Chapter 62 Making Jerky
Murong Li nodded.
Su Yue continued, "Leader Qin will be in charge of chopping wood, Big Brother will be in charge of picking mushrooms, and Leader Zhang will be in charge of drying mushrooms and meat. As for me, I'll go find the spices."
Seeing that Su Yue's division of labor was very reasonable, several people had no objections.
So everyone started to divide the work, hoping to get more while they could.
After Su Yue went to see the old marquis and his wife and the eldest lady, she also went down the mountain.
She is in charge of spices. Everyone knows that she is studying medicine under Doctor Xie. She knows herbs, so it is normal for her to know spices.
When making dried meat, you cannot make white and spicy dried meat. It will taste bland, just like chewing on a piece of wood with chopsticks. It has no taste at all and is unpalatable.
The meat is fragrant and delicious after being marinated with spices and salt and then grilled. The officials who often traveled knew this.
What spices was Zhu Yue looking for? There were plenty of them in the space. She found an empty place, entered the space, and made some dried meat herself.
When the Su family has nothing to eat on the road, they can take out these dried meats and treat them as the dried meats they made this time.
Su Yue directly killed ten wild boars and ten bison, used her mental power to remove the bones and cut the meat, and she marinated the meat herself.
There are many jars for pickling meat. Just find a few rice jars and you can pickle the meat.
It just so happened that she had a large jar of pickled meat, which could also be made into bacon.
Thinking of the taste of bacon, Su simply slaughtered two more wild boars and made them into bacon.
It took her an hour to finish all this, and then she brought out some spices and returned to the cave.
The hunters had already brought back some prey, and the woodcutters had also brought back some. At this time, the people in the cave were busy, some were killing prey, and some were cutting meat.
After Su Yue gave the spices to Leader Zhang, she ate a little and then went down the mountain again.
This time when going down the mountain, Su Yue was thinking about how to get some salt. The salt they brought to Qinlingtou had been used up and it was not enough.
Where can we get salt in this desolate mountain area?
Su Yue thought as she walked.
Alas, I got it.
Su Yue suddenly remembered that they had said before that they had gone to the bandit’s lair to look at it, so she would say that they took it from the bandit’s lair.
Oh, that's it.
Su Yue packed the salt into a yellow cloth bag in the space, and then filled half a bag of rice, and would take it out later.
Su Yue also chopped some firewood and brought it into the space, so she started to roast meat in the space.
She roasts the meat in large chunks, and when it is about 80% dry, she hangs it up to dry.
Anyway, keeping it in space will not affect the quality of the meat.
After taking the exam for nearly an hour, Su Yue finally came out of the space. It was already past noon and afternoon.
She looked at the sky and saw that it was still some time before dark, so it would be a little early to return to the cave at her speed.
So she looked for some spices in the forest, tied them up with vines, two large bundles in total, and then took a backpack from the space and carried the things back to the cave.
When we returned to the cave, everyone who had gone out had already returned. They all looked so happy, so we knew they must have had a good harvest.
Torches had been lit in the cave, illuminating it like daylight.
Everyone was still busy grilling the meat. The grilled meat was packed into woven bamboo baskets and placed on the horses' backs when they set off.
The carriages were abandoned when they were going up the mountain, and they couldn't be brought up.
Su Yue scanned the cave with her mental power. This time, even the first and second wives were helping to grill the meat. They only had handcuffs on their hands, which did not affect their work.
Some people were picking mushrooms and picking out the rotten and bad ones.
Su Yue took a look and found that there were quite a few mushrooms picked up.
There were no poisonous mushrooms in it, which made her useless for the time being.
The dinner in the evening was very rich. We used the wild boar blood to cook several large pots of blood soup, and there were also some wild vegetables in it. These must have been picked by tree cutters and mushroom pickers. Not to mention, they looked very appetizing.
She also fried some lean meat and used the rice she brought back to make a big pot of rice.
I only brought back half a bag of rice, and it was all cooked in one meal.
In the evening, everyone had a delicious meal of rice.
I was still enjoying the meal because I hadn’t eaten such white rice for a long time.
Later, everyone found out that Su Yue had taken the rice and salt from the bandit's lair, and they were all worried about her. The bandits were ruthless killers, and who knew if there were any potential dangers hidden in there. Now that they had enough food, they wouldn't let her go again.
Su Yue just smiled when she heard that.
The eldest lady, however, wiped her tears and scolded her: "You have grown up. Now I can't control you. You dare to go to the bandit's nest alone. If something happens to you, how can I live? It's not like I have no food to eat. It's better to eat a little bit than to die..."
"Mom, I won't go there anymore. Look, I'm fine." Su Yue had no choice. The eldest lady was too talkative. She could only hold the eldest lady's arm and use her trump card, acting coquettishly.
"You."
The eldest lady poked her forehead hard and said, "I really can't do anything with you."
The eldest lady sighed heavily again. It was not a good thing for her daughter to become stronger. It would still make her worry.
Su Yue laughed dryly and thought to herself, when we get to the next stop, where there is a town, I will take the opportunity to stock up on some rice, flour, oil and salt.
Such a small thing caused great pain to her ears.
Moreover, life without rice was really hard. She was still better off because there was always rice in the space, but the old lady and the eldest lady had nothing to eat. Eating meat every day was not a solution. The vegetables in the space were ripe, so she had to find an excuse to take them out.
She had originally taken the opportunity to get some things out today, but she really couldn't carry so many things by herself.
After staying in the mountains for three days and preparing enough dried meat to last the exile team a month, the group set off.
What they didn't know was that the fact that they were able to spend these few days here in peace and security was making Murong Li's secret guards suffer terribly.
Countless waves of people came every day, and they drove those people away, and killed those who could not be driven away.
Only after seeing the team set off did they secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
The ten people sent by the prince were in a miserable state. After receiving the prince's order, the remaining eight people divided into four groups to chase the head of the Qi family and others, and four followed Murong Li's team.
Before these four people could get close to the exile team, they were killed by Murong Li's secret guards.
The other four were also killed by the secret guards sent by Murong Li before they could kill any member of the Qi family.
The ten members of the prince's faction were completely wiped out.
He doesn't know yet.
The prince was in a state of panic at the moment. Several days had passed, and no news had been sent back from the ten secret guards he had sent out. An ominous feeling welled up in his heart. Could it be that all ten of them were dead?
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