Dinner was ready, chili sautéed wild boar, tortillas, and a pot of wild vegetable soup. The wild vegetable soup is delicious and should be cooked in lard.

"Where did you dig this wild vegetable, it tastes good." It's really great, Lu Yu drank several bowls of wild vegetable soup.

Mrs. Yan smiled and said, "Xiding and I dug it on the bank of the field near the village, this thing is very expensive to sell in the city, and I can't imagine that no one in the village will eat it." "This thing seems to be called purslane, Lu Yu ate it when he was a child, and the taste was a little dry, far from being as delicious as it is today.

Lu Yu asked: "Sister-in-law, why do you make this thing so delicious, I remember that it doesn't taste like this." ”

Mrs. Yan said: "Hehe, I first fry the amaranth in hot oil, then pass it aside with boiling water, dry it and then boil the soup with lard, so it doesn't have that fishy taste, and it tastes similar to water spinach." ”

"Awesome." Lu Yu doesn't know how to praise people, but he really feels very powerful, and no one in the village will definitely do this, otherwise the purslane nearby would have been dug up a long time ago.

"Of course, my mother's cooking is delicious." Yan Xi'an said to Lu Yu again: "Later, you will go to my house as a guest, and let my mother cook a lot of dishes for you, so as to ensure that every dish is particularly delicious." ”

"Okay." While eating, Lu Yu thought of the rabbits and asked, "What about the five rabbits, it's okay." ”

Yan Xi'an also remembered the nest of rabbits, and he put down the dishes and chopsticks when he couldn't care about eating, and said that he wanted to go and see the rabbits first. The rabbit was fenced in the backyard during the day. Yan Jibai looked at Yan Xi'an's back, and smiled at Lu Yu again: "Xi'an is still a child, not sensible, hehe." "He was always very reserved and polite.

Lu Yu thought of the kitchen knife again, and asked, "By the way, sister-in-law, what do you cut when you cook?" ”

"Yesterday I went to Lu Sanye's house to borrow it, and today I asked Xi'an's father to go to the town to buy one."

Yan Jibai nodded, and said: "There are a lot fewer people in the town, and half of the shops are not open, but fortunately, there are kitchen knives that sell." ”

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Lu Yu, the wild boar he shot this time, didn't plan to sell it, so he decided to dispose of it himself. Lu Yu hadn't made it himself before, and after eating, he went to Lao Gao to help.

After Lao Gao came, he first asked Lu Yu to boil a large pot of boiling water, hung the wild boar on the grape trellis in the yard and poured it over and over again with boiling water, and then directly used his family heirloom kitchen knife to shave the wild boar. A kitchen knife is also used for disemboweling, as is deboning and chopping meat. In the end, the wild boar is divided into pieces weighing dozens of pounds, and it is done.

When the pigs go into the water, they just clean the land feathers themselves. Yan Jibai's family had never seen a pig killed, and they had been watching Lu Yu Lao Gao be busy, and he came over to help when he needed a hand.

In fact, if you eat too much wild boar, you don't feel very delicious, and Lu Yu suddenly wanted to change some rice and white noodles or something, so he went to Lu Di again in the evening and asked Lu Di if he would go to change rice noodles tomorrow. Lu Di said that he was about to ask Lu Yu, so the two of them decided to go out tomorrow, even if the pork is salted for a long time, the taste will always be worse.

After coming back, Lu Yu told the four members of the Yan family that they would not go hunting tomorrow and would go out. Yan Xi'an asked him if he was going to exchange food with Lu Di, and he also wanted to go and have fun with him. Lu Yu was about to agree, but Yan Jibai was already talking about his daughter and asked her not to mess around, so Yan Xi'an had to give up this request with a flat mouth.

Really, Lu Yu felt that it was nothing for her to follow.

At night, after the Yan family fell asleep, Lu Yu sneaked into the backyard to take a bath alone. Before taking a bath, he found a few pieces of rain cloth to cover the grape trellis and formed a small cubicle, and Lu Yu carefully and sneakily took a bath in the cubicle, as if he was doing something bad.

The next morning, Lu Yu used the bamboo basket at home to load forty or fifty catties of pork, and then brought a kitchen knife and prepared to go out. She asked Lu Yu if she was going out, Lu Yu nodded, and said that she also wanted to change some fine grain. Yan Xi'an looked at Lu Yu with a blank eye, looking aggrieved, she wanted to go out with Lu Yu, but she was afraid that her father would be unhappy.

Lu Di was already ready, and he also used a bamboo basket to fill the same amount of pork. He only has half a pig, but there is still some meat left from the past, and only a few catties of fresh pork are left, and the rest is going to be exchanged for fine grains.

The two of them found a flat pole to pick up the two baskets, took a rod and scale from Lu Di's house, and went out. Out of the village to the north, you have to go through the town and continue to walk for more than ten miles, and only when you reach another village can you exchange for fine grain.

When I passed through the town, I found that there were really a lot fewer people in the town, most of the shops were closed, and although the Baiweiju where Lu Ming worked before was not closed, there were no customers. Because he was in a hurry, Lu Yu didn't go to Lu Ming's house, thinking that when he came back, he would go and see if it was still early.

It was almost noon, Lu Yu and the others arrived at a village, there was a river next to the village, the river was called Menhe River, and the village was called Menhe Village. The terrain of Menhe Village is flat, and because it is surrounded by rivers, it can grow not only wheat but also rice. The water level of the Menhe River is very low, but it is far from drying up, so I guess the people who come to this village are doing well.

The village was very cold, and there seemed to be no one there. Lu Yu and Lu Ming walked around the village with a meat burden, but they didn't see a few people, and then asked an old man sitting at the door, only to know that the plague killed a lot of people last time, and the village was half empty. The old man asked them what they were doing again, Lu Yu said that they were here to exchange food, the old man looked at the meat for a while, and then asked Lu Yu and them to go to the ancestral hall in the west of the village to ask, there were many people there. Lu Yu thought for a while, cut a piece of meat from his basket and gave it to the old man.

The old man happily took the pork.

There are really some people in the ancestral hall, now is not the time to be busy with farming, the villagers of Yangshan Village love to sit on the edge of the dirt field and gossip, and the people here are the same. Seeing Lu Yu and them coming over with a load of meat, many people soon surrounded them.

"Is this pork? Why don't you go to town and sell it? ”

Lu Yu said: "This is wild boar, we are from Yangshan Village, and we want to come here to exchange for some fine grain." ”

Someone asked: "Wild boar?" Are you sure? Someone else asked, "How do you change the method?" ”

"Genuine wild boar, one pound of meat for three pounds of rice or flour." This ratio was discussed by Lu Yu and Lu Ming on the road, and Lu Yu felt that the price would definitely be lowered, so it was a little higher than the original plan.

"Three catties of rice is enough for a family to eat for two days, can one catty of pork be?" There was a tall and thin man who looked at the meat burden with bad intentions.

Lu Ming asked, "Then how much do you say?" In fact, that person may not have any intention of changing.

"One pound for one pound, what else can I do."

"Yes, one pound for one pound, if I exchange it, I'll go home and get some food." Someone chimed in.

Lu Yu shook his head and said, "One pound for two and a half pounds, if you don't change it, forget it." "A fool will exchange a pound of meat for a pound of grain, as the saying goes, eat more oil and salt and eat less, a pound of rice is enough for one person to eat for two days, a pound of meat is enough, and it is not easy to be hungry when eating meat.

The tall and thin man stretched out his hand and touched the pork, and said, "You are a domestic pig, how can a wild boar be so fat." ”

"Where, the domestic pig is not so thin, do you see that there is fat on it?" Lu Mingjue's man was very ill-intentioned.

"Hehe, maybe it's sick pork, who knows?"

Lu Yu was a little angry and said: "If you don't change it, forget it, who is so lacking in virtue and takes a sick pig out to harm people." ”

Lu Di glanced at Lu Yu and asked him in a low voice, "Forget it, go to another village." ”

Lu Yu thought about it for a while, and when he went to other villages, he estimated that the situation was similar, so he said to wait first. Then Lu Yu shouted: "Wild boar meat is exchanged for grain, one pound of pork is exchanged for two and a half pounds of fine grain...... "Don't say it, it's quite difficult to speak for the first time."

"Two pounds of flour for one pound of pork, for it?" A young woman led a four or five-year-old boy and asked Lu Yu, and the little boy looked at the pork and couldn't take his eyes off it.

Lu Yu pretended to be a little embarrassed, and hesitated for a while before saying, "Okay, how much do you change." ”

"I'll just change two catties of meat, okay?" The young woman's voice was soft and nice.

"Okay, you see which piece you want, I'll cut it for you." Lu Yu decided to change Lu Ming's meat first, his daughter-in-law needed fine grain.

The young woman hesitated for a moment, pointed to a piece of pig's back, and said, "That's it, I only need two catties." ”

Lu Yu cut off a piece with a kitchen knife, Lu Ming weighed it with a scale, two catties and two taels, he let the young woman look at the scale, and said that she was counted two catties. The young woman nodded, and said to go back and get the flour, and let us wait.

When she was waiting for her, a few more people came to ask, but no one was willing to change. Lu Yu and Lu Ming were both a little frustrated, feeling that they might have to run for nothing.

After waiting for a while, the young woman came over with a small bag of flour, Lu Yu carried it with her hand, and felt that it was almost four catties, so she took the flour and gave her the meat.

After this small deal was made, the two shouted a few more times, but this time there were no onlookers, Lu Yu was very strange: rural people rarely sell meat, and the most meat dishes are eggs, but now that the chickens are gone, have they always been vegetarian?

Lu Yu and the two of them were about to leave and were about to go to other nearby villages when trouble came.

"Those two wild goods, stop for Lao Tzu."

Lu Yu and Lu Di looked at each other, are the "wild goods" shouting at us?

A short and stout man who was not very old and sturdy walked towards Lu Yu and them menacingly, and shouted from afar: "Lack of morality, which of your villages, sell meat for less than two catties." He carried a piece of meat in his hand, as if it had been replaced by the young woman just now.

The man came to Lu Yu, threw the meat on the ground and shouted: "Two catties of meat for four catties of noodles don't say that you are black, look at this meat, do you have two catties?" ”

Lu Yu glanced at the pork on the ground covered with sand, which was obviously half smaller than the one I replaced, and understood that this person was deliberately looking for trouble, so he said lightly: "This piece has been cut by you, and the knife marks are different." ”

"Nonsense, my wife just brought it home, you weigh it again, if you have two pounds, it must be your scale's problem. You dare to use the water scale to fool around in Menhe Village, it's also amazing. Of course, the man knew that it would be less than two catties to weigh it again.