Chapter 516: Eating hot pot around the fireplace

If one trick doesn't work and another trick is made, isn't it only workers who can get discounts at grocery stores? Wouldn't it be better for them to send someone to apply for a job as a worker?

Xue Wan: Hehe, it's really not good, are you the intelligence agency that is my boyfriend?

Workers who come to apply for jobs, but they have to go through identity verification, and if they can't pass the audit, where do they come from, where do they go back!

After several encounters, the rich families failed to take advantage of it, so they had to honestly buy materials at three times the price.

Igloos were built one after another, and the victims lived in them, and since then the number of people who have frozen to death has been greatly reduced.

With the success story of Stone Spring City, Pei Lin quickly spread the igloo construction method to other disaster-stricken areas.

The relief food brought by the imperial court was also delivered to the victims from the grocery store in the form of half selling and half delivering.

Workers who build igloos are recruited under extremely lenient conditions, and as long as they can move, they will accept them, and they can enjoy various benefits after becoming workers.

And those who are seriously ill, infants, the elderly, etc., who are unable to move, will be subsidized by the imperial court.

If you will freeze to death and starve to death in this way, then the court will not be able to do anything.

Heavy snow continued for a few more days, but the situation was contained.

Especially in Shiquan City, which was the first test base, the death toll has dropped to double digits, and it is also due to diseases and deaths, and there are no more people who starve to death and freeze to death due to heavy snow!

Now, when people look at the heavy snow, they feel not despair, but excitement, because all this snow is money!

In the past, if anyone said that money would fall from heaven, no one would believe it, but now everyone does!

This snow is all materials for building igloos, and the more it falls, the longer they will work and the more wages they will get, so this snow is not what money is!

In the central igloo, there is a brazier embedded in the ground, in which the firewood is burning vigorously, bringing bursts of scorching warmth, and above the brazier hangs a pot, the beef soup in the pot is bubbling, and the strong fragrance is particularly tempting in this cold weather.

Xue Wu threw the chopped white radish pieces and shiitake mushrooms into it, and stirred it with a spoon.

There is a circle of sweet potatoes by the brazier, the palm-sized sweet potatoes of adults, which are patiently roasted by charcoal fire, gradually releasing a burnt and sweet smell.

The snow was falling heavily, but inside the house was warm as spring, and the fragrance was overflowing, making people's bones crispy.

Suddenly, the thick felt curtain at the door of the igloo was lifted, and Pei Lin came in in a snowstorm.

He hurriedly lowered the felt curtain, took off the hat covered with snow, and placed it against the wall.

"I'm back." Xue Wu beckoned to him, "Come over and bake the fire." ”

Pei Lin looked at her extraordinarily warm and bright face under the reflection of the flames, and before she reached the fire, she was already warm.

As soon as he sat down, Xue Wu took his hand and put it on his warm knee and rubbed it for him.

"Hungry, huh? Eat a sweet potato mat first, the soup is estimated to be boiled for a while, just add radish and shiitake mushrooms. ”

Xue Yu pressed on each sweet potato to see which one was roasted softly, but she was scalded, and quickly pinched Pei Lian's cool ears to cool down.

Pei Lin was amused and distressed, "I'll come." ”

The two of them got together, knee to knee, face to face, and ate a soft sweet potato roasted with honey, and the warm and sweet sweet potato went down to the stomach, and the stomach was immediately warm.

Ah Man watched from the side, feeling that she was redundant, it was just time for dinner, the workers outside had returned, and the kitchen window on the other side became lively and noisy, she hurriedly said, "Girl, I'll go back to help." ”

Xue Wan: "Well, let's go." ”

The inside and outside rooms are also separated by thick felt curtains, and a screen is erected, but usually the cooks inside do not come over.

When the beef soup was ready, Xue Wu washed a basket of watery green vegetables, and put a few side dishes on the table, including tofu, meatballs, and hand-rolled noodles.

She took out a large bowl alone and kept it for Ah Man, and put it in a thermos food box.

The two of them ate beef soup first, the beef was stewed for an afternoon, it was already crispy and soft, the white radish absorbed the soup, soft and glutinous with a hint of sweetness, and the mushrooms had a meat-like taste.

All in all very tasty.

When the meat was almost eaten, the two of them put all kinds of side dishes into the thick and spicy soup and ate a not very formal beef hot pot.

The last remaining soup was simply the essence, Xue Wu put a bowl of noodles into it, and then beat two poached eggs into it, and the two of them sweated on their foreheads after eating.

At this time, someone opened the felt curtain and came in, and saw Pei Lin subconsciously bowing his head, "Xiaomin has seen the prince." ”

As a poor commoner, although it was not the first time he had seen this regent, the man still couldn't help but shudder.

Although the regent never spoke out or did anything intimidating.

Pei Lin nodded, probably because he had just eaten, he was in a very relaxed mood, and took the initiative to greet: "But what do you want to buy?" ”

The man was flattered and honestly frightened, and couldn't help but cast a look like a distress at Xue Wu.

Xue Wu was a little amused, stood up, walked to the counter, and asked the man again.

The man is much more comfortable when facing Xue Wu, although this ink girl is also very beautiful, but the number of contacts is more, and he is not as restrained as at the beginning.

"I want to buy a bottle of warm-up pills, five buckets of thick noodles."

The Warm-up Pill was specially refined by Xue Wu for these workers who worked against the wind and snow, and it was a simplified version of the Lieyang Pill, which was a spiritual pill taken by monks, which could maintain body temperature after taking it, and could move freely even in extremely cold environments.

The Lieyang Pill is not suitable for ordinary people, so she simplified it, and the effect was much weaker, but for the current level of cold, it was enough, and eating one could warm you all day.

There are 30 warm-up pills in a bottle, and the price is 100 Wen.

A bucket of rice is only 30 Wen (1 bucket ≈ 5.9 kg), of course, it is in peacetime, so for the people of Pingtou, 100 Wen is not a small amount of money, and it takes five days of work to make up for it, and many people are reluctant to buy warm-up pills at first.

But after someone bought it and tried it, they realized the benefits of this pill, and they couldn't do without it anymore!

With it, you are no longer afraid of the cold, and you can do your work more neatly! And this pill can not only warm up the body, but also strengthen the body!

Some people have eaten for five days in a row, and some minor physical problems have actually been cured!

This is natural, although the warm-up pill refined by Xue Wu is only a simplified version, the medicinal materials used are all elixirs grown in the space, and although the aura contained in each one is minimal, it can also improve the body slightly.

After a long time, the effect will be revealed.

One hundred wen can be said to be the price of jumping off the building, and selling it to those rich Xue Wu can be sold for one or two silver.

In contrast, the workers do not feel that it is expensive, and they can afford to spend it by gritting their teeth after saving a little money.

After all, the body is your own, if you freeze to death, the last person to suffer is not yourself?

In addition to the warm-up pills, Xue Wu also refined some other medicines, such as treating typhoid fever, treating chilblains, etc., and the effect is much better than those drugs on the market.

Even if the price is small, it is still in short supply.

Xue Wu handed the things to the man and collected the money, and then people came over to buy things one after another.

Every day, after dinner, these workers are more free, and this time is also the peak sales time of the grocery store.

It had been busy for almost an hour before the grocery store gradually quieted down, when a sharp scream suddenly came from outside, and the whole camp was suddenly alarmed.