Xiuxian: When you do things to the extreme

9 Three Years
Time flies, three years in a blink of an eye.

Xiaohuang Village, the Lu family's mansion, in the kitchen courtyard.

The thick smell of blood filled the air, and there were screams.

"Quick, hold it down!"

"This beast has so much strength!"

"Hold it, there's the bucket, get it quickly."

"Qingshan, come quickly..."

Several bare-chested muscular men pressed a fat black pig on the stone slab. However, the black pig was so fat and powerful that several people could not hold it down. For a moment, they were in a hurry, and the pigs screamed and howled miserably.

At this moment, a young man who was also bare-chested and showing strong muscles strode into the field holding a sharp knife.

He held down the pig's head with one hand, then sent out the sharp knife with the other hand, stabbing it into the throat with incomparable precision. The smelly pig blood spurted out and fell into the wooden barrel below, without even a trace splashing to everyone.

The young man pulled out the sharp knife and turned away. Everyone let go of the black pig and hung it up after the blood was drained.

The young man also turned back, opened the pig's belly with a knife, and skillfully removed the viscera. He dissected all the heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney, and then divided the keel into two. A whole pig was divided into two pieces like this. .

The young man picked up one, threw it on the chopping board, and then took a knife to disassemble it, removing the keel, tenderloin, ribs, streaky, front and rear legs, pig elbows and hoofs... a pig was cut apart in a blink of an eye.

Flowing clouds and flowing water, pleasing to the eye!
After untying one fan, he lifted another one. Under the skillful knife skills of the young man, the big fat pig turned into distinct pieces of meat in just a cup of tea.

"Send these lean meats to the kitchen, these leg meats to the butcher shop, and leave this piece of tenderloin to Butler Zhang..."

Xu Yang divided the pork one by one, took out a keel with a lot of meat, picked up a knife, and chopped it up. After chopping, he took a piece of pork liver, and threw them into the bamboo basket under his feet.

In this way, he put down his chopping knife and said to everyone: "You can divide the rest among yourselves."

After all, regardless of the reaction of everyone, he picked up the bamboo basket filled with pork bones and livers and left.

Seeing this, the butchers did not dare to stop him, and no one whispered until he left.

"Brother Qingshan is getting bolder."

"That's right, that piece of keel contains at least a pound of meat!"

"If Butler Zhang finds out about this, why don't they skin him?"

"Steward Zhang, come on, you are short-handed and soft-spoken, but Butler Zhang doesn't care!"

"That's right, I heard that most of Brother Qingshan's monthly allowance is given to Butler Zhang. Why would Butler Zhang be in trouble with him?"

"Not to mention that Brother Qingshan is so powerful. Not only is he good at killing pigs and cows, but he is also good at fighting. Some time ago, he fought with the Li family for water. I heard that Li Laojiu and the others can't do anything now. Getting out of bed."

"With Brother Qingshan's ruthlessness, what's wrong with taking a few more pieces of meat? Not to mention Butler Zhang, even if the master knew about it, I'm afraid he would just turn a blind eye."

"I heard that Master also thinks highly of Brother Qingshan, and is already planning to transfer him to be the servant of the nursing home..."

"Come on, don't spread rumors. This Li Qingshan is a heartless piece of meat. As a member of the Li family, he is so cruel to people of the same clan and surname. How can I like him? It would be great if he can hang out with us!"

"That's right, if you take so much meat, why don't you give us some stinky sesame water and send it off as a beggar?"

Everyone's attitude is different. Some people respect it, some people are afraid of it, and some people hate it but there is nothing they can do about it.

But this has little to do with Xu Yang.

Carrying the bamboo basket, I returned home.

"elder brother!"

Li Hongyu, who had grown into a half-grown girl, went out to greet her, took the bamboo basket in Xu Yang's hand with a smile, opened it, and was pleasantly surprised: "There are so many, and there are meat, how many pigs were killed today?"

"One end, big!"

Xu Yang smiled and walked into the courtyard.

Li Qinghe, who was also as big as a man, also came up to him, holding a fluffy rabbit in his hand: "Brother, when I went to cut bamboo today, I met this thing. Look, is it fat?"

"good."

Xu Yang nodded and expressed his appreciation: "Eat the bones first at noon, and keep the rabbit until evening."

"Uh-huh!"

Li Hongyu, who was standing by, nodded, poured out the pork bones and liver from the bamboo basket, and soaked them in water to remove the smelly blood.

This was something that would never have been thought of a few years ago. Even the smelly blood was important nutrition for the three brothers and sisters, and it was too late to save it.

Li Hongyu started to get busy, preparing lunch for three meals a day, Xu Yang also turned his gaze back to Li Qinghe: "How is this bow okay?"

"It's more than okay, it's simply a magic bow!"

Li Qinghe looked excited. He took off his bamboo bow and gestured: "The rabbit was at least twenty steps away from me, but I hit it with one arrow."

"That's good."

Xu Yang nodded: "After dinner later, we will go into the mountains again. We only have one rabbit at night. I'm afraid it won't be enough."

"it is good!"

……

In the diet of the ancients, ordinary people basically had two meals a day, and only princes, nobles, and wealthy gentry could eat three meals a day.

But when Xu Yang came, it was naturally impossible to follow this standard. As early as three years ago, the brothers and sisters were eating three meals a day, and they were full in every meal. In the past two years, they had developed to the point where they had meat and plenty of oil and water for every meal. Now Xu Yang's strong and strong physique, as well as Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu's height are proof of this.

"time to eat!"

As the cooking smoke billowed, the food was served. Li Hongyu filled a large bowl of brown rice for Xu Yang as usual, and then brought a large pot of bone soup to Xu Yang: "Brother, yours!"

"Ok!"

Xu Yang nodded, without being polite, picked up a bone with a lot of meat and put it into his mouth.

Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu scooped up the broth, poured it on the rice and ate it.

These pig keel bones originally contained a lot of meat, but Li Hongyu only picked some off for herself and Li Qinghe, leaving the rest on the bones for Xu Yang.

Xu Yang didn't care about flesh and blood, he put the bone into his mouth and started chewing, chewing the flesh and bone, bone and marrow together, and swallowed it into his stomach.

Soon, after lunch, Li Hongyu cleaned up the dishes, and Xu Yang got up and said to Li Qinghe, "Come on, it's the old rule to digest after a meal. As long as you can find me, I'll make you a better bow." .”

"what?"

Hearing his words, Li Qinghe made a bitter face: "Stop it bro, you're still playing children's games at this age, besides, we never find you, don't you get tired of always being like this?"

"Not tired, come on!"

Xu Yang ignored his complaints and walked out of the house arbitrarily.

Helpless, Li Qinghe had no choice but to turn his eyes to his sister Li Hongyu for help.

Li Hongyu smiled: "Look at what I'm doing. I still have to clean up. You can take your time to find it."

"My God!"

Li Qinghe wanted to cry but had no choice but to get up and walk out.

He wanted to play a game with Xu Yang, a game that he had played for three years and had to learn every day - hide and seek!

One day three years ago, for some reason, his eldest brother suddenly pulled the two of them to play this game with him. After that, he became addicted to it and played it several times after dinner every day. Now he has played it. Three whole years.

Li Qinghe didn't know if his elder brother was still a child at heart, or if he had a convulsion in his brain, but he and Li Hongyu were deeply tortured because of this.

Xu Yang would play hide-and-seek with them every day. At the beginning, it was alright, the siblings had a little childish fun playing, but as time passed, Xu Yang became more and more difficult to find, and the game became more and more boring.

Up to now, it has become a kind of torture. They can't catch anyone at all, and their search is in vain every time. Until the end of the game, Xu Yang himself appears, which is extremely boring.

But Xu Yang never tires of it, he pulls them to play every day, and even offers various rewards to tempt them, but they are all big cakes that they can't see, which makes them have a psychological shadow on the game of hide-and-seek.

It was the same today. Li Qinghe worked hard and searched for a long time inside and outside the courtyard, but still could not find Xu Yang. It was not until noon, when it was time to enter the mountain, that Xu Yang, who was hiding somewhere, suddenly appeared, ending this Extremely boring game.

"Brother, where were you hiding just now? You didn't go somewhere else, right?"

"No, I haven't been out of the yard."

"Then why can't I find you after searching all over?"

"You are not serious. Be careful next time and you will definitely find it."

"Really?"

"real!"

"..."

After ending the boring hide-and-seek game, Xu Yang walked into the house and took down a bamboo bow from the wall hanging.

The overall color of this bamboo bow is light yellow, which is the result of the green bamboo being roasted by flames. The curved bow arms are attached with horns and tendons to enhance the overall elasticity and toughness. Coupled with the tight beef tendon string in the center, the overall A strong sense of power.

This bow is Xu Yang's recent proud work. It has surpassed the category of hunting bows and has stepped into the ranks of military weapons. It is expensive and powerful.

Such a bow is used for hunting, and to be honest, it is a bit overqualified.

So, Xu Yang hung it back up and took out another inferior bamboo bow.

At this time, Li Qinghe also came in with a bamboo basket and a bamboo bow, and said to Xu Yang enthusiastically, "Everything is ready, let's go?"

"Ok!"

Xu Yang nodded, picked up the bamboo bow, took his younger brother, and left home towards Xiaohuang Mountain.

……

That night, under the envious eyes of the neighbors, the two brothers returned home with large and small prey.

"Brothers from the Li family are entering the mountains again."

"Good fellow, we have caught so many things again. The basket is not filled with roe deer, right?"

"Why do they come into the mountains like buying goods, my family's dead ghost can't even hunt a pheasant?"

"Nonsense, can your family compare to Li Qingshan?"

"It's just that you have never seen his archery skills. The last time a blind bear broke out in the mountains, he led the team to shoot him to death. Good guy, three arrows passed through and pierced the bear's eyeballs and skull!"

"People are more dead than people, and goods are thrown away!"

"This heartless little bastard, his life is prosperous, but we will be miserable!"

"That's right, the last time the two families fought for water, he didn't care about the feelings of the same clan at all, and how did he beat our Li family. I heard that Li Laojiu and the others still can't get out of bed and move around!"

"This little bastard, a heartless bastard, he doesn't even want his ancestors. He went to serve as a slave and lackey for the Lu family. After death, how can he have the face to meet their parents and the ancestors of the Li family?"

"Who can blame you for asking you to eat people and bully your younger brothers and sisters? You are in the first year of junior high school. Don't blame others for being in the fifteenth year of junior high school."

"That's right, what's wrong with being a domestic slave? I live a good life. Not only do I get regular money from my master every month, but I can also bring meat back on weekdays. The rent is not too high. Even the hunting tax is higher than other hunters. You pay less and pay easily. Look at how many heads the three brothers and sisters have grown in the past few days."

"It's good to have a backer. If I had known I would have sold myself to the Lu family."

"Hmph, what are you thinking about? Li Qingshan is doing well because he is talented. Not only is he a top-notch expert in killing pigs and cows, but he is also unambiguous when it comes to hunting, so he can be valued by the Lu family and take more care of him. , do you have this ability?"

"I heard that members of the Lu family are planning to recruit him as their son-in-law..."

(End of this chapter)