With the arrival of this heavy snow, the young couple officially began their hibernation period.
The day after eating hot pot, Lin Momo got her first period.
At first she was completely unaware.
It was only when Shi Guang noticed the dirt on the back of her skirt that he asked her suspiciously, "Why is there blood on the back of your skirt? Is it chicken blood from the day before yesterday?"
"Bloodstains?" Lin Momo was startled and quickly reached out to pull her skirt to check. A thought flashed through her mind.
The blood isn't dry yet; it's clearly freshly applied.
She checked her body and felt a slight bloating in her lower abdomen, which made her realize what was going on.
Fourteen years old, it's time to come.
Before she could explain to Shi Guang, Lin Momo instantly entered the space, went up to the bedroom on the second floor, and took out the sanitary napkins and toilet paper she had prepared in advance.
She has better absorbency than sanitary napkins, so she usually puts a thick stack of toilet paper on top of her sanitary napkins.
The advantage of using two layers is that it increases resistance, preventing the sanitary napkin and toilet paper from shifting around while walking. With double-layer protection, leakage is unlikely to occur.
You only need to change the toilet paper every two or three hours.
After tidying herself up, Lin Momo left the space and threw her dirty clothes to the absent-minded Shi Guang.
"It's okay, I'm on my period."
In her previous life, Lin Momo remembered that she came to this world the year she graduated from elementary school, when she was eleven or twelve years old.
Lin Erya looked malnourished and had never had her period even at the age of fourteen.
After Lin Momo's period of conditioning, her body's nutrition improved, and her menstrual flow naturally returned.
"Sunflower water?" Shi Guang had never heard this term before, and looked at her with a questioning gaze.
Lin Momo smiled and said, "It's menstruation. You must have heard of it, right? Every girl will have her period when she reaches a certain age. In ancient times, it was called 'kui water'."
When a girl starts menstruating, it means she is capable of conceiving.
Therefore, in ancient times, when early marriage and pregnancy were encouraged, a woman was considered a woman once she started menstruating, and she was eligible to marry and have children.
Although Lin Momo got married very early in this life, she made a promise with Shi Guang that she would consummate her marriage with him when she turned eighteen.
Upon hearing this, Shiguang understood: "Oh, I see. I heard that girls should rest more and avoid cold water when they have their period. You should go to bed and rest, I'll go wash your clothes."
After watching Lin Momo get into bed, Shi Guang took the clothes and went out.
Lin Momo, with a soft pillow behind her on the bed, first took out the almanac she had bought at the bookstore in town from her spatial storage. After opening it, she calculated the date based on her wedding day.
Today should be October 27th.
Holding a green marker, circle this date and mark it.
Then, she watched a movie on her tablet, but fell asleep before she was even halfway through.
Three days later, the menstrual water will be clean.
Lin Momo became lively and energetic again.
*
The snow, which had been falling on and off for several days, has stopped.
After the snow, the weather was exceptionally cold, with the temperature dropping to minus twelve or thirteen degrees Celsius.
The outside is like a giant freezer; clothes washed and hung out to dry freeze solid in no time.
Lin Momo leaned against the window, looking at her clothes hanging on the bamboo poles in the yard, feeling incredibly sorrowful, wondering when they would dry.
It's just that she forgot to tell Shiguang that after washing the clothes, she should hang them by the stove to dry.
After feeling down for a while, Lin Momo had a new idea pop into her head.
In order to have ice to cool off next summer, she needs to stock up on ice and all kinds of ice cream.
Let's get right to it.
Lin Momo rummaged through her spatial storage and pulled out various ice cube trays and ice cream molds.
We took Time with us to the courtyard and froze ice with the steaming spring water.
First, place all the ice trays and ice molds in the courtyard, then pour spring water from the spring into them one by one. Once they are frozen solid, put them into a large wooden barrel and place it in the basement of the space for use next year.
Next, we need to freeze large blocks of ice.
Small ice cubes are only suitable for making cold drinks; in the sweltering summer, you need to use these large ice cubes to cool down the house.
Lin thought for a moment and then moved out all the stainless steel buckets that she didn't need for the time being.
First, fill the bucket with water from the spring and store it in the space, then place the bucket in the courtyard.
When they got up early the next morning to check, the spring water in the bucket was already frozen solid.
Time has turned an ice bucket upside down on the snow.
Lin Momo then poured a kettle of boiling water onto the bucket. The ice on the inner wall of the bucket melted quickly upon contact with the hot water. Shi Guang gently lifted the bucket with both hands, and the cylindrical block of ice separated from the bucket.
"Alright, next one!" Lin Momo exclaimed excitedly.
Only after all the ice has been removed from the bucket can you proceed to the next step: cutting the ice into blocks.
The two men laid the large icicle, which was as big as a wooden stake, on the snow. To prevent it from rolling and becoming difficult to handle, they placed stones on both sides to fix the ice in place.
Shi Guang, wielding a chainsaw, cut a large block of ice into three or four pieces, which Lin Momo then neatly arranged in the ice cellar partitioned off in the basement.
After processing this batch of ice, the bucket was filled with water to freeze the next batch.
In the following time, Lin Momo prepared to make popsicles.
Cook the soaked red beans and mung beans separately until soft, then put them in a container and mash them roughly a few times. Lin Momo prefers to eat them with a grainy texture.
Before pouring into the mold, mix honey and melted rock sugar. Then, put a small amount of reserved cooked beans at the bottom of the mold, pour the crushed beans into the mold, insert a small wooden stick, and then freeze it outside.
Lin Momo also made milk-flavored and fruit-flavored ice creams, such as watermelon ice cream, lychee ice cream, strawberry ice cream, grape ice cream, mango ice cream, kiwi ice cream, hawthorn ice cream, and so on.
She used almost all the fruits available in the space, especially those she liked, to make ice cream.
I also made some chocolate-filled ice cream, coated with chocolate and sprinkled with nut crumbs, which looked very tempting.
Lin Momo couldn't resist and took a bite.
Mmm, it's refreshingly sweet and delicious! It's just too cold; after only one bite, my tongue is already a little numb.
No, we have to give Time a piece of our minds too.
So, the two of them ate popsicles while huddled by a stove in the dead of winter.
While slurping the popsicle, Shiguang scolded his greedy wife: "You can only eat this one. Let's save it for summer."
"Mmm-hmm." By now, Lin Momo's mouth and tongue were already numb from the cold, and upon hearing this, she immediately nodded vigorously, being extremely obedient.
She was already filled with regret.
This was the first time Lin Momo had ever eaten an ice pop in the dead of winter. In the past, she had never thought of following suit when she saw others eating them, but this time she was completely bewitched.
*
During the leisurely days of hibernation.
Lin Momo and Shi Guang were also busy.
Outside, the world was frozen and snow was falling for miles, but inside Lin Momo's space, it was warm as spring. There was also a vegetable garden of about two acres in the front and back yards of the small building.
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