As for rice and wheat, they probably mature a little earlier than outside because the space gets enough sunlight every day.
Xu Lai and his team had small family-use harvesters stored in their warehouse.
The home-use fully automatic harvester requires bags to catch the crops while harvesting them.
Xu Jiangming drives the harvester, and every time a bag is filled, Xu Haiguo, Song Qiu'e, Xu Lai, and Xu Chao work in pairs to carry the full bag of rice or wheat to the pasture where the grass has just been cut.
A large piece of oilcloth is laid on top, and then the rice or wheat is poured out to one side and spread out.
Generally, it can be stored in a warehouse after being sun-dried for two to three days. Alternatively, it can be ground into flour using a thresher or grinder, which can then be used to cook rice or make pasta.
The harvest of two acres of rice and one acre of wheat took half the time of digging potatoes.
The yield of rice per mu can reach 1,500 jin, and two mu can yield about 3,000 jin.
One mu of wheat field can yield 1,200 jin of wheat.
With the help of a small household agricultural machine, the family harvested all the crops on their three and a half acres of land in the space warehouse in just one day.
At the end, Xu Lai also made a point of checking the fuel consumption of the small harvester.
Fortunately, the amount of diesel consumed was not large!
After a day of work, Xu Lai didn't feel tired at all.
She also observed her second uncle and the others and found that they were chatting and laughing, and their spirits were quite good.
It seems that the exercise I've been doing for the past three and a half months, since the outbreak of the unknown virus, has been effective.
Everyone's physical fitness has improved a lot, and Xu Lai herself has even developed muscles in her arms and stomach!
Working in the fields and coming into contact with the soil, everyone's bodies, hands, and even faces were filthy, so they took turns taking a nice, relaxing shower in the bathroom.
"Let's have dinner here before we go out!" Xu Lai suggested.
The whole family has been working hard all day, shouldn't they eat something good to replenish their energy?
In this environment where despair is everywhere, eating good food is the family's greatest source of comfort every few days.
Song Qiu'e is not afraid of trouble at all. Her favorite saying is: "As long as you like to eat it, I'm happy to make it!"
When she heard that everyone was going to eat something delicious, she perked up.
"Okay, let everyone order the dishes tonight, one dish each!"
Xu Chao cheered, "Great! Mom, I want to eat spicy chicken!"
Xu Haiguo had been doing manual labor all day and wanted to eat something a bit oily, so he ordered braised pork.
Xu Jiangming was the oldest and most sentimental. He thought about the bumper potato harvest today, so he ordered roasted potatoes.
He recalled the days when he was a child, when his family was short of food and they often ate potatoes, sweet potatoes, and radishes as their main meals.
Especially potatoes and sweet potatoes. When we were hungry, my friends and I would secretly dig up a few potatoes and sweet potatoes from the ground, then build a fire in a secluded spot in the wild and roast them until they were cooked. They smelled so good!
Song Qiu'e nodded after hearing her second uncle's simple request.
Roasted potatoes are easy, right?
"Today's potato harvest is bountiful. Besides roasted potatoes, I'm also making cumin potatoes!"
Cumin potatoes are savory, soft, and tender, with an irresistible aroma of cumin, making them a dish that both the elderly and children love!
Xu Lai had been sweating all day and wanted something appetizing, so she ordered a sour beef soup.
She had wanted to eat some fruit, but unfortunately fresh fruit doesn't keep well, and the little she had stocked up on was already gone.
The grape, apple, and peach trees planted around the pond only begin to bear fruit two or three years after planting.
The watermelons and cantaloupes in the vegetable garden have produced fruit, but they are not ripe yet.
Xu Lai remembered the canned fruit stored in the warehouse, so she took a bottle of orange preserves and a bottle of yellow peach preserves and put them in the refrigerator.
I'll serve it as dessert after dinner!
The family of five worked together to prepare this sumptuous dinner, with everyone doing their part.
In less than an hour, a sumptuous dinner was ready.
As soon as the cumin potatoes were served, Xu Chao couldn't resist the aroma and grabbed a piece of cumin potato, putting it in his mouth without caring that it was too hot.
"You child, you have no manners! Don't you know to let your second uncle try it first!"
As Song Qiu'e was serving the last bowl of food, she rolled her eyes at her son and began to scold him in an annoyed tone.
In this family, Song Qiu'e deeply respected her uncle who had raised her husband and worked hard for their family for many years.
Whenever there was something delicious or good to drink at home, she would always offer it to her second uncle to try first, without her husband having to tell her.
She raised her two children in the same way.
Xu Chao touched his head somewhat embarrassedly after hearing his mother's words.
"I was so excited when I saw how much delicious food my mom made!"
As he spoke, he picked up the largest piece of cumin potato with his chopsticks and held it to Xu Jiangming's mouth: "Second Uncle, I'll feed you the biggest piece!"
Xu Jiangming happily ate the potato that his grandson had personally fed him, then turned to his niece-in-law and said, "It's rare for the child to be happy, why should we scold him!"
Everyone ate until they were stuffed and very satisfied.
After the dishes and chopsticks were washed, everyone left the space.
Xu Jiangming never forgets his old squad leader, Grandpa Xiao, whenever he encounters something new or interesting.
He brought out a bag of potatoes from his spatial storage, intending to give it to Sergeant Xiao so that he could have a change of pace.
No one else in the Xu family had any objections to Mr. Xu's actions.
Firstly, the half-acre plot of potatoes yielded over 4,000 jin (2,000 kg), which was more than their family could possibly eat.
The Xiao family treated them well.
Previously, we had given the Xiao family two blast doors, and in return, Old Master Xiao insisted on giving them a box of fine tea and a bulletproof vest.
Moreover, a few days ago, Li Qingya and Xiao Rui grew chives, garlic sprouts, and lettuce in flower pots at home, and they insisted on giving half of each to them.
However, these potatoes were newly harvested, so to avoid any unnecessary trouble,
Xu Lai and the others placed the bag of potatoes in the sand and rubbed it several times until the sand scratched the potato skins a little, before putting them back into the bag.
Finally, Xu Lai realized that since Li Qingya and Xiao Rui could grow vegetables at home, they must also be able to grow potatoes.
So he took about ten more intact potatoes and stuffed them into the bag.
When Grandpa Xu and Xu Haiguo delivered the bag of potatoes to the Xiao family, Grandpa Xiao and Li Qingya's eyes lit up when they saw the large bag of potatoes.
The food supply is so scarce right now. Even though the Xiao family has the foresight of Xiao Rui, who prepared a lot of food in advance, the variety of food available is still pitifully small.
No one would have thought that potatoes, which are usually just ordinary items in the market, would be such a rare delicacy at this time of year.
It can be eaten as a staple food or used in cooking; stewed chicken with potatoes is an incredibly delicious dish.
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