Xia Yutang was dreaming of eating chicken legs when she found herself being hugged, and a cool towel was being pressed against her face. Now she had no choice but to wake up.

"Hmm, is it dawn yet?"

"No, it's late. We're going home now, and we're going out for dinner. Wake up, let's eat first..." Liu Fangmei put her little girl directly on her high chair. The porridge wasn't ready yet, but the steamed buns were.

First, I gave my little girl half a meat bun. She has a small mouth, so half a bun can keep her eating for a long time. She also just used the air fryer to fry some potato fries. She read in a book that these are called French fries, and they are served with ketchup. Kids really like them.

"Eat your steamed buns first. Your brothers will eat them too after they take a shower. The pork rib porridge isn't ready yet, so we'll have to wait." He prepared some for his little girl. After a glass of milk, she picked up two steamed buns and ate them.

She hadn't eaten for almost six hours on the way here, because she was afraid of being chased by wolves and hadn't paid attention to her hunger.

Once she was finally safer, she was afraid of being seen by others, so she didn't pay attention to eating. It wasn't until she returned that she finally felt hungry.

Xia Yutang thoughtfully pushed the milk in her hand closer to her mother's hand, as eating steamed buns can be a bit choking. She needed to eat more than half a cup of milk with this half steamed bun to finish it; before, she drank corn porridge or rice porridge instead of milk.

"Sweetie, drink it yourself. Mom has lemon water and brown sugar ginger tea. This is a bit spicy, you don't like it..." He knew what kind of person his little girl was; she had always been very resistant to things with ginger.

"Drink tea, tea is delicious..." Xia Yutang actually wanted to suggest that her mother drink brown sugar ginger tea. Especially since they had just come from the snowstorm, brown sugar ginger tea would be most suitable.

"Okay, then I'll make some brown sugar ginger tea. Would you like to have a sip? It'll warm your tummy..." Liu Fangmei wanted to persuade her little girl to have a couple of sips of brown sugar ginger tea, but when she saw her little dumpling face scrunch up instantly, she suddenly found it so cute and wanted to laugh.

"No..." Just thinking about the taste of ginger is a bit scary. Unless she needs to use ginger to remove the fishy smell when cooking seafood, she usually doesn't add ginger slices to dishes.

During the two weeks he spent at the beach, he dedicated himself to preparing nutritious meals for his daughter every day. Although the little girl was still very thin, her complexion was much better than before, and her hair, which used to be as thin as straw, was now much darker and shinier.

At least I can comb my hair all the way through in one go, and it's no longer a frizzy mess when I wake up.

Making pork rib congee in a rice cooker is very quick. Just prepare the ingredients properly, put them in, and wait for it to finish cooking and give you a notification.

After finishing his meal, he sent the little ones to bed, left his spatial dimension, took a walk around the yard, sprinkled some insect repellent powder, added two large pieces of firewood to the stove hole, and put out the fire in the bathhouse before finally returning to his room to get out his bedding and get ready to sleep.

She didn't plan to go back to sleep in the jade space. The kang (heated brick bed) was already warm, so sleeping outside with bedding was just as good.

No matter what, the house can't be left empty-handed. She didn't know how long Song Dazhi and the other two would stay inside. There were plenty of thieves stealing grain these days, and she couldn't afford to stay in the space indefinitely without coming out.

Liu Fangmei slept soundly through the night, and the next day she slept in late, a rare occurrence. When she woke up and checked her watch, it was already 10:30 AM. It had snowed, so there was no work to be done in the fields at this time of year. In previous years, the sauerkraut that had been left unharvested after the autumn harvest would already be ready to eat.

There aren't many vegetables that can be pickled this year. He guessed that someone might pickle sweet potato leaves, otherwise there wouldn't be any vegetables to eat in the winter.

Quite a few people in their family were laid off, and they picked all the food from the Jade Space. She pickled a small amount of dried tender cucumber and a large amount of dried green beans; this stir-fried cured pork with pickled green beans was the children's favorite.

Moreover, these green beans are sour and spicy, making them a great accompaniment to rice, and they're very appetizing even without stir-fried meat.

There's also kimchi and radish strips; she pickled them using half the amount she usually makes. Even now, with light snow, people still visit each other, though fewer. When it snows heavily, forget about going out; people won't even bother cooking.

After having a light breakfast, Liu Fangmei and her two sons cleaned the house inside and out, and also swept away the little snow remaining at the door. She didn't plan to cook lunch, since it was already 11 a.m. after breakfast, essentially combining breakfast and lunch.

"Stone, here are six dried fish and five catties of brown rice. Take them to Fifth Grandma, and some of the small fish to Third Grandma. Be careful not to let your grandparents see them." They say there's no place like home, and after being away for so many days, it's finally nice to be home.

I don't know why, but when she's away from home, she always misses home, which makes her uncomfortable. If they hadn't been preparing so much seafood that they didn't have time to think about home, they wouldn't have been able to stay there for so long.

Thinking of seafood, he remembered the cold storage room he had half-finished. After sending his two sons away, he closed the door and returned to his space.

It was snowing outside, and the things left on the ground froze into ice blocks in no time. So before they froze, he had to use small bags to separate the different kinds of things inside.

They had already processed all of this; all that was left was to portion it out and put it in the refrigerator. Although Xia Yutang felt the refrigerator was a bit of a gimmick, there was that huge patch of land outside.

Perhaps he could set up a cold storage facility or something outside, originally intending to use it to store these easily preserved supplies. But then he realized that wasn't quite right, since his own warehouse could keep things fresh, so as long as they weren't taken to places with high time flow, they would be fine.

They had only recently acquired the space, but they felt awkward leaving it like this. There was this preconceived notion that these things would spoil if they weren't refrigerated or pickled.

So she's thinking about whether to set up a cold storage facility in an open space outside. This involves some technical issues, and she plans to find a book to read in the next few days. The tool room in the space has all kinds of tools; there's nothing she can't think of that it doesn't have.

Liu Fangmei didn't have much formal education, only a primary school education, and her knowledge wasn't very extensive, but that didn't stop her from loving to read and study; she just didn't have the opportunity to do so before.

Just like sewing clothes, give her books to read and let her study them carefully; she'll pick it up very quickly.

Just like electric sewing machines, which were rare items these days, she learned to use them at the old landlord's house when she was seven or eight years old, learning alongside her girlfriends.

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