"Splash!"
Just as the bonfire in the main hall was lit, a loud "whoosh" came from outside the door, and rain poured down as if it were falling from the sky.
One second the sun is shining brightly, the next it's pouring rain; the weather changes in just a few breaths.
"Oh my goodness, this rain came so suddenly and so fast!"
"There was absolutely no warning; he just collapsed all of a sudden!"
Liu Zhi stood at the door with his hands on his hips, looking at the torrential rain outside. Luckily, they had the all-knowing Aunt Lin with them, otherwise they would have been soaked!
Look at this rain, it's so heavy and torrential. It must feel terrible to be hit by it!
"Ah Hui, go get a clay pot and boil some ginger soup. Everyone should have a bowl so they don't catch a cold!"
Although no one got wet in the rain, it's still easy to get sick when the weather changes suddenly.
"Alright, Mother!"
"I still have some red dates that I traded with the villagers in the village before, shall I put some in too?"
He Ahui took a large earthenware pot out of her basket and placed it on the fire.
He rummaged through his basket again and found a bag of red dates.
"It's a pity I couldn't get brown sugar, otherwise adding some brown sugar to this ginger and jujube tea would make it even better!"
Liu Taozi sat next to He Ahui, sorting through the supplies in her basket, and couldn't help but sigh!
"I have some brown sugar here, you can put it in the pot!"
Hearing the conversation, Liu Muchen took out a packet of brown sugar from his box and handed it to He Ahui.
"Really? That's wonderful!"
He Ahui quickly took the pot and put half of it in. There were too many people here, and the earthenware pot was quite big. If she put in too little, it wouldn't taste good at all.
"Ahui, this is water spinach I just picked near the temple. Could you cut some venison and stir-fry it with it later?"
"Be sure to smash a couple more cloves of garlic into the pan to spray it in; that will make it more fragrant when stir-fried!"
Lin Xue took out the water spinach she had smuggled out of her spatial dimension from her small basket and handed it to He Ahui.
"Mom, it seems we're out of garlic!"
Liu Taozi, who was organizing supplies, heard Lin Xue's instructions. She rummaged around for a while but couldn't find any garlic.
"It's alright, Mother has some here!"
Lin Xue reached into her small basket and pulled out a handful of garlic.
The garlic produced in this space is much larger than that grown outside.
The garlic bulbs are plump and round, with each clove quite firm.
"Mom, where did you get this garlic? It doesn't look like something we found in the mountains!"
While they were in the mountains, they found many kinds of vegetables, garlic being one of them.
However, since they grow wild, the garlic cloves from the mountains are not very big.
The garlic cloves that Lin Xue took out were as big as an adult's fist.
Each garlic clove was densely packed with garlic cloves.
These are clearly top-quality garlic bulbs.
"I traded these with the villagers before, thinking that since these garlic bulbs are growing so well, I'd save some for seeds!"
Lin Xue said this while helping her daughter-in-law peel garlic.
"Mother, this garlic is a good replacement. We should keep two heads so we can use them for planting after we settle down!"
"With such good garlic seeds, the garlic grown from them will definitely be better than other garlic bulbs!"
He Ahui also picked up a clove of garlic and gestured with it in her hand.
She liked it more and more as she looked at it, and thought about secretly keeping one of the heads.
"I have quite a few more here; that should be enough to make seeds!"
Lin Xue patted her little basket, which was always covered, so no one knew what was inside.
This was also Lin Xue's way of making it easier to smuggle herself across the border, so she didn't allow anyone to rummage through her little basket.
"Ah Xue, we've exchanged a lot of grain now. I wonder if we can make the cold noodles, cold rice noodles, and cold jelly that you mentioned before?"
Liu Muchen remembered every word Lin Xue had said.
Lin Xue's drooling mouth when he mentioned these things, especially when they were in the mountains, is still fresh in his memory.
"Sure, how about we have liangpi (cold skin noodles) tonight?"
"Peach, get some flour!"
"Da Gui, can you help me find that frying pan that I had the blacksmith in the village make?"
The method for making liangpi (cold skin noodles) is very simple, but Lin Xue doesn't have the ingredients for liangfen (cold mung bean jelly) for the time being, so she won't consider it.
"Peach, take out some more dogwood and wash it. Cold noodles aren't as good without spiciness!"
"Peel a little more garlic, I'll season it myself later!"
Having decided what to eat tonight, Lin Xue and her family began to get busy preparing.
"Quickly rebuild the fire, and get some big bones to simmer. It might get colder tonight, so we can drink some hot soup to warm ourselves up!"
Although it was very hot before the rain, Lin Xue knew that it would definitely be cold at night after this rain.
"Auntie, let us take care of this!"
"We happen to have some fresh deer bones from last night, so let's stew them all today!"
Seeing that everyone had their own things to do, Liu Zhi took over the task of making soup.
He called two of his brothers, and they went to a different spot and lit another campfire.
Lin Xue personally taught He Ahui how to make liangpi (cold skin noodles).
The leftover gluten from washing the noodles was steamed by the two daughters-in-law.
You can mix it with cold noodles and eat it later.
This busy work took up most of the day; there were many people on their side, so they needed to prepare a lot of food.
After all the cold noodles were made, not only He Ahui and Liu Taozi, the two daughters-in-law, but also the sons and Liu Muchen personally took part in making them.
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