Doomsday foresight

Chapter 52

"Vic has already agreed to get married at Zhang Hui's house. Anyway, he doesn't have so many rules. He will move out after the snow melts and build a house." Zhang Zhong came to talk about what they had discussed before. We got married in Westinghouse, and Zheng Yuan and I lived with Grandpa Cao. It only took two or three months."

"Alright, clean up the house these two days. Didn't you get so much material, and the walls will have to be pasted up, and it will look like this. It's just like this in a lifetime." The old man nodded after listening, this arrangement is just right . "How are you planning to build a house next year?"

"I'm thinking of building three more rooms at the back. There is one room connected to the kitchen, and three more rooms will be built from the back to form an I-shaped house. The east and west rooms will be divided between Vic and my brother. There are three connected rooms in the middle, and then we will design it to see how it fits.”

"It's okay, it's convenient to connect like this. It's just that the cellar dug before needs to be adjusted."

"It's okay. I thought about digging the ground directly when building a house to make a basement with two floors. It's not afraid to use reinforced concrete."

"Speaking of building a house, Jinxi, you haven't seen the house built by Company Commander Zhao, have you?" Second Uncle Jinxi suddenly remembered.

"No, I looked from the outside. I didn't go in. How is it very warm?"

"It's just right for them to live in. When you leave the village, help them build the house. You dig very deep according to your drawings, and only one meter high windows are left on the top. The rest are underground. The houses for people are built according to the kang. , because the house below is not as ventilated as our house. The kang is big, and it is very warm when it is heated. Company Commander Zhao and the others lived in three rooms with more than 30 people. The only bad thing is that it needs to be cleaned in time when it snows, otherwise the windows will be damaged. It is covered by snow, so the door is high enough."

"Just block it, anyway, the windows are covered with frost, so you can't see outside." Jin Yang shook his head, "The room is not well lit, but it's really warm. Last time I went there, a group of people wore clothes inside the house." It’s not cold in a shirt and shorts. The door of the house is so high that it’s not afraid of the wind.”

"Our family is going to fail this year. There are too many things to do in the village. Next year, when we are free, we will build three more rooms in the back. Your family will always live in one house and feel aggrieved." The old man said to the second uncle.Yingzi's mother lived here these days, and the second uncle and Jinyang couldn't live in the east room, so they moved here.

"It's nothing, it's good." The second uncle didn't care, and he got used to it for more than a year. Anyway, there is no inconvenience to have a grille door.

A group of people chatted, and Jin Xi went out to look at the family's livestock. A few days ago, the family added two lambs, and now there are nine lambs. The previous three lambs have also matured, and they are still one male and two females. When they are mature, Jinxi separates them and prevents them from mating. Now the breeding of sheep is a big problem.

Because of the changing environment, the sheep in the family have grown taller and bigger, especially the newborn sheep, which are 1.2 meters tall when they mature, which is almost as tall as the donkey before the disaster.The fur on the body is long and straight, almost hanging on the ground. Jinxi once cut the wool, and the wool was long and straight, not suitable for knitting sweaters, and it was relatively hard. Later, Jinxi twisted the wool into a rope and found that the wool rope was very strong. , It takes a lot of strength to pull it off, and then I made a hunting net with wool rope, which works very well.

Besides, Jinxi hasn't found any usefulness of wool, but she has to cut it every once in a while, because the wool grows too fast.

Put away the sheared wool in a bag, and bring the milk pot into the house. The two sheep are producing more and more milk. Except for the food for the children, there is still a lot left, and the rest of the family are unwilling to drink. Xi tried to make some food.

But apart from yogurt, everyone doesn’t like to eat anything else. Jinxi wants to bake some bread. Their kitchen utensils are very complete now. They put eggs and goat’s milk yeast in the flour. Well, the shelf life of the yeast seems to have expired, and Jinxi doesn’t know. Can it be used.It's only been a month, and it should be fine.

After an hour or so, the face is made, and it seems that the yeast can still be used.Then add sugar and milk powder and knead well, then put oil. There is no butter at home, so we can only use vegetable oil instead. After kneading, put the dough in a container, ferment it, and then bake it in the oven.This electric oven is really not very useful in their house.

"Oh, it's still very successful." Jin Xi cut off a piece of bread with a knife and ate it, it was no worse than the one he bought. "You have a piece too." He cut a piece and handed it to Jiang Chen.

"How about it?"

"Not bad." Jiang Chen nodded, "It's not worse than store bought."

"It's great that our goat's milk is finally useful." Jin Xi beamed, "There's only one bag of yeast left, next time I'll try natural fermentation. There's also multigrain bread, ah, it would be nice if there was milk. "

"Although there are few cattle and sheep, it's not impossible to find them." Jiang Chen took this matter to heart. There is a dairy farm to the west of them, but he doesn't know if there are still any, or if they have been transferred.

Jinxi's bread is warmly welcomed by the family, especially with jam, which is very fresh.The first time I made Jinxi, I was afraid that it would be spoiled, so I didn’t use new wheat flour. I used old noodles. The second time I made it, I used wheat flour to ferment naturally. It tastes better than the ones bought from outside before. Jinxi knows that her craftsmanship is average, so the reason why it is so delicious is entirely a matter of raw materials.

Even grandparents like the bread made of new wheat flour, so the eggs and goat milk at home are enough for Jinxi to cook almost every other day, and bread has become one of the staple foods in the family.Breaded moose sausages served with jam, this Western-style eating method is also served on Jinxi’s table.

In a blink of an eye, when we arrived at Laba, Jinxi’s family put Laba porridge in the pot the night before. When we got up in the morning, a big pot of thick Laba porridge was ready. Zhang Zhong and the others came over in the snow, and Zhang Cheng was still holding the porridge wrapped in a quilt. pot.

"what is this?"

"Tofu. Ye Jing's family made it." Zhang Cheng said as he opened the pot, and inside was tofu wrapped in thick gauze, "I'm afraid it will be wrapped in the cold."

"It's frozen as long as it's frozen, and frozen tofu is just as delicious." Jin Xi wanted to eat it too.

"I'll cut some and mix it first." Grandma took the pot and looked at it, "It's still quite a lot. The tofu made by Ye Jing's mother is the best."

Drink Laba porridge and eat mixed tofu, sauced potatoes, pickles, and big steamed buns with a strong wheat fragrance.This breakfast is very rich.

After eating Laba porridge, it was snowing heavily outside, Jinxi and the others were trying to play poker to pass the time, when they suddenly heard the beating of gongs in the village, which was the sound of a patrol team gathering.Jinxi and the others quickly put on their cotton coats.

"What's wrong?" When a group of people went out to the brigade headquarters, they saw Company Commander Zhao standing in the yard.They are close and come quickly.

"Liu Gang, his third uncle and his group brought people to our village. Just now they came to report the news by themselves. This group is not very good. They have already robbed several villages."

"This snowy day, why did they choose this day." Jiang Chen frowned.

"It's because of the lack of precautions in snowy weather that we come here."

"Come here, let's let them come and go. I heard that this group of people robbed all the dogs in Liu Gang's village? Let's clean them up, and the dog can be bred if it stays. Liu Gang can say about these dogs They are all good dogs." Ye Ke followed Jiang Chen and the others, and when he heard Company Commander Zhao and the others talking, he thought of something good as soon as he rolled his eyes.

"Don't be careless. Since these people have robbed so many places, they must have some ability. Let's be careful." Company Commander Zhao said cautiously.

Ye Ke pouted, not caring.