Following Liu Jing's directions, we arrived at the courtyard. It was indeed quite secluded. Surprisingly, there was a road behind the courtyard. No wonder he chose such a remote place. Xiao Zhihua must have done quite a bit of business here!
After checking the house and confirming it was safe, I found a room, locked the door, and entered the space.
The space was already filled with rows of tall, long shelves, piled high with things.
The crops in the space have been planted for more than half a year and a lot of them have been harvested, but because the number of poultry is too large, the quantity has not been able to increase. There are thousands of each kind, and there are more than ten lambs.
Although it's getting cold now, they'll only be staying here for a little over a month, so they don't need to collect too many eggs. There's also a pregnant woman, so they collected about thirty eggs, including chicken, duck, and goose eggs.
While she could take as much meat as she wanted, she couldn't possibly give him all the space in her inventory. Otherwise, she might have gotten peanuts instead of a silver bracelet. Cured meat would be even better; she probably planned to make it all into cured meat. Since that was the case, she wouldn't be blamed. They needed it anyway, and she needed to get rid of some of it. So Liu Yun reached for the chickens, ducks, and geese, especially the rabbits, grabbing them most aggressively. After a flurry of activity, Liu Yun had caught twenty chickens, twenty-two ducks, eight geese, and fifty rabbits. She also caught over twenty fish, and prepared a sheep that wasn't very big, weighing around forty or fifty pounds.
We also prepared a lot of mushrooms and dried vegetables, since there's a shortage of these things there. We packed everything into burlap sacks and then put them outside one by one.
The house here is big enough. We tied the sheep with hemp rope, secured its mouth, and put it in the main room. We put all the other things away separately. After a preliminary calculation, we figured we could still get around four hundred yuan.
I checked the time and it was still early, not even eleven o'clock yet. We haven't made any preserved vegetables at home this year! We made quite a lot the year before last, but we sent a lot to Yu Qianwu and the others. We made less last year, so we haven't eaten much this year. We need to make more this year, since Li Juan has found a lot of good things for her. She does her best to find whatever she wants. She even found two old ginseng roots. Last year, she also sent a lot of roe deer meat and dried mutton, and even a lot of beef jerky. She said she exchanged it with a comrade-in-arms in Inner Mongolia. Liu Yun loves to eat it.
So this year we need to make more cured meat to send over, and the space was once again in a flurry of activity, with a lot of fish also being caught.
Looking at her watch, it was almost midnight. Liu Yun headed back, called Liu Jing at the post office, and then went home.
Today, Yu's mother and the others are going to the old house and won't be back until evening, so today is a good day to stock up on supplies.
When they got home, Yu's mother and the others indeed didn't have any. They went to the kitchen and put out everything they had prepared in the space. As soon as the fish was put into the basin, it started jumping around. Liu Yun quickly covered it with a winnowing basket.
It's still early. I ate a lot of fruit in the space and I'm not hungry. Looking at all the things in the room, I took a sip of water and started tidying up.
After four or five years, although Liu Yun couldn't kill a chicken, she could still kill a fish. So she picked up the scissors and started killing the small crucian carp in the bucket. These small crucian carp are delicious whether stewed in soup or fried, so Liu Yun specially scooped out two buckets.
A large basin of grass carp and a couple of buckets of small fish left Liu Yun dizzy and disoriented.
It took most of the afternoon to finally finish. A bunch of fish scraps were used to feed the chickens, so they didn't need to be processed anymore, while the fish scales could be used to make fish jelly.
As soon as Yu's parents opened the gate, they smelled a fishy odor. Upon entering the house, they saw Liu Yun washing fish scales under the tap. Seeing the large basin of fish scales, they knew there must be a lot of fish in the kitchen. However, before they even reached the kitchen, they heard the calls of chickens, ducks, and geese. Judging from the noise, there were quite a few, and they knew they would be busy tonight.
Upon entering the kitchen, I found three cages under the stairs, clearly full of quails, and a burlap sack that was moving around inside.
The triplets' eyes lit up when they saw these.
"Mom, are we having meat tonight?"
"Mom, I want to eat fish."
"I want to eat this bird."
"I want a big chicken leg! I want a big chicken leg!"
"Then I want a big duck leg, the big duck leg is mine."
"That bunny belongs to Beibei, I want to eat the bunny."
"Aww, aww, eat!"
Looking at the bunch of hungry little brats, Liu Yun felt a headache coming on. She wondered if those two would grow up to be like those three, only knowing how to eat. Who did they take after?
If Yu's mother could hear Liu Yun's true feelings, she would definitely give an affirmative answer. As for who she resembles, doesn't she have any idea?
"Eat, eat, eat today and tomorrow, but now you have a task: take your younger siblings to play in the main room. Tonight we'll eat quail, which is your bird. Tomorrow morning we'll cook big chicken legs for you, tomorrow noon we'll have big duck legs, and tonight we'll have rabbit. Is that okay?"
"Okay!" Upon hearing that they could eat again, the three of them obediently went to chat with their younger siblings without any regard for who would eat first.
The father and mother also quickly stepped in to help, some boiling water and others pickling fish.
"What are you planning to do with these?" Mother Yu asked while pickling the fish.
"Make it however you like, Mom. I don't really know how to make it. I'll make more cured meat this year. My sister-in-law asked me to send her more. I'll make these first and send her some. I'll make the rest next time."
Hearing Liu Yun's words, Yu's parents were both surprised and delighted. They never expected their eldest daughter-in-law to ask her younger daughter-in-law for things. After all, in all these years, the eldest son's family had never asked the second or third son for anything, let alone the younger son. However, the fact that she could ask the fourth son's wife for things showed that the two of them got along well and had a good relationship. As the parents-in-law, they were only happy that the two sisters-in-law got along so well.
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