“Sure,” Wang Tianxiao said without deliberately reminding him that he was destined for great things. “If you really want to come back after your military service, then come back. But if there’s something else you want to do, then be brave and fly out into the world.”
Wang Tiancheng glanced at his brother and sighed, "Brother, sometimes I feel like you're not like a young man at all. You always speak with a sense of agelessness, as if you've seen all aspects of this world and are about to become a Buddha."
"Haha, really? It's alright."
"Exactly! If you didn't tell people you're only twenty-five, based on what you've said, people would think you're fifty-two. Haha."
Wang Tianxiao was stunned.
Fifty-two, that's right, isn't he the fifty-two who returned to this world?
"That's my attitude towards life. I think about what might happen in the future in advance so I can prepare accordingly, so that I won't panic when something suddenly happens. What's that idiom again?"
"To plan ahead."
"Yes, yes, that's the idiom. Our Tiancheng is really cultured. That's exactly what I meant."
"Brother, can I ask you a question?"
Wang Tianxiao laughed and said, "Just say what's on your mind. What's there to be shy about between brothers?"
"Yes, I already said that."
"you say."
"Do you harbor deep resentment towards Third Brother?"
Wang Tianxiao was taken aback, not expecting Wang Tiancheng to suddenly bring up this question. After a moment, he said calmly, "It's not a matter of whether I hate your third brother or not."
“Mother will definitely be sad to see us brothers not getting along,” Wang Tiancheng said quietly.
"It's okay to be sad. Everyone encounters sad things in their life. She bears some responsibility for the children getting to this point."
Wang Tiancheng looked at his brother in surprise, wanting to say something, but his lips moved and the last words he uttered were: "Don't worry, brother, I'm not like third brother."
Wang Tianxiao patted his younger brother on the shoulder, "Don't think about these things. The conflict between your third brother and me is between the two of us. Don't get caught in the middle and make things difficult for yourself. Just live your life according to your own ideas. Your future belongs only to you."
Wang Tiancheng nodded. He looked at his brother's profile as he gazed at the night sky and thought he looked very tired, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.
Under the cover of night, the two men and three dogs returned to the depot.
Wang Tianxiao asked Wang Tiancheng to boil a pot of water first. He squatted by the big rock outside, took out the entrails of the badger that had been killed by the strong wind, and threw it down the mountain ridge. He peeled off the badger skin, chopped up the badger meat, and kept it to feed the dogs.
The two leopard cats can also have some meat supplemented.
People should eat as little badger meat as possible. Not only does it not taste very good, but it is also unhealthy and may cause health problems.
It's not worth it.
The truly delicious meat is still pork.
There's really nothing good to eat among the wild animals in the mountains.
For example, wild boar meat tastes like firewood, tough and unpalatable.
Venison has a strong, gamey flavor, even stronger than mutton.
The bear meat tastes like pine resin, and the oil is quite good; it makes fried foods very crispy.
Wolf meat tastes similar to dog meat, with a fishy smell and is very unpalatable; most people simply cannot stand that pungent taste.
Wild rabbit doesn't have much flavor; it relies entirely on seasonings to make it taste good.
Roe deer meat has a muddy taste, which must be soaked in water repeatedly to remove. Also, the seasonings need to be stronger when cooking it, otherwise most people will not be able to stand it.
And so on and so forth.
If there's anything truly delicious, it's pheasant.
However, pheasant meat still has a slightly sour taste, and because pheasants exercise a lot, it tastes dry and doesn't compare to the taste of domestic chicken at all.
Animals that taste good have all been domesticated by humans into poultry and livestock.
Domestic pig meat is the best-tasting of all meats; otherwise, it wouldn't be the main source of meat.
Although beef and mutton are expensive, they cannot be eaten every day like pork. You can eat pork for ten days straight without getting tired of it, but you will definitely get tired of beef and mutton after two or three days. That's the reason.
People in this era ate less meat, which is why they found meat delicious. However, Wang Tianxiao didn't really like eating meat.
The older a person gets, the less they need meat.
After he chopped the meat, Wang Tiancheng also boiled water. He first used the hot water to blanch some feed for the fawn, then scooped out some for the leopard cat to heat up the goat milk, and used the rest to blanch the dog food for the three dogs for dinner. Only then did he put the badger meat in to cook.
Wang Tiancheng tended the fire below, while he locked the three surviving badgers in the second room on the left. The baby badgers were still in their cages, and the adult badgers hadn't been untied. It would be troublesome to catch them again if they were released, and although they weren't as good at burrowing as hog badgers, they were still quite adept at digging holes.
Let's tie it up for now.
Wang Tianxiao had the idea of raising various wild animals in the mountains, but the premise was that he could only raise cubs. Adult wild animals were impossible to raise because their personalities were already formed, they generally had a strong sense of resistance, and some were even harmful.
Once you catch them, the only solution is to skin and remove the tendons; eat the meat if you can, and bleed the meat if you can.
The remaining two badgers will be tied up for now. We'll kill them another day, cut the meat into strips, dry it, and store it for feeding the dogs and leopard cats.
If a dog doesn't eat some meat, it will gradually lose strength and be at a disadvantage when fighting against large wild animals.
Leopard cats are omnivorous animals that lean towards carnivorous diets. They can eat a little bit of other fruits, but they cannot eat too little meat, otherwise it will affect their stomach function and indirectly affect their health.
The drying method was also very simple. He had thought it through in advance. Since there were so many rooms at the station, they wouldn't all be occupied in a short time anyway, so he simply used one room as a drying room.
When we have some free time, we'll build lots of racks inside, layer upon layer, row upon row, to hang all the meat up.
The entire underground area was designed as a fire channel, with winding channels increasing the heat dissipation area, much like a tobacco curing oven.
If we want to live in the mountains in the future, we need to build all these infrastructure facilities one by one.
There are so many things to do.
Life is tough, I can only sigh in secret.
After feeding the three dogs, two cats, a fawn, and a badger, the two brothers closed all the doors and rode their bikes down the mountain.
By the time I got home, it was already 1 a.m.
Before parting ways, Wang Tianxiao told Wang Tiancheng to take care of some animals in the mountains for the next few days.
He calculated that today was December 19th, and his wife's due date was probably in the next day or two, so he planned to have her check into the hospital earlier than expected.
In those days, people didn't know how to give birth in a hospital, and they were reluctant to spend the money. They would usually heat up a kang (a heated brick bed) at home and then surround it with a sheet to make a delivery room.
Women shouldn't be exposed to drafts when giving birth, but the home environment is usually too simple to do that.
In my past life, my wife didn't take proper precautions when giving birth, which affected her postpartum recovery. For most of her life afterward, she would get headaches whenever it rained, which can be considered a lingering effect.
He vowed never to let her suffer again in this lifetime.
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