Chapter 34 Dinner
They didn't dare go to the mountain again. Besides, the weather was getting colder and colder. There was a thick layer of frost this morning. It looked like it would snow soon.
Li Ruolan was looking at the weather outside. Deng Minghao was in the yard chopping up all the dead wood he had found in the space during this period of time, and placing the pieces in a corner of the kitchen.
On the east side of the yard, there was a small wooden shed, and underneath it was also filled with wood, which was almost enough for the two of them to get through the winter.
This went on until the evening. In the middle of the night, Lu Yunxiao knocked on the door of Deng Minghao's house, and Qin Wan also came over to help.
The four of them worked until late at night and finally divided the wild boar, giving each family a fan.
"It's about to snow, and the road to town will be difficult to travel after the mountain is blocked by heavy snow. We plan to go to town tomorrow morning to buy all the things we need for the winter.
Lu Yunxiao said that he could borrow the brigade's ox cart. Shall we go together tomorrow?" Qin Wan asked Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao before leaving.
The two thought about it and shook their heads: "We won't go. The brigade will distribute food in two days. What we have stored is almost enough to get through the winter. There is nothing to buy."
Whether it is rice, flour or meat, they have plenty of it in their space and don’t need to spend money to buy them.
"Okay, I got it." Qin Wan said and was about to leave with Lu Yunxiao. After they had taken two steps, Deng Minghao suddenly remembered something and stopped them.
"I'm going to cook a pig-killing dish tomorrow night, so I'll just invite Shen Yi and the others over. You two can come over too, and we can get together." Deng Minghao said.
They all have their own little secrets, and from now on they will definitely be closer than others. But in this place, they, the educated youth, still have to stick together with other educated youth.
No matter how good the relationship with the villagers is, if something really big happens, there may not be many people to help. The only ones who can help are the educated youth like them who can empathize with them.
Besides, Shen Yi and his people all get along well, and Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan are willing to make friends with them.
"This is great. I can eat the delicious meals you cook again. We two will definitely come tomorrow." Qin Wan's eyes lit up immediately when she thought of the meals Deng Minghao cooked.
Lu Yunxiao raised his eyebrows when he looked at Qin Wan. He had never tasted how delicious the food cooked by Deng Minghao was, but his cooking skills were also very good.
It seems that I should let Qin Wan taste it when I have time.
The two of them left under the moonlight, and Deng Minghao saw them out and closed the door.
After Deng Minghao came back, he took the wild boar meat to the space warehouse and put it away. This warehouse is more useful than a refrigerator and the food will not go bad no matter how long it is stored.
After putting it in place, he added some more firewood to the kang, then he went to bed with his wife in his arms.
The next morning, the sky was gloomy and it looked like it was going to snow soon. Sure enough, at around two or three in the afternoon, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
As soon as a thin layer of snow fell, Qin Wan and Lu Yunxiao came back with a cart full of things. Without even going home, Qin Wan brought over two pieces of tofu.
"Can you make tofu? I really want to eat mapo tofu."
Deng Minghao shook his head: "There is no peppercorns, only chili peppers, and there is no sauce, so the mapo tofu is not delicious.
But there are many delicious ways to cook tofu. Add vermicelli, cabbage and pork to make a delicious mixed pot dish."
Qin Wan was a little disappointed when she found out that she couldn't make Mapo Tofu, but after hearing what Deng Minghao said, it sounded pretty good, so she left the tofu here and went home to pack up.
I took out more than three pounds of wild boar meat, cut it into pieces, and made a full hot pot dish. I added some chili and pepper powder, and it tasted so delicious.
Soon Shen Yi and his friends came over from next door. None of them came empty-handed. They all brought something. Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun brought the cured chicken and rabbit they had pickled.
These two guys are quite skilled, and when they are not working or get off work early, they will go to the mountains to set traps.
In short, these two people had no shortage of game, but Liu Kunming, Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua didn't have much good stuff. Each of them only brought some white flour, which they wanted to save for the New Year.
Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua helped Li Ruolan knead the flour into dough cakes and stuck them around the edge of the pot.
Lu Yunxiao was the most arrogant and brought over half a cured lamb leg.
"Where did you get the lamb leg? Do you have any extra? I want some too." Deng Minghao looked at the lamb leg with shining eyes.
The three sheep in the space have indeed grown up, but they still need to be kept to give birth to lambs, so it is naturally impossible to kill them and eat them.
Deng Minghao likes eating mutton the most. Every time he sees the three lambs, he would look at them for a while. When he saw that Lu Yunxiao had finished a leg of lamb, he immediately asked.
Lu Yunxiao said: "I met a group of wild goats on the other side of the mountain before, and I caught two of them, sold one and kept the other for myself.
I don’t have much left, only two legs, and I happened to bring one today, so there’s only one left at home.”
"Is that place far away? Are there still wild goats after the snow?" Deng Minghao asked.
Lu Yunxiao looked depressed for a moment: "We have to cross almost two mountains. The distance is not bad, but after the snow closed the mountain, my legs are not good, so I can't take you there."
Lu Yunxiao still walks with a limp now, but during this period of time he and Qin Wan took them up the mountains and climbed trees, so everyone forgot that his leg was injured.
Deng Minghao apologized a little embarrassedly. Lu Yunxiao shook his head, then smiled and said, "Then wait until next year. When the snow melts and the weather is not so cold, I can take you there to have a look."
"Okay, then don't forget it." Deng Minghao said to Lu Yunxiao as he shaved the mutton off the bones.
Each person had a bowl of cabbage, tofu and wild boar vermicelli soup, plus two white flour pancakes. The mutton was made into a hot pot, and a lot of cabbage, spinach, and some dried mushrooms were also washed.
Seeing such delicious dishes, Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua's eyes became red. Since coming to the countryside, except for the time when Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao got married and this time, they had never eaten such delicious food.
A group of people gathered together, listening to the crackling sound under the pot and the sound of falling snow outside. They ate until after nine o'clock before reluctantly dispersing.
But everyone knew that because of this meal, the relationship between them became closer.
After eating and drinking, Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan lay on the warm kang and chatted casually.
"I added a lot of spiritual spring water to today's hot pot, but I don't know if this amount of spiritual spring water will have any effect on Lu Yunxiao's legs.
He is a really good person. If he hadn't injured his leg, he would have been a battalion commander or a regiment commander by now, right?"
Li Ruolan nodded: "It's written in the book that he was the battalion commander when he retired, but it doesn't matter, with Qin Wan here, as long as she improves her ability by one level, she can help Lu Yunxiao heal his leg."
"Hopefully his leg will heal soon."
"If you get better soon, I can take you with me to kill the goat, right?"
"Can't I just want to care about him?"
"hehe!"
"Oh, sister, go to sleep!"
"I'm angry out of shame!"
"Are you going to sleep or not? If not, then we won't sleep all night."
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