Era: After foreseeing the future, I changed my fate using spatial abilities.

Chapter 222 Leisurely Preparations
In the very center of the underground storage room, there was a large wooden barrel filled with various kinds of meat, all of which had been slaughtered and cut into pieces.

Taking so many animals out with him wouldn't be very convenient, so Su Ning decided to just kill them on the spot.

After leaving the storage room and arriving at the hill where they were being raised, they used their mental energy to select two pigs that were about the same size as the ones they had been tasked with outside.

Weighing around 200 jin (approximately 100 kg), it's only considered below average in the pigsty, far from reaching slaughter weight, but it's just right for use.

After selecting the pigs, clean them thoroughly, slaughter each pig and cut it into two large sections, then put them into the largest snake bag.

Next up are beef, mutton, chicken, duck, and goose. If it weren't for the fear of going too far, Suning would really like to bring out more.

However, besides bringing these back to the brigade, she also plans to pack up all the New Year's goods for each family and send them out during this opportunity.

It's difficult to prepare fresh meat for mailing. Even though the weather is cold and the temperature is low, it will still smell bad after being stored for ten days or so.

After stroking her chin and thinking for a while, she decided to make it into smoked bacon, which would not only keep for a long time but also taste very good.

Just do it!

There's a lot of meat to prepare this time, and the kitchen in the courtyard is relatively small, making it difficult to work out.

They set up several bonfires and wooden frames in a spacious area near the river at the foot of the mountain.

She first strung the meat that needed to be smoked with rope, and then burned several large fruit trees that she had specially found in the orchard.

I've heard that using the branches and leaves of apple, pear, and hickory trees produces a unique fragrance, resulting in less smoke when used for smoking and better preserving the original flavor and nutrients of the food.

She has no shortage of fruit trees; she can simply replant the holes she dug later.

First, rub the meat evenly with salt and set it aside to marinate. Once marinated, hang the meat strips on a bamboo rack one by one.

She stopped when she had hung several racks full of roughly the same size pieces of meat, then turned around and used her mental energy to start making local New Year's specialties such as cured sausages and blood tofu.

Fortunately, she was in the space, and with her mental power, she didn't have to do any of the work herself; otherwise, just these preparations would have taken up a lot of time and energy.

……

The same food was prepared for the Fu family and the Zhang family: two chickens, two ducks, two geese, two fish, two pieces of beef, two lamb legs, four pieces of pork, six sausages, and two pieces of blood tofu.

The reason we chose even numbers is because it's Chinese New Year, and we want good luck.

The Zhao family and the three Xiao brothers in Shanghai were quite similar, each owning only a sausage, blood tofu, a chicken, and a duck.

She hadn't forgotten the Yan Ziyu and Yan Zijin families, who were far away in the Northeast and Northwest, but because of their special circumstances, all the packages she handled had to be opened and inspected in advance, so she didn't dare to go too far and only prepared a small amount of preserved goods.

As for those who are close to the people in the old city, it's not too late to send them before the Lunar New Year.

Looking at the neatly stacked snake bags in the yard, Su Ning clapped his hands and smiled: Mission accomplished!
I was so busy in the space that I forgot the time. I glanced at my watch and realized it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon.

No wonder my stomach was rumbling; how could I not be hungry after not eating all day?

It's been a long time since I cooked in Taoyuan. Today I'll eat in the space. By the time I finished dinner, it was already completely dark outside.

I picked a few bunches of rapeseed and some scallions from the vegetable garden, and also took a freshly smoked sausage that I had just finished smoking.

Feeling inspired, Suning decided to make herself a bamboo tube rice dish.

……

After finishing the delicious sausage and bamboo rice, and munching on some fruit, she was completely satisfied. Then, she wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and quietly slipped out of the room.

This blind spot remained completely still, just like it had been this morning.

After standing still for a few seconds to adjust to the darkness, he calmly turned on the flashlight he had taken out of his spatial storage.

The small courtyard was separated from this dead-end alley by only one wall, making it convenient to move things back and less conspicuous.

I neatly stacked the prepared items against the corner of the wall, and then took out some large, distressed baskets to temporarily cover them up.

Finding nothing amiss, she ran briskly home.

In less than two minutes, Su Ning, panting heavily, had returned to the courtyard gate and raised her hand to knock on the door.

"Squeak-"

It happened so fast, as if someone had been waiting behind the door; the door was opened as soon as the person put down their hand to knock.

The truth is that the Zhang family members were worried because she had been gone all day and hadn't returned by nightfall. Zhang Qi was just about to go out to look for her when he heard a knock on the door.

"Ningning, you're finally back!"

Upon seeing her, Zhang Qi's heart, which had been pounding in his chest, was suddenly pressed back down. "Why did it take so long? What happened?" "Nothing, it's just that the wait for the goods was a bit long. My brother and the others have already helped transport the goods to that alley over there. You should come with me to ship the goods back!"

"go!"

Hearing this, he stopped talking nonsense. Although he didn't know what connections she had used to buy what things, it would be bad if the things were left out in the open and someone found them.

"Wait a minute, brother! We have a lot of stuff, let's take the trolley with us!"

"Where did you put it? I'll go get it."

"It was covered with burlap in the storage room."

"Take a good breath first, I'll drag you out right away."

He could only hear faint voices but saw no one come in. Puzzled, Zhang Fu walked out of the main room and bumped into his son, who was hurrying towards the storage room.

"Aqi, who are you talking to? Is Ningning back? Where is she?"

"Ningning is back. She's at the door. I'm going to get the stroller, so I won't talk to you yet."

Seeing the anxious look in his eyes as he waved to the person, Zhang Fu turned and walked towards the gate. Once outside the courtyard, he saw a person leaning slightly against the door, clutching his stomach and panting.

"Ningning, what's wrong with you?"

"Godfather, I'm fine. I just had a slight stitch when I ran back, but I'll be fine after a while."

After carefully examining her face, Zhang Fu noticed that apart from two blushes left from running, she didn't seem to be in any discomfort. Reassured, Zhang Fu nodded.

Before he could speak again, Zhang Qi, who had returned, came out pushing a wheelbarrow with both hands.

Upon learning that the two were going to move things, Zhang Fu, feeling that he still had some strength, ignored advice and followed closely behind them to help.

They moved things back and forth three times before finally getting everything into the courtyard.

"Ningning, how much did you buy? What kind of things did you buy?"

After taking a big gulp of warm tea, Zhang Qi felt his parched mouth subside and turned to look at the person sprawled on the straw mat.

He had no idea what was inside those sacks, but they were all incredibly heavy. After a few trips, he almost broke his back.

He had been keeping quiet about it because he didn't want to make a scene or cause a commotion, but now he had to get to the bottom of it.

"Ningning, you didn't eat everything that person was holding, did you?"

"Hehe, more or less."

Putting down his teacup, Su Ning walked over to the two of them and pointed to the marked snake bags.

"These are the ones I plan to mail. The rest, apart from the gifts I'm sending out, are for my own use at my old house."

He untied the two snake sacks nearby and continued, "Besides rice and grains, the rest are all slaughtered meat."

"hiss--"

Looking at the snow-white rice and the whole piece of pork, Zhang Fu and Zhang Qi couldn't help but gasp at the same time.

I knew she was extraordinary, but I didn't know her connections were this complicated!

Whether it's this premium rice or these fresh whole pigs, you can't get them through ordinary channels.

"Will there be any danger?"

"There won't be any problems, Godfather and Brother, don't worry."

"Ningning, it's good that you know what's going on. But you should still try to have less contact with them in the future. It's better to be safe than sorry."

"Okay, I understand, brother."

Clutching his still pounding heart, Zhang Qi's expression changed, and he feigned a painful groan, "It's over, it looks like my wife is going to have a massive hemorrhage this time."

"Hmph, we're in no rush now that we have Xiao Qiu. As for your wife, who's still nowhere to be found... you can slowly start saving up again from scratch!"

Is this some kind of scathing criticism? And it's also a veiled way of pressuring me to get married?

"Hehehe, this, this is just a joke with Ningning."

Zhang Qi's lips twitched, he wiped away imaginary cold sweat from his forehead, and quickly changed the subject to avoid going astray, "Ningning, I'll reimburse you for whatever you spend."