Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 290 Caught off guard
Wang An looked at the remaining 16 squirrel tunes and thought about it.

Then Wang An calmly picked up eight squirrel tunes, turned around and put them into the sack on his sledge.

Mu Xueli and Wang Li looked at Wang An's actions with normal expressions, and neither of them took it seriously.

After Wang An walked back to the fire and sat down, he pointed at the remaining eight squirrels and said:
"I've done the math. You two are now a family of four, and my family is seven. It's our first time doing this, so we have to eat one each. Of these eight greyhound roe meats, you two each have four. I’ll give you two more points next time.”

Hearing this, Mu Xueli and Wang Li subconsciously looked at the squirrel on the snow, and then Mu Xueli said:
"Why don't you, brother-in-law, just take it home? I'll do the same thing next time."

Wang Li also followed up and said: "Yes, fourth brother, I will win the next two times."

Wang An was very happy to hear what they said, and it was not in vain that Wang An had been taking care of them.

Wang An took out his cigarette, distributed the cigarettes between the two of them, and said with a smile:
"Come on, this is my first time playing this thing, so I have to try it all. If we try more in the future, it won't be a surprise."

After the three people lit their cigarettes, Wang An continued: "You two will make more clay marbles tonight. There are not many steel balls left on the sledge."

"Well, fourth brother."

"Don't worry, brother-in-law." They both replied at the same time.

Wang Li said while chewing squirrel meat: "Why don't this taste better roasted?"

Because any kind of seasoning may destroy its original fragrance.

Mu Xueli also chirped and said, "That's right. Is there such a big difference between roasting and stewing this thing?"

After eating the roasted squirrel, the three of them ignored the Heixiazi meat and looked at the pot in unison.

After eating the squirrel, each person took another roasted squirrel and couldn't wait to put it into their mouths. Even though it was burnt, they still wanted to take another bite.

When rural people eat house sparrow, no one usually spits out the bones. Although it affects the taste somewhat, it is only half a mouthful of meat. If you throw away the bones, it will be nothing.

After roasting, they are all sizzling and oily, and they are all fat but not greasy.

The three of them didn't even bother to take a sip of the wine and ate up the little roasted squirrel.

Wang An looked at the two idiots and said, "Didn't you realize it was because of the chili pepper?"

I don’t know why, but the scent of the squirrel was completely wiped out by the chili pepper.

Each person first took a roasted house bird, put it whole into his mouth, chewed it all up and swallowed it, including the bones and meat.

So none of the three people were polite, and each of them fished out a stewed squirrel and ate it again.

Whether it's sparrow meat, squirrel meat, or black blind meat, it's much faster to roast it over fire than to stew it in water.

This is how food is eaten in the mountains, as long as it is almost cooked. A common saying among mountaineers is: Eat raw or cooked food to keep it warm!

The meat of this thing is filled with all kinds of flavors. It is so delicious!
And the three people also didn't spit out the bones, mainly because the bones of this thing are not as hard as the bones of the house sparrow.

In comparison, this thing is more delicious than badger meat. If the taste is not included, the texture is almost the same as that of a big-eyed thief.

And Wang An felt that no seasoning other than salt could be used to make this thing.

The three of them boasted for a while, cooked eggs for a while, roasted squirrels, house sparrows and black blind man meat, and then they were all cooked.

However, Wang An habitually added some chili peppers when stewing squirrel, which greatly reduced the taste of the stewed squirrel.

Mu Xueli and Wang Li blinked, and then Mu Xueli said: "Then this thing will save trouble, just put some salt in the pot and stew it directly."

Wang An and Wang Li nodded and continued eating.

After eating and drinking, the three people put the meat and other things on the sledge and went down the mountain.

I galloped all the way and soon returned home.

When Wang An returned home, after shouting as usual, only Mu Xueqing, his brother Wang Yi, and two little sisters came out of the house.

Wang An casually asked Mu Xueqing: "Where are dad and mom?" Mu Xueqing said: "Our dad said he was looking for someone. In a few days, he would go into the mountains to plant trees and prepare wood for building a house. My mom seemed to Let’s go too.”

Wang An nodded and said, "Oh, I know."

In fact, Wang An planned to buy ready-made wood directly from the forest farm.

Although the wood in the mountains can be chopped casually, it is quite troublesome in terms of manpower and material resources.

In rural areas of this era, people were called helpers to work. Although it didn't cost money, they still had to work in return.

To put it bluntly, if you do the work for me this time, I will have to do the work for you next time.

And this stuff is calculated on a daily basis, one day at a time.

Although the work of each family is different and the number of days of work is also different, no matter who it is, there will be an account in mind.

Many people say that the countryside in this era is more humane and everyone is more mixed, but why don't you try to work? Let's see if you can find someone to help you next time you have a job at home?

The key is that when it comes to returning to work, most of the time there is no distinction between busy and busy.

As long as you owe others work, then no matter how busy you are, if you don't go this time, you must go next time.

And this thing, again and again, definitely not again and again.

This is also the reason why life is so difficult for many widows!
They don't repair their house when it's broken down, and they don't build a new wall when the courtyard wall falls down. Instead, they just make do with it and get along with it.

You must know that humans are social animals, and these tasks cannot be done by one person!
Don’t these widowers want to repair their houses? Don’t you want to build the courtyard wall?

No, it's because they can't find anyone to help them, and people don't believe they can return the job.

It is said that life in rural areas is simple and pure, with people starting work at sunrise and returning home at sunset. In fact, these are just appearances.

The most real rural life is far more complicated than urban life.

Not to mention things like picking mountain products, they all rely on family unity to fight for it.

Let’s talk about the simplest thing, how does one farm?

Don't say that you hold a pickaxe, dig holes and bury seeds by yourself. This is not called farming. This is called growing your own small vegetable garden.

Planting means planting all the seeds into the ground within a fixed period of time. If there is a delay, then there is no need to plant.

Because the sowing time is delayed, even if the seeds are buried in the ground, you will only be able to harvest straw all over the ground in autumn.

Of course, these are normal things in rural areas, and many things are much more difficult than these.

Wang An's idea was to buy all the bricks, tiles, cement, wood, etc. ready-made, and only hire help when building a house, or directly use the method of later generations to spend money to hire people to build a house.

But in this era, there is really no need to spend money to hire people to build a house.

In this way, after building the house, you can do whatever you need to do without delaying Wang An's plan to make a fortune at all.

But what Wang An never expected was that his father had already gone to find someone, which disrupted Wang An's plan and caught Wang An off guard.

So, while Wang An was unloading the eldest horse from the sledge, he was thinking about how he could owe less work.

During dinner, Wang An stewed all 8 squirrels. This time Wang An was relieved and did not add any seasoning except salt.

I have to say that the squirrel meat stewed in this way is delicious for the whole family.

And the younger sister Wang Xiaoli said again: "Big pot, please use more greyhound paper in the future, I don't even have enough."

Wang An touched Wang Xiaoli's little head and said dotingly: "You know it."

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