AWB Chapter 554 23 things
Chapter 554 23 things
The three of them came out of Grandpa Chen Er's house and were on their way home. When they reached a fork in the road, the two said goodbye to Liu Jingxue.
"Xiaoxue, let's go back and send the sorghum over."
"Okay, I'll send the sorghum to Grandpa Chen Er as soon as I get back.
But you need to deliver 600 kilograms of sorghum, which is too much to deliver in one trip. I will come to help you after I finish delivering it."
Liu Jingxue's shoulder pole is specially made, and it can carry more than 300 kilograms. If she puts half a bag of grain on each side of the basket, she can carry kilograms at a time.
"Xiaoxue, you don't need to come and help. We haven't returned the cart we borrowed before, so we're going to send the sorghum to the winemaker.
We were left with one person pushing the cart and one person carrying a load, and we delivered 600 kilograms in one trip.
I returned the cart when I came back."
"Okay, then I'll go back." Liu Jingxue said goodbye to the two and continued walking towards the end of the village.
When Liu Jingxue arrived at Grandpa Chen's house carrying sorghum, she found that Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao had already arrived.
After weighing the grain and making sure the weight was correct, the three of them left Grandpa Chen's house together.
The three of them were walking on the road. Zhao Junhao looked around and saw that no one was around, so he asked Liu Jingxue, "Xiaoxue, should we go into the mountains to hunt and make bacon?
The meat we sent over last time was very popular, and Mingxuan and I have more money in our coffers now.
Isn't it said that it's going to snow soon? Why don't we get some bacon before it snows and mail it out before the roads are blocked by heavy snow?"
With last year's experience, Liu Jingxue was very experienced. "The production team will soon organize winter hunting. In order to avoid the team not being able to hunt anything at that time, this time we will not hunt outside the area, but go deep into the mountains."
After taking a look at the two of them, Liu Jingxue had no intention of taking them with her. It was too inconvenient to take the two of them into the mountains last time. They had to drag the prey by themselves, which was too much trouble.
Besides, she was going to the mountains this time and she didn't want to bring two burdens with her.
"I will go into the mountains alone this time, so you guys don't have to go," said Liu Jingxue.
"Xiaoxue, we have to prepare a lot of meat this time. In addition to the meat to be sent out, there is also the meat we will eat in the next few months. The amount will probably be much more than last time.
You can't get it back by yourself, why don't you take us with you and let us be your porters." Zhao Junhao really wanted to go to the mountains to see the world, so he tempted.
Liu Jingxue refused, "If I take you in, I won't be able to hunt in peace. I have to keep an eye on your safety. It's too much trouble.
Let's wait until you have practiced your skills a little more, and then I will take you two in."
Zhao Junhao's shoulders slumped when he heard this, and he seemed to lose all his energy in an instant.
"Xiaoxue, why don't we not go into the mountains, but wait outside and help you transport the prey when the time comes." Zhou Mingxuan suggested.
Liu Jingxue didn't want the two of them to drag the prey around the mountain. If they were discovered by the villagers, all the prey would have to be confiscated.
This time she was going alone, and she didn't plan to get all the prey from outside. She planned to get some animals raised in the mountains in the space, and treat them as if they were hunted in the mountains herself.
She would still feel a little heartbroken if these things rich in spiritual energy were confiscated.
"To get so much meat, I can't bring it all back in one trip into the mountains, I plan to do it in several batches.
The mountains are too far away, so I plan to go in before dawn, get a batch of them and send them back to the cowshed before the villagers go into the mountains.
When the time comes, you will wait in the cowshed and help process the prey.
There are so many things, we can’t let the elders handle them all.”
“After delivering this batch, I will rest for a few hours, go into the mountains again in the afternoon, and bring back another batch of prey after dark.
I'll leave it to you to deal with the prey.
I'll make these first this time. I'll keep some for eating in the next few days and make the rest into bacon.
As for our food in the next few months, the team will give us a lot of it during the winter hunt. When the snow falls, we can get some frozen food to eat fresh in the snow. "Liu Jingxue arranged.
"By the way, lend me the sled you guys made. I need it to haul the prey. I don't have to borrow it from others and let them find out."
Liu Jingxue had already made arrangements, so Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao had no choice but to agree.
In fact, the reason why Liu Jingxue made this arrangement was mainly because she really didn't want to have the experience of dealing with prey outside for the second time.
You have to know that she used to deal with the prey she got in the space. No matter how complicated the matter was, it was just a matter of thought. But dealing with prey outside was too tiring.
If she didn't want the two of them to regard her as a sucker and rely on her for everything, she would have wanted to handle everything by herself.
But she still understood the principle of being grateful for a little and resentful for a big. She could take care of the hunting, but she would leave the other matters to the two of them.
If there weren't other houses nearby, she would not have wanted them to go to the cowshed to process the meat and tire out the elders, and would have sent it directly to their homes, fearing that they would be discovered by the villagers if they were processing the prey and drying the meat there.
Remembering that marinating meat requires a lot of salt, Liu Jingxue quickly asked, "Have you prepared the salt for marinating the meat?"
"Don't worry. We asked someone to buy 300 kilograms of salt in several batches over the past two months. It will definitely be enough," Zhou Mingxuan said.
"This amount of salt is definitely enough for pickling meat and fish this winter.
Before you go to study tonight, please bring the sled to me and take the salt and pickling vats to the cowshed.
We will take a day off tomorrow. I will go into the mountains to hunt early the day after tomorrow. You should go to the cowshed early then to prepare to process the prey.
We have to pickle the meat before the production team's winter hunt, otherwise there won't be enough pickling vats.
If I buy it again, people will definitely notice something is wrong." Liu Jingxue arranged.
"Okay, we'll deliver it tonight," Zhou Mingxuan agreed.
After dark, Zhou and Zhao dragged the sled and carried the two jars they had bought and the prepared salt to the cowshed.
After unloading the jars, the two of them dragged the sled to Liu Jingxue's house without stopping and transported all the jars used to pickle the meat last time to the cowshed.
Zhou Mingxuan ran again and brought the sled to Liu Jingxue.
Seeing that Zhou Mingxuan was about to return to the cowshed to start today's study, Liu Jingxue remembered something and hurriedly called him.
"Brother Zhou, last time I told you about suggesting that the team leader start breeding in the production team, have you talked to the team leader about this? Did he agree?"
When Liu Jingxue asked about this, Zhou Mingxuan couldn't help but think of what happened yesterday morning and frowned, "We went to talk to him about this yesterday morning.
But looking at the captain's expression, he seemed not very happy. However, he did not reject us outright. He just said that he would discuss it with other people.
There was no food distribution today, and we thought the team leader might be too busy, so we didn't ask him.
I'll go find him tomorrow to see if he agrees."
Liu Jingxue thought for a moment and said, "You should ask again in two days. The brigade cadres were busy with accounting yesterday and distributing grain today. I'm afraid they haven't had time to discuss this matter yet. We have to give them some time."
Zhou Mingxuan thought for a moment and said, "We don't have to deal with the prey the day after tomorrow, so why not go and ask the captain the day after tomorrow?"