Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 93, Stockpiling Food

Wang Li happened to be passing by the garden. With his extraordinary hearing, he heard his mother's words. He was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

I thought to myself: I was wondering why I always had a bad feeling recently, and felt like I had forgotten something. It turned out to be this thing.

In Wang Li's memory, Dragon Country will enter an era of famine starting next year, because natural disasters have caused a poor harvest, and the relationship between Dragon Country and the Giant Bear Country in the north has gradually deteriorated. The Giant Bear Country asked Dragon Country to repay the previous aid, and Dragon Country had no choice but to repay with resources.

This has made the people of Longguo even more miserable in recent years.

Wang Li thought: These are national affairs, and a small citizen like me cannot influence them. He can only find ways to help those around him get through these years.

Thinking of this, he walked quickly to his room. He wanted to be alone and think about how to deal with the hard times of the past few years.

Soon it was dinner time and Wang Li had made plans.

First, we purchased some second-hand small threshers, crushers, dryers, etc. through the relationships with Li Hu and three other companies.

If he can't buy an electric machine, he plans to buy some manual stone mills and shellers.

The reason for purchasing these machines and equipment is to purchase grains in shells, because grains in shells can be preserved for a longer time.

Afterwards, Wang Li went to the surrounding rural areas and secretly purchased unhusked rice, barley, dried corn and other grains. He then used his storage space to transport them back home and stored them in the underground warehouse in the first courtyard.

He set a lower limit of 10 tons and an upper limit of 30 tons for his grain purchases. After all, if he couldn't eat all the grain, he could exchange it with others.

He also plans to purchase various types of vegetables. After purchasing them, he will dry them in the yard at home and then store them in the underground warehouse. He plans to purchase vegetables in small quantities, after all, his family has a vegetable garden.

Finally, Wang Li will increase the number of times he goes hunting in the mountains, and transport the hunted prey back using the space. He will then use salting and smoking methods to make ham or bacon and other meats that can be preserved for a long time, and hang them in the underground warehouse.

He did not set a storage limit for meat because he was hunting in the mountains and would make bacon and ham from the easily preserved parts of whatever prey he could catch.

The most ideal prey is still wild boar and deer, their meat is easy to store and tastes better. In addition, he will also stock up on soybeans, which are easy to store and have many uses. They can be used to make tofu, soy milk, oil, and can be used to sprout soybeans and make soybean sprouts to eat as vegetables.

Beans are rich in nutrients and can be used as both a vegetable and a grain. They are a good food for surviving famine.

Wang Li would also buy some sugar and other seasonings needed in daily life and stockpile them.

He would also ask his mother and her friends to go to the market more often and buy more supplies that might be needed in the future. Firstly, his family was not short of money, and secondly, they had many houses and underground storage rooms to store these supplies.

These are the types and methods Wang Li has temporarily thought of to deal with famine and stockpile supplies.

After Wang Li finished planning all this, it was already time for dinner, so he went straight to his parents' yard.

Not only did he have to eat, he also had to tell his parents about his plan. As for how to persuade them to agree, he had already thought of the excuse.

Just say: We can see now that grain production may decrease this year, and we are afraid that grain production will decrease again next year. After all, disaster years usually occur consecutively.

In addition, the current situation is not good. The situation in the north is tense and there might be a war. We are all people who have lived through the war years. If a war breaks out, the first things to increase in price and become scarce are food and daily necessities.

Therefore, Wang Li believed that they would agree to these proposals. However, Wang Li was also cautious and did not tell them the scale of his stockpiling of supplies. After all, no one could have imagined that the famine would last so long.

By the time they discovered the amount of stockpiled supplies, it was too late to stop him.

Sure enough, after he told them his plan during dinner, his family did not object to his plan, although they felt that he was a little too cautious.

But as people who have lived through the war years, we all think that there is no harm in being more cautious.

From that day on, Wang Li's family began to stockpile all kinds of basic living supplies according to Wang Li's plan.

(End of this chapter)