After thinking it through, she continued walking in, but saw that some mountain products were almost ripe. She used her wood-type ability to accelerate the ripening of the vines and harvest the mountain products. She must be the first person to do this.
Although there were many proper fruits in the space, it seemed there were no mountain products like pine nuts. Luckily, I found Miao Miao, so I dug out two of each kind.
Feeling that she had everything she needed in the small space, Tang Baozhu decided not to pick any mountain produce anymore. Instead, she planned to see if there were any ginseng or similar items.
You have to understand that this is the northernmost part of Northeast China. She hasn't forgotten the three treasures of Northeast China. She just doesn't know if she'll be lucky enough to find some old wild ginseng.
Although she was an empress dowager in her previous life and had seen all sorts of good things and collected some of them, the things she found through her own abilities were different.
Tang Baozhu wandered around the deep mountains, but she didn't know if it was because the villagers often went up the mountain, but she didn't find a single ginseng, not even a young one.
It seems I don't have that luck, but I can talk to the villagers and ask them to dig up some fresh ones for me if anyone finds them.
Although she didn't have much cash, she figured the other party probably wouldn't refuse gold.
After thinking it through, Tang Baozhu decided not to make things difficult for herself anymore; if she couldn't find it, so be it.
After wandering around the mountain and cutting a lot of vines, we went straight back to the educated youth settlement.
Everyone else at the educated youth settlement had gone to the commune, leaving Tang Baozhu alone in the courtyard, but she didn't care.
She doesn't feel lonely. There's no way around it. Although she's still young now, she's been over 100 years old in her past lives. Although her emotions were erased by the system space, her rich experiences haven't been erased. She probably can't be like a real sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, jumping around and having fun everywhere.
She took the rattan to be dyed, and then laid it out in the yard to dry. She specially prepared several jars for dyeing, each containing a different dye. After using it up this time, she stored it in the warehouse so that she could use it again next time.
Seeing that the dried fish hanging in the yard were all dry, I quickly brought them in. They looked quite fragrant and didn't have any fishy smell at all, so I guess I must have put in a lot of seasoning.
After lunch, I'll spend the rest of the afternoon making more cured meat in the small space. Although there's plenty of cured meat in the warehouse, the fish in the river in the small space are getting bigger and bigger, and I feel it's not good to keep them. So I'll get rid of the big ones and make room for the small ones to survive.
At noon, I used the pheasant that Comrade Jin Meng gave me to make a pot of pheasant soup, and added some mushrooms. I must say, it tasted pretty good.
The chicken soup also had the aroma of mushrooms. Thinking about how I missed the mushroom season this year, it was really too late. Next spring, when it's rainy, I must go to the mountains to pick more.
After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, they put away the dishes and locked the door from the inside, then went into the small space, ready to work for the afternoon.
After Tang Baozhu had been inside for an unknown amount of time, she came out feeling completely dazed, or rather, numb. She had been killing fish, chopping off their heads, applying various spices, and then letting them marinate for three or four days before hanging them outside the small courtyard in her space.
As soon as I came out of the space, I heard voices outside. When I opened the door, I saw everyone chatting in the yard. I thought I had been in the space for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be so dark outside.
I checked the time; it was only a little past four o'clock. It seems the comrades in the courtyard had just returned not long ago.
"Baozhu, did you just wake up?"
"Yes, nothing's wrong, I just took a nap."
"I see lots of colorful rattan drying outside. Did you cut these up on the mountain today? What are you planning to weave this time?"
"I'm just bored, so I thought I'd make something little to pass the time! I haven't decided what to make yet."
Tang Baozhu, thinking of what they had been thinking about on the mountain, quickly asked Li Feifei, "Feifei, I heard that it's especially cold here in winter, and we have to go out on patrol. How do you usually get through the winter? Do you need to prepare fur coats or something?"
"If you can get some leather, it would be best to make yourself a set. Don't forget the deerskin boots either, so the cold won't get in when you're on patrol. Over the years, we've almost collected a whole set. Only Zheng He and the others have been here for a little over a year and haven't collected all the leather yet. But even if we can't collect them all right away, it's okay. We all take turns on patrol, so we can borrow each other's."
In previous years, when Li Feifei and the others hadn't collected enough pelts, they would do the same thing: if someone in the village had hunted an animal, they usually wouldn't exchange the pelts if they were in good condition. So the pelts they gave to the educated youth were always a little flawed.
The troublesome part is shoes. They usually make shoes first when they have leather, because everyone's size is different. Other clothes can be used as makeshifts, but shoes are different.
Tang Baozhu had plenty of hides in her warehouse, so she wasn't in a hurry. Xu Man and the others, on the other hand, were different. They were always afraid of the cold in winter, let alone in such a freezing place. "Feifei, do you know which family in the village has the most hides stored up?"
“Xu Man, it’s not that I don’t want to help you, but the people in the village keep the hides if they are intact. It seems that here, when it’s part of a woman’s dowry, they give a lot of hides. The better, prettier, and more precious the hides are, the more face they represent. I don’t know which family will exchange their hides for the time being. If you don’t mind, I’ll take you out tomorrow to ask some aunties we know.”
"I didn't expect there to be such a custom here. It seems the girls here are doing quite well. Okay, I'll go to the village and ask about it tomorrow."
Although Tang Baozhu didn't want to go, she couldn't find an excuse. After all, no one knew she had furs. If she didn't go to buy them and suddenly found out she had furs, they would have a ready-made excuse.
Days passed by, and by the end of September, around the 20th, the autumn harvest began. As for leather and other materials, Xu Man and her group hadn't gathered enough. Fortunately, deer were relatively easy to hunt, so they had enough deer hides to make deerskin boots.
Jin Meng somehow found out that the newly arrived educated youth were exchanging leather goods in the village. One time, when Tang Baozhu went out, he stopped her and stuffed a large bag of leather goods into her arms.
"Tang Zhiqing, I made all the leather here myself. I thought you'd need it since you just arrived, so I hope you won't refuse."
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