The next morning, the sky had cleared up, but the ground was still damp because it had just rained. Lu Chuan continued to prepare the bamboo needed for the irrigation.

Xu Han then began cooking winter bamboo shoots in preparation for drying them. She first filled two large iron pots with water, added firewood, and brought the water to a boil.

While waiting for the water to boil, cut the bamboo shoots in half, put them in an iron pot, and cook for half an hour. Then soak them in cold water for a while, drain the water, and slice them for easy drying.

Luckily, we have two huge water vats and a small one at home, otherwise we wouldn't have anywhere to soak the bamboo shoots. If we don't soak them a little, the color won't be nice after drying!

The dried bamboo shoots I made last time are all dried. After drying, there were only a few left, so I put them directly into the warehouse!

They cooked pot after pot of bamboo shoots all day long, but because there were so many bamboo shoots, each pot could only cook a little over 100 jin (50 kg). They cooked two pots together, and by evening they had only cooked 15 pots, which was about 3,000 jin (1,500 catties).

The food I cooked in the afternoon has been soaking in water ever since. Since there's no sun, it would have turned black if I took it out to dry, so I didn't. I just cut it up and soaked it, and I'll dry it tomorrow morning.

Because I've been cooking bamboo shoots all day, I ate lunch and dinner directly from the kitchen! All the wooden basins and buckets in the house are occupied, so I couldn't cook anything!

Although Lu Chuan had been helping Xu Han cut bamboo shoots after finishing with the bamboo, his back was sore from bending over all day.

After dinner, Xu Han lay on the bed without moving, letting Lu Chuan massage her aching body.

I fell asleep without even realizing it!

The next day, when Xu Han got up, Lu Chuan was no longer home. Xu Han guessed that he had gone to install the bamboo for the water supply, so she didn't pay any attention to him.

When I went outside, I saw that the bamboo shoots had already been dried in the sun.

The courtyard was filled with bamboo mats and winnowing baskets of all sizes!

The dried bamboo shoots that shrank from drying yesterday were also piled together on a large bamboo mat!

Looking around, the entire courtyard is quite magnificent!

After breakfast, Xu Han went to the backyard and opened both ends of the seedling shed to let in some ventilation. The seedlings in the backyard had already sprouted and would be ready for transplanting in a few days!

He then took out some seeds of lettuce, romaine lettuce, and other leafy greens from his spatial storage and began cultivating them. He planned to intercrop them in the vegetable garden later!

Newly transplanted seedlings won't grow very big at first, so you can intercrop them in any available space and store them up to eat during droughts!

It's not good for people to go without vegetables and fruits for a long time! Otherwise, even going to the toilet will be painful!

After cultivating the vegetable seedlings, we also cultivated sweet potato seedlings to save for later planting on the wasteland outside!

It's already early March, and there's just been a spring rain. I wonder if the mushrooms have sprouted yet! I'll go out and check this afternoon!

After finishing all that, it wasn't even noon yet. I turned around and went into the room, took out the shoe soles I had pasted earlier, and took out the sewing machine from the storage space. I took advantage of the free time to finish the shoes!

First, cut out a template according to the size of the shoe sole, and then start cutting out shoe soles of the same size according to the template. Each shoe has four layers of sole.

After cutting, each layer of the sole is wrapped with white cloth and sewn with a sewing machine to make it more durable.

Then put the four layers of sole together and continue sewing them together with a sewing machine, round and round.

Just as she finished fixing one shoe sole, Lu Chuan returned. Looking up, she saw it was lunchtime, so Xu Han got up and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

Lu Chuan followed her into the kitchen, and Xu Han asked, "Is it done?"

"It'll be done soon. Most of the previous supports are still usable, which has saved a lot of time. After dinner, I'll just tear down the wall in my yard and reconnect it. It'll be finished in a bit."

"After we're done, let's go outside and see if we can find any mushrooms!"

"Okay, I know where mushrooms often grow. I'll take you mushroom picking after we're done."

After the meal, Lu Chuan washed the dishes and went to connect the water pipe to the courtyard wall. Xu Han took the opportunity to continue making shoes. There was no other way; Lu Chuan's shoes were worn out, with holes in the soles and uppers.

Lu Chuan usually buys his shoes, and he hasn't had anyone make them this year. He also hasn't had time to go out recently, so he had to make a pair himself in his spare time.

The shoes I'm wearing in the space don't fit quite right, so I'll make something whenever I have a spare moment!

With the help of a sewing machine, it's quick to make them; I estimate I can finish one pair today.

After Lu Chuan finished setting up the water pipe, he quickly called Xu Han over to take a look. The water pipe was placed behind the passageway leading to the backyard. There used to be a large bluestone slab here, which was also for the convenience of washing things here.

It's actually quite convenient. Just bring over the large water tank from home, and the water flows directly into it. When you need water, you can just scoop it out of the tank! The overflowing water flows directly down the drain.

After finishing, the two of them carried their baskets on their backs and headed up the mountain, looking for mushrooms as they went.

Perhaps because it had just rained, there were quite a few mushrooms.

Xu Han only picked the mushrooms she recognized, such as green-headed mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, chanterelles, wood ear mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms. She picked whatever she saw and taught Lu Chuan as she picked.

Let Lu Chuan pick up the items according to what I taught him, and then check them himself when he gets home!

During the process of collecting the items, Xu Han also discovered a hidden function of the space: poisonous things could not be put inside.

As the two of them each filled a basket to put into their spatial storage, several poisonous mushrooms fell out of Lu Chuan's basket. Xu Han took a look and realized that they all looked very similar to the edible mushrooms, but were poisonous.

That's great! I don't have to sort through them myself when I get home anymore; the poisonous ones just fall out on their own. The system automatically eliminates the poisonous mushrooms for me.

Once you get home, all you need to do is sort them. Doesn't that save you a lot of trouble?

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