Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 146 The One Who Says What He Means
"Pork is one dollar per pound, mutton is one dollar and fifty dollars, and venison is three dollars. Ask them if they are willing." The captain would definitely not let anyone in his team suffer a loss. If they go to the black market, the price will be even higher than this!

It can be said that they still get the upper hand.

Xia Chan went over and asked everyone again, and everyone agreed, so she nodded to the captain.

The captain struck the gong, and when the crowd quieted down, he said to the people in line, "Teacher Xia's friends in the city brought some things and want to exchange them for meat. You can go over and see if there's anything you need."

Yuan Bingbing and her friends brought a lot of things this time, including clothes, quilts, sheets, quilt covers, blankets, pillowcases, shoes, and pots and pans. Although they were all old, they looked good and were at least 70% new.

Those who received the meat all rushed to the ox cart, picked out what they needed, and then calculated how much meat they needed. Those who had not yet received the meat were very anxious, fearing that they would have picked up all the good stuff.

Although it was second-hand, it was not something they could afford. Besides, city dwellers had money to buy things, so how could they buy bad things? They would definitely buy good things. Even if good things were second-hand, they were still good things!
Although Yuan Bingbing and her friends brought a lot of things, they could not handle the large number of people in the Yong'an Production Team. After a short while, all the things they brought were snatched away. Many people did not exchange anything and looked regretful.

Yuan Bingbing whispered to Xia Chan, "Xia Chan, can our people come again tomorrow?"

"So many people haven't exchanged anything, you can definitely come. If any of you really come, I will tell everyone." Many people want to exchange meat for money to buy things they need at home.

Now we can just skip the middle link and don’t have to run outside, how convenient!
"Come on, let's go." Yuan Bingbing nodded firmly.

Xia Chan went to tell the team leader, who struck the gong again and said to everyone, "Don't worry if you haven't exchanged anything. Go back and save the meat. They will come again tomorrow, at the same time today, at the threshing ground."

Everyone was very happy to hear this.

The villagers who exchanged things were very happy, and Yuan Bingbing and the others who exchanged meat were also very happy. Yuan Bingbing waved to Xia Chan and left with everyone, while Xia Chan was waiting for her brothers to come and line up to get the meat.

This year the winter hunting team changed a method, so the prey increased a lot compared to last year. So this year each family received a total of 87 kilograms of meat, and bones and offal were also distributed. Anyway, those difficult-to-handle things were also distributed to each household, allowing them to deal with them themselves.

Those who want to eat good food will definitely prepare it cleanly.

Xia Chan and his five siblings took the meat home. On the way back, Xia Chan said, "Brother, when spring comes, let's apply to raise pigs! Hand in one task pig, and we can do with the other one as we please."

"Okay, since you want to raise one, then we'll do it. We'll build a pig shed on the open space outside the yard so it won't affect the air at home." Xia Qi said with a smile.

Their home is in a very good location, with a small stream not far away and a forest next to the house. Although the trees are sparse, you can just pick a few trees and surround them to build a pig shed, which is quite convenient. Back home, the five brothers and sisters began to deal with the meat they got today. They happened to get mutton, and Xia Chan planned to have hot pot, so she asked Xia Qi to help her slice the mutton into thin slices, and Xia Bin went to use warm water to process the pig offal.

The pig offal in their family includes heart, lungs, liver, and large intestine. The liver is easy to handle and not troublesome, but the heart, lungs, and large intestine are difficult to handle and take several hours, so Xia Bin concentrated on handling these.

Jin Pengfei and Jin Pengyuan prepared the pork and cut it into strips, each weighing about one pound. They left ten strips in the yard to be frozen and eaten fresh, and simply smeared salt and some seasonings on the rest, then put them into a clean pickle jar. After a few days, when they were well-seasoned, they could be smoked into bacon.

Xia Chan was preparing hot pot ingredients, including leeks, cabbage leaves, potato chips, sweet potato chips, and radish slices. She even pretended to take out five pounds of hot pot meatballs from the snow in the yard. Her brothers thought she had frozen in the yard in advance and didn't know she came from the space.

Winter is best suited to hot pot, so she had already prepared almost everything needed for hot pot.

Everyone was busy when suddenly there was a knock on the door. They hid things that shouldn't be there, leaving only potato chips and radish slices on the table. Xia Chan went out to open the door, only to find that it was Liu Li and Gao Bowen, both of them holding meat in their hands.

There are many people in the educated youth point, and each of them has their own ideas. The team leader and his men will distribute the meat allocated to the educated youth point equally to everyone, so that no one can take advantage and no one can suffer losses.

Seeing the two people's cheeks red from the cold, Xia Chan felt a little sorry for them. It was really pitiful for such young children to leave their hometown and live in such a cold place.

"Come in!" Xia Chan let Liu Li and Gao Bowen in, poured them some brown sugar ginger tea, and asked in confusion, "What's the matter with you coming to my house on such a cold day?"

"Teacher Xia, can I trouble you to make some bacon for us? I want to send it back home so that they can have more dishes on the New Year's table." Liu Li said embarrassedly, "We don't know how to handle pig offal, so we can use the pig offal as payment, okay?"

"You are really filial." Xia Chan curled her lips. How did their family treat them when they were so filial? They were just suffering in this freezing cold place. If they couldn't go back, they would have to wait another four or five years.

"Of course, but I don't want your offal. Come over for lunch tomorrow! I'll just eat your offal." Xia Chan took the pork from the two and marked their pork. "Liu Zhiqing has one hole, Gao Zhiqing has two holes. The pork will definitely shrink when made into bacon. I hope you won't accuse us of stealing your meat. After all, we don't lack meat at home."

Xia Chan wants to eat hotpot today, and there are many things that cannot be seen by outsiders, so we won’t keep them for dinner today.

"Don't worry, Teacher Xia, we know." Liu Li said. He was not such an ignorant person. Moreover, he knew Xia Chan's character. She was a person of her word and she would never do such a thing.

Xia Chan handed the meat that the two of them brought over to Xia Jinpengfei, and the pig offal to Xia Bin. "Come over and get the bacon in a week."