Stocking up in space: surviving in a world of crisis

Chapter 269 Chapter 269 Extreme Cold 15
The Changling Mountains are about [-] kilometers long, and it takes about two months to walk through this mountain range and enter the next province.

Everyone decided to rest by the lake for two days. The wheel of a carriage was broken and needed to be replaced.

After eating a good meal, Ye Fu also went to the lake to catch a bagful of fish, she was not lucky, only caught three silver carp.

There are many cedar and fir trees around the lake, Ye Fu planned to cut some and store them in the space, so he called Jiang Rong, and the two left the team and went to the fir forest not far away.

The fir trees here are thicker and straighter than the Broken Cloud Mountain, and a tree needs two people to embrace it.

Unable to use a chainsaw, Ye Fu took out a large saw, Jiang Rong sawed the tree, and she was responsible for putting it into the space.

When Ye Fu saw a few cedar seedlings, he took out a hoe and dug them out.

There are also some red-haired squirrels in the mountains, which are very big, but very timid.

Ye Fu tied up the branches and chopped for three hours, and the wood was enough.

"Jiang Rong, let's go."

The two each dragged a bundle of branches back to the camp, and the others gathered around the firepit to smoke fish.

Smoked fish with cedar sticks will taste better and keep longer.

In the middle of the night, everyone had entered the carriage and began to sleep. Not far away, some little squirrels poked their heads out, looking curiously at the horses and sheep not far away.

Ye Fu couldn't sleep, he opened his eyes and looked at the window, counting in his mind how many days he had left since he set off from the small courtyard.

Jiang Rong took her hand and pressed against her tightly.

"What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about how long I need to go before I reach the end and the extreme cold will end."

The carriage was very dark, Jiang Rong looked at Ye Fu, and could clearly see the fine fluff at the end of Ye Fu's eyes and a small red mole.

"Tired?"

"Not tired."

Jiang Rong squeezed her palm, "Lie."

"I'm really not tired. I'm just curious about what the Northwest has become. I have a hunch that most people should have fled there."

"When we get there, the extreme cold should be over. If you can't sleep, I'll play chess with you."

Ye Fu wanted to laugh, at this time, lonely men and widows, in the dead of night, most men would say a few ambiguous words, but he was good enough to ask Ye Fu to get up and play chess.

Ye Fu: "..."

"sleep."

Jiang Rong frowned, "Did you get sleepy so soon? Open your eyes and let me see."

"what?"

"I'll see if you're sleepy or not."

Ye Fu snorted and didn't want to talk to him.

The next day, the sun shone on the snow, and there were sheep bleating one after another outside, and other people got up one after another. Ye Fu opened the window and looked outside. The wind howled, and a gust of wind came, leaving a layer of snow on the window sill.

"It's so fucking cold, the weather is so damn hot, the sun is out and you still look like this." Fang Ming was cursing as soon as he got out of the carriage.

Ye Fu shrank his neck and quickly closed the window.

Qi Yuan stretched his waist, "The criminals who were exiled in ancient times didn't suffer like us."

Complaints are complaints, but the sheep still need to be fed.

The trees here are too tall, and there are almost no low shrubs, so the trees can only be cut down, the oil spread, and the horses and sheep go out to eat.

Ye Fu took out the hot water bottle from the space, washed his face, brushed his teeth, and quickly applied a thick layer of moisturizing cream on his face before putting on the thermal hat.

Today everyone was going to go fishing in the lake, Jiang Rong had already gone to help, Ye Fu took out some dry firewood from the container, and started to light a fire to boil water.

"Good morning, sister Xiaoye."

Ye Fu raised his hand and clapped Wenwen, "Good morning, have you washed your face yet?"

Wenwen's face was full of pain, "I don't want to wash, it's too cold."

"I don't want to wash either, my face is chapped." Fang Wei came over with her arms around her neck.

"Have you run out of moisturizing cream for you?" When he came back from Country W, Ye Fu gave everyone four bottles of moisturizing cream, and each bottle contained 500g. not finished.

"No, I haven't used up half of the bottle. It's too cold to wash my face. What are you doing with that thing?"

When eating yesterday, Ye Fu observed everyone, almost everyone's face was flushed from the cold, and everyone took the moisturizing cream seriously for only a few seconds.

"When the snow melts and the temperature rises, your faces will be very painful."

"real or fake?"

"Really, your faces are freezing."

"I will never be lazy again."

Fang Wei was so frightened that she hurried back to the carriage to wipe her face.

Ye Fu shoveled the clean snow into a big iron pot, took out a rib from the container and stewed it.

"I'm lucky today. Jiang Rong caught about [-] catties of silver carp when he cast the first net. Look, it's the biggest one today. It should weigh more than ten catties."

Fang Ming and Qi Yuan came back with the bucket in hand, the fish remained motionless in the bucket, Ye Fu went over to take a look, the fish caught today were indeed bigger than yesterday's.

"Ye Fu, are you steaming steamed buns today?"

Ye Fu shook his head, "Take out the cornmeal and make steamed buns."

There are still a few bags of cornmeal, and some of them have regained moisture, so we have to get rid of them first.

The others also came back with buckets, built two fires beside them, piled some cedar branches, put the processed fish on them and started smoking.

"It would be great if there were pine and cypress leaves. The meat smoked from pine and cypress leaves and cedar leaves is more fragrant."

"It's about this time, where can I find pine and cypress leaves?"

After Ye Fu made the cornmeal, Fang Wei and Wenwen started kneading the dough, brushed a layer of animal oil on the dough, and the steamed buns were especially sweet.

Now that there is more meat and less food, each person can only get two corn buns at a time, but they can eat two pots of meat.

"Sparse ribs, grilled fish, steamed buns, is that enough?"

Ye Fu went to get some sauerkraut, which was pickled with cabbage when he was in the courtyard.

"Cook a pot of sauerkraut soup, it's time to eat."

Except for salt and oil, there are no other seasonings in the meat, but the taste is still very fresh.

After Yin Dongnan had dinner with everyone, he took out all his black bear meat and hunted some more prey along the way, and now the container was almost out of capacity.

After lunch, everyone processed the fish caught in the morning and smoked them.

Ye Fu returned to the carriage and took a nap. When she woke up, Wan Tao and Liu Zhang were already cooking dinner.

"There are so many animals in this mountain."

"Stop hunting, the container won't fit."

"I fancy a sable and want to keep it as a pet. This guy is too fast and it's hard to catch alive."

"You want to keep pets too? Our team already has quite a few pets."

Fang Ming and Qi Yuan were cutting branches not far away, Ye Fu glanced at the four little guys in the corner, and got up to get water and food for them.

Jiang Rong came in from outside with a chill all over his body, and Ye Fu was making milk powder.

She shivered from the cold, and Jiang Rong quickly closed the door.

"There's a rainbow out there."

Ye Fu didn't believe it, "How can there be a rainbow without rain."

"Really, there are two rainbows over the lake."

(End of this chapter)