Traveling through the mountains and farming

Chapter 135 Auntie is here

When the two siblings saw Lin Jing coming back, they happily pulled him to go out and play with their friends.

Seeing that the children had all gone out to play, Lin Wan also had a rare opportunity to walk around leisurely.

She first came to the vegetable garden and saw that her tomatoes were all in bloom, and some could be seen about to bear fruit.

It’s just that the time for sowing is still a little late. I hope they can mature early before the cold winter comes.

The same goes for sweet potatoes. Although the sweet potato vines are growing lushly now, their growth cycle is still a bit short before the cold winter arrives.

The potatoes are growing well too. I think their growth cycle is long enough so they can be harvested before the Chinese New Year.

Lin Wan carefully checked the growth of other vegetables and found that there would be cucumbers to eat in about ten days.

Then he turned around and went to the stream pond next to him to look at the fish in it.

They lived in seclusion in caves and would organize people to go to ponds or streams to catch some fish and raise them every once in a while. They stipulated that every ten days each household could catch fish from the fish pond according to the number of people in the family.

The families in the cave are really nice people. They won't take advantage of others easily. They discuss everything together, help each other, and get along very harmoniously.

When fishing, if you are lucky, you can also catch some wild ducks, so later Lin Wan's family was given two more wild ducks, and her family now has three wild ducks.

For fear that they will not get enough nutrition, Li Ke has started raising earthworms.

This was because when they had a second duck, Li Ke found that there were not enough earthworms, so he asked Lin Wan how to solve this problem.

Lin Wan told her how to raise earthworms, and then she pulled her together to make a wooden box for the earthworms, prepare leaf mold and catch earthworms. Unexpectedly, she was able to raise them successfully.

In this way, the earthworm feces can also be used as fertilizer, killing two birds with one stone.

As for the five pheasants, they no longer need to clip their wings regularly and they won't fly away. Li Ke feeds them with a mixture of earthworms, rice bran and sweet potato vines.

The little rabbits next to them were also raised to be fat. The vegetables grown at home were mainly used to feed these two rabbits, in addition to being eaten by themselves.

Finally, Lin Wan came to the sheepfold. Three lambs were jumping around, and the mother goat was lying and sleeping beside them. They had already stored some fodder for the winter.

In order to allow the female goats to produce enough milk every day, in addition to letting them out to graze on the gentle slopes every day, they are also supplemented with some rice bran, kudzu vine and other feed and clean drinking water.

After inspecting all these, Lin Wan returned to the main room and lay on the recliner with her eyes closed to rest, preparing to relax herself in the morning and make shampoo in the afternoon. She had already asked Dr. Zhong for some Polygonum multiflorum, and she was least lacking in the other raw materials, saponins and soapberries.

As she was lying there, she felt a sour and bloated feeling in her stomach, accompanied by another familiar feeling, which made Lin Wan's heart tighten.

Could it be that this body is about to have its period?

I have never been here before.

Could it be that the nutrition has been adequate in the past few months and the body has started to develop normally?

She is indeed not as thin as when she first came here, and she has also grown taller. She was about 1.5 meters tall before, but now she should be over 1.6 meters tall.

But the original body has no memory of how to deal with menstruation!

Lin Wan thought so much and didn’t even think about checking whether she really had her period.

After she recalled what she had learned about how to deal with menstruation in ancient times, she remembered to go into the bathroom to check.

Alas~ Her period has really come!

Before, I was somewhat thankful that this body was underdeveloped and I didn’t have to worry about my period.

I didn't expect that my continuous improvement in diet and nutritional supplements over the past three months would lead to her coming so soon.

Wow~ Menstruation was so inconvenient in ancient times.

Fortunately, she had homemade underwear. When she first wore it, she found that the underwear always felt empty when she put it on, as if she was not wearing anything.

When she went into town she bought some cotton cloth and made herself some pairs of panties and a vest.

Because there were no elastic bands, she made her underwear into a triangle and tied it with two straps on each side with cloth strips. Although it was not as comfortable as modern underwear, it was much better than the ancient crotchless underwear.

And she wasn't used to wearing the bellyband, and it felt empty when she put it on.

She studied for a long time and finally sewed a vest bra similar to modern underwire-free bra.

The most difficult thing to make was the bra cup. Due to limited conditions, she used cloth and a small amount of cotton, and sewed two small circles similar to the cups with dense needles, and then sewed them onto the vest.

This way you don't have to worry about showing your grapes when wearing clothes in the summer.

What bothers her now is how to deal with her period.

She didn't even need to ask anyone to guess that people here were still at the stage of wrapping wood ash in cloth, it was just that the cloth bag used for wrapping had evolved to be more convenient.

After much thought, Lin Wan decided to find a way to deal with this period first, and then she would have to think of a way to study how to make sanitary napkins.

Wood ash is used to absorb water, so cotton can be used instead. However, it is too expensive to always use cotton, and she doesn't have that much to waste.

She quickly turned out the cloth and cotton, took out the needle and thread, and began to sew.

I have to get one and use it before my period comes!

She thought of stacking cotton and cloth together and sewing them into a cotton piece in the shape of a sanitary pad, and then making a small cloth bag to hold the cotton piece, so that she could make a few more cotton pieces for replacement.

In order to make the cotton cloth reusable, she experimented with the thickness of the cotton and the density of the needle and thread to ensure good water absorbency and that it could be washed and reused.

It took her an hour to make three pieces of cotton cloth and a small cloth bag to match them. The first one is already in use. She plans to test which one is the most useful today and then make more replacements later.

Although it may not be possible to restore the original color after repeated use, she always feels that it is better than using wood ash. At worst, she can add more soap beans and soapberries when washing, and then add pig pancreatic soap to wash a few more times.

Oh ~ I miss sanitary napkins!

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After the three kids went out, they found Luo Dashan and his friends carrying wooden buckets to the pond to catch fish. They immediately gathered a group of kids and asked the adults to take them to the pond to watch them catch fish.

After we repeatedly assured them that we would never go into the water or run around, the adults finally agreed.

As the weather was getting colder, they decided to catch more this time and keep them in the fish pond for winter consumption.

They later discovered two other small lakes, where they often fished, so the first pool they discovered was not overfished.

It is quite cold in the water in early winter. In order to avoid catching a cold while walking in the cave with wet clothes, adults will light a few fires on the shore before going into the water.

It was still very cold in the mountains in the morning, so the children played around the fire to keep warm, their little faces glowing red in the firelight.

Their eyes looked towards the pond from time to time, anxiously and expectantly hoping that the adults would catch some fish quickly.

When they saw them catch the fish, they would happily carry the wooden bucket over to catch them.

In less than half an hour, the wooden barrel was filled with a lot of lively fish.

Xiaobai, who followed along, kept circling around the wooden barrels filled with fish, making whining sounds from time to time, and you could even see his drooling.