Chapter 64: Preparing for the Drought

The ordinary people at the bottom are particularly unparticular about eating.

What they think about every day is that they must hurry up and do a little more work. It's a little bit more to be able to do more.

As for what to eat every day and how to eat it, they never put much thought into it.

They feel that they just need to fill their stomachs.

You can have a big bowl of dry rice to eat, and it is served with two pickles. For example, pickled turnips, pickled cabbage, they are satisfied.

In the past, the Wu family thought so. That's how life goes.

But since Wu Guifang took charge two months ago, the living standard of the family has been forcibly improved by her.

Now what they look forward to most every day is what they can eat today......

Is it the kind of instant noodles that are fried on both sides and are golden brown? Or that kind of fried cake, or scallion pancake, scallion oil noodles, brown sugar cake?

Of course, the taste of the sauerkraut stewed fish head they eat every day is also extremely good.

In short, the food cooked by grandma was extremely delicious. When grandma taught them how to cook, she was also very serious. Hands-on.

In order to make themselves eat better, Wu Da Niu and Wu Er Niu learned to cook and cook, and they were very energetic.

As soon as they heard their grandmother say that they were going to teach them to cook a new dish today, their eyes began to glow.

"Grandma, what are you going to teach us to cook today?"

"Like the ones we ate in the past, we already know how to make them."

Hearing this, Wu Guifang smiled lightly. "Let's not cook new dishes today."

"I'm going to take you to plant fungus."

"As for the chives and garlic at home, I'm running out of them here. We'll have to go outside the cave and pick some up. ”

About half a month ago, Wu Guifang planted some chives and garlic on the dirt slope outside the cave. Now they're all so high. Now it's the best time to pick them.

Wu Da Niu, Wu Erniu, and these children, were quite surprised when they heard that they were going to plant fungus.

"Grandma, what is fungus?"

Wu Guifang explained with a smile, "It's a delicious dish!" ”

"As long as you learn from my hand, I guarantee that you will never starve to death in the future."

When they heard this, the children straightened their attitudes. "Grandma, then you can teach us how to do it now, right?"

Seeing their impatience, Wu Guifang smiled.

Wu Guifang had done it at home before.

She collected rags in the urban village back then. Although the money she earns is considerable, she is quite economical. Never spends it around.

Just the money for buying vegetables, Wu Guifang has carefully calculated it!

She made notes. She spends at least ten yuan on groceries every day!

Moreover, if she wants to make the dishes on her table richer and eat better, she spends at least a few dozen yuan a day.

It's a few dozen dollars a day, and it's almost a thousand yuan a month. If she has to spend 50 yuan a day, then she has to spend more than 1,500 yuan in a month.

This is a lot of burden for her.

Therefore, Wu Guifang, who is shrewd and thrifty and especially good at living, bought some vegetable seeds on Taobao store. I grew vegetables at home.

Like loofah, cucumber, watermelon, tomato pepper, chives, garlic, fungus, potatoes, eggplant,...... Wu Guifang has planted it all. Moreover, she also grows very well.

Just because Wu Guifang taught herself such a skill, her money for buying vegetables every month is basically controlled within 500 yuan.

Now there are dozens of packets of vegetable seeds in her space, which are useless.

Some time ago, she was ready to plant.

If it hadn't rained outside, she would have planted those lovely vegetables with her own hands.

The weather today is very good.

Wu Guifang decided to plant the potatoes in the ground. Moreover, plant it in a pot in your own space. When they had sprouted, she put them outside the cave to shine in the sun so that they could photosynthesize sufficiently.

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After eating a big bowl of delicious noodles, Wu Guifang took more than a dozen children into action.

The old donkey in the family has long been taken out by the men of the family.

However, the ducks at the head of the house have to be watched. Otherwise, it will be devoured by weasels, or rats from the mountains.

When they came out of the cave, they headed for the mountain to the east.

It took about ten minutes, and after walking over, Wu Guifang took the child to pull the weeds. After pulling out the grass, I used the sickle in my hand and the tip of the wood to loosen the soil for them.

After making sure that the grass had been dug up, Wu Guifang let them dry there, ready for the sun to roast them.

Then all of them continued to repeat the process.

After a busy afternoon, all of them were tired.

Wu Guifang saw that the time was almost up, so she took out a lighter and burned the pile of grass.

After burning them into a pile of black ashes, Wu Guifang smiled softly at the children at home.

"We're pretty much done here."

"It's not too early, let's go back for the time being."

"We'll come back tomorrow morning."

When they heard this, the children were glad to respond.

After an afternoon of famine, they couldn't stand it anymore!

The sun is big, and the individual is tired.

Wu Guifang is a lazy person.

She didn't do much this afternoon. Instead, sit under the big tree and take shelter from the shade!

It seems to be getting hotter and hotter.

People who are all hot can't stand it.

When you think about it in a few weeks, the temperature will rise quickly. Wu Guifang decided to grow some onions, ginger and garlic in these acres of land. This kind of thing can grow quickly in a short period of time.

Wu Guifang remembered that it seemed that in another month, that is, after the time entered July and August, the temperature outside rose extremely high. The whole world was like entering a furnace.

And then the drought came.

All the crops in the field will be killed by the sun.

The water in the pond will also be roasted dry.

Even some large rivers go straight into dry seasons, exposing their wide riverbeds.

Thinking of such a day, Wu Guifang racked her brains to think about it.

She decided that after planting these things herself, she would take her family to fetch water.

She used to collect waste products, and she collected a lot of cans and plastic bottles.

Now they're hurrying up and filling up all the plastic bottles and piling them up in the cave, where the water should last for a while.

It's just that the water in those bottles may be microbial exceeded. After eating, it makes people prone to diarrhea.

However, it would be appropriate to use that water to grow potatoes and loofahs or something.