After leaving the Lin family, the Miao brothers learned a valuable lesson from their previous experiences.
They were afraid of being seen and remembered.
The two men, carrying sacks on their shoulders, didn't even walk on the main road. Instead, they walked along the slope, winding their way back home, avoiding people.
After gathering the rabbits, Lin Mo began to slaughter the roe deer.
Instead of skinning them, you have to boil water over a fire to scald and scrape off all the hair.
Since roe deer are almost entirely lean meat, and oil is needed to make aspic, the skin is the key ingredient.
After scraping off all the hair, he chopped it into pieces, and Lin Mo simply picked up an axe and started chopping.
After chopping, remove the meat from the bones, and blanch them for a few minutes before putting them in a pot to simmer.
When a roe deer is freshly slaughtered, its meat has an earthy smell.
After the meat is cut up, it needs to be soaked in salt water to remove the earthy smell.
Then blanch it and skim off the foam.
Then cut it into small pieces along with the skin and meat, and finally put it in a pot to simmer.
After simmering various spices and salt together for several hours, remove the bones and then filter the broth through a mesh strainer to remove impurities.
The filtered broth becomes a beautiful clear soup.
Finally, the meat and broth are poured into a bowl and cooled to make aspic.
I'm going to be busy today; I probably won't get any sleep all night.
Not long after it got dark, Xiaohua and Aunt Lin returned from the production team.
When they were still several meters away from home, the mother and daughter could smell the enticing aroma wafting from their yard.
The mother and daughter stared at each other blankly for a moment before going into their own home.
The courtyard was a complete mess, as Lin Mo had wreaked havoc on it.
Inside the kitchen, a huge pot was simmering with meat.
The basin next to it was filled with large bones with meat on them.
"Slurp." Xiao Hua's drool instantly filled her mouth.
Hearing the sound behind him, Lin Mo turned around and saw that it was his mother and Xiao Hua who had returned.
He happily shared with the two men his experience of hunting roe deer and rabbits.
Xiao Hua ran quickly to the breeding shed by the courtyard wall and saw that the shed, which had been empty before, now had one, two, three, four, five...
Seventeen rabbits!
This made her so happy that she jumped and danced around on the spot, laughing and giggling.
Aunt Lin was also shocked.
Since my wife passed away, the practice of making roe deer meat jelly has become a thing of the past.
She thought her son was not a good son, and her greatest hope for him was that he could support himself after she passed away.
Unexpectedly, Lin Mo, who seemed to be doing something unethical, actually inherited his father's skills.
The intense emotions that came with smelling the familiar aroma of meat that she hadn't seen in a long time were not caused by the fact that she could finally eat meat.
"Mom, why don't you stay home and rest for a few more days?" Lin Mo knew that simply asking his mother to stay home and not do any work wouldn't work, so he changed his approach:
"I'm definitely not as good at making aspic as you are, Mom. Why don't you stay home and rest for a few days and help me make aspic?"
Aunt Lin remained silent, but tears streamed down her face.
"My son has finally figured it out, he's finally figured it out."
"good."
Finally, they agreed, and Lin Mo breathed a sigh of relief, finally putting his mind at ease.
Aunt Lin wanted to check on her son's swollen face. She recalled how he used to get beaten by male educated youths every now and then for touching female educated youths inappropriately.
The concern that was stuck in my heart could not be expressed due to helplessness.
Little Flower excitedly ran to the back of her house. Despite her young age, she worked very efficiently and soon brought back two large baskets of rabbit grass.
"Little Flower, Mom, you can eat the meat bones in this pot. Pi Dongzi, please watch over the fire and keep cooking."
Nighttime is when wild game is most likely to be found.
Therefore, this is also the most suitable time to mark the location for digging a pit.
He asked Xiaohua and his mother to help him watch the stove, and then Lin Mo carried his bamboo basket on his back and went into the mountains again that night.
He first went to check the pits he had dug before, to see if any wild game was trapped inside.
There was no movement in the first two pits, probably because they were dug too shallow.
After walking a little further in, we came to another pit mark.
Just as Lin Mo was thinking that the pit probably wasn't deep enough, he vaguely noticed that the thick layer of fallen leaves covering it seemed to have sunk a bit.
Upon closer inspection, wow, there was a squirrel sitting stiffly inside.
squirrel!
Pine nuts!
The probability of pine nuts being included in the overall planning list is much higher than that of aspic!
Several types of wild pine nuts are abundant in the Greater Khingan Mountains, including red pine and thousand-day pine.
Red pine nuts are already excellent pine nuts, but thousand-day pine nuts are even better.
It is called the Thousand-Day Pine because the pine nuts of this variety only mature once every three years, which is due to the principle that things are valued for their rarity.
Tonight, Lin Mo decided to continue westward. After passing Old Bald Mountain, he would be on the true edge of the Greater Khingan Mountains.
It is on the edge for the Greater Khingan Mountains, but it is already a primeval forest for humans.
It is an absolutely remote place.
It's not easy to hike in, so we can't put off getting the donkey any longer.
With the donkey, they could take Xiaohua to and from school, and also ride it deep into the mountains.
These days, donkeys aren't cheap; they cost over a hundred or two hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the income of a couple working in the production team for three or four years.
Not far to the west, Lin Mo spotted a large pine cone lying on the ground.
Most of the trees around here are red pines.
Let's stretch our muscles and climb the tree!
Shake and knock down as many pine cones as possible from the red pine!
It takes more than an hour to go into the mountains, but knocking on the pine cones only takes about ten minutes.
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