Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 344 Discussing Going Down the Mountain

"Why don't we go and have a look together? Grandpa Zhao hasn't come down the mountain since he came here. Ze'er has grown up now and can travel far away. There's no need to stay at home to watch over him."

"I think it's okay. Everything in the county should be in order now. Let's go down the mountain together to take a look, just for fun." Lu Chuan also agreed.

"Okay, hahahaha, then I'll go with you to take a look then." Grandpa Zhao agreed.

"Mu'er hasn't come down the mountain yet. It's time to let him go out and take a look."

"Yes, although the mountains are nice, we have to let him see the outside world."

"Mu'er, we are going out to play. Are you happy?" Lu Chuan asked.

"Go out and play? Daddy, are you going to take me up the mountain?" Mu'er asked puzzledly.

"Haha, we're not going up the mountain, we're going to a place you've never been to. We'll go together then, and daddy and mommy will accompany you." Xu Han explained.

"Is that the distant place that Great Grandfather mentioned? That's a place Mu'er has never been to. I want to go there."

Although Mu'er has been living in the mountains for many years, she has neither the time nor the opportunity to see the outside world.

But Grandpa Zhao was afraid that Mu'er's cognition would remain limited to what he had seen, so he told Mu'er about the outside world since he was very young.

So for Mu'er, the outside world is not particularly unfamiliar. Although she has never seen it, she has always heard about it.

"Yes, when the weather clears up in a while, Daddy, Mom, Great Grandfather, Taoist Grandpa, and my younger brother, we will go to the county town together."

"Okay, I want to go too." Mu'er replied happily.

Then I started looking forward to the sun coming out early so that I could go to the county town with my family.

Although Mu'er didn't know what a county town was, she had some simple understanding of the outside world that Grandpa Zhao talked about.

Mu'er thought that the county town should be similar to the place Grandpa Zhao described.

This was the first time Muer heard that she could go out and play, so naturally she was looking forward to this trip more. She was looking forward to the weather clearing up earlier every day so that she could go to the county town with her family.

"I just heard the Taoist priest say that you made hand-peeled bamboo shoots. Are they ready to eat?" Grandpa Zhao changed the subject.

"It's ready to eat. It's already cooked and is soaking in the big wooden tub in the kitchen."

"Then I'll get a few over and we'll taste them together." Upon hearing this, the Taoist priest put Ze'er down and quickly walked towards the kitchen.

"Why is this old guy so anxious?"

Everyone laughed out loud when they heard this.

"How do you eat this? The bamboo shoots haven't been peeled off yet. It smells quite fragrant, just like boiled meat." The Taoist priest brought over a few bamboo shoots and asked while smelling them.

"Let me show you how." Xu Han said, then picked up a hand-peeled bamboo shoot and started eating it.

"The tender part of the bamboo shoot shell is edible. You can eat it while peeling it. Come and try it. It tastes good."

Upon hearing this, everyone else took one. Lu Chuan was afraid that Mu'er couldn't eat something too spicy, so he took a smaller one, rinsed it with cold boiled water, and handed it to Mu'er.

"Mm, this tastes really good, spicy and fragrant, delicious."

"Hahaha, it would be even better if it were paired with some wine."

"It hasn't been soaked yet. It will taste better if it's soaked for a longer time. It will taste better when it's cold."

"I see you made quite a lot. It would be nice to put it away and eat it slowly as a snack."

"Yes, that's what I thought."

Several people each took one, and in a short while they finished the small bowl of hand-peeled bamboo shoots that was brought over.

"Okay, that's all for today. Eating too much bamboo shoots is not good. Let's save the rest for later."

"Okay, let's not eat anymore. It's almost time for lunch. Why do I feel a little full?" asked the Taoist priest while rubbing his stomach.

"You eat the most. How can you not be full?" Grandpa Zhao said with disdain.

"Isn't this too delicious? I couldn't hold it back and accidentally ate too much."

"Then let's have lunch later today. Everyone has eaten by now, so I guess you're not hungry yet?"

"Okay, okay, I'll eat later."

After everyone finished eating the bamboo shoots, they started to peel the bamboo shoots together. With the participation of Grandpa Zhao and the Taoist priest, the peeling speed became much faster.

"Oh my God, I haven't finished peeling it yet. When I peel it, I always feel like I haven't peeled enough. Why do I feel like I can never finish peeling it?" Xu Han said as he stood up and stretched.

"Hahaha, it's like there's some kind of magic when I break the bamboo shoots. The more I break them, the more I want to break them. Why didn't I think about how painful it would be to peel the bamboo shoots?" Lu Chuan replied with a smile.

"Well, if it happens again, I might break more than before. Hahahaha." Xu Han said seriously.

I guess few people can resist the joy of picking bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

You will never feel that you have done too much, you will only regret that you did not do it well enough.

"If you want to break them, we can go there next time. After peeling these bamboo shoots, they shrink by half. There won't be much left after peeling them all. If we dry them, there won't be much left."

"We dried a lot of bamboo shoots last time. If we dry more, there will be too much and we won’t be able to eat them all this year." Xu Han said hesitantly.

"That's easy. If you can't finish it, just take it down the mountain and sell it. There won't be any chaos down the mountain for the time being anyway, so we can at least make some money." Grandpa Zhao suggested.

"This is a good idea, let's do it." The Taoist priest continued.

"Next time we go down the mountain, we can take the leftover vegetables to the county town to sell. People in the county town probably don't have many vegetables to sell right now, so they will definitely sell well."

“I don’t think this is appropriate. We need to keep the vegetables we grow at home for winter consumption. If you buy our vegetables, there will be less.

Besides, we have just settled down. If we sell vegetables now, we will inevitably be targeted by people with bad intentions, and it will be too eye-catching. We should keep a low profile. "Xu Han said.

"Xiao Han is right, we don't need this little money, so we should not sell it.

But we can consider eating more in the future. Not at this juncture, it's too eye-catching." Grandpa Zhao also said.

"I didn't think it through. Then we won't sell it. It won't go bad anyway, so we can keep it for the winter."

This is also the reason why Xu Han grows so many vegetables. She will definitely not be able to eat all the vegetables when they come, but Xu Han has space, so she can put them in the space and eat them in the winter.

In this way, there will be fresh vegetables all year round and you don’t have to worry about not being able to finish them.