Chapter 267 The Deer in the Cellar (6,000 words)
Sheng Yunfang responded and hurriedly ran into the house to get the sugar jar.
Zhang Shuzhen had just finished making a pancake when she took the sugar jar, scooped out some white sugar with a spoon, and spread a thin layer on the pancake.
Then roll up the pancake layer by layer, and then scoop some oil onto the griddle so that the pancake with sugar is coated with oil all over.
After being fried like this, the pancakes become sweet and fragrant, and they taste delicious.
Once both sides of the pancake are golden brown and the sugar inside has melted slightly, use a knife or spatula to cut the sugar pancake into several pieces and plate it.
Zhang Shuzhen reserved some batter and used it to make three sugar pancakes, while the rest were used to make pancake boxes.
Zhou Qinglan made a spinach and egg soup.
Before long, the food was ready, the batter was used up, the griddle was turned off, and the family sat around the table, happily eating their meal.
There weren't many sugar pancakes, so each person got two to try.
It's filled with sugar inside and has extra oil on the outside. It's fragrant, sweet, and crispy when you bite into it. The taste is indescribable; you could practically swallow your tongue along with it.
Xiang Yanzhen was dumbfounded. How could that be? I watched with my own eyes as the young man simply placed the salt outside a tree hole and then caught a deer? That's simply unbelievable!
After cleaning them, put them outside the earthen basket, and when it was full, spread them out under the tattered mat inside.
So busy, if there's time, lunch can be prepared.
Sheng Xiping had no classmates. Two years later, when we went down the mountain to plant trees, he was bitten by a tick and contracted encephalitis, which made him mentally impaired.
The three of them didn't harvest much; a few mats outside the house were enough, and the rest had to be dried in the storage room.
"Dream on! Does he know how much a sugar pancake costs? It's all sugar and oil. We're already living a good life, but we can't afford to waste it like this."
To earn money, the children were all happy to help with the work. The older children were slow but quick, and it was quite a task to fill a basket with soil in one night.
Just go down, grab the top, and break it off.
On the morning of July 70th, Dali took some things with her when she went out, and then went down the mountain with her father and younger brother.
Foodie Sheng Xitai took a bite of the crispy pancake, his eyes narrowing with delight. Eating like this is such a treat!
If you break it off by hand, the larger ones in the middle will remain and continue to grow. But if you cut it with a knife, even the tender buds will be cut off, which will cause the roots to die.
So the eight of them were too lazy to go anywhere else and continued along yesterday's route out of the mountains.
If that's the case, and they're so beautiful, why would you go to all that trouble?
After an afternoon of drying and kneading, Niu Mao Guang still hadn't turned into a semi-dry ball.
There's no skill involved in scalding ox hair vegetables. If you scald them too hard, they'll be difficult to knead and shape. If you scald them too long, they'll be too mushy and turn white when dried.
Sheng Xikang's paranoid symptoms were more severe at that time. Whenever he ate anything oily or fatty, he would have problems.
Xiang Yanzhen saw this and decided to ignore it. He quickly took out a large hacksaw blade from his pocket and used it to saw up the two antlers under the sika deer's head.
Stir-frying vegetables with salt is actually worse than using refined salt because it contains fewer trace elements.
Of course, to encourage the children and prevent them from being too enthusiastic, Zhang Shuzhen would always say, "I'll give you seven cents for every basket of dirt you collect."
While waiting for you to finish those tasks, Zhang Shuzhen was just about to free up her hands to cook.
Sheng Liancheng held an iron fork used for threshing beans in his hand, stirring the beans inside the small pot.
When Dali arrived, the deer was not yet on the verge of death, but looked like it was about to die.
"It would be terrible if we could live outside the mountains. We have to carry this far on our backs," Xiang Yanzhen muttered as he pulled at the cow hair.
Walking to the deer trail he had seen yesterday, Da Li casually looked around and found an excellent spot.
Those were busy times, and the children were sensible. Sheng Yunfang and the others would try their best to finish their homework at school, and if there was any left, they would hurry up and finish it when they got home.
Outside the Sheng family's courtyard, I broke the stove in just a few days, so Sheng Liancheng specially bought a small pot with ten seals from the store.
With delicious food in his mouth, Sheng Xitai was in a good mood and became quite arrogant, starting to get carried away.
Actually, the way we are now, we don't have much time to actually harvest vegetables every day; we waste most of our time on the road.
Outside the meadow, there are countless wild cattle, and those who have retreated are worried about how to gather enough to go out.
Niu Mao Guang is a fern with a single stem. Before it fully matures, the leaves at the top are curled up, resembling a large head.
The top part is useful, but we'll just throw it away when we get back. It would be better to just break off the top while we're still at the foot of the mountain, so we can reduce the burden.
Cooking is considered heavy work. You can lend a hand, but I have to lend a hand. We can only rely on my mother-in-law for everything.
"For the past month or so, the few of us have been staying at the foot of the mountain, and if we've harvested less than we have this year."
Zhang Shuzhen glared at her youngest son. That good-for-nothing, he remembers everything else, but he's only good at eating noodles.
"Yes, they need to be careful. There are many wild animals outside the mountains."
"Mom, if you come home early from school in the morning, he won't have to bother cooking."
Pancakes are valuable, but sugar and oil are expensive. These are all rationed; you can buy them with money, whether you have coupons or not.
He used whatever he could find, like sprinkling a handful of salt outside a tree hollow. How could he possibly catch a deer that way?
Basically, if you walk down a small field, you can see clumps and clusters of grass everywhere, like mischievous children playing hide-and-seek, peeking out from the grass like tiny cow hairs.
"Oh, you saw a deer trail by a small meadow yesterday. Let's see where to set a trap today. They say we're sure to catch a deer."
Zhou Qinglan watched her brother's actions with great confusion. How could he catch a deer like that? It seemed rather far-fetched.
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