We can't finish all this meat at once, and with the hot weather, it won't keep for long.

Why not marinate it first, and then just cut off a piece to cook when you want to eat it?

If we save it until the New Year, it would be best if there was fresh meat. If not, at least we can still have salted meat to eat, so we won't have to eat wild vegetables all winter.

Tie Dan and Siya, who were standing nearby, had bright eyes. They had heard what their older brother and sister-in-law had said: there would be meat for dinner tonight.

Although we were able to eat meat from time to time recently, no one is afraid of having less.

After Ning Jing finished speaking, she couldn't help but find it funny to see the two of them looking like that.

He went up and pinched Tie Dan and Siya's cheeks, then said, "Tie Dan and Siya's cheeks have gotten so plump!"

"Let's make another steamed egg custard, so that the children can eat eggs every day from now on."

Seeing Ning Jing holding Tie Dan and Si Ya's fingers, Fu Hongxing felt his own fingers were itching to move as well.

However, what he really wanted to pinch was Ning Jing's face.

After the family happily finished cooking, Ning Jing mentioned it to Fu Hongxing.

They said they still had plenty of bricks left, so why not build two firewalls in the old room as well, including the woodshed that was a bit drafty on all four sides?

Building a firewall is not like building a house; a few family members can do it themselves.

Of course, Fu Hongxing, being a man, was indispensable.

It doesn't take much effort; just surround the inside of the original wall.

If you don't have enough bricks, you can make some mud yourself, mix it well, break it into mud blocks, dry it, and then mix it with the bricks to build the structure.

Anyway, it's only less than a meter high. Ning Jing mainly wanted the house to get warmer after the fire was lit.

What do you want to do inside the house?

Fu Hongxing raised an eyebrow after hearing her suggestion to build a firewall and asked what was on his mind.

After all, Ning Jing wouldn't do these things for no reason; she must have some ulterior motive.

Ning Jing was surprised that Fu Hongxing was so smart, and immediately thought of what she wanted to do in the house.

“I was thinking that in winter, we would need to heat the kang (a traditional heated brick bed) in this house.”

If I could bring the two rooms from the old house, it would save on firewood, and also, some of the vegetables we planted were a bit late. I was thinking that if we moved those late-planted vegetables to a warmer house, they might be able to flower and bear fruit like usual.

Fu Hongxing's brow twitched slightly upon hearing Ning Jing's words.

Where did you hear about this method?

From what Ning Jing said, he immediately thought of the possibilities after implementation, and to be honest, the chances of success should be quite high.

Ning Jing cleared her throat and said somewhat awkwardly, "When it snowed last winter, a place next to the woodshed where firewood was stored collapsed. When I went to collect the firewood, I saw wild vegetables that were buried under it."

Elsewhere, snow covered everything, and there wasn't a single patch of green. But where the firewood had been moved, wild vegetables had already sprouted new leaves, and they were growing quite long.

I think it's because the place that was sheltering the firewood collapsed, completely surrounding that area. Unlike other places where the ground was frozen solid, it was much warmer.

That's probably why those wild vegetables grow much faster than in other places.