Hard times have room

Chapter 336

Wild vegetables and mushrooms are rare now, and wild onions are the most common.

Pauline took this thing as a matter of course. The quantity is large and the taste is not bad. If you don't move it, no one will touch it.

Dig it back, wash it clean, keep the leaves for cooking, and keep the stalks at the bottom. After washing, pickle them with salt and chili powder, put them in a jar, and eat them after ten days and a half.

She made the chili powder herself. The chili peppers were red. After drying, they were directly mashed in a large bowl. After two or three times, they were all good.

Because the amount of dried chili is not very large, all the dried chili is mashed, which is only half a bowl, but it is enough. I rarely eat chili powder at home, and usually chop chili.

This is really the family's favorite, whether it's stir-frying, or just bibimbap with chopped peppers, it's very good, and it's an essential thing in their place every year.

She made a lot of chopped chili peppers, except for the green chili peppers that she picked up and eaten before, and some fast-cooking red chili peppers that had just been pounded into chili powder. A jar is enough to eat for a long time.

As for mushrooms, there are very few, not no, it is not growing in many places, only in some specific places, and there are fewer species. The most common one that Pauline sees is the pine fungus, and soon, this thing will not grow. It's long. During the period between the end of November and the beginning of December, it's time to grow mushrooms, and the duration is about twenty days!
Paulin didn't go out to find mushrooms. She has these things in her space. There are a lot of dried and fresh mushrooms. If they want to eat them, they can just cook them directly.

In just three days, when Paulin went to the Houshan grove to scrape firewood and pick up pine cones, she had to go to the inner part of the forest.

That is to say, everyone only collects pine needles, dead branches, and pine cones. No trees are cut. Cutting trees is not allowed. No matter whether it is withered or not, if it is found once, work points will be deducted or fined. Touch this guideline.

The ones they hug at home now don't have much impact on the environment, and it will be the same in the late autumn and early winter of the second year.

Now that the weather is good, people in the village will go to work in the woods whenever they have time, preparing things for winter, and bring whatever they have to their house. What arises in their hearts, of course, is more peace of mind, they won't be able to endure this winter at all.

It will snow, it will freeze, if you don't scrape wood, pick up pine cones, and prepare for winter, then wait and starve!
I would rather be hard and tired and keep the house full, not use it up, and save it for next year, rather than prepare it just right and face the risk of being frozen.

When Pauline moved things to the house one after another these days, she was often watched with sympathy by others.

After all, if the adults in the family are not there, she can prepare as much as she can. In their opinion, this winter, the family of three will definitely have a hard time.

But Baolin really prepared a lot of things, and space is her best helper.

As time went by, she stayed in the woods longer and longer. In the past two days, she would go back twice in the morning to carry some things back, rest and pretend.

Now, she eats some porridge early in the morning, burrows into the woods with a basket on her back, goes home for lunch at noon, and rests. She only returned at night when it was dark, and she didn't want to waste a little time. As the weather became colder, Pauline's inner sense of urgency became more and more obvious.

Day by day, she kept stooping to walk to pick up things, and she was so tired that her whole body was sore. However, she went to bed early at night. When she woke up the next day, she was almost recovered, twisted her body, and continued to set off.

She worked so hard, and the results were not in vain. She had already filled the kitchen at home, and it was piled up to the roof. She climbed up a little and built it herself, and it was solid!
Now this kitchen only has a little space around the stove, which is used for people to sit. Similarly, there is a path to the bathroom, and other places are full of pine needles.

There are also many pine cones at home. She took out all the baskets at home and filled them with pine cones. There were four baskets in total. Now she has put them in the main room.

Anyway, she is the only one at home now. It is not good to pile it outside. In the morning, she will get wet with dew. If it rains, she will get wet with rain. She simply piles it all inside.

Except for the four baskets, she piled the rest in the corner. It started to pile up yesterday, and there are already a lot of them now.

Pine needles and pine cones are the easiest to get. For her, she is willing to bend down and pick them up hard, so they are the most in the family.

The pine branches are much better than those of pine needles and pine cones, but after so many years of felling, the branches now have to climb trees before they can be cut down with a hatchet. Those standing below cannot reach them, unless they are very small and short. Although the branches are very thin, Pauline didn't let it go. Now the two bundles of firewood in the house are tied with such thin branches.

Pauline is not very good at climbing trees. Although this is a must-have skill for many friends in the village, she just doesn't know it. It's like swimming, and she can't learn it.

Besides, she herself thinks it is dangerous to climb trees, and if she is such a villain, if she climbs up, she can't cut down the big branches!

There seems to be a lot of firewood in her house now, but they are all easily burnt out, pine needles, needless to say, it only takes a few seconds, pine cones are better, and it only takes ten minutes to burn a kilogram. , not burned at all.

In fact, the most burnt wood is the main part of the pine tree. The most burnt, arm-length wood can burn for a long time and can get a lot of carbon. Unfortunately, no one should be willing to use this thing to burn a fire now. .

If you want to cut down trees, you need to buy them without money, or you need to exchange work points, who is willing to burn them, this is real money burning!

Besides, things like branches and pine cones can't be burned, it's just a matter of taking more time, but in the countryside, the most important thing is time.

At noon that day, Pauline had just returned home with a basket of pine cones on her back. After closing the courtyard door, she poured the pine cones into the open area of ​​the front yard and basked in the sun.

The pine cones just picked up are a little wet, some are still fresh, and some are green. They were all picked by her from those small dwarf trees, and some small branches were entrained in them. It looked a lot in a basket, but there were not many. , With a weight of more than ten pounds, she carried it very easily.

Afterwards, she returned to the main room with the empty back basket. After that, she carried out three boxes of pine cones one after another. These were in the installation space. From six o'clock in the morning to twelve o'clock in the afternoon, she achieved the results of more than six hours. .

(End of this chapter)