Chapter 183 Blood was splashed again
He roared a few times outside the yard, but there was no sound except the howling of the skuas.
Xia Xiaoman was furious. The wall she had spent so much time building was gnawed to pieces by the rabbits in just a few bites. While cursing, Xia Xiaoman went back to the house to boil snow water and poured the boiled water on the wall to cover the large bloodstains stuck on the wall.
These steel-toothed rabbits have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Xia Xiaoman had to pour twenty or thirty buckets of water before he could cover up the bloody smell emanating from the wall.
After cleaning up the bloodstains on the wall, Xia Xiaoman pulled open the fishing net again and caught three skuas in a row.
Skuas are very intelligent. When they caught the third one, they had already realized that this was a trap. Xia Xiaoman provoked them for a long time before attracting a skua.
Back in the living room, I immediately boiled water to pluck the feathers. Skua, like ducks, have many small hairs on their skin. Xia Xiaoman used the tweezers for most of the day before she finally cleaned them up.
It had been a long time since I had eaten fresh meat, so Xia Xiaoman rubbed salt on one of the meat, added some ginger slices, star anise, and cooking wine to marinate it to remove the fishy smell. During the marinating period, she took out another one and chopped it into small pieces with a kitchen knife, put it in a large casserole, added codonopsis, red dates, ginger slices, and wolfberries, and slowly boiled it.
While the soup was boiling, Xia Xiaoman put the marinated one on the brazier and roasted it.
She is not afraid of parasites in these skuas. Humans are not on the skuas' food list. Their mouths limit the size of food they can eat, so they can only eat small animals or eggs.
Moreover, the skuas have a very strong digestive system. Even if they eat mice that have been dead for many days, it will be fine and they will not be infected with any virus.
As long as you don't eat the skua's internal organs and only eat the meat, there will be no problem.
The aroma of barbecue and the taste of clear soup filled the entire living room. Xia Xiaoman didn't know how many times she secretly swallowed her saliva. After the meat was cooked, she couldn't wait to cut a big piece of bird leg and chew it with her bare hands, not afraid of the heat.
The bird's leg was bigger than her head, and she couldn't finish it even after gnawing on it for a long time. When she got tired of eating roasted bird legs, she drank a bowl of hot bird stew, which was the so-called eating meat and drinking soup in big mouthfuls.
After eating and drinking, Xia Xiaoman packed the remaining roast bird and stewed bird soup into space so that he could eat them whenever he wanted.
While cleaning up the barbecue grill, I caught a glimpse of a bucket that had been placed next to the stove for several days, with a piece of rabbit skin soaking in it.
Xia Xiaoman picked up the fire tongs, picked up the rabbit skin and took a look. She felt that the rabbit skin was softer than in the previous few days, so she put it next to the brazier to dry.
She got up early the next day and took a look at the dried animal skin. The originally soft rabbit skin had become hard.
Xia Xiaoman sighed and thought, forget it, it’s better to leave the technical work of tanning leather to professionals!
After breakfast, she went to the yard to clear the snow and check the trap as usual. Seeing that the trap was not damaged, she took out a ladder, climbed up the wall and looked outside.
Damn it, blood has been splashed on me again. Which wicked bastard did this?
Xia Xiaoman cursed and went back to boil water to re-pour the wall, freezing the bloodstains in ice. It took more than 20 buckets of water to completely cover the bloodstains.
After tidying up the house, Xia Xiaoman put the steel-tooth rabbit meat and rabbit skin stored in the space into a sealed bag, carried the sealed bag on his back, climbed over the wall and walked towards the sewer.
Skuas were circling in the sky, and she didn't dare to turn on the light for fear of being attacked by them. Fortunately, her memory was pretty good, and even if it was pitch dark, she could still find the entrance to the sewer by memory and feeling.
After finding the sewer trading point, Xia Xiaoman opened the sealed bag and said, "There are 47 pieces of rabbit meat and 46 untanned skins here. Please count them."
The staff at the trading point put on gloves expertly, counted the supplies in the bag, and took out a small notebook to record them. "The quantity is correct. What supplies do you want to exchange?"
"Can I exchange it for tanned rabbit skin? Or do you have bedding and clothes made of steel-tooth rabbit skin?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
There is no harm without comparison. The warmth of down jackets is incomparable to that of mink coats. During the days when the temperature dropped sharply, she walked back and forth in the basement every day wearing the mink coat that Sun Qing gave her. If she didn't have the mink coat, she would probably stick to the kang and not get off the kang to eat, drink, defecate or urinate.
In order to avoid being left with nothing to wear when the temperature drops sharply in the future, she came here specifically to exchange some rabbit fur coats or blankets and bedding.
Many people came to the trading point to exchange rabbit fur coats and quilts. The staff took out a list and said, "50 tanned rabbit skins can be exchanged for a coat, and 80 rabbit skins can be exchanged for a 1.2*1.8 rabbit fur blanket."
"Your skins are not tanned yet, so the price will be 10% higher, which means you need 55 rabbit skins to exchange for a coat. If you want to exchange for a coat, you are still short of 9 rabbit skins."
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Can't we use the rabbit meat to pay for the remaining nine skins?"
The staff shook their heads and said, "No, if you want to buy a rabbit fur coat or blanket, you must exchange it for rabbit fur."
Coats and blankets made of rabbit skins are in urgent need all over the country. In order to collect more rabbit skins, Fucheng requires that items exchanged for coats and blankets must be made of rabbit skins.
Xia Xiaoman thought for a while and said, "What if there is no skinned rabbit, can it be exchanged?"
"Yes, the price will increase by 20%. That means you need 60 rabbits to buy one coat. We will calculate the rabbit meat separately, but the purchase price will be 10% lower than that of pure rabbit meat."
Most people make a living by catching rabbits. They would rather work harder to process the rabbit meat and skins than lose 10% or 20% profit for the sake of convenience.
Many people, knowing that tanned leather is more valuable than raw leather, will choose to take the leather home for tanning.
The staff had already made preparations for Xia Xiaoman to take the skins back, but they never expected that Xia Xiaoman pushed the sealed bag forward, with no intention of taking it away.
"I'll leave these rabbit skins and meat with you. Please help me keep the accounts. I'm going to catch the steel-toothed rabbits now."
The staff member was stunned for a moment, then responded and said, "Okay, I'll write you a note. When you catch enough steel-toothed rabbits, bring the note with you."
Taking the newly opened slip, Xia Xiaoman turned and walked towards the exit. After walking a few steps, he thought of something and turned around to walk towards another section of the sewer.
After turning a few corners, they arrived at the place that Fu Baiwei and her friends rented.
Sun Haiyun was crouching beside the stove, tanning rabbit skins. Xia Xiaoman looked around, but didn't see Fu Baiwei, so she walked over and asked, "Sun Haiyun, why are you here alone? Where's Weiwei?"
Sun Haiyun raised his head when he heard the voice, his face was haggard and tired. He pulled the corners of his mouth and said hoarsely: "Xiaoman, long time no see, Weiwei, she went out."
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