Chapter 210 Let’s Buy Meat Together
When Shen Qing was feeling worried, he saw Liu Cuihua walking towards him from the other side of the river.
She quickly stood up and went to meet him.
After crossing the wooden bridge, Liu Cuihua took off the backpack and unconsciously lowered her voice and said, "Look, what did I bring you?"
Shen Qing saw Liu Cuihua push aside the green grass covering the backpack, revealing a plump pheasant with bright feathers and a cleaned fat rabbit inside!
Liu Cuihua explained: "The head of the family came back from hunting, and I thought you didn't know how to tan rabbit skins, so I packed the rabbits and sent them to you.
Pheasant feathers are not worth much, so I can keep them for my children as a novelty, or make a few toy shuttlecocks.
When they first met, Shen Qing learned that they knew how to make saltpeter. Then she mentioned that her eldest daughter-in-law had hunted a rabbit and asked how to make saltpeter from the rabbit skin.
She explained that the process was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and as soon as she heard it, Shen Qing asked them to help with the nitrate production.
So this time she didn't send a whole one over. The pheasant had bright feathers, and her children were tired of looking at them, but the villagers came from the Central Plains, so how could they have seen one before?
Especially since Shen Qing's family has a teenage son and a three-year-old granddaughter, who are at an age when they love to play and explore new things.
When Shen Qing saw the pheasants and rabbits, more than ten ways to eat them flashed through his mind!
Stir-fried pheasant, nourishing pheasant soup, braised spicy pheasant, stir-fried rabbit, spicy diced rabbit, double pepper rabbit, boiled rabbit...
After hearing Liu Cuihua's words, he put aside the delicious food in his mind and quickly grasped the key point.
"Have they returned from hunting? Were there any wild boars among the prey?" She was in urgent need of fresh pork.
Although wild boar is not as delicious as domestic pig, it is meat after all, and some people like the taste of wild boar.
In terms of cost-effectiveness, wild boars are cheaper than domestic pigs. You can eat meat without having to travel back and forth to the city. What else is there to complain about!
Liu Cuihua blinked and replied, "Yes, wild boars have strong attack power. It took a lot of effort to hunt one. Why are you asking it?"
Didn’t you say you don’t like wild boar meat?”
Shen Qing always said that she loved eating rabbit meat. She thought that most people liked eating pheasant, so she gave pheasant and rabbit as gifts.
"I don't like to eat it, but look at how many people are working here, and everyone likes to eat meat! Cuihua, let's go to your house together and see what can be bought. This way I don't have to go to the city, right?" After Shen Qing finished speaking, he happily sent the pheasants and rabbits in Liu Cuihua's backpack to Jiang Yujiangshui for processing, and then happily pushed Liu Cuihua back.
Liu Cuihua was also very happy. Shen Qing didn't have to go to the city to buy it, and it would be much easier for her family to carry less to the city to sell.
After all, the donkeys and cows in the village are all carrying bricks and tiles, and even if they are idle, the Lei family can borrow them for emergency use when they have urgent matters, but how can they borrow them all the time?
Since we don't have any large livestock at home, we still have to rely on human power to pull the cart when we go out. Naturally, we have to buy as little as possible. Besides, we are from the same village, so of course we buy from people in the village first.
It was not time to prepare dinner in the afternoon, and the woman in the village who was responsible for dinner was rarely free.
Shen Qing and Liu Cuihua were seen talking and laughing as they headed up the mountain.
Zhao Mingyue shouted, "Shen Qing, what are you doing?"
Shen Qing also shouted back: "The Lei family is back from hunting, and we're almost out of meat. I want to see if I can buy some meat to supplement our meals."
There was actually quite a bit of smoked meat left, but it wasn't suitable for making dumpling soup. She wanted to save it for stir-fried garlic and Chinese cabbage in the cold winter.
Shen Qing shouted and many women around heard it.
They cooked three meals a day and bought meat from the city when they sold astragalus. However, they had been used to saving money for decades, so even if they earned money, they were reluctant to buy more and it was eaten up in a few days.
Every household selling astragalus has dozens of taels of silver in their hands. Nowadays, making adobe bricks and digging foundations are all hard work. Who doesn’t want to eat some meat?
It is not easy to just go to the city, let alone gather many people to go together. Now it is difficult for a good cook to cook without rice, and there is no place to spend the money even if you have it!
After hearing what Shen Qing said, everyone's minds suddenly became active, and one after another caught up with the two.
"Cuihua, I want to buy some meat too, is that okay?" Li E said timidly.
Liu Cuihua said loudly: "Why not? I'm so happy!"
She looked at the increasing number of women and said with relief, "I'm selling it to the same dealer for the same price. I guarantee it's even cheaper than if you bought it individually!"
There are so many prey each time that it is impossible to wait in the city and sell them bit by bit. We can only sell them all to buyers, and the price will be lower.
Zhao Mingyue and the others understood this principle and said with a smile, "No, no, you can give us the price according to the piecemeal purchase price. We can't buy everything. How will you sell the leftover scraps, bones and offal?
Of course, I can’t offer the same price as the buyer.”
A village is convenient for them, but hunters make money by hunting. The prey in autumn is fat and strong with shiny fur. How can they sell it for money?
"It's okay. There are plenty of prey. You can choose the ones and sell the rest to buyers." Liu Cuihua said proudly.
There are only about ten families in total, how much can they buy?
Not to mention anything else, a wild boar weighs more than 400 kilograms, and a wild sheep weighs more than 100 kilograms. Although there is only one wild boar, there are several wild sheep!
There are also a lot of wild rabbits, pheasants, roe deer... As for deer, they are too expensive and the villagers will definitely not buy them.
The group of women felt relieved after hearing this. Thinking about buying meat and having meat to eat in the evening, their family members' surprised expressions also made them feel better.
They gathered in groups of three or five and discussed what to cook.
When Mrs. Cao heard the noise, she came out with a frown and saw a large group of women following Liu Cuihua towards the Lei family.
A thought quickly popped up in her mind: Has the Lei family returned from hunting?
Then his brows frowned even deeper. Liu Cuihua was really inconsiderate. Farmers only ate meat a few times a year. What could she buy with them?
I'm afraid you have to be picky and choose to buy two or three pounds of meat and ask for a lower price!
Thinking of the taste of meat, she swallowed her saliva and shouted towards the house: "Wenzhu, Qingzhu, come on, hold on to grandma, and I will take you upstairs to buy some meat!"
When Cao Wenzhu and Cao Qingzhu heard that they were going to buy meat, they ran out at a very fast pace.
The weather is not yet freezing and snowy, so the fresh meat we buy won’t last long. We have been eating dried meat for many days. Who wouldn’t want to improve the taste with fresh meat?
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Zhao Mingyue, Li E, Jiang Ying, and Grandma Qin were all stunned when they saw the prey piled up like a small hill in the open space in front of Cao's house.
"Isn't this too much?"
"Cuihua, your family is really amazing."
"With so much prey, our family probably couldn't even carry it back, let alone catch it."
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The man from the Lei family felt embarrassed by the praise, and his dark face turned red.
"Ladies and aunts, please take a look at which ones you want and how many you want. Once you've chosen, I'll clean them up for you."
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