Tian Lisong also agreed: "Yes, take it into the house quickly."
Although Old Mrs. Tian didn't know why, she listened to everyone and moved all the things into the cottage.
After entering the house, Tian Yuan closed the doors and windows tightly.
It's winter now, and the windows in the house are already covered, so it's normal to close the door tightly.
Now it is said that people are not allowed to go up the mountain to hunt wild game. Everything on the mountain belongs to the country, and the game must be handed in after hunting. However, many people do not comply and hunt in private. Tian Lisong does not care about these private matters.
However, Tian Lisong's family had never gone up the mountain to hunt wild game, because Tian Lisong was a team leader and it was not easy for him to do these things. It would be troublesome if he was caught by others, and they didn't have much time.
"We saw a lot of things in the mountains today. Tian Tian and the other kids picked up a pheasant, and we picked up two snakes," said Tian Lisong.
"I went into the bushes and picked up the pheasant!" Tian Zhuo raised his hand to take credit.
"Tian Zhuo is awesome!" Tian Tian praised Tian Zhuo, and Tian Zhuo was satisfied.
"Why did you bring these two snakes back? Snakes cannot be allowed into this room. It will be troublesome if they wake up." Old Mrs. Tian carried out the two snakes with disgust.
"Didn't Brother Ligang give me a jar of wine before the New Year? I want to use this jar of wine to make some snake wine. Then I'll peel off the snake's skin and dry it." Tian Lisong took the two snakes and rinsed them briefly in the water, then put one of the snakes into the jar of wine with its head down.
Snakes have a strong ability to survive. Some snakes have been soaked in wine for more than ten years and are still alive. Some venomous snakes can bite people, so when you put a snake in a wine jar, you must soak its head in the wine.
After putting the snake into the wine, Tian Lisong placed the wine jar in a cool place, peeled off the skin of the other snake, and took it to the lower room, preparing to take it outside to dry tomorrow.
The snake skin that Tian Tian brought back last time has been eaten by them all. Sometimes when they get blisters on their mouths due to indigestion, Grandma Tian will make some for everyone, and it works quite well.
Tian Lisong was quite skilled at skinning the snake, and soon only a white strip of skin was left.
Old Mrs. Tian also secretly put the white snake aside to freeze it in the afternoon and cooked it for dinner the next day.
Tian Tian and the others had thought they could have meat tonight, but in the end there was nothing, which wasted their feelings.
But they are still looking forward to eating meat tomorrow.
Everyone laid the Ula grass neatly and evenly on the kang in the hut, and spread the remaining Ula grass outside, waiting to dry and soften it a little. Then it could be used to weave mats. Otherwise, the Ula grass would be damp and easily moldy.
Although we had just eaten meat during the Chinese New Year, it is always a pleasure to eat meat at this time, and this time during the Chinese New Year, no one actually ate many pieces of meat.
When Tian Tiantian returned to the house, I forgot to find a glass bottle, filled it with water, and then put the azalea branches I picked on the mountain today into the bottle.
It's warm in this room, and maybe the buds on the azalea will bloom in a few days.
After Tian Tian finished fiddling with the azalea, she went to bed.
The family spent a long night full of anticipation.
It was still dark in the morning, and everyone got up early to light the fire and boil water instead of staying in the warmth of bed as usual.
Chen Guihua was even more motivated. She first went to the lower room to get the white snake and simply washed it with water. Then she displayed her unprecedented knife skills and cut the snake meat as thin as a cicada's wing. She drooled as she cut the meat.
After Chen Guihua cut the snake meat, she threw it all into boiling water, and added ginger slices and scallion segments to remove the fishy smell, and poured a little soy sauce and salt on it. There were not many seasonings nowadays, just soy sauce and salt, no so-called MSG, and nothing else.
While waiting for the snake meat to roll up and down, Chen Guihua put all the snake meat into a clay pot and sat on the stove.
At this time, Lin Meiyu poured a ladle of water into the used pot and cleaned the pot, then poured some more water into the pot and brought it to a boil. While Chen Guihua was making bean flour cakes, Lin Meiyu went to the field to cut a frozen cabbage, came back to wash it, broke it open and threw it into the pot to blanch it.
Chen Guihua also stuck cornmeal cakes on the edge of the pot one by one, forming a circle.
After the bean flour cakes were ready, Lin Meiyu squeezed the blanched cabbage dry, cut it into pieces and placed it on a plate, and scooped a spoonful of soybean paste from the sauce jar and placed it next to it. Gangzi had almost finished the soybean paste, and when the weather got warmer in a while, they would start making soybean paste again.
Tian Yuan helped them light a fire, waiting for the smell of snake meat to become stronger in the air, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
He was considered one of the people who ate the most meat in his family. Although life in the army was hard, because they were in the mountains, their troops would go up the mountains from time to time to hunt some prey to satisfy their hunger. They could eat meat quite often. He still felt a little greedy when he smelled the aroma of the snake meat at home.
"Go and call them over quickly! The smell will come out soon. They keep opening the door and going in and out, and the smell will spread out and be smelled by others!" Old Mrs. Tian said as she smelled the increasingly strong aroma of snake meat in the house. She then went to call back all the people, whether they were awake or not, or those who were washing their faces and arranging the Ula grass outside, and then she started to prepare for dinner.
The soup containing the stewed snake meat had turned slightly white. The snake that Tian Lisong brought back yesterday was the largest one, but after cutting the meat into slices and stewing it in the pot, each person could only get one bowl of snake soup.
Tian Tian sat down at the table early, staring at the clay pot filled with snake soup beside her, swallowing her saliva.
She had kind of forgotten what the snake soup she had last time tasted like.
After washing their faces, Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo quickly took their small stools and sat next to Tian Tian, waiting for the snake soup.
We waited until everyone had finished cleaning up the kitchen before we all sat down at the table.
When everyone was gathered, Mrs. Tian started to distribute snake soup to everyone with a spoon.
Two spoons per person, a full bowl. After everyone had their share, there was no snake soup left in the earthenware jar.
Everyone looked at the snake soup in front of them and couldn't wait to pick it up and slurp it. The snake soup had been in the clay pot for a while and was not that hot anymore. The temperature was just right for drinking.
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