She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 753: 【739】Beast World Farming 49 (Happy New Year)

"After all the food was stored in the granary, Tangtang’s family was exhausted. After busying themselves for a whole year, wasn’t it all for getting through the Cold Season comfortably?

Before the first snowfall arrived, they tirelessly chopped firewood, stacked firewood piles, made thatch curtains and thatch covers, and collected Stinky Fruit.

However, Tangtang did not participate. Instead, she was organizing the seeds of rapeseed, preparing to press oil. The harvests of peanuts and sesame were quite small, not daring to be wasted at all, keeping them for next year’s seeds. After all, collecting these seeds was not easy, having run through many places.

Having prepared the seeds to be pressed, they immediately used the cloth woven by Lili to make quilts. There were many people in the house, and a heated brick bed was available, so there was no need to make the quilts too thick, but they couldn’t be too thin either. On average, about ten jin of cotton was needed for a quilt, and the mattress just used beast skins with a layer of bed sheet spread over it, all set.

Besides these, they also had to make cotton-padded jackets and pants, Tangtang and Lili’s hands never ceased to work, measuring sizes first and prioritizing the four Beastmen who went out every day.

The young ones barely went out, so there was no rush to make theirs, but those who went out every day had to be rushed. Pan Lin didn’t have one since he hibernated in the winter.

Lili, this rainy season, didn’t stop dyeing and weaving cloths, and the outcomes were also gratifying. At least after finishing cotton-padded jackets and pants for the whole family, bed sheets, and duvet covers, there were still some leftovers.

Though it seemed like the young ones wandered about playing each day and seemed idle, the wild vegetables and fungal spores they brought back were essential. Therefore, both inside and outside the home, everyone worked very hard. With such united efforts, how could they not live well?

When the first snow fell, Pan Lin entered his hibernation period, and Lili and Tangtang spent at least another half a month of pure handiwork before finishing everyone’s winter clothes. Aside from the three Beastmen who each had two sets of cotton clothes, the rest had one set each.

Even the beast-form cubs were wrapped in vests.

Since they would metamorphose into human form only after they turned ten, the insulation of their fur in beast form was quite strong.

They hardly went outside during the Cold Season, ensuring they didn’t catch a chill.

Afterwards, Tangtang taught Lili how to knit scarves and hats with wool using bamboo needles. The two fiddled for about seven or eight days before knitting scarves and hats for themselves.

For the Beastmen’s, she made hats and scarves out of beast skins, which were warmer than theirs, as they would, at most, move around in the yard.

After all the winter clothes were made, she started organizing their beastmen to prepare for oil pressing. Before pressing the rapeseeds, they had to be roasted since there were no machines like in the previous world, so it was all handcrafted. The roasted rapeseeds were ground into a cake, then wrapped in cotton cloth, placed into hollowed tree trunks one by one, and then hung up to be pounded with large wooden stakes. This process was extremely laborious, but the resulting oil didn’t need filtering.

This method could also be applied to soybeans and peanuts in the future.

This year, she and Jin Han had gathered about two or three hundred pounds of rapeseeds, yielding less than a hundred pounds of oil, which was quite difficult.

The leftover seeds, amounting to about ten or twenty pounds, were sufficient for next year’s seeds.

After refining the rapeseed oil, they went on to produce animal fats, all captured before the Cold Season. After the Cold Season, the Vine Mountain Tribe also sent over a dozen animals, and the tribe’s Beastmen also brought some, totalling about five or six animals. Of course, they didn’t just take others’ hunts without giving something back, sometimes salt or eggs.

Since they had been busy gathering other food this year, hunting had been somewhat neglected. But, the variety of ingredients was abundant at their home. During the rainy season, they had made a lot of cured meat and smoked meat, and they also had plenty of fresh meat stored away in their space, definitely enough to last.

But thinking that they had no time to hunt, others considerately brought some over, perhaps without expecting anything in return. But Tangtang’s way of dealing with people was always to reciprocate whatever was sent.

Now, an exchange with each delivery had let them establish quite a few beneficial relationships.

Usually, when the game was brought over, the first thing done was to drain the blood (knowing they liked it fresh, it was always caught alive), followed by skinning.

Once the skin was removed, the remaining meat was stored in Tangtang’s space, as they were truly too busy to handle it earlier.

So when Beastmen came over bringing game, she would serve them Blood Tofu, teaching them its preparation and how to eat it.

Anyone who visited their home never left cursing or fussing. Wasn’t everyone delighted?"