Chapter 161 The Warmth of the Night

Chapter 161 The Warmth of the Night

Chapter 161 The Warmth of the Night

"It's Chinese New Year now! Let's go see if there's anything good."

"You really got some good stuff! This apple and this peach, I guess only people of that level can eat them." Li Aimin said with emotion.

In fact, he was taking it for granted. Even people of that level couldn't eat it. These were all taken out from the space by him.

"By the way, I have to go there again tomorrow, maybe I can bring back some good cigarettes and wine."

"Good cigarettes and good wine?" Li Aimin's eyes lit up.

Li Aimin actually doesn’t have many hobbies. He just likes to drink a little and doesn’t smoke much. Basically, he doesn’t smoke much after he gets home.

Another thing is that he drinks some tea to show off his taste. Among these things, if you ask him what he likes most, it is probably wine.

"Yes, I've made an agreement with them today. I'll go over there and exchange some for them tomorrow."

"Hahaha, not bad, not bad. By the way, son, what are you going to exchange with others?"

"Dad, things are more complicated here. I will go and exchange things with another person first, and then find someone else to exchange them for what they need, and then return with some cigarettes and alcohol."

"Uh!"

When Li Aimin heard Li Jiayi say this, he felt a little numb. It turned out that changing things was so troublesome!
At this time, Liao Kai said beside him: "Brother Li, this is how things are exchanged in Pigeon City. If you don't have anything to exchange with the thing you want, then you can only find someone else to exchange with first."

"All right!"

In fact, this is true in normal situations, but it is not normal for Li Jiayi! Because he has in-demand supplies that everyone needs.

And what he said about exchanging some cigarettes and alcohol, in fact, the number is dozens or even hundreds of times more than this.

It’s just that Li Aimin and Liao Kai didn’t know, and in fact no one in the family knew about it.

Li Jiayi took a sugar-fried chestnut, peeled it, put it in his mouth and asked, "Uncle Liao, can you fry chestnuts so deliciously?"

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Liao Kai took a chestnut, peeled it, tasted it and said, "No, I have fried this stuff before, but it still tastes a little worse than this."

In fact, it is very normal. Li Jiayi cooked this according to the methods of later generations. Even those sold outside are much worse than this.

"Well, I was thinking of bringing back some raw chestnuts and asking you to fry them, but it seems that won't work."

"Son, although it can't be fried, it can be stewed! It tastes good too." Ye Xin said at this time.

"Yeah! Okay, I got it! I'll bring some back later."

He originally wanted to take some out, he was just looking for an excuse, but he didn't expect his mother to be so considerate.

"Well! I'll ask your uncle Liao to stew chicken for us later."

"can."

Liao Kai still cooks in the evening. Now we eat together, and of course the chef Liao Kai is the one who cooks.

Because of this, Liao Kai didn’t even buy any New Year’s goods this year. Even if he bought some, he took them all to Li Jiayi’s house.

Of course, don’t think that Liao Kai eats and drinks for free. He doesn’t. He exchanged food coupons from somewhere and bought 50 kilograms of flour.

If he were to eat so much noodles by himself, it would probably take him two months to finish them. Now he has brought them all here.

As for meat, forget it. Many people can’t buy it, and he is no exception.

Besides, Li Jia's family had no shortage of meat, so they slaughtered a big wild boar in advance, which weighed nearly 200 kilograms of meat.

This does not include pig offal and pig heads, so it can be said that it is fine to eat them for a month or two.

"Oh, son, the New Year is coming soon, can you get some fish? I asked my dad to buy some fish today, but he ran around all morning and still couldn't find any."

"Sure! How big do you want?"

In the imperial capital, there must be a fish on the table during New Year’s Eve dinner, symbolizing abundance every year.

As for whether it was the same in other places, he wasn't sure.

And it would be better if the fish is a carp, but it doesn’t matter if it is not.

Red carp represents prosperity.

"It doesn't have to be too big, two or three pounds will be fine."

"Yeah! Don't worry, Mom. I will definitely get it back."

Are you kidding? The fish in the space are overrun and there is no telling how many there are in the static space.

The reason why Li Jiayi never took out the fish was mainly because he didn't like eating fish very much.

He especially dislikes eating fish cooked in this era.

Fish itself has little oil, so you have to be willing to add oil when cooking it, otherwise it will have no taste at all.

Unlike later generations, people have no shortage of oil and water, and sometimes eating steamed fish feels good.

He didn't like to eat them, so he never took them out. But it doesn't matter, these fish will become good things in the future.

During the three years, all the grass roots and tree bark could be eaten, not to mention fish. It could be said that as long as they could fill their stomachs, it was enough.

Liao Kai prepared dinner, which included a nine-turn large intestine, a braised pork, and a cold-mixed pork liver with a lot of green garlic sprouts.

In addition to these, there is also a dish of fried meat with celery, and a lot of celery is also put in. You know, at this time, it is difficult to see vegetables in meals.

Because this winter was so long, many people had already eaten up the cabbage they had stored for the winter. In this case, not to mention vegetables, there was not even any cabbage with leaves.

Finally, there was a tomato and egg soup. Although Liao Kai was asked to cook, he was still very happy. To be honest, he felt it was incredible to be able to eat these at this time.

You have to know that he ate up all his 50 kilograms of cabbage in less than a month and a half.

If he hadn't come to celebrate the New Year with Li Jia's family, he probably wouldn't have been able to eat any vegetable except meat on New Year's Eve.

Looking at Li Jia's family, they not only have cabbage, but also garlic sprouts, green peppers, garlic sprouts, tomatoes, celery, rapeseed and so on.

They even said that they didn’t eat much of the cabbage in the cellar. Well, with so many vegetables, who would eat the cabbage?

Only when making mutton soup will some cabbage leaves be added, but you don’t eat it at other times.

"Come on, Xiaokai, let's have a drink together. We should have a drink just for these dishes."

Liao Kai certainly knew what was going on! What was it for these dishes? It was 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 people drinking were Li Aimin and Liao Kai, so we just ignored them and started eating.

There's no way. If I wait for the two of them to drink, I don't know when the meal will end.

Soon Li Jiayi, his mother and two sisters finished eating and gave the place to the two people who were drinking.

"Son, your dad and your uncle Liao are going to drink till who knows how long. Go light the fire. I'll wash your sister first. You can wash her after they finish drinking."

"Okay, I'll go make a fire right now." After saying that, Li Jiayi ran out.

Since they got this sauna room, their family has never missed a day of using it. If they don’t steam in it every day, they can’t sleep well.

Li Jiayi quickly lit a fire and filled two large oil barrels with water.

What was added was not tap water, but the water from the pond in his space, absolutely pure natural mineral water.

After filling up the water, Li Jiayi lit a fire under the big oil barrel and then returned to the house.

Because he added water from the pool in the space to the fried dough sticks and it was used for a relatively short time, there was no way to wash it for the time being.

It will probably take about ten minutes to boil. If you use tap water, by the time the water is full, the temperature in the sauna room will have risen.

"Are you done?" Ye Xin asked when she saw him enter the room.

"Yes! It's done, but the water in the oil barrel was put in advance, so we have to wait for ten minutes."

"It's okay, it'll only take about ten minutes, we'll be there soon."

"Ok!"

At this time, it is already past seven in the evening. If it is summer, it will not be dark yet.

But now, it has been dark for about two hours, and because there are many dishes to cook, they eat later.

Other people in the yard basically finish their meals before dark and then go to bed.

There is no way, this is a cold winter! The weather is extremely cold, honeycomb coal is not enough, and many families dare not even light the stove at night.

I’m worried that the honeycomb coal will run out and I won’t be able to cook. There’s no problem traveling on the road now, but the mountain is still blocked due to heavy snow!
Even if I wanted to go to the mountains to pick up some firewood, it would be impossible.

So many people began to save honeycomb coal. They only lit the stove during the day and stopped adding coal after cooking in the evening, burning the stove until it was done.

Anyway, it’s not as cold as outside when you stay in bed.

The cold 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 a cold, and some even had a fever. Needless to say, this was all caused by the cold.

However, not every family does not light a fire at night. For example, the families that received help from Li Jiayi had more than 100 kilograms of coal than other families.

Don’t underestimate these more than 100 kilograms of coal. If it is made into honeycomb briquettes, it will be worth more than 100 pieces!

Even though this year's winter is longer, on average I have one more piece of honeycomb coal per day than others.

In addition, Li Jiayi reminded us that the children of these families often went outside the city to collect firewood on Sundays.

This also alleviated a lot of pressure from coal shortage.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and my mother took my two sisters to the sauna.

When Li Jia saw that his father and Liao Kai wanted to drink for a while, he came out of the house, opened the cellar, and then went into the cellar.

Then he took out three torn sacks from the space, each containing five cabbages.

Then he took out a few cloth bags filled with things, including five pounds of white flour and fifteen pounds of corn flour.

He took out a few more oil paper bags, each containing two pounds of lard and three pounds of pork.

Each portion was put into a sack, and the sacks were put into the space and taken out of the cellar.

First, Li Jiayi came to the backyard. At this time, everyone was resting and there was no one there.

Li Jiayi walked to the door of Sun Qiezi's house and knocked. Hearing some noise in the house, he quickly put down a sack and left.

Just as Li Jiayi left, the door of Sun Quezi's house opened and Sun Quezi appeared at the door.

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