The dish looked simple, but it was time-consuming. By the time she finished, it was already dark.
While Xu Manman was cooking, Chen Ming cut the tofu she bought into pieces, spread it in a bamboo basket covered with a layer of white cotton cloth, and finally put it on the firewood pile to freeze it. The frozen tofu would be ready to eat in a few days.
The carefully made fish cake received high praise from my cousin. He had eaten fish cakes and fish balls before, but this was the first time he had eaten fish cake with this kind of taste.
The two of them ate under a kerosene lamp, but they both enjoyed the meal very much. And with the eldest cousin around, there was no leftover food at all.
Last time, after Xu Manman finished drinking fish soup and eating tofu, she poured the fish head intact into the space trash can. She would never eat this and couldn't think of anything edible here.
The eldest cousin was different. He took a whole fish head and finally broke it into small bones and fish bones, which made Xu Manman amazed.
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Today's balance: RMB 0.37, remaining check-in points: 130
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From that day on, the few of them must have gained experience in hunting and fishing. The eldest cousin would often bring back trophies. Although his share was not much, it was shared by several people. It can be seen that their small team actually gained a lot.
Now, apart from Chen Ming and Xu Manman, Li Xiao and Liu Hua eat together. The two remaining people in the big kitchen also start cooking together again. The remaining boys all gather in Yue Feng's room to eat together.
The aroma of meat and fish could be smelled in the yard every now and then.
Fortunately, the youth cadre site is a bit far from the village center, and villagers generally don’t come here unless necessary, so no one else knows about the things they brought back except a few people at the youth cadre site.
Although Xu Manman had also dug traps to catch rabbits herself, the main credit went to the system's sign-in drugs.
I was very curious about their hunting methods, so I asked my cousin to let me go and see it together.
Chen Ming thought that since he wasn't going into the mountains anyway and there were a group of people watching over him, nothing would happen, so he readily agreed.
Unexpectedly, the next day when everyone went out, they found that the hunting activity of the small team had turned into a full-scale mobilization of the educated youth point.
Liu Hua followed Li Xiao, Xu Manman could understand it, but what about Xu Meili?
Looking at the cheerful Lin Zuxin standing aside, Xu Manman felt as if she had discovered something again.
Xu Meili lowered her head and said nothing. Lin Zuxin smiled and scratched his head. "Xu Zhiqing said she was a little curious, so I took her to have a look."
Li Xiao stood beside Liu Hua and nodded calmly, "Me too."
If they were real siblings, they would be even calmer. Chen Ming directly invited everyone to set off.
In fact, the place where they were active was also in the back mountain of the educated youth site, a bit far from where everyone usually collected grass for pigs and firewood, and in the opposite direction of where Xu Manman was active.
They dug several traps, covered them with a layer of hay, and placed bait made of steamed grain on top of the hay.
The trap was dug a bit deep, so it was difficult for small animals to escape. It was similar to the one Xu Manman had made before.
They came here just to check if they had any harvest last night. The hay above two pits collapsed, indicating that there was something inside.
When I got closer, I saw that they were indeed two rabbits. It seemed that I was lucky today.
Chen Ming and Yue Feng jumped into the pit, took out the rabbit, broke its neck first, and then put it into the backpack behind them.
After covering the trap again, everyone went to the next place.
They set up quite a few traps, and as expected, there is strength in numbers. In total, they harvested 2 pheasants and 3 rabbits.
Carrying the harvested prey, everyone came to a stream on the east side of the mountain. They had never been to this place before, and the environment looked quite good.
But now there is a thick layer of ice on the water surface. Judging from the thickness, there is no pressure to skate on it.
Zhang Yuan stepped directly onto the ice and walked towards the center, stopping only when he reached a spot with obvious signs of digging.
This is the hole they made for ice fishing. Of course, there is more than one. Everyone dispersed, and Chen Ming took Xu Manman to the other side.
To find the entrance to the hole, you first need to chisel through the re-frozen ice surface and make the hole the appropriate size.
After dealing with the hole, I took out the simple homemade fishing rod, put on the bait and started fishing. What followed was waiting, a long wait.
Chen Ming also thoughtfully took out two small stools from his backpack.
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