Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

The ice was a little slippery, so the two did not take the sled again, leaving the sled where it was, and the dog's rope was untied.

Letting a few dogs follow behind, the two of them walked towards the lake.

Although the temperature is cold now, it doesn't feel uncomfortable to walk without wind.

Several dogs seemed to have frozen feet because of the ice, so they kept running on it without stopping for a moment.

On the hilltop of the meadow, the snow was blown away by the wind, and the slopes could not store ice, but some turf was exposed.

The turf was no longer as green as before, but withered and yellow. The two climbed up the hill and looked towards the lake.

I saw a group of animals not far away by the lake.

"It's a deer!"

Zhao Yeqing lowered his voice for fear of scaring them.

When there were wolves before, they suspected that they were attracted by deer nearby, but they never found any trace. How could there be deer here now?

Mu Xi pointed in another direction and lowered his voice, "Look over there."

Zhao Yeqing squinted his eyes and looked over. It was a black animal with a large stature.

"Black blind man?"

But the black blind man shouldn't be that big.

"It's a brown bear."

Zhao Yeqing's eyes widened when he heard this. Where did the brown bear come from in their place?

Mu Xi's gaze moved to the distant mountain peak covered with snow all year round.

"It should have come from that way."

Zhao Yeqing also looked over. The mountain peaks were still as white as ever, which reminded her of a possibility.

"Did the earthquake trigger an avalanche on the mountain over there, causing the deer and brown bears to come here?"

Mu Xi nodded, "It's possible."

Otherwise, generally speaking, unless they are animals that need to migrate, other animals are unlikely to leave their original territories.

What's more, a bear that needs to hibernate will not appear outside at this time and move its territory.

The deer looked like a sika deer, with round spots on its body.

There are about seven or eight sika deer in the herd. Like the bears, they do not stay at the lake, but move forward to observe places where they can inhabit.

The two of them were afraid of being discovered by bears, as several dogs were still running on the meadow behind them, so they quickly went down the hill to greet the dogs and go home.

"There are probably many creatures in the meadow now that were not seen before."

The geographical conditions and climate of the mountain peak are different from those of the meadow. The animals there will run over and show no signs of going back.

Either the temperature in the meadow is suitable for them to live and the mountains over there are not yet safe, or the animals are warning that there might be a disaster.

After returning home, Mu Xi went to cook first, while Zhao Yeqing took several dogs back to the room and wiped the meat pads of each one before putting them in.

The weather right now is not suitable for cooking stir-fry. The dish will get cold as soon as it is taken off the fire.

Mu Xi heated up the oil, took out the pickled peppers from the jar, put them into the pot and sauteed them until fragrant, then added water and boiled them.

Put dried vegetables in boiling water.

The day before yesterday, Zhao Yeqing said that the food was a bit dull again, so he was thinking of making a pot of fat beef in sour soup tonight.

There weren't enough ingredients and the sourness wasn't obvious, so he put some more vinegar in it.

The freezing point of vinegar is two degrees Celsius, and it has already frozen into ice cubes.

You can only sit next to the stove, wait for some of it to melt, and then quickly pour the melted vinegar into the pot.

A little vinegar is enough, and the dried vegetables put in the pot include cabbage and dried tomatoes.

The sour taste of dried tomatoes is also more obvious.

Mu Xi covered the pot and waited until the dried tomatoes inside had melted into the soup before adding the fat beef.

The sour taste induces salivation.

Rice with sour soup is Zhao Yeqing's favorite. The first staple food cannot be made with steamed buns and noodles.

The sour and spicy soup was particularly appetizing. Zhao Yeqing ate a big bowl, so he couldn't waste the remaining soup and kept it for eating.

The steamed buns at home were about to be used up. Zhao Yeqing took out the highland barley flour and mixed it with a little flour to knead the dough. With the highland barley flour, he could reduce the consumption of wheat flour.

You can't make steamed buns simply with highland barley noodles. Unprocessed highland barley noodles are broken. You have to add some wheat flour into them to knead the dough to make steamed buns. The steamed buns are more nutritious than ordinary steamed buns.

In the notes, there was only the original owner's recipe for making steamed buns, which added wheat flour. After Zhao Yeqing flipped through the book, he realized that highland barley could not be kneaded into dough.

Mu Xi was going to make steamed bun stuffing. He did not thaw the beef, but just cut the hard beef into pieces and then chopped it directly.

The minced beef will thaw just by picking it up with your hands.

You still need to put some water in it. Soak the ginger slices and peppercorns in water, and then add it to the chopped beef filling in batches. It is not complete until the water and seasonings have been absorbed by the beef.

Heat oil in a pan, fry all the fragrant leaves, star anise and peppercorns, and fry the fragrant spice oil. Pour the oil into the meat filling, and use the oil to lock in the moisture in the beef filling.

The beef filling will be frozen after being left for a while, so you can't wrap it up and scoop out a little filling like you used to make buns and dumplings.

You have to knead the meat filling with your hands first, roll it into balls and place them on the cutting board. It doesn't matter if it freezes hard, just put it inside when wrapping.

When frozen, it locks in water even more.

When the dough was fermented the next day, Zhao Yeqing couldn't wait to steam the freshly made buns to try.

The fluffy and soft buns came out of the oven, and Zhao Yeqing blew them a little to cool the surface.

She carefully opened her mouth, and the abundant juice inside overflowed. Fortunately, the bite was relatively small. She blew into her mouth before sucking up the juice inside.

The beef soup inside is very delicious. Even after sucking up the soup before eating the buns, the meat filling inside is still juicy and not dry at all.

The beef Mu Xi chose was not purely lean, but contained some fat and tendons, and the meat filling could feel slightly springy when bitten into it.

She wanted to eat Chaozhou beef balls again.

Mu Xi also ate a steamed bun and said while eating, "What's wrong with this? There's nothing to do at home now, so just do it."

After eating the buns and going back to the room, Mu Xi took the big stone and pounded it in. Inside was a large piece of beef.

Zhao Yeqing was afraid that he would be bored by beating him, so he took a martial arts novel by Mr. Jin from the original owner's books and told the story with great emotion.

This novel is very classic, and the characters and plots it depicts are so impressive even for a small supporting role that she has been unable to forgive the stinky Taoist priest in it since she was a child.

She skipped that section.

There are many novels by Mr. Jin on the table, Zhao Yeqing guessed,

"The original owner lives alone on this meadow, raising dogs and sheep. He probably had some dream of being a martial artist and living in seclusion."

Halfway through a book, all the beef in the stone pound turned into mincemeat.

Teochew meatballs are considered good only when the meat becomes gelatinous.

There was a loud bang in the house all morning, so that the two of them didn't hear anything in the yard.

Mu Xi wanted to take the pounded beef into the kitchen and make it into meatballs, then opened the door——

He made eye contact with the tall black figure in the yard...