Daya said, "I think it's good to grow perilla. Perilla leaves can be boiled in water and drunk to stop coughing. It's so cold in winter, and many people start coughing."
Xiao Tian said, "Xiao Bao has 12 soil pits and 5 energy points, which is enough to plant these."
Sanya: "After exchanging for radish seeds, I only have 4 energy points left."
Xiao Tian asked curiously, "Don't you like to eat radishes?"
The children exclaimed in unison, "We love it!"
Xiao Tian: "That settles it then!"
Chen Nong said, "Why don't we try planting a piece of Smilax glabra (Tufuling) to see if we can get it planted?"
Er Ya said happily, "Yes, let's try it. Food is getting harder and harder to find these days. We can't even dig up a few pieces a day."
Before long, the group found a piece of Smilax glabra and looked at Xiaobao with anticipation.
Xiao Bao took it and said, "Tanghulu said that it costs one energy point to plant it inside."
Xiao Tian suddenly remembered that Xiao Bao should still have sweet potatoes in his warehouse. "Xiao Bao, do you still have sweet potatoes in your warehouse?"
Xiao Bao: "Yes, there are eleven portions."
Xiao Tian: "Take out a copy and let me see."
In an instant, six large sweet potatoes appeared in front of them, just as big as the ones Da Ya had taken out before, each weighing a pound.
"Wow! There are six big sweet potatoes! That's a lot!" the children exclaimed in surprise.
Xiao Bao exclaimed happily, "I want to eat boiled sweet potatoes!"
Sweet potatoes are sweet and delicious.
Xiao Tian was also very happy. The yield was high. If each harvest was 6 jin (3 catties), and there were 12 pits, they could harvest twice a day, yielding 144 jin (72.5 catties) per day. With a little more effort, they could hopefully feed their large group of people.
Chen Kai suddenly asked, "Xiao Bao, where are the sweet potato vines?"
Xiao Tian: "By the way, sweet potato vines and leaves are also delicious."
Xiao Baoshuang looked like a wilted eggplant, "I forgot to mention the candied hawthorns."
Chen Kai: "Xiao Bao, bring out five more portions of sweet potatoes and hand them over to the team."
Er Ya pouted and said, "Uncle, sweet potatoes are so delicious, can we pay less of them?"
It hurts to lose 30 pounds all at once.
Chen Kai laughed and said, "Don't worry, we'll have sweet potatoes to eat every day from now on."
Xiao Bao: "What will we plant in those 12 holes?"
Xiao Tian said, "Let's plant pasture grass, radishes, amaranth, perilla, and Smilax glabra. The rest of us can plant sweet potatoes."
Xiao Bao's sweet potatoes won't be ready for harvest until noon, so he has to wait until noon to plant them.
Daya said excitedly, "Fifth Uncle, why don't you use your raffle tickets too? Let's see if you can win some warm clothes."
Last time, I got three hits in a ten-pull, and I got a ton of warming patches. They don't have to be stingy anymore; everyone can use them.
That's right, the amount of warm clothes they drew was pitifully small.
The fifth brother had just enough lottery tickets for a ten-pull, so he called out Gou Sheng.
"Congratulations, host, you have obtained the following items: Thank you for your patronage, 8 insoles, Thank you for your patronage, 1 bottled water, 2 lottery tickets, Thank you for your patronage, 1 piece of yarn, 1 banana sapling, 1 uterine warming patch, and 1 koi card."
Looking at the box of warming patches packaged with mugwort, Da Ya exclaimed with delight, "We've used up another 60 warming patches!"
Er Ya said happily, "Plant bananas, bananas are delicious."
Xiao Bao: "Okay, I'll help you plant it. The candied hawthorn says it only takes one energy point to plant, and I happen to have one energy point left."
The fifth brother stared curiously at a large box. When he opened it, he found clumps of gray thread, quite thick. It was the first time he had ever seen thread like that; it was so strange.
Chen Kai took one look and exclaimed, "This is great! Da Ya, hurry up, go and recruit people to knit yarn and make gloves for us."
A whole box, so much, enough for half of their children.
Chen Kai turned around and ran to find the people of Lotus Village to cut bamboo sticks for knitting yarn.
After Chen Kai returned with the bamboo skewers, he called Da Ya, Er Ya, San Ya, and Zhou Da Ya together and taught them how to knit gloves with wool.
At first, Da Ya and the others didn't believe that these two bamboo sticks could be woven into something, but Chen Kai quickly proved them wrong.
Looking at that small piece of "cloth", it turns out that two bamboo sticks really can be woven into "cloth"!
"Uncle, I want to learn! Hurry, teach me!"
"Uncle, what kind of fabric is this? It's so strange, but it's quite thick and fluffy. It must be warm to wear."
"Uncle, how do you know how to weave?"
Chen Kai: "This was shown to me in a dream by my ancestor. After watching it a few times, I learned how to do it. This thread is called yarn, and it can be used to knit sweaters, scarves, gloves... basically, it can be used to knit all kinds of warm products."
He would never admit that he knitted for a while because he was bored in his previous life.
After Da Ya and the others finished learning, they taught it to the adults.
The eldest daughter-in-law said, "This is great. With so many of us, we can finish weaving it in a day without having to hire anyone."
Zhou said, "Yes, we can weave it ourselves."
The cave was rather dimly lit, so they took the yarn outside to knit, which attracted the curiosity of many people.
After Chen Kai taught them how to knit gloves, he continued to take the children to plant cacti.
Chen Nong and Bai Chuan also went because they wanted to plant cacti all over the mountain. They started planting from the top of the mountain and had already planted halfway up. Today, they were going to plant them all the way down to the foot of the mountain.
On the mountain, the children who planted cacti had a clear division of labor: some dug holes, some buried cacti, and some watered them.
Even though the sun is out now and there's a little warmth, it's still mostly cold.
Therefore, most of the cactus growers came out wearing wolfskin coats, and even those who didn't were carrying hand warmers.
Asking them to help plant cacti isn't really asking them to do any work, like right now.
After planting one or two cacti, the children would gather together to warm themselves by the fire, chat, and then plant a few more.
At noon, the Chen family splurged again, actually rendering lard.
The Chen family originally didn't have the time or inclination to render lard, but the children kept asking to render lard to cook vegetables.
The Chen family didn't have any dishes to cook; they were lucky if they could just fill their stomachs. But the child kept fussing, so they decided to render lard and make some pork cracklings for the child as a snack.
Chen Jialian's huge pot of pork cracklings attracted a large group of children who drooled over it.
Xiao Tian tried to pull Xiao Bao away, who was drooling, but Xiao Bao wouldn't leave, staring at the fragrant pork cracklings. "I won't leave, I want to eat pork cracklings!"
Xiao Tian: "Eat later, there's enough for you. Come on, let's go back to the shed first."
Xiao Bao: "No, I want to wait to eat pork cracklings."
Xiao Tian sighed helplessly and said, "My uncle is looking for you in the cave. Aren't you going?"
Xiao Bao exclaimed happily, "My uncle is looking for me! Of course I'll go! Let's go!"
Xiao Bao ran back to the cave and excitedly rushed to his uncle, saying, "Uncle, we'll have pork cracklings to eat later!"
Xiao Tian reminded him, "Xiao Bao, isn't it almost time to harvest the sweet potatoes? Don't forget to take out the sweet potato vines this time."
Xiao Bao glanced at the candied hawthorns and said, "Almost done, just a little while."
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