Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 173 Another Year of Dragon Boat Festival

"Our wheat is slowly turning yellow. Let's pick some of the tender ones tomorrow and save them for eating as green wheat!"

"Okay, then pick some quickly, the wheat is getting old very fast!"

"Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Are we still making zongzi this year? I haven't prepared the ingredients in the past two days."

"Is there more in the space? Do you want to pack it up?" Lu Chuan asked.

"It's not a lot, so let's make some rice dumplings! No more fried vegetable dumplings. There won't be any festive atmosphere if we don't do anything." Xu Han said.

"Okay, then I'll get up early tomorrow and soak the rice."

"I will get up with you. Remember to call me. Then we will go pick some bamboo leaves to make rice dumplings. Don't move the ones in the space. Keep them for later use." Xu Han said.

"Okay, I'll wake you up tomorrow. Let's go to bed early today!"

After Lu Chuan finished speaking, he took Xu Han back to the room. It was a warm night...

The next day, as soon as it was light, Lu Chuan called Xu Han to get up.

Xu Han rubbed her aching waist and glared at Lu Chuan fiercely.

Lu Chuan had an innocent look on his face and was very diligent in helping Xu Han put on her shoes.

After the two got up, Xu Han first prepared the ingredients needed for making rice dumplings today and soaked them in water, and then began to wash up and eat breakfast.

After finishing breakfast, the two of them carried their backpacks and left the yard together.

When we got to a place with bamboos, we put down our backpacks and started picking bamboo leaves.

Fortunately, although the bamboo leaves are smaller this year, there are still quite a lot of them. After picking two large backpacks full of them, we started to walk home.

Xu Han and Lu Chuan did not go back home directly, but first went to the stream in front of the house and started washing bamboo leaves.

After cleaning it, Xu Han cooked it directly in a large iron pot in the yard and set it aside.

Lu Chuan was threshing the broad beans that he had harvested a few days ago.

After Xu Han has cooked the bamboo leaves, the ingredients are almost soaked and they will break into pieces if you squeeze them lightly with your hands. That's it.

After preparing all the ingredients and moving them all into the main room, Xu Han began to make rice dumplings. The taste of this year's dumplings is similar to last year's.

But this year, all the leaves used are bamboo leaves, and different flavors of rice dumplings are tied with ropes of different colors, which makes it easier to choose when eating.

After wrapping a large pot, she asked Lu Chuan to cook it first. Xu Han did not take a nap at noon and kept wrapping the dumplings. It was not until after four o'clock in the afternoon that she finished wrapping all the dumplings.

Lu Chuan has already cooked two pots of rice dumplings. In order to make sure the dumplings are not undercooked, they need to be simmered for an entire afternoon before they can be eaten.

Neither of them took a nap at noon today as they had been busy. Now they were a little tired, so Xu Han took out the prepared popsicles from the space and gave each of them one to refresh themselves.

After eating, he took a pair of scissors to the wasteland and cut the grown wheat ears.

Because they were not cut in time in the past two days, many of them have turned yellow and old. The two of them had no choice but to pick out the wheat ears that had not turned completely yellow and cut them directly from the bottom with scissors. This way it would be easier to handle them later.

After picking up seven or eight baskets in a row, the two finally stopped, packed up and started walking home.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I didn’t cook at noon, so I must have a good meal in the evening.

Xu Han wanted to eat barbecue, but it was too hot outside, so she had to wait.

When it is completely dark, there is no sun and there is an evening breeze. It will be much cooler then and you won’t feel too hot when grilling.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Han prepared the skewers that needed to be grilled first, so that they could be grilled directly when they were cool.

Lu Chuan was not idle here either. Before it got dark, he lit the charcoal fire on the barbecue stove so that he could start grilling right away.

After the two of them prepared everything, the sky began to slowly darken.

While eating mutton skewers, Xu Han said, "It would be nice if there were crayfish. The three-piece midnight snack would be barbecue, crayfish, and beer. Of course, my favorite snails are also indispensable."

After saying that, he took out the snails he had made earlier from the space. There were not many left, so it seemed that he needed to catch some more and put them into the space.

It's all my fault for being too greedy. I want to have something when I have nothing to do. This thing doesn't satisfy my hunger, so I eat too much.

When Lu Chuan heard Xu Han's words, he asked in confusion, "What kind of shrimp is crayfish? You can't just say the word dragon outside! If someone with ulterior motives hears it, they will punish you for disrespect."

Xu Han covered her mouth guiltily. She was so used to saying this in modern times that she couldn't change it all of a sudden.

But I really wanted to eat crayfish, so I asked, "Have you ever seen one that looks like a crab, with two big claws and two very long whiskers, and a very hard shell?"

"You mean the big bugs? Yes, there are! There are quite a lot of them. The big bugs can cut the seedlings. Farmers in the mountains catch them every year."

"Is there any in the mountains?" Xu Han continued to ask.

"Yes!"

"Where is it? I've never seen it before. Last year I looked for it in the river near my home. There were no crabs or crayfish, but rather large insects."

"There's none in the creek in front of our house. I'll take you to the pond over there to catch some tomorrow. But they can pinch you and it hurts."

"It's okay, it's delicious too! Let's make a tool to catch lobsters! It must be fun to go fishing for lobsters. I've seen others do it, but I haven't tried it myself!"

"Okay, you tell me how to do it later, and I'll try to make one."

In this way, Lu Chuan was grilling next to the stove, and Xu Han was sitting next to him, eating the freshly grilled skewers and chatting with Lu Chuan.

After eating, he and Lu Chuan studied two different tools for lobster fishing.

One is the same as a fishing rod, which is just a thin bamboo pole with a thin long rope tied to one end.

Another method is that Lu Chuan tied bamboo into a circle, tied a lot of ropes on the circle, and finally tied a rope to both sides of the circle, stretched it and tied it to one end of a thin bamboo pole.

In order to improve the efficiency of shrimp fishing, Xu Han asked Lu Chuan to help make several tools, so that he could catch shrimps with both hands and would definitely have a good harvest.

A fishing rod alone is definitely not enough, you will also need a scoop net, otherwise the crayfish will fall down and you won't be able to catch them at all.

After the tools were made, Xu Han took out the chicken intestines from the space and left them outside overnight. They would become smelly by tomorrow, and would be better able to attract lobsters to bite the hook.

After everything was ready, it was already late. Neither of them had taken a nap at noon, and their eyelids were already drooping and they couldn't control themselves at all.