The harsh winter is coming, but the food for the winter has not yet landed, there was more firewood cut yesterday, and today Qu Jincun has half a day to go out to collect the food for the winter.

Not just the food, but also the clothes they wore on the two men - the short brown was all rude, not to mention winter, even if it was a little cold on the body now.

So the skins also have to be beaten back.

Qu Jincun is going to take Molly to another hill to hunt hares today, that kind of hare is different from the rabbit used to eat meat, the hair on the body is thick, and it feels warm to the touch.

In the past, he had caught a few of them and gave them to the hunters, and later learned from the hunters that the rich people outside the mountains liked to use that kind of leather to make warm clothes, and thought that it was very stylish and material, although it was far worse than fur, but compared with the ordinary poor people, it was already warm to the clouds.

Molly also wanted to see what that hairy rabbit looked like, so she packed up early in the morning, boiled hot water, arranged the bamboo basket, and set off with him.

"I wouldn't have brought you with me before." The boy grinned as he walked, and from time to time he would tear off the branches by the tree and rub them in his hands, and seemed to be in a good mood, "Not to mention that you will be hindered by the past, even the nagging around you will be annoying—but now that you have changed, then go with it, it's okay." ”

Molly had been admiring the scenery around her, and she didn't care about answering his words, and for a teenager of this age, joy and happiness were very simple and extremely easy to please.

In general, the strategic target of this layer of dream space is a very cute teenager, a good boy.

"But we must be careful of wolves." Qu Jincun looked vigilantly at the woods outside the village. "It may be better during the day, especially after nightfall, the wolves are all hungry, and they bite people when they see them, so we must be careful."

Molly nodded immediately, her eyes shining, and she said with certainty, "I'm not afraid." ”

The young man smiled brightly at her, patted his chest and said, "I'm here, we don't have to be afraid." ”

Although the shoulders are still a little thin, they have already taken on the responsibility.

Molly nodded more happily.

There were many rabbit holes on the hillside, and the little things that lived in them were more cunning than the stupid gray rabbits.

At first, the two of them only used wooden sticks to pour them in, but they didn't get half of them, and finally Qu Jincun thought of fire attack.

He took the half-dried branches and leaves, and then lit them and stuffed them into a hole, and saw smoke rising from all sides above the mountain bag—there were quite a lot of rabbit holes exiting outward, and the so-called three holes of the cunning rabbit were nothing more than that.

"I'll go over there and catch it." Molly exclaimed.

She was wearing a wide coat, in order to facilitate her movement, the cuffs and placket were tied tightly with straw ropes, and Qu Jincun could only see the girl's thin arms, legs, and neck swaying in the clothes, making her extremely thin.

He wanted her not to go, but when he saw her running happily, he swallowed the words that came to his lips.

An earthy rabbit with slicky fur suddenly popped out of a hole and brushed it back as Molly pounced.

Immediately after, the figure of the rabbit sprang out of the hole far away, and ran away quickly.

"Yo, I'm missing." Molly exclaimed, but with a smile on her face, she clearly thought it was funny.

Qu Jin stored the fire-starting things, let the pile of firewood and smoke drill down the hole by himself, and he went around to the other side of the mountain bag to help Molly catch the rabbit together.

Men are of course more cunning than rabbits, and even though there were a few of them who were particularly shrewd and escaped the clutches of the two of them, there were still a dozen rabbits, large and small, that were caught by them—and among them was a female rabbit with a bulging belly, apparently with a baby rabbit inside.

Molly shouted, the mountain village was very exciting, the activity of catching rabbits was much more interesting than the strategy, she couldn't wait to linger.

Tossed until noon, large and small rabbits were tightly tied with straw ropes and stuffed into bamboo baskets, a basket full of weight, and no one could carry it.

"I received a lot today, more than the previous times!" The boy looked at the trophies in the basket and said to Molly with a little surprise, "It seems that it is quite useful to bring you here, do you have the physique to recruit rabbits?" ”

Molly smiled softly, her eyes shining beautifully, and her whole little face was radiant.

"Perhaps!" She couldn't stop laughing, and she felt a lot of novelty in her heart.

Because of the unexpected harvest, the two men did not dare to delay much, for fear that the rabbit would break free from the rope and slip away, and hurried back to the village with the bamboo basket.

They didn't even bother to eat lunch and went to Orion's house.

The Orion was also surprised to hear that they had caught the long-haired rabbits, and looked at their catch, and then returned the female rabbits.

He told the boy and girl that there was a baby in the female rabbit, and he would not accept it, otherwise the evil would cause the mountain god to be angry.

Qu Jincun and Molly listened as if they didn't understand, and it wasn't until Orion had put away a few rabbits that he asked, "Can you change two finished leather jackets?" We use it for the winter. It's cold ...... now."

This hunter walks around in the mountains all the year round, and has two silver coins in his hand, and originally planned to give them money directly, but seeing that they are thinly clothed, and the girls who come with them are still shivering from the cold, he immediately said: "I have made two leather jackets for the winter, but the size is a bit big, if you want it, you can take it first, and I will find an opportunity to do it myself." ”

The two men were overjoyed - neither of them knew how to sew, and they were worried about how to make clothes with this leather back, and they did not expect that there would be ready-made.

The two coats of the hunter were of sheepskin, and they were of lamb's skin on the inside, and the thick fluff was on the outside, soft and warm, and they were very ironed on the body.

The hunters gave them a little more food, knowing that they lacked food and clothing, and only did something good.

A pair of young men and girls thanked them for their kindness, and happily went back to the dilapidated house with clothes and food.

When they got home, they realized that they were hungry, but it took a lot of time to cook.

Molly was about to boil water, but was pulled up by Qu Jincun.

He dressed her in a thicker garment, his coat, and took a knife to light the flint and went out.

"Today's harvest is so big, I have to treat myself to something delicious." He said firmly, "I'm going to eat garlic stewed catfish, by all means!" ”

While talking, he was still trying his best to swallow saliva, and his Adam's apple was slipping, looking like he was hungry.

Apparently that dish ...... It was a supreme delicacy for him.

"It's almost winter, where do you get the catfish?" Molly asked, surprised.

The young man didn't care, and replied casually: "The pond and ditch outside, the water is not completely dry, there will definitely be catfish, and there will be other things to eat without catfish, in short, I want to eat meat now!" Meat! ”

Molly was dumbfounded, realizing that he was really getting more and more greedy.

Three or five miles outside the village, there were several ponds, large and small, some of which had dried up, revealing only lumps of dry and hard mud underneath, and some of which were mixed with mud in a very dark color.

Qu Jincun chose the pond with a lot of mud, pulled his trouser legs high, walked in and began to touch the fish.

The water is muddy, the mud is slippery, and the main thing is that it's cold like ice here...... But he didn't care, and carefully touched and grabbed the gap in the mud with his hand.

Not to mention, he really caught a catfish after a quarter of an hour, but the catfish was covered in slime, and he didn't leave his hands, and as soon as he picked it up, he shook the muddy water in his face, and then plopped, fell back into the pond and slipped away.

It was supposed to be a non-funny thing, but Molly, who was standing on the shore and watching quietly, suddenly wanted to laugh.

The boy in the water wiped his face carelessly, one face was painted an earthy yellow with mud, and he bent down, not bothering to wipe it clean, and continued to search for its delicacy.

"Why don't you use a bamboo basket to catch it?" Molly shouted from the shore, maybe it would save some trouble with a bamboo basket?

The young man, who was still carefully searching for the living creature under the water, replied without raising his head: "If it doesn't work, it will break the basket, so it's best to use your hands." ”

As he was talking, he suddenly made a discovery, and pulled his hands up sharply, and sure enough, he scooped up a fat, big black fish with long beards.

This time he learned to be obedient, and threw it the shore, and the fish was out of the water, and could only jump helplessly twice on the shore, and only when he was powerless did he flap his cheeks angrily, and lay on the ground without moving.

Molly felt very fresh, walked over and crouched down, and carefully poked the fish in the stomach with a branch, but the fish jumped up and barely hit her hand.

"Oops!"

The girl on the shore screamed, causing the boy who was still standing in the pond to laugh.

"You keep a snack, don't let the catfish slip back into the pond again, you have to bother looking for it!"

The boy in the water screamed, and suddenly caught another one and threw it on the shore again.

At this time, Molly also woke up, and quickly used the bamboo basket to put the fish in, no matter how the fish jumped in it, as long as the bamboo basket did not fall, it was impossible to let it go.

Qu Jincun touched three big catfish in one breath, tired and exhausted, and shivered from the cold, at this time the sky was quite dark, his lips were blue from the cold, and his hands and feet were very cold, so he went ashore, wiped the mud with hay with grass, put on his shoes and socks, put down his trouser legs, happily carried the bamboo basket, and led Molly home.

There is a lot of mucus on the catfish, which is originally yellow, and it is gray after washing off the mucus, and the catfish is extremely fat, and there is still a lot of meat after removing the fish oil for backup.

In order to absorb the flavor when stewing, Molly cut the back of the catfish, marinate it with one-headed garlic, add some shredded green onions and ginger slices.

Then, she grabbed some peppercorns and spices, added soybean oil to the pot, first put the fish oil and garlic in it to fry the fragrance, then added the sauce, shredded green onion and ginger slices, peppercorns, and miso and chili, added hot water to make soup, and put in the catfish after boiling.

I put a lot of garlic and it smells strange.

When the fish is served in a bowl and the soup is quite thick, soak the dry and hard wild vegetable dumplings in the soup and wait for it to heat up before eating the fish first.

The smell of the fish is almost like a bag of oil, but it is not greasy at all, with the aroma of garlic rich enough to resist any fishy smell, over the lips and tongue, through the teeth, and into the throat, the satisfaction is not at all comparable to rice porridge.

Although the smell is not outstanding, the taste that is so delicious that it melts the tongue is enough to overwhelm a qiē.

At this time, the wild vegetable dumplings also absorbed enough fragrant fish soup, and the mouth was very refreshing, and the bite was soft and tough, and it was fresh and salty, and the hot food slid down the throat, and the whole body immediately became hot.

Qu Jincun took a bite, and let out a long sigh of praise, and after taking a bite, he slowly sighed, as if he had entered some kind of dragon liver and phoenix brain.

Makes Molly laugh all the time.