Chapter 71 It’s snowing, don’t get up

The next day, Mingdai and Zhou Sinian did not get up early to go out. Instead, after having breakfast, they said hello to Mrs. Huang and walked towards the nearby mountains.

After chopping some wood, they entered the space.

Last night, Mingdai locked up the living lambs together and put all the dead ones in the warehouse. Today she has to deal with them all.

Most of the survivors were ewes and lambs. Zhou Sinian and Mingdai gave them a bath with rose-scented shower gel as usual, and then locked them up with the previous flock.

After being given fresh green grass, the sheep quickly adapted and began to dry their wool while eating.

Outside the villa, Mingdai took the remaining seven slaughtered sheep out of the warehouse and put them in the yard. Zhou Sinian hung them on the slaughter rack and bled and skinned them skillfully.

Mingdai helped to process the meat, sorting and sealing it. They did not throw away the sheep's blood and sheep offal. Zhou Sinian was very impressed by the sheep offal soup last time. He processed all the edible sheep offal without being bothered by the smell. Mingdai put the sheepskin back to the warehouse and would saltpeter it when she had time.

Mingdai picked a large lamb leg to marinate, waiting for time to grill it. After the two of them finished eating the first grilled lamb leg, they were still not satisfied.

After everything was done, the two took a hot bath and specifically asked not to use rose-scented shower gel, otherwise it would be too fragrant and easily arouse suspicion.

After coming out, I brought back some firewood, just in time to make lunch.

Mingdai specially cooked extra dishes for dinner at noon so that they could stay outside until noon the next day and come back.

Mrs. Huang still didn't say much, but just told her to be careful.

Others had no objections. If Xiao Ming hadn't been an educated youth, they wouldn't have been able to eat so many different dishes!

What's more, they went there to collect herbs. Mrs. Huang said that their village will have its own doctor next year!

This is crucial for Liujiawan, which is the farthest from the commune health center!

An auntie wiped her tears. Her little son died of fever. The doctor said that if he had come earlier, he could have been saved.

Therefore, everyone tacitly accepted the two people's frequent trips into the mountains, and even helped to turn over and dry the medicinal herbs she brought back.

Only the new educated youth had opinions, especially Liu Yan, who implicitly urged the new educated youth to report to Mingdai.

There was no need for Mrs. Huang to step in, as the others took the initiative to help fight back, scolding Liu Yan until she cried loudly.

Ming Dai also reciprocated by making some preventive medicinal soup for everyone to drink every week.

Therefore, during this reservoir repair mission, no one in Liujiawan caught a cold or had a fever. Although people from other villages had more or less fallen ill, the people from Liujiawan became more and more motivated as they worked harder.

This made everyone admire and appreciate Xiao Ming the educated youth even more.

After dinner, Mingdai and Zhou Sinian set out again, heading towards the mountains they had visited yesterday.

Mingdai's primary target was still ginseng, but this time she opened the goal of identifying medicinal treasures and collected many rare medicinal materials along the way.

Especially Polygonum multiflorum and Ganoderma lucidum, these two are hard to come by traditional Chinese medicine, Mingdai also found several of them.

What’s even more valuable is that she found several wooden stakes that were infested with Ganoderma lucidum, and brought the stakes into the space as well.

Although Zhou Sinian had gained a lot along the way, he was not very satisfied. He could not eat any of them and they tasted terrible.

Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Ming Dai asked him what he wanted, and Zhou Sinian blurted out: "Silly roe deer!"

Ming Dai: Why are you so sensitive only about food!

So they selected a group of silly roe deer in the mountains and prepared to develop a second breeding industry.

The silly roe deer is indeed a silly roe deer. This time Mingdai doesn’t need to hide. She can just follow behind and chase it.

Even if she didn't catch up, the silly roe deer would turn back to look for her, with wet eyes as if asking: Why didn't you catch up?

What can Ming Dai do? She can only go up and put it into the space!

There were 23 roe deer in total, and they were put into the space without much effort.

While washing, Zhou Sinian asked Ming Dai with concern: "They are so stupid, will I become like them if I eat them?"

After Mingdai gave a negative answer, he became much more cheerful when brushing his fur.

As a result, there were more silly roe deer next to the flock of sheep. After eating the fresh grass and leaves, they all stayed obediently in the pen.

Zhou Sinian observed the group of roe deer, determined to pick out the most delicious one.

Ming Dai: I need to look through my culinary encyclopedia.

The two people who returned home contentedly did not know that soon after, a series of angry and defeated tiger roars were heard from the mountain.

Tiger: "Who?! Who is it?! Which bastard stole my reserve food warehouse again!!!"

In the following days, Mingdai went to the mountains whenever she had time and collected a large number of medicinal herbs, which she piled up in the warehouse, waiting to be processed when she had nothing to do in the winter.

Zhou Sinian also happily collected all kinds of edible things.

The two even dug up a lot of fruit trees and planted them in the space.

Fortunately, she has control over the terrain of the space and can change its size at will within the limited space, otherwise she really wouldn't be able to fit so many things in.

In order to feed the sheep and roe deer, Mingdai planted a large area of ​​grass in the open space to form a small grassland. She built two mobile sheep pens behind it and let them graze on the grass by themselves, moving to another one after they finished eating one piece.

By the time they had almost cleared all the nearby mountains, the first snow came and the time for them to build the reservoir was almost over.

The snow fell at night.

The next day when Mingdai woke up, she felt that it was particularly bright outside. She went out and saw that it was snowing.

The winter here is very direct. The first snow was so heavy that it submerged half of my legs.

Mingdai was a little worried as she heard the work bell ringing outside. Accidents were most likely to happen in weather like this.

Soon someone came over sweeping the snow. Mingdai looked carefully and found it was Liu Guoqiang.

"Accountant Liu, stop sweeping and come in to warm up!"

Accountant Liu exhaled white mist and said, "It will be done soon. Clean it out so you can come in and out easily."

Mingdai didn't say much. She lit a fire to boil some water. Everyone definitely needed something hot to drink today.

While the fire was burning, Mingdai suddenly remembered something. Why didn't she see Zhou Sinian? In the past, whenever she got up, Zhou Sinian would follow her.

She walked around the firewood pile and saw Zhou Sinian still lying in the quilt. He had not come out, but he was awake, staring at the ceiling with his big eyes.

"Zhou Sinian, why don't you get up?"

Zhou Sinian's hair has grown long, and each strand stands upright, just like him, very strong.

The red headscarf was folded neatly and placed next to the pillow, which did not match the patched blue-gray quilt cover.

"It's snowing, don't get up."

Ming Dai shook her head in amusement: "Why don't you get up when it's snowing?! Hurry up and don't make excuses to stay in bed."

Zhou Sinian looked at her seriously with his clean eyes: "It's snowing, don't get up."

Ming Dai was stunned by his clear eyes and asked in a daze, "Why?"

Zhou Sinian looked at the dark roof of the hut and said softly, "It's snowing, there's nothing to eat, if I don't get up and fall asleep, I won't be hungry anymore."

He spoke softly, but Mingdai's heart felt like it was hit hard by a heavy hammer, and tears immediately fell from her eyes.

The winter in Heilongjiang Province is filled with continuous heavy snow. Zhou Sinian has been here for three years!

Does he lie quietly on the kang like this every snowy day, feeling hunger and cold slowly eroding him?

Is that why he values ​​food so much and never forgets to protect it?

Do you try to eat as much as possible at once?

His severe gastritis was caused by starvation under such circumstances, right?

Mingdai couldn't imagine what this felt like.