Three. Wild boar
The one lying in the trap was straight and pumping, it was a protruding mouth, short limbs, thin tail, hard needle hair on the body, and a well-developed mane on the back, Mauser was a brown-black animal, it was a wild boar, it turned out that there were other animals in this world, Shen Yue almost cried with joy, if she was allowed to eat fish for a lifetime, no matter how delicious it was, I was afraid that she would get tired, Shen Yue looked at the wild boar, and had already thought about a lot of wild boar meat practices in her mind, and her saliva almost flowed down.
"I wanted to hunt some good skins and sell them to the town, but I didn't want to hunt such rough skins, Yue girl, stand farther away, don't fall into the trap." Niu Dazhuang shook his head, jumped down with a pity on his face, and neatly peeled off the skin of the wild boar, put it in his back basket, and prepared to leave the trap.
"Uncle Zhuang, don't you want the rest of the meat?" Shen Yue asked in surprise, this pile is all good wild boar, in the world she lives in, there are very few wild boar meat on the market, this is a priceless thing.
"Silly girl, this is a beast, how can you eat it, usually everyone avoids it, it is said that a hundred years ago, someone tried to eat this beast, but it was difficult to swallow, and after eating, there was a serious illness, vomiting and diarrhea, and his life was almost tossed away, since then, no one dares to eat these beasts, but only those of us who live on the skin of wild beasts occasionally come to hunt one." Niu Dazhuang only thought she was joking.
Shen Yue looked at the wild boar in the trap, and after peeling off the skin, it was indeed the color and smell of the wild boar, not like there was any problem.
"Uncle Zhuang, can you cut a piece of meat for me?" Shen Yue asked.
Niu Dazhuang looked at her puzzled: "What do you want this meat for, Yue girl, tell your uncle if you haven't eaten, don't joke about your body, that Zhang family is really not a thing, when Brother Shen and sister-in-law were still there, how could it be like this." Niu Dazhuang chattered while taking out a pickled fish wrapped in kraft paper from his pocket and handed it to Shen Yue.
Shen Yue wanted to refuse, but his stomach was clear and he protested, Niu Dazhuang laughed, and stuffed the pickled fish into Shen Yue's arms: "Okay, don't be polite to your uncle, eat it quickly."
Shen Yue thanked him again, and then took out the pickled fish and ate it in a big bite, the pickled fish was very salty, but Shen Yue could feel that the energy in his body was rapidly replenishing.
While eating, she watched Niu Dazhuang squat on the side of the trap to deal with the wild boar skin, he didn't know what kind of stone he was holding in his hand, it was square, but just like this repeated friction, the originally hard skin slowly became softer, and the size also shrunk.
Shen Yue couldn't take his eyes off it, sometimes the wisdom of the ancients was really incredible.
After finishing the grilled fish in his hand, Shen Yue still didn't want to give up such a good opportunity, so he said again: "Uncle Zhuang, I still want to cut a piece of meat to see, I once saw in a book that this beast can be eaten, as long as the cooking method is correct, there will be no problem, I want to try."
Niu Dazhuang frowned and looked at Shen Yue, and said after a while: "Okay, you wait here, I'll get you a piece of meat, but you have to promise your uncle that you can't eat it yourself, you have to try it for your uncle first, and you can eat it if it's no problem."
A warm current surged through Shen Yue's heart, the other people in this village were very simple and kind, and they had always been good to her openly and secretly.
After a while, Niu Dazhuang cut a palm-sized piece of wild boar meat and came up, wrapped it in a leaf and handed it to Shen Yue.
Shen Yue took it and looked at it carefully, the meat was light red, the fat was white, evenly distributed, and the depression could be recovered immediately after pressing it with his fingers, and it was undoubtedly the best wild boar.
Wild boar meat has a high nutritional value, and there are various methods, such as marinating, stewing, stir-frying, frying, roasting or making soup and filling.
But the conditions here are limited, and if you take it home, it will be confiscated by Zhang's mother and son, so Shen Yue decided to use the most primitive method to roast.
It just so happened that when she went out, she brought some seasoning with her, just in case, and was originally going to cook something to satisfy her hunger.
Niu Dazhuang helped her make a fire with great interest, then brought clean spring water to clean the wild boar, and finally used Niu Dazhuang's knife to cut the meat into slices, and then Shen Yue opened the bag with spices and sprinkled some salt on the pork.
After everything was ready, Shen Yue used a clean wooden stick to roast the wild boar on the fire.
It didn't take long to see the golden fat on the wild boar meat appear on the surface of the meat one by one, and the aroma gradually emanated, and Niu Dazhuang, who had been playing with Shen Yue, couldn't help but swallow his saliva at this time.
When it was almost roasted, Shen Yue sprinkled a little chili noodles again, tore off a piece of meat and was about to stuff it into his mouth when Niu Dazhuang snatched it: "Have you forgotten what Uncle said?" ”
After speaking, Niu Dazhuang couldn't wait to eat the meat, and didn't have time to consider whether it would be dangerous, because the taste was too tempting.
A piece of meat went down, and Niu Dazhuang sighed with satisfaction: "Yue girl, your craftsmanship is really good, uncle can eat such a delicious thing, even if he is poisoned, it is worth it." ”
"Uncle Zhuang, don't talk nonsense, you'll be fine, the book says that if the cooking method is not right, or if it is not cooked, it will be the kind of situation you said, you see that you are now, is there nothing at all." Shen Yue said firmly, those legends that people a hundred years ago must have boiled pork without any seasonings, and if it was not cooked, it would be unpalatable and vomiting and diarrhea, which led to misleading the people behind them.
Niu Dazhuang was stunned, and sure enough, he had neither a stomachache nor a feeling of wanting to vomit, so he couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, it's still a good girl, and it's really important to read more." ”
The two of you and I ate a total of almost a pound of meat, and their whole bodies warmed up.
After eating, Niu Dazhuang helped Shen Yue pick wild vegetables, and after a while, the back basket was full.
"Uncle Zhuang, next time I will go into the mountain with you, I want to see what other beasts can be eaten as mentioned in the book." On the way down the mountain, Shen Yue said.
"No problem, next time Uncle wants to enter the mountain, I'll take you, but, Yue girl, have you seen the mountain over there?" Niu Dazhuang pointed to the mountain opposite the back mountain, "You must not go to that mountain alone." ”
"Why?" Shen Yue asked curiously.
"There are bandits in that mountain, they are fierce, and if they are caught, they will not be able to come back." Niu Dazhuang said.
"Got it, uncle." Shen Yue happily agreed, she only wanted to study her food, and she didn't want to cause trouble, but it seemed that wherever she was, the phenomenon of occupying the mountain as the king existed.
After going down the mountain, Shen Yue said goodbye to Niu Dazhuang, and when he returned home, Li Cheng was gone, and Zhang sat in the middle of the courtyard wearing a jacket and closed his eyes to recuperate, and there was a big mahogany box in front of her, which Shen Yue recognized at a glance, this was her mother's dowry.