Time Travel: My Comfortable Life After Going to the Countryside

"Team Leader Xie, should we report him for having illicit relationships?" A and B asked Xie Zhiyong.

Xie Zhiyong pondered for a moment and then said, "I believe Comrade Liu Xiangyang is innocent. If you two don't believe me, you can go to the village committee or the county to report him. I can testify for you."

"I advise you to have evidence before you report it, that way you can protect yourselves," Xie Zhiyong said before leaving.

"Xie Zhiyong is a coward. He's afraid of Liu Xiangyang, but I'm not," Wang Yi said.

The two men, A and B, began to whisper to each other again.

Xie Zhiyong had initially thought they might have some evidence, but it turned out to be just wild speculation.

And are they idiots themselves, trying to drag me into offending Liu Xiangyang, not to mention Liu Xiangyang's current status.

With just the seven votes he held, Liu Xiangyang was always the group with the most support whenever something happened among the educated youth. Not to mention he was also an inspector. How could someone become an inspector if they didn't have connections above them?

If those two idiots are looking for death, let them go. Let them fight like dogs; you might even benefit from it.

Liu Xiangyang was unaware that someone was plotting against him, and even if he did, it wouldn't matter. He was currently busy with other things and didn't have time to worry about such matters.

The next morning, the snow that had fallen all night stopped, and the whole ground was covered in white snow. After getting up, Liu Xiangyang swept the snow off the road in the yard and the area in front of his office.

He also lit the kang (heated brick bed) in the office, and from now on, he would spend most of his daytime hours there.

Although he worked late into the night last night, his physical condition was still good, but Xue Bingbing couldn't keep up, so Le Qi had to bring her breakfast.

Liu Xiangyang was boiling water in the inner room, preparing to make some tea. While waiting for the water to boil, Liu Xiangyang looked around the entire office.

It is divided into two rooms. The outer room serves as a reception room. It is very simple, with just a table, a few stools, and a stove for heating the kang (a traditional heated bed), on which water is being boiled.

The inner room had an extra kang (heated brick bed) compared to the outer room, as well as Liu Xiangyang's desk. When the carpenter was making the desk, he specifically asked him to enclose the space under the desk with wooden boards.

Liu Xiangyang sat in his office until noon. After having lunch with bone broth, he returned to his office and tried to find something to do.

The thought that Xue Bingbing and the others had to get up before dawn every day for safety reasons and sneak back to their own yard was unbearable in the winter, even though it was okay in the summer.

I had thought about opening up the two courtyards and making a hidden door before, and for my own sexual happiness, I should put it on the agenda.

Back in the courtyard, they saw Xue Bingbing and Le Qi, the two sisters, pointing and gesturing at the blond-haired man and the silly roe deer meat.

"Liu Xiangyang, we're all a bit homesick, so I was thinking of making some smoked meat in the style of Suzhou to ease our homesickness," Xue Bingbing said as she saw Liu Xiangyang come in.

"We need Sichuan peppercorns, white sugar, rice wine, and orange peel. You still have some Sichuan peppercorns in your kitchen. We've been discussing the orange peel and rice wine for a long time but we still don't know what to do," Xue Bingbing said, shaking Liu Xiangyang's hand and acting coquettishly.

Liu Xiangyang pondered for a moment and said, "What you really want is to taste the flavors of your hometown. We can try a different approach."

"I still have plenty of sugar and salt here. We'll use sorghum wine instead of rice wine, and pine needles instead of orange peels. They'll have a nice fragrance when burned. We also have a lot of poplar trees, so we'll add those in too. What do you think?" Liu Xiangyang said, looking at the three of them.

Leqi: "I think we can give it a try. This combination of Northeastern and Jiangnan flavors might taste even better."

"Just thinking about it makes me think it won't be bad. Bingbing, let's give it a try," Le Yao said, hugging Xue Bingbing.

"Then I'll go to the woods and cut down some pine needles. You guys prepare the rest of the things first. I've put the salt and wine in the cellar." After saying that, Liu Xiangyang put a small bag of salt from his spatial storage into the cellar.

Le Yao: "But we don't have a place to smoke meat."

Liu Xiangyang slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, Yao Yao is right. But this is easy. You guys process the meat first, and I'll go outside and build a smoking oven."

Liu Xiangyang went outside the yard, found a flat spot, cleared away the snow, and moved out the unused stones from the paving stones.

The stones were stacked into a cuboid one meter long and wide, and one meter and two meters high, with a firewood inlet at the bottom.

Using his fusion ability, he fused the stones together and shaped them into a one-centimeter-thick stone slab, which he then laid thirty centimeters high to keep out open flames.

Liu Xiangyang tested it with a stone. He used six-tenths of his strength to smash the stone against the stone slab. The stone slab did not break, but only a white spot was smashed on it.

After piling stones for more than an hour, Liu Xiangyang finally managed to create a basic shape.

He then used wet mud to seal the gaps between the stones to prevent air from leaking in. He ended up looking like a mud figure, covered in sweat, and his hands were red from the cold.

"Bingbing, Leqi, Leyao, come out and see what I made!" Liu Xiangyang ran into the room to call them.

The three of them were sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) in the room, marinating meat. When they saw Liu Xiangyang's condition, they felt extremely sorry for him.

The three of them got off the kang (a heated brick bed) and came to Liu Xiangyang's side. They all reached out to wipe the mud off Liu Xiangyang's face, only to find that their hands were covered in meat grease.

"I'm not cold, my hands are red from mixing the mud. Come out and see what I made!" Liu Xiangyang was quite excited, like a child who had just finished building with blocks and wanted to show it off.

The three women followed Liu Xiangyang to the courtyard gate, where they saw a censer that looked like a chimney.

The three women circled around him, their eyes red with emotion. They were all very excited. Liu Xiangyang had come up with a way to help them because they said they wanted to eat smoked meat with a taste of their hometown.

"It's cold outside, you guys go inside first. I'll light a fire and dry the mud. Marinate the meat for a day today, and we can make smoked meat tomorrow."

With tears in her eyes, Xue Bingbing said, "Then let's go boil some water first. After you're done, take a shower quickly, don't catch a cold."

Seeing the state of the three of them, Liu Xiangyang suddenly smeared mud on their faces: "Hmm, hurry up and go inside. I'll be heartbroken if you get too cold."

"By the way, you guys can all come with me for a bath later!" Liu Xiangyang raised an eyebrow as he approached the three of them.

Le Yao playfully smeared the meat grease on her hands onto Liu Xiangyang's face and ran inside.

Seeing Le Yao's actions, Xue Bingbing and Le Qi also wiped their faces on Liu Xiangyang's and ran away.

"Alright, you wait and see, I hold grudges." Liu Xiangyang shouted into the room.

With a broad smile on his face, Liu Xiangyang took out a match, lit a handful of corn stalks, put them in, and added a few more pieces of firewood.

Having done all this, Liu Xiangyang entered the courtyard with a smile on his face.