Chapter 148

All the Three Li's family died in the plague, so their cattle were confiscated and kept by the villagers for the time being. Now only this cow is owned by the public, and the cattle and sheep patriarchs of other families can't be the owners.

Digging a cave is such a tiring job. If you don't add some oil and water, it's hard to keep your strength. So the patriarch said that when slaughtering cattle, everyone got excited and finally had meat to eat!

Here, slaughtering cattle and sheep has to be approved by the government. If you kill cattle and sheep casually, you have to go to jail.

However, the government also stipulated that it was not illegal to slaughter cattle and sheep in order to protect their lives during the period of widespread famine.

"Patriarch, what a killing?" Some people are happy, others are reluctant, after all, it is a cow.

As the saying goes, no matter how hungry you are, no matter how poor you are.

There are five cows in Changxi village. People have to exclaim: "this village is really rich!" Who has cattle at home should not be treated like a baby.

The head of the clan gave him a white look: "otherwise, who will raise it? Do you have grass to feed it? Do you know how much grass it eats in a day? "

The man was silent, not to mention the fresh grass, but there was not much dry straw.

The cattle at home hurt themselves, and the cattle without home hurt no one. Seeing the cattle listless and getting thinner, people have to be hungry, not to mention the cattle. It's not cost-effective to eat when it's time to be skinny.

In the end, butcher Li and some men led the cattle into the cave. They didn't know what they had done. Anyway, when they sent it to Xu Qing, it had been broken down into pieces of fresh beef.

There was no waste of blood and internal organs. They were cleaned up. More than 1000 catties of cattle, enough for all people to eat for half a month.

Since it's a good thing, you have to take good care of it.

The internal organs of cattle are easy to be damaged. Xu Qing boiled and marinated them first. The marinated beef offal can get rid of the fishy smell to the maximum extent. As for the beef, some of them are fresh, and the rest are cut into strips, salted and stored in the cave at low temperature.

From noon to evening, after five hours of medium heat and slow brine, two large pots of hot and fragrant stewed beef and marinated beef are out of the oven.

In the afternoon, I was fascinated by the smell of meat. When the meal was ready, everyone could not wait to come to line up with their rice bowls. Two spoonfuls of rice, two spoonfuls of meat and a big bowl of porcelain made the men smile.

The men in the village have a big appetite, and they haven't eaten meat for a long time, so they all throw away their arms and eat like a wolf.

"Let's eat!" The patriarch shouts with his rice bowl, "the beef won't last long in this weather. It's a pity if we don't eat it early! Take a rest and do two hours' work in the evening

"Good!"

When they heard that they had to continue to work in the evening, many people were worried. They couldn't help adding a bowl of rice.

After dinner, ten women in charge of washing and washing dishes came to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, one by one couldn't help laughing.

"Look, this bowl is clean enough to be a mirror. It doesn't need washing."

"Hahaha, we really don't waste it. It's easy for us to lick so clean one by one!"

"What are you, come here and have a look." Yu Xiaoqian waved to them and said with a smile, "look how clean our pot is. If I can brush a drop of oil from it, I will lose!"

Two men carrying water came, smell speech embarrassed smile: "this can't blame us, only blame you do too delicious!"

A group of women laughed.

"Who's in charge? It's delicious. Will you do it tomorrow? "

"Xu Qing is in charge of cooking. We just help to cut the meat and make a fire."

"Ah, Xu Qing, how shall we do it tomorrow?"

Today, even the intestines and heads of cattle have been washed and put into the pot. Now there are only two pots of fresh beef bones and about 1000 Jin of beef left.

Xu Qing thought about it and said, "at night they go to dig caves. Let's not idle. We chop the cattle bones and boil them into soup. We can boil them over low heat for one night. We can drink them tomorrow morning. It should be good to eat steamed bread."

"Ah, good!" Several women answered with a smile.

In fact, it's best to eat one under the cow bone, but they don't have so much wheat flour.

The bone was so hard that it couldn't be cut open with a knife. Finally, Xu Qing got a saw from Cao Laoliu, and several women worked hard together to cut the bone into pieces.

When the men came back to sleep after they had finished their work and had a bath, they smelled the delicious smell coming from the five pots of the stove. They asked if they were stewing bone soup, which they would drink tomorrow morning.

People go to sleep with the dream of delicious food, and the whole night is fragrant.

Xu Qing was very busy and tired all day. As soon as he lay down on the mat, he collapsed. On the contrary, Li Changting was very relaxed. Patrolling was a piece of cake for him. He had nothing to do all day except to enjoy the cool.

In the middle of the night, they went to "convenience" again. Today, Li Changting had enough to eat and drink. He didn't need Xu Qing to open a small stove for him, and he also took care of all the affairs in the space. When he came back to the house after feeding the fish, he found that Xu Qing had already fallen asleep in bed.

Xu Qing was awakened by heat.As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the white sky through the dense branches. She turned over and felt a chill on her sweat soaked back.

"When did you come back?" Xu Qing asked in a soft voice. His voice just woke up in the morning was a bit hoarse.

"Just now." Li Changting road.

It's just at the time when they get up and cook, because it's time for breakfast in another hour.

Xu Qing yawned and was ready to stay for another two minutes.

Li Changting touched her with a sleepy face: "don't go if you are tired. I'll go and tell the clan leader."

"No, it's just a few days. It's worth the tiredness." Xu Qing yawned and sat up. "I'm just used to sleeping in, and I'm not used to getting up so early."

Li Changting stretched out his hand to pinch her shoulder and beat her back. Xu Qing immediately gave a comfortable hum: "more important."

Three minutes later, Xu Qing stretched out and said, "OK, you can boil water to wash Huier's face. I'll go to cook."

Yu Xiaoqian and her colleagues have already brought over wheat flour, corn flour and coarse cereals flour. Ten women have changed their patterns and made several kinds of steamed bread with different tastes. The steamed bread is fast leavened in hot weather, and can be cooked in a moment.

The steamed buns were stacked in clean bamboo baskets layer by layer, and Xu Qing and his wife ran out of wheat flour, corn flour, and coarse cereals. A total of 480 coarse cereals steamed buns were produced.

As soon as the only 12 children in the village woke up, they sat on the kitchen table and watched eagerly, waiting for Xu Qing's first drawer of steamed bread to come out of the pot. Each of the 12 children shared a steaming steamed bread and a bowl of bone soup.

Now these 12 children have become the treasure of the village. Several of them survived with high fever. No one can starve them if they are hungry.