There was no acid rain throughout November, and the sun came out every now and then. However, as the Chinese New Year was approaching, the weather was a little cold.
However, in the south, even in the twelfth lunar month, the lowest temperature is still five or six degrees.
If the sun is shining, the weather is basically not cold. Before the natural disaster, many fashionable young people did not even wear long johns. Some even wore skirts without stockings in the middle of winter.
Elderly grandpas and grandmas would kindly remind them, "You can't wear it like this. It may not be noticeable now when you are young, but when you are older, it will hurt here and there!"
Su Keke, Grandma Qiao and other citizens of Lingcheng have all had a very fulfilling time during this period.
People who don’t know would think that the natural disaster is over and that life will get better and better in the future.
But Su Keke and Mayor Chen Guodong don't think so. They all know that the end of acid rain means an earthquake is coming.
Now the Arashiyama base has been basically completed, and the last house is in the final stage.
After the natural disaster, the government had limited materials and supplies, so it was not easy to build such a large-scale base.
But there are so many citizens in Lingcheng that this base probably can’t accommodate even half of them. So what should be done with the rest of the people?
Chen Guodong has been worried about this matter recently.
No one knows what’s going on these days, but Liu Zhicai, the municipal party secretary who had been on sick leave at home recuperating after the natural disaster, and Luo Fang, the police chief, suddenly came back to work after their leave.
At the morning meeting, Chen Guodong and Liu Zhicai argued fiercely about how to properly resettle other citizens who were unable to live in the official base, and neither of them was able to convince the other.
Liu Zhicai believes that this is a natural disaster and not everything can be done perfectly. There are only so many houses in Lanshan Base, and people with ability and points will definitely be given priority to live there.
As for other citizens, we can only wait and see how the situation develops. Besides, an earthquake does not necessarily mean that the Arashiyama base is safe. The earthquake research experts only said that the soil and geographical location here are not prone to earthquakes.
What experts say may not be reliable, so it doesn’t matter where you live.
Chen Guodong didn't know why, but he had a strong premonition that Lanshan was the safest place during an earthquake.
The anonymous email mentioned the earthquake in February next year and there was no further news. The letter did not mention any part of Lingcheng that was not affected by the earthquake.
Chen Guodong prepared for the future and sent Professor Jian, an earthquake expert in Lingcheng, and his team to various places in Lingcheng to search for safe areas to avoid earthquakes.
After almost a year of searching, Professor Jian's team reported the place called Lanshan.
Chen Guodong now has two ideas. First, reduce the living space of government officials as much as possible, so that some houses can be freed up.
Second, he and Chen Zhicai went to Lanshan Villa District to find Du Huairen and persuade him to open Lanshan Villa District to allow ordinary citizens to come in and set up tents. There is a lot of open space in Lanshan Villa District. If they can accept ordinary citizens, then basically the problem can be solved.
Other officials attending the meeting were opposed to Chen Guodong's first point, which was to reduce their housing area. The area allocated to them in Lanshan Base was already small, so how could they live if it was reduced?
However, the second point, to compress the Lanshan villa area, was very much in favor of them. The geographical location there was better than the base, and everyone lived in a big villa. If we didn't compress them, who would we compress?
It’s time for these wealthy people to make some contributions to the country. The government respects them by allowing them to open up their villa areas.
The meeting lasted for two hours, but in the end, neither of the two official bosses of Lingcheng was able to convince the other.
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At night, when it was quiet, Su Keke thought about driving the capsule house to airdrop some supplies to Uncle Lei and his friends. Then he wrote a small card and put it in the supplies, notifying them to come to the Lanshan official base early to grab a house.
However, when Su Keke drove the capsule house to visit them at night this time, she found that only Uncle Lei's family still lived in the original Danshan Garden, while Uncle Lin and Aunt Chen's families had moved away.
Now I don’t know where they moved to, I hope everyone is doing well! In the end times, sometimes once you leave, you may never see them again in your life.
Time quickly came to the twelfth month, and this year everyone's situation was better than the first year of the natural disaster.
Many families with sufficient points have started preparing for the New Year early. The two families on the 20th floor are considered to be relatively well off among ordinary citizens, as everyone can go out and earn points.
Now that we have the conditions, we must eat something good during the Chinese New Year this year.
In two days, Chen Da will also go home for the holiday. Lu Mei took advantage of today's holiday and took Shi Huan to the official base to buy meat early in the morning.
The two families each bought ten pounds of meat and went back to pickle soy sauce meat. How can people in the south do without soy sauce meat in winter?
At that time, whether it is steamed with soy sauce and vinegar, or used to stir-fry rice cakes, garlic sprouts, mushrooms, or even stir-fried vegetables, it will be delicious.
When the weather is cold, the sun is strong and there is a slight breeze, it is the best time to dry the soy sauce meat.
Pork has been selling particularly well at the official exchange points these days. I guess many people are like Lu Mei and her friends, buying it to dry in soy sauce.
Soy sauce meat is particularly easy to preserve after being dried. Even if there is no electricity or refrigerator, it will not go bad in the middle of winter.
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao pulled a long rope in the yard of Villa No. 5, and they were also preparing to start drying the soy sauce meat.
Su Keke's favorite is the lean soy sauce meat that can be pulled into strings when bitten, but many people like to use the kind of pork belly with alternating fat and lean meat, they think that kind of tastes better.
There is a lot of pork in Su Keke's space. Grandma Qiao chose 10 pounds of pork belly and 10 pounds of lean meat to dry.
At this moment, two people were wearing disposable gloves and applying sauce to fresh meat in the yard.
The method of making soy sauce meat is very simple, just use a large amount of extremely fresh soy sauce, and add a little bit of sugar and white wine.
Then soak the meat in the prepared sauce for a morning. If you have time, you can also manually apply more sauce on the fresh meat.
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao were the ones who had nothing to do. They took a small stool and sat in the sun to slowly spread the sauce on the meat.
They can be hung out to dry in the afternoon. Grandma Qiao used to dry them almost every winter before the natural disaster, so she has stainless steel hooks specifically for drying soy sauce meat.
When we moved to the Lanshan Villa District, we brought them to Su Keke's space. The two of them hung the soaked meat piece by piece with hooks.
Lu Mei and her friends didn't have such hooks, so like most people, she poked a small hole in the meat, put it in a clean woven bag, and hung it on a bamboo pole to dry.
"Grandma Qiao, these meats smell so good!"
Su Keke stood next to a row of soy sauce meat and sniffed. This smell was the smell of Chinese New Year.
"Meow... meow meow..." Tangyuan jumped around in the yard. It wanted to hook a piece of soy sauce meat to taste it and see if it was as delicious as they said!
"Don't eat these dumplings now! I'll make them for you right after they're dried!"
Grandma Qiao smiled and carried Tangyuan into the house to prevent the little guy from running around and biting her soy sauce meat.
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