Chapter 211: Preparing for Winter
As the autumn harvest progresses, it is almost mid-September and the temperature in the Northeast is slowly dropping.
While everyone was harvesting in autumn, Wang Yuanchao would hold a morning meeting every day, drink a cup of tea, and then go home and take his eight dogs to the mountains.
After more than a year of training, and with the spiritual spring water in the space, the dogs in Wang Yuanchao's family have the IQ of a few-year-old child. The dogs can understand Wang Yuanchao's words and commands at once.
Although Wang Yuanchao now has all the mountain products in his space, he still plans to pick up all the mountain products from the hills behind his house, otherwise the things will be kept at home and cannot be seen.
Fortunately, Wang Yuanchao picked up mountain products very quickly, because once Wang Yuanchao touched mountain products, he put them all in his space. Mushrooms, wild vegetables, hazelnuts, walnuts, wild apples, wild grapes, pine nuts, although they were everywhere on the mountains in mid-September, they could not withstand Wang Yuanchao's collection.
This time, because Wang Yuanchao had experience and planned the route well, it only took him one day to pick up all the mountain products on the three hills behind.
Then Wang Yuanchao sent mountain products home in bamboo baskets.
This year, his wife did not participate in the autumn harvest because she was in confinement after giving birth, so only his mother-in-law went. It just so happened that his wife had just finished her confinement after giving birth, so after Wang Yuanchao brought the mountain products and game home, his wife started to prepare the mountain products and game while taking care of the child.
Looking at the dozens of pheasants, ducks, and rabbits on the ground, the young wife asked in surprise:
"My Lord, is there so much game outside the mountains this year? Isn't this too much?"
Wang Yuanchao touched his little wife's head and said:
"It's not that there's more game outside the mountains, but that our dogs have become more powerful.
I take them up the mountain, and they will soon be able to bring me some game. Look for yourself, these pheasants, ducks, and rabbits were all brought back by the dogs. Isn’t that amazing?”
The young wife looked at the dogs running around in the yard with joy and said excitedly:
"Yeah, our dog is so awesome, and the master is awesome too, he trained the dog so well."
"Haha, come here, wife, give me a kiss. It's still early today, and I have to go up the mountain a few more times to bring back more mountain products and game while everyone else is harvesting in autumn."
After giving his young wife a deep kiss, Wang Yuanchao picked up a machete, a hemp rope, and a bamboo basket and walked up the mountain.
This time, Wang Yuanchao controlled the time. He went down the mountain every hour, and each time he went down the mountain, he brought a bundle of firewood and a bamboo basket of mountain products and game.
A few days passed, and there was almost no place to store the firewood at home. The wild grapes, walnuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts, mushrooms, and wild vegetables at home were piled up into a mountain. Not to mention one family, even if several families were together, they probably couldn't finish eating all of them in one winter.
So Wang Yuanchao went to the commune and the county and sent some game and mountain products to Chen Bin and Liu Chuan.
With the help of Chen Bin, he bought some rock sugar and yeast and went home to start making wine.
Last year's wine was very popular with my young wife and mother-in-law, who liked to have a couple of glasses whenever they had time.
So this year, Wang Yuanchao brewed twice as much wine as last year, making 800 kilograms of grape wine.
Looking at the faces of the educated youths at the educated youth camps, all of whom were filled with numbness and despair, Wang Yuanchao was overjoyed.
Now, except for a few female educated youths working at the poultry breeding base, all other educated youths, whether old or new, have to work hard every day during the autumn harvest. Now their bodies are left with only the instinct to work like machines, and they are in excruciating pain every day, as well as resentment and anger towards everything in the world.
The educated youth looked at their skin which had shed several layers of skin, smelled the stench of sweat all over their bodies, and wore clothes covered in mud.
Then they looked at Wang Yuanchao, who was handsome, easy-going and elegant. He was wearing a clean and tidy green military uniform and a pair of big-toed leather shoes.
Although they were all educated youth, Wang Yuanchao was completely different from other educated youth. If these new educated youth did not hate him,
But powerless hatred is meaningless. The more everyone knows about the Red Flag Brigade, the more they understand Wang Yuanchao's position in the Red Flag Brigade. Gradually, everyone can only hate their own incompetence, hate the ruthlessness of their families, hate everything in the world, and want to destroy it all.
During this period, Wang Yuanchao felt the oppressive and heavy atmosphere of the educated youth site.
Wang Yuanchao did not easily tease these new educated youth. Every night, he would teach everyone political lessons in an orderly manner and then go home, without any fuss at all.
Moreover, Wang Yuanchao has a lot of things to do every day, busy going up the mountain to bring back mountain products and game.
Catch more fish in the Qingyu River and put them in the fish pond at home. After it snows, fish them out, freeze them in a large water tank, and keep them for eating during the winter.
The fish in the canals in Wang Yuanchao's space are already densely packed and countless, but Wang Yuanchao's consumption rate is far less than the growth rate of various animals and fish in the space.
After collecting the six-pound fish in the space and putting it into the static space,
Wang Yuanchao also filled the fish pond at home with fish. They were all large fish weighing more than six kilograms, and there were a lot of fish weighing more than ten kilograms.
By September 20th, the winter temperature began to drop completely, and the daytime temperature was estimated to be only zero degrees. The only crops left in the fields were sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. It was estimated that in a week or so, this year's autumn harvest would be over.
So today Wang Yuanchao specially brought back six wild goats weighing more than 40 kilograms from the mountains. Wang Yuanchao skinned the wild goats at home and put the mutton in a large water tank on the porch to freeze it and keep it for eating in winter.
Then he went up the mountain again and brought home a wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms, three sika deer, three silly roe deer, and ten flying dragons.
In the evening, Wang Yuanchao stewed all ten flying dragons and made a flying dragon soup.
I prepared some braised venison, some braised pork, some pig's feet stewed with soybeans, and a few pounds of rice, and sent them to the cowshed in the evening.
Wang Yuanchao watched everyone eat and said, "Uncle Lu, Uncle Hu, the autumn harvest is about to end, and it will snow here soon, so we should stay indoors for the winter.
I have plenty of firewood at home, and we have a fire wall, so it's very warm. You and your aunt can come to my house to spend the winter there, right?"
After hearing what Wang Yuanchao said, Lu Guoguang shook his head and said without hesitation:
"Yuan Chao, no, if this gets known, it will implicate you and all of us will be doomed.
The brigade has already said that they will repair our doors, windows, and kangs.
During this period, a few of us collected a lot of firewood, which was enough to burn for the entire winter, without any problem.
You don't have to worry about us getting cold, just stay at home and spend the winter peacefully."
(End of this chapter)
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