Chapter 213: Your life in the mountains is so comfortable
While others were watching the chopping of pork, Shen Qing quietly found Liu Cuihua.
"Cuihua, please sell me the deer."
Liu Cuihua was startled and lowered her voice and asked quickly, "Why did you buy a whole deer? Can you eat it all?"
Besides, venison is very expensive, and it's all lean meat with little fat, so it's not worth it for us poor people to eat it."
Only officials and wealthy businessmen who are used to eating meat and have no shortage of oil and water like venison. Some also think that venison is very nutritious and can change the taste.
The helpers in Shen Qing's family are also people who do physical work. Such expensive venison is not as popular as the cheap and affordable wild boar meat.
When Shen Qing heard the word "expensive", he asked in surprise, "How expensive is it? Oh, and that includes the deer antlers."
The Lei family hunted a male deer with antlers, which are expensive goods. The mall charges the price by gram!
She added quietly, "I'm not going to eat it myself. I have other uses for it."
Liu Cuihua first thought that the people in the village had just arrived, and she bought some to give gifts to the people in the government office.
No wonder Shen Qing came to ask her secretly.
However, venison is a rare and expensive commodity, and the price is already not cheap, especially when it comes with antlers.
She stated the selling price: "This whole deer is the most expensive of all the prey, worth at least six or seven taels of silver!
The venison, including the bones, was ninety-five coins per pound. This buck could easily weigh two hundred pounds, which was close to two ounces of silver.
Don't underestimate the antlers because they are small. They are more expensive than venison! It is not a problem to sell them for 2 taels and 2 qian.
There are also deerskins, but they need to be tanned before they can be sold. A whole piece can probably be sold for two to three taels of silver."
Deer hair is not long and is not suitable for making brushes, so they just nitrate it and sell it.
But, "Why don't you just buy venison? Deer antlers and deerskin are not cost-effective, and giving venison is quite decent."
Venison costs 95 wen per pound. You should know that fatty pork is only 37 or 38 wen per pound, and lean meat is less than 30 wen. The price of venison is almost doubled.
Shen Qing understood that Liu Cuihua had misunderstood her intention of buying venison, but this misunderstanding was a good one.
A deer and its antlers only cost a little over four taels of silver, but when sold to a shopping mall, it can fetch tens of thousands of yuan!
Converted into grain, four taels of silver could buy eight or nine wen per jin of rice and flour, which was about five hundred jin.
Selling to the mall is 30,000 yuan for rice and flour at 2 yuan per catty, about 15,000 catties;
This strong contrast makes it a good deal without even having to do the math.
The mall has lost its previous source of income from fish, shrimp, eels and loaches, but now a deer has arrived, which is enough food for several years. We can’t miss it!
She instructed, "I need deer antlers too, Cuihua. Send them to me quietly at night, and don't let anyone else know."
Liu Cuihua patted her chest and assured: "Don't worry, no one will know!"
All of a sudden, even the deer were sold out, and the Lei family no longer had to go into the city to sell goods, so they were completely relaxed.
After peeling, cutting and chopping, Fang Ting and Ma Pandi also went to the vegetable garden to pick a lot of ginger and packed a lot for each household.
The two said awkwardly, "When stewing the meat, add more ginger to remove the fishy smell."
"It's cold in the mountains, so adding ginger to dispel the cold will warm your stomach."
Zhao Mingyue and her group were very grateful and thought that they would plant more ginger in March and April next year.
The two of them became even more embarrassed, their faces flushed.
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In the evening, the aroma of meat wafted from every household.
The people working sniffed hard, and their saliva came out uncontrollably.
So delicious!
The people from Shen Qing's family who helped carry bricks and tiles did not have dinner at her house, but no matter which family the six craftsmen worked for, this family would provide them with meals for the whole day.
In the afternoon, Liu Cuihua brought a fat rabbit and a pheasant. Jiang Yu and Jiang Shui stewed the pheasant into soup, cut the fat rabbit into cubes, and stir-fried it with dried chilies.
When Shen Qing came back from buying wild boar and wild sheep, the internal organs were the most fragile, so several people worked hard to clean the internal organs inside and out with wood ash.
A mutton soup was stewed with a small amount of mutton offal, and a lot of wild vegetables were added into it. A large pot of green vegetables was also stir-fried. More than ten people gathered around the big iron pot and ate the hot soup in the cold wind.
Craftsman Li and his six companions felt that they had never felt so comfortable and happy in their work for more than 20 years!
Even wealthy families would not be so willing to give them meat if they had it, and these mountain people, regardless of whether they were good or bad, all ate the same food.
Although there were not even tables and chairs, and not enough bowls and chopsticks, everyone squatted down with the big bowls they brought and ate with great relish.
"Boss, there are hunters hunting in your mountains. The prey is cheaper and fresher than that sold in the city. Life is really comfortable." Craftsman Li spoke only after he was almost full.
There is money to build a brick and tile house, and there is a large space to grow vegetables, raise poultry and livestock, and grow grain. You don’t have to spend money to buy firewood. It’s really good in every way!
Shen Qing: Life is comfortable because of the mall.
We bought food, tools, and protective weapons from the mall, and earned money by identifying medicinal herbs. Even the large livestock in the distant past also had a share of the credit from the mall... Otherwise, how could we have the peaceful and stable life we have now in the mountains?
Although I still work all day long now, I am not worried as long as I have money in my hands and there is hope in the fields, so I don’t have to worry too much about money to buy meat. Otherwise, if I have little money left or no subsequent source of income, I will not be willing to buy it even if the prey is fresh and cheap.
Jiang Xiangdong said cheerfully, "That's right, it's just a little far from the city, so it's not convenient to go out."
"It's good because it's far away from the city. Especially since there are many disaster victims coming to Jincheng now. I'm afraid there will be chaos for a while. It's quiet and stable here." Another craftsman who was concentrating on drinking mutton soup raised his head and said.
Craftsman Li sighed, "Ah, I don't know when the officials will be able to properly resettle the victims."
"When we arrived, the city gate was packed with people. I was afraid they would enter the city. There were so many people, and there was no guarantee there wouldn't be any thieves inside.
It's getting colder day by day. If we don't settle down soon, people will freeze to death."
“There is a lot of wasteland, but it’s not February or March when the ice has thawed, so you can see a harvest within a few months of planting.
It’s already September, and it will take at least half a year before next year’s grain harvest. I think next year’s lean period will be truly disastrous.”
The imperial court asked Jincheng to accept the disaster victims and certainly gave them relief grain, but judging by their dealings with officials, which official is not greedy?
Even a stingy person will leave behind a few pounds of rust before leaving!
Disaster relief grain was allocated in the first few months, but it is uncertain about the future.
If food cannot be allocated, people who are hungry will do anything. With so many disaster victims, the country will be in chaos.
Shen Qing and Huo Bing listened quietly and took it all in their mind.
I'm afraid there will be the most trouble in March or April next year.
Jiang Xiangnan and Jiang Xiangbei thought that it was fortunate that they arrived early, found a good place, and took protective measures. Now they were working hard to build the house, so they would not have to worry about the rain, snow, and ice in winter.
Jiang Yu and Jiang Shui thought to themselves that they should stock up more food so that they could go out less in the first half of next year.
There are also chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, and rabbits. I will try to buy more to raise...
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