Chapter 61 Caught
"Grandma, now we don't have to worry about running out of food, right?"
"We have to eat sparingly. This is only enough for our family to eat for half a year."
"Grandma, after you finish these, there are still more. Have you forgotten that we have Bodhisattva?"
Bai Li was anxious. What was the point of having food if he couldn't eat it to his heart's content?
"This... isn't a good idea, is it? Will the Bodhisattva think we're greedy?"
"No, the Bodhisattva particularly likes me, uh, favors me."
After finally coaxing grandma, Bai Li suggested making meat buns, meat patties, minced meat rice balls, braised pork, stewed beef, etc.
"Eat beef? No, it's against the law to kill a cow."
"Then isn't it enough that the cow died 'naturally'?"
Bai Li gave Li a look that said, "You understand," and Li had no choice but to agree.
Bai Li breathed a sigh of relief. Last time, there was such a big commotion and so many cows were brought back. Seven were exchanged for cows in the village and eight were exchanged for cows in the military camp. Her family still had eight left to raise.
It was such a shame that after all the hard work, she still couldn't eat the beef she had been craving for.
After looking at the granary, Mrs. Li's grinning mouth narrowed again and she looked at her granddaughter with a serious face.
"Li, the Bodhisattva has been so kind to our family, shouldn't we get a statue of the Bodhisattva to worship at home?"
Bai Li: "...Uh, this isn't good, is it?"
If grandma knew that the Bodhisattva she was worshipping was actually me, would she beat her?
"What's wrong with that? The Bodhisattva has helped us so much, so what if he takes a little offering from us? If we don't offer, we'd be ungrateful and have no conscience."
Well, what else can she say? Just confess if she wants to.
Near dawn that night, one of Bai Li's cows suddenly died.
At dawn, the village chief Mulangde personally brought the village barefoot doctor, who was also his younger brother, to Bai Li's house. Bai Li was delighted when she saw him. This was the doctor she had accidentally saved in the mountains last time.
Mu Langmu thanked Bai Li again for saving his life.
"No need to thank me. Your brother already sent a lot of eggs as a thank you gift last time."
Mu Langmu still clasped his hands and bowed deeply before going to see the cows.
The death of a working ox was a big deal, and many people in the village came to watch the fun.
Mu Langmu checked the cow from head to toe and came to a conclusion.
"He died of bloating. You fed him too much."
The villagers were shocked, as they knew best how much fodder eight cows would have to eat.
The women in the village work in groups of ten, and no matter how much grass they cut every day, it is still not enough for the cows to eat, and the Bai family can still feed them well!
But the cows look fat and strong, which shows that the Bai family has put a lot of effort into them.
"What a shame, such a big cow can only be eaten for meat!"
Someone said something, and Bai Li's eyes lit up. She stared at the village chief with a sharp gaze, as if if he didn't know how to behave, she wouldn't mind "teaching" him how to be a good person.
Judging from her greedy look, she had planned it all along, but he had no evidence.
Mulande avoided her "death stare" and swallowed.
"Hurry up and kill them. See if anyone wants to trade for some meat. I'll go prepare the paperwork for the report."
After getting the promise, Bai Li raised his arm and said, "Kill the cow!"
The men of the Bai family were already ready to fight, and as soon as they heard the order, they picked up the kitchen knives and went into battle.
The village chief coughed and said, "There's a butcher knife in the village. Go get it."
Killing a cow is a big event. On this day, Shiya Village was as joyous as New Year's Day, and everyone went to the river to watch the excitement.
Zhao Yuntian stopped a villager and asked, "Old man, what happened in the village?"
"You don't know yet?"
The old man looked at him as if to ask, "How come you are so uninformed?"
Zhao Yun was annoyed but didn't show it on his face.
"I just came back from visiting relatives in the next village."
"Oh, no wonder, they're slaughtering cattle by the river. I won't tell you, there won't be room to watch later!"
After saying that, he left in a hurry without caring about him.
"Killing a cow? That's against the law. How dare the village chief?"
When he followed the crowd to the river, it was already surrounded by people. He couldn't squeeze in and didn't want to, he was just a little curious.
"Killing cattle is against the law. How dare the village chief?"
He deliberately talked to himself, and immediately a villager answered him.
"He's not from the village, he's from the Bai family."
"Bai family? Which Bai family?"
The woman looked at him warily, "Where are you from? You're not from our village, are you?"
"Don't get me wrong, sister-in-law. I'm not a bad person. It's normal for me not to know the villagers when I come here to visit relatives."
After saying that, he suddenly thought of Bai Yue. Her family name was also Bai.
"Is it the Bai family at the end of the village where the exiled prisoners are?"
Seeing that he could still say a few words, the woman relaxed her guard.
"That's the one."
"How dare they?!!"
The woman ignored him and focused on watching the fun.
Zhao Yuntian thought he had caught the Bai family and filed a lawsuit against them.
Through Bai Yue, he learned that the village chief and the people in the military camp were protecting the Bai family and Bai Li, so he bypassed them and reported it directly to the emperor.
He just didn't believe it. The emperor had always disliked the Bai family. They were exiled here and were restless. Not only did they privately raise oxen for farming, they also slaughtered them privately.
This time they violated the law. If the emperor doesn't punish them, who will he punish?
He just waits to see how bad luck befalls the Bai family!
Bai Li didn't know that Zhao Yuntian was secretly doing bad things, and even if she knew, she wouldn't care.
With the village chief and the whole village as witnesses, she can sue if she wants. Anyway, nothing can stop her from eating the delicious beef.
A cow weighs several hundred kilograms of meat, and the villagers wanted to exchange it, so the Bai family had to exchange some of it.
Beef is so rare that even the poorest families in the village would exchange their grain and valuables for a pound and a half of it to nourish their bodies.
Ma Dehai actually brought more than ten taels of silver and exchanged them for more than twenty kilograms of beef.
Bai Li couldn't help but look at him sideways. On the way to exile, he cried poor to the yamen runners and said he had no money. The yamen runners also searched his house inside and out but found nothing. But when he came here, he was rich again. It had to be said that he was also a talent.
A cow weighs about 500 to 600 kilograms of pure meat. At most 100 kilograms can be exchanged, leaving about 500 kilograms. Bai Li ordered his family to cook it all!
Braised beef in soy sauce, braised beef, beef jerky, spicy beef strips, everything is available!
The Bai family used to be a wealthy family, but they had never tried eating beef like this!
On this day, the Bai family did not even go out to work in the village, they just focused on this cow.
Fortunately, it was the slack season for farming, and the villagers were all casual workers. If they didn't work, they wouldn't get any food. Even if the village chief didn't force them to work, a lot of people would still go.
The entire Bai family went out, and they didn't stop except for eating and drinking. It took them a whole day just to cut the meat.
By the evening, after cutting, slicing and dicing, the beef was finally ready, marinated and put into the pot. The whole family was so tired that they didn't want to move a finger.
Bai Li followed Aunt Bai around all day long. She picked up cow feet, cow heads and offal that the family wanted to throw away, and begged Aunt Bai to cook them according to her method.
There is no way, she can only talk but not do, so she can only ask someone to do it for her.
Aunt Bai couldn't get enough of her and had to obey her orders.
When everyone was slumped on the ground, bursts of fragrance wafted out from the kitchen, which attracted everyone's attention and made them feel as if they had taken stimulants and suddenly felt strong all over.
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