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

The dustpan she brought back was placed in the space inside the brick wall outside. Inside was the semi-finished prunes dried in the yard.

Mu Xi asked because in addition to dried prunes, there were also a lot of dried bamboo shoots outside.

The dried bamboo shoots were made in the spring of last year. They were placed in the cupboard without plastic bags hanging on the wall. As expected, they became a little moldy.

The two of them threw away all the moldy ones. There was one bag that was not moldy yet, but had a stale smell, so they took it out again, washed it, dried it to remove the moisture, and then put it in the yard to dry.

Zhao Yeqing replied: "The bamboo shoots of the prunes I got still have some smell, and they need to be dried for another two days."

When the mustard greens were dried until they were 60 to 70% dry, they were taken back and cleaned. Then they were sprinkled with salt and marinated in a jar. After a month, they were almost completely marinated and then taken out.

To turn it into umeboshi, it must be steamed and then dried. This step must be repeated three times. After drying for two days, the umeboshi leaves become a little crispy, and then repeat the step.

After three steaming and three sun-dryings, green mustard greens can be turned into black prunes.

Now it was steaming and drying. Zhao Yeqing had to wait until Mu Xi had finished the rice before bringing in the vegetables and continuing to steam them.

In the past, the hot pot chicken eaten in Sichuan and Chongqing was cooked in hot pot soup base. This time Mu Xi only used a small amount of base ingredients, filtered out the spice residue, and used the red hot pot butter to fry the chicken pieces until fragrant.

Fry the chicken skin until golden and brown, then add two tablespoons of sweet wine to enhance the freshness, and then fry the sweet wine until the flavor is gone.

There are also a lot of side dishes such as lettuce, bean curds and so on, and finally sprinkled with coriander and sesame seeds.

As soon as Mu Xi's vegetables were cooked, Zhao Yeqing put up the steamer for steaming the dried plum vegetables. After the dried plum vegetables were steamed, they had to be stuffed in it until they were completely cooled before they could be taken out to dry for the second time.

Quickly steaming the prunes and vegetables, he quickly sat down at the table and picked up the rice bowl.

Compared to the soup pot, the fried griddle was more to her liking. The two of them divided a chicken and ate it cleanly. The golden onions fried in the bottom of the pot were more delicious than the meat.

The weather is cold now. After eating, the semi-finished prunes in the steamer have been allowed to cool down. Logically speaking, it would be better to stay in the steamer for another day. However, the weather is too cold now. I am afraid it will snow at any time, so it is best to dry them as soon as possible.

Zhao Yeqing's plan still couldn't keep up with the changes. When the dried prunes were drying, snow finally began to fall in the sky.

She could only put the prunes into the house and put them next to the fireplace.

The lowest temperature at noon finally broke through minus ten degrees. Mu Xi opened the ash pit of the fireplace and lit the stove underneath.

Once the floor heating is started today, there is a high probability that it will not stop again this winter.

It would take several hours for the floor heating to start heating up. The two of them had to prepare today's ingredients and start cooking in the house.

I took out all the frozen food from the refrigerator and put it in the kitchen with the door locked. The indoor temperature in the kitchen was about minus three degrees, so it would definitely be fine to keep it fresh for the time being.

But if you want to preserve it for a long time, it's best to put it outside and make a freezer like last year.

Mu Xi made the mold a few days ago when there was no snow. Based on last year's experience, this year the mold was made without hesitation. Now three sides have been frozen.

Zhao Yeqing put on his gloves and coat and walked out. The wind outside had stopped, and soft white snowflakes fell from the sky.

There was already a thin layer of white snow on the meadow, and there was also a small amount of snow in the yard. Zhao Yeqing cleared a small path, walked to the placed mold, and took out the ice that had frozen on it yesterday. Fill it again with water.

The sky is covered by clouds, but it doesn't look dark. They are all white clouds, which don't feel oppressive at all. Behind the clouds, it seems that there is the sun, and the light shines through the clouds and looks particularly bright.

It took some time to wait for the ice to freeze. When Zhao Yeqing returned to the room, there was no big difference. He didn't feel warm, just not so cold.

The light outside was good now, so she opened the curtains and let the light shine through the windows into the room. This way she could turn off the lights at home for a while, saving whatever she could.

The two of them didn't do any particularly delicate work in the room at this time, and the light was already enough.

Mu Xi prepared some ingredients and turned on the floor heating to cook in the room on the first night. The two planned to make a soup pot.

There was not only water in the soup pot, but also soup made from the big bones left behind when the pig was killed. After killing the pig, the two of them simmered most of the bones in the soup over high heat until it turned out to be milky white.

Put it in the refrigerator and freeze it into pieces. When needed, just take out a piece and put it in the pot and cook it until it melts.

The dishes you need to prepare for the soup pot are also very simple. Clean vegetables and sliced ​​meat. The frozen meat is very easy to cut, and it is evenly thin and thick and will be cooked once it is boiled.

The meat has been cut, and the thin slices of meat will easily melt and collapse in the room with floor heating. The sliced ​​meat is placed at the door to freeze before picking the vegetables.

Mu Xi got out of the planting basement. Zhao Yeqing looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and was a little worried that the snowfall would be too heavy and the PC board covering the planting basement would collapse.

Now, before the weather gets warmer in spring, the PC board will not be opened again, so we might as well cover it with something.

Zhao Yeqing put on his coat, put on his raincoat, put on his hat and walked out.

There is a lot of wood left over from demolition of old houses in the yard. The ones that can be used are rebuilt and reused. The ones that are not in good condition are put away first. If they are not used, they are used as firewood.

Zhao Yeqing found a few boards and wooden strips here, put the long wooden strips on the ground at both ends of the PC board covered with soil to make load-bearing brackets, and then covered the top with wooden boards.

In this way, falling snow will not press on the PC board.

Mu Xi was picking vegetables below. When he heard the noise above him, he came out with the basket of picked vegetables. When he saw Zhao Yeqing moving the wooden board up, he put down the basket and was about to go over to help.

Zhao Yeqing saw it and hurriedly stopped him: "You go and wash the vegetables first. These vegetables are very juicy. If you leave them like this for a while, they will freeze hard. I'm wearing thick clothes and it's fine."

Mu Xi saw that she was indeed fully armed and there were only a few boards left, so he nodded and hurried into the house.

Zhao Yeqing set up the board, his gloved hands were extremely cold, and he hurried into the house.

The temperature difference was now relatively large. As soon as I entered the room, I felt an obvious warmth hit my face, and for a moment I felt the air was thin.

At the door, I shook off the snowflakes on my raincoat, then closed the door and moved my coat.

You don't need to wear shoes when you walk to the heated floor. The floor under your feet is covered with a thin layer of straw mat and is warm.

Zhao Yeqing sat directly on the rocking chair and let out a comfortable sigh.

There is nothing more comfortable than staying in a house with floor heating in winter.

Now that the vegetables are ready, the meal can be started as soon as the soup base in the pot boils.

But something happened to the floor heating at this time.