Chapter 128 Lynx Meat

Sheng Xiping insisted on dividing the money equally, and the others could not argue with him, so they had no choice but to accept the money.

The group stayed at the Sheng family's house for a while longer, and then it got quite late.

"Let's go home and take a look." Wang Jianshe and the others got up to say goodbye.

Zhang Shuzhen tried to persuade them to stay, but Wang Jianshe and the others said they were too tired after running around in the mountains all day and wanted to go back and rest.

Zhang Shuzhen couldn't keep them any longer, so she asked Sheng Xiping to give everyone a piece of the lynx meat that had just been separated.

"Don't be fooled by the fact that lynxes look like cats; their meat is different."

First, boil this stuff in a pot until cooked through, then remove the meat, stir-fry it with chili peppers, and it tastes especially delicious.

Lynxes are very rare, and most people have never eaten them. Sheng Xiping only ate one once at his master's house.

Just now, Zhang Shuzhen mentioned that a few years ago, a lynx entered the sheep pen in Dajianchang. Liu Changde took his son and apprentice into the mountains and killed the lynx.

Sheng Xiping had eaten lynx meat at the Liu family's house that time, and it was quite delicious.

The lynx itself wasn't very big, only fifty or sixty pounds. After removing the head and offal, and skinning it, it only weighed twenty or thirty pounds.

Sheng Xiping just chopped it up with a hand axe, and Wang Jianshe and the others each took a piece and took it home.

"Xiping, don't come out to see me off. Stay home and chat with your aunt for a while."

We'll come find you tomorrow morning, and then we'll go into the mountains together.

Wang Jianshe and the others waved their hands, indicating that Sheng Xiping should stay inside. They were all family, no need to be so formal.

Sheng Xiping only followed them to the gate, and after seeing that his brothers had all left, he turned around and went back into the house.

"Mom, I'm starting the fire to stew the meat. This meat is really firm, it won't get mushy in a short time."

Lynxes spend most of their time running in the mountains, and are very muscular and strong.

It needs to be simmered for two hours beforehand to get the meat almost cooked before taking it out and stir-frying it.

"Ah, okay, then you start the fire. I'll take advantage of the fact that it's not too dark yet and hurry up and put on Qinglan's cotton trousers."

Zhang Shuzhen felt sorry for her future daughter-in-law being cold and was anxious to make cotton-padded trousers. When she heard her son's words, she immediately agreed.

So Sheng Xiping started a fire in the kitchen to cook meat, while Zhang Shuzhen sat on the kang (heated brick bed) in the east room, putting on cotton trousers.

The mother and daughter chatted as they worked.

"Boss, tomorrow's the 19th already, are you guys still going into the mountains? Shouldn't you go to the Gao family to help Haining out or something?"

"Okay, we'll go into the mountains again tomorrow morning to hunt some snares, and then go help out at the Gao family's place in the afternoon."

In those days, everyone was struggling financially, so even wedding banquets weren't extravagant.

Farmyards might be a little better; if you raise pigs, you can slaughter one or something, which will keep you busy.

In forest farms, most families don't raise pigs, nor do they have the opportunity to slaughter them.

Even for wedding banquets, it's good enough if you can buy some meat and cook a few more meat dishes.

As for other aspects, everything has been simplified, unlike the complicated procedures of the past.

"When are Qinglan's parents coming? Wasn't a little train supposed to come today? Why haven't we heard anything about the Zhou family coming?"

Didn't you ask Qinglan if her parents were coming to the wedding?

This is what Zhang Shuzhen is most concerned about. The two children have been together for so long, but the adults from both families have never met.

"Oh, Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou should be coming tomorrow."

It seems like some people from the province came to inspect the forest farm or something. I heard from Qinglan that Uncle Zhou and the others hitched a ride over.

Wang Chunxiu is an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Forestry Bureau Hospital, and she has a good relationship with the wives of the bureau's leaders.

I don't know who I got in touch with, but I just happened to get a ride with the leaders who came down for an inspection.

This way, you don't have to come several days in advance, and you can take fewer days off.

"I'm thinking of going for a couple more walks in the mountains tomorrow morning, hoping to encounter some wild animals."

"Aren't we moving the day after tomorrow? We can invite Qinglan's parents over for a drink, and the two families can sit down and have a good chat."

Sheng Xiping and Zhou Qinglan had already discussed this matter.

Using the move as an excuse, we invited Zhou Mingyuan and his wife over to meet each other.

"Okay, then let's do it your way."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shuzhen thought her son's arrangement was quite reasonable, so what else was there to say?

Hurry up and make the cotton-padded trousers so Zhou Qinglan can wear them as soon as possible.

So Zhang Shuzhen stopped asking questions and hurried inside to make cotton trousers.

Sheng Xiping was in the outer room watching the pot, stewing a few pieces of lynx meat.

This stuff really takes a lot of stewing time; it stewed for two hours, and finally, you could pierce it with chopsticks.

At this moment, Sheng Yunfang and her sister, along with Sheng Xitai, went home with their schoolbags on their backs.

As soon as he entered the house, he smelled the aroma of stewed meat, and Sheng Xitai, a foodie, immediately became happy.

Life at home has been so good lately; we can eat meat all the time.

"Brother, what are you fiddling with over there? What kind of meat are you stewing today? It smells so good."

Sheng Xitai leaned closer to his brother and asked with a curious expression.

Sheng Xiping was using a strainer to scoop out the lynx meat. After the lynx meat was cooked, it had to be taken out and left to cool for a while before it could be peeled off the meat.

"Go do your homework first, and you'll have something to eat when it's ready."

Sheng Xiping didn't answer his younger brother's question, but just told him to hurry up and do his homework.

Sheng Xitai didn't get any results from the question, but he wasn't annoyed. He just smiled and agreed before going to the west room to do his homework.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what kind of meat it is, as long as there's something to eat.

The lynx meat was taken out and placed in a basin. It was left outside to cool slightly, and then Sheng Xiping used a knife to remove all the meat from the shell.

There's not much meat from a lynx to begin with, and it's being shared among five people. After being stewed and dismembered, there's probably only two or three pounds of cooked meat left.

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