Qingtian nodded quickly, holding Boss Ye’s face with her two small hands, and earnestly instructed: “Dad, catch some sheep for grandma to eat.”
"Haha!" Boss Ye didn't take it seriously at all. It was not easy to encounter wild goats. He coaxed the child casually, "Dad, work hard, okay?"
Although Boss Ye went into the mountains to hunt, he actually had to keep moving forward in the direction of the convoy, not daring to fall too far behind.
He walked for a whole morning and only shot two pheasants and picked up a small basket of mushrooms. Not to mention wild goats, he didn't even see a hair of any four-legged animal.
Although he could make a pot of pheasant stewed with mushrooms when he got back, thinking that Old Mrs. Ye wanted to drink mutton soup, Boss Ye decided to eat something first and then walk around a little longer.
He found a small stream, washed his face and hands, took out the cornmeal pancakes that Mrs. Ye had baked for him, and ate them with the cold stream water.
Unexpectedly, he had just finished eating half of his meal when he heard a rustling sound coming from the bushes not far away.
Boss Ye was experienced and subconsciously thought that an animal must have come to drink water. He quickly stood still and didn't dare to continue chewing the half-eaten biscuit in his mouth.
The bushes shook again, and then a white head emerged.
There are two horns on the white head and a wisp of white beard on the chin.
What else could this be but a wild goat!
Whatever you think comes true!
Boss Ye crouched down quietly, his muscles began to gather strength, stretching himself into a bow ready to shoot at any time.
Perhaps because few people come here, the wild goats are not very alert. They just hide in the bushes and observe for a while. When they find that there are no wild animals, they run to the stream with confidence.
Just as it lowered its head to drink water, Boss Ye pounced on it with a dagger in hand.
He pressed his whole body on the wild goat's back, hooked its neck with one hand to prevent it from escaping, and cut its throat with the other hand.
The sheep's blood gushed out, but Boss Ye had no container to collect it at the moment, so he could only watch with regret as the sheep's blood was washed away along the stream.
After the blood had drained out, Boss Ye washed the goat briefly in the stream, then carried the goat out of the woods and quickly caught up with the convoy.
Even from a distance away, Boss Ye couldn't help but shout, "Qingtian, look what Daddy caught for you!"
Who knew that he didn't even see his daughter's surprised look, but was instead surrounded by his five nephews who ran over.
"My sister is sitting in the carriage in front!" Ye Changrui said.
"Is this a sheep, sir?"
“And pheasants!”
"Great! I'll have meat to eat tonight!"
As they were talking, other members of the Ye family also came over to help.
Mrs. Ye Dasao and Mrs. Ye Ersao took the wild goat off Mr. Ye's shoulders and carried it back to the car together.
Mrs. Ye San took the pheasant with its feet tied tightly.
Guo also came over at this time and kept circling around the wild goat.
"It's so big, it must weigh about 60 or 70 kilograms, right?"
Before fleeing famine, the Guo family's life was far less prosperous than that of the Ye family.
If you want to eat braised pork all year round, you have to rely on raising pigs at home. I haven’t tasted the taste of mutton for several years.
Guo is now married, but she still remembers the bowl of fragrant and mellow mutton soup her parents took her to the market when she was a child.
At that time, there were only two thin and transparent slices of mutton floating in the soup, but she had been thinking about it for so many years.
If we slaughter this sheep today, can’t we eat as much as we want?
Guo was just thinking about it when she suddenly heard Ye Changnian shout, "Fourth Aunt is drooling!
She quickly reached out and wiped the corner of her mouth, and it was indeed a little wet.
Everyone in the family laughed, and Mrs. Guo glared at Ye Changnian feeling embarrassed.
Boss Ye arranged, "Keep the pheasants for now, and take out the sheep in the afternoon. Make mutton soup and stew the mutton in the evening. Saltpeen the sheepskin later and save it to make a sheepskin mattress for mother."
When the boys heard this, they all became excited.
"Oh! That's great!"
"Let's drink mutton soup and eat mutton!"
After stopping to rest at night, Brother Ye peeled off the sheepskin, cut up the sheep's body and chopped it into small pieces.
Mrs. Ye even extravagantly ordered everyone to set up two large pots, planning to use one pot to make soup and the other to stew meat.
After throwing the sheep bones, offal and tendons into the pot to make soup, Mrs. Ye cut the mutton into cubes and prepared to make a pot of braised mutton.
In the end, there were two lamb legs left. Fortunately, it was cold outside and could be kept, so Mrs. Ye put them in a bucket and saved them for roasting next time.
At this time, Old Mrs. Ye also came back from the front holding Qingtian.
"Did they really catch a sheep?" She couldn't help but feel surprised and happy when she smelled the unique smell of mutton.
You know, except for her, the Ye family are all strong young people and children, and they still don’t understand what it means to feel a chill in the bones.
Although she was already sitting in the mule cart, she still felt not warm enough, so she couldn't help but talk about wanting to drink mutton soup last night. Who would have thought that she would actually catch a sheep today.
Several children immediately gathered around and told her the story of how Boss Ye caught the wild goat, one by one.
"Master is so awesome!"
"I want to learn hunting from you in the future!"
Ye Changxue and Ye Changzhao shouted excitedly.
Old Mrs. Ye touched Qingtian's little hand and kept chanting "Amitabha" in her heart.
"I've always told you that you must be kind and accumulate virtue," said Old Lady Ye. "As long as you are kind-hearted and do more good deeds, you will definitely be blessed!"
The children all nodded in conviction.
Old Madam Ye always liked to say such things before, but now, coupled with the good fortune of the Ye family, it is even more convincing.
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