pulling up potato vines in front, and Xu Han was digging potatoes behind. They threw the dug potatoes into a pile, and then they could just pick them up and put them in the backpack.

The two of them spent the whole morning harvesting potatoes in the field and only went home for lunch at lunch time.

"How about I go pick the small peppers outside in the afternoon! The weather is bad today, and the temperature is expected to drop again. If there is a bitter frost, the peppers outside will be damaged." Xu Han said.

"Okay, then you pick the peppers and I'll pick the potatoes."

So, in the afternoon, Lu Chuan went to harvest potatoes by himself, while Xu Han took a backpack and picked all the peppers outside.

Put the red peppers out separately and dry them in the sun.

The green, unripe peppers are placed separately and can be used to pickle small peppers, or some can be saved for eating fresh.

After picking the peppers, chop off the stems. They can be dried and used as firewood. However, they are not easy to burn and are a bit choking.

Xu Han was busy until the sun set and the sky turned dark, and only then did she finish harvesting all the peppers.

We have harvested almost three acres of potatoes today, and there is still a small half left. We will probably finish harvesting them tomorrow.

Xu Han put the potatoes into the space, carried them home and put them in the warehouse.

Xu Han took out all the things that could be placed outside and temporarily placed them outside in the past two days. There were so many cattle and sheep stuffed in the space that there was no spare space.

Take some things out and free up some space for transporting things.

It took two trips to finally transport all the potatoes for today back home. After finishing, Xu Han and Lu Chuan sat down to drink a glass of water and take a short rest.

"The potatoes will be harvested tomorrow, and the pumpkins and winter melons can also be harvested. You harvest the pumpkins and winter melons tomorrow and I will continue to dig potatoes!" Lu Chuan said while drinking water.

"Okay, then I'll harvest the pumpkins and winter melons tomorrow. It will be very convenient to store them directly into the space after harvesting them." Xu Han said.

After the two of them discussed tomorrow's arrangements, Xu Han took out the food from the space and started eating dinner.

While eating dinner, we discussed how to deal with the crops later.

The next day, after Lu Chuan got up and had breakfast, he went to harvest potatoes. Xu Han cleaned up the house first, then went out of the yard with a pair of scissors and went directly outside the yard to harvest pumpkins and winter melons.

Some of the pumpkin and winter melon vines have turned yellow and begun to wither, and the fruits have ripened, but there are still some tender ones that have not yet grown.

He also planned to harvest all of these Han flowers, big and small, ripe or not, to prevent them from being damaged by frost.

First, I picked some ripe, large, golden pumpkins, picked them and put them directly into the space.

After all the ripe pumpkins were picked, Xu Han took out the backpack and started looking for small pumpkins. She did not miss any tender pumpkins the size of a fist. She picked them all and kept them for frying.

After picking them, Xu Han went to pick winter melons nearby, and separated the fully ripe ones from the smaller ones.

If the space is full, send it back home and put it in the cellar. If there is no more space, put it in the warehouse.

When it was time for lunch, the two went home to have lunch and then continued working.

After picking the winter melons, I went to the creek to pick the pumpkins I had planted before. I couldn’t forget to pick these too, as there were quite a few of them! I couldn’t let them go to waste.

After all the pumpkins and winter melons were picked, Xu Han took a sickle to cut off the melon vines, then piled them together and burned them directly with fire.

After the fire was extinguished, Xu Han pressed the ashes with soil to make sure it would not catch fire again, and then went to find Lu Chuan.

There were still some potatoes left to be dug by Lu Chuan, so Xu Han came to help dig them. The two of them worked much faster together, and they had dug all the potatoes after the sun went down.

But now they have only dug them out and have not yet been transported home! So the two began to hurriedly pick up potatoes and put them into backpacks or sacks.

In a hurry, they finally got all the potatoes back home before it got completely dark.

This was because when Lu Chuan was tired of digging, he sat down to pick potatoes to rest, and he had already picked up some. Otherwise, the two of them would not be able to pick up all the potatoes in these three acres of land before dark!

After pouring the last basket of potatoes into the warehouse, I finally finished all the work for the day.

After washing his hands and face, he sat in the main room, drank a cup of tea, ate some snacks, then got up and went to the kitchen to start making dinner.

I have put a lot of effort into harvesting the crops these past two days, so of course I need to eat some meat to replenish my energy.

Eating large pieces of meat is delicious! Xu Han took out a large piece of beef brisket and planned to make a braised beef brisket.

Cut the beef brisket into large squares, then blanch it in water with scallions, ginger and cooking wine.

Heat some oil in a pot again, fry some sugar color, then pour in the beef, add water and cook for a while, then add potatoes and appropriate seasonings, pour into the clay pot and simmer slowly.

Then stir-fry some vegetables. After stir-frying, put them in a space to keep warm. Then you can serve them directly when you eat.

It is inevitable to feel sick of eating meat, so Xu Han took out the radishes she had harvested two days ago and pickled some radish shreds to eat.

To cut the radish into thin strips, Xu Han’s knife skills were not that good, so she chose to cheat by using a scraper.

The shredded radish scraped with a scraper is thin and even, much better than the one cut by Xu Han.

Add salt, light soy sauce, vinegar, MSG and sesame oil to the shredded radish, marinate for a while, and you can eat it after it has absorbed the flavor.

The hot water in the big pot outside had already been boiled, so the two decided to take a shower first. After the shower, the beef should be soft and tender, and they could have dinner directly then.

After taking a shower, Xu Han served out the food. The fragrant braised beef, paired with rice, was so appetizing.