In winter, Japan is quiet, and with the snow, the occasional crisp chirping of sparrows is particularly clear.

Lin Wei and Tang Shen sat side by side on the sofa, their legs covered with the same blanket, holding a water glass, looking at the snowflakes outside through the trimmed translucent glass window, occasionally whispering a few times, very comfortable.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and there seemed to be no sign of stopping, and Tang Shen touched her ankle from time to time, causing Lin Wei to look at him.

"I'm not cold, and after my grandfather has been conditioned before, I usually don't have cold hands and feet. ”

Tang Shen smiled and asked her, "What do you want for dinner?"

"I don't know. ”

She didn't seem to have anything to eat.

"Let's get a hot pot to eat the vegetables?" Tang Shen still remembered what was in the kitchen, "The coal stove and honeycomb coal in the corner of the kitchen can be used, just put the pot on it when the time comes." ”

"Isn't it okay?" Lin Wei hesitated, "Isn't it not advisable to use coal in the inner room?"

Isn't it that when the indoor carbon dioxide reaches a certain amount, people will be poisoned?

"Just eat in the kitchen. ”

Tang Shen said and got off the sofa, "The kitchen is well ventilated, and it won't be cold around the stove." ”

That's a good idea, too.

Lin Wei nodded, and was about to follow him to the kitchen.

There is still some chicken and pork in the kitchen, and there are seven or eight fritters, but after two days, it is estimated that some of them have dried up, so it should not affect the food.

Two handfuls of spinach, four cabbages, some coriander, radish potatoes, and dried vegetables and fungus made by her mother.

Calculate, it's enough to make shabu-shabu.

"The stove is a bit choking, you stay in the living room first, and then you can go over when I get the stove ready. ”

After telling Lin Wei, Tang Shen went to the utility room to get an axe, as well as a few wooden planks with a small arm, and went to the porch.

The wooden planks were chopped into the size of his fingers and stacked into a stack, and the neat appearance made Lin Wei, who was watching, think of the neatness of his quilt.

"You have been a soldier, and you work like this?" Lin Wei pointed to the pile of firewood with uniform thickness and length, and was neatly arranged, and asked curiously, "Don't you feel troublesome?"

Tang Shen squatted to chop wood, raised his head when he heard the words, and glanced at her with a smile, "Not all, but there are a lot." ”

Once you get used to it, you won't feel troublesome.

Hearing this, Lin Wei was in awe and handed over a newspaper from a few days earlier.

Tang Shen took it, flattened the newspaper, and he got the small firewood on it, and then he got it to the kitchen safely.

"Alright, you go to the living room. ”

Tang Shen put down the newspaper, pointed to the living room, and drove her away with a smile.

The coal stove was not very heavy, but it was not light, about twenty or thirty catties, he casually picked it up and carried it to the left side of the kitchen door, took out the several pieces of honeycomb coal that had been burned in the coal stove before, and cleaned the inside, and then began to make the stove.

Nowadays, almost every household has a coal-burning stove, and as far as the eye can see, there are two rows of large chimneys.

When the weather is good, many people make honeycomb coals and dry them in the yard in rows.

When it is dried in the sun, or slightly air-dried, it will not break easily, so pile it up piece by piece and put it in the corridor, or in a dry place, find a plastic sheet to cover it, afraid that the wind will blow away the plastic sheet, and it will press something on it. Turn the head or firewood, as long as it plays a role in ventilating.

Tang Shensheng still has a set of coal stoves, put three crumpled newspaper balls at the bottom of the coal stove, and then set up small firewood three horizontally and three vertically on it, stuff two more newspaper balls every other section, and then continue to build a shelf, almost, directly ignite the newspaper with matches.

It wasn't until the small firewood was ignited and burned itself that the honeycomb coal was put on it.

Lin Wei saw that there was no smoke, and paced slowly to the kitchen.

When she passed, Tang Shen had already soaked the fungus and dried vegetables first, and was holding the chicken and pork to be cleaned.

"Then I'll peel the potatoes. ”

Lin Wei looked around, took out three men's fist-sized potatoes, took a paring knife and a small basin, and found a stool to sit down and prepare to peel the skin.

"Go and break some of the cabbage leaves, and I'll cut the potatoes later." Tang Shen cleaned the meat and said to her with disgust, "Look at your posture with a knife, if you cut your hand, you will cry." ”

Lin Wei glared at him, "Don't bury people like this! I don't cook for a day or two, just a few potatoes." ”

How could it not be done?!

She just doesn't like shredded potatoes very much, so she doesn't touch them often.

But if there is meat and it is stewed with meat, she still likes it.

When I was a child, I didn't have much opportunity to eat meat, and the dried shredded potatoes were really not as good as fried shredded radish in lard.

And at that time, I was afraid of waste, so I didn't have to peel the potato skin, and I washed it. Later, the skin was not eaten, but the brown skin on it was scraped with an iron spoon, and the potato flesh was hardly scraped.

If it really hurts the inside of the potato, grandma can scream for days.

It was so impressive that she remembers it now.

Saying that, Lin Wei teased him, "Do you think that the potato skin I peeled is too thick and a waste of food, so you don't let me get this?"

Do you still need to break the cabbage leaves? When you go down with a knife, the roots are cut, and the leaves are naturally loose, and you can easily get them right, and you don't need to do it for two minutes.

"You think too much......"

Tang Shen said, shook his head helplessly, and didn't stop her, his hand rose and fell, and soon two thin slices of meat appeared on the board.

Picking up the piece of meat and shining it in the light, he was a little dissatisfied, so he found the whetstone in the corner and went outside to sharpen the knife.

The meat slices are not thin enough, and it is difficult to soak.

By the time he sharpened his knife, Lin Wei had already cut one potato, and the other potato was almost finished.

Tang Shen smiled evilly and praised her twice, and then went to slice the meat.

Lin glanced at him slightly, ignoring his ridicule. When the potatoes were peeled, they took the water and were about to wash them, but they were snatched away by him.

"I'm not that vulnerable. She was helpless, "It's just to wash the dishes." ”

"The water is cold. ”

Tang Shen gave her two words without looking back, and quickly washed the potatoes.

Next, as long as it involves cleaning, almost all of them are taken over by Tang Shen.

Lin Wei simply didn't care about this, and went directly to the seasoning needed for shabu-shabu.

Peanuts need to be sautéed and then chopped with a knife. The garlic needs to be peeled and mashed into garlic, as well as things like minced coriander.

At this time, the coal stove was ready, Tang Shen took out the ignited coal, put the previously burned coal into it, and then put the coal out on top of the three waste cinders that had been burned.

Carrying the coal stove into the kitchen, Tang Shen held the pot, stood up, and skillfully took the pot to fry peanuts.

Lin Wei took out a plate and put it on the stove, and then stood beside him with a smile and watched.

After frying the peanuts, he put the chicken bones and pork bones with some meat in the pot and stir-fried them a few times, and saw that a little burnt yellow appeared, scooped two scoops of water into it, and then covered the pot.