Chapter 199

In the space, Li Changting, who has taken a bath, hasn't seen Xu Qing for a long time. He lets him out. Knowing that Xu Qing can hear him, he shouts several times to the sky.

After a while, when he looked back, he saw a piece of paper falling from the air.

I have a cold and fever. Go to Duanmu and get some medicine. 】

after a while, Xu Qing went back to his cave and released Li Changting.

"Was it last night..." Li Changting asked as soon as he came out. However, you don't need to know that he must have made too much noise last night. There was wind in the quilt. They were sweating and didn't clean up. They froze Xu Qing.

Xu Qing glared at him with anger and resentment. There was a light mist in his eyes, which immediately made Li Changting feel very sad.

Xu Qing sniffed: "today I want to eat hot pot!"

Although she has a cold, she can only eat Qingtang hotpot, but now they don't even have the soup base of Qingtang hotpot, let alone a few pieces of mutton to drive away the cold.

But Xu Qing is lucky. There are some people who send pillows when they are sleepy.

The cold winter has arrived. It's not only chilly outside, but also depressed. Even a tender leaf is missing.

So the remaining two families, which had raised cattle and sheep, decided to kill the livestock, because there was no grass to support them, so they could not take out their own food.

In summer, even if it was reheated, there were still shrubs and a small amount of weeds to eat outside. At that time, there was no shortage of straw. But now the grass outside is dead, the leaves are all gone, there is no rice harvest, and there is no new straw to supplement. Instead of waiting for these animals to starve and freeze to death, it is better to kill them while they grow some autumn fat.

Just moved to the cave, the village killed a cow, and then left four cattle and three sheep. In early autumn, more than half of the people in the village decided to move to bearded mountain village. Four families who raised cattle and sheep also took their own cattle and sheep away by the way. In the end, there was only one cow of the patriarch's family and one ewe of another family left in the village.

The family that raised the sheep planned to keep all the mutton for their family to eat. This whole winter, they relied on the sheep to supplement their nutrition.

However, when Xu Qing was thinking about eating mutton, the family suddenly came over and asked if they could exchange mutton for some salt. After all, even if a whole sheep is preserved in winter, it's better to use salt, otherwise it's easy to break in a cave with a lower temperature.

Of course, Xu Qing agreed. She asked Li Jinmei to negotiate the price and came back to give Xu Qing a number. Originally, she wanted to ask Li Changting, who was beside her, to go, but it was a woman. It was not easy for Li Changting to talk.

Li Jinmei reported a number back, saying that a jin of salt for a jin of meat, at most for three jin of meat to Xu Qing.

Xu Qing thought it was cheap, but everyone didn't think so. Now salt is much more precious than meat.

Although their village is not short of salt, because they can rely on bearded cottage. Bearded always brings them a bag when he goes to buy salt. However, as far away as Qingzhou, bearded has taken a lot of risks for them to bring back the salt, and only charged them one cent more for the salt. This is because of the good relationship between the two sides.

In fact, salt is more precious than meat. In normal times, salt is no cheaper than meat. People can not eat meat, but they can not.

It's a bit like the other party is looking for the wrong big head to exchange a kilo of meat for a kilo of salt. But the rarity is the most expensive thing. Now only their family has mutton, and they can't buy it anywhere else. Can't they bid a good price? It's not too much, so Xu Qing agreed.

Li Jinmei took three catties of salt and exchanged three catties of mutton with the other party. Fortunately, the other party also knew that she had taken advantage of it, so Li Jinmei chose which part of the mutton to take.

Li Jinmei was not polite either. She took the Lamb Tenderloin and ribs. The family didn't know whether the mutton was delicious or not, because they didn't eat it at all and didn't study it. Anyway, it's just three jin of meat. Whatever Li Jinmei chooses, they just need to match each other.

On the other hand, the patriarch's family also slaughtered their cattle.

Butcher Li's family moved away. There was no one to kill cattle in the village, so Li Jing had to go on his own. Anyway It should be like killing a pig.

Because the cow is too big to control, Li Jing asked Li Changting to help tie it up. The strength of cattle is not controlled by ordinary people. They must struggle madly when they know that they are going to be slaughtered.

The patriarch's family will not be able to eat more than 1000 catties of cattle until next year. So they all went to ask how much food can be exchanged for one catty of beef. They don't want more. If they have three or four catties, they can keep them for a year.

Sheep can't be counted on. After all, a sheep doesn't have many catties in total, but the patriarch's family can't eat it all. They will sell some more or less. I'm looking forward to a bite of beef this Spring Festival!

Sure enough, after the patriarch killed the cattle, his family left some good meat and sent some to Xu Qing's family. The rest was sold, including blood and water. It was a little cheaper than beef, and some people wanted it.

Xu Qing collected 20 catties of beef from Li Jing. Before that, she gave five catties of salt to the patriarch, which is called back and forth. However, Xu Qing asked Li Changting to take some grain and buy some cattle to wash hot pot in the water.Xu Qing didn't have enough materials to eat hot pot, but he got a bowl of mutton noodles. The soup made of mutton and spare ribs, together with hand-made noodles, was covered with a thin layer of mutton, sprinkled with scallions and a little chili oil. Xu Qing was very satisfied with the sweat.

Li Jinmei didn't keep three catties of mutton. She used it to make soup and noodles for everyone. Fresh mutton is the best.

The remaining 20 catties of beef are salted, leaving 10 catties for the new year, and the rest is eaten slowly.

After eating a bowl of mutton noodles, Xu Qing's eyes on his sheep have changed. However, the two ewes in the family have just given birth to lambs and are not weaned yet. She can boil some milk at most. As for the only ram, Xu Qing still wants to keep breeding and give birth to more lambs.

Cattle and pigs are also like this. It seems that they are all a group that can't be killed.

Alas, I knew I had bought more at the beginning. It's not that I can't afford it.

Probably due to the medicine made by mutton and Duanmu Xiang, Xu Qing's cold will be cured in two days.

At this time, the patriarch suddenly came to him and said that the water in the underground river seems to be much less. In the past, he put a bucket down to draw water, and soon a bucket of water could be filled up, but now he can only draw half a bucket at the same time, which frightens the big guys!

If this underground river is cut off, how can they spend the whole winter? We still remember the nightmare of no water in summer, such as thirst, dirty, plague No one wants to go through it again.

This time, many people regret that they didn't go to bearded cottage. But on second thought, the source of their river is on the other side of bearded cottage. Is there something wrong with the lake there?