Chapter 161 The warmth of the night
“Isn’t this the Chinese New Year! Let’s go and see if there are any good things.”
“You really got something good! This apple is also With this peach, only people of that level can probably eat it," Li Aimin said with emotion.
Actually, he took it for granted. Even people at that level couldn't eat it. He took these out from the space.
"By the way, I have to go there tomorrow. Maybe I can come back in exchange for some good cigarettes and wine."
"Good smoke and good wine?" Li Aimin's eyes lit up.
Li Aimin actually doesn’t have many hobbies. He usually likes to drink some wine and doesn’t smoke many cigarettes. Basically, he doesn’t smoke much after returning home.
The other thing is to drink some tea and be arty. If he has to say what he likes the most, it is probably wine.
"Yes, I made an agreement with them today to bring some things over tomorrow in exchange for some."
"Hahaha, not bad, yes, by the way, son, what do you want to exchange for others? ”
"Dad, things here are more complicated. I went to exchange things with another person first, and then I went to find someone to exchange the things for them, so that I could exchange them for what they needed, and then I came back in exchange for some cigarettes and alcohol."
“Uh!”
Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Li Aimin felt a little numb. It turns out that changing things is so troublesome!
At this time, Liao Kai said from the side: "Brother Li, that's how it is to exchange things in Pigeon Market. Because you don't have anything to exchange with him for what you want, then you can only find someone else to exchange for it first."
“Okay!”
In fact, this is indeed the normal situation, but it is not normal when it comes to Li Jiayi! Because he has supplies in short supply that everyone needs.
And what he said was to replace some tobacco and alcohol. In fact, the number was dozens or even hundreds of times higher than this.
It’s just that Li Aimin and Liao Kai didn’t know, and they even said that no one in the family knew.
Li Jiayi took a fried chestnut, peeled it and put it into his mouth and asked: "Uncle Liao, can you fry chestnuts so delicious?"
Hearing Li Jiayi say this Said, Liao Kai took a chestnut, peeled it open, tasted it and said: "No, I have fried this stuff before, but it still tastes almost the same as this one."
In fact, it's normal. Li Jiayi made this according to the methods of later generations. Even the ones sold outside are much worse than this.
“Okay, originally I was thinking of bringing back some raw chestnuts and letting you fry them, but it seems that won’t work.”
“Son, although you can’t fry them, you can get them. Let's make some stew! It tastes good," Ye Xin said at this time.
"Yes! Okay, I know! I'll bring some back later."
He originally wanted to take some out, but he just found a reason. He didn't expect his mother to be like this Get on the road.
"Well! I'll let your Uncle Liao stew chicken later."
"Okay."
Liao Kai cooks in the evening. Now they all eat together. Of course, Liao Kai cooks kitchen.
Because of this, Liao Kai didn't even buy new year's goods this year. Even if he bought some, they all went to Li Jiayi's house.
Of course, don’t think that Liao Kai eats and drinks for free. He didn’t. He exchanged food stamps from somewhere and bought fifty kilograms of white flour.
There are so many noodles that he would probably not be able to finish in two months if he were to eat them all by himself, but now he has them all here.
As for meat, don’t even think about it. Many people can’t buy it, and he is no exception.
Besides, Li Jia’s family is not short of meat. They slaughtered a large wild boar in advance, and the meat alone weighed nearly two hundred kilograms.
This is not counting pig excrement and pig heads. It can be said that it will be fine for a month or two.
“By the way, son, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, can you bring back a fish? I asked your dad to buy fish today, but I ran all morning and didn’t get anything.”
"Okay! How big do you want it to be?"
In the imperial capital, when eating on New Year's Eve, there must be a fish on the table, symbolizing abundance every year.
As for whether this is the case in other places, he is not sure.
And it would be better if this fish is carp, but it doesn’t matter if it isn’t.
Red carp represents prosperity.
"It doesn't have to be too big, just two or three pounds."
"Yeah! Don't worry, Mom, I will definitely get it back."
Just kidding, the space is overrun with fish, still. I don’t know how many there are in the space.
The reason why Li Jiayi never took out the fish was mainly because he didn’t like eating fish very much.
Especially the fish made in this era, he doesn’t like to eat it even more.
There is no oil or water in the fish itself, so you must be willing to add oil when cooking, otherwise there will be no flavor at all.
Unlike later generations, everyone has no shortage of oil and water. Sometimes it feels good to eat steamed fish.
He didn't like to eat it, so he never took it out, but it doesn't matter, these fish will become good things in the future.
In three years, all the grass roots and tree barks can be eaten, let alone fish. It can be said that as long as it can fill the stomach.
Liao Kai made dinner, a nine-turn large intestine, a braised pork, a cold pork liver, and a lot of green garlic sprouts in it.
In addition to these, there is also a fried meat with celery. There is also a lot of celery. You must know that at this time, it is difficult to see vegetables when eating.
Because this winter is too long, many people have already eaten up the winter cabbage. In this case, let alone vegetables, there is not even Chinese cabbage with leaves.
Finally there is a tomato and egg soup. Even though Liao Kai was asked to cook, he was still very happy. To be honest, he felt incredible that he could eat these at this time.
You have to know that his fifty kilograms of cabbage didn't even last a month and a half, so he finished it.
If he hadn't come to celebrate the Chinese New Year with Li Jia's family, he would probably not be able to eat anything except meat on New Year's Eve.
Looking at Li Jia's family, they not only have cabbage, but also garlic moss, green peppers, garlic sprouts, tomatoes, celery, rapeseed and so on.
I even said that I didn’t eat much of the cabbage in the cellar. That’s right, there are so many vegetables, who would eat the cabbage!
When making mutton soup, some cabbage leaves are put in, and you can't eat them usually.
“Come to Xiaokai, let us drink one, just for these few dishes.”
Of course Liao Kai knows what's going on! Why are you doing these dishes? It's just an excuse to drink.
"Brother Luggage, let me open the wine." Liao Kai put down his chopsticks and quickly took the wine and opened it.
The only ones drinking were Li Aimin and Liao Kai, so they ignored them and started eating.
No way, if I wait for the two of them to drink, I don’t know how late this meal will be.
Soon Li Jiayi, his mother and two sisters finished eating and gave the place to the two drinking people.
"Son, your dad and your Uncle Liao don't know how long they are going to drink. You go and light the fire. I will wash your sister first. You can wash them after they finish drinking."
"Okay, I will Let's make a fire." After that, Li Jiayi ran out.
Ever since they got this sauna, their family has never missed a day. If they don’t take a steam every day, they seem to have trouble sleeping.
Li Jiayi quickly lit the fire and filled up the water in the two large oil drums.
The water added here is not tap water, but water from the pool in his space. It is absolutely pure natural mineral water.
After filling up the water, Li Jiayi lit a fire under the big oil drum before returning to the house.
Because he added water from the space pool to the fried dough sticks and it took a short time, so there is no way to wash them yet.
It will probably take about ten minutes to burn. If you use tap water, the temperature in the sauna will rise when the water is full.
"Is it done?" Ye Xin asked when she saw him entering the room.
“Yes! It’s done, but the water in the oil barrel has been put in advance, so we have to wait for about ten minutes.”
"It's okay, it's only ten minutes, we'll be there soon."
"Yeah!"
At this time, it's already past seven o'clock in the evening. If it's summer, it's not dark yet at this time. .
But now, it has been dark for about two hours, and because they have a lot of dishes to cook, their family eats late.
At other people’s houses in the courtyard, I usually finish my meal after dark and then lie down on the bed.
There's no way, it's winter this year! The weather is extremely cold and there is not enough briquettes to burn. Many people dare not even light the stove at night.
I’m afraid that if we run out of briquettes, we won’t be able to cook anymore. There’s no problem traveling on the road now, but the mountains are still closed due to heavy snow!
Even if you want to go to the mountains to collect some firewood and burn it back, it's impossible.
So many people began to save briquettes, only lighting the stove during the day, and no longer adding coal after cooking at night, and burning it for as long as it takes.
Being in bed anyway, it’s not as cold as outside.
Winter is no joke! Especially at night, it is very cold, several degrees lower than during the day.
This also caused many people to catch colds, and some even had fevers. Needless to say, they were all caused by the cold.
However, not every family does not light a fire at night. For example, the families who received help from Li Jiayi had more than a hundred kilograms more coal than other families.
Don’t underestimate these more than 100 kilograms of coal. If you beat it into briquettes, that’s more than 100 yuan!
Even if this year's winter is relatively long, on average, there is one more briquette a day than others.
In addition, Li Jiayi reminded me that the children of these families often went out of the city to collect firewood on Sundays.
This also alleviates a lot of pressure from coal shortage.
Ten minutes passed quickly, and my mother took her two sisters to the sauna.
As soon as Li Jia saw that his father and Liao Kai were going to drink for a while, he came out of the house, opened the cellar, and then entered the cellar.
Then he took out three broken sacks from the space, each containing five cabbages.
Then he took out several cloth bags containing things, including five kilograms of white flour and fifteen kilograms of cornmeal.
I took out a few more oil-paper bags, each containing two kilograms of pork suet and three kilograms of pork.
Put each portion into a sack, put the sack into the space, and come out of the cellar.
First, Li Jiayi came to the backyard. By this time, everyone had already rested and there was no one at all.
As soon as Li Jia walked to the door of Sun Laizi's house, he knocked on the door. When he heard some movement in the house, he quickly put down a sack and left.
Just as Li Jiayi left, the door of Sun Laizi's house opened and Sun Laizi appeared at the door.
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(End of this chapter)