Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 18

Zhao Yiyi was sitting on the kang with her head down, and she was weaving straw sandals quickly by the light of the fire. This was her handiwork, the most proficient and fastest handicraft. I have thought about many kinds, what kind of embroidery!What carvings!It's a pity that she was a college student who had nothing to do in her previous life and only knew how to study. In this life, she is a little girl in a mountain village. It is convenient that she has no possibility of contact. She can sew clothes and make shoes.These are all great skills of the original owner of this body, not to mention living in a cave where lighting is a problem, and the harsh environmental conditions have reduced the possibility of her exploring skills by herself, so she After thinking about it, she decided that it would be more practical to weave her straw sandals honestly.

At the gate, An Dalang also came back at the stall where the sky was getting a bit gloomy. As a man, it is his natural duty to support his family, so he still needs to go out even in this weather, although there is enough firewood at home and food Not a lot, but there is a lack of meat at home, right?Although some animals don't come out much in this weather, which makes his hunting career difficult, there are still many small animals that are used to going out in this weather, such as those rabbits and pheasants, who made them not very Get used to storing winter grains!So it's okay to go out and hunt some rabbits in this weather.

"I am back."

Before entering the door, An Dalang yelled, then shook the snowflakes on his body, stomped his feet again, to shake off some of the cold air on his body, and then entered the door, and Zhao Yiyi also quickly put down the snowflakes in his hand. Stuff, got out of bed, took out the warm porridge from the iron pot on the stove and handed it to An Dalang, letting him warm his stomach.
"It's a bit late to come back today!"

"Well, I got a wild boar. I guess it came from Wild Boar Ridge. It's a hundred catties of meat! It's frozen outside, and we can eat it for a long time. By the way, if the weather is fine tomorrow, I will give it to everyone. Hu sent some over there, he probably hasn't eaten meat for quite a while, and he's growing up!"

An Dalang drank the porridge in the big bowl in one gulp, took a breath, and felt much warmer from the inside to the outside. It is good to have a wife!Now he also has a family. It is really comfortable to have hot soup and hot water when he returns home in the cold weather, so he also takes care of his wife's family. It is very happy to think about his prey He made a promise that the two of them would not be able to eat much of such a big wild boar. It would be inconvenient to go down the mountain to sell it at this time. The mountain was covered by heavy snow, so there was no way to go!It's better to cut some personal favors and make my daughter-in-law feel happier.

Sure enough, Zhao Yiyi was very happy when he heard it, and with a smile on his face, he reciprocated and said:
"Where is Uncle Lin! You don't want to send it?"

"No, Uncle Lin is fine. He's better at hunting than I am. There must be no shortage of food at this time. The last time he made the bamboo mat, he felt that he owed me a favor. If he went, he might bring it back. More than what was sent!"

An Dalang and Zhao Yiyi used the excuse of two cents for a bamboo mat not only to add a lot of money to their grocery store, but also to the Lin family. I was able to have a good winter this year, and I got a full 150 copper coins. At the price of 8 coins per liter, I exchanged 80 coins for a bucket of broken rice from An Dalang and asked An Dalang to help me exchange another 70 coins from the town. Wen Yidou's yellow rice, and the food that An Dalang gave at the beginning, with this amount of food, plus the many dried vegetables that Lin Erwa saved in autumn, even if they didn't hunt this winter, they wouldn't starve to death.Uncle Lin is a person with a good heart, knowing that this is An Dalang thinking of his love for taking care of him back then, and he is not polite. , I often leave a share for An Dalang when I get any good prey, which makes An Dalang dare not go there. This makes Zhao Yiyi often think that the so-called coming and going, the so-called close neighbors may be such a beautiful thing !It's much warmer than the modern situation where you don't even know who's next door once you close the door.

Of course, as for the bamboo mat, I can only say that everyone’s imagination is too good. Uncle Lin thought that such a job must belong to An Dalang himself. He, so he not only did it with great care, but also made a lot more by the way, letting An Dalang keep it for himself, which is the so-called benefit fee.As for An Dalang, in order to prevent Uncle Lin from doubting what he was talking about when he went down the mountain in the future, he specially gave him a few bamboo mats like this when sending the prey down the mountain for sale. That family is also smart. After hearing An Dalang's words, they heard that this thing can protect the table from scalding, so they found a carpenter. They spent ten yuan a day's wages and had someone do it for two days. More than 30 came out, and they were really used. By the time Uncle Lin’s legs healed and he went down the mountain, the bamboo mats at the foot of the mountain had already spread, and the price was as low as one penny each, so he made up his mind again. I thought maybe one of the two texts was true at the beginning, but then those who estimated that An Dalang paid for it himself, and was annoyed for a long time because of this, found an excuse to send over the prey again, it was a pheasant, worth thirty or so Wen's pheasant.

An Dalang didn't know the reason for this, but felt that Uncle Lin became more polite after being ill, thinking that he was also a man with a family and a family, so he should have more rules, for the two of you come and go Aunt Lin couldn't help getting angry after seeing them for several days, so she stopped, Zhao Yiyi couldn't help but want to laugh when she thought of these things.

"In that case, leave ten catties of meat, and those things that go into the water, and if you're right, keep some of the bones, so we can make bone soup for you to replenish your body, and take the rest when you go to Zhao's nest. My mother and the others keep two catties, and the rest can be sold in the village. It’s not the time to kill the New Year’s pigs. If you want to eat meat, no one in the village sells it. If you go there just in time, you can probably sell it clean It's over!"

Zhao Yiyi made some calculations and came up with such an idea. This village is too small, there is not even a butcher, and the only pig butcher is from the next village. It is a little pitiful for being so small. Plus, in this era, the poor eat pork, and the rich eat mutton and venison, so there are fewer pork sellers here, so Zhao Yiyi thinks that this kind of meat is still the cheapest meat Everyone should still welcome the opportunity.

An Dalang also paused, took off his padded jacket, which was somewhat soaked in snowflakes, and roasted it on the rack next to the fire, and nodded.

"Success! It's always good to save more money."

Although his grocery store seems to sell a lot of things, there are still many things that are not available, such as toilets bought before the snow, waiting for the things to be bought, An Dalang realized belatedly that his Originally, this convenient way to get out of the cave was so inconvenient for such a delicate girl as my daughter-in-law. Perhaps, there were many other inconveniences, but the daughter-in-law didn't say anything, and I didn't understand these women. People's affairs, I just don't know how to return, save money, wait for her to need it, and just buy it by myself, so money is still very important.

"By the way, Dalang, let's go to that hot spring to take a bath today. I haven't washed for five days, and I feel itchy all over my body."

"Ah, yes, I'll go get the tub and I'll be there in a while, it won't be convenient to wait until it gets dark."

Just after the fire, An Dalang, who was relieved, didn't have a single one of them. He immediately turned over his new wooden basin and looked at it. I didn't feel it unless my wife told me that there was only one wooden basin and wooden barrel in my house. , I don’t know how to buy it if it’s broken. Sure enough, having a daughter-in-law is different!Now there are more and more things at home!

Talk about a shower!Hey, it will be great when I and my wife consummate the house. The cave of the hot spring is actually quite big, and the pool is not small. Now every time the daughter-in-law takes a bath inside and she watches the door outside, the daughter-in-law is still shy and wants to put up a shelf to separate the whole inside. Really, when the fire is lit, even through the distance, I can see the figure clearly Okay, the more this is the case, the more eager I am to move around!It's really not very good!Late next summer!How did this time pass so slowly!

(End of this chapter)