Link gave the winemakers a day off, but there were still plenty of grapes hanging from the vines. He thought about it and felt a little distressed.

So, he called Albert to find a solution.

Unfortunately, Albert had no choice: "If the temperature can continue to be low, you can wait until the weather improves to make icewine." But the weather in Ozette is unlikely to see sustained low temperatures. As long as the snow melts, it won't take half a month for the temperature to rise above zero. ”

Icewine is to freeze the grapes for a long period of time in snow and ice, allowing the ice crystals inside the grapes to concentrate the sugars and the windbreak to dehydrate them. That ensures the sugar content of the grapes.

If you don't have enough time, you can't make real ice wine. The grapes rot when the weather is warm.

Knowing that he had a problem, Jessica smiled and suggested, "Anyway, you're free, since the snow has stopped now, you can brew more." Maybe it's a new kind of wine. ”

When Link heard this, he laughed and said, "You're right. He prepared winemaking equipment based on this year's estimated grape yield. If you don't make sake now, those utensils will be empty. Using those grapes to make wine is at most a lot of manpower and material resources. But as long as he can make drinkable wine, he can't sell it for thirty dollars, and somebody will ask for three dollars!

So he regathered the workers who had not yet left. He didn't let the winemakers continue to work, but he took the winemaking notes of the queen and Huoyun left by Albert and started to make wine according to the steps above.

The winemakers saw him like this, and they also started to use these grapes to make experimental wines.

Link watched them do that, and he didn't stop it. As long as they can finish the grapes they have made before, they can experiment with the remaining grapes if they want to.

But they don't experiment with too many grapes. One is that they don't have much time, and it's hard to finish with too much brewing.

Link has exclusive ownership of several presses. A large number of grapes were pressed in it, and he himself played with it, experimenting with two wines.

He had his workers pick some of the grapes that were not yet ripe and press them in different proportions and with the ripe grapes.

However, he left some of the winemaking utensils for Albert, who came back to make "ice wine" after the New Year.

After seven or eight days of hectic activity, the winemakers have finished their work and are leaving the farm to go home for Christmas.

Before they left, Link wasn't stingy either. Each person's salary was paid 20% more, which is considered their hard work during this time.

And he did the brewing work. Because, as Albert said, when the snow melts, the temperature rises. The grapes began to rot. Whether ripe or unripe, it is no longer suitable for brewing.

Although a lot of grapes were wasted. But that's no way around it. So he paid most of the workers first. Only a part of the people was left to help with the finishing touches.

When he's done, there are three more days before Christmas. He had just given the rest of the workers a holiday. Suddenly, there was another blizzard. This snowstorm is not because of a cold wave, but because of the abundance of precipitation here. The temperature on the ground is above zero, but it is very cold in the sky, so snow falls from the sky. As soon as the snow comes, the temperature on the ground drops below freezing.

When he got up in the morning, Link saw the heavy snow outside the window and said to Jessica, "Let's rest today! ”

Jessica didn't object, and she had already taken care of everything Benehans had to deal with. She was safe enough to take two days off in advance. And even if she doesn't go to the company, a phone call can solve the problem.

In the living room, Hannah leaned in front of the brown floor-to-ceiling glass window and stared out. Although it was indoors, it was cold on the glass.

Link went over and picked her up, covered her little hand that was cold from the glass, and said, "What is Hannah looking at?"

"Daddy, when will the snow stop?"

"Daddy doesn't know. Does Hannah want to hang out?"

"Ka Ka said, we're going to cut down a Christmas tree, the best looking one. ”

Link looked at Jessica. Jessica laughed and said, "I gave her the Christmas story." Tell her we can decorate the Christmas tree beautifully. ”

Ozette Farm has a large number of fir trees, and it is not difficult to pick one. The problem is that it is not easy to find a beautiful tree in the forest. Because forest shade can make small trees grow badly.

He looked at the sky outside, and if the snow stopped, he wouldn't be able to cut down the Christmas tree.

He thought for a moment, and said, "Aren't there a few fir trees outside the yard? ”

Jessica was stunned for a moment, and said, "Honey, are you sure you're not kidding anymore? They must be over forty yards high!"

"Isn't that bad? It's three times taller than the national Christmas tree. "The national Christmas tree in the United States has always been planted there, and it is a living tree. It's not like in an ordinary family, just cut down a tree and come back.

Jessica's mind flashed to the scene of lighting a forty-yard-tall tree, and she couldn't help but laugh: "Do you want to put a small one in that house?"

"When the snow stops, I'll go find a suitable one. Can be placed in the center of the atrium. ”

Hannah exclaimed, "I'm going too!"

"Hannah, we're not going with Daddy. When the snow stops, let's build a big snowman, okay?" Jessica said at this point.

Hannah twisted her fingers for a moment, "Okay! Let's cut down the tree first, and then build a snowman with Daddy!" She didn't want to miss it!

"Greedy!" Link said with a smile and a pinch of her little face. "You can only choose one. ”

The blizzard didn't last long. It stopped the next morning. Link plans to go to the nearby secondary forest to find a small fir suitable for keeping at home.

Most of the bodyguards were also on holiday the day before yesterday. Only Tiger, whose parents had passed away, remained in the castle after the divorce. He and Tiger worked together to load a snow shovel onto the front of a pickup truck. He then went back to his room and found his M92F. Jessica leads Hannah in and sees him with a pistol and an extra magazine. She was a little surprised: "Is there danger on the farm?"

Toby said he had seen boar footprints! "Toby is the head of the farm cowboys, and he did tell Link. He had seen a string of pig footprints in the pasture on the farm, and he thought that he might weigh more than 400 pounds if he could imprint such deep footprints in the pasture. But then I didn't see more pig footprints. He organized a cowboy search and found no trace of the wild boar.

"There may be a male wild boar on the farm. ”

Luckily, he had the fence openings on the farm sealed. Otherwise, there may not be more than one, but it will slowly become a disaster. Wild boars are very reproductive.

"When did you find out?"

"It was a while, but Toby they didn't find it later. Maybe it's hiding in the forest. ”

In fact, the possibility of wild beasts cannot be completely ruled out on the farm. The location of the beach is not completely sealed, and it is possible for wildlife to bypass those places and enter the farm.

So if he wants to enter the forest, he has to be careful.

"Why don't you go?"

Link pinned the pistol and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid if you have a gun, and Tiger is there." Encountered the best, I was worried that it would stay on the farm and hurt people. ”

Saying that, he kissed the two women, one older and one small, respectively, and then went out and set off with Tiger.

The diesel engine of the pickup truck is very powerful, although it is not fast because of the snow in front of the car, but there is a snow shovel in front, and the three-foot deep snow cannot stop the car from moving forward. The only thing they have to be careful about is to stay on the road at all times. Do not rush into a pit buried in snow.

The place they are going to is near the airport. For the sake of flight safety, there should be no tall trees at the front and rear ends of the airport. But after the forest was cut down, secondary forests have grown over the years. The forest here is only seven or eight meters high, and it is easy to find suitable small trees.

They drove to the edge of the forest. However, they did not find a suitable fir in this area.

Link thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the east side of the river." I remember there was a secondary forest with a lot of firs. "It's just a little farther away, more than ten miles from Mora Manor.

So they turned around and crossed the river eastward, following the path left by the previous forest, and although the speed was slower on the dirt road, they were also there for most of the hour.

They came to a relatively flat area, but a mile from the nearest vineyards and pastures. When they got out of the car, they could see the traces left by animals on the snow. Looks like it was left behind by the deer.

Tiger saw the messy marks on the snow and smiled and said, "It seems that there are more and more deer on the farm." ”

"That's pretty good, isn't it?" he meant to make the deer breed. So he doesn't mind the deer grazing in the pasture.

That's because in the first two years, several places across the river on the farm were not completely closed. Plus there were already some deer herds here. After the beasts were expelled, the deer herd lacked natural predators and had a large supply of food, and their numbers increased a lot every year.

But now those gaps have been sealed. There will be no more deer coming in. It's a few small animals that can get in from under the fence. Today's wildlife at Ozette Farm includes not only deer, but also carnivores such as foxes and lynxes, as well as snowcocks and hares.

They stepped on a thick layer of snow into the forest. This is a secondary forest, and the forest canopy can't hold much snow, and the ground here has much less snow than the road. Some of the shrubs were completely buried by snow.

Link took the axe and looked carefully at the fir trees, trying to find a beautiful one. According to the height of the atrium of the castle's living room, he could bring back a fir tree with a height of about seven meters.

"Boss!" Tiger reminded him suddenly in a whisper.

Link saw him gesturing in one direction, and he saw a pile of things of different colors on the snow in the woods.

Tiger pulled out his pistol and said, "I'll go and see! It could be a cougar." He looked at the thing lying in the snow, half of its body buried under the snow, and thought to himself that it must be dead.

Link watched him walk over and took out his pistol as well, aiming it in that direction. The pile was about thirty meters away from them. Tiger walked halfway and turned back to him and said, "Boss, it's a female cougar." It's dead. He said as he sped forward.

Link walks through the snow, only to see Tiger coming out of a bush carrying two animals the size of a puppy.

"It should have just given birth not long ago. There is a wound in the stomach, which is supposed to have died from the attack of other beasts. ”