Lu Yu hunted a sheep and ate mutton hot pot at night.

After slaughtering and peeling the sheep and cutting off a large piece of tenderloin, Mrs. Yan used her exquisite knife skills to cut the mutton into thin slices, and then she was ready to put it in the pot.

Lu Yu has radish and cabbage at home, plus mutton, although the three things are a little less, but the main thing is mutton, as long as there is mutton, the condiments or something don't seem to be so important.

Lu Yu found the small tandoor at home that had not been used for many years, lit a charcoal fire, and set up a small copper pot on top of it, and in the pot was a milky white soup base boiled with sheep bones.

Not only is there little condiment, but Lu Yu's family has no seasoning, but fortunately, the five of them all eat spicy, and some sour chili peppers and chili noodles are added to the soup base, which is still fresh and fragrant after boiling, which makes people feel their index fingers move when they smell it.

The five people gathered around the charcoal stove, all smiling. Especially Yan Xiding, he is the happiest.

Yan Xi'an kept asking Lu Yu about how he caught the goat, and when he heard him say that he had gone far away to find the goat, Yan Xi'an said quietly: "Uncle, let's talk about fun, and I don't really want to eat mutton." ”

Lu Yu said with a smile: "I haven't eaten mutton, so I'll go into the mountains to have a look, and I'm really lucky today." ”

The sliced radish and cabbage are boiled first, and then the lamb slices are poured in. The meat slices are cut as thin as paper and can be eaten by rolling in a pan. Yan Xiding couldn't wait to eat a slice, and then while snorting the heat, he applauded deliciously.

Lu Yu also picked up a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth, and found that the taste of mutton was really different from that of chicken, duck, pig and cow, fresh and tender, fat but not greasy, and when he took a bite, the soup in the meat overflowed and was stained on the mouth and tongue, which was even more delicious and infinite.

There was enough mutton, and the charcoal fire was strong enough, and the five people didn't eat rice, so they feasted on fresh mutton. When eating, Lu Yu suddenly felt that the mutton was good and the hot pot was hot, but the fly in the ointment was that there was no wine at home. At this time, he remembered a poem, which said, "Green ants make new wine, red clay small stove, and when you want snow in the evening, you can drink a glass of nothing", and now there is residual snow and a stove, but there is no wine.

Yan Jibai suddenly asked Lu Yu: "Brother Yu, how is the valley you talked about last time, how is the passage dug outside?" ”

Because he was worried that the dragon crocodile or robbers would enter the village, Lu Yu hadn't entered the Green Valley for a long time to set up a teleportation array, and he said: "I'll enter the mountain tomorrow, and if it goes well, the passage will be dug before the Chinese New Year." "Now the dragon crocodiles seem to have hibernated in the mountains, and the robbers nearby will not enter the village to loot again because of themselves, so Lu Yu decided to go to the valley again tomorrow.

But Lu Yu looked at the mutton pot and thought that dozens of catties of mutton should be sent to Lu Ming, so that their family could also try it.

So early the next morning, Lu Yu carried more than a dozen catties of mutton to the town, and then didn't go home, but went directly to Yangshan and went to the valley.

In the days when it snowed, although there was snow in the green valley, because of the mountain peaks, the cold air outside the valley could not enter, and when Lu Yu entered, there was no snow in the small valley. On the contrary, because of the moisture of warm snow and water, the grass and green trees in the valley are even more verdant and fresh. Lu Yu couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart, this valley is really a unique and wonderful place.

With the increase of cultivation and the accumulation of experience in arranging formations, Lu Yu's current speed of arranging formations is much faster than before. After three days of continuous work, the progress of the completion of the teleportation array has caught up a lot, and Lu Yu thought to himself, at the current speed, it is estimated that the array will be completed before the twentieth month of Layue.

Three days later, when he came out of the valley, Lu Yu found that the day was even colder, and some cold-resistant trees like pines and cypresses in the mountains had frozen to death.

When Lu Yu returned home, the four members of the Yan family were eating in the house with the door closed. The windows of the house were tightly closed, and the windows were hung with worn-out cotton wool, and the front and rear doors were also covered with a thick layer of straw felt.

Lu Yu also ate a little bit of food, and during the meal, Yan Xiding asked him if he felt that the taste of today's meal was a little strange.

"No, why did Xiding ask that?"

Yan Xi'an glanced at his younger brother and said, "Uncle, the well at home has been frozen, and if the ice can't be broken, let's go to the backyard pool to get water." "There is a thick layer of ice on the surface of the pool, but because of the large area, it is easier to break the ice.

Lu Yu said with a smile: "There are no fish in the pond, and the water is not dirty, how can this rice have a taste." In fact, in the spring, Lu Yu booed in the pool many times, but he felt that time had passed so long, and the boosh should have decomposed a long time ago.

Yan Xiding said: "The pond water is not well water, so it cannot be used for cooking." ”

"Don't you know that many people go to the reservoir outside the village to fetch water?"

Lu Yu thought that last year was also at this time, the wells in the village were frozen, and later someone came up with a way to hang the brazier into the well to bake ice and get water. He asked, "Can't you bake the ice by hanging it down the well with a brazier?" ”

Yan Yubai shook his head: "Roasting can be baked, but the ice is very slow, and then when you have to hang the bucket to fetch water, some of the water that has been roasted will freeze again." ”

"It's so cold!" Lu Yu said: "Tomorrow I will find a way to get more water and put it in the water tank." "Naturally, there will be ice in the tank, but compared to outside, the speed of freezing is much slower, and it will not freeze from the surface of the water to the bottom of the water.

Yan Xiding said: "It's not good to freeze in winter. ”

"It's good to freeze in the summer, but will there be ice in the summer?"

Hearing this, Lu Yu couldn't help but move in his heart, and muttered: "Yes, if you can chisel some ice and store it and keep it for summer, it would be really good." He smiled again and said, "It's a pity I don't know how to preserve ice." ”

"I've seen summer ice." Yan Jibai glanced at his wife, and said: "I used to study in the northern capital, where the rich officials would let people chisel ice and store it in the ice cellar in winter, and the ice would not melt in the summer." I was a guest at a large family with my former teacher, and I was fortunate enough to drink iced sour plum soup on dog days. ”

Lu Yu hurriedly asked, "Does Brother Yan know how the ice cellar is arranged?" ”

Yan Jibai shook his head: "I haven't seen the ice cellar, I heard that it is to dig a deep hole in the ground, and the hole is built with bricks and stones, as for the specific arrangement, I don't know." ”

Lu Yu nodded, thinking: "The soil has the effect of heat insulation, why don't you dig a big hole in the back mountain wall, and then pour hay corn stalks and other thermal insulation things in it, and store the ice cubes inside, maybe next summer, there will really be ice to use." ”

However, Lu Yu didn't have time to make an ice cellar now, so he had to hurry up and go to the valley to set up a teleportation array.

Lu Yu went into the mountains almost every day to set up a formation, and occasionally stayed at home for a day to help fetch some water from the well. The weather was extremely cold, even worse than last year, and the brazier was already difficult to bake the ice in the well, and even if you wanted to go to the pond to fetch water, you had to use a steel chisel to dig through the ice to get the water inside.

But the fireball released by Lu Yu with mana is different, this is a strange fire that can be baked even by stones, no matter how hard and cold the ice is, after all, it is still made of water condensation, Lu Yu only lost a small fireball, and melted the well clean.

The weather was too cold and cold, and Lu Yu could often pick up the corpses of beasts that had been killed in caves on the mountain. These animals have thick fur, but they still can't withstand the cold of the sky.

However, because of the cold weather, these corpses will not decay, and eventually they all become food in the stomachs of Lu Yu and the Yan family.

Lu Yu They are not short of food, and Lu Ming's family can also have food and clothing, but there are still many people who lack food and clothing at home, and lack firewood for heating, just within Jinhua County, there are thousands of people who have frozen to death, and I heard that at least half of the residents in Dunlin Town have been frozen to death and starved to death. Even the town's escort regiment was unable to go out to find food because of the cold, and some people were frozen and starved to death.

The sun was always bright and shining, but there was no heat at all.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Lu Yu finally completed the arrangement of the teleportation array in the mountain. He couldn't wait to give it a try, and suddenly found that the teleportation array had to be arranged twice, one in and one out.

But this is not to say that Lu Yu wants to arrange two identical formations in different places, he only needs to find a place to arrange a secondary formation to echo the formations in the valley.

But where the secondary array was arranged, Lu Yu was a little entangled.

At first, Lu Yu wanted to spread the array in his own home, so that he could quietly spread it from his home to Green Valley, but he felt that this was not very convenient, and he thought that if he was not at home one day, but wanted to enter the valley, then he would have to go home and enter the formation again.

Except for his own home, other places are even more inappropriate. Lu Yu thought, if only this array could be carried with him.

"Carry it with you, how can you carry it with you? Although the teleportation array is wonderful, it is a dead thing in the end, and he can't walk around with the array. Lu Yu suddenly had an idea: "The formation can't go, I can go, so why don't I put the secondary array in my body?" ”

Lu Yu closed his eyes and pondered for a while, feeling that this idea seemed feasible, and he planned to try it when he went back.

The next day is the 24th day of the lunar month, and there are only six days before the Spring Festival. But Yangshan Village did not see the atmosphere of the New Year, no one steamed rice cakes, and no one killed pigs and sheep.

Every time it comes to the New Year's holiday, Lu Yu will think of his father, Lao Lu is like a heavy stone, which has been pressing on Lu Yu's heart, as long as he thinks of it, he will feel uncomfortable and irrepressible.

Lu Yu hunts rarely hunts big guys other than wild boars, and wild boar skin is not suitable for making clothes, he only has a sheepskin at home, Mrs. Yan said that she wants to use this sheepskin to make a jacket for Lu Yu, saying that Lu Yu often has to go outside and needs a leather jacket to keep warm.

Of course, Lu Yu didn't need a leather jacket, he asked Mrs. Yan to make it for Yan Yubai. He didn't say anything, thinking that Yan Yubai was older after all, and he needed to keep warm more.

He said that he rarely went out, and he baked the fire at home every day, and he didn't need any leather jackets. So in the end, the nitrated sheepskin was made into two small jackets, one for Yan Xi'an and one for Yan Xiding, which can be regarded as a new dress.