Chapter 31: Procurement
Tang Yue checked the quilt carefully and put it away after making sure there was no problem. Next time, she would sew a few more sheets and only need to wash the sheets when washing, which would save trouble.
Checking the time, the chicken should be ready. I went to the kitchen and brought the chicken soup to the living room dining table. Then I took a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables from the warehouse. It was time to eat. I drank a bowl of soup first. There was nothing in the chicken soup except salt and ginger slices, but it was really delicious. Most chickens in later generations were fodder chickens, so no matter how they were cooked, they didn't taste like this. I washed the dishes and cleaned the table. I put the remaining chicken soup in the warehouse for next time.
Tang Yue prepared to take a shower and go to bed early, so as to get up early and rush home tomorrow.
The next morning at about five o'clock, Tang Yue got up, brushed her teeth and washed her face, and then cooked a bowl of chicken noodle soup with the leftover chicken soup from last night. After eating, she prepared to go home.
After much haste, Tang Yue finally got home before dinner. She entered from the backyard and locked the door. She went to the front yard and opened the door so that others would know that someone was home. She went to the drying rack in the yard and turned over the dried vegetables and peppers. There was not enough sunlight now, so she needed to dry them for a few more days.
Tang Yue wanted to eat pancakes today. They would be delicious with beef sauce and mushroom sauce. Tang Yue planned to make more so that she could eat them when she didn't want to cook. She took a basin and put five pounds of flour in it. She took six eggs from the space and cracked them into the bowl. She then took a handful of green onions and cut them into chopped green onions and poured them into the flour. She added a little water to the dough and waited for it to ferment for a while. She then rolled them into pancakes and burned them with a small branch for fear that they would be burnt too much. In the end, she baked a basin of pancakes and left them in a warehouse in the other storage space. She took out a bottle of beef sauce from the storage room, picked it up with chopsticks on the pancakes, and took a bite. They were really delicious.
After finishing the meal and wiping the table, Tang Yue heard someone calling outside. She guessed that it was Uncle Li's delivery racks. She went out and saw that it was indeed his four sons, each carrying a rack on his back. In the countryside, it is really a source of pride to have many sons, as having more sons means more labor, which means more money and food. She just asked them to put the racks in the yard, and quickly ran to the bedroom, took out ten yuan from the cabinet, handed it to them, thanked them, and they left.
Tang Yue returned to the bedroom, took out 100 yuan from the space, locked the gate, and prepared to go to the team headquarters to borrow a hoe, and by the way, find Captain 꺶 to order farm tools. Every household has farm tools, which are all purchased bit by bit. When she arrived at the team headquarters, she borrowed a hoe from the cadres inside, and went to Captain 꺶's house with the hoe.
Seeing that the door was not closed, he walked in directly, shouting as he walked: "Uncle, are you home? I have something to talk to you about."
"At home."
Captain 꺶 and his wife sat on the kang and chatted while sewing shoe soles. They felt a little lonely without their children at home, but they would be fine after their youngest son got home from school.
"Uncle, I want you to buy me some farm tools, a hoe and a shovel." The items are not expensive and can only be bought from the team members.
"Okay, is one enough?"
"That's enough, uncle, thank you, I'll give you as much money as you want."
"A hoe costs eight yuan, and an iron hoe costs ten yuan. These iron products are a bit more expensive."
Tang Yue took out 18 yuan from her pocket and handed it to the captain, "Uncle, I plan to stay in 껚껶 for the next two days. You can leave the money you buy at your house first and come back to get it when I come back."
"Okay, no problem. You, please be careful."
"Oh, I see. Don't worry, uncle. I'm fine. I'm just going to chop some more firewood. I'll go back first."
After returning from Captain's house, Tang Yue went to the backyard to check on the chickens, added some more vegetable leaves, and took the jars with her. She would make kimchi when she returned to the space in the evening. She carried a basket and a hatchet, locked all the doors, and set out from the backyard.
I picked up firewood all the way. The nearby places had all been picked up by the children after school, so there were not many left. When I arrived at the chestnut forest, I found that the chestnuts had not been picked by the villagers yet. Maybe the villagers all have their own secret bases. Since the autumn harvest and the distribution of grain, the villagers have been restless and have been looking for goods everywhere. The purchasing station will buy them, but they are too cheap, only a few cents per pound.
If the chestnuts in this forest are not picked, they will fall to the ground and rot like in previous years. Tang Yue spread tarpaulin on the ground, held an umbrella, stood under the tree and kicked hard, and the chestnuts fell down. Fortunately, she held the umbrella, otherwise she would have become a hedgehog and kicked all the chestnuts off the tree. As long as they were five meters away from Tang Yue, she could use her mind to collect them into the space, and collect all the chestnuts on the tarpaulin into the space, and peel them out during the winter. Now there is not so much time to peel them one by one. This chestnut forest has more than ten acres. Tang Yue is very fast and can harvest the chestnuts from a tree in one or two minutes.
It took only an hour or two to harvest all the chestnuts. We had harvested tens of thousands of kilograms of chestnuts. How long would it take to eat so many chestnuts? I would fry them all and sell them to Brother Hu when the Chinese New Year is approaching. These dried fruits should sell well during the Chinese New Year. Who wouldn't buy some snacks to keep at home during the Chinese New Year?
After collecting the chestnuts, they continued walking forward and soon came to the medicinal herb field. There was a large field there, so Tang Yue took out a hoe and started digging. The medicinal herb roots were buried very deep, and they had to dig deeper. It was really difficult to dig, just like digging a trap. Some were one or two meters deep. There were some medicinal herb beans next to the vines at the roots. Tang Yue collected them. This could be used as seeds, which could be planted in the space field later. They would come out directly with the mind without the effort of digging.
Tang Yue found many traces of wild boars in this medicinal field. She was sure that there was a litter of wild boars nearby. She would catch them when she had time. She heard that wild boar meat was not so delicious. There were over a thousand pigs in the space warehouse, and the pigs raised in the space were all pregnant. There would be no shortage of meat, so she could sell the wild boars when the time came.
I only dug a little bit until dark, and I don't know if I can finish digging tomorrow. I entered the space, boiled water to take a bath, took out a pancake from the middle, mixed it with sauce and ate it. After eating, I washed the herbs I just dug and peeled them with my mind. The herbs on the oilcloth have been dried and the moisture is put into the space first. I cut the herbs into slices and placed them on the oilcloth to dry, ready to dry them and grind them into powder. I dried all the herbs dug next time.
Tang Yue used her mind to get a lot of sweet potato vines to feed the pigs. She was now going to get a few days' worth of sweet potato vines at a time so she wouldn't have to worry about feeding the pigs every day. The sheep, cows, and rabbits were now staying in the orchard, and the fences that had been built before had not been removed so that the piglets could be raised in them in the future.
Tang Yue took out the vegetables that had been dried in the air the previous two days, took out the jars and placed them in the yard, filled the jars halfway with boiled water, poured in salt, then put in red peppers and garlic, and finally the radish, and poured a little white wine into the jars, soaking one jar of each type of radish. She then took out another jar, put half of it in boiled water, then put in ginger slices and garlic, and finally some green chili peppers and a little white wine, and a jar of pickled peppers was ready.
After a few hours of hard work, I finally pickled a jar of buckwheat and a jar of sour beans. When I was done, I put them all in the yard and put them on the shelf in the storage room when I got home.
After being busy for so long, Tang Yuexiao felt sleepy, so she went back to her bedroom to sleep and try to get up early tomorrow.
It was just past five when I got up the next day. It might be very cold outside in the morning, so I put on my jacket, brushed my teeth, washed my face, had breakfast, then left the space, took out the hoe and continued digging herbs.
It took Tang Yue two days to dig in this medicinal herb field before she finished.
Tang Yue left the space early this morning and prepared to go into the woods to see if she could find the nest of wild boars and collect firewood. If she came across a dead tree, that would be even better. She took out her hatchet and cleared a path forward. After walking for half an hour, she came to a pine forest. There were squirrels picking pine cones under the trees. She first gathered the pine needles on the ground into a pile, then cut some vines from the side, tied the pine needles into a bundle, and put them into the space.
After tying more than twenty bundles, Tang Yue decided not to use more pine needles, as there were enough. She chopped the three dead pine trees she found nearby into sections, cut off the dead branches on the trees, and tied them all up and put them into the space.
Tang Yue stayed here for two hours. All the squirrels in the tree were scared away. She took out the oilcloth and spread it on the ground. She kicked it directly and the pine cones fell down. She picked up a pine cone from the ground and broke it open. There were really pine nuts. Fortunately, Tang Yue was not angry. Others had to use a hammer to smash the pine nuts to eat them. She collected the fallen pine cones into the space and continued to pick up pine cones. Although it seemed that she had collected a lot, the pine nuts were small and there were not many left.
Tang Yue looked at the time and it was almost time for dinner, so she took out the bread and meat sauce and started eating. After dinner, she continued to pick pine nuts. Tang Yue planned to pick all the pine nuts in the pine forest today. As for the ones left on the trees, she would leave them alone and save them for the squirrels.
Whenever Tang Yue came to a tree, she would spread a tarpaulin and kick the tree. The pine cones would fall down and be instantly collected into the space. She would then move on to another tree. Her speed was really fast and she finished picking them soon. Since it was still early, she continued to walk deeper into the cave.
Halfway through the journey, she heard a grunting sound. Aren't these the wild boars that she had been looking for? She couldn't find them when she was looking for them, and they came to her door when she wasn't looking for them. Tang Yue walked forward slowly and pushed aside the branches in front of her with her hands. There were more than a dozen wild boars. She couldn't kill them all at once, so she could only wait for them to scatter and then launch a sneak attack. She didn't plan to enter the space, but just stay here and take out the self-defense stick. When the time comes, she will knock them one by one, leaving them no chance to make any sound.
After waiting for a while, he finally found a lone boar. He quietly walked over to it, picked up a stick and hit it on the head. Then he put it into the space in an instant. There was no sound. He used his mind to look at the wild boar in the yard. It was lying on the ground with its head sunken and motionless. He put the wild boar into the warehouse and his mind instantly left the space.
Looking at the group of leisurely wild boars, they had not yet noticed that one of their companions was missing, so Tang Yue would knock down any lone wild boar. He knocked down eight of them in total before the remaining five reacted. Now Tang Yue could not knock them out by surprise, so he just walked out. The wild boars would rush over when they saw people, so Tang Yue dodged and knocked them at the same time. It took more than half an hour to finally deal with the last five and put them into the space warehouse.
The sky darkened, Tang Yue silently recited to enter the space, and entered the space instantly.
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