She had to spray bear repellent on the rose plantation beforehand.
To avoid encountering a grizzly bear when family members are picking roses.
That's too dangerous.
Where there are roses, there are bound to be bees, so naturally there will be many more beehives in the area where they are planted.
Grizzly bears love to eat honey.
They'll definitely come looking for it by the smell.
She needs to take precautions.
They lifted the worm and the grizzly bear and threw them into the space, filling the three-square-meter area tightly and piling them up high. Including the two wild dog carcasses they had just put into the space, they collected a total of five.
That's about enough.
Yan Xia carried a bamboo basket down the mountain. When she was almost at the bottom, she turned right and there was a rose plantation.
Yan Xia transported the animal carcasses out of her spatial dimension and chopped them into pieces one by one with a sharp machete.
Bury one every half meter.
She didn't descend the mountain until she had buried everything.
Just before leaving the mountain, she hoisted the roe deer onto her shoulder and went home.
"Children, look! What is this?"
As soon as Yan Xia entered the house, she began to show off the roe deer she had hunted.
"Wow, Mom, you went into the mountains again! You even caught a roe deer! It's cold outside, so eating roe deer meat will warm you up. This meat is much more delicious than mutton. Shall we eat it tonight?"
Jinlu's mouth watered when he saw the roe deer his mother was carrying.
Although their mother didn't cut off their food and drink.
We eat meat almost every day in town.
No meat you can buy tastes as good as wild game.
He took the roe deer, brought it to the well, and began skinning it.
My older brother didn't come back.
I stayed with my sister-in-law in town.
After all, my sister-in-law can't get out of bed.
This job naturally fell to him.
"Cut off half and take it back to town. The roe deer skin is just enough to make a pair of insoles for each of you. Winter is coming, and these will keep you warm. Remember to be careful when skinning it, and don't damage the skin."
Yan Xia carefully gave her son instructions.
"I know, Mom. I'm all grown up now. Don't worry. Go inside and rest for a while, don't catch a cold."
Jin Lu didn't mind the cold well water at all, even though his hands were red from the cold when he was washing the roe deer.
Because if he said he was cold, his mother would send him away and take over cleaning the roe deer for him.
It's okay for him to be cold, but we can't let our mother get cold.
It's a bit cold in Yanxia, it's almost the end of December.
The temperature dropped to 0 degrees Celsius.
It's estimated that it will snow in a few days.
She has never seen snow here before.
Baihua Village has many trees.
I wonder how beautiful it will be when it snows.
It must be as dreamy as being in a fairy tale world.
In modern times, in the city where she works, the snow on the roads is cleared away within a morning at most whenever it snows.
Building a snowman? Dream on.
Unlike when she was a child, she wouldn't wake up one morning, draw back the curtains, and find the whole world had turned white. When it snowed, she would be incredibly excited, crunching through the snow on her way to her friends' houses in the village, calling them out to build snowmen and have snowball fights, not feeling the cold even when her shoes and socks were soaked through.
"Master, have a cup of ginger and brown sugar water to warm yourself up. The hot water bottle is a bit too hot to hold in your hands. I sewed a cloth cover for it when I had some free time the other day. Look, it's just right to hold in your hands now."
Yan Xia was sitting on a chair in the main room, lost in thought.
She only snapped out of her daze when Xiao Ji placed a warm hot water bottle in her hand.
"Wow, it's sewn quite nicely. This fabric looks familiar."
Yan Xia placed the cup filled with ginger tea on the table, then looked at the hot water bottle from left to right. The cloth wrapped around the hot water bottle was colorful, as if several pieces of cloth were pieced together. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the same clothes that Xiao Ji and her children were wearing.
"Yes, I think those scraps of cloth are useless to throw in the basket. It's a waste to use them as rags, after all, they are such fine silk. Oh, Master, you should drink some ginger tea quickly. I've warmed it up for you. It's not too hot. The ginger tea will cool down in a while."
Xiao Ji picked up the ginger tea from the table again and handed it to Yan Xia.
Yan Xia, who doesn't like ginger, had a dark line flash across her face.
So, we couldn't dodge it after all...
Although she didn't want to drink it, Xiao Ji meant well.
She had no choice but to take the cup and drink it all in one gulp.
I didn't even dare to savor the taste; I drank two cups of tea in a row to suppress the ginger flavor.
For dinner, we naturally ate roe deer meat.
The roe deer that Yan Xia brought back was quite large.
Even after the whole family ate a lot of meat, they only used up a quarter of it.
She took the rest with her when she went to town early in the morning, leaving a small piece for Xiaohe and Jinfu to cook and eat.
The rest can be sold at restaurants.
The price is set higher than that of beef.
After all, even men who hunt year-round wouldn't dare go into the mountains at this time.
Wild game is extremely rare at natural markets.
Roe deer live only in the deep mountains and rarely venture to the outer edges of the mountains.
Yan Xia rarely sees roe deer for sale throughout the year; the wild game she gets is usually just rabbits, ducks, or pheasants.
Roe deer meat is considered to be warming and highly nourishing.
They didn't even have a menu engraved on it; they just had the waiters mention it when taking orders.
A platter of roe deer meat costs as much as 3 taels of silver.
Only half of the meat was left, so 60 plates were cut up.
Yan Xia sliced the food very thinly; it cooked in less than five seconds after being dipped in the hot pot.
She arranged the meat on the plate into the shape of a rose, and added a few plum blossoms as garnish, making it look exceptionally elegant.
They sold out in just two days.
On the third day, Brother Qian followed Zhao Dali's carriage from Baihua Village to town to find her.
"Xia, I've already calculated the price. You said that there will be a conscription of laborers in the spring, so time is tight. We can only recruit more people to speed up the construction. I've asked all my relatives and friends who know how to build houses to bring more people with them. At least we can recruit this number."
Brother Qian sat in the backyard of the pastry shop.
He took a sip of tea and made a five with his right hand.
"Fifty people is the limit, it should be enough, but the wages will be quite high. The main problem is that we need to fence off the mountain, which takes a lot of time. We also need a lot of blue bricks, which are quite expensive. Including the wages for these helpers, without meals or lodging, it will cost at least 90 taels of silver."
"Alright, I'll go inside and get the silver. Thank you so much, Brother Qian. Please help me build it as soon as possible. I'll be back in the village the day after tomorrow, so please try to gather everyone before then."
Yan Xia immediately went back to the house and retrieved 95 taels of silver.
Brother Qian's family always helps her like this.
We must express our opinion.
Five taels was considered as an extra reserve fund, plus Brother Qian's wages.
"Come on, Brother Qian, you count them."
Yan Xia handed him the purse.
"What are you counting? We're all family. Alright, since you're in such a hurry to build, I'll go back now. I'll get home around noon, and I'll start working on it this afternoon."
Qian Guangyi took the purse, finished speaking, and left in a hurry.
Yan Xia couldn't stop her no matter how much she called.
The couple are really alike, both very impatient.
She shook her head, still wanting Dali to take him back on the way, since he was willing to leave.
Let him be.
Yan Xia stood up and went to the restaurant to help prepare the vegetables.
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