Chapter 48 Farming
Swallowed greedily by the imaginary picture, the saliva that had been secreted in his mouth Yuan Qiwen smiled at Du Yuhan and said, "Yuhan, let's eat meat at noon today?"
Du Yuhan looked at Yuan Qiwen's obviously greedy appearance and smiled: "It's almost noon now, it's too late to go back and clean up the prey before cooking." Let's have a quick bite to eat at noon. In the afternoon, all the prey is packed up, and in the evening it is cooked early. You go back after eating, and by the way, bring back a pheasant and a hare for Aunt Han. ”
Yuan Qiwen happily agreed when he heard that he would definitely be able to eat meat today.
After returning home, they reported to Han Yi their results today, and then everyone began to divide their labor. Du Yuhan cooked, and Yuan Qiwen and Liu Gang cleaned up their prey.
Speaking of picking up the prey, Yuan Qiwen can't do it, he still has to learn from Liu Gang.
Take peeling rabbit skin as an example, it is also exquisite, a rabbit skin to be very complete to peel off without being damaged, that also requires good craftsmanship.
In order to be able to do it himself in the future, Yuan Qiwen humbly learned from Liu Gang how to peel off the rabbit skin quickly and well.
Liu Gang's craftsmanship was also learned from Han Yixian, and it was naturally very good to get Han Yixian's true biography, a rabbit skin was peeled off intact, not to mention that there would not be a trace of meat on the skin.
Yuan Qiwen looked at Liu Gang's craftsmanship and praised it with sparkling eyes: "Yes, you, this skill of peeling rabbit skin is good." ”
Liu Gang shook his head proudly and boasted: "That's, this is a unique skill taught to me by the head of the regiment, during this time, Yuhan often hunted rabbits back, so that I got practical practice, naturally practice makes perfect." If you handle a little more rabbits, it will be just as smooth. ”
Saying that, Liu Gang began to deal with the second rabbit, and explained the skills to Yuan Qiwen while peeling the skin. The two young men of the same age were talking and laughing, and they were energetic.
Du Yuhan also boiled a pot of boiling water while cooking, poured the boiling water into a large basin and asked Liu Gang and the two of them to pluck out the pheasant's feathers.
On the pheasant's tail and the larger feathers on the wings were all plucked off by Du Yuhan and put away, and the feathers she had saved were almost enough, so she was ready to make two feather dusters by herself.
Lunch is said to be simple, but there are also dishes for food. A plate of hot and sour cabbage, a plate of fried potatoes with shallots, and the Erhe noodle wotou was left over from the morning and warmed up, and a wild vegetable soup was made.
At noon, Yuan Qiwen and Liu Gang didn't eat much, and they both kept their stomachs and waited for a big meal in the evening.
Du Yuhan looked at the obviously small amount of food of the two brothers, and he didn't know anything. Xiaoxiao didn't urge the two of them to eat more.
In the afternoon, Du Yuhan commanded Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen to help build a nest for a few little rabbits he caught.
The rabbit nest did not use any other materials, because it was found that the rabbit was relatively sudden and did not prepare in advance, so it was built little by little with branches and sticks, and some hay was placed in one place in the nest, and the little rabbit could sleep on the hay.
Now that the weather is warm, it's okay to build a nest with branches and sticks, but not in winter.
Some rabbits will give birth in winter, and if they don't do a good job of keeping warm, the rabbits will freeze to death overnight.
Du Yuhan thought that if she had time, she could work with Liu Gang to make some adobe by the river, and then use the adobe to build a nest for the rabbits, and put hay on it, and it should be no problem in winter.
It is better to improve the chicken nest as well, and build it into a nest with eggs on the top and a nest for resting at night.
At night, the chickens should have wooden shelves at a distance from the ground in their nests. In this way, the chicken manure will fall under the shelf, which is also convenient when digging out the chicken manure, and the top of the shelf where the chickens stay is also cleaner.
Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen obeyed Du Yuhan's command, covered the top of the rabbit nest with thick hay, and then pasted some mud to prevent rain leakage when it rained, and the rabbit nest was built.
Du Yuhan carefully put the six little rabbits into the nest, and then took out the freshest wild vegetables he had dug and put them in front of them.
Du Yuhan was afraid that the rabbits would not eat the wild vegetables, so he secretly dripped a few drops of well water in the space on the wild vegetables, and sure enough, the little rabbits happily ate the fresh wild vegetables.
Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen also felt very fresh when they looked at it.
Liu Gang's family is rural, and he also raised small animals when he was a child.
Yuan Qiwen is not good, when he was a child, he raised a bird that fell from a tree and could not fly, but unfortunately, the bird was raised to death by him for two days without eating, he was sad and sad for several days, and then he never raised a small animal again.
Today, I saw the little rabbit Yuan Qiwen who was eating wild vegetables in a circle, and he didn't like it, so he decided to dig wild vegetables for the little rabbits often in the future.
Du Yuhan was relieved to see the little rabbit eating. Rabbits grow very quickly, reproduce very quickly, as long as the food keeps up, based on these rabbits, you can quickly breed a lot of rabbits.
After a while, the number of rabbits she raised increased, and the dozen or so chickens she raised also laid eggs, and even if she didn't go into the mountains to hunt, there was no shortage of meat at home.
Thinking about this, Du Yuhan is full of energy. Improving life with your own hands is full of fulfillment.
More than a dozen chicks did not die under Du Yuhan's careful feeding, and they grew fast, and now they have already faded to a body of tender yellow fluff and grown larger feathers, and the chicks at this time are also a lot more solid and will not die easily.
After building the rabbit nest, Du Yuhan went into the kitchen to stew meat under the expectation of Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen. Liu Gang diligently helped to light the fire.
In the evening, Du Yuhan directly braised rabbit meat, and then prepared to make a palace fried chicken, and boiled a pot of chicken soup.
When the rabbit meat was almost cooked, a few more potatoes were added.
The chicken in the chicken soup was cooked very badly, and Du Yuhan also added some well water and several herbs in the space to the chicken soup, and the taste of the chicken soup was even more delicious.
The aroma came out along the edge of the pot, causing Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen to ask when the chicken soup would be ready.
Du Yuhan can ensure that this pot of chicken soup is delicious and nutritious, and has the effect of warming and nourishing the body. Today, the few of them drink this chicken soup and it is good for the body. Especially for Han Yixian, it is the best.
The aroma of stewed meat and chicken soup filled the entire kitchen and wafted out of the kitchen, filling the courtyard, and even Han Yixian, who was sitting in the house, could smell it.
As soon as he smelled this fragrance, Han Yixian knew that he had meat to eat again tonight. thought that since Du Yuhan came, they would eat a very affordable stew every once in a while, and they had tonic soup to drink almost every day.
Han Yixian felt that the salary he gave Du Yuhan was too little, and he should add more.
Take Du Yuhan's good hunting skills as an example, the game they eat may not be able to be bought even if they have money.
He was ready to have the opportunity to discuss with Du Yuhan again about processing money. It seems that it is really not easy to get the little girl to take more money.