Chapter 123: Hoarding
"Tangtang, stay home for the next two days and process the wolf and wild boar meat we've stockpiled. Let's make it into smoked meat, cured meat, or dried meat!" Ji Yanmo really didn't want to take medicine anymore. He'd had several nosebleeds and even had two rabies shots. "We can't just sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor, nor can we rely on space production! With such a great location, there must be many wild animals in the mountains. I'll bring them all back."
Although he was chased by Lu Xingtang for the past half month, he was not idle at all. He slaughtered all the wild boars and wolves he hunted, including the pigs that Lu Xingtang had stockpiled before. He has now been promoted to a senior pig and wolf killing engineer.
Lu Xingtang was silent for a moment, then checked Ji Yanmo's pulse. Only after confirming that he had recovered did he feel relieved. "Okay, I'll stay home and look after the house and make the smoked and bacon! You stay safe. Oh, and if you can bring any that's alive, it's best to bring them alive. We can keep them in the space."
Ji Yanmo nodded, and under Lu Xingtang's gaze, he drank a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water and went out.
Because it is already mid-June, the weather in June is unusually hot and humid.
After Lu Xingtang fed the pigs, he took the cows and sheep to graze in the mountains near his home. Watching them graze and stroll, Lu Xingtang's consciousness was already busy in the space. He took out the slaughtered wild boar meat, wolf meat and pork in the space from the warehouse and marinated them. After marinating, he could start making smoked meat and bacon.
Now that you have the conditions and opportunity to stock up on meat, you should stock up as quickly as possible, because you will miss the opportunity later.
But she wasn't idle. She was searching for herbs in the mountains. The last time she went hunting with Ji Yanmo, she saw quite a few herbs, such as: seven-leaf lily, honeysuckle, Bidens pilosa, black robe, plantain, purslane, Xanthium sibiricum, Solanum nigrum, Morinda officinalis, Panax notoginseng, and Codonopsis pilosula...
She took a small hoe, dug out all the herbs she saw, and planted them in the black soil of the space.
She had stockpiled a lot of medicinal seeds before, but not all kinds of herbs.
She didn't know how many herbs there were in Qing'an Peak, but she dug up all the herbs she saw, regardless of their efficacy, and planted them in the black soil in the space.
They even set aside a piece of black soil specifically for growing wild herbs.
While digging, Lu Xingtang was surprised to find that the herbs had mutated, such as the blue-flowered Bupleurum.
The tip of a normal blue-flowered Bupleurum is gradually pointed or acute, with coarse serrations on the edge, and the base gradually narrows, extending down to the petiole; the back of the leaf has transparent glandular dots, and the veins have short soft hairs...
But now the leaves of Bupleurum chinense have alternating thick and thin serrations on the edges. The serrations are hard and can easily cause injuries if you are not careful, just like the thorns of a bush. The transparent glandular dots on the back of the leaves are darker, and the soft hairs on the veins are hardened...
Even though Lu Xingtang had studied Chinese medicine and memorized many types of herbs, he couldn't tell that this was Bupleurum chinense. He had to send the Bupleurum chinense into space and use instruments to identify it.
Ji Yanmo came back in the evening and threw out a pile of wild beast corpses from his space.
Wild boars, wild wolves, hares, muntjacs, and two pythons.
Lu Xingtang was stunned: "Are you digging out a wild animal's den?" After counting, he found 14 wild boars, 7 wild wolves, more than 30 rabbits, 8 muntjacs, and two pythons.
Ji Yanmo was very calm: "If we don't hunt these beasts now, they will die in natural disasters in the future, and their bodies may not be left at all." Ji Yanmo took out a pile of eggs from the space: "These are bird eggs and pheasant eggs. You can put them into the space to incubate. The hatched birds and pheasants can be raised in the mountains in the space.
Lu Xingtang's eyes lit up, and he immediately put the bird eggs and pheasant eggs into the space and began to incubate them: "Don't pick up the snake eggs."
During the snake plague, she was frightened by the twisted and dense swarms of snakes and suffered psychological trauma.
Ji Yanmo looked at the python silently and quickly put it into the space. He would deal with it when he was not hunting.
"Tangtang, I'm hungry." Ji Yanmo said pitifully: "Although there are a lot of delicious food in my space, which we also stockpiled together, I can't eat it without you around."
"The meal has been prepared a long time ago, just waiting for you to come home. The bath water is already boiled, go take a bath, and you can eat after you're done." Lu Xingtang pushed Ji Yanmo to the bathroom to take a bath.
For the next month, Ji Yanmo went out hunting, while Lu Xingtang fed the pigs and grew vegetables at home. The cattle and sheep were taken out when Ji Yanmo went out hunting in the morning, so Lu Xingtang didn't need to release them.
After feeding the pigs, Lu Xingtang went out to dig herbs and transplanted a large area of herbs on the black soil in the space.
Because there were too many herbs in the mountains, Lu Xingtang didn't want to feed the pig anymore, so he sent it into the space and let it work consciously.
Ji Yanmo was a terrible hunter. He had hunted all the wild animals in Qing'an Peak and even went to the next mountain to hunt.
A lot of small animals have been added to the mountains in Lu Xingtang's space, including rabbits, pheasants, muntjacs, blue sheep, kestrels, stone partridges, musk deer, etc. He even dug out several bird nests, including sparrows, turtledoves, magpies, swallows, etc. He also found a way to catch the bird mothers and fathers and send them into the space, so that they can live happily in the mountains in their space.
Later, Lu Xingtang no longer went out to look for herbs, but raised pigs and grew vegetables at home. He slaughtered and pickled the prey that Ji Yanmo brought back, and asked Ji Yanmo to build a big rack and go to the mountains to cut a lot of cypress branches to smoke bacon.
The bacon smoked with cypress branches is absolutely delicious, many times more delicious than the bacon with soy sauce.
Ji Yanmo fell in love with it after eating it once. He went to the mountains to cut cypress branches for several days and added a lot of cypress seedlings to Lu Xingtang's space. In the future, he would be able to smoke bacon in the space.
It rained heavily that day. Ji Yanmo did not go out and enjoyed the joy of the rainy day with Lu Xingtang.
Seeing the rain hitting the ground, Lu Xingtang's consciousness looked at the water towers in the space. They had already used up many water towers. Water was the most precious resource and must continue to be stored. Lu Xingtang looked at Ji Yanmo: "Should we dig a pond? Many of the water towers in the space are empty, so we should also store some water!"
They have experienced extreme heat in the imperial capital, but that doesn't mean Hangzhou or other cities won't experience extreme heat. What if they encounter extreme heat again during their escape, or if water resources are polluted, and they have no water and can't use the water in the space? What should they do?
Ji Yanmo nodded: "When the rain stops, we will start digging a pond. It doesn't need to be very big, just enough for our daily use and storage of water."
So the next day, Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo chose a location and dug a pond.
Because it was in the mountains, it was not easy to dig a pond, so they had to take out an excavator, use the excavator to dig a hole, break the rocks, and then continue digging.
It took five or six days to dig the pond. We were lucky because it rained heavily the next day after the pond was dug and repaired.
The heavy rain washed the pond clean. Lu Xingtang and his friends didn't keep the first pond's water, but instead pumped it out and filled it with water again.
(End of this chapter)
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