After the flag-raising ceremony, the students entered the classroom.

In the past, Li Manman and the old principal were each in charge of a classroom, but now there is only one old principal in the school, and the old principal can only take one class in one class, and the other class will study by himself.

Jiang Xiaobai was embarrassed to see it, and knew that it was urgent to find a teacher here.

After he returned to school, he started making hot pot, and Yang Jie and Jiang Shan helped wash the vegetables.

There is no special pot for hot pot in the school, only a large iron pot, Jiang Xiaobai will use it, first fry the hot pot base in the pot, and boil the soup base.

After all, this time he came from so far away, and there were not many varieties of vegetables he bought, mainly beef, mutton, lean meat, duck intestines, bean tendons, bean curd, enoki mushrooms, etc., and there were not ten dishes together.

But even then, there weren't that many plates in the school stove house.

Yang Jie went to the villagers' houses around the school to borrow pots and plates, and the first thing she looked for was Aunt Ge.

"What? Xiao Jiang wants to make hot pot for the children to eat? ”

Aunt Ge was taken aback when she heard this, and said, "There are more than 30 children, is there enough food for him to eat?" ”

Yang Jie didn't know if it was enough, and said, "It's okay!" ”

Seeing that she couldn't come up with a reason, Aunt Ge simply took the rice bowl and a few dishes and went to school by herself.

In the end, Aunt Ge not only contributed tableware, but also took more than ten catties of potatoes and red potatoes from home.

In addition, several surrounding families also sent tableware and vegetables under the initiative of Aunt Ge. They are all greens, cucumbers, radishes, eggplants, garlic sprouts, green onions, etc. from their vegetable garden.

Jiang Xiaobai originally planned to buy these vegetarian dishes locally, so he didn't buy them when he bought vegetables in Qingzhou.

Seeing that the villagers had sent it, he did not refuse, saying that he would give money to buy it.

But where will these villagers ask for his money?

Jiang Xiaobai didn't want to take advantage of the villagers, so he said: "Then if there are any vegetables in the vegetable garden, just bring more and eat hot pot with the children at noon." ”

Aunt Ge, Aunt Lai, and others all agreed to come down.

So all kinds of vegetables were moved into the school's stove house, and Aunt Ge and Aunt Lai were also in the stove house to help, and it was not lively for a while.

Aunt Ge also said that she would help chop vegetables, but after seeing Jiang Xiaobai's knife work, she was silent.

The beef and mutton were all cut into thin slices as thin as paper, not to mention, even a cucumber, Jiang Xiaobai used a kitchen knife to peel out a long cucumber skin like an apple peel.

"Xiao Jiang, these dishes are cut so thinly, why?"

Aunt Ge asked curiously.

Jiang Xiaobai said: "The hot pot is eaten with shabu, and it can be cooked in a hot pot by cutting it a little thinly, which is convenient to eat." ”

Aunt Ge said: "Then when so many people eat, can't they all go to the stove house and surround the stove, right?" That's not going to be around! ”

Jiang Xiaobai thought for a while and said, "Wait a while, set up a hanging pot in the dam, burn firewood under the pot, and everyone can eat in the dam, so there is no need for a table." ”

Aunt Lai said on the side: "Do you want to keep burning this hot pot?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai nodded: "Keep burning until you finish eating." ”

Aunt Lai said: "Then you don't need to set up a hanging pot, I will let the baby's father carry a basket of coal gangue at home, burn a bunch in the dam, and then put the big iron pot on it to cook." ”

Coal gangue is a kind of black-gray rock with lower carbon content and harder than coal that is associated with coal seams in the process of coal formation. Combustible, but with a low combustion rate.

Jiang Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Auntie, do you still have coal gangue here?" ”

Lai Damiang said: "There are a lot of people in the west of the village, and our families often go to pick them up, and usually cook pig food at home to burn coal gangue from the stove, and sometimes use it for cooking, so as not to go up the mountain to chop firewood." As she spoke, her teeth were bared.

Only then did Jiang Xiaobai notice that her teeth were more yellow than ordinary people, especially the yellow incisors.

He talked to Aunt Ge again and found that Aunt Ge's teeth were the same as Aunt Lai's.

He understood that the water quality in Shanhua Village has a very high fluoride content, which has an impact on the enamel on the surface of the teeth, causing the teeth to turn yellow.

Thinking of the changes in Tucheng in later generations, he estimated that most of Shanhua Village had coal resources, or even natural gas.

He was pleasantly surprised by this discovery.

In the previous life, Tucheng later became a famous natural city in the country, but because of someone's betrayal, he did not come to Tucheng later, and he did not know the distribution of natural gas in Tucheng, so he did not know whether there were natural gas mines in Shanhua Village.

Well, what was not done in the previous life, how can it not be missed in this life.

Someone's face flashed in his mind, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

But these are not things to consider now, Jiang Xiaobai put aside the messy thoughts in his mind and said, "Then it will be troublesome Aunt Lai." ”

Aunt Lai said with a smile: "We are all stained with your light, if you say that it is troublesome, I will go." ”

She returned home in a hurry, "Lai Maozi, Lai Maozi!" ”

Shouted a few times and didn't respond.

Seeing that her husband was not at home, Aunt Lai took the basket herself, loaded most of the basket with coal gangue and carried it to the school yard.

After falling to the ground, she went home again, got a hoe, and returned with some firewood.

The school's dam is not a concrete floor, but a rammed yellow mud ground, and it didn't take long for Lai to dig a pit in the dam, and then light firewood, and when the firewood is burning, she puts coal gangue into it piece by piece.

It didn't take long for a gangue fire to be made.

On Jiang Xiaobai's side, all kinds of vegetables were almost cut, and there were dozens of large and small pots.

Seeing that Aunt Lai had made the fire, he also extinguished the fire in the stove, and when the pot was cold, he first scooped out the hot pot soup base with a few empty pots, and then opened the big iron pot and moved it to the fire in the dam. Then pour the soup base into the large iron pot again, cover the pot and boil.

After the children got out of class, they saw that a big iron pot was set up in the dam, and they all gathered around the pot and whispered excitedly.

"What's delicious here? I even moved all the pots to the playground! ”

"Didn't Mr. Zhang say that he made hot pot?"

"What is hot pot? Is it tasty? ”

"I haven't eaten it either, so it should be delicious!"

"It's only noon in one class, so I really want to eat it now!"

“……”

When the old principal saw this scene, he couldn't help but laugh a little.

sighed in my heart, alas...... I'm afraid that in the next class, the children will not be at ease.

"Dangdangdang......"

The class bell rang again, and the children reluctantly returned to the classroom from the field, and Jiang Xiaobai prepared the dipping sauce for each bowl in the stove house.

Aunt Ge and Aunt Lai also went home, called their families, and waited for the last class in the morning to end, and then started to eat.

Finally, at almost 12 o'clock, the old principal announced the end of class.

"Eat hot pot!"

"Eat hot pot!"

“……”

The children rushed to the field, and the adults brought a few desks and arranged them in a row, and put on the plates of various dishes.

So, regardless of adults and children, each person holds a bowl of flavor and eats around the hot pot shabu-shabu, and the whole field is filled with the smell of hot pot and the laughter of children.