Xu Yin has been busy for a week.
First, he taught the property management staff how to make pickles, sauerkraut, and kimchi using radish and cabbage. Different methods give people different tastes, so Xu Yin likes to make some of each. When she suggested it, everyone couldn't help but think of pickled fish, kimchi pot, pickled radish and fat beef soup... Although the ingredients are limited now, and the ingredients stored in the refrigerator and freezer are not made randomly, but for example, for the New Year or birthday celebrations, they can always be made Let’s eat together? But they didn't know how to pickle, so Xu Yin did her best and taught them step by step.
The vegetables in Xu’s backyard are also mature. In addition to radish and cabbage, which are indispensable for winter storage, Xu Yin also planted some cabbage and cowpea. Cabbage is relatively durable. If you turn on a humidifier in a cool cellar, it will not go bad if it is stored for a month or two. Of course, it can also be made into kimchi with carrot sticks, white radish sticks, garlic, and young ginger.
The cowpeas were not picked after they matured. They were specially kept as old cowpeas. They were blanched in salt water and exposed to the sun for three days. After drying, they were sealed. If you want to eat them, take them out and soak them until soft. The dried cowpea stew is particularly fragrant, and Xu Yin can eat two bowls of rice. Of course, she also brewed a jar of pickled beans and served porridge with divine vegetables.
With so much work piled together, can you not be busy?
Finally finished his work and could finally take a breather. Feng Shujin pulled him to Villa No. 6 to attend the autumn harvest celebration banquet.
After three drinks, we talked about our plans for the next year.
“What are your plans for next year?” Feng Shujin asked her.
Xu Yin thought about it seriously and said, "The fields outside have almost been cleared, but I just don't know what the contracting method is now."
“You want to contract?”
“I want to build a greenhouse and grow vegetables for all four seasons.” She has experience in this.
It’s really hard to have no green leafy vegetables in winter.
Although there are endless dishes in the system warehouse, there are other people at home, so you can't hide and cook for yourself, right?
"But the fields are not like the community. They say they have been cleaned up, but there are mutated animals popping up every three days, as well as mutated birds such as sparrows and crows. It is difficult to deal with the thieves." Song Haobin said, "Unless it is surrounded like a community, Get up and pull a big net over the vegetable base. But now that the brick and cement factories are shut down, where can we get so many building materials?"
“How about I go and try?” Zhu Donglin adjusted his glasses.
Others looked at him inexplicably: "Lao Zhu, what are you talking about? Go and try it? What are you trying on? Do you know how to build walls or plaster cement? But even if you know how, you don't have these materials."
Zhu Donglin glanced at his boss with a questioning look. Seeing that he had no intention of stopping him, he announced with a smile: "I have activated the earth element. If I can build walls, I should be able to build houses as well."
…”
Everyone jumped up in surprise:
“Lao Zhu, is it true or not? You also have superpowers? When did it happen?”
“Quick, quick, quick! Go out and show your skills and show me what the earth-type abilities are like.”
Zhu Donglin was taken outside for a demonstration.
Xu Yin felt envious when she saw Secretary Zhu building a wall with just a wave of his hand: With the earth power, wouldn’t he not have to worry about infrastructure in the future?
She subconsciously nudged Feng Shujin with her elbow: "Please lend me Secretary Zhu someday. I want to ask him to do a small favor."
Feng Shujin turned his head and glanced at her. For some reason, he felt a little sour in his heart: "When you use me, you are never so polite."
…”
Complaints are complaints, that afternoon, Feng Shujin asked Secretary Zhu to come to her home.
Xu Yin wanted him to help build a small attic in the corner of the backyard.
The ground is full of vegetables, and a doghouse was built for Niu Niu in another corner. There is really no room to put farm tools.
Originally I thought about building a cabin on the apple tree, but the trunk of the apple tree was not strong enough and I was worried that it would not be able to bear the weight of the cabin.
While eating lunch, she saw Zhu Donglin releasing the earth power, and she was moved. It would be great if she had this power. She could build whatever she wanted, how convenient it would be!
As reward, Xu Yin prepared several vegetables and fruits grown by herself.
A few months ago, who would have thought that one day the vegetables and fruits in the fields would replace soft coins and become the hard currency for transactions. It’s really sad to think about it.
Although Zhu Donglin's power level is not very high, if a protective wall is built around the Oriental Imperial Garden, it may need to be done several times, because the power will be exhausted after using it.
But building a small tool shed was not a problem. In a short while, the attic was built according to Xu Yin's request, and it could be used with a ladder.
Xu Yin presented him with a pre-packed vegetable basket and sent him out.
"Not so polite!"
Zhu Donglin was flattered and hurriedly waved his hands to decline.
He heard from Mr. Song that Miss Xu was most likely his boss's favorite, and would be their future boss's wife. How could he ask for a thank you for doing things for the boss's wife?
Zhu Donglin ran away after finishing his work.
Mrs. Jiang couldn’t help but praise: “What a warm-hearted young man.”
Feng Shujin came in handsomely over the wall from the backyard: "Who are you praising?"
“Your Secretary Zhu.”
…”
Why do you feel a little sour?
"What's wrong, Secretary Zhu?" He dusted off the wall dust on his trouser legs and asked as if nothing happened.
“He helped my family with some work, but he still refused to accept the gift of thanks.”
And a thank you gift?
Feng Shujin felt even more sad.
Follow Xu Yin and walk into the house: "It's just a piece of cake for him, so why give him something? I've helped you a lot, why didn't you give it to me?"
Xu Yin: “…”
makes sense.
But because you are Comrade Xiaojin! Unknowingly, I treat you as one of my own.
“Okay, okay, I’ll make up for your thank you gift later.”
Feng Shujin glanced at her, listen! Listen! With such a perfunctory tone, why don't you just give me a plate of dumplings as a thank you gift?
Her big dog enjoys this treatment every day. He... forget it, it would be nice to eat some.
The fillings she mixed were obviously very ordinary leeks, eggs, cabbage, pork, or pickled cabbage and bamboo shoots, but they tasted particularly delicious. No matter how he mixed them, his chef could not make the same fillings.
If Xu Yin knew his inner slander, she would have smiled proudly: You think the mountain spring water in the world of cultivation is mixed in vain!
However, what her family ate today was not dumplings, but pot stickers, freshly fried cabbage and meat pot stickers. Paired with beef offal and vermicelli soup that is so fresh that it makes you want to bite your tongue off.
Beef offal is not a mess of beef offal, but beef tripe, beef tendon, and beef tendon meat, which has been braised in advance, making it refreshing and delicious.
The pot of beef offal and vermicelli was bubbling, and the freshly fried pot stickers were still steaming. Everyone sat around the table and chatted while eating.
"Lao He went to the meteorological station in the morning and collected some data. The weather will not be very good next time. Have you stocked up on coal and charcoal?" Feng Shujin took a sip of beef offal soup to warm his stomach and turned around. Ask Xu Yin.