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    This summer, because it has not rained, everyone has confirmed that this year will be another famine year, so they pay more attention to the crops in the fields.

    It all relies on shoulder-carrying work. Everyone has to water all the crops every two or three days to ensure that the crops can grow normally.  Such high-intensity work made Xinhu miserable.  Now she truly understood the life of a farmer, with her face turned to the loess and her back turned to the sky, and she was so tired that she could not even straighten her waist.

    This made Xinhu more determined to raise horses.  Relying solely on farming is too tiring, and the harvest is not guaranteed.  It's a drought now, and depending on the geographical environment here, there is water.  If there is a flood, the fields will really lose their harvest.

    After two months, she and Dalang, including Ping'er and Xiao Shitou, have all become darker and thinner. As for the other adults, not to mention, the adults will only do more work than them.  Because everyone knows that if we don¡¯t protect the crops, next year will only be more difficult.  Therefore, the whole village had no choice but to throw themselves into the fields and work non-stop, taking care of the crops even more carefully than taking care of the children.

    "Everyone's efforts have paid off. The crops in the fields are growing very well, which finally gives everyone some comfort."

    At the end of summer, Xin Hu reminded Dalang that it was time to dig lotus roots and make lotus root powder.  Throughout the summer, we didn¡¯t have many opportunities to eat the tender lotus roots in the lake.  Because I am busy, and because there is enough food in the vegetable garden.  Except for the fact that Xinhu asked Dalang to make some tender lotus root tips and fry them a few times, no one had the time or the level to make them.

    The tip of the young lotus root is not as thick as the lotus root. It is thin and long. It is for people to dive into the water and pull it out from the sand to eat. If you don't know how to do it, it will break as soon as you pull it out, and you can't pull it out.  It reaches the really tender part, so no one is too lazy to do it.

    "Well, I'm going to find A Zhi and A Xin. Let's all do it, dry more, and save it for winter." Dalang nodded and immediately went to find someone.

    Since everyone knows that this year is another year of famine, of course we should try to store as much food as possible.  No matter how good the harvest is, it is impossible to feed the whole village.  What's most scary is that the situation continues to get worse.  No one in the surrounding area has anything to eat, so they will definitely be running around, and sooner or later someone will find Reed Village.  What will we do when the victims come from all directions?

    When they heard that lotus root powder could be made and stored for later consumption, the whole village became excited.

    Men began to dig lotus roots in the lake. The washed lotus roots were dried and then ground into a pulp. This pulp became the raw material for sun-dried lotus root powder.

    "This is all juice. It's not easy to dry it in the sun." Aunt Liu asked curiously.

    "You definitely can't dry it in the sun like this." Dalang smiled, turned to Xin Hu and said, "Go and get a cloth bag to put some ashes in the stove."

    Xin Hu immediately understood what he meant. When he was a child, when making glutinous rice balls at home, he would first soak the glutinous rice and then grind the glutinous rice slurry into water. After it had settled for a while, he poured out the clear water on top and put the ashes in the cloth bag.  On top of the slurry, the next day, the ash was saturated with water, and the slurry in the basin agglomerated and became solid.

    At this time, you can start making glutinous rice balls.  If it's too thin, use another gray bag to continue absorbing water. If it's too dry, you can add some water.  And if you can't finish it, you can dry it in the sun. Next time, add water to mix it and roll it into glutinous rice balls.

    The glutinous rice balls made in this way are more delicious than those made directly from dry glutinous rice flour.

    Sure enough, after Xin Hu packed a small bag of ashes and came out, Aunt Liu, Aunt Zhang, and Aunt Hu all understood.  At this time, the baby did not have the diapers of later generations to use. Diapers made of just some cloth would definitely wet the bed.  Therefore, people use cloth bags filled with dry ash to lay under the sheets, or put some thick diapers on them so that the children can sleep on them so that the whole bed will not be wet.  It is environmentally friendly and the wet cloths used by children can be used as fertilizer in the fields.

    Aunt Zhang¡¯s little Chuba used such a gray bag in winter, and everyone knows about it.

    By the next day, it turns out that the lotus root juice in the basin has agglomerated, and you can take it outside to dry in the sun.  Instead of drying it in one piece, it needs to be crushed and spread out in a thin layer in a dustpan to dry.  The sun is strong and it dries easily.

    If it is not dried in the sun, it will soon go bad, become moldy, and become sour.  Therefore, drying lotus root powder requires good weather and hot sun.  After drying, it can be placed in jars and sealed for storage.  Don't say you won't eat it until winter. If it's well preserved, you can eat it until next year.

    When the lotus root powder that was dried for the first time was washed out by Xinhu, everyone looked at the crystal clear paste in the bowl and laughed.  Add a little sugar, it tastes very good, it is very suitable for children and the elderly, it is easy to digest and nutritious.

    After everyone tasted it, they all feltIn the summer of ?, the autumn harvest has also begun. Because everyone has made great efforts to take care of the crops, the harvest is gratifying and everything is good.  During the harvest season, Brother Hu and his men were so busy that they did not come back from home and lived directly in the fields. When the sun was hot, they rested in the shed. The ripe grain also attracted many birds. Everyone took the opportunity to  I hunted a lot and came back to eat.

    But even so, all the grains added up are only about 2,000 kilograms. On average, four families can share about 500 kilograms. It is a bit difficult to eat for a year, and seeds must be saved.  We must keep more staple foods such as wheat and sorghum, because there will be more fields for planting next year.  We decided to leave 200 kilograms each of wheat and sorghum as seeds.  For others, it all depends on the situation. Some leave three to five kilograms, while others leave ten to eight kilograms as seeds.

    In fact, there are still about 400 kilograms of rapeseed, but now we can¡¯t extract oil, so we just put them all as seeds.  As a result, each family is expected to receive only 300 kilograms of grain.  This small amount of food would last for a whole year. How could it be possible? Even if the Chen family only had five children, it wouldn't be enough.

    Fortunately, every household has stored some lotus root powder. Seeing that the weather is fine, this work has not stopped.  Not wanting to go hungry, everyone wants to save as much as possible.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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