It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 230

After this battle with Shan Ji, Jiang Yan discovered that his archery skills were seriously flawed. Not only was his shooting not steady or accurate enough, but his mentality was also not good enough.

Jiang Yan decided to change the mode of shooting arrows at fixed grass handles and increase the frequency of actual combat training in the back mountain.

Of course, it would be great if there were any extra gains during this period.

In the month before the New Year, as long as the weather is fine and there is no strong wind, Jiang Yan will squeeze out time to go into the woods.

After doing this many times, she would occasionally bring back some pheasants and hares, but of course they were not shot by her arrows.

The prey were either frightened by Jiang Yan's "rain of arrows" and fell into the trap by mistake, or were stunned by the wooden stick thrown by Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan began to reflect on whether she had taken the wrong path. She should focus on throwing practice and strive to hit the target with one hit, instead of continuing to practice archery without any talent.

In the last ten days before the end of the year, Jiang Yan stayed in the yard and didn't go anywhere.

First, there was a heavy snowstorm that lasted for two days without stopping day and night. It was extremely cold outside, and the wind was howling. Even though Jiang Yan had heated up the kang bed, she still felt the cold seeping in through the gaps in the doors and windows, robbing her of body temperature.

Especially when she was going back and forth between the bedroom and the kitchen, she would shiver with cold in just a few seconds.

Jiang Yan once again wrapped herself in a thick reed quilt and sat on the kang to warm herself up. She thought that if she continued to be exposed to the cold and heat a few more times, she might catch a cold.

What's even worse is that she forgot to go to the clinic to get two prescriptions for treating the cold.

Jiang Yan didn't know how many times this cold wave would come, but fortunately, when she had nothing to do and could only stare blankly at night, she came up with a solution.

When the wind stopped outside, Jiang Yan wrapped all her clothes in layers, put on the reed gloves she had urgently sewn, and went to the yard to build snow bricks.

She wanted to imitate the Eskimos' igloos and build a corridor to keep out the wind and cold between the bedroom and the kitchen, which was less than two meters away.

Because the cold wind blew from the northwest, Jiang Yan planned to face the entrance and exit to the east, and blocked the south and west sides facing the door with snow bricks.

For the sake of efficiency, Jiang Yan found the flattest container in the house, filled it with the snow outside the yard that was higher than his calves, compacted it, removed the "mold", then applied water, placed bricks, and stacked them up in rows.

Finally, pour warm water on the outside of the entire snow wall to help form an ice shell, increase the strength and stability of the snow wall, and ensure that no gaps are left.

This small part of the project took Jiang Yan another three days, because she didn't know how to make an arch and failed every time she tried.

Finally, she wove a rough bamboo mat, filled the gaps with dead grass, and then glued it to the top of the snow wall with water.

Although this cannot achieve the highest possible wind and cold protection effect, Jiang Yan thought that when it snows next time, the snowflakes will fall on it to form a seal, which will also play a certain role.

Jiang Yan also sealed the outside of the window with snow bricks. Although there was no light in the house, the temperature did rise a little, and at least she didn't feel as cold anymore.

Because of the cold weather and lack of sunlight, only a quarter of Jiang Yan's cabbage was growing slowly. She didn't dare divide the plants, fearing they would die if moved. Fortunately, they were small, enough to fit in the pot even if there wasn't enough space.

Jiang Yan carefully cut off a few tender cabbage leaves and made herself a cabbage and minced meat dumpling soup.

After eating, clean the kitchen, dip two drops of cliff fruit oil on the back of your hand with clean chopsticks, and rub it evenly.

After being exposed to the winter wind and cold, she found that her hands were not only red, swollen and itchy, but also showed signs of cracking. She was so scared that she quickly applied oil for maintenance.

Estimated revenues fell again.