Xu Han then thoroughly cleaned the Taoist priest's room at home.
All the quilts were taken out to air, and the clothes for this season were also taken out to air, so they could be worn directly when the Taoist priest came.
These clothes were washed and put in the closet last year, so all I need to do is take them out to air them; I don't need to wash them again.
By the way, the cabinets in my house are all modern wardrobes now, and all the clothes are supported by racks and hung inside the cabinets.
This way, there's no need to fold clothes, and they're very easy to take out.
These cabinets were made by Xu Han when the group was bored at home during the drought. She drew up the designs and had Lu Chuan and the others make them.
The wardrobes are all very simple, without any complicated patterns, just plain and simple.
In each room, a large wardrobe was installed. In addition, Xu Han had a whole row of wardrobes installed in the room where Lu's parents used to live, so that there would be a place to hang clothes that were not often worn.
It also saves the trouble of piling things up haphazardly, which looks messy.
No one lives in Lu's parents' room now, and over time it has gradually become a walk-in closet for the family of four.
After Ze'er was born, Xu Han found the house to be somewhat crowded.
With a heated kang bed and two small beds, things gradually piled up, so Xu Han simply moved the wardrobe into Lu's parents' room.
Mu'er usually sleeps alone, only in winter does she sleep on the heated kang bed with Xu Han.
It's not that she doesn't want him to sleep, it's just that Xu Han is a restless sleeper, always rolling around. Xu Han is afraid that she might accidentally kick Mu'er off the bed, so she lets her two sons sleep by themselves.
In addition to the wardrobe, Xu Han also asked Lu Chuan to make several small sofas, which were filled with worn-out clothes and tattered quilts.
It's stuffed full inside, and it's very soft when you make it.
Each person's room also has one, which can be used to sit or lie down.
However, there was no sofa in the main room, partly because it was inconvenient, and partly because the space was too small to fit it.
After cleaning the room, Xu Han took the opportunity to cook a lot of rice.
When I have time in the next couple of days, I'll cook some dishes and store them in my online space.
Spring plowing is about to begin, and everyone is very tired from working every day. They definitely won't want to cook then, so Xu Han prepared some food in advance.
We can just eat it directly then; there's no need to cook while we're exhausted.
After three days of this busy work, the Taoist priest was still nowhere to be seen.
By the morning of the fourth day, Xu Han couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Why hasn't the Taoist priest arrived yet? Wasn't it supposed to be ten days? It's already the eleventh day. Could something have happened to him on the way?"
Grandpa Zhao was quite open-minded. "Xiao Han, don't worry. With the Taoist priest's skills, how many people in this world can hurt him?"
He definitely didn't want to come and work, that's why he walked so slowly.
Hearing Grandpa Zhao say this, Xu Han felt much more at ease.
Thinking about it carefully, Grandpa Zhao was right. After all, he had seen the Taoist priest's skills, and there really weren't many people who could beat him.
However, Xu Han didn't believe Grandpa Zhao's claim that the Taoist priest was walking slowly to avoid work, since the Taoist priest had no idea that everyone was waiting for him to get to work.
Xu Han changed the subject, saying, "Let's go check on the compost pile after we finish eating. It's been fermenting for four days. I went to check it yesterday, and the temperature was just right. We can start turning the pile today."
“Okay, let’s go after we finish eating,” Lu Chuan agreed.
After breakfast, everyone worked together to tidy up the house, and then the group headed towards the compost heap with their tools.
Upon arrival, Xu Han directed the two to lift the oilcloth.
Then, I put on gloves and stuck my hands into the pile of manure to feel the temperature.
"The temperature is quite high, we can turn the pile now."
"How do we flip the pile?" Lu Chuan asked, looking puzzled.
"Just turn all of these over, turn the inside out and the outside in. Stir them again and then cover them up."
As Xu Han spoke, she picked up a shovel and started working. Seeing this, Lu Chuan and Grandpa Zhao followed suit and started working as well.
"Wow, the temperature in here is really high. It's smoking as soon as you dig in with a shovel," Grandpa Zhao said, frowning as he was a little bothered by the smoke.
"This stinks! It stinks even more than when we were working on the manure pile last time," Lu Chuan said, caught off guard by the stench.
"This is because the manure pile is fermenting. The smell will gradually fade when you turn the pile over, and the manure will be fully fermented when there is no smell."
Even though Xu Han had taken precautions, she was still severely overwhelmed by the smell.
Xu Han quickly took out masks from her spatial storage and gave one to each of them. After the three of them gradually got used to the smell, they continued working.
"You know what, it's only been four days, and look, the withered grass and stuff inside are already starting to rot. Maybe it really will work."
Lu Chuan grabbed a handful of manure, looked at it, and said excitedly.
"Now that the temperature is gradually rising, it won't be long before it's all fermented."
It can ferment in less than 20 days if it's quick, and about a month if it's slow.
"Wouldn't that mean we'd miss the chance to plant sweet potatoes?"
"It's alright, wood ash is fine for planting sweet potatoes. We've saved up quite a bit of wood ash at home, enough for us."
"Once the sweet potatoes have grown bigger, we can apply some manure," Xu Han explained.
"That works too. After the sweet potatoes are planted, a rain will come and we can plant corn and soybeans right away."
Grandpa Zhao looked up at the sky and said, "The ground has dried up, and it looks like it's going to rain soon."
"It's about time it rained; it hasn't rained for quite some time now."
It rained about ten days ago. If it doesn't rain again, we'll have to water the fruit trees and vegetables again.
The three of them each took a pile, and after they finished flipping through the piles, it was still early, around ten o'clock.
Xu Han took the child home, while Lu Chuan continued working in the wasteland with Grandpa Zhao.
The two of them have been making ridges in the sweet potato field these past few days. Sweet potatoes grown on ridges will be larger. Sweet potatoes like sandy soil, but there is no sandy soil around their house.
So if you loosen the soil a bit, the sweet potatoes will grow bigger.
Moreover, sweet potatoes grown on raised beds are easier to manage, whether it's weeding or turning over the vines later on.
In the afternoon, after finishing her housework, Xu Han picked up a hoe and went to the fields to weed.
The weeds in the vegetable garden and potato field grew very quickly, and Xu Han would go out to weed whenever she had time.
Anyway, the house is close to the fields. The fields are right outside the yard. I don't have to walk far. I can come out to weed whenever I have some free time.
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