Chapter 1565: Stockpiling Food

First of all, in terms of hunting, although Huang Hai did not get much, he could hunt 1~2 small animals every day, most of the time squirrels. Although the meat was small, it could barely satisfy hunger, and the fur was also good.

In addition, Huang Hai was responsible for checking the situation of all the traps set, and he also caught several hares in the past few days.

The meat of hares is much more than that of squirrels, which directly accumulated more than ten kilograms of meat for the two of them, which made up for a lot of previous consumption and greatly improved their sense of security.

If they continue at this pace, they can accumulate at least 40 to 50 kilograms of meat before the cold wave comes.

As the weather gets colder, prey rarely goes out, which makes hunting more and more difficult.

But fortunately, Bai Hao found some edible crops around him.

There are no rhizomes or cassava nearby, but another kind of food that can be eaten and is more suitable for eating is found - potatoes!

Near the stream, a lot of small potatoes were found unexpectedly, but there were a lot of them. One can spend more than 30 kilograms, which is simply a natural gold mine.

In the next few days, Huang Hai simply stopped going out to hunt wild animals. He checked the traps every day, and then spent most of his time and energy on digging potatoes.

Potatoes are a kind of food that has a strong sense of satiety and is very suitable for planting. Even if the cold wave comes in the future, they can plant potatoes and get food.

This is much better than the rhizomes and cassava before, which is a pleasant surprise.

In addition to potatoes, some wild vegetables were also found around, and the wild vegetables found here are more plump and tender, and taste better.

The rich resources here allowed the two to accumulate enough food in a short period of time.

And double happiness came, Xiaohe and the two also obtained a lot of other food.

They did not get a lot of fish and shrimp as expected. The number of fish and shrimp here is relatively small, and they are very small, so it is very difficult to catch them.

However, there are many snails and crabs here, and it is relatively easy to pack them, which allowed the two to harvest a lot of sea, and the food was instantly enriched.

So in recent days, the main food for the two is these snails and crabs, because these are fresh goods and cannot be preserved for a long time, so they must be eaten in a short time.

Moreover, strictly speaking, snails and crabs are not very good food, because they have very little meat and cannot be used to fill hunger. They can only be used as a taste and change a recipe.

The focus is still on staple food and meat.

And recently, Huang Hai found a way to get food!

Then there are squirrels.

However, they did not shoot and eat the squirrels directly, but chased the squirrels all the way to the place where the squirrels live forever, and then took out all the food they stored.

Squirrels usually store a lot of nuts for winter, and the amount is very large, with a small amount of four or five kilograms and a large amount of more than ten kilograms. If you can find one, it will be a huge fortune.

So, Huang Hai dug potatoes in the morning, and then went to the woods to find squirrels. Every day, he could dig 1~2 tree holes and get a lot of nuts.

Even with this method, the two found several nuts that could be eaten, but because the weather was too cold, these nut trees were almost frozen to death.

In this way, more than a week of fulfilling life passed, and they had been in this world for two months and 20 years.

In the 10 days after the shelter was built, the two quickly accumulated a lot of food.

The meat alone, the dried meat strips weighed more than 40 kilograms, which shows how many wild animals they hunted. After all, they could get hares and squirrels every day in these two days.

Because of snails and crabs, the two tried to reduce their meat consumption as much as possible, so they accumulated a lot of meat.

Although it weighed more than 40 kilograms, these smoked dried meat strips, if converted into fresh meat, should weigh more than 100 kilograms.

If the two of them ate sparingly, they could eat for at least several months.

There were also about 200 kilograms of potatoes, but they had to face a very serious problem, that is, potatoes were very easy to sprout, and they had to find a suitable way to deal with them.

Finally, Bai Hao finally thought of a suitable solution.

First, select a batch of potatoes with better quality, which can be used for future sowing and planting, and stored as seeds.

He planned to make all the remaining potatoes into potato strips.

First, wash all the potatoes, cut them into strips, and boil them in boiling water for about 20 minutes to cook them completely.

Then put these cooked potato strips in an area with long direct sunlight to dry, and they will be made into potatoes. These dried potatoes can be stored for at least one year, and the storage time will be longer in winter.

This will ensure that we can eat these potato strips as the main source of food throughout the cold wave.

Potato strips and meat are the two most important foods now.

There are also starches left before, which the two have not used recently, because no cassava and root plants were found around the new camp, so these starches have become rare supplies.

However, the two still left a lot of roots and cassava, and there is still a chance to plant them around the camp.

Now there is another important food, that is, more than 100 kilograms of various nuts, piled up like a small mountain, all taken from the squirrel's nest, which is considered very rich.

Finally, there are wild vegetables and fruits, which are important sources of vitamins, so they have accumulated a lot.

But wild fruits and vegetables also face a problem, that is, how to store them, they are also very easy to spoil.

Finally, I came up with two methods, namely drying and freezing.

The so-called drying method is the same principle as drying potato strips. After high-temperature cooking, it is placed in a place with direct sunlight to dry, which can effectively increase the storage time of food.

The freezing method is to freeze directly in the refrigerator, but there is no snow at present, so it is impossible to do this, so in the end, we chose to dry it.

In this way, the total amount of food for the two people now is already very large.

More than 40 kilograms of dried meat, 200 kilograms of potatoes, more than 100 kilograms of nuts, the remaining more than 50 kilograms of starchy food, and a lot of wild vegetables and fruits.

If two people eat sparingly, they can survive for several months.

However, they also need to consider another problem, that is, a large part of the food needs to be exchanged for survival coins, and they also need to buy warm items, etc.