The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The pheasant was in the bush, but the grass was still wet.

Gu Liang walked towards the pheasant nest with a nervous heart. Just when he was close but not yet there, he heard a noise in the bush. It must be the noise when Gu Liang came over that startled it.

At this time, Gu Liang could no longer care about so much, and regardless of whether there was a dense fern under his feet, he ran forward excitedly. Sure enough, there was a pheasant struggling in the bush, with the thin rope wrapped around its feet in the morning.

"Uncle San, come here quickly, we caught a pheasant, come and see it!" Gu Liang shouted excitedly, dancing and excited like a big monkey.

The pheasant was obviously frightened by Gu Liang, and it flapped its wings vigorously in the air, but it couldn't get rid of the rope. It fell down after flying less than half a meter. Gu Liang was afraid that the pheasant would break free, so he quickly grabbed one of the pheasant's feet and held it tightly in his arms. However, the pheasant still wanted to break free, flapping its wings but found that it was powerless, so it pecked Gu Liang's arm with its beak. Gu Liang felt pain and pinched the chicken's mouth in panic.

When the third uncle Gu Boxi heard Gu Liang's shout, he immediately ran over, only to see his eldest nephew sitting on the ground in a mess, holding the pheasant's feet with one hand and covering the chicken's mouth with the other hand, and then hugging it. The funniest thing is that there are two chicken feathers hanging on his head and chicken feathers stuck to the corners of his mouth.

Gu Boxi joked, "Gu Liang, if you hold tighter, you will strangle the pheasant to death. Don't be so impatient, this chicken is not for eating with hair."

Gu Liang also felt the hair at the corner of his mouth, and quickly let go of his hand to wipe it. As a result, the hand holding the chicken's mouth was loosened, and it was bitten twice again. Gu Liang screamed in pain a few more times. Gu Boxi saw his nephew's miserable appearance, so he helped to grab the pheasant's wings and lifted it up.

After the two men finished dealing with the traps here, the sky was already dark, and the two hurriedly carried the chicken home.

Although Gu Liang grew up in the countryside, there were very few wild animals in the mountains at that time. Although there were pheasants, it was difficult to see them. Most of the time, they only heard the movement but did not see the real body. So he was extremely excited after catching it this time, and he was already thinking about how to eat it. In this era, pheasants are rampant, and there is no need to consider whether it is an act of protecting animals.

In comparison, Gu Boxi was more calm, after all, it was not like he had never caught pheasants before. Along the way, Gu Boxi heard Gu Liang muttering about various ways to eat chicken, such as boiled chicken, big plate chicken, fried chicken, three cups chicken, beggar's chicken, chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised chicken...

Gu Boxi didn't know where his nephew had heard so many ways to eat chicken. Looking at the dry and scraggly pheasant in his hand, he said jokingly: "Gu Liang, were you killed by a chicken in your previous life? You have a grudge against it, so you thought of 108 ways to kill it! But look at this chicken, it's less than two and a half pounds. You are preparing a chicken claw to make a dish, right?"

Gu Liang heard his uncle teasing him like this, obviously mocking the fact that he had just been pecked by a chicken several times, so he acted like a child and ignored him and walked forward.

Gu Boxi saw that Gu Liang was angry, so he quickly changed the subject and asked Gu Liang how to make the boiled chicken he had just been talking about.

Gu Liang was still angry at this time, so he said maliciously: "Kill the chicken first, then remove all the hair on the body, then put the body into boiling water and boil it, then put it into ice water, repeat this process, finally chop off the head, and then cut it into pieces."

After saying this, Gu Liang left without looking back, leaving Gu Boxi stunned in the same place, feeling that what Gu Liang said was not a recipe, but a torture in the palace of Hades……………………

After the two returned home, everyone in the Gu family was very happy, and they looked at the pheasant again and again, as if they wanted to eat it alive immediately. Gu Changan hurriedly suggested that they should kill it and eat it tonight, so as to avoid more nightmares.

In the end, it was the old lady Gu who made the final decision and kept the pheasant, saying that she would keep it for Li to come back and eat together. She also taught Gu Changan that he only knew how to eat, and forgot about his wife and children when there was something delicious. Gu Changan scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

The next morning, the whole family of the Gu family went to open up the wasteland.

Yesterday, the trees and shrubs on the land were basically cleared, and the remaining ones were all ferns. Old Man Gu and his family had already divided them into small pieces, so that they could be burned piece by piece. Today was a cloudless day with clear air and no wind, which was perfect for burning the wasteland.

It would take a long time to manually clean up the ferns, so it would be better to burn them all with a fire.

It can add some fertility to the soil.

When the fire was lit, each member of the Gu family stood in a corner, holding a green pine branch in his hand to prevent the spread of sparks. The fire burned for a whole morning, burning the dense ferns completely, and the land also revealed its original color. There was nothing on the surface except some burnt black wood piles that needed to be cleaned up.

After removing the plants on the surface, the real land reclamation began. Since this land has never been dug, it must be dug deep for the first time to remove the grass roots buried in it to prevent it from growing again next year.

Fortunately, although this land is barren, the soil is not hard, and some can be dug up with a hoe. However, since these ferns have been growing here for an unknown period of time, once dug down, it is full of fern roots. So every time you dig a hoe, you have to bend down to pick up the fern roots and throw them aside.

Gu Liang naturally couldn't do the work of digging the ground, so he could only do some work within his ability—picking up fern roots in the dug soil.

Although this work is very boring, Gu Liang works very hard. Because he had eaten the local specialty food, fern root baba, when he traveled before, and heard that it was made from this fern root. There is also fern root vermicelli. The fact that these things can be made proves that this fern root is rich in starch, which is a nutrient necessary for the human body.

The men of the Gu family worked together to dig about five mu of land in a day, and it would take about a week to dig all the wasteland. Gu Liang picked up about two or three hundred kilograms of fern roots in this five mu of land, which were thick and plump. When the fern roots of this large piece of wasteland are collected, it is estimated that the amount of fern root powder made in the future will be enough for one person to live for half a year.

Gu Liang was naturally happy that he got so many fern roots without spending a penny of effort. But now he is a little unsatisfied. If he only relies on picking up these wild vegetable roots in the space, after three years, he can indeed barely fill his family's stomach to survive the famine.

However, Gu Liang didn't want this to happen. The food in the Gu family was already the lowest level he could accept. Could he really bear to eat bran and vegetables all day long when the famine came? Was he the one who wanted to live a pale and skinny life? What was the point of predicting the famine in advance?

No, he didn't want to. He didn't want his family to fight with others for grass roots and tree bark; he didn't want his family to flee thousands of miles away and live a life of displacement; he didn't want his happy, harmonious and neat family to be incomplete.

Gu Liang secretly swore in his heart: "Since I come from the 21st century, although I can't change the world so that famines don't happen again, I can't help the world so that everyone can survive the famine safely. But at least, I have to let my family live a rich and stable life during the famine."