Chapter 133: Breaking Ice and Storing Cabbages for Winter

Chapter 133: Breaking Ice and Storing Cabbages for Winter

Chapter 133: Breaking Ice and Storing Cabbages for Winter

"Xiao Kai, why are you giving him errand fees?" said mother Ye Xin, shaking her head.

"If he is willing to give it, just give it to him! Otherwise, he will be embarrassed to ask his son to bring something back to him next time." said Dad Li Aimin.

"All right!"

In fact, Liao Kai did not suffer any loss! Although Li Jiayi gave him the normal price, the normal price did not necessarily mean he could buy it.

Even if you bought it, you couldn't buy so much, especially that ten pounds of pork fat.

Let me put it this way! If Liao Kai shouted in the yard that the piece of lard was for sale for 18 yuan, the people in the yard would probably rush to grab it.

Although some things have a price, they are not necessarily available for purchase, otherwise there would be no shortage of oil and water.

Especially pork fat, this thing is really hard to buy. Butcher shops do have it, but no matter when you go, it is sold out.

"Son, didn't you bring back some more lard?" asked mother Ye Xin.

"Uh! Mom, didn't I just bring back ten kilograms a while ago? Have you run out of oil?"

“I haven’t finished all the oil, but who would complain about having too much oil?”

"All right!"

Li Jiayi was speechless. Is the family still short of that little bit of oil? Although fatty oil is a good thing, you can't eat too much!
Eating too much of this stuff will make you fat. Maybe no one cares about it now, but in a few years, people will pay attention to it.

"Mom, don't worry! We won't be short of oil at home, so just add oil when you want to, and don't tell me."

"Ok!"

From that day on, the snow never stopped. It snowed once every two or three days at most. Sometimes it snowed heavily, and sometimes it snowed lightly.

The school is officially on holiday, but this holiday is not a winter vacation, but a holiday because the weather is too cold.

The school is also worried that the students will get cold! Not all children in every family have cotton-padded clothes and trousers to wear.

Even if there is, it can't block the cold, so we can only take a holiday.

This would never happen in later generations. Of course, there wouldn't be such heavy snow in later generations. If there was, people might have had a holiday.

After this holiday, school will resume next year when the weather is a little warmer.

In addition, this abnormal holiday may also be related to this year's weather, which is too abnormal.

For the next period of time, Li Jia ran outside after breakfast every day, of course, to freeze ice cubes.

Now in the space, there are a lot of ice cubes, whether it is mineral water or spiritual spring water.

These are edibles. Li Jiayi also wants to prepare some non-edible things that can be used to cool down in the summer.

But he doesn't need to freeze it himself. Whether it is the Qianhai or Houhai, there is no shortage of this thing.

It’s not easy to break the ice, especially since there has been a lot of snow recently.

Although there are many people playing on the ice every day, skating and so on, there is still a thick layer of snow on it.

It's just that the snow has been compacted and looks like ice, but it's not ice.

But Li Jiayi only wanted ice, no matter how solid the snow was, because that stuff would melt very quickly when exposed to high temperatures.

It can't be compared with ice at all. You know, it is used to cool down!
That morning, Li Jiayi came to Houhai, and he also wanted to go to Beihai to take a look.

But there are too many people over there, so there are fewer people here in Houhai.

Walking to a place where there was no one nearby, Li Jiayi took out an iron spike from the space and hit the ice surface under his feet several times.

Unfortunately, it was all snow, with ice at the bottom. I put away the iron spike and walked out as if nothing had happened.

It seems that the ice harvesting plan cannot be completed. In fact, it is mainly because of the people. Although there are not as many people here as in the North Sea, there are still people.

It seems that we have to find a place where there is no one, and the only way to find a place where there is no one is outside the city.

This was not difficult for Li Jiayi, and he also knew such a place.

That is the Xizhimen area. There are many lakes outside the city. There is no development in the imperial capital at present, so many lakes have not been filled.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. Look, Li Jiayi ran towards Xizhimen.

The road from Xizhimen to Qinghe has now been cleared, which is good news for Li Jiayi.

Because this way he wouldn't have to dig holes anymore.

Soon Li Jiayi arrived here and looked at the vast expanse of white in front of him, which made him very happy.

This means that no one has come here, so find a place to dig a hole and then block the hole.

Soon he was on the ice and started clearing the snow off it.

Because no one is stepping on it, the snow is easy to clear, and it can't be seen from outside anyway.

There was space, and an area of ​​several hundred square meters was quickly cleared.

I took out the iron pick and started working. The ice was really thick!
But there was no other way, the space could not be directly collected. God helped those who worked hard, and after a long time, he finally made a hole.

Li Jiayi took a look and found that the ice was at least thirty to forty centimeters thick. With this hole, the rest would be much easier.

Next, he played the game of collecting and putting away stones. The stones were collected before and weighed two or three hundred kilograms.

Every time a stone is released, a piece can be smashed down, then collected and continued to be smashed.

Before noon, the several hundred square meters of ice had been collected and the cleaning process continued.

After clearing a large area, Li Jiayi entered the space to eat.

After collecting this patch of grass in the afternoon, he went back and would come back tomorrow. By then, this patch of grass would probably have been frozen again.

Just as he thought, after dinner, Li Jiayi came out to break the ice. After he finished breaking the ice, it was time to go back. He went out from the same place he came in from before. When he reached the entrance of the cave, he pushed gently and the snow that had blocked the cave was pushed away.

After the people came out, they released some more snow to block the road, and then ran home.

When he returned to the hospital, a meeting was being held. In fact, it would be more appropriate to say "notification".

Li Jiayi stopped and listened. It turned out that the hospital was notified to go to the street office to buy cabbage for winter storage tomorrow morning.

To be honest, if it weren’t for this notice, Li Jiayi would have forgotten about storing cabbage for the winter.

Winter storage cabbage is available every year, in early November.

It’s not his fault that he forgot, because there was no snow when storing cabbage for the winter every year.

Although the weather is cold, it is not just a little bit different from this year, but a lot worse.

In previous years, the temperature was only -2 or -3 degrees Celsius, or -4 or -5 degrees Celsius at most, but this year, it is around -20 degrees Celsius.

It's almost the same as the coldest time in previous years, but the cabbage is not frozen, which is really rare.

After the street office gave the notification, they left and went to notify other hospitals.

"Little brother!"

"Miss."

"We need to store cabbage for the winter tomorrow. Do you think we should let Dad go or should we go?" asked the eldest sister Li Jiaqi.

"It's just some winter cabbage, don't tell mom and dad. We're on vacation now anyway, so let's go!"

"Okay, but you have to get up early, otherwise the good ones will be bought by others."

Hearing what his elder sister said, Li Jiayi was speechless! It was just a little cabbage. To be honest, if he wasn't afraid of gossip, he wouldn't even want it.

Because there are a lot of these things in the space, the winter storage cabbages brought back by the street office are as good as those in his space.

"Don't worry, big sister. I will definitely get up early."

When they got home, the eldest sister asked the second sister to go cook, and Li Jiayi stayed alone in the main room drinking tea.

By the time my eldest sister and her family had finished cooking, my parents had just returned from get off work.

Just as he was preparing to eat at home, Liao Kai came in from outside.

"Xiaokai, come and sit down and eat together." Li Aimin said.

"Brother Li, I've already made it. You can eat it when you get home. I came to see you for something else."

"Anything else?" Li Aimin asked doubtfully.

"It's like this. Someone from the neighborhood office came today to tell us to go buy winter cabbage 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, this is what's going on. You and Mom still have to go to work tomorrow, so I discussed with my younger brother that the three of us will go buy it tomorrow. Anyway, we have the day off now."

"Uh, this..."

Seeing that Li Aimin was a little hesitant, Li Jiayi quickly said, "Dad, don't you still believe me?"

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Li Aimin nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you."

After saying that, he turned around and looked at Liao Kai and said, "Xiao Kai, our winter cabbage storage is now in the hands of Jiayi, you see..."

"Well! Then I will go 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 be over."

"Xiao Kai, you are just too serious. Look at other chefs, they don't arrive until mid-morning, but you are the only one who goes as early as the workers."

"Brother Li, I'm different from others."

Thinking of Liao Kai's identity problem, Li Aimin could understand and said, "Okay, I'll ask for leave for you."

In fact, given Liao Kai's current position in the factory, it doesn't matter whether he takes leave or not. As long as he doesn't delay the workers' lunch, his salary will not be deducted.

He even said that even if he couldn't make it, the canteen director wouldn't deduct any money from him. There was nothing he could do about it, since Liao Kai was a good cook!

"Thank you, Brother Li. I'll go back first."

"Well! Let's go back and have dinner!" 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, so this is how you believe what you said?" Li Jiayi asked speechlessly.

"No, Dad is worried about the cabbages! You know, we depend on these winter cabbages for the whole winter!"

Li Jiayi said helplessly: "Dad, don't worry, even without these winter stored cabbages, our family will not be short of vegetables."

"Uh! All right!"

Li Aimin was completely relieved now. Yes! The family had been eating a lot of different kinds of vegetables during this period.

After dinner, Li Jiayi went back to his room to sleep without even taking a sauna.

Of course, going to bed early was just an excuse. Returning to the room, the Li Jia family locked the door and entered the space.

Looking at the pile of ice in the static space, Li Jiayi nodded with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)