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

Chapter 193: Having enough food in hand will keep you calm

There are three households for the five siblings Xia Chan, so naturally there are three rabbits. After Xia Qi brought the rabbits home, she immediately started to process them. The five siblings only need to eat one rabbit, and the remaining two can be made into dried rabbits or smoked rabbits.

Xia Qi was processing the rabbit when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Here they come." Xia Chan put down the gourd ladle in her hand and went out to open the door, only to see Xiao Fengfeng, Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing each holding a rabbit.

Xiao Fengfeng lives in a single room and he has a rabbit.

Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing live in a double room, and they only have one rabbit. But now they brought two rabbits here, so one of them must belong to someone else.

Xia Chan was a little surprised, "We divided the rabbits today, why didn't you cook them in the dormitory? Why did you all come to my house?"

"Xia Chan, it's not convenient for us to cook rabbits. Could you please help us process them? Or we can all eat the rabbits together." Xiao Tiantian pouted and looked at Xia Chan pitifully.

Yuan Bingbing said, "Can you help me process this rabbit so I can take it away?"

Because this rabbit belongs to Zhou Ji, if she lets Zhou Ji make it himself, it will definitely be wasted, so she decided to take it to Xia Chan for processing.

"Of course, but we don't have that much water at home, so..." Cleaning the rabbit also consumes a lot of water, and there is only so much water in the water tank. Xia Chan can't buy water directly from the 'Crossing Mall' in front of her brother, right?

"Leave the water to me." Xiao Fengfeng stuffed the rabbit to Xiao Tiantian, went to the kitchen as if he was familiar with the place, picked up the tools for fetching water and went out.

Xia Chan handed the three rabbits they brought to Xia Qi to deal with. "Brother, thank you for your hard work. I'll leave the preliminary preparations to you and I'll process them later."

Then he asked Xiao Tiantian, "Tiantian, do you want to finish making all the rabbits? How about the three of you make one each, and let the remaining one dry and eat it next time?"

Xiao Tiantian glanced at Yuan Bingbing, and seeing that Yuan Bingbing did not refuse, she nodded, "Okay, then everything is up to you."

She and Yuan Bingbing got a rabbit, so they couldn't split it in half, right? That would be too inhumane, so they ate Xiao Fengfeng's tonight, and the one she and Yuan Bingbing got next time.

Xia Chan first made Yuan Bingbing's rabbit into a simple braised rabbit meat, because Yuan Bingbing only brought two lunch boxes, and if she added other side dishes, they would not be able to hold them all.

He made two pots of rabbit meat stewed with white radish from his own rabbit and Xiao Fengfeng's rabbit, each filling a large bowl.

As for the remaining rabbits, they were put together to dry and cooked after the autumn harvest. Anyway, the rabbits were about the same size, so they couldn't be too fussy about their weight.

The rabbit meat was almost ready at Xia Chan's place when Xiao Fengfeng came back carrying two buckets of water with great difficulty. It was mainly because Xia Chan's home was too far away from the production team, which was a bit inconvenient. However, the water for the family was carried by his brothers, so Xia Chan didn't need to worry about this matter.

Moreover, the brothers did not go down specially to fetch water, but brought it back when they got off work, so they did not have to make an extra trip.

After letting Xiao Fengfeng rest for a few minutes, everyone sat down to eat. The rabbit meat was stewed very soft, and the white radish absorbed enough soup, and it tasted like it was bursting in the mouth. Everyone was very satisfied with the meal.

Xiao Fengfeng, Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing ate from one bowl, and Xia Chan and the other five ate from one bowl. Xiao Fengfeng was afraid that the five of them would not have enough to eat, so he scooped two spoonfuls from their bowl.

After all, it was Xia Qi and Xia Chan who handled the rabbit, so it was only right to give them some rabbit meat as a reward for their hard work.

After eating and drinking, they left. Yuan Bingbing carried two lunch boxes of braised rabbit meat and knocked on Zhou Ji's door. Soon Zhou Ji came out. Yuan Bingbing handed him the lunch box and said, "Your rabbits are ready. Share them between you two!"

"Bingbing, thank you." Zhou Ji took a lunch box from Yuan Bingbing's hand and handed it to his roommate. Then he came out with chopsticks and took Yuan Bingbing to another place to eat braised rabbit meat.

Seeing Zhou Ji trying to feed her with rabbit meat, Yuan Bingbing quickly reached out and covered her mouth, "I'm super full today, I can't eat another bite, you can eat slowly, I'll walk around to help digest the food."

Yuan Bingbing was walking around in the open space in front as she spoke. Zhou Ji was eating the delicious braised rabbit meat while looking at the blurry but slender figure of Yuan Bingbing in front of him.

He couldn't wait to tell his family that he had a beautiful and outstanding girlfriend, and asked them to arrange the wedding as soon as possible, but Yuan Bingbing didn't want to make it public now. Zhou Ji was also afraid that if he made their relationship public on his own initiative, Yuan Bingbing would be angry, so he could only suppress his excitement.

After Zhou Ji finished eating the braised rabbit meat and Yuan Bingbing had almost digested the food, the two walked back side by side and then returned to their respective dormitories.

The next day, the autumn harvest officially began, harvesting wheat and rice.

In fact, wheat and rice should have been harvested earlier, but the drought and lack of rain this year still had some impact, and it has been delayed until now. However, it is not easy to preserve the food.

During that period, the strong laborers in the team carried water on their shoulders every day, and their shoulders were worn out. Xia Chan's brothers were not as seriously injured as others because they had ointments to apply, but it was still very hard during that time.

Autumn harvest is the most important part of the year. Everyone rushes to collect crops for fear that sudden rain will destroy the crops. However, there was no rain this year, so there was no rush. Everyone started work at a normal pace, went home to eat after work, and finished work at a normal pace at night.

Xia Chan also drives a tractor in the fields from morning to night to transport grain. Both kinds of grain need to be threshed, especially wheat, which also needs to be crushed with a stone mill. In the past, people led the cows, but now with tractors, they tie the stone mill behind the tractor and use the tractor to crush the wheat.

After threshing, the wheat and rice need to be dried in the sun. During this time, the elderly, children, and some female comrades who are temporarily unable to do heavy work are arranged to watch there and drive away the birds. If the weather changes, the grain must be quickly collected.

Others continued to harvest other crops, autumn corn, sweet potatoes, late-maturing soybeans...

After working for nearly twenty days, the Yong'an Production Team finally harvested all the grain. There were no crops left in the fields, and only the elderly and children were left picking up leftovers in the fields. Because whatever they picked up belonged to their families and did not have to be handed in, many people were picking up leftovers.

Especially what happened in the past two years has made everyone aware of the crisis and they all want to find more edible things for their homes.

Only when you have enough food can you stay calm.