Lu Changge's family has a vegetable garden, which is slightly larger than the yard at home.
The vegetable garden mostly grows seasonal vegetables.
Fruit vegetables include cucumber, eggplant, carrot and tomato.
Su Qingyun and Xiaotuanzi were wearing straw hats and picking fruit vegetables, while Lu Changge was picking carrots on the other side.
The tomatoes are big and red, and are very much loved by the little girl.
Wearing his Erteng brand straw hat, the little boy started picking tomatoes with a small bamboo basket.
I picked three or four and filled the small bamboo basket.
Little Tuanzi carried the small bamboo basket and went to find the big basket and poured the tomatoes into it.
After pouring it out, he even leaned on the edge of the bamboo basket to look inside.
Then he ran back to continue picking, and when the basket was full, he dragged it over and poured it in.
"Tuanzi, put it gently and don't throw it in." Su Qingyun looked back and reminded.
"Okay, Tuanzi knows!"
Xiao Tuanzi was picking tomatoes, while Su Qingyun was picking cucumbers and eggplants on the other side.
While the lady wasn't looking, Er Teng waved his vine to pick tomatoes for the young master.
Just move the vine and you'll get a few tomatoes.
And there’s no need to move them around; just retract the vines and the tomatoes fall into the basket.
However, before taking action, Er Teng carefully checked whether anyone was passing by.
"Wow! Er Er is so awesome!" Little Dumpling clapped his hands excitedly.
"Tuanzi, what's wrong?" Su Qingyun turned around and asked puzzledly.
The moment the lady turned her head, the second vine followed the tomatoes into the basket and stopped moving.
"Hmm..." The little dumpling hesitated and didn't say anything.
"Are you tired?" Su Qingyun wondered.
"Not tired! Tuanzi can help!"
"Then tell Mum when you are tired."
"good!"
When Su Qingyun turned around and continued to work, Er Teng crawled out of the basket as if he had come alive.
"Er Er..." Little Dumpling grabbed the edge of the basket with both hands and whispered, "Why were you so swollen that you couldn't move just now?"
[Because your father hasn’t told your father yet, so now you can’t let your father know about me and Da Teng’s existence, otherwise your father will be scared…]
Nido explained.
"Oh..." The little dumpling nodded, but still looked a little confused.
[Okay, let’s continue picking!]
"good!"
With the help of Erteng, the tomatoes were picked quickly.
Little Tuanzi ran to pick eggplants again.
After picking the cucumbers, Su Qingyun looked back and saw that the eggplants and tomatoes had all been picked.
When I saw my husband picking up a basket full of carrots, I thought that the tomatoes and eggplants were also picked by him, so I put my previous doubts behind me.
Fruits and vegetables were picked quickly.
In the end, we harvested 56 cucumbers, which were not very big.
The eggplants were planted relatively late, and now they are only very small. After picking them, they are not enough to fill two baskets.
The carrots ripened in July, and we harvested fifty of them. They were big enough to fill a basket.
There were 121 tomatoes, and two of them were eaten by the little dumpling.
In addition, there were three bamboo baskets full of vegetables.
The edible parts have been picked and tied up with straw, with one ton of food being made into a bundle.
Finally, sixty-seven bundles of vegetables were harvested.
Put condiments in a separate basket.
After picking all the edible vegetables, Lu Changge gathered the remaining rotten and inedible leaves into a pile and took them back to feed the chickens and sheep.
In short, just don't give the locusts any food to eat.
After picking, Su Qingyun took the little dumpling back home.
Lu Changge walked back and forth several times and carried all the picked vegetables back home.
In the end, the once lush and green vegetable garden has now become barren, without even a single vegetable leaf left.
However, these vegetables are still too little and are not enough to last for three months.
The staple food is available, including both fresh and air-dried meat.
Next, you have to prepare vegetables and fruits.
Water also needs to be stored.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation. Apart from food and housing, there are also clothing and transportation.
Lu Changge had originally planned to leave Lijia Village after his wife had given birth and finished her confinement.
We also have to start looking for a carriage and good horses now.
After all the calculations, Lu Changge found that he still had a lot of things that were not prepared.
Moreover, these are just what he can think of at the moment.
The vegetable garden is done, the next step is the five fruit trees at home.
There are date trees, pomegranate trees and grape trees in the yard.
The date and pomegranate trees are still in bloom, but they cannot be eaten.
The grape plant that was climbing on the courtyard wall has now been taken over by a larger vine, so you can eat it anytime you want.
Therefore, there is no need to pick the grapes specifically.
There are also apple trees and persimmon trees outside the gate.
Although persimmon trees bear fruit, the fruits do not mature until October.
Finally, only the apple tree remained.
The apple tree in their house grows and matures early, and the fruits can be eaten around July.
So, the next day after finishing the vegetable garden, Lu Changge started picking apples again.
[System, sign in.]
[Ding - Sign-in successfully on the 41st day of fleeing famine, and get the sign-in reward: two kilograms of rice, three bundles of rapeseed, and one kilogram of mung beans. The reward has been put into the system space. ]
After breakfast, Lu Changge first dried the rice.
After another day of sun tomorrow, it can be stored in the warehouse.
After drying the rice, prepare the tools and start picking apples.
We were going to pick apples today. Little Dumpling seemed very excited and kept running around the trunk of the apple tree.
Seeing daddy suddenly climb up the tree and disappear, little Dumpling looked up, his eyes filled with little stars.
"Wow...! Daddy is so annoying!" Little Dumpling jumped on his short legs and gave his daddy a thumbs up.
The apple tree produced quite a lot of fruit this year, with all the apples being of uniform size, neither too big nor too small.
In the end, this six-year-old apple tree yielded 412 apples.
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As time went by, there were more and more locusts outside.
Some are flying in the air, some are lying on the trees, chewing leaves.
It's so densely packed that it gives people goosebumps.
There were even more locusts in the farmland, and several families that harvested their crops late had a lot of their rice eaten by locusts.
Sometimes, when we were drying the rice, a large swarm of locusts flew down and we couldn't catch them all.
After the rice has been dried, it can be stored in the granary.
Lu Changge went into the warehouse and put the rice and flour into storage containers.
There was also bacon hanging from the beams, and white radishes and cabbages piled in the corners.
Only the husked rice and jars of pickled radishes and kimchi were left.
Before going out, Lu Changge used old clothes to seal the edges of the window tightly.
After going out, he locked the door and took some old clothes and stuffed them into the gap between the threshold and the door.
Only after making sure that the locusts had no chance to fly in did Lu Changge leave.
There are more and more locusts now, even in the yard, there are locusts flying everywhere.
Sometimes, when people are walking peacefully, a few locusts suddenly fly towards them and hit them in the face, which can scare them half to death.
Now, Su Qingyun and Xiaotuanzi dared not come out.
I stayed in the house all day with the door closed tightly.
Little Tuanzi didn't dare to sleep alone anymore, so he ran to his father and mother's room a few days ago.
It was getting late, so Lu Changge went into the kitchen and started cooking dinner.
His wife has been pregnant for more than four months now, and her appetite is obviously larger than before.
Lu Changge stewed the half chicken left over from lunch and added a cut carrot to the stew.
The vegetarian dish was stir-fried cauliflower alone, and there was also a dish of stir-fried bacon with lettuce slices.
I scooped another half bowl of spicy diced radish.
Now we can’t even eat in the main room for fear that a locust will fly into our bowl while we’re eating.
After finishing, Lu Changge put the food into the food box.
I washed the dishes and put them in a small wooden bucket, and then washed two bunches of grapes as after-dinner fruit.
After closing the lid of the wooden barrel, Lu Changge picked up the food box and the small wooden barrel and left the kitchen.
As soon as I opened the door, the buzzing sound of locusts flapping their wings rang in my ears, deafening.
If I listen to it too much, my head will hurt.
Lu Changge turned around, closed the kitchen door, walked through the main room and came to the front door.
Until Lu Changge opened the door, walked in, and closed it again, not a single locust could get within half a meter of him.
"Wife, Tuanzi, come and have dinner." Lu Changge put the food on the table and called them.
"Here I come!" Little Dumpling climbed down from the bed, put on his straw sandals and ran over.
"Daddy, are there any bugs outside?"
"Yes." Lu Changge took out food from the lunch box and put it on the table, answering casually.
"Ah..." Little Dumpling sighed in disappointment, "Are there still a lot?"
"right."
"Then...when will the bug fly away?" asked the little dumpling again.
"Well...when Tuanzi finishes eating for ninety days, it will fly away."
"Ninety? What's that?" Little Dumpling asked while counting on his fingers.
"More than twenty-six?"
Little Dumpling has just learned to count and now he can count to twenty-six from the beginning to the end.
"Yes." Lu Changge nodded.
Hearing his father's answer, little Dumpling frowned.
At this time, Su Qingyun came over.
"Tuanzi, don't frown, or you'll become an old man when you grow up."
"Okay..." The little girl nodded, but her face still looked worried.
"What's wrong?" Su Qingyun asked with a smile.
"Mom, Daddy won't be at work for a long time, will we still have meals together?"
"Father, can you let your father go out to work and buy food for Tuanzi?"
"No!" Tuanzi shook his head and refused decisively.
Then he whispered, "The bugs will eat Daddy, Daddy, don't go out."
"puff……"
Hearing his words, Su Qingyun couldn't help laughing out loud.
???
Lu Changge black question mark face.jpg
Son, what gave you this illusion?
You actually think that I, your father, am weaker than a bug?
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