The words had barely left his mouth when the door was pushed open, followed by Fang Ping's voice, tinged with surprise.
"Prey? You went hunting?"
Cheng An nervously looked towards the landlord. His sister seemed to have put her hand near the wolf cub's mouth. Just as his heart was about to jump, he saw the wolf cub leap over the wall and run away.
Fang Pingye sensed something and looked to the east, only to see a fleeting afterimage.
"Huh? What ran away?"
The group was of one mind.
Simple put his hands behind his back and rubbed them against his body. This wolf cub was really greedy and getting harder and harder to please.
On the surface, however, he acted as if nothing had happened.
"My dog was quite obedient when it was a puppy, but now that it's grown up, it's never home. It won't use the front door; it insists on jumping over the wall. Sooner or later, it'll knock down this wall."
As she complained, Lin Dongfang immediately followed up with a comment.
"You should be grateful. They even knew to bring the trap back for you. If it were someone else's, they would have ruined it by now."
Fang Ping's attention was immediately drawn to the meat in their hands.
"Wow! What a huge trap this is!"
"Is this... a goat?"
Using the open door, Lin Dongfang and his companion simply squeezed sideways and carried the wild goat into the house.
"Yes, it's a wild goat. I don't know why it wandered out to the outer area and fell into a trap. Jian Dan, haven't you been up the mountain for several days?"
Only after watching the wolf cubs disappear did the two adults and two children finally feel relieved and at ease.
"It seems like it's been two or three days since I last went, right? How about this? Isn't it fresh?"
Fang Ping also joined in.
"It's fresh; the blood hasn't completely drained yet, and it doesn't look like it's been in there long."
At this point, what could Jian Dan say? She wasn't a stingy person to begin with.
"That's perfect, let's have mutton today."
Xiao Rui, leave this bloody mess to your brother Lin to clean up. You go and start cooking the rice, then help him out.
"Okay!"
Putting aside the two children, Fang Ping himself was also secretly excited. In Beijing, he was a minor leader, his father was a minor leader, and their family had several workers. They were already much better off than the average family, but they weren't the kind of people who could eat meat every day.
However, I still feel a little embarrassed.
"This...isn't this inappropriate?"
Public officials and soldiers in the People's Liberation Army don't take a single needle or thread from the people. Although he is neither of those, how could he not know what kind of situation this is?
The crops in this rural village were already reduced, and it was not easy to get some meat. He felt a little guilty for taking advantage of this.
"Hey, I was thinking of cooking something nice for you guys since you came, but now that this lamb is here, I don't have to worry about what to eat."
Brother-in-law, do you and my sister have any dietary restrictions? Can you eat spicy food? Would you like this lamb braised or stewed?
The children inside also came out to join the fun. Lin Dongfang often dealt with these kinds of things, so the child wasn't afraid. He rushed over, covered in blood, and even poked at the wound with his finger.
"Meat, eat meat!"
At this point, no one mentioned whether or not to hand the goods over to the village. In a time when speculation and profiteering were being cracked down on everywhere, anyone who still dared to take advantage of loopholes to smuggle things was obviously not a law-abiding citizen. This was not surprising at all.
"Okay, let's eat meat."
The whole meal was completely overshadowed by this sheep.
This sheep isn't very big; after cleaning it, it will weigh around 80 or 90 pounds, which is more than enough for one meal.
Fang Ping felt embarrassed to eat and drink for free, so seeing that the food was about to be cooked, he found an axe and went to the yard to chop firewood.
After exchanging a quick glance with Lin Dongfang and Mingzhu, they decided to give them all away.
"Then I'll stew a pot of mutton and lamb ribs, line the side with flatbread, and in this pot, I'll simmer a pot of mutton soup. Is that enough?"
Mingzhu stared at the two large pots, her lips twitching.
"Aren't you afraid of scaring them?"
Jian Dan also glanced at the several bowls of prepared meat.
"This is out in the open. It's not that I'm stingy; I'd rather have leftovers than not have enough."
Then, I'll send these two pieces out to freeze later, and give them some to take with them when they leave. I won't mail any more before the New Year.
The main reason is that she didn't pretend to be poor in front of Zhu Yan, so she probably didn't scare anyone.
"This head,"
Simple was unwilling to do such troublesome work; there wasn't much meat yet, and she still had several unprocessed sheep and cow heads in her storage space.
"How do you make this? Do you braise it?"
Seeing the undisguised disgust on her face, Mingzhu was speechless. She didn't know how to make it, but she also knew it was a good thing.
Lin Dongfang was speechless.
"Use the broth from the venison you used to braise to braise this."
Jian Dan desperately wanted someone to handle this for him, but he also knew that today's occasion was inappropriate.
"Okay, okay, I'll freeze it first, and we'll talk about it another day."
Xiao Rui, go and find the village chief.
Let's not wait until tomorrow. It's obvious they won't have any good food. The best they can offer is probably the vegetables from the greenhouse that aren't even in season yet.
"Why!"
Cheng Rui agreed and ran out. Jian Dan picked up the spatula with a tragic expression. Heaven knows, after Xiao Rui and the others arrived, Xiao Rui took over the kitchen. How long had it been since she had cooked?
A pot of braised mutton and lamb chops, surrounded by cornbread pancakes.
The pot opposite is a pot of mutton offal soup, which is very friendly to people from Northeast China. The mutton offal is not expensive, but it is very fresh.
Lin Dongfang stir-fried a cabbage in a small pot next to him, and Xiao Rui went down into the cellar and took out a watermelon.
One meat dish, one vegetable dish, one soup, and one fruit platter.
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