Chapter 150 New Year's Eve
It’s the New Year.
Jiang Xiaoxiao and her friends welcomed their first year at Kenqing Farm in heavy snow.
The snow this year was so heavy that they were trapped on the mountain.
It has snowed five times in succession, and each time the snow was quite heavy.
Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year.
For them, this is the first New Year they spend together away from home, but it is also a New Year isolated from the world.
After the heavy snow blocked the mountain, there was no communication between people outside and those inside.
The telephone lines were directly cut off by the strong wind and heavy snow at the beginning, and there was no one available to repair them.
According to the director of the forest farm, this kind of snowstorm is a common occurrence for them, so if the telephone line is not working, then it is not working.
As long as I have food and drink and can survive, that's enough.
The biggest impact after several consecutive heavy snowstorms was that they had no way to go up the mountain, hunt, and of course, chop wood.
Fortunately, everyone made preparations in advance.
There is enough firewood for them to burn until the spring. According to the farm manager Guo Dongjun, as long as the snow melts in the spring, there will be plenty of firewood for them to chop.
Anyway, there is no strenuous physical labor every day, so everyone should eat as little as possible to save food and hold on until the spring.
Jiang Xiaoxiao and her family are living a much better life than they had imagined.
You know, everyone now admires Song Moting's wise decision.
The rabbits they raise lay in litters, with each litter containing at least six rabbits, and sometimes more than a dozen.
Everyone was amazed when they saw the rabbits. They had never raised animals before and didn't know how Jiang Xiaoxiao raised these rabbits. These rabbits basically grew up in one month.
And he is fat and strong.
Looking at these rabbits, each one weighs at least ten pounds.
They were all children who grew up in the city, and this was their first time raising farmed animals, so no one had any idea what it was like.
No one knows how long it will take for this rabbit to grow up.
Only Jiang Xiaoxiao herself knew that the rabbits she raised were growing too fast.
Although these rabbits were not raised in the space, they were eating the cabbages and cornmeal from her space. This was a good thing, and the rabbits were growing very fast.
In less than a month, it grew into an adult rabbit.
So you see, the male and female rabbits are doing fine and continue to give birth to baby rabbits. They are almost catching up with the breeding farms.
They rushed out in groups.
Ever since they started raising rabbits, they have no shortage of meat. Every day they roast rabbits, stir-fry rabbit cubes, stir-fry rabbit slices, braise rabbit meat... In short, they cook all kinds of rabbit flavors in different ways.
For them, it really doesn’t matter whether they go up the mountain or not.
Eating rabbit meat not only saves food, but also makes each of the educated youth strong and healthy.
In addition, Jiang Xiaoxiao and Jia Shu have good cooking skills and can cook rabbit meat for them in different ways.
Everyone has gained at least ten pounds now.
And it's not just rabbit meat. Each of the chickens we raise lays two eggs a day.
As we all know, a hen can only lay one egg a day at most.
As a result, their chickens not only grew stronger than those of other families, but also laid an egg sooner or later.
Even they themselves were surprised. They didn't expect that the pheasant they caught was such a fighter among pheasants!
Everyone eats a pheasant egg every day.
You can imagine how good their food is.
Plus, these pheasants have to produce some chicks when they have nothing to do, so their place is really like a chicken farm or a rabbit farm.
The surplus rabbit meat and pheasant eggs were also exchanged with the forest farm workers for other things, or food. The prices were very low, mainly to take care of everyone.
I'm afraid that giving things away for free will lead to bad habits, but I can't bear to collect too much.
We are all stuck on the mountain.
They are brothers in distress.
We should help each other.
But everyone’s quality of life has indeed improved greatly.
Instead, all ten pigs froze to death, mainly because there was no place to raise the pigs.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was soundly asleep at that time and had no chance to create a miracle for the pig.
Jiang Xiaoxiao and Jia Shu even used the skinned rabbits to make a cotton-padded jacket for each person.
This cotton-padded jacket made of rabbit skin can block out much more wind than those military coats.
Of course, the two of them didn't know how to tan leather. The job of tanning leather was figured out by Song Moting and He Aiguo.
I don't know what these two are thinking about all day long, but they can do such a thing so naturally.
Not only rabbit fur jackets, but also rabbit fur mattresses and rabbit quilts. In short, they have developed many varieties of rabbit fur.
So they are living a pretty good life.
During the past month, every time the forest farm director Guo Dongjun came, he didn't bother to enter their yard. He would just shout outside the yard, telling them that it was time to sweep the snow today and shovel the snow tomorrow.
Everyone was busy shoveling and sweeping snow. After all, the house in their forest farm couldn't withstand the accumulation of snow.
Everyone just stayed in the house, studying, working, eating and drinking.
Well, everyone discussed it and decided that tomorrow is Chinese New Year and New Year’s Eve would be the first time for them to celebrate the New Year outside.
Making dumplings is a bit troublesome.
The main problem is that their tastes are not uniform. There are more than a dozen people among them, and they come from all over the country, including the southerners and the northerners. Southerners eat rice cakes during the Chinese New Year, while northerners eat dumplings. How can they eat the same food?
Jiang Xiaoxiao thought about it and suggested that everyone just have hotpot.
There are 13 of them anyway.
They do have this small clay stove.
There are many small charcoal braziers like this in the forest farm.
But there is no coal to burn here, everyone burns wood.
Put two pots on the fire.
When they were assigned to the forest farm, they were given one big pot and two small pots, and the small pots came in handy.
The food wasn't abundant, but everyone was still in high spirits.
Jiang Xiaoxiao directly fried the hot pot base. Although the seasonings were not very complete, she would just make do with it here.
There was no butter, but they had chicken fat, rabbit fat, and lard.
Because there were people from all over the world, everyone brought some seasonings of their own taste. By putting these seasonings together, Jiang Xiaoxiao was able to cook the base of the spicy hot pot.
The rabbit meat was sliced and marinated directly, and the chicken was also sliced. After being marinated, they could all be put into the pot directly. Of course, Jiang Xiaoxiao also made some chicken meatballs, rabbit meatballs and pork meatballs.
They still have some potatoes and cabbages stored in the cellar.
Wash it, slice it and cut it into pieces, then put it directly into a bowl and bring it up, along with vermicelli and tofu. This is a farm, and it’s produced by their own workers.
These things are still available, but the tofu has long since become frozen tofu. In this kind of weather, it is not easy to eat fresh tofu.
Anyway, all sorts of things together managed to gather at the table.
Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't dare to take out the cabbage, cucumbers and tomatoes she had grown. These things would scare people to death.
But she can also put sesame oil and sesame paste in her space.
She is a foodie, and when her mother Fan Xiuying came, she was afraid that she would not be able to eat these things.
I brought a lot of bags, big and small, and now they are all put to use.
After mixing the seasoning, we gathered around the table and started eating, the food was steaming hot.
Drink the unique Shaodaozi here on the farm, which is not available anywhere else.
This is wine brewed by the farm workers themselves. Every year after the harvest, the workers will brew some wine themselves.
Well, they can exchange some wine from the workers.
It is not appropriate to ask for other people's wine for free, so people usually exchange them for eggs, rabbits, or pheasants. Of course, the workers welcome them when they exchange rabbits and pheasants.
It's mutually beneficial for everyone.
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