Chapter 139 Wolf Meat

Mu Xi was worried about Zhao Yeqing staying alone on the meadow, so he pulled her and rode on Xiaohong to go back and pull the cart out.

Xiaohong was a little afraid of the wolf's corpse. She stomped her horse's hooves and panted heavily.

After calming them down for a while, Mu Xi finally placed the bodies of the wolf and the sheep on the cart.

He didn't even let the sheep go, but called the dog to take them back first.

The cows were grazing near the wheat field, and when the two men remembered, the cows had stepped into the pasture again.

Compared with the previous encounter with the wolf, the cow was just eating grass, and Zhao Yeqing felt no emotion at all.

Calculating the time, it is time to harvest this crop of ryegrass.

After leading the cattle back, the two men discussed that it was only noon now, so they might as well collect the grass today. The wolf was injured and should not appear again today.

After unloading the sheep and wolves and putting them at home, she hesitated again, "But if we don't handle the sheep and wolves while they are still hot, skinning and bleeding them will become troublesome."

She had never eaten wolf meat and didn't know how to prepare it. But sheep was okay. Even if she had never killed a sheep, at least she had seen others kill it.

"Don't be in a hurry for these days or two. Just take your time to do things." Mu Xi held her hand and rubbed her palm.

There was some soothing meaning in it. After encountering the wolf today, Zhao Yeqing was a little anxious and his nerves were tense. He wanted to finish the work quickly.

Zhao Yeqing shook his hand back. She was indeed afraid that the wolf would come back, so she wanted to deal with it quickly.

If you are calm, then wait until tomorrow to go out and mow the lawn.

Let Mu Xi deal with the wolves, and she will deal with the sheep.

The sheep was killed by being bitten on the neck, and its skin was still intact. Zhao Yeqing dug out a knife, which was used by the previous owner of the wooden house to skin the sheep. The knife was very narrow, even narrower than an ordinary fruit knife.

The blade has a slight curvature and feels nice in the hand.

But it was a little dull, so she took out the whetstone from under the cupboard and started sharpening the knife.

Unlike in the northwest and grasslands, many cities in the south here eat mutton with the skin, and the sheepskin is soft and sticky after stewing.

I heard that on the grasslands of the northwest and the Mongolian area, the sheep are killed without keeping the sheepskin. The sheepskin is used to make clothes or sold.

She also wanted to try it, so she made her own sheepskin to make clothes or mattresses.

The wolf had bitten through the sheep's skin and trachea, and the blood in its body had not yet been drained.

Zhao Yeqing squatted in front of the sheep, holding books and notes in his hands, studying how to peel the sheepskin.

He held the knife in his hand above the sheep's body, but was hesitant to cut it.

There are some discrepancies between the notes and the records in the books. They are basically the same but with slight differences in some minor details.

After reading all the information, she synthesized it in her mind and selected the most appropriate plan to implement.

The note suggests cutting from the sheep's tail, making a longitudinal cut all the way to the sheep's jaw.

But the sheep's neck had been bitten by the wolf, so I followed the instructions in the book and first cut a line on the sheep's neck to rupture the trachea and blood vessels, then drained the blood and skinned it.

The knife is only used to cut the skin. The skinning work does not even require a knife and is done purely by hand.

She took a metal basin and placed it on the ground, lifted the sheep onto the bench, and cut the sheep's blood vessels with a knife.

The warm sheep's blood flowed into the basin. After the blood was drained, the basin was brought into the kitchen and a ladle of water and two spoons of salt were added to it.

After draining the sheep's blood, start processing the sheepskin. Cut the skin from top to bottom, including the sheep's hooves. Then use a knife to peel off a five or six centimeter width of the skin from the chest area. The rest of the steps almost do not require the use of a knife.

Zhao Yeqing put down the knife in his hand, grabbed the edge of the sheepskin with his left hand, punched the sheep's body with his right fist, and pulled it to the side with his left hand at the same time.

She watched as the sheepskin in her hands separated little by little under the combined force of pulling and hammering, and slowly the sheepskin on half of her body was peeled off from the flesh.

Zhao Yeqing felt a great sense of accomplishment, "Look!"

Mu Xi gave a thumbs up and said, "Are you tired? How about I take over?"

In this weather, a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.

It’s a bit tiring, but it’s also quite fun.

Zhao Yeqing shook his head. "I can do it. Do you want to try?"

Seeing that she was having fun, Mu Xi did not interrupt her, "You do it first, and next time you kill the sheep, you can teach me."

After resting for a while, Zhao Yeqing stood up excitedly and peeled off the other half of the sheepskin in the same way.

The sheep were placed on a wooden table for processing, which was also used by the original owner to process the sheep.

The mutton was also cut up here. Zhao Yeqing had no experience in dismembering such a large animal, so she left it alone and waited for Mu Xi to deal with the wolf before doing it. She also learned from the side.

When Mu Xi dealt with the wolf, he did not put it on the platform, but hung it up like he did with the wild boar.

Wolf skin is more delicate to peel than sheep skin.

Mu Xi started from the wolf's legs, cut open the skin, and then used a knife to carefully peel off the skin of the wolf's tail.

After skinning the wolf, there wasn't much meat left, and the entire skeleton didn't look much bigger than a dog.

Mu Xi took a knife and cut the two animals into different parts. He filled two large basins with mutton and another basin with wolf meat.

Zhao Yeqing has already planned the menu for tonight in his mind.

"How about boiled lamb and roasted lamb?"

Her words were clearly affirmative, and Mu Xi nodded in agreement, "I think it's great."

The mutton is stewed with white radish and water. When Mu Xi cut the mutton into pieces, he specially left the lamb chops. The lamb legs were not divided into small pieces and can also be roasted.

Zhao Yeqing opened the plastic bag of spices hanging on the wall and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was cumin in it.

Roast lamb has no soul without cumin.

The lamb legs took too long to marinate, so let’s just eat the lamb chops today.

The lamb chops need to be marinated with seasonings and spices for half an hour, and the boiled lamb also needs to be boiled for a while.

Mu Xi was holding the wolf meat and didn't know where to start.

He bent down and smelled the meat. It had a fishy smell of wild carnivorous animals and had to be blanched in water first.

I plan to try it the same way I cook wild boar meat, adding enough spices to cover up the fishy smell.

When Huhu and Xuebing came back, the yard was filled with the bloody smell of wolves and sheep, and two leopards were standing outside the yard with their fur standing on end.

Zhao Yeqing was holding some freshly picked onions and garlic in his hands. When he was walking towards the kitchen from the vegetable garden, he saw the two of them. He waved at them, and the two of them walked in hesitantly, half believing and half doubting.

Only after I cut a piece of wolf leg meat and handed it to the two of them did they completely relax.

He opened his mouth and ate the leg meat, as if he liked it very much. He looked up at her and showed that he wanted more.

Zhao Yeqing was not very interested in eating wolf meat, and Mu Xi only cooked a little bit. She planned to use the rest to feed the leopard and dog at home.

Wild animals have not been inspected and quarantined, so it is best to eat them cooked.

Leopards can be fed raw meat, but dogs are better off not eating raw food. Zhao Yeqing took down the pot that was boiling mutton in clear water, started another pot, added water to it, and threw the wolf meat in.

"rhubarb!"