Chapter 133: Cutting Ice and Storing Cabbage for the Winter
“Xiao Kai, what kind of errand fees are there for you?” Mom Ye Xin shook her head and said.
"If he is willing to give it, just give it! Otherwise, he will be embarrassed to ask his son to bring him something back next time." Dad Li Aimin said.
“Okay!”
In fact, Liao Kai doesn’t suffer either! Although Li Jiayi gave him the normal price, he may not be able to buy it at the normal price.
Even if I bought it, I wouldn't be able to buy so much, especially the ten kilograms of pork suet.
Let’s put it this way! If Liao Kai shouted in the courtyard that the piece of pork suet cost eighteen yuan, people in the courtyard would probably rob him.
Although some things have prices, they may not be available, otherwise there would be no shortage of oil and water.
Especially pork suet, it’s really hard to buy. Butcher shops do have it, but no matter when you go, it’s already sold out.
"Son, didn't you bring back some more lard?" asked my mother Ye Xin.
"Uh! Mom, didn't I just get ten pounds back some time ago? Have you finished the oil?"
"You haven't finished the oil, but who thinks there is too much oil!"
"Okay. !”
Li Jiayi was speechless. Is the family still short of oil? Although fat and oil are good things, you shouldn’t eat too much!
Eating too much of this stuff will make you fat. No one may care about it now, but it won’t take many years before someone will pay attention.
"Mom, don't worry! Our family will not be short of oil, so when you put the oil in, just put it in without telling me."
"Yeah!"
From this day on From the beginning, the snow never stopped, and it would fall every two or three days at most. Sometimes it would rain heavily, and sometimes it would rain lightly.
The school is also officially on holiday, but this holiday is not a winter holiday, but a holiday because the weather is too cold.
The school is also afraid that students will freeze! Not all children in families have cotton-padded clothes and trousers.
Even if there is, it can't stop the cold, so I can only take a holiday.
This will never happen in future generations. Of course, there will not be such heavy snow in future generations. If there is, there may be a holiday.
This is the holiday, and if school starts again, it will be a little warmer next tomorrow.
In addition, this abnormal holiday may also be related to this year's weather. This year's weather is too abnormal.
For the next period of time, Li Jia ran outside after breakfast every day, of course to freeze ice cubes.
There are a lot of ice cubes frozen in mineral water or spiritual spring water in the space now.
These are food, and Li Jiayi also needs to get some non-food to cool down in the summer.
It's just that he doesn't need to freeze it himself. Whether it's Qianhai or Houhai, there is no shortage of this stuff.
Just trying to break the ice is not that easy, especially since it has snowed a lot recently.
Although there are many people playing on the ice every day, skating and skating, there is still a thick layer of snow on it.
It's just that the snow has been trampled hard and looks similar to ice cubes, but it is not ice.
What Li Jiayi wants is only ice, no matter how hard the snow is, because it melts very quickly when exposed to high temperatures.
There is no way to compare it with ice cubes. You must know that it is used for cooling!
This morning, Li Jiayi came to Houhai. He also wanted to visit Beihai.
But there are too many people there, and there are fewer people here in Houhai.
Walking to a place with no one nearby, Li Jiayi took out an iron awl from the space and pointed it at the ice under his feet a few times.
Unfortunately, it was all snow, with ice at the bottom. I put the iron cone away and walked out as if nothing was wrong.
It seems that the ice harvest plan cannot be completed. In fact, the main reason is that there are people. Although there are not as many people here as there are in the North Sea, there are still people.
It seems that we need to find a place without people, and the only way to find a place without people is outside the city.
This is not difficult for Li Jiayi, and he also knows such a place.
That is over Xizhimen. There are many lakes outside the city. There is currently no development in the imperial capital, so many lakes have not been filled in yet.
Just do it if you think of it. No, Li Jiayi ran to Xizhimen.
The road from Xizhimen to Qinghe has been cleared now, which is a good thing for Li Jiayi.
Because this way, he doesn’t have to dig holes anymore.
Soon Li Jiayi came here and looked at the vast white area in front of him, which made him very happy.
This means that no one comes here, find a place to dig a hole in, and then block the hole.
Soon he reached the ice and began to clear the snow on the ice.
Because no one needs to step on it, the snow is easy to clean, and you can’t see it from outside anyway.
There was space, and an area of several hundred square meters was quickly cleared.
Take out the iron awl and start working. The ice is really thick!
But there was no way, the space could not be closed directly. Huangtian paid off and worked for a long time before finally making a hole.
Li Jia took a look and saw that the ice was at least thirty or forty centimeters thick. With this hole, the rest would be much simpler.
Then he played the game of collecting rocks and putting rocks away. The rocks were collected before and weighed two to three hundred kilograms.
Every time a stone is released, a piece will be knocked down, and then it is put away and continues to smash.
Before noon, all the hundreds of square meters of ice were collected, and then the cleaning continued.
After a large area was cleared, Li Jiayi entered the space to eat.
After putting this piece away in the afternoon, he would go back and come back tomorrow. It is estimated that this piece would be frozen again by then.
Just as he thought, after finishing the meal, Li Jiayi came out to smash the ice and collect the ice, and it was time to go back. I went out from the place where I came in before. When I reached the entrance of the cave, I pushed lightly, and the snow that had been blocked before was pushed away.
After the people came out, they released some snow to block it, and then ran home.
When he returned to the courtyard, there was a meeting in the courtyard. In fact, it would be more appropriate to say notification.
Li Jiayi stopped and listened. It turned out that he was notifying the courtyard to go to the street office tomorrow morning to buy winter cabbage.
To be honest, if it weren’t for this notice, Li Jiayi would have forgotten about storing cabbage for the winter.
Winter cabbage is available every year, in early November every year.
You can’t blame him for forgetting, because there is no snow when cabbage is stored in winter.
Although it is getting colder, compared with this year, it is not a little bit worse, but a lot worse.
At this time in previous years, it would only be two or three degrees below zero, or at most four or five degrees below zero, but this year! It's about 20 degrees below zero now.
It’s almost the same as the coldest days in previous years, but the cabbage is not frozen, which is really strange.
After the sub-district office completed the notice, he left and went to another hospital to notify.
“Little brother!”
"Eldest sister."
"We are going to store cabbage for the winter tomorrow. Do you want dad to go or should we go?" asked the eldest sister Li Jiaqi.
"It's just some winter cabbage, don't tell your parents. Anyway, we have a holiday now, so let's go!"
"Okay, but you have to get up early, otherwise it will be fine They were all bought by others.”
Hearing what the eldest sister said, Li Jiayi was speechless! It's just a little cabbage. To be honest, he wouldn't want it if it wasn't to prevent others from talking.
Because there are a lot of these things in the space, the winter cabbages brought back from the street office are still as good as those in other spaces.
"Don't worry, eldest sister, I will definitely get up early."
After returning home, the eldest sister asked the second sister to cook, while Li Jiayi stayed alone in the main room drinking tea.
While the eldest sister and the others were preparing the meal, my parents happened to come back from get off work.
Just as he was preparing to eat at his house, Liao Kai came in from outside.
"Xiao Kai, come and sit down quickly and have something to eat together." Li Aimin said.
"Brother Li, I have already made it. You can eat it when you get back. I came to you for something else."
"Something else?" Li Aimin asked doubtfully.
"That's it. Today, someone from the street office informed me that I will buy cabbage for winter storage tomorrow. Who in your family will go?"
Li Aimin looked back at Li Jiayi and the others and asked: " Why didn’t you say anything?”
"Dad, it's like this. You and Mom have to go to work tomorrow, so I discussed with my little brother that the three of us will go shopping tomorrow. Anyway, we are on holiday now."
"Uh, this..."
Seeing that Li Aimin was a little hesitant, Li Jiayi quickly said: "Dad, are you still Don’t you believe me?”
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Li Aimin nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll leave it to you.”
After that, he turned to look at Liao Kai and said: "Xiao Kai, our winter cabbage has been handed over to Jiayi. Look..."
"Well! I'll be with Jiayi and the others tomorrow morning, but Brother Li, you have to ask for leave for me, because I don't know when it will end."
"Xiao Kai, you are just too serious. You see, other chefs only arrive in the middle of the morning, so you go as early as the workers."
" Brother Li, I’m different from others.”
Thinking of Liao Kai’s identity, Li Aimin understood and said, “Okay, I’ll ask for leave for you.”
In fact, Liao Kai is now. It doesn't matter his status in the factory, whether he takes leave or not, as long as he doesn't delay the workers' lunch, no money will be deducted from him.
He even said that even if he couldn't arrive, the canteen director wouldn't deduct his money. There was no way, who made Liao Kai a good cook!
"Thank you, Brother Li, I'll go back first."
"Well! Let's go back to eat!" Li Aimin nodded and said.
"Uncle Liao, get up early tomorrow." Li Jiayi said at this time.
"Know."
After Liao Kai left, Li Aimin asked: "Son, are you really okay?"
"Dad, I believe what you said, is this how you believe it?" Li Jiayi asked speechlessly.
"No, dad is worried about cabbage! You know, he has been pointing at these winter cabbages all winter!"
Li Jiayi said helplessly: "Dad, you Don’t worry, even if we don’t have these winter cabbages, our family will not be short of vegetables.”
“Well!”
Li Aimin was completely relieved now, yes! My family has been eating a lot of various vegetables during this period of time.
After eating, Li Jiayi went back to the house to sleep, without even using the sauna.
Of course, going to bed early is just an excuse. After returning to the room, Li Jia and his family locked the door and entered the space.
Looking at the pile of ice cubes in the still space, Li Jiayi nodded with satisfaction.
(End of this chapter)