Chapter 34 Dealing with the Duck
When you go out, bring more bags.
In order to pick up more supplies, Xia Xiaoman and his friends each put many bags in their bags, including large, medium and small sizes.
With a knife cutting the duck's throat and twisting the duck's neck with his backhand, Xiao Zheyu opened the bag he took out of the bag and carefully collected the duck's blood.
After draining the blood of one duck, Xia Xiaoman grabbed the next one and cut its neck cleanly.
Sun Qing and Su Ran also cooperated well, one killed the duck and the other collected the duck blood. Wen Jianfeng was responsible for packing up and putting away the killed duck.
Killing a duck only takes a second, but bleeding it is a long process. It was not until about five in the afternoon that the team finally finished killing and packing all the ducks.
Ye Xiaojie, who was guarding the 15th floor, saw that it was already dark and Sun Qing and the others had not returned yet. She paced back and forth anxiously on the balcony of 1502, taking out a telescope from time to time to look into the distance.
The twins became the father's gazebo, sitting on the balcony, holding onto the railings and looking outside, occasionally looking up and asking Ye Xiaojie, "When will Dad be back?"
Ye Xiaojie is not the only one who is paying attention to Xia Xiaoman and his group.
Many people in the building were paying attention to the whereabouts on the 15th floor. In the darkness, these people were ready to make a move.
Finally, when these people could no longer hold back and wanted to break into the 15th floor, Xia Xiaoman and his group came back.
Seeing Xia Xiaoman and his team coming back with a mountain of supplies, the people in the building had red eyes of jealousy.
But when I saw clearly that they brought back all wood, I felt a lot more balanced, thinking that people on the 15th floor would not be so lucky every time.
Little did they know that there were more than 300 ducks buried under these logs.
Many of the onlookers left, and Xia Xiaoman was worrying about how to get the remaining people to leave when Sun Qing suddenly shouted, "What are you doing? Put your things down!"
Two elderly people, a young boy and a woman ran away carrying the wood they had just brought in.
Sun Qing stopped the man and reached out to take the wood back. Before her hand touched the wood, the old woman cried out twice and fell to the ground in slow motion.
The little one instantly got into the role, calling out to her grandma heartbreakingly. The old man next to her pointed at Sun Qing and said angrily, "You damn girl, you just took a few pieces of broken wood, but you even hit an old lady, are you still a human being?"
Sun Qing scowled, "Stop trying to harass me here and put your things down! Just because I don't hit the elderly doesn't mean I won't hit women and children!"
It's over. When the old man heard this, he immediately protected his daughter-in-law and grandson. "What do you mean by 'scam'? Who do you think you are? Are you worthy of being smuggled? I saw it with my own eyes. It was you who beat up my old woman. Pay me now!"
"Ahhh!! Grandma! Grandpa, save me, save me!"
The old man turned around quickly when he heard his grandson's cry for help, but he forgot that the old woman had placed the wood at his feet and fell flat on his face.
Xia Xiaoman grabbed the kid's neck, lifted him up high, and slammed him onto the woman, causing her to see stars.
The old woman who was pretending to be dead on the ground sat up instantly and cursed with full force: "You bitch who was struck by lightning, you dare to hit my grandson. If anything happens to my grandson, I will make you pay for it...Ahhh!! Ouch, my legs, my legs!"
Xia Xiaoman stepped heavily on her calf. The old lady had osteoporosis, and the kick directly broke her calf.
At this moment, a man in the crowd rushed out and said, "Damn it, you bastard, you dare to hit my mom? I'll kill you!"
Facing the elderly and children, Sun Qing was a little hesitant to take action, but facing the man, she clenched her fist and punched the man in the abdomen. When the man arched his back in pain, she used her elbow to hit him down.
The man fell to the ground without even a scream.
Seeing the miserable plight of this family, all the onlookers left quietly, fearing that they would be implicated.
The family also realized that Xia Xiaoman and the others were not easy to deal with, so they supported each other and crawled away.
Xia Xiaoman did not stop them. After everyone had left, the group carried all the ducks and wood back to the 15th floor.
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The door to the corridor was closed, and supplies were distributed on the 15th floor. Five people went out, and each received 70 ducks, leaving 16 ducks. Ye Xiaojie kept 10 ducks for housekeeping, and cooked all 6 ducks for everyone to eat.
Xiao Zheyu and Su Ran together could catch 140 ducks. They were laughing like idiots and were completely unaware of another problem.
Wen Jianfeng reminded: "How are you going to store so many ducks?"
Xiao Zheyu's smile froze on his face. "Oh, right, there are so many ducks, and we don't have a refrigerator. How can we store them so they don't go bad?"
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "It's very simple. Just clean the duck, apply salt to marinate it, and then smoke it with firewood."
"I have a lot of salt, and it's not expensive. I'd like to exchange five bags of salt for a duck. Do you want to trade?"
Xiao Zheyu, "..."
Things change over time. A few days ago, he was using bean sprouts to steal Xia Xiaoman's supplies, but the situation has reversed so quickly.
Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie discussed it and decided to exchange 30 ducks for salt and use the remaining 50 ducks for smoked duck jerky.
They had never smoked ducks before, so they didn't know how much firewood they needed or how to smoke them. If they failed, the ducks would be wasted. It would be better to take out some of them to exchange for salt and smoke the rest of the ducks slowly.
Moreover, smoking a duck would probably require a lot of firewood and space, and they didn't have enough space in their house to smoke a duck, nor enough firewood.
Do what you can, 50 ducks is enough.
Xiao Zheyu and Su Ran discussed with Zhou Qiuyang, and the three of them unanimously decided to keep 60 ducks. They would be responsible for 20 ducks each, and the rest would be exchanged for other supplies, not necessarily salt.
Wen Jianfeng did not change. He had to raise three ducks by himself. 70 ducks seemed like a lot, but they would be eaten up in no time.
He also knew many ways to cook ducks and was confident that he could make these 70 ducks into various types of dried meat for storage.
In contrast, he was more worried about Xia Xiaoman, "Xiaoman, can you handle so many ducks by yourself?"
He couldn't guarantee that he could handle all 180 ducks in a short period of time.
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "Don't worry! I used to kill chickens and ducks often, and I can finish one in ten minutes."
"By the way, if you don't want to eat the duck intestines and offal, you can pack them up and go fishing downstairs. When I came back, I saw fish swimming in the water."
"There are fish in the water?!" Xiao Zheyu's eyes lit up.
Su Ran reminded, "There are not only fish, but also corpses."
Xiao Zheyu's eyes dimmed instantly. "Forget it. I can't afford to offend a fish that feeds on corpses. Let's just eat roast duck!"
"What's the big deal? You don't eat the fish's internal organs. If you really mind, you can just chop off the fish head and eat only the body." Sun Qing also saw fish in the water. Some of them were bigger than her arms and weighed at least ten or twenty kilograms.
It would be a shame if such a big fish is not used to make fish porridge, grilled fish, steamed fish, boiled fish...
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