The winter in Illinois is very cold, especially in the northern part of Illino, where the Suzhen Ranch is located, the average winter temperature is below minus 6 degrees, which is much lower than the temperature in the south of the country.

At this time, the garden farm has been covered with heavy snow, the first time it snowed, Su Zhenliuru and others were very surprised, although in China, although Hangzhou City is located in the south, but there will basically be a few snows every year, but it is the first time to see such a big snow as Yizhou, especially Su Zhen, I saw the snow the night before, but the next day I went out and found that the snow was thick to Su Zhen's knees, so that Su Zhenzhi, who wanted to go out to see the deer, scratched his head, At the end, old John and other cowboys rode over and cleared a path in front of the house.

Then Su Zhen and Old John went to see the herd of cattle and deer together, Su Zhen and several cowboys have changed into winter clothes, but they are not bloated, and they are very energetic when riding on horses.

After a short period of equestrian training, Su Zhen has been allowed by Liu Ru to ride the two Arabian horses he had chosen, and at this time Su Zhen rode the most beautiful white horse, which is now the star of everyone in the ranch and has been taken care of very carefully. Because it is a mare, it is also very docile, and after being fed by Su Zhen's space water, it is very smart, and was named the white elf by Su Zhen, and the black stallion was also named the black elf by the way.

Originally, according to Jensen and Old John, the biggest trouble in raising deer was their migration habits, and migration was for sufficient food. But apparently Su Zhen's ranch has no worries about this at all. Due to the influence of space water, except for the slight wilting of the grass in the top layer, the whole is still very lush, and there is no sign of death, Su Zhen dug up the snowdrift to see, sure enough, except for the surface is slightly yellow, but the other parts are resolutely green and full of moisture.

The whole herd of deer snuggled up to each other in the forest to avoid the wind and snow, and after the leader of the deer herd, Bin Bo, saw that Su Zhen was coming, he trotted over and rubbed on Su Zhen affectionately, Su Zhen touched Binbo's huge antlers and said hello to it. Su Zhen also saw that there were many little ones in the deer herd, who should have been born recently.

Looking at the herd again, it is the same, slowly under the leadership of the bull, cutting the snow and grazing, leisurely.

After seeing the cow and the deer, Su Zhen rode back, and before leaving, he asked Jensen to take out a sturdy male deer from the deer herd, and explained that he would go back and slaughter another sheep, and invited a few cowboys to prepare for a hot pot at night.

When I returned home, I saw Rachel and Liu Shihua wrapped up like balls on the sofa watching TV. Although the home is very large, but the air conditioning is not turned on, one is that Su Zhen and Liu Ru have not been used to the warm air conditioner, and the cold air conditioning is okay in summer, but the warm air conditioner feels particularly irritable as soon as it is turned on. The Twenty Room had a fireplace like all Western homes, so it wasn't very cold inside, but the two girls were still tightly wrapped. And the six fluffy little guys were playing around in the house, the six little guys were called away by the very unscrupulous Su Zhen, a big two and a three, a little four, a little five, and a little six, Liu Shihua and Rachel had resisted many times, but the six little guys were obviously closer to Su Zhen after being fed space water by Su Zhen, and after being called by Su Zhen a few times, they acquiesced to the name of the tragedy.

After saying hello, Su Zhen walked into the warehouse and brought out a large charcoal hot pot basin from it to be cleaned, this thing is now rare in the south of the country, or the last time Su Zhen saw it in Chicago's Chinatown, he bought one with the same size and medium.

Liu Shihua saw the pot brought out by Su Zhen and immediately became excited, "Do you eat hot pot at noon, it's great."

Su Zhen smiled, "No, I only ate it at night, I have already asked Jensen to prepare beef and mutton venison, and it should be frozen outside now." "The meat used to eat hot pot is still more tender after being frozen, especially the beef of Angus cattle, which is very particular about storage, and the taste is the best after freezing for more than ten days at about minus ten degrees, but as a rancher, so there is already a lot of beef in the refrigerator, so there is no need to prepare it at zero hour, and venison and mutton can be frozen in just a few hours outdoors in this weather, and it can be planed with a meat planer at night.

"What is hot pot" Rachel asked in broken Chinese, as an assistant to a family of Chinese, naturally can not learn Chinese, but even if Rachel is very talented in language, but now can only barely communicate, most of them still have to communicate in English, naturally do not understand what "hot pot" is.

In Liu Shihua, he explained the meaning of hot pot in English.

"Oh, I know how hot pot is, it's just using food to dip cheese, but does hot pot have anything to do with this basin?"

Now it's Liu Shihua's turn to be confused, food stained with cheese? Is there a way to eat hot pot?

When Su Zhen heard this, he knew that Rachel had misinterpreted, so he explained with a smile, "The hot pot you are talking about is a Western-style hot pot, which is different from Chinese hot pot, which generally does not have soup, but uses cheese and other seasonings to make a condensed milk-like sauce, and there is food to eat with this sauce." In China, the soup is boiled over a charcoal fire, and then the food is cooked and eaten."

Under Su Zhen's detailed explanation, Rachel finally understood what Chinese hot pot was all about, and Rachel, who was extremely fond of Chinese food under Liu Ru's long-term Chinese food feeding, expressed her yearning for this Chinese food called "hot pot".

It was the first time that Liu Shihua knew that there was a hot pot in foreign countries, but it was completely different from Chinese hot pot, so he pulled Rachel and asked.

"You prepare more vegetables in the evening, I invited John and them to eat hot pot together," Su Zhen said to Liu Shihua with a smile.

"Okay, no problem, it's wrapped around me," Liu Shihua lined up his chest.

"Don't line up, it's originally a xiaolongbao, and if you shoot it again, it will become a small steamed bun in Wangzai" Su Zhenthief said with a smile and ran into the kitchen.

Su Zhen!!! I'll kill you!!! With an earth-shattering roar, Liu Shihua followed and rushed into the kitchen.

After a period of fighting, Su Zhen was defeated and finished cleaning the pot amid the sound of confession.

At noon, Liu Ru learned that Su Zhen was going to eat hot pot in the evening, so he began to stew soup, took a few beef thigh bones with meat, and stewed them in a soup pot for a whole afternoon.

As for the charcoal used for hot pot, do you think there will be no charcoal if there is a fireplace?

Soon in the evening, John Sr. came with Grace and Bella, and John Jr. and Jensen had some things to finish, and they would arrive in a while.

After more than ten minutes later, Little John and Jensen also arrived, and after Liu Ru and Liu Shihua brought all the ingredients to the table, after Su Zhen briefly introduced the Chinese hot pot to a few cowboys, everyone, including the two maids, also started to eat hot pot together at the invitation of the host.

A few cowboys were full of praise for eating, and sighed that the simple cooking method of hot pot was simply prepared for them to survive the winter. Because all Americans basically eat it by frying, boiling, and roasting, other seasons are fine, but in the cold weather of the northern United States, the food is very easy to get cold, and this kind of cooking method that can be hot all the time and is very simple has naturally been praised by cowboys.

Because Su Zhen and the people of the Liu family like to eat spicy food very much, they made a mandarin duck pot, and the others watched Su Zhen and the three of them keep stuffing food into the spicy pot, and they tried it, but they shouted that it was delicious, and no one cared about the white pot.

For several Americans who like chili peppers so much, Liu Ru and Liu Shihua are very strange, and eating chili peppers in their images should be the patent of the Chinese.

Or Su Zhen explained to them that "the origin of chili peppers is Mexico, and they were later brought back to Europe by Columbus.

Due to the influence of Su Zhen's boss, Old John also developed the habit of talking about things at the dinner table, eating hot pot while reporting to Su Zhen about the recent pasture.

After a lot of wine and food, several cowboys got up to say goodbye, and the endgame was handed over to the two maids to deal with, and Su Zhen went back to the room after watching TV with a few people for a while.