Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

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After the fish thawed and softened, Xia Chan directly cut the fish into fish fillets instead of filleting it. Mainly because it was too troublesome, so after frying the sauerkraut and adding water, she directly marinated the sauerkraut for a few minutes. Put the fish into the pot, add firewood, and simmer slowly.

The tofu cooks quickly, just remove it from the pan in the last few minutes.

After taking the tofu out of the pot, put a circle of cornmeal pancakes on the side of the pot. When kneading the dough, add two spoons of honey to it. It should have a little sweetness and taste good.

Dinner was ready, and the four brothers and sisters sat around the dining table, drinking hot tofu, pickled cabbage and fish soup, and eating sweet and fluffy cornmeal pancakes. They had white flour at home, so they would add three kinds of corn flour pancakes to it when making whole grain pancakes. One-third pure white noodles, not as dry and hard as others.

A few days later, Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen came over again. They needed to prepare supplies for the end of the year. Xia Chan was not short of clothes, so she didn't change with them, but took them to a few well-connected people in the village.

Qin Hongmei’s family, Lan Linmao’s family, carpenter grandpa...

The clothes Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen brought this time were more miscellaneous and the quality was not that good. Xia Chan suspected that they had recycled them from other people's homes and not from their own homes. After all, the prices for their own clothes should have been quite high when they bought them.

I have to say that people in the city think very fast.

Recycle other people's old clothes at low prices and exchange them for supplies in the countryside.

But for their rural area, it is already quite good. After all, few people in their rural area have cloth coupons, and they cannot make a piece of clothing in a year. So Xia Chan will not say anything. I believe that they will not exchange clothes worn by dead people for supplies. They should not be so conscienceless.

When Xia Chan took them to exchange things, the brothers had prepared lunch at home. When they came back, they started eating right away. Because they didn't know Zhang Wenwen and didn't want her to know about what was going on at home, the dishes they cooked today were all mountain products.

I made a super large portion of mushrooms and wild vegetables, which is enough for two people.

As for meat, there was only a plate of steamed and dried chicken.

Even Yuan Bingbing was not someone the brothers particularly trusted, let alone Zhang Wenwen who had only come twice.

He and his brothers had no shortage of meat, so Xia Chan gave the pheasant legs to Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen. For them, who were city dwellers, it was not easy to eat meat.

"Xiao Chan, my mother wants you to spend the New Year at our house. Are you free to go?" Yuan Bingbing said with a smile while eating a chicken leg. She really hoped that Xia Chan could go. If her brother came back to celebrate the New Year, the two of them could meet, and maybe some sparks would fly.

Xia Chan glanced at her brothers. She already had her own family and brothers. What was the point of going to someone else's house to celebrate the New Year? She didn't want to go to someone else's house at all. She always felt very uncomfortable.

Moreover, the two people have mismatched statuses, so others will only think that she has hooked up with a wealthy family and is reluctant to let go.

Xia Chan shook her head and refused, "No, we are not related at all. What's the point of me coming to your house to celebrate the New Year? Others will just think that I am a poor relative who comes to ask for money."

Their family can live a decent life, even better than the Yuan family. Why should she go to other people and make them look down on her?

"Our family doesn't think so. If they did, my mother wouldn't have asked me to come and ask you. She really likes you." Yuan Bingbing was afraid that Xia Chan would think too much, so she hurriedly explained. Xia Chan nodded, "I know that uncle and aunt are good people, but others will say it, so thank you for your kindness, I won't go, but when you come next time, I will prepare some New Year gifts for you to take back to uncle and aunt."

"Then thank you first!" Yuan Bingbing smiled with curved eyebrows.

After dinner, Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen left Xia Chan's house contentedly with the supplies they had exchanged. Yuan Bingbing did not let Xia Chan see them off, after all, it was too tiring, and Xia Chan always borrowed a tractor to send her off, which had a bad influence.

She can't always take advantage of the summer cicadas.

This time, the winter hunting team took a full twenty-five days to return, and the day they returned was exactly the twenty-fifth day. This time, the prey was much more than last year.

There are two reasons.

The first is that there are a few more hunting days this year.

The second point is that this year a small team was specially set up to be responsible for delivering the prey back. Every day they would deliver the next day's prey to the previous stop. When everyone returned, some people would deliver the prey back to the vicinity of the production team, and then go to pick up other prey. Although they had to run a few more times, the amount of prey caught was much more than last year.

Just like last year, Xia Chan counted the days and went around the village every day, just to see Jin Pengfei as soon as possible and make sure he was fine. She had never had a nightmare about Jin Pengfei, so she was not very worried about him.

When we arrived at the threshing ground, we saw piles of prey on the ground. There was even a wolf among them. Fortunately, we were in the deep mountains and forests, because if a wolf had come down the mountain, it would have been a disaster.

The captain asked everyone in the winter hunting team to go home and rest. The team would handle the matter of the prey. They would first weigh the prey and then divide the prey that would be handed over to the commune. As for the remaining prey, they would first see whether everyone wanted the meat or money.

If everyone chooses to take money, then half of the remaining prey will have to be sold, and the remaining ones can be shared among everyone.

Xia Chan felt sorry for Jin Pengfei for staying in the mountain for so long, and originally wanted to help him carry the backpack, but he snatched the basket away and didn't let Xia Chan take it.

When everyone saw Jin Pengfei coming back, some started to boil water and some started to cook dumplings. After eating the hot dumplings, Jin Pengfei felt like he was reborn.

In fact, life in the mountains was not hard, because everyone brought food and could eat meat, but it was not so particular. Sometimes we slept in caves at night, and sometimes we slept in temporary straw huts and made fire to keep warm. It was not cold, but not that comfortable.

After all, it’s not like sleeping on a warm kang at home.

After eating the hot dumplings stuffed with pork and sauerkraut, Jin Pengfei felt sweat all over his body. He found some clean clothes, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and then he took off his thick outer clothes and went straight into his own bed.

He was sitting at the head of the kang, closest to the stove and with the highest temperature. Although no one had ever slept in the quilt, it was not cold at all. Looking at the things on the quilt, Jin Pengfei knew that these were all thoughtfully prepared by his sister.

He placed the things next to his pillow, and then fell asleep quickly while looking at these things. After all, he was really tired. During the past few days on the return journey, everyone had been traveling non-stop, eager to come back and share the joy of victory with everyone, and had hardly had any rest.

So now, as soon as he touched the pillow, he fell asleep.