Chapter 163 General Lu's Cang Yun (Eagle)
Su: "Zhiyi, this wild boar is so big, should we keep some for eating and take the rest to the town to sell?"
Xu Zhiyi: "Let's keep about 40 kilograms! If we can't finish it, we can make bacon. As for the favors, mother, it's up to you to decide how much to give."
Su heard this and understood: "Okay, in terms of favors, just give each household a few pounds. If we give more, we're afraid that as soon as we get home, they'll send silver to us!"
After hearing what Su said, Xu Zhiyi completely agreed. Although they accepted the things sent by their families during their escape from famine, they would definitely find a way to repay the favor from other places.
After slaughtering the pig, it was already evening and it was about to get dark!
Su put eight pieces of pork, each weighing about five pounds, into a basket, then covered them with cloth and went out carrying the basket!
The Hu, Ye and Doctor Li families lived in a thatched hut. The three were very surprised to see the meat that Su brought over. They thought that Su bought the meat in the town and yet he sent it to them. Their first reaction was to refuse to accept it.
After learning that it was Xu Zhiyi and Shen Wuyou who hunted the wild boar, the three households accepted the meat:
Mrs. Hu: "I'll take the meat! But you have to take the silver too..."
Su: "What are you doing? It's just a few pounds of meat. What's our relationship? We are good friends who have been through life and death together."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Hu patted Mrs. Su on the shoulder and said, "You look anxious. I haven't finished my words yet. I won't give you money for the few pounds you gave me. I'm giving you what I'm going to buy next. I plan to buy 20 pounds of cured meat."
"Okay, whatever part you want, come over and chop it off from me. I'll go deliver the meat to the other three households!"
After delivering the meat to his own people, he planned to give the remaining fish in the basket to the village chief.
Just as Su came back from the village chief's house, three women from the village came.
The three of them saw the slaughtered wild boar on the table in the yard from the gate, and looked at the confused Su family members:
"Oh! It's like this. The village chief's grandson told my child that he had meat at home. The child was ignorant and cried and asked for meat. It was almost dark, where could I buy meat?"
"I just asked the village chief's grandson and found out that you hunted wild boars, so I wanted to come and buy two kilograms. I wonder if you plan to sell them?"
Hearing this, Su looked at Xu Zhiyi: "Zhiyi, this..."
Xu Zhiyi: "If they want it, just sell them a few pounds! Give them two copper coins cheaper than in town!"
The three of them brightened up when they heard this, but they still said politely: "Hey, how can you lose money? Just pay as much as you deserve."
Upon seeing this, Su Ze hurried back to his room to find out his family's small scale. He heard that it was the scale his grandfather's grandfather bought when he was a peddler.
In the end, the three of them bought two pounds of meat each. The price of half-fat and half-lean meat in the town was 14 cents per pound, and they charged them 12 cents per pound. Seeing that they were charged four copper coins less, the three of them politely declined the offer a few times.
After hearing the news, more than a dozen villagers came over one after another. Most of them weighed two kilograms. Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Ye also came over and weighed twenty kilograms each to make bacon. In the end, they kept forty kilograms of meat from their own family, leaving almost one hundred and fifty kilograms of meat.
For dinner, I cooked lean meat soup, stir-fried a plate of wild winter melon vegetables, and steamed meat with yam flour.
While eating, Xu Zhiyi took a bowl of meat and brought it to the eagle under the window of the Shen Changan brothers' room.
"We're having meat tonight. It's guaranteed to keep you full. Eat as much as you can!"
I took a look at its wings and found that the wound was almost healed.
"Hey, your wound will heal soon! Then you can go back to where you came from!"
The eagle saw the meat in the bowl, quickly pecked at a small piece, and swallowed it in two bites!
If it could speak, it would definitely complain that this family is too poor. They have been feeding it grass every day these days, and last time they finally got some meat, it only got a few small pieces.
Wow, did this family get rich today? They were so generous that they gave me a bowl of meat! !
At this time, at the border, General Lu’s mansion.
A pale-looking woman pushed the door open and walked into General Lu's room with a lunch box in her hand, then placed the food in the lunch box on the table.
He looked at the person standing by the window and called softly, "Dad, come and eat!"
“I’m not hungry, I can’t eat”
"Dad, didn't you send someone to look for Cang Yun? He might be back soon! You are a general. If you are starving and the enemy suddenly attacks the border, how will you have the strength to resist?"
Hearing this, General Lu sighed as he walked to the dining table and sat down. He picked up the bowl with chopsticks and brought it to his mouth, then put it down again: "Yuexi! Do you think something has happened to Cang Yun? Every time it sends intelligence back to Kyoto, it should have returned long ago according to the previous time."
"Could it be that someone is hunting it down?"
"Yes, a few days ago, I dreamed that it was being chased all the way, and finally it was shot by an arrow and fell from the sky and died! Woohoo! My poor Cang Yun!"
"It has been with me for almost five years! My Cang Yun must have been shot dead by those old thieves from the imperial court, or their lackeys!"
Seeing her father coming again, Lu Yuexi covered her ears helplessly and said, "Dad, if you don't eat, you will starve to death! And when Cang Yun comes back and sees only a grave, he will be heartbroken."
Hearing this, General Lu stopped crying: "Uh, that's right, I absolutely cannot die! The border needs me, my Cang Yun needs me"
Having said that, he quickly picked up the bowl and started eating.
At this time, Cang Yun was eating the meat that Xu Zhiyi brought to him, and he was eating very happily.
Before going to bed at night, Xu Zhiyi soaked some red beans and mung beans in a bowl each, intending to use them the next day.
Early the next morning, Su Ze pulled the remaining wild boar meat to the town to sell.
There were too many pig intestines and the like! Xu Zhiyi only kept a small portion, planning to stir-fry the intestines, and then take the rest to the town to sell along with the pork.
In the original owner's memory, pig intestines were also very popular because they were cheap. Most people could not eat meat very often throughout the year, so they could only buy the cheapest pig intestines as a way to get a taste of meat.
When people bought pig intestines and took them home, they would rub them clean with wood ash. Although they did not have the various flavors that modern cooking techniques allow, for a poor family in ancient times who could not even fill their stomachs with porridge, how could they still be disgusted with them?
After Xu Zhiyi got up, the first thing he did was to dig out the yam flour that had been settling overnight and put it in a winnowing basket to dry.
Then I went into the kitchen. Today I planned to try making some bowl cakes and sell them in town.
After Shen Changan washed up, he walked into the kitchen and saw Xu Zhiyi coming out with the first round of steamed cakes.
"Madam, are you going to set up a stall in town today?"
"Well, I'm going to try some. Have you washed up? Do you want to try it? I've made citrus, pear, hawthorn, red bean, mung bean, and original flavors."
Hearing this, Shen Changan picked up the red bean flavor and ate it: “It’s delicious!”
"Really? Oh, help me get the big wooden tray made by my uncle, put some wax paper on it, remove the cakes from the mold and put them on the tray. After the tray is full, I washed a few pieces of cloth, which should be dry now, so use them to cover it."
"good"
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