Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 300: Counting the Fruit Trees

"We haven't raised chickens, ducks and geese for such a long time that the pens are dilapidated. We'll have to find time to repair them later. Otherwise, when the chickens, ducks and geese grow up, we won't be able to keep them in the pen," said Lu Chuan.

"It's time to repair it. Look, the chicken coop is about to collapse. If it's not repaired in time, it will surely collapse when the rainy season comes. Then the chickens will be killed, which will not be cost-effective." Grandpa Zhao said, pointing to the chicken coop nearby.

"Then wait until you have two days of free time and fix it first."

After tidying up the chickens, ducks and geese in the backyard, the group went to the front yard together.

It was already dark outside. Xu Han had been busy all day and was in no mood to cook dinner.

So they took out some food from the space and started eating.

"Let's start planting fruit trees tomorrow morning. We'll take out the saplings and sort out their quantity and varieties so that we can know where to plant each tree." Xu Han said.

"Okay, let's count the number tonight, and when we get up tomorrow, while it's not too hot, quickly dig the remaining holes and plant them in the afternoon. That way, we won't have to worry about the sun being too strong and burning the saplings."

"The tree pits dug before are probably not enough. We need to dig more." Xu Han said after looking at the saplings in the space.

"I'll take Mu'er and Ze'er to the backyard to play later. You can count the things quickly after dinner. You've been tiring all day, so finish early and rest early." Grandpa Zhao said.

"Okay, we'll do it after dinner." After saying that, they sped up their eating.

By the time Lu Chuan had washed the dishes, Xu Han had already taken out all the saplings in the space.

They are all neatly arranged in rows, with the same varieties placed together. After a rough count, there are actually quite a few.

"There are dates, pomegranates, peaches, apricots, pears, and persimmons here. There are so many fruit trees. Yunhua bought almost all the fruit trees that can be grown here.

There are also some fruit trees that were not on the list given to him last time, totaling 80 fruit trees.

Some fruit trees are more numerous, some are less numerous. When the time comes, we will plant different varieties of trees in different places.

Anyway, the area on the hillside is big enough, and the pits we dug are spaced far apart, so there will be enough room for future growth." Xu Han said as he arranged the fruit tree seedlings.

"Okay, based on this number, we only need to dig a dozen more pits tomorrow. We can definitely finish the work in one day."

"Tomorrow morning you and Grandpa Zhao go dig the hole, and in the afternoon I'll go with you to plant the fruit trees. This way it will be convenient to transport the trees or water them."

"The fruit trees were planted a little late this year, and I don't know if they can bear fruit."

“It doesn’t matter if there are no fruits. This year the main thing is to grow the roots well first, otherwise the fruits won’t be good.

Even if it bears fruit, we will pick the fruits off or leave a small amount on them.

Wait until the tree is stable and then let it bear a lot of fruit next year," said Xu Han.

Lu Chuan looked at the saplings on the ground and said, "These fruit trees don't look particularly big, so it's probably not time for them to bear a lot of fruit. So let's do as you said and let the trees grow steadily, and we'll talk about it next year."

"The most important thing now is to make sure the crops survive, and forget about other things for now.

We have no experience in planting fruit trees, and we don’t know if they will survive. As long as they survive, we will have more fruit to eat in the future.”

Although Xu Han said this, based on his many years of experience in growing flowers and vegetables, he is still very confident in planting fruit trees.

There are also many kinds of fruit trees in the vegetable garden of Xu Han’s hometown. Xu Han helps his father take care of the fruit trees every year and also knows some basic fruit tree pruning skills.

Although I'm not particularly proficient in it, I can still operate it roughly.

Xu Han looked down at the many fruit trees in front of her, and suddenly she seemed to be able to see the freedom of fruit many years later.

In ancient times, it was not easy to achieve fruit freedom. After all, who would be willing to plant so many different varieties of fruit trees at once?

Ordinary farmers, even if they have fruit trees at home, would think about selling the fruits to make some money to supplement their family income and would not bear to eat all of them.

Xu Han has already thought about it. When the time comes, the leftover fruits will be canned or dried, or they can be made into jam.

Even though the fruit trees haven't been planted yet, Xu Han has already thought of ways to eat various fruits.

Whether before or now, Xu Han is the kind of person who particularly loves to eat fruits.

You can skip meals every day, but you must not skip fruits, and you should often eat fruits as meals.

When I was stockpiling goods before, I also stockpiled a lot of fruits. Until now, there are still a lot of fruits in the space that have not been eaten.

Not only Xu Han likes to eat fruits at home, Mu'er also likes it very much.

Taking this into consideration, when Xu Han wrote the list for Yunhua, she wrote down all the fruits she liked, and also specifically marked that she could buy more saplings.

In the end, Yunhua lived up to everyone's expectations. The fruit trees that Xu Han specially marked had more fruits than other trees.

"Now that you have finished the inventory, you can put away the fruit trees first. I'll go to the backyard to pick up Ze'er. You go wash up and rest first, I'll help Ze'er wash up later." Lu Chuan said to Xu Han.

"I understand. You go and pick up Ze'er." After saying that, Xu Han started to collect the fruit tree seedlings.

After Lu Chuan finished helping Ze'er wash and brush his teeth, Xu Han had already fallen asleep when he entered the room again.

Seeing this, Lu Chuan lowered his footsteps, put Ze'er on the small bed first, tucked the quilt for Xu Han, and then tiptoed out of the room to wash up.

Xu Han, who was tired after a day's work, fell asleep as soon as she lay down on the bed. She hadn't walked such a long distance for a long time, and she was exhausted after a day's work.

I had originally planned to wait for Lu Chuan to come back before going to sleep, but as I waited, I fell asleep without realizing it.

Have a good night's sleep...

The next morning, as expected, Xu Han got up late again.

When Xu Han put on her clothes and came out, no one was home.

After looking around, I found that Mu'er was not at home either. She must have followed Lu Chuan to the hillside.

Without having time to wash up or eat breakfast, Xu Han went to the backyard to check on the chickens, ducks and geese.

These will be the source of eggs in the future, so of course they must be taken care of carefully. Otherwise, if I want to cook an egg for my son in the future, I won’t be able to do so, which would be too unfair.

"Looks like they've recovered." Xu Han murmured to himself.

Water had been added to the chicken coop, and there were some uneaten coarse grain residues, which must have been fed by Lu Chuan or Grandpa Zhao early in the morning.

The chickens, ducks and geese seemed to be in much better spirits than yesterday. They were no longer looking listless with their heads down.