Chapter 39: Cured Meat

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Bokang began to pack up the wild boar, and in the afternoon, he packed up a small wild boar and came out. It was Yang Xue's suggestion to clean up the little wild boar first, she said that let him practice with the little wild boar first, and then clean up the big wild boar when he was proficient. A small wild boar was packed up with more than 30 catties of meat, without adding other pig offal or anything. Because the fur of the baby wild boar is not particularly thick, the pig skin is also retained. Because of cleaning up these pigs, I also deliberately broke a bowl to shave pig hair, but it is estimated that the two big wild boars are not needed, and the fur of the two big wild boars is too thick, and it is estimated that the skin can only be peeled off.

The packed pork is salted and put in a basin to wait for the next day to be hung up to dry, and in the evening it is fried pork offal and pumpkin soup. There are not many pumpkins and winter melons left at home, but there are still a lot of those that have been gnawed by wild boars, most of them are gnawed and more than half of them are left. They didn't waste any of this, originally Li Bokang put aside the gnawing and asked her how to deal with it, she didn't have any idea at first, or she thought of it at home when Li Bokang went to town later.

It is to cut off the places that have been gnawed by wild boars and feed them to the chickens, and peel and slice them to dry the rest that have not been gnawed. In this way, you can also steam it and eat it in other ways in the future, and it will not be very wasteful. They hadn't reached the stage where they could be wasted, and she was even more reluctant to waste it because of the hardships she had when she first arrived. But there is no time to do these things now, and the most important thing now is to deal with those wild boars.

In the next few days, Li Bokang was cleaning up wild boars, the first two days were to clean up a few little wild boars, and after cleaning up the three little wild boars, he became more and more proficient. In the past few days, she proposed the idea of peeling pumpkin to Li Bokang, and Li Bokang originally disagreed with her to do it, but he couldn't withstand her soft grinding and hard bubbles and finally agreed. But he also agreed to her peeling, and he set a time for her to do it every day, and she didn't mind as long as she had something to do. And she is not a person who knows what is good or bad, she also knows that he is for her good, and she herself does not want to leave the root of the disease in the future.

After Li Bokang finished cleaning up the little wild boar at home, there was no salt at home, so he went down the mountain again to buy salt, and when he went down the mountain, he also carried some meat to Dr. Shi. This time I bought more salt, bought six catties, and the owner of the salt shop was very surprised when I bought it, and later he explained that it was the pickled cabbage and meat at home, so he used more salt, so the boss sold him the salt. This time he went down the mountain and bought some rice, and they have been eating rice recently, which Yang Xue proposed. Her reasons are also relatively open, she said: "Now that I'm injured and you are working alone at home, you have to eat some good supplements, and I have to make up for it, don't I?" That's what Dr. Shi said. "So now they're all eating rice, and now they're basically eating meat every day. But basically it's all pork offal, such as: fried pork heart, fried pork liver, stewed pork belly and the like. As for the large intestine and small intestine, they are washed, salted, boiled in boiling water, and dried.

But in fact, it didn't take long, and it took three days to clean up those little wild boars, and it was half a day when Li Bokang went to the town to inquire about the news. They didn't eat much, and they didn't finish a single pig's offal, so they basically pickled it and dried it. Later, looking at those discarded pig offal, she still felt very distressed, so she wanted Li Bokang to buy a puppy to come back to raise, Li Bokang also felt that it was good to buy a puppy back, and when they grew up, they could also remind them if there was any situation at home. There's also that you can accompany her when she's fine, and now that she's injured, he basically has to do things at home, and he definitely won't have much time to spend with her after that, and it's good to have a puppy. So this time he went down the mountain and went to find a puppy to buy it back.

As for the big boar in the back, it took a long time, and it took him four days to clean them up alone. During this period, Li Bokang was also sold twice down the mountain, and the price was quite cheap, but it was sold for a total of about 50 catties and about 5 yuan. Fortunately, it is now late winter, and the cold pork is not bad, otherwise it will definitely be wasted. The boundary of White Tiger Town, where they are now, is in the north, but it is not particularly northern, and it can be regarded as belonging to the southwest region. Winters are not as warm as in the south but not as cold as in the north, but still very cold.

When he was cleaning up the wild boar, she peeled the pumpkin on the bed, and she could peel a lot of them every day, and after cutting them every day, Li Bokang would slice them all and dry them. Although it is cold in the mountains, it basically does not snow in winter, but there is also rain, but this does not prevent them from drying things. Even if there is not enough sun, it can be air-dried, not to mention that there is some sun here in winter. However, there are still a lot of things that have been spoiled by wild boars at home, and she has not been able to cut them after Li Bokang has cleaned up all the wild boars. Later, Li Bokang also followed her to peel pumpkins to dry, and it took two more days to finish drying them all.

However, there were a lot of pumpkins after cutting, and there were not enough sieves to dry things at home, so she thought of using hemp rope to pull up under the eaves at the door and hang the pumpkins on it to dry. Winter melons are dried in the same way, but the winter melons are not wasted much, and they are only four or five.

Other than that, there are some sweet potatoes and potatoes, but sweet potatoes are more wasted. Sweet potatoes are all gnawed messy, I don't want the previous pumpkin and winter melon or something big to deal with, sweet potatoes are too small to dry is not very convenient and troublesome, and there is no tool at home that can dry them. Later, she thought of the small stone mill at home, and thought that after washing them, she would use the stone mill to grind them out and collect starch, so that they would be easy to store and useful. It's just that it's still a lot of trouble, but in the end, the two of them still use this method to deal with the sweet potatoes and potatoes that have been gnawed.

The spoiled sweet potatoes and potatoes add up to dozens of catties, but it took seven or eight days for Li Bokang to grind alone. After grinding the sweet potatoes and potatoes, put them in a basin and bucket, then add water and wash them twice, and then use a basket to drain out the remaining residue and feed it to the chickens, and put the washed water in the bucket and basin to settle. After precipitation, pour out the precipitated water for a day, leave the bottom sediment, and then use a sieve and dustpan to pad it with a cloth, pour the sediment on it, squeeze the water out with a handkerchief, and then dry, and finally break the sun-dried starch blocks into powder.

After tidying up all the things at home, a month has passed, and the New Year is about to be celebrated, and it is already the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month. During this period, the vegetables in the vegetable field were also tidied up, and there was not much left, but there were still some. During these days, Li Bokang was basically doing it alone, although he ate well every day, but he still lost some weight. The meat that she had just raised was gone, and she was very distressed to see it. Seeing that the time at home was almost done, she stopped letting him work and let him rest.

However, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Li Bokang was still busy for another day, because the Chinese New Year was about to begin, and this year was the first year for the two of them to spend together, and both of them wanted to have a better time, so on this day he went to the town to buy some things for the New Year. She also told him to buy some incense and candles and the like, and the others were to buy some snacks and red paper and the like. There is also the fact that I went to the hospital to grab medicine and came back, and I didn't go to pick up medicine for a while when my family was busy before. However, she felt that she didn't need to take the medicine, now the main thing was to take care of the injury on her leg, and everything else was better, so she asked him to go to the hospital to ask if he could not take the medicine.