0p0 Chapter 441 Gray Rat
Chapter 441 Gray Rat
Everyone's noses tightened upon hearing this. Who among them hadn't experienced hard times? But no one had been as miserable as Yingzi, born into it. If she hadn't been lucky enough to be picked up by Jiang Shangxian at such a young age, she probably wouldn't have had such a good life elsewhere.
Jiang Shangxian patted her head and said, "It's such a beautiful day, and we have such delicious food. We must eat it quickly. Don't cry. Crying while eating will easily cause water to enter your brain."
"Yeah!" Yingzi sniffed and nodded vigorously.
Even Jiang's mother, who was always frugal, couldn't stand it any longer: "Child, if you like chicken soup, just tell me. It's not some rare delicacy. We can always afford chicken soup at home."
Of course, it is impossible to eat it every day. It is because Jiang Shangxian has not yet married that she has a picky appetite and wants to eat meat every day.
After she gets married and Old Fan and the others leave, the food quality of the Jiang family will definitely plummet.
But by then Yingzi will go to Cui's house. Will the Cui family still not be able to eat chicken?
Didn’t you hear what Li Meng said?
The Cui family’s kitchen stews at least one chicken every day because Jiulang likes to eat noodles cooked in chicken soup.
Old Madam Xia also said, "Life is getting better now. I'll raise a few more chickens in the spring. We can kill one whenever we want to eat."
There is only one, I can't bear to give away any more, I have to keep that chicken for laying eggs.
At least the chicken has to lay enough eggs and complete its life mission before you can eat it.
Yingzi wanted to cry again. She was obviously bought to be a slave, but she felt that the life of a slave was really too easy, much better than that of the village chief's family.
Seeing this, Jiang Wangri didn't care about her sitting on his back just now. "Don't cry. If you really like it so much, next time I'll treat you to a whole one. I'll give it all to you."
Cry, cry, cry, all your blessings will be gone!
So annoying! Just take a little bit out of his wife's book!
New Year's Eve
No one in the Jiang family slept in. They were busy kneading the dough and mixing the stuffing. They made a thousand dumplings in all kinds of flavors, including leek and meat, leek and egg, cabbage and meat, radish and meat, pickled cabbage and meat, vegetarian three-fresh, three-fresh, preserved egg and meat, scallion and meat, seaweed and shrimp, yellow croaker...
Food is hard to come by, and no one would be lazy or clever when it comes to eating. Even though Lao Fan and the other three had never cooked before, they learned very seriously and wrapped each one carefully.
In the past, the Jiang family had a large population and was particularly democratic when it came to food. When it came to food with stuffing, there was a lot of discussion and a wide variety of options. Jiang Shangxian and his mother would choose a few as appropriate and would not cook all of them.
This time, because it was the New Year, they simply made everything. Old Madam Xia also made a lot of glutinous rice balls and small dumplings, saying that vegetable dumplings should be eaten on the morning of the first day of the New Year, and glutinous rice balls should be eaten during the Lantern Festival.
Since you are making it, just make it all at once and freeze it outside. It won’t go bad anyway.
When Xiao Jiang saw the glutinous rice balls, he started to crave them. There was a thin crispy layer on the outside, a glutinous glutinous rice ball skin on the inside, and a sesame filling at the very bottom. One bite of it was so hot that it made people jump on the spot, but they were reluctant to spit it out.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Xiao Jiang waved goodbye, took the dumplings and glutinous rice balls he had prepared, got on the Cui Mansion's carriage, and took Yingzi to have lunch with her mother-in-law.
The busy and overwhelmed year begins here.
On the other side, Cui Bianxu, who was still working hard in the mountains braving the wind and snow to prepare year-end benefits for his employees, was not enjoying it so much. There were no dumplings or glutinous rice balls. He was searching for prey in the mountains with Li Sheng and He Jianming.
Today is New Year's Eve. As the master, he has to find a way to get something to eat for his subordinates.
"Jiulang, there are wild boar hoof prints here, they look very fresh." Li Sheng squatted in one place and looked for a while before getting up and coming back.
The snow was not very thick, but it was enough to leave traces of wild animals in the mountains. It was easy to find the animals by just following the hoof prints.
Cui Bianxu glanced at the sky. The snow had gradually stopped, but the sky was still foggy. It should be around the hour of Mao. The forest in the early morning was exceptionally cold, and white mist rose from his mouth. "This time is when the gray squirrels are active. Let's see if we can get some."
The taste of wild boar is incomparable to that of gray rat. If you can eat the delicious one, no one wants to eat the bad one.
Jian Ming loved this kind of activity the most and was more energetic than anyone else. Upon hearing this, he immediately took out a bundle and said, "It's winter now. It would be nice if we could dig up a few squirrel nests and get some pine nuts and hazelnuts as snacks."
Li Sheng couldn't help but look sideways at these words. Not only did Jian Ming kill the gray rat but he also robbed its nest. This guy was really not a human being.
The gray mouse is actually a squirrel. It is small in size, so you must have good eyesight and accuracy when hunting it. It is best to shoot an arrow directly at its head so that the skin can be peeled off. If you collect enough of them, you can make a gray mouse skin coat.
It just so happened that the mountain they were on had dense vegetation and many pine trees, so it shouldn't be difficult to get some gray mice.
The three of them dispersed and each chose a pine tree to hide under, breathing slowly and slowly. To hunt gray squirrels, one must be patient and wait patiently. Gray squirrels are accustomed to coming out in the morning, so before the hour of Si is a good time to hunt them.
Sure enough, after waiting for a while, Cui Bianxu heard a slight noise coming from the right. He turned sideways and stretched his head to look, and saw a gray mouse coming down from the pine tree between him and Jianming.
It was not difficult to tell from Jian Ming's eyes that he had seen it too.
The two men looked at each other without moving, staring at the gray mouse that nimbly fell from the tree to the ground. Its nose sniffed the air, its two long ears moved, and its bright black eyes observed the surrounding situation. It had just chosen a direction to run, and the next moment, an arrow flew straight towards it with a sound of breaking through the air.
Animals have an instinctive sense of danger. It wanted to run, but it was too late. The arrow was shot by Cui Bianxu, who was very strong. The huge impact force of the arrow directly pinned the gray mouse, which had just jumped to a height of a palm, to the ground.
The enormous force caused the arrow tail to vibrate and hum, and the gray mouse twitched twice on the ground before falling silent.
Li Sheng walked over and grabbed the tail of the arrow, pulling the squirrel off the arrowhead. He turned his head to look at Jian Ming, who was already climbing up the pine tree with his butt sticking out. "Let's see if there are any more gray squirrels inside."
If there are still some in the nest, you will definitely get bitten if you reach in rashly.
Jian Ming was not stupid. After climbing the tree for a while, he found a rat hole. He looked inside cautiously to make sure there was no rat before reaching in to dig.
His palms were smaller than those of Cui Bianxu and Li Sheng, but they were just right for digging out the gray rat's nest. In a short while, he dug out more than three pounds of pine nuts, hazelnuts, and pecans that the gray rat had stored.