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The medicinal materials brought back from Wu Jiutao were quite a lot, because they were brought from the medicine shop, and the types of medicinal materials were very uniform, but the amount was not too much when spread out. Especially the few medicines that Wu Jiutao took out for everyone to drink, only a little bit left, no wonder the boiled medicine is getting thinner and thinner.
There were also a lot of medicinal materials because they got them in a hurry, several types were mixed together, and Liang Xianyue had to pick them out and reclassify them slowly. But although it was a bit troublesome, she also got a lot of precious medicinal materials, including a small box of saffron, several pieces of Eucommia and a fairly large ginseng.
First, she solved the deceitful "Doctor Wu", and then got the medicinal materials and food. Liang Xianyue's day was quite smooth, but bad things followed.
Maybe it was the news that I took more than forty catties of grain home the day before and spread in the village, and a thief actually wanted to enter Liang Xianyue's house to steal things at night.
Knowing that the walls of Liang Xianyue's house were high, he had the experience to move the ladder, but it was a pity that Xiao Hei noticed it before climbing over the barbed wire, and Xiao Hei woke up Liang Xianyue's family by barking. The thief ran away like hell, and even the ladder fell outside the wall.
This is simply too arrogant! You know, although thieves came out frequently in winter, they stole things outside the yard, like potatoes in the cellar, or coal in the warehouse. It was different if you wanted to steal food, you had to go inside the house.
Liang Xianyue felt horrified at the thought of someone sneaking into her home in the dark and digging through the cupboards. What made her even more annoyed was that this person had a clear goal, and it was obvious that he came for the food she just brought back yesterday. In such a short period of time, the news could only spread in the village, and it was definitely the hands of the villagers!
Now there are not many families left in the village. They have been in the same village for many years, and they may be related by relatives, so they also have such an idea.
Liang Xianyue thought that this was going too far, but a few days later, this person would make a comeback and visit in the middle of the night again. After waking Xiao Hei up, he knew that he couldn't steal their house, so he threw several stones into the yard as if venting his anger, and almost smashed the window glass.
It's disgusting!
Liang Xianyue angrily wanted to use the night watch to catch this man, but she didn't wait for him to come again after staying up for several days. As a result, she lost her mind during the day and finally gave up the idea of night watch.
But the thief knew he couldn't succeed, so he stopped coming to Liang Xianyue's house. Instead, other people in the village heard that things had either been stolen, or that they hadn't succeeded, and stones had been thrown and windows smashed.
Everyone thought it was done by fellow villagers, and they didn't even feel at ease when they went out to find supplies. They are looking for things outside, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are left at home. If they find that all the things in the house are lost when they return home, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?
Suspicion of neighbors and stealing axes has happened several times, and there will be estrangement between neighbors, and even enemies. Anyway, the communication between villagers in Liangjia Village is getting less and less, and they don't move around much on weekdays.
On the contrary, Liang Xianyue's family, Ji Mingcen's family, and Huang Yifeng's family have always been in a close group, and they usually help each other. The shelf vegetable garden they built together has finally ripened the first batch of greens.
They plan to get together and celebrate. The main room of Ji Mingcen's house is the most spacious, and the location is chosen here.
The three families took off the fresh cabbages on the shelf, Liang Yueyue sliced the meat from the big ham that they cherished so much and cut it into diced ham, and Ji Mingcen killed a big rabbit that had grown up. Huang Yifeng fished out two sauerkraut from the big vat of pickling vegetables at home.
Right now, Huang Yifeng and Liang Kangshi are two men with kitchen knives chopping dumpling stuffing. They are going to make dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut, rabbit meat and cabbage stuffing. The diced ham is added to the cabbage dumpling.
After chopping up the stuffing, they sat on the heated kang to make dumplings. They took five sheets of curtains for the dumplings alone.
The weather is not getting warm all the time. I want the vegetables at home to grow smoothly, and I also want to stay at home more comfortably. The kang is always burning. Today, because there are so many dumplings to eat, the stove in Ji Mingcen's house is also turned on.
Liang Xianyue moved a small bench and sat by the stove. There was an iron pot on the stove. Liang Xianyue was carefully frying the sugar in it. Ji Mingcen stood aside and asked him, "How much milk powder do I need?"
Liang Xianyue stared intently at the sugar in the pot, seeing that the sugar in the pot was scorched, and said in a panic: "You see, my sugar is going to be mushy!
" Spoon milk powder, stir it and pour it into the pot in front of Liang Xianyue.
With a stabbing sound, the timely rain appeared to save the caramel from being too "burnt". Liang Xianyue stirred the liquid in the pot, and the pure white milk was dyed a soft light coffee color. Liang Xianyue asked in a hurry: "Where's the tea I brought?"
Ji Mingcen tapped on the tea pot that was placed beside Liang Xianyue with his fingers.
"So it's here." Liang Xianyue opened the tea pot, grabbed a handful of tea leaves, sprinkled them into the pot, and continued to boil.
Gradually there was a sweet smell in the air, even Liang Kangshi who was sitting on the kang in the distance could smell it. "Yueyue, what are you doing?"
Liang Xianyue didn't turn his head back: "Wait a minute, it'll be ready soon!"
The milk tea in the pot was bubbling, and Liang Xianyue finally put the taro balls and glutinous rice that had been cooked earlier. The little ball fell in. Her caramel milk tea is finally done!
Liang Xianyue took a spoonful into Ji Mingcen's bowl, and urged him to taste it quickly: "How is it?"
Ji Mingcen nodded seriously: "It's delicious, very sweet."
Liang Xianyue also took a sip, and the milk tea tasted soft Soft, with a bit of caramel aroma, she ate another glutinous rice dumpling, a round one the size of a fingernail, soft and glutinous. I thought that there was no fresh milk, and the taste of milk tea made from milk powdered with milk powder would be different.
The first caramel milk tea I tried was a great success, and Liang Xianyue happily shared a cup with everyone.
Several female elders were full of praise for the milk tea, and even Huang Yifeng, who never liked to drink these things, finished it and thought it tasted good. He praised: "I used to think this stuff was too sweet and cloying, but Yueyue's made it is quite delicious."
Liang Xianyue said frankly: "It's not that delicious! It's because you haven't eaten sweets for a long time , the body will drive you to eat more high-calorie food, so that it feels extra delicious."
After drinking the milk tea, several people finished making dumplings. The stove and the pot on the stove were filled with water, and the dumplings began to be made as soon as the water boiled. It didn't take long for the bulging fat dumplings to float to the surface of the water, tumbling in the hot air, and a little bit of oozing oil also floated to the surface of the water.
These are dumplings with meat inside! Huang Yifeng hadn't eaten meat for a long time. The last time he was assigned the ham that Liang Kang found in the city, he sliced it into thin slices with great care, and he was willing to finish it after two days.
Although Ji Mingcen raised rabbits, he was not willing to eat more rabbit meat. He had the weakest foundation in Liangjia Village, and he had to trade with others if he needed something. Rabbits were the best goods, and everyone in the village wanted them.
But there is also a bad thing. I know that there are many people who raise rabbits in his family, and there are also many people who covet them. After the size of the rabbit group is larger, only those newborn rabbits are kept in the original house. Ji Mingcen put them in the backyard, tamped the ground and erected a fence to raise them. As long as the rabbits don't give birth, they usually don't bother digging holes.
I don't know who saw him raising rabbits in the backyard, and people visited twice in the backyard. Now Ji Mingcen would wake up when he heard any movement at night, lit a candle and went to the backyard to watch. Eight out of ten times he heard the thief running away.
Today was a happy day, and Ji Mingcen didn't mention these disappointing things. Zhen Min picked up a bowl full of dumplings for him, and Ji Mingcen took a bite. The fresh cabbage and the salty diced ham were steaming and tasted great.
Everyone ate the dumplings to their heart's content. Their stomachs were opened, and several covered dumplings fell into the pot, and the big pot was eaten up.
There was a bit too much dumpling noodles, and the rest was rolled into a big cake by Yang Shulan and cut into hand-rolled noodles. After the chewy noodles are cooked, pour over sesame oil and mix well. Pick a cucumber from the vegetable garden on the shelf and cut it into thin shreds, add two drops of chili oil, and sprinkle a handful of green onion, just smelling it is fragrant.
After eating a large bowl of dumplings, everyone was given a small bowl of noodles, and they ate them all. Often doing physical work, everyone's appetite is good.
After eating, Liang Xianyue made a pot of hot tea for everyone with the tea leaves he brought. Surrounding the small kang table, the curling water mist blurred each other's eyebrows and eyes.
Liang Xianyue took a sip of the tea in the cup, and heard Huang Yifeng put down the teacup in his hand and leaned towards the table in front of him, his voice was serious: "I want to say something." "We
... Why don't you move to the villa area where my family used to live?"
Except for Yang Shulan's hand shaking and a few drops of tea splashing out, the others were actually very calm about Huang Yifeng's proposal.
"When we went to search for supplies last time, we also stopped by my original home. The people inside have moved out long ago. The walls there have been strengthened and the place is spacious. I think it's quite suitable to live in." Liangjia Village Public
Security It got worse and worse, and it was just petty theft at first. Later, there were more robberies. If the three families hadn't lived close to each other and took care of each other, they would have been robbed by countless people based on their appearance that they had never been hungry.
It was okay when we were all at home, but when we went out to find supplies, we were worried, fearing that something would happen to those who stayed at home. In addition, every time he went to the city to look for supplies, he had to walk for two or three hours, and Liangjia Village had no obvious advantages to keep them. The idea of moving away took root in Huang Yifeng's heart. When he found that the villa he used to live in was vacant, he completely broke through the ground.
There are not a few people in Liangjia Village who think like him. Anyway, there are no crops growing in the fields, and there are plenty of places to live in the city, and it is safer than the countryside. A security door can stop most people. Many villagers want to understand this. After that, he moved away immediately.
The reason why Huang Yifeng didn't mention this matter was that he wanted to wait for the vegetables on the shelves to mature. Now that the dishes are picked, it's time to ask everyone what they think.
As soon as he said this, both Liang Kangshi and Zhen Min looked at Liang Xianyue, whether to move or not, the most important thing is Liang Xianyue's decision. When Yang Shulan heard the news, she felt very sad. She and her son finally settled down in Liangjia Village. They had a house, grew vegetables, and raised rabbits. At this time, she suddenly said that she wanted to leave, how could she be willing.
Just calm down and think about it, someone in the backyard tried to steal his rabbit every now and then, and he didn't even dare to sleep soundly at night. The house was remodeled from a supermarket, and there was no wall in the front yard. It was Ji Mingcen who went to the mountain to cut wooden sticks and tie up a high Fences, only to cover the peeping eyes of passers-by.
Perhaps it would be safer to move to the city? Thinking in her heart, Yang Shulan turned her attention to Ji Mingcen. It all depends on Ji Mingcen's thoughts.
Liang Xianyue and Ji Mingcen next to her suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention in the room. She put down the teacup in her hand, looked at Ji Mingcen, cleared her throat and said, "Actually, I discussed this matter with Brother Mingcen. We also think it's best to move to the city."
"The walls of the villa area have been strengthened, making it more secure. Besides, we spent too much time traveling back and forth to the city to find supplies, which added a lot of waste to the city." The risk of robbery is better to find a place to live in the city."
Ji Mingcen continued her words: "The weather this year has not been warm, and the acid rain has corroded the tiles on the bungalow we live in now. The house is not warm enough, and it will not be warm in winter." It's easy. I went to their house with Uncle Huang last time. There is a fireplace in the villa. Compared with ordinary buildings, having a fireplace is more convenient for heating. Besides, if you want to survive the winter this year, firewood is also a problem. There are almost no trees on the mountain. However, it is easy to find unused furniture in the urban area."
"So, we also agree to move to the city."
After hearing what they said, the balance in the hearts of several people was more inclined to the urban area.
Zhen Min said: "Living in the city has many advantages, but moving is a hassle. There are not many things at home, and there is a lot to pack up." Huang Yifeng heard that everyone agreed with his proposal
. , very excited: "It's not difficult to move. The road has been walked so many times by everyone, and the potholes are almost filled. It just so happens that I still have some gasoline here. Let's drive there. Where the road is not accessible, we must either detour or bring tools. Just level the road, and you can move it a few times back and forth."
"Other things are easy to move. I don't know what to do with the shelves in our house and the rabbits in the back." Yang Shulan said. Speaking of moving, their family really doesn't have much luggage. It's just that the shelf vegetable garden has just been harvested, and the rabbits will be fat and strong after they have chicken claw vines as rations. If they can't be brought to the villa area It would be a pity there.
"Rabbits can be brought over in cages, so it's not impossible to keep them. It's not easy to find a few shelves in the city. I just think the vegetables I planted this time were not well planned. I can take this opportunity to do it all over again." Ji Mingcen comforted her. road.
The relocation has been unanimously agreed by everyone, and the difficulties in front of us have been removed one by one.
It took nearly a week to move this time. Liang Xianyue's house has the most luggage, but Liang Xianyue has a space on the island, so he picked some unobtrusive ones and moved them into the space quietly, planning to take them out after arriving at the new residence. . Ji Mingcen's family had the least luggage, but the rabbit cage took up space. On average, the luggage of the three families was about the same.
The day when the luggage was completely moved was August 9th. Not only was there no trace of midsummer heat, but a strong north wind blew up instead. The three families were blocked in Huang Yifeng's villa by a snowstorm before they even had time to pack their luggage.
The original plan was to put their luggage here temporarily. Liang Xianyue and Ji Mingcen each found a villa nearby to live in. The heating range of the fireplace was only enough for the first floor, and some cold-resistant vegetables could be grown on the second floor. Unexpectedly, the three families were forced to live together due to a snowstorm.
I don't know when the family who forcibly occupied Huang Yifeng's villa left. When they came, the whole villa was in a mess, with traces of being turned everywhere. Fortunately, the courtyard gate and the gate of the villa were still intact.
They simply tidied up a few rooms to live in, and were worrying about whether the temperature in the room dropped so badly, whether they should go out and take the risk to find some furniture for firewood, Liang Xianyue brought good news.
"There's a lot of firewood in the basement!"
"Really?!" Huang Yifeng ran to the basement as soon as he heard this. Apart from some furniture that could not be moved, there was nothing left in the house. He had never hoped that there would be valuable materials in the basement, and he never even took a look.
When I came to the basement, I saw that most of the room was full of neatly stacked firewood. Huang Yifeng picked up the firewood with a flashlight to check. He had bought wood for the fireplace before, and quickly recognized that one pile was oak and the other birch.
He was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that there were still ready-made firewood left here. Oak is a very high-quality wood, and it is particularly resistant to burning as a fuel for fireplaces, and it emits heat for a long time, just like charcoal. Birch is also a good fuel wood. It is characterized by its fast burning speed, and it is most suitable to be mixed with oak, which is a fire-resistant wood.
"Let me see if there is anything good in the basement." Huang Yifeng searched around with a flashlight.
Liang Xianyue didn't think there was anything else to be found, even this pile of wood was taken out of the space by her and piled here. Originally, the basement was empty, only some sundries piled up in the corner. The villa area is well-known, many people should have come here to search for supplies, and what was left behind were worthless things.
Unexpectedly, Huang Yifeng suddenly shouted in surprise: "Here's a barrel of diesel oil!" Then, he took out a round barrel from the rags in the corner, pulled off the lid, and took a deep breath.
"It's diesel, not water!"
That's the real surprise in the basement.
They had diesel, and Huang Yifeng's diesel generator, and used the air conditioner before lighting the fireplace.
Liang Kangshi rubbed his hands and stood under the warm air of the central air conditioner, feeling his frozen body slowly recovering. It's too cold, or they wouldn't want to use diesel. The north wind outside the window whistled sharply, rolling up large chunks of snowflakes and hitting the huge French windows, making it hard to imagine that this was the scene in early August.
The blizzard lasted for nearly a week, intermittently, and as soon as the wind eased outside, Liang Xianyue and Ji Mingcen put on the thickest clothes and went to the yard to cut claw vines. The claw vines on the ground were all buried in the snow, so they cut the ones on the courtyard wall.
The raised courtyard wall is densely covered with claw vines, like a yellow-green waterfall. The cut paw vines are dried in front of the fireplace and fed to the rabbits. What he couldn't finish was saved by Ji Mingcen and used as food for the rabbits in winter.
I don't know if the rabbits were frightened by the move, or the weather was cold. Several rabbits suffered from loss of appetite and lost a lot of weight in a few days. Ji Mingcen quickly killed the two rabbits, salted them, and hung them in front of the fireplace to make rabbit meat.
After the blizzard ended, the temperature rose sharply, and the half-meter-deep snow melted in just half a day. There were big puddles everywhere outside. When the sun came out, the strong smell in the air made people faint.
Liang Xianyue and the others closed the doors and windows tightly, and occasionally wore gas masks when they went out. The villa area was not explored until the accumulated water evaporated completely.
Although the villa area has tall walls and a fireplace that is convenient for adding firewood, there are not many people living here. If Liang Xianyue was still puzzled by this when she first moved here, she already knew the disadvantages of the villa after staying for two weeks.
No matter how hot the fire is, it can at most serve as the living room and the two adjacent rooms in the weather of several degrees below zero, and the other places basically don't feel too much heat. If the villa has a patio, the heat will dissipate faster, and even the first floor is not very warm.
Like the snowstorm not long ago, the three of them lived in this villa, so the air conditioner had to be turned on, otherwise the room on the second floor would only have a single-digit temperature.
If the winter is minus 30 to 40 degrees, it is even more difficult to imagine how to survive.
But it's too early to think about it now. After the blizzard, the temperature has risen to nearly 20 degrees. The seasons have been chaotic. Just after the severe winter with howling cold winds, it ushered in the bright and beautiful late spring, but who remembers, the calendar The last solar term turned out to be the end of heat.
But this temperature is very suitable for Liang Xianyue, she and Ji Mingcen each found two other villas next to each other near Huang Yifeng's house, cleaned them up a bit and moved in. Now the three of them have become neighbors again, watching and helping each other, and they can also guarantee the privacy of their own family members.
The first thing Liang Xianyue did after choosing the address was to rebuild their shelf vegetable garden. The convenience store near the villa has a lot of shelves that no one wants. They dismantled them and reassembled them on the second floor of the villa, filled them with the soil dug out from the space by Liang Xianyue, sprinkled them with seeds, and waited for the crops to germinate.
Because the villa has a lot of empty rooms, in addition to the vegetables grown on the shelves, they also tried to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, millet and corn in several rooms.
When they planted potatoes, everyone was apprehensive, fearing that the same kind of potato mold and rot would happen again and ruin the potatoes they used for seeding. But I wonder if Liang Xianyue used the soil from the island. Without the germs that cause potatoes to get sick, the potatoes they planted were plump and smooth with few holes.
While waiting for the crops to be harvested, Liang Xianyue went to Zhen Li's house with her parents once to tell Zhen Li that they had moved. Since Tianjiatun, where Zhen Li lives, has been completely classified as a vegetable base, it is not very convenient for Zhen Li to come in and out, and Liang Xianyue and his family usually go to visit him.
Every time Zhen Li asks for leave to visit relatives at their home, Liang Xianyue firmly opposes it. The base does not allow internal staff to come in and out at will, and it also has the consideration of protecting them. People like Zhen Li who have become employees of the base early, such a long time Time has also accumulated a lot of wealth, which is easy to be coveted.
When I was living in Liangjia Village, Liang Xianyue didn't know much about the news. I found out later that people living in the base often stared at the regular employees like Zhen Li who held the base's job, and when they saw them leave the base, they would call them out. People inside tipped the off, and outsiders kidnapped out-of-town employees to extort money from their families.
The base has arrested several waves of such people, and also uncovered many inner ghosts in the base. After questioning these inner ghosts, it was found that they were not closely related to the people who cooperated outside, but they just knew each other. But just getting a message can get a lot of rewards, and no one can resist this temptation. Later, the base strictly restricted employees from leaving the base.
When Liang Xianyue's family arrived at Zhen Li's, it was Zhen Li and Tian Wei's guarantee as intermediate agricultural technicians that allowed their family of three to enter the base and stayed at Zhen Li's house for a short time.
Liang Xianyue brought a basket of eggs and two chickens to her aunt and cousin. Such a large sum shocked the luggage checking staff. They didn't expect that there were people outside the base living so comfortably. Meat, eggs, and milk were also very scarce food in the base. There were few livestock in the base, and the food was not enough for people to eat, so they didn't dare to raise many livestock. It wasn't until the appearance of the paw vine that it was found through experiments that it could be used as livestock feed, and then the scale was slowly expanded.
But eggs are nothing special in Liang Xianyue's house. Now there are five roosters, eight hens that can lay eggs, and twelve chicks waiting to grow up on the island.
This is already the result of controlling the size of the flock, otherwise Liang Xianyue would not be able to produce enough feed for the chickens if he increased the efforts to incubate the fertilized eggs. Moreover, the eight hens laid eggs every day that Liang Xianyue's family couldn't finish eating, and finally found a chance to take them out, so Zhen Li couldn't eat enough.
Zhen Li was also frightened by the heavy basket of eggs. She was afraid that Liang Xianyue's family saved these eggs for her, so she hurriedly said, "Does your family raise chickens? You should keep these eggs for yourselves. I will save them for you." The food in the base is very good, and Weiwei and I have a high salary, and we usually only eat rice and noodle cakes in the cafeteria, and we have never eaten those rattan noodle cakes and rattan noodles.
" What did you say about the vine noodle cake? After asking, I found out that it was made of paw vine. I was very surprised. But this is also a good thing. Claw vines are everywhere. Some of them froze to death after the blizzard, and now they have grown again, covering the streets where there were no people along the way when they came.
"We have a lot of chickens at home, and our family of three can't eat all the eggs they lay, and we don't have so much chicken feed to feed so many chickens. No, I'll send you two. Can you cook on fire here? ? If you send it to the cafeteria, you must keep an eye on it so that no one will steal the meat." Zhen Min pulled Zhen Li aside and instructed in a low voice.
Zhen Li looked at her expression carefully and saw that she didn't seem to be lying, so she was relieved: "It seems that you are really doing well, and I have some things for you." She dragged out
from a hidden corner of the small warehouse With two heavy barrels of gasoline, he said out of breath: "At the beginning we still had the quota to buy gasoline, I thought you might have to drive around and buy up the quota for me and Weiwei every time, and then buy No more, I only saved these. Since you are living in the villa area and have generators, you must be short of gasoline for power generation in winter. If you move all these away, I won't be able to use them." "Sister..." Zhen Min looked at Zao
Zao The big sister who just planned to get up for herself, her eyes were moist.
"Don't cry, the children are all here, it's embarrassing." Zhen Li looked at her younger sister, her eyes glistening. She also said this to herself. After she finished speaking, she wiped her eyes, pulled Zhen Min and said: "Your family raises laying hens, and they are not nutritious enough to lay eggs. I know the oil-pressing master in the cafeteria. You wait for me." , I'll go and see if I can buy some bean cakes for you."
The bean cakes that Zhen Li mentioned are cakes made of compacted bean dregs after oil extraction. This kind of bean cake is particularly nutritious for poultry like chickens and ducks. The chickens raised by the base will also eat bean cake dregs as a meal.
Zhen Min held her hand and refused to let her go: "I'll just stay here for a while, and you can also talk to me, tell me how you and Weiwei are doing." Zhen Li smiled heartily, she
saw Looking at the younger sister who is not consciously acting like a baby, it seems that she has returned to the time when the younger sister was not married, always holding her arm and wrapping her around her.
"I'll be back after a while, don't worry."
"Then I'll go with you." Zhen Min said bluntly.
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Because of their arrival, Zhen Li and Tian Wei took half a day off and talked lively all afternoon. Finally, Liang Xianyue's family returned to the villa area before the sky became dark. In the car were two barrels of gasoline that Zhen Li saved for them and five bean cakes she bought.
In addition to these, Liang Xianyue can also logically take out a few hens in the space, pretending that these hens were given to them by Zhen Li, and the family raises these hens together and eats eggs, which is better than Liang Xianyue's family ate eggs until they vomited, but the others had already forgotten what eggs tasted like.
As a result, in addition to raising meat rabbits, they also have a special room for raising laying hens.
There are only a few rooms in a villa for people to live in, but it is fully arranged for the planting and breeding of various crops and poultry. In addition, the villa area is located in the bustling city center, so it is very convenient to go out and search for supplies. Liang Xianyue and the others moved After coming here, I really felt a lot of convenience.