Chapter 176: Malatang, Heavy Snow
According to the usual practice, Zhao Shanlin stayed in the shop for a simple night.
Early the next morning, along with the grain sent by Zheng Zhongcheng and the grain stored in the shop, a cart full of ox carts was directly loaded and pulled home by Zhao Shanlin.
This is not over, it may be because of a heavy snowfall a few days ago, and now the weather outside is getting colder and colder.
Li looked at it coldly, and she was really worried about her family, and she couldn't rush back because of the shops in the city.
What can I do?
There was no way, Li simply handed over the shop to Zhao Yinyan to help keep an eye on it all morning, while she herself took advantage of the time to run a cloth village in the city, and spent a lot of money heroically to buy hundreds of catties of cotton in one go.
Li plans to sew quilts and cotton clothes for the winter by hand.
Then, Li began to get up early and get busy at night.
The shop business was directly handed over to Zhao Shanxing and Zhao Yinyan, and she herself was busy in the room all day.
After such a set, when Li Shi came out of the room, she had already made a set of thick bedding for Zhao Yu and Zhao Chunhua and Zhao Shanxing in the shop.
The cotton is pressed thick and tight, even if the temperature drops again, it will not freeze when covered.
Similarly, she also made a cotton suit and bedding for Zhao Fuxiang, who was far away at home.
This is not over, and after leaving enough cotton for everyone in the shop to make cotton clothes, Li packed the rest of the cotton together, and brought it back to the countryside together with the newly bought grain when Zhao Shanlin came over for the second time.
And when he drove again, he directly told Zhao Shanlin not to forget to keep an eye on the cotton.
This year is also too busy, and Li only then noticed that the weather is getting colder.
She wasn't at home, and no one remembered to buy cotton at home.
"Remember, the one wrapped in the straw mat alone was prepared by me for your father, and the remaining three bags of cotton were given to each of the daughters-in-law at home.
Zhao Shanlin nodded again and again when he heard this, patting his chest to reassure the Li family.
Li hurriedly waved her hand, and said in her heart that she was not at ease, now that the shop has made money, she is not soft on buying cotton, and one person is dozens of pounds of cotton, no accident, it is more than enough to make a thick set of cotton clothes for everyone in the family.
Ma Yu sent Zhao Shanlin away, and the Li family continued to get busy.
Right now, what stands in the way of Li's eyes is still the business of the shop.
After all, for them, winter is the most terrible season of the year.
There was no stove in the house, and it was cold and bitter outside, and everything was not growing in the mountains, and the cold wind was howling all around.
It's a lore!
The business of snack shops has gradually declined.
Forced by the trend, Zhao Yu's spicy tang was put on the agenda.
Compared with hot and sour noodles, Malatang has a little more casualness and freedom.
There is no need to deliberately mix materials, nor do you need to deliberately emphasize the amount, just the raw materials are placed, and you can blanch a bowl at any time to relieve hunger and drive away the cold.
And spicy tang is not difficult to make, you only need to boil the base soup well and prepare enough side dish meatballs.
Now that the weather is cold, there is no need to think of additional ways to make meatballs at home, they only need to be frozen outside overnight, and this kind of weather also gives them the opportunity to save financial resources.
It took less than three days, and on the morning of November 20, Malatang replaced hot and sour noodles and put them on the counter of Zhao's snack shop.
The new food is naturally popular with diners, and the business of Zhao's snack shop has returned to its original bustle.
It's a pity that this kind of excitement didn't last long, and a sudden blizzard directly lowered the heat of the entire shop to freezing.
It was just a blizzard, and the roofs of dozens of houses in the city collapsed.
Of course, most of these houses that were crushed by the blizzard are located in the west and south of the city, who makes the construction of houses on both sides generally rough.
Zhao's snack shop is located in the south of the city, and it has not been affected, but it is still undeniably affected by it, and the number of people who come to buy food has decreased visibly.
It was also because a house was crushed that Li deliberately climbed the roof of the shop to clean up the snow on it.
Good guy, fortunately, the Li family cleaned up in time, otherwise it would be really easy to be affected.
Whoever makes the roofs in the city are flat shapes, and it is not easy to fall after the snow falls, and it is not easy for them to climb up, no, once the snow passes a certain thickness, it will not collapse the houses.
Because of this, the government sent a lot of officials to help repair the houses and arrange for some city residents to live in scattered places.
Of course, the places that the government can provide are not very good, but they are just temporary settlements.
If you meet the unlucky resident who was injured in the blizzard, you have to pay for it at the pharmacy to buy medicine.
A blizzard brought disaster, and at the same time, the whole city began to complain.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Yu was directly restricted from traveling by the Li family.
Helpless, Zhao Yu could only drink Zhao Chunhua and Zhao Dongxue, and sat in the shop and waited.
At the same time, he greeted the diners who came to eat from time to time.
They stayed at the shop and listened to the diners talk about the situation outside every day.
It is said that the current problem of snow accumulation has passed, and the real trouble is the cotton clothes and bedding for the winter and the food to fill the stomach.
Because of this blizzard, it seems to be the beginning of the whole winter.
The weather did not improve as the snow stopped, on the contrary, the weather outside was getting colder and colder.
And the snow that fell before, before it had time to melt in the future, caught up with the next wave of snowfall, like the kind of cake stacked, layer upon layer.
In such an environment, the prices outside began to skyrocket.
To be precise, everything that can be eaten and used is rising in price.
Some condiments, or things that are not commonly used, such as weaving supplies, have only symbolically risen a little.
But like cotton in clothes, and grain to fill the stomach, it is several times and several times higher.
Take the grain and oil shop next door as an example, the food at home has risen tenfold, and it still can't stop the residents who want to buy food.
As a last resort, Zheng Zhongcheng had to start buying a limited amount every day.
After all, as the shopkeeper of the grain and oil shop, he always wants to absorb the maximum benefits and retain the room for the rise of grain prices.
Whenever this time, Zheng Zhongcheng will never forget to sigh, Boss Li next door, that is really a smart person.
At the beginning, I just casually mentioned that the price of food might rise, so I made up my mind to buy grain as soon as possible.
Looking at it now, it is really much more successful than these people who still run out to buy food on a cold day.
Knowing that Zheng Zhongcheng would say this, what could Li Shi say, he could only smile helplessly, the conscience of heaven and earth, when she bought food, she didn't think that the price of the two grains would rise so fast, but she just thought that there was food at home, and she didn't panic.
She didn't expect that the food she had just bought would be used directly.
Lee's alertness and action have brought a lot of convenience to his family in the countryside.
Not to mention the grain, just the cotton that was bought back is enough for the family to survive such a cold day safely, without worrying about being frozen.
And there is still Zhao Fuxiang at home, and the family is low-key.
Even if his own food is sufficient, he didn't have any extra tension because of this, so he just closed his door, like a hibernating beast, tightening everything in his house, and calmly watching the changes around him.