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

Chapter 137 Change things

"Okay!" Xia Chan said happily while eating the sweet shrimps.

After having a simple lunch, everyone felt more energetic about working in the afternoon.

After Xia Qi cleaned the pig's offal, Xia Chan cut the pig's offal into suitable sizes and then marinated it directly. She also took the two pig's trotters back and marinated them with the pig's offal. .

In the evening, each person had a bowl of hot dumplings stuffed with pickled cabbage and pork. In the middle of the table was a bowl full of steaming braised pig offal and braised pig trotters. Xia Chan swallowed her saliva and said, "We will eat first today. I’ll eat the rest when Brother Pengfei comes back.”

After the braised pig was cooked, Xia Chan divided it into several casseroles, and after freezing them, put them all into a large vat. When eating, just put the casseroles on the stove to heat them.

Now they no longer sell cooked food, but directly sell fresh food, so the casseroles and earthenware pots that were taken back are of little use now, and they can only be packaged for their own meals.

Sometimes, if you don’t want to cook, you can just bring the food to your home and heat it up, which is really fast and hassle-free.

Because there were a lot of dumplings to make, the brothers worked overtime for many days in a row before wrapping up all the dumplings for the whole winter. At first, they placed them on the kang mat and froze them. When they were all frozen and hard, they put them in bags. Pack it up and put it in the yard.

Xia Chan didn't know how to do handicrafts. When the weather was cold, other girls would sit on the kang to mend clothes and fix shoe soles, while she sat at the kang table, eating snacks and reading a book. Her life was more lively than that girl in the city.

Girls in the city still have to go to work. Even if they have a day off occasionally, they still have to do housework, otherwise their family will definitely talk about it.

Xia Chan is different. Although her brothers don’t talk much, they dote on her extremely. They don’t require her to do anything, but if she wants to do something when she is bored, they won’t stop her.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. The brothers were all busy, so Xia Chan went out to open the door. It was really cold outside. As soon as she walked out of the door, she was shivering. She quickly pulled her coat together and ran to open the door.

It was Yuan Bingbing and an unknown female comrade. Both of them were holding wooden boxes in their hands and it seemed that they came here to exchange things.

"Bingbing, bring your friend home to warm up. We'll talk about anything later."

Inviting the two into the house, Xia Chan immediately poured each of them a bowl of brown sugar ginger tea, and also brought them some melon seeds and peanuts to treat them.

"Xiao Chan, this is Zhang Wenwen, my colleague at the department store." Yuan Bingbing introduced the two to each other, "Wenwen, this is my friend Xia Chan."

Xia Chan and Zhang Wenwen greeted each other and their first impression was pretty good.

"Xiao Chan, we're looking for you today to exchange things. As long as it's edible, we don't mind the type." Yuan Bingbing did not waste time and told the truth. After all, they didn't have much time.

Xia Chan nodded, "I understand. Let you rest for a while. I will take you to a place with more supplies to exchange."

"Xiao Chan, thank you." Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen thanked Xia Chan at the same time.

Xia Chan waved her hands in embarrassment. Doing these things could also earn her a better reputation. It could be said that it was a mutually beneficial thing for all three parties. There was no need to thank her. After sitting for a while, Xia Chan took Yuan Bingbing and Su Wenwen to the home of Uncle Niu Che. Uncle Niu Che had taken good care of Xia Chan during her two years in junior high school. Xia Chan never forgot Uncle Niu Che for any good things that happened to her later.

When they arrived at Uncle Niu Che's house, Xia Chan told them their intention and asked them if they were willing to exchange food for winter clothes. Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen opened the wooden box, took out the clothes inside, and let them choose for themselves.

Winter clothes are all thick. Even if they are other people's hand-me-downs, they are still much better than the tattered and non-warm clothes that many people wear.

However, Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen brought women's clothes today, so Uncle Niu Che's wife changed a few pieces. If the clothes are too big, they can be altered or made into clothes for children, so she will not suffer any loss.

Finally it was agreed that twenty kilograms of mountain products or twenty kilograms of coarse grains could be exchanged for one piece of clothing. If there was fine grain, ten kilograms of fine grain could be exchanged for one piece of clothing. However, there was a shortage of fine grain in the countryside, so forget about it.

Uncle Niu Che's family couldn't exchange all the clothes in their hands, so Xia Chan took them to the team leader's house, because the team leader's family had many children and many mountain products.

Sure enough, Aunt Lin directly changed all the clothes in Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen's hands. She has five grandchildren and a married daughter, so it doesn't hurt to change more clothes.

Yuan Bingbing and Zhang Wenwen both exchanged for a lot of food. Zhang Wenwen even got half a dried rabbit and was very satisfied.

It's a good idea to exchange some old clothes that you no longer like for some food.

After the two of them exchanged their things, they left the captain's house directly. Because the old man on the ox cart said he would take them to the town, Yuan Bingbing did not bother Xia Chan this time.

Aunt Lin was showing the children how to make clothes, happily studying how to alter them. "These city people really waste things. Such good clothes don't even have a patch, so they don't wear them and put them in the bottom of the box. It's really sad to think about it."

"It's precisely because they don't wear them anymore that we have the opportunity to exchange with them. Otherwise, when will we have the chance to wear such nice clothes?" Xia Chan said with a smile, "If they come to exchange more clothes a few times, we will have enough clothes to wear, Aunt Lin, don't you think so?"

Aunt Lin nodded repeatedly, "Yes, if they come more often, the children won't have to suffer from the cold."

Afterwards, Aunt Lin told the children, "After you finish your homework, go to the mountains to pick up mountain products. Don't just play all day."

"Got it, grandma." The children all agreed crisply. Touching the thick clothes, they felt warm in their hearts.

After that, the children from Grandpa Niu Che's family and the team leader's family ran to the mountain every day and brought home edible things.

Of course, the mountains in the production team were all small hills, and the children often went there. As long as they didn’t run deep into the mountains, nothing would happen, and the adults were very relieved.

On the other side, Zhang Wenwen, who came with Yuan Bingbing to exchange things, was also very happy. He didn't expect that he could get so much food in exchange for his old clothes. What he exchanged today should be enough for their family to eat for a month.

When she has time, she will visit her relatives and ask them to bring their old clothes to her so that she can exchange them in the countryside.

"Bingbing, thank you for today, otherwise I really wouldn't know that old clothes can be exchanged for other things!" Zhang Wenwen said softly, hugging Yuan Bingbing's arm.