Lin Qingqing had just walked out of the tofu workshop, when a gust of wind blew, and the heat on her body disappeared, and she began to feel cold.

It was still evening, but in a blink of an eye it was dark. The sun slowly sank in the west, and the eastern sky began to be covered with stars.

"Carpenter? I'm really a nowhere to behold. Lin Qingqing sighed, and then walked in the direction of the old couple of the Qi family.

Because Lin Qingqing had to take care of many things in the village, Lin Qingqing hadn't gone to see the old couple of the Qi family for a while. In the past, she would go to see it every two or three days, but this time, it has been delayed for a week, and it is still difficult to arrange time.

And this time, it was the old couple of the Qi family who came to invite her, which made her hurriedly push away a lot of matters, and she also had a meal with the old couple of the Qi family.

Lin Qingqing walked on the light snow to the front of the house of the old couple of the Qi family.

"Did it snow today?" Lin Qingqing looked at the snow that had just reached his ankles and asked.

If she remembered correctly, there should have been no snow all day today.

She was so stunned in front of the house of the old couple of the Qi family, until the old lady of the Qi family appeared.

"Miss Lin, don't you come in?" The tone of the old lady of the Qi family was very gentle, a little like the feeling that Lin Qingqing's parents once gave her.

But now, such a tone made Lin Qingqing's heart a little uncomfortable, and she still had many obligations that she had not been able to fulfill.

"Old woman, what's wrong outside?" The voice of the old man of the Qi family came.

"It's nothing, it's just that Miss Lin was stunned when she was watching the snow outside." The old lady of the Qi family said.

In fact, Lin Qingqing remembered wrongly, there was actually a light snow today, but it was swept away by the villagers in the morning, so Lin Qingqing didn't notice it.

Entering the house, the heat rushed towards Lin Qingqing, giving Lin Qingqing the illusion of being greeted by steam.

"Doot, doot" is the sound of water bursting in a copper pot.

At the same time, the taste of the soup base is also transmitted.

"Do you want to eat hot pot?" Lin Qingqing asked with a smile.

It seems that she hasn't eaten hot pot for too long, and when she sees hot pot again, she is also a little happy, and her whole person is a little excited.

Lin Qingqing is not usually so excited, but hot pot seems to have an innate ability to make people excited, and even Lin Qingqing can't stop it.

"Miss Lin, come and sit down, sit down and start scalding." The old lady of the Qi family said.

The old man of the Qi family took the small dish in Lin Qingqing's hand, mixed some sesame paste, and handed it to Lin Qingqing.

Lin Qingqing didn't see the movements of the old man of the Qi family clearly just now, but judging from the sauce handed to him, the old man of the Qi family seemed to be quite pedantic in hot pot.

After all, from this simple sauce, you can see his level. Sesame oil, crushed peanuts, sesame paste and chopped green onions, I don't know in what order, but when you smell the fragrance, you know that this sauce is not simple.

Lin Qingqing took out an oil-wrapped paper from the bag in his hand, and when he opened it, it was dark red meat.

"Second Elder, this is the venison that someone else brought me, it's good to use it for hot pot." Lin Qingqing handed the meat to the old lady of the Qi family.

"Oh, this is the first time my wife and I have seen venison." The old man of the Qi family said.

The old lady of the Qi family took the meat to the kitchen, and it didn't take long for a plate of good meat to be served.

"This venison is good, the meat is so firm, I think it's dark red, I thought it would be fishy." The old man of the Qi family said.

"The second elder said that it was the first time he had eaten venison, so is there no deer on this mountain?" Lin Qingqing asked curiously.

"Nope. Don't look at this mountain, it grows quite lushly, but nothing grows in it, otherwise our Jiangle Village would not be unable to eat meat all year round. The old man of the Qi family said.

"It's really a heartless mountain forest." The old lady of the Qi family sighed.

After speaking, Lin Qingqing also fished out some venison and ate it. The meat tasted good, but Lin Qingqing still put more tofu and vegetables in the pot.

She wanted to keep more for the old couple of the Qi family. But the two old men seemed to know what Lin Qingqing meant, and they didn't touch the venison much.

In the end, it was Lin Qingqing who did it himself to sandwich the meat between the old couple of the Qi family. Lin Qingqing gave them the old couple some vegetables, and the old couple laughed so much that they didn't know how happy they were, but it made Lin Qingqing a little unable to get off the stage.

Fortunately, the Qi family has a house here, and there are no outsiders, and they don't need to care about any face. Anyway, Lin Qingqing and the old two of the Qi family ate a little too much at the end, so the three of them sat together in the courtyard.

"I haven't eaten so much in a long time, I wonder if I'll get fat?" Lin Qingqing said.

"Alas——, young people don't have much flesh, so what kind of fat do you think so?" The old man of the Qi family said.

Lin Qingqing knew that the old couple was laughing at themselves, so he didn't argue with them, but just asked: "Second elder, I haven't been here for a long time since I came to Jiangle Village, why haven't I seen others eat hot pot?" ”

"Actually, not only Jiangle Village, but also the villages around here have not eaten hot pot, including me and the old man, if you don't go to the capital, you don't know that there is such a thing as hot pot." The old lady of the Qi family said.

"What about this copper pot?" Lin Qingqing pointed to the charcoal-burning copper hot pot.

"This is something we brought from the capital, thinking it is a rare thing, and we want to show off it with the villagers." The old man of the Qi family told him about his ulterior motives.

However, the additional information brought by this sentence made Lin Qingqing feel a little bad.

"Second Elder, is there no copper mine near this Jiangle Village?" Lin Qingqing asked.

"I guess not. When I was younger, the village blacksmith said no. The old man of the Qi family said.

"There was a blacksmith in Jiangle Village? Why is there no such thing now? Lin Qingqing asked suspiciously, after all, she is also in short supply of iron talents.

"What else can I do, the iron mine is gone, I can't afford to raise a blacksmith, and his descendants will change careers, and those who leave the village will leave the village." The old man of the Qi family said helplessly.

At this time, Lin Qingqing remembered that the old lady of the Qi family sighed, "The ruthless mountains and forests." ”

Now that I think about it, it's really appropriate. This mountain forest seems to be deliberately embarrassing the people in the mountain village. There were no metal mines, no wild boars or rabbits, and there was not a single fish in the stream.

But in any case, it is impossible to compete with nature on the own. Lin Qingqing can only say two words verbally, and the rest can only rely on hard work.

……

The next day, Jiangle Village ushered in a very important news - Lin Qingqing was going to start making hot pot.

I don't know who spread this news, but it spreads ten, ten, hundred, and ......, and there are hundreds of people in the entire Jiangle Village.

Because of this rumor, everyone was very excited, and their enthusiasm for work soared. However, for the central figure of the rumor, Lin Qingqing, this rumor made it difficult for her to ride a tiger.