Chapter 20 Blood Tofu

The wild yam patch wasn't a dense, sprawling expanse, unlike cultivated yam patches which were neatly arranged in rows.

Instead, there are one or two here and one or two there, but the distance between them is not too far.

However, the total number was still quite large. Yunxi kept digging, and by the time he finished digging them all, the sun was already high in the sky.

Looking at the tall pile of wild yams on the ground, I silently calculated that it must weigh over 200 jin (100 kg).

It's a shame that so many were eaten by wild boars; otherwise, there might have been even more.

I collected all the wild sweet potatoes and put them in my space. Later, I'll grind them all into a paste, then dry them into white powder. Then I can mix it with hot water and drink it; it can be considered a kind of refined grain.

At least in times of such scarcity, it can be considered a form of nutrition.

At the same time, my stomach started to rumble.

I did so much hard work this morning, and those two steamed buns made from the mixed dough were definitely not enough.

I took out some water from my spatial storage, washed my hands, and then took out a steamed bun made from two different types of dough to tide me over for now.

I plan to have a proper meal when I get back.

After eating a steamed bun made from two kinds of dough, I finally felt less hungry. I took out my military water bottle from my storage space, drank a few sips of cool boiled water, and felt a little better.

He filled the empty basket next to him with pig feed piled up in his spatial storage, and made sure that everything he had taken out was stored in his spatial storage before heading towards the pig farm.

By this time, most of the people at the pig farm had already gone home for dinner, leaving only an aunt from the village still there.

After her aunt checked and confirmed there were no problems, she would ask Grandma Cheng to record her work points when Grandma Cheng returned.

Yunxi had nothing to worry about; they were all acquaintances from the same village.

By this time, hardly anyone was out and about anymore; everyone was staying home eating and taking a break from the scorching sun.

After Yunxi got home, she first checked the mushrooms that were drying outside. After finding that they were almost dry, she decided to bring them in later.

Then I went to the backyard to check on the five chickens. Every morning, the rooster is the most diligent, crowing as soon as it gets light.

As for the remaining four hens, I don't know which one is slacking off. When I collect eggs each day, I only collect about three. It's definitely because one of the hens is being lazy.

If she weren't so rich in eggs, she might actually be watching the chickens lay eggs all day long to figure out which chicken was being lazy.

I picked a handful of leaves from the vegetable garden and scattered them inside the fence. Seeing that the water in the broken earthenware pot inside was running low, I went to the well to fetch more water.

I was originally planning to cook in the front yard, but when I looked at the vegetables in the backyard garden, they looked a bit wilted, as if they were about to die from the sun. Then I suddenly remembered that I hadn't watered them for the past few days.

The sun is too strong now, and if we water them, they will easily die from the heat. It seems that we can only wait until the sun sets to water them properly, so that they don't die from the sun, which would be a pity!

Back in the front yard, I put the firewood I had just collected on the mountain on the ground, intending to dry it properly, then tidy it up, bundle it into bundles, and put it into the woodshed.

They look like a lot, but they're actually all small and don't last long at all.

To make it burn longer like firewood, you have to go deep into the mountains to find those with particularly large roots, preferably those from trees that are completely dead, and drag them home.

After entering the kitchen, I looked at the things in the house and then at the mountain of meat piled up in the space, and I was a little unsure what to eat.

It's all decided that I won't eat meat for a month, which will be considered a form of mourning, as if I'm fulfilling the karma of this body.

But apart from the meat, all that was left were some vegetables and wild greens picked from the mountain.

Finally, Yunxi prepared to stir-fry some vegetables for herself and make a large plate of cold wild vegetable salad. Although she definitely couldn't finish it all at once, the food wouldn't spoil, and it would be fine to eat it next time.

I stir-fried four vegetables in total: eggplant, green beans, scrambled eggs with chives, and cabbage. The rest was a large bowl of cold wild vegetables salad.

He added a little bit of each dish, and put the rest into his spatial storage. He then took out two steamed buns made from two different types of dough and started eating them.

After finishing the meal, I kneaded a lot more dough, intending to steam more buns and store them in my space.

There are definitely no steamed buns made entirely of white flour, so I can only try to eat as well as possible within the limited resources available, and make steamed buns made entirely of mixed flour and wheat flour.

Compared to those who eat wild vegetables and cornbread, Yunxi's meals are already quite good.

While the steamed buns were cooking, I quickly released the two wild boars that I had just caught.

The wild boars that were just released were still soft all over, looking as if they had just died; they were incredibly fresh.

Wild boar meat always has a strong, unpleasant smell when eaten fresh, but if you smoke it all into cured meat, it will be especially fragrant no matter what vegetables you stir-fry it with, or even just a little bit of chili and garlic sprouts.

He took out a kitchen knife and forcefully stabbed it into the neck, collecting all the pig's blood in a large wooden basin.

The blood from two whole wild boars filled two large wooden basins.

For the first time, Yunxi felt that the family's supplies were a bit insufficient. Fortunately, they had only killed two wild boars. If they had killed more, there would have been nowhere to put all the blood.

After draining the blood, Yunxi first put the two pigs into her spatial storage, preparing to make blood tofu from the two large basins of pig blood before processing the meat from the two pigs later.

Pig's blood is quite delicious. I often go up the mountain, and I must have some dirty dust in my body that I breathe in through my nose. Eating more pig's blood can help get rid of that dust.

A little salt was added, and after it solidified, it was put into a large pot to cook.

Seeing the mixed dough in the pot, and the steamed buns already cooked, I quickly grabbed a winnowing basket, collected them all, and put them into my spatial storage.

Clean the pot and drain the hot water that was boiled in the space yesterday, so you won't have to wait that long.

The water boiled quickly, then the solidified pig's blood in the wooden basin was cut into pieces and boiled in the water.

Yunxi felt that she only had two wooden basins, and the tools at home were definitely not enough. She wandered around again and saw two large vats lying idle in the next room.