Bianshanhan [farming]

When food was poured inside and outside the camp, it snowed in the border town, and for one night, the sky and the earth became a vast expanse of white.

At this time, except for three or four-year-old children, no one can cat on the kang, and everyone is busy.

The women squeezed the syrup with their children, and the man who was the head of the family weighed bags of his own grain and pushed them to the camp by cart, while the young men were fishing in the nearby river.

There are several large pots on the snow beside the river. The snowflakes are fumigated by the steaming heat before they fall. When the water boiled in the pots, someone scoops them into the big pots and shovels the snow into them. The water is warm. Quickly slaughter the fish from the net, disembowel, remove the head, and scrape off the scales.

The sledges of every household were pulled out, and the horses pulled the sledges into a team as long as several miles, and set foot on the road to the north again.

But this time, instead of digging rocks, he went to catch pike.

At this time, Li Qingwen was in the kitchen, and the nets released last night were pulled back early this morning. Hundreds of catties of fish were caught on the nets, and they were pulled back after they were cleaned up by the river.

The fish marinated in salt, sugar, vinegar, and wine are steamed in a huge iron pot in the kitchen, and they are cooked in less than a stick of incense. The cook with thick arms moved from left to right, pulling the thick ropes on both sides of the grate, and lifted the grate and the fish on it out together.

Carrying it outside, a gust of wind blew over, and the fish soon became cold. Fang led a group of girls to use small bamboo or wooden knives to pick off the fish and tear it into small pieces. The only thing to be careful is, don’t Mix the fish bones into the meat.

The large pot near the door was poured with oil, and when the flames below licked it, the oily smoke became heavier immediately. The torn fish meat was rolled over with a rolling pin and poured into the pot, and the strong cook immediately started to fry it.

After baking and frying, the water in the fish meat dries up and turns into soft, salty and sweet fish floss. This is a special military ration.

About 160 catties of cleaned fish are made into more than [-] catties of meat floss. The meat floss is lighter in weight and has higher energy. It can be eaten without boiling water and fire. It is especially suitable as dry food for long-distance travel.

As soon as the first pot of meat floss came out of the pot, Zhou Fengnian and Lin Jian who were next to the warehouse came to taste it. The taste was quite good, much better than other dry food.

There are many rivers and rivers in the border town, and fish are particularly abundant. When food is in short supply, they become emergency food.

It's not difficult to make this thing, Li Qingwen taught the kitchen staff, and everyone else also learned it, and every household outside the camp also planned to make more meat floss, and most of the food was taken out. Eat for a year and a half, but you can never eat too much.

The warehouses in the camp with more than 300 million catties of grain could not hold them at all, so they had to be stacked outside, covered with oilcloth, and guarded by special personnel.

Every time the officers and soldiers in the camp saw these big hills, they would sigh greatly in their hearts. Who would have thought that these fleeing people could be so good at farming, and when they came, they all looked like beggars. In the border town for more than a year, so much grain was dug out of the soil!

When Li Maoxian and the others came, they all brought the seeds of fan grass. Now every family can make sorghum syrup into candy cubes. Part of the boiled sugar juice is sent directly to the kitchen to make fish pickles, and the rest is made into lump sugar.

Lin Jian asked for five thousand catties of candy from Li's house after he knew that every family made candy. Now he has replaced Lin Tan as the one giving orders in the border town.

Although Lin Jian is tough and doggy, he still has wrists. After he took over the border town, there have been great changes in the camp in just a few days. All the officers and soldiers dare not slack off. Sighing every day, I miss the old days.

After the candy was taken away by someone, Lin Jian stared at Li Qingwen's long-haired wild horse again, and asked carefully how this kind of horse would pull things on the road in the snow.Li Qingwen was a little worried that he would requisition the family's horses again, and said euphemistically that they still relied on these horses to find food in the forest. As for why they had to find food after planting the land for a year, Lin Jian should know better than anyone else.

Lin Jian is a person who will not give up until he achieves his goal. He said: "You are so righteous at a young age. You have brought out so much food, so what if you borrow a horse?"

Zhou Fengnian was listening by the side, and glanced at his mouth. Lin Jian really didn't know how to be polite. If he didn't wear this official clothes, he would look like a bandit.

These days, Li Qingwen has fought with him for countless rounds. During the bargaining, he found that he could not take a single step back, otherwise he would have to be searched, and immediately said: "I read a book the day before yesterday, and there is a saying that is very reasonable, 'Biao Those who are righteous will be slandered because of their righteousness; scholars who are famous for Taoism are often recruited because of Taoism', what do you think of Master Lin? The grassroots don’t want any false name, they just hope to save people.” (Note: 1)

Lin Jian ran his hands over the horses' necks and carefully inspected their strong limbs. Lin Jian still did not give up. "How about exchanging the cattle from the camp for the horses?"

Li Qingwen shook his head. This horse is not weak. It can pull a plow stick and a sledge. Although it is slightly weaker than an ox, it has many uses, and he will not change it.

He didn't want to, and Lin Jian didn't force it. Instead, he talked about studying. When he learned that the Li family had a second son who was studying at the Academy in the capital, and his name was Li Qingzhuo, Lin Jian frowned. Where have I heard it.

Lin Jian scraped every corner of Li Qingwen's house with his eyes, and he really couldn't find anything, so he walked away.

After he left, Li Qingwen could breathe a sigh of relief. If Zhou Fengnian hadn't actually checked the seals of the documents, he couldn't believe that Lin Jian was actually a fourth-rank General Xiaoqi, and his actions were too unexpected.

Because the river hadn't frozen yet, Li Qingfeng and the others were slow in catching pike, but they had a lot of people, and they used various methods to load dozens of sledges every day.

As the first sledge pulling the pike came back, the kitchen became even busier. Carloads of pike went into the pot, and then came out as light yellow meat floss. The kitchen did not stop day and night, and people could take turns serving , the pot can be kept burning.

Seeing how busy they were, Li Qingwen thought, thanks to the iron pot, if it was pottery, it might have been worn out by now.

What Liu He said is right, this year is really cold, not only cold, but also white haired wind, if you don't cover your face, it will feel like you have been beaten by a knife if you are exposed outside.

I changed into leather robes a month earlier than last year, and the only ones that were not affected were probably the four puppies at home. They were not affected by the heavy snow and cold at all, and they had fun outside every day.

Although their size has nothing to do with "cubs", Li Qingwen felt that they were still a small group yesterday, no matter how big they were, they were all cubs that needed to be groomed.

These four puppies have always been full of energy. Running more than ten miles with Li Qingwen every day is just a warm-up for them. Li Qingwen has other things to do, so let them play on the snow with a small sledge. I can help the house with something.

Li Qingwen's food was paid in less than five days, and the account book was divided into several parts, Zhou Fengnian, Lin Jian, Li's family, and Lao Sun each had one share. Millions of catties of food were written on a few light pages. Portions are too heavy.

This time, [-]% of the exiles and horses in the camp were used to transport the grain, and Jiang Cong and others who had not yet returned were also among them.

When Zhou Fengnian sent someone to replace Jiang Cong and the others, Li Qingwen knew about it. He was looking forward to seeing Jiang Cong, but he was a little scared. He couldn't tell what he was afraid of.

Just one day before the departure of the grain shipment, Jiang Cong and Jiang Liping finally returned to the camp. Li Qingwen couldn't help slowing down when he saw Fang taking the girls out to pick them up.

Standing far away, watching the galloping horses bring up patches of snow, Li Qingwen thought, he had to get used to the days when Jiang Cong was not by his side, and then slowly got used to the days when he was with others.

After the group came back, they immediately met Zhou Fengnian and Lin Jian. After explaining the matter, it was late. Seeing those girls still waiting, trembling with cold, Li Qingwen left.

People have something to look forward to, so it's better for him to be less involved.

Li Qingwen didn't go home either, he sat on the sledge, Maomao and his two younger brothers pulled it in front, and Li Qingwen hugged the peach to keep warm.

There was no place to go, so Li Qingwen didn't care about them, just ran casually, and when he was tired from running, he naturally went home.

It may be that Li Qingwen and the peach are heavy, and Maomao and his siblings were tired early, so Li Qingwen got off the sledge, tied a rope, and followed the four to pull the sledge home.

When the wind blows, you can't open your eyes, and you can't tell the north, south, east, and west. Li Qingwen is not worried, as long as you can find these four.

There used to be Jiang Cong, he didn't have to tell the direction where he went, and it's the same now.

very nice……

Li Qingwen thought, even without Jiang Cong, it seemed like nothing had changed.

No matter how he comforted himself, there was no smile on his face.

Walking, walking, the other four stopped suddenly. Li Qingwen was thinking about something, but he didn't realize that the rope on his shoulders was suddenly tightened, and he was still pulling the sledge forward.

It wasn't until the dog started to bark that he raised his head belatedly, one man and one horse appeared in the white snow in front of him at some unknown time, walking towards him.

Just seeing that figure, that familiar face appeared in Li Qingwen's head, whether it was frontal, sideways, or looking up and down, frame by frame was particularly clear.

The man and the horse, as well as the man and the dog met soon. The man on the horse flew down and stood firmly in front of Li Qingwen. The voice that had been called many times in his dreams rang in his ears, "Boy."

Looking at Jiang Cong's protruding eyebrows, Li Qingwen called out, "Brother!"

Jiang Cong raised his hand and touched the wetness on Li Qingwen's face with great precision, "Can't find a home and cried?"

At this time, Li Qingwen hated Jiang Cong's extraordinary eyesight so much, he couldn't hold back his tears, "Do you know that the crops at home were damaged by hail..."

Not only the crops, but also the flower called "Like" that grew in his heart was also smashed to pieces.