latelenovela Chapter 357: War is about to begin
Chapter 357: War is about to begin
"It seems that what you said is true, just like everyone thinks that the food they cook is better than that of others."
"Hey, this statement is wrong. Not everyone is like you." The Taoist priest retorted.
"Anyway, they all taste better than what you cook." Grandpa Zhao rolled his eyes at the Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest wanted to continue speaking, but Xu Han interrupted him and said, "Let's leave early tomorrow and not come back for lunch."
"Okay, we'll go after breakfast and won't be back at noon. Grandpa Zhao, just take Mu'er for a walk around our house in the afternoon, but don't go too far."
"Okay, I get it. Go do your thing and don't worry about us."
After the few people agreed, they set off early the next morning.
After picking mushrooms for three consecutive days, they had finally picked up most of the mushrooms near their home. They did not go to places farther away as it took too much time to go back and forth.
Early in the morning, after breakfast, the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan were chopping bluestone slabs at home.
Xu Han asked, "Lu Chuan, why don't you come with me to the mountains for a walk? The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Let's pick some zong leaves and make zongzi."
"Okay, we've already finished eating the previous rice dumplings, let's make some more."
After Lu Chuan finished speaking, he stood up and went to the tool room, and the two of them went to the mountains to pick up rice dumplings leaves.
The Dragon Boat Festival is the same every year: cutting mugwort, making rice dumplings, frying sugar cakes and vegetable dumplings.
In the past, dragon boat races were held in the county town, but Xu Han had never seen one when she came here, and it was estimated that there would be no such races this year.
Although the customs are the same and are the same every year, the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and Xu Han still attaches great importance to it.
Even during the severe famine in the past two years, Xu Han did not cheat. Although the preparations were a little less and there was no mugwort to cut, she would still make some rice dumplings and fry some sugar cakes and vegetable dumplings every year.
There isn't much mugwort growing this year, so I guess we won't be able to harvest much.
It’s okay to cut less at that time. The mosquito coils at home are almost used up, and we need to go to the mountains to find some herbs to make some new mosquito coils.
"What kind of rice dumplings do you want to eat this year?" Xu Han asked as they walked.
"Let's go for the sweet rice dumplings. Meat rice dumplings are also fine. They both taste good despite their different flavors."
"That's fine too. We'll just make some salty rice dumplings this year."
As we were talking, we arrived at the place for picking rice dumplings leaves. We found this place when we were picking mushrooms in the past two days. At that time, we said we would pick some to take back, but we were so focused on picking mushrooms that we forgot about it.
The two of them picked a large basket full of rice, and as soon as they got home Xu Han started to cook the rice dumplings.
"These bluestone slabs are easy to process." The Taoist priest said as he split the bluestone.
"Once you get used to it, you can speed it up. It hasn't been long, only two full days at most, and you can see how much we have processed. The rest won't take a few more days."
“After we finish processing this batch of bluestone slabs, let’s build the firewood shed and doghouse in the backyard first.
Otherwise, it will take too long, and I am afraid that there will be no place to store the charcoal in winter." said the Taoist priest.
"That's fine. This is indeed a problem. After the road outside is paved, it will be almost the busy farming season. If we finish paving the road outside before building the shed, it may be too late."
"Yes, after the firewood shed and the doghouse are built, we will first lay the bluestone slabs in the backyard and the front yard. This will allow us to dry the crops during the busy farming season. As for other places, don't worry about it and just work slowly."
So as they worked on it, they changed their subsequent plans.
In fact, it is sometimes like this. Many times, our expectations are quite good, but when it comes to implementation, we will find many problems.
After discovering the problem, appropriate adjustments must be made. Otherwise, if you still follow the previous plan, many things will not be able to be solved.
If Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest follow their discussion, at least after the autumn harvest, the space for drying grain at home will be larger.
Moreover, there is no need to pry open the bluestone slabs again to build the firewood shed later, which saves a process.
In this way, the few of them were busy for more than ten days and finally processed all the bluestone slabs that were brought back from the yard.
During this period, the whole family happily spent a happy Dragon Boat Festival together.
Xu Han also took advantage of this time to sort and dry all the mushrooms that she had picked some time ago.
During this period, the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan did not stay at home all the time to split bluestone slabs.
During this period, the second pile of fertilizer was ready for use, and several people also applied fertilizer to the fruit trees in the orchard.
The sun is very strong in May and the water evaporates quickly, so several people have to water the vegetables in the garden frequently.
However, since the advent of bamboo tubes, the speed of watering has increased a lot, and it has also greatly saved manpower.
Although they stayed at home under the pretext of processing bluestone, it did not interfere with everyone's other work. The main task was to process the bluestone slabs.
The peaceful days had not lasted for half a year when, on the morning of May 18th, the Taoist priest suddenly received a letter from Yunhua.
That morning, the family had just finished breakfast and were about to return to their respective posts to start the day's work when the Taoist priest suddenly called everyone and asked them to gather together with a serious face.
After everyone was seated, the Taoist priest slowly spoke, "Just now I received a letter from Yunhua. There may be a war in the north."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent. These good days had just begun, and what was supposed to come had finally come.
"So soon. Given the current situation, the people who were repatriated from the north have probably just been settled down. They have finally settled down, but the world is going to be in chaos again." Grandpa Zhao said with a worried look on his face.
"The neighboring countries to the north of Yuanqing are Xiyue, Dongyue and Canglang. Among them, Canglang is the most warlike. When there are no natural disasters, it often fights with our country. There are often wars at the northern border, but there has never been a real fight.
The economy and food supplies of the Canglang Kingdom are not as strong as ours, so they only dare to harass us and do not dare to really attack our country.
The West Moon Kingdom and the East Moon Kingdom were originally one country, but later split into two countries.
Affected by the natural disaster, these three countries were affected to varying degrees, with Canglang Country suffering the greatest damage.
This is also the reason why they did not attack us during the disaster years, mainly because they were short of food and manpower.
As soon as the natural disaster ended, they set their sights on our Yuanqing Kingdom.
I heard from Yunhua's letter that these three countries want to join forces to attack our Yuanqing Kingdom.
If this is true, Yuanqing Country will be surrounded by enemies on three sides and face many dangers. "The Taoist priest analyzed slowly.