Chapter 101 Chapter 101
With so much meat, we had to have a good barbecue.
Ye Qing had previously gone to the town to find a blacksmith to help him make a grill, and now the grill can finally be used.
The best brined meats, goat tenderloin and pork belly, plus pheasant wings and chicken drumsticks are perfect for grilling.
Ye Qing also stuffed some sausages herself, and added some fresh lettuce that she grew in the greenhouse she built at the back, filling up the entire table.
No one in Kaoshantun eats like this. Neither Grandma Zou nor Meng Jiazhengxin have ever seen such a way of eating, let alone Wang Chunhua, a real local.
So everyone was waiting for Ye Qing to demonstrate.
Ye Qing put the skewers of meat on the rack. The charcoal fire underneath was burning brightly. The meat started sizzling as soon as it was put on the rack and was quickly roasted. He sprinkled a layer of specially made chili and cumin spice powder on top, wrapped it with lettuce, stuffed it into his mouth while it was still hot and greasy, and paired it with a glass of monkey wine. The taste was so good that even a god would not change it.
After Ye Qing demonstrated how to eat it, several people learned it immediately and followed Ye Qing's pace.
It has to be said that Ye Qing's way of eating is a bit strange, but after putting the roasted meat into their mouths, several people immediately understood why they had to eat it this way, and they couldn't stop roasting the meat.
Seeing that several people were eating to their heart's content and were about to start a fight, Ye Qing no longer cared to be humble and immediately joined the group that was grabbing the meat.
While eating meat and listening to Gu Weinan talking about their experience in the mountains, Meng Jia regretted it more and more. She shouted that she would follow the large group into the mountains to experience it again next year no matter what.
However, Ye Qing had no plans to allow coyotes to join the hunting team next year.
Such a slaughter would only be enough for once. By the beginning of next spring, the village only needed to raise a batch of more pigs. According to her scientific breeding methods, there would be no need to worry about meat by the end of the year.
Raw pork tastes better than wild animal meat, and it has fewer parasites and viruses, so it is relatively safer to eat.
As long as there was no shortage of meat, there was no need for the people in the village to take the risk of going into the mountains to hunt.
As for where the piglets would come from, Ye Qing had already thought about this long ago.
The supply station will certainly not provide Kaoshantun with piglets outside the plan, but there are sows at the neighboring military farm. If they are raised according to Ye Qing's plan, at least one or two thousand more piglets can be produced. When the time comes, Ye Qing can make a request to Zhao Yuliang, and it should be no problem to evenly provide Kaoshantun with twenty piglets.
Ye Qing has been following up with Zhao Yuliang on the sow production issue for some time. The implementation of the plan is going smoothly so far. Whether it will be effective or not will become clear in a couple of months.
The encounter with the Siberian tiger during hunting in the mountains also gave Ye Qing a warning.
She had encountered rare species in the mountains several times before. Both the golden leopard and the Siberian tiger were not yet extinct in Changbai Mountain at this time. However, if poaching was not stopped, the living space of these animals would only be compressed again and again.
Life is hard for everyone right now. In order to survive, they can only rely on the mountains and rivers for food. The people are poorly educated and have no awareness of protecting species diversity. The relevant domestic laws and regulations cannot keep up. The situation of excessive and indiscriminate hunting will only get worse. In another ten years, when everyone comes to their senses and tries to make up for the loss, it will probably be too late.
Ye Qing was also constantly reflecting on herself. She felt that she had actually made a big mistake in this matter.
The people of this period suffered a lot, and no one can see that far into the future. However, as a person from later generations and even someone who has experienced the end of the world, she can better understand the importance of the environment and ecological balance to humans.
Protecting these rare animals is urgent. Since everyone is stuck in this situation and cannot see the future, she will act as the emergency whistleblower.
So after returning from the mountain, Ye Qing thought about it again and again, and decided to write a letter to Mr. Yang.
She did not exaggerate the matter. She simply talked about her experience in the countryside during the past few months, how she interacted with animals in Changbai Mountain, and how she went hunting in the mountains with hunters from Kaoshan Village and encountered a tiger that came down the mountain and injured people.
At the end of the letter, she mentioned what the hunters said about how rich the species were in Changbai Mountain in the past. However, in the past ten years, the tiger problem has been eliminated. However, the number of various large, medium and small animals, especially wild beasts such as tigers and leopards, appearing in the mountains has become less and less, indicating that the number of these animals in the mountains has been decreasing rapidly.
If this continues, the Northeast Tiger may become completely extinct in the Changbai Mountains in the near future. Maybe thirty or fifty years later, when our descendants ask what the Northeast Tiger looks like, they can only rely on their imagination.
Ye Qing wrote this letter with earnest words, proposing the idea of long-term species diversity protection and ecological balance and sustainable development, and emphasizing a point that each species is a part of the earth's ecology. Although they may seem insignificant, no one can predict whether the extinction of a certain animal will be a domino that falls, causing the entire earth's ecology to collapse.
After writing the letter, Ye Qing put it in an envelope and sealed it with wax. Without any delay, he waded through thigh-deep snow to the town that day and solemnly and anxiously delivered the letter to the post office.
It was less than two days before we arrived at Laba.
The traditional Laba Festival in Shanghai is often a time to prepare New Year goods and clean the house, because from this day on, the countdown to the Chinese New Year begins.
Eight kinds of ingredients are required to cook Laba Congee, and it must be eaten in the morning on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, which means to drive away plague and evil spirits. The homemade Laba Congee must also be shared with relatives and neighbors, which means that neighbors will be harmonious and the family will be happy in the days to come.
In the last years, the survivors even had trouble getting enough food to eat, let alone having a bowl of sweet and glutinous Laba porridge on Laba Festival.
Now it was the 1970s, and the times were peaceful and prosperous. Ye Qing was finally in the mood to celebrate this traditional festival, so she carefully selected a large bucket of ingredients to soak the night before. The next morning, before five o'clock, she could not wait to get up and cook a large pot of Laba porridge.
After the porridge was ready, she carefully sent a bowl to the Gu family next door, as well as to Captain Wu and the old party secretary's home.
In addition, she packed a few boxes in aluminum lunch boxes and prepared to go to the farm to give them to Zhao Yuliang, Teacher Song and Professor Qiao for them to taste.
It was almost the end of the year, and the pigs at the neighboring farm had grown fat quickly through scientific breeding in the past few months. They would be ready to be shipped out in half a month. Ye Qing planned to take one last look at them before the supply station came to collect the pigs, and record the growth data of this batch of pigs.
Nowadays, Ye Qing has a large number of disciples, now there are four of them. Ye Qing does not favor one over another. He will let one sheep go or drive a flock of sheep away, no matter what their basic skills are. Even if they are just following to make ends meet, they will still have to guard the scene.
So, she took her apprentices to the farm. When they arrived at the farm, she ignored everything else and let a few people go into the pigpen and walk around.
Fortunately, although these apprentices are all girls, none of them is coquettish. Meng Jia and Gu Weinan need not be mentioned. Wang Chunhua comes from a peasant family and is willing to do any dirty or tiring work. The only unknown is Zheng Xin.
But Zheng Xin had nearly lost her life after drinking pesticides. She was finally rescued by Ye Qing, but she was backstabbed by her parents and relatives. Now she is deserted by everyone and even her voice is ruined. The only way left for her is to follow Ye Qing, so she has made a desperate move. She will do whatever Ye Qing tells her to do without any hesitation, and she is even more hardworking than Meng Jia and Gu Wei Nan.
Since becoming idle in the countryside, Ye Qing's health station has been open every day. Some aunties in the village would come to her place from time to time to sit and chat. Some of them wanted to be matchmakers and set their sights on Ye Qing's female apprentices.
The main reason is that everyone knows that Ye Qing is capable and being taken as an apprentice by her, these female apprentices will definitely have a bright future after they finish their studies. So some people want to marry these girls home before they become successful.
Gu Weinan was blocked by the Gu family, so no one dared to approach her. But it was different for Meng Jia, Wang Chunhua and Zheng Xin. These three were not from the village, so there were those nosy aunts who wanted to make decisions for these three girls.
Especially Zheng Xin, because her voice was destroyed, and her reputation was ruined by her artificial yellow songs and drinking pesticides. Several production teams around her knew about her. Some scoundrels came to her and wanted to take her home as their wife while she was in such a bad state.
This girl was also a ruthless person. After refusing several times with righteous words but to no avail, she realized that this method would not work.
She knew in her heart that her reputation in the Red Flag Commune was completely ruined, so she simply stopped pretending to be so, and did the opposite, making her image as vulgar as possible.
After begging Ye Qing to teach her a set of knife techniques for castrating pigs, she practiced day and night. When she became proficient enough and Ye Qing judged that she could do it, she began to wander around the commune. If any production team had pigs that needed to be castrated, she would volunteer to provide free medical treatment.
Nowadays, some members of the production brigades under the commune have raised extra planned pigs at home. When these pigs are out of the pen, they can be sent to the purchasing station to exchange for money and centimeters, but if they want to castrate the pigs, they have to pay to hire a castrator. Now there are people who are willing to help with the castration for free, of course those members are more than happy to do it. Therefore, Zheng Xin is quite busy at the free clinic and can basically go out to work every one or two days.
She cut off her long hair, cut it into a neat short haircut, and wandered around the commune carrying a toolbox. After arriving at the homes of the members, she sharpened the castor knife to make it extra sharp, and then began to castrate pigs in front of the villagers with an expressionless face.
The white knife went in and the red knife came out, and he didn't even frown during the whole process. The ferocity of his attacks was so strong that those scoundrels subconsciously tightened their thighs, and were so scared that they put away their little thoughts.
Who would marry such a rough woman without any scruples? She is a lunatic who dares to drink pesticides if she doesn't agree with him! She is not even afraid of death. If she is in a bad mood one day, she might stab me with the castration knife in her hand. What would happen if I really handed my life to this tomboy?
Therefore, after Zheng Xin's unremitting efforts, after being the crazy woman who drank pesticides before, she now has the resounding title of "tomboy". With the help of a castration knife, all the matchmakers are afraid to approach her and no one dares to hit on her anymore.
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