After finishing their meal, they would put down their chopsticks and leave, saving themselves the trouble of getting out of bed to put on their shoes.
Sheng Xiping sat down next to Sheng Xitai and Sheng Xinyu and started eating.
At this time of year in early spring, every household is running out of vegetables.
Fortunately, her family had planted some soybeans last year, so Zhang Shuzhen sprouted some bean sprouts at home and stewed them with some potatoes.
Let's add some more tofu, some sauce, and stew it. That'll be our two dishes for dinner.
Of course, the dish contained meat, and it was quite oily.
In the past two years, Sheng Xiping has been busy and hasn't had many opportunities to go hunting in the mountains.
Fortunately, there were several children, including Hua Hua, who would occasionally send some meat back to them.
In addition, Liu Yujiang and his brother borrowed the dog and would send some of their hunted game to the Sheng family, so the Sheng family never lacked meat.
The three siblings were all in a hurry to get to their evening classes, so they ate their meals as quickly as if they were fighting a battle.
Before long, the three of them finished their meal, quickly rinsed their mouths with water, put on their coats, and ran outside.
Sheng Xiping came home late, but he wasn't in a hurry. He just sat there and ate slowly with his two sons.
While eating, Sheng Liancheng chatted with his eldest son, mainly about the documents that had come down from their superiors.
The forest farm is only so big, so any little thing that happens spreads very quickly.
Sheng Liancheng was repairing machines at the small repair shop during the day when he heard others talking about this matter. He was quite worried, so he asked Sheng Xiping.
Sheng Xiping stuck to his old ways: there's always a way around policies. As long as the timber processing plant can make money and solve the workers' food problem, the forest farm and the bureau will protect it.
Sheng Liancheng thought about it and agreed. The processing plant supported more than a hundred people. If there was no income, the forest farm and the bureau would be more anxious than anyone else.
After dinner, Sheng Xiping played with his two sons for a while before forcibly putting them to bed.
In the evening, Sheng Xitai went home first. After arriving home, he did his homework for a while. When the Sheng sisters, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei, returned home at 9:30, they locked the door and the whole family went to rest.
The next morning, Sheng Xiping went to the edge of the woods to hunt with his snares and actually caught a few.
So he happily brought the rabbit back, skinned and cleaned it, and left the rest to Zhang Shuzhen to handle.
The whole rabbit is not chopped up; it is simply placed in a pot to blanch first, skimming off the foam, and then simmered with various ingredients for a while.
Once it's almost done simmering, take it out and drain off the excess water. Then, put sugar, tea leaves, etc., at the bottom of the pot.
Place a clean steamer rack on top, arrange the cooked rabbit meat on the rack, and then cover the pot.
Heat the pot over low heat until the sugar, tea leaves, and other seasonings inside start to smoke. After a few minutes, open the lid, flip the rabbit meat over, and smoke it for a while longer. That's it.
When the rabbit meat is out of the pot, brush it with another layer of sesame oil while it's still hot, and the smoked rabbit is ready.
The smoked rabbit meat has a shiny, reddish appearance and an enticing aroma.
After the rabbit meat cooled, Zhang Shuzhen wrapped two of them in paper and put them away. She cut up the other one and put it on a plate to save for her family to eat that evening.
Besides two smoked rabbits, Zhang Shuzhen also stir-fried two cans of meat sauce, boiled twenty salted eggs, fried two bottles of dried small fish, and found two sausages that had been stuffed with meat chunks, steamed, and air-dried for several days.
They packed all these things into a backpack, waiting for Sheng Xiping to take them to the provincial capital for Zhou Qinglan and her brother.
On the morning of the 11th, Zhang Shuzhen boiled about ten tea eggs and made seven or eight scallion pancakes, which she packed up and prepared for Sheng Xiping to eat on the road.
After breakfast, Sheng Xiping carried his bulging backpack to the small train station, boarded a motorcycle, and headed to Songjianghe.
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