Because the sweet potatoes, potatoes, and lotus roots were all quite big and starchy, and previously there was no time, but now entering the Cold Season, there wasn't much else to do, so every day the family would use a stone mortar to grind the juice, which they would collect in a fine net made of hemp rope. They squeezed hard, the water was kept, and the residue was collected to feed the pigs, cattle, and sheep at home.
Oh, to prevent these animals from freezing, they had driven them all back to the cave they previously lived in. There had been people who wanted to rent their house, but since the cellar could still be used to store things, they could not bear to give it up; this made the interested parties quite unhappy. However, Tangtang didn't care whether they were happy or not—it was her place, so she had the final say.
