"Okay! I'll bring the basket over to Auntie tomorrow."
This time, Lin Yuxi didn't stand on ceremony. She carried a basket and headed home. Luckily, the journey wasn't long, otherwise, carrying all that stuff would have been quite tiring.
Aunt Gu was worried that Lin Yuxi wouldn't accept it, so she deliberately took less. Otherwise, she would have packed more for her. Looking at the pheasant meat soaking in cold water, she quickly started to process it. After all, it was hot and there was nowhere to store it. Since the meat was fresh, she would just cook it and eat it that night.
It was the time when every household was cooking, and many people saw Lin Yuxi carrying meat over. The piece of pheasant meat looked to weigh three or four pounds. Not long after she went in, she came out carrying a basket. Although it was filled with vegetables, it looked like there was quite a lot of food.
"The Gu family is really generous."
"A single piece of pheasant meat was exchanged for so much stuff. Look, there must be sweet potatoes hidden under that cabbage. The meat only costs a few cents a pound, yet they were able to exchange it for so much grain. The Lin family really made a profit."
"That meat is pheasant, you're selling it as regular pork? Pheasant is much more expensive than pork."
The pheasant meat is fresh and has a beautiful color. Chicken is much more expensive than pork. The most expensive part of pork is the fat, but the chicken meat is so delicious.
Lin Yuxi didn't care about those people's opinions. There were many people in her family, and the chicken had already been prepared. This pheasant was suitable for making soup. Add some scallions to remove the fishy smell, and then stew it. It would definitely be fragrant.
Lin's father was still dealing with the chicken feathers he had just picked in the yard. They had a strong smell of blood on them, and even if he was going to make a feather duster, he had to wash and dry them first.
"Mom, I brought back the scallions."
"Don't go into the kitchen. You must be tired from catching this chicken today. Wash your hands and rest for a bit. Why did you bring so much stuff?"
Lin's mother took out the scallions and saw that the whole basket was full. Without even thinking, she knew that Aunt Gu must have filled it.
"There are sweet potatoes. I'll cut one up and steam it with the rice later." Lin's mother took out a sweet potato, washed it, and then started peeling it. In this way, the pheasant was stewed in the pot. The wild game from the mountains smelled so good, even better than free-range chicken.
Along this road, you can smell the chicken soup wafting from the mud-brick houses from a great distance; the aroma is so enticing.
At first, Lin Yuxi wanted to raise the pheasant, but the harsh environment breeds wicked people, and some people are truly evil. They might come and steal the pheasant in the middle of the night. In the end, she decided to just kill it and eat it so that no one would have any designs on it.
When Gu Chen returned from town, it was already completely dark. As soon as he pushed open the gate to the courtyard, he suddenly smelled a rich aroma of chicken soup.
"You're back? Wash your hands and eat first. Xixi brought us half a pheasant today, the meat is so fresh." Aunt Gu had just finished stewing the chicken soup and was waiting for the two of them to come back for dinner. Today she also specially made a basket of white flour steamed buns.
Gu Chen parked the bicycle, turned around and closed the door. The tungsten filament lamp inside shone brightly, and a layer of golden chicken oil floated on top of the chicken soup in the soup bowl, making it look and smell delicious.
The next day, Lin Yuxi caught a pheasant on the mountain by herself, and the news spread throughout the village.
If a girl like her could catch pheasants, how could they not be tempted? More and more people went up the mountain. Of course, many people wanted to ask Lin Yuxi which mountain she caught the pheasants from, but they avoided her like the plague because of her status as a sent-down youth, and just kept running up the mountain.
Pheasants don't wait for anyone. Why ask? Whoever catches them keeps them.
The Lin family caught such a big pheasant and brought it to the village chief's house. Why didn't they think of befriending them? Maybe next time they catch a pheasant, they could bring it to them.
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