Chapter 101 Villagers Come to the Door

"Xiao Zhou, tomorrow is market day. Your wolf skin has not been processed and will not last long. You should sell it quickly!" Wu Dagang reminded him.

"Okay, then I'll go tomorrow." Zhou Ziwen nodded and didn't ask for leave.

As the leader of the Mushroom Group, I do have this privilege, as long as I don't overdo it and sometimes focus on my own things. Everyone understands this.

As for what Wu Dagang called the market, it actually means gathering in the town on the third of every month to buy and sell their respective products.

For example, homemade winnowing baskets, mountain products, herbs, etc. can be exchanged for salt, grain, and even cloth.

However, you generally cannot exchange money. Even if you want to exchange it, you can only do it privately.

Of course, you can also sell it directly to the supply and marketing cooperative purchasing station, where you can make money directly without any trouble.

For the villagers, market day is a big day. Generally, whenever they have free time, they will go to the county town for a stroll, buy some things, or exchange some things.

"Yiyi, sister, why don't you take a day off tomorrow as well? We've been in the countryside for so long, but we haven't been to the market yet. Let's go and see it tomorrow." Zhou Ziwen turned to the two sisters and said.

"Great, I've heard the market is very lively, but I've never been there." Chen Qiaoyi was the first to nod.

"Then let's go and take a look together!" Chen Shiying also looked expectant.

No matter how mature she is, she is actually just a seventeen-year-old girl. In her previous life, she would still be studying in an ivory tower!

"Uncle Wu, can we also take a leave?" Hearing that Zhou Ziwen and the others were going to the market, Shen Zhaodi and Zhou Chaoyang were also tempted.

"If you want to go, go ahead. I'm not stopping you." Wu Dagang waved his hand.

"Hehe, thank you Uncle Wu." Zhou Chaoyang thanked him happily.

"Okay, take your time and get busy. We won't disturb you anymore."

After finishing the work, the captain was ready to leave.

He also had to report the matter quickly and then get the wolf head back.

After all, it's still meat, and you can still have a meal after cracking the bones and sucking the marrow out of it.

"Sister, leave the lunch to me. I'll show you my cooking skills." After the captain and others left, Zhou Ziwen rolled up his sleeves.

People say that people are wolves with hearts and dogs with lungs. Today he wants to taste what the wolf's heart tastes like.

The internal organs don’t last long, so Zhou Ziwen planned to eat them first.

"Okay, then I'll help you." Chen Shiying nodded.

She felt that Zhou Ziwen was very good at using seasonings and was ready to learn from him.

"Chaoyang, Zhaodi, don't go back at noon, just eat here." Zhou Ziwen turned and said to the two of them.

"Brother Zhou, how can this be so embarrassing!"

Zhou Chaoyang and Shen Zhaodi looked at each other and both felt embarrassed.

After all, they had just eaten here yesterday, so it would be a bit wrong to eat here again today.

"I won't let you eat for free. I have a pheasant in my backpack. You two can take care of it. We can have mushroom stewed with pheasant tonight." Zhou Ziwen said, "If you really feel bad, you two can treat us to a meal when we go to the county tomorrow."

"No problem, I'll treat you tomorrow." Zhou Chaoyang became happy instantly when he heard this.

He waved his hand, indicating that Mr. Zhou would pay the bill tomorrow.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Zhou Ziwen simply announced that everyone should leave work early.

Before the mushroom house was built, there was actually not much they could do. They just had to get the culture medium ready.

You can even be a little lazy and wait until the mushroom house is built before starting. It all depends on whether you can live with it in your conscience.

Next, they started to get busy. Shen Zhaodi and Zhou Chaoyang carried the pheasants back to their homes and started to boil water to remove the feathers.

Zhou Ziwen and Chen Shiying were busy cooking in the kitchen.

There are still many things in the wolf's internal organs, such as wolf heart, wolf lungs, wolf liver, wolf stomach, etc., which are all edible.

Zhou Ziwen was too lazy to cook them separately, so he just put them all in the pot and stewed them all.

This can both remove the odor and add flavor, killing two birds with one stone.

While cooking, Zhou Ziwen also kept his cooking skills active. Although the improvement in proficiency was not much, a little bit is better than nothing.

Now he has three idle slots, which makes him relatively well-off.

"Ziwen, this is white cardamom, right? Why do we put it in braised meat?" Chen Shiying is a bit serious when it comes to cooking.

"White cardamom can enhance the fragrance and remove fishy smells, but you can't put too much when using it. Just like in this pot, two or three pieces are enough." Zhou Ziwen answered.

This problem did not pose a problem for him. By hanging up, the cooking knowledge he had learned in his previous life was absorbed and digested by him imperceptibly, and he could not forget it even if he wanted to.

"What about this ginkgo nut?"

"The function of ginkgo nuts is very simple. They are used to promote the release of the aroma of other spices. It can be said that they play a very crucial role in the marinade..."

Zhou Ziwen explained one by one, saying that this knowledge is still very precious in this era. If you are not a professional chef, it is difficult to access this knowledge.

In the kitchen, one teaches and the other learns, and they seem very harmonious.

Chen Qiaoyi: ???

Am I redundant?

…

Zhou Ziwen’s cooking skills are really not exaggerated.

Although his cooking skill level was only level four, he was willing to add seasoning to suppress the fishy smell of the wolf meat.

The dishes were very fragrant, and even the yard was filled with the tempting aroma.

In this era of food and clothing shortages, it is simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

After work at noon, some villagers from the Youth League Home couldn't wait to come to Zhou Ziwen's house. They didn't want to eat meat, but just wanted to see what the wolf looked like.

The children in the village also came to see what was new.

"Zhou Zhiqing, we heard you killed a wolf. Tell us where you killed it and how ferocious it was!"

"Zhou Zhiqing, how did you kill the wolf? Did it bite you?"

"Zhou Zhiqing..."

The braised wolf meat had not yet been taken out of the pot, and with the tempting aroma of meat, Zhou Ziwen was surrounded by the villagers and was in dire straits.

The educated youth in the Youth House also looked at Zhou Ziwen eagerly.

After all, everyone had just finished work and had no time to eat, so their stomachs were already growling with hunger.

In addition, the braised meat made by Zhou Ziwen was so delicious that the aroma rushed into their noses before they even entered the door, and they couldn't help but smell it.

Unfortunately, Zhou Ziwen had no intention of inviting them at all.

If there were only a few villagers, they could eat some together, but with so many people, not to mention just some internal organs and offal, even a whole wolf would not be enough!

What is worrying is not the lack of food but the inequality. Even if everyone present gets to eat, what should those who don’t get to eat do?

There are more than a thousand people in Dabazi Village, young and old. Even if we sell him, there won’t be enough to share!

This is also the reason why the team leader and Wu Dagang were unwilling to stay for dinner.

After all, this matter is indeed embarrassing.

(End of this chapter)