Suddenly the missing water in the pool reappeared, and all the people thought it was a miracle, and they threw themselves at the edge of the pool and drank from it.

"Yue'er, you're the ghost again." Shen Yinxing hugged Haoyue aside and scratched her little nose lovingly.

"Hehehehe, I can't hide anything from A-Niang." Haoyue leaned on Shen Yinxing's ear and whispered: "Auntie, we don't have to worry about running out of water to drink on the way, now I have half a pool of water in my space." ”

"Worthy of my daughter!" Shen Yinxing kissed Haoyue's little bun face.

With the water, everyone's faces were happy.

The people of Xujia Village also carried large buckets and small buckets and began to fill water, and the old and weak women and children in the village also held the cool pool water and drank it beautifully.

The people of the other villages were also afraid that if there was another fight, it would cause the gods to be dissatisfied, so they did not fight to fetch water back.

Seeing that the people were almost drunk, Xu Jingyang also brought the old cow to drink, but before the old cow walked to the edge of the pool, he suddenly lay on the ground and didn't leave.

Xu Jingyang broke three rattans, but the old cow was still lying on the ground, so angry that he pointed to the cow's nose and scolded: "You evil animal, you dare to disobey the holy decree, I order you to get up quickly, otherwise I will cramp you and pull out your bones!" ”

As a result, after Lao Niu listened to the holy decree, he still didn't bother to pay attention to Xu Jingyang, and still pointed his butt at him.

"Brother, your cow probably won't be able to get up" A villager next to him kicked the cow's buttocks, and then smacked his mouth: "This cow is too old to walk." ”

"What's the age? When I bought the cow, the farmer who sold the cow said that the cow was in the prime of life."

"Yikes! Brother, you are definitely deceived, look at your cow, the fur is messy and lusterless, the skin is dry and rough, the eye bowls are sunken, the eyes are dull, and the wrinkles under the eyes have accumulated layer after layer, it is definitely an old cow that is about to lose his teeth. ”

After speaking, the villager went to break the old cow's mouth again: "Look at it, your old cow's teeth are worn out so that the roots of the teeth are exposed, brother, you have definitely been deceived." ”

If you want to say that you were deceived by buying cattle, it is not surprising that none of them in their family of four have ever done farm work, and they know very little about the common sense of farm life.

Along the way, the old cow dragged a family of four for two or three hundred miles, and it can be regarded as doing his best to work hard and give full play to the last bit of residual heat.

But seeing that he was about to set off, the old cow still couldn't stand on his knees and refused to take another step.

"This cow is too old to walk."

Seeing this, the villagers all suggested that the cattle should be slaughtered as rations, and that a cow should not be delayed.

Haoyue looked at the old cow's big sparkling eyes, to be honest, she was going to kill the cow now, which made her a little unbearable, after all, she also had some feelings for the old cow along the way, and if there was no ox cart on the road in the future, she could only drive 11 roads on two legs.

Hundreds of miles behind, if you walk, I don't know how many pairs of shoes will be worn out.

Shen Yinxing was also silent, she touched the cow's head, and then fed the old cow a few handfuls of hay, wanting it to have a full meal at the end.

The old cow also chewed obediently, mooing a few times from time to time, and looked into the distance with cloudy eyes, as if he knew that his time was short.

Xu Jingyang agreed with the killing of the cow, because he felt that the cow was disobedient and should be killed, and the liar who sold the cow should also be killed if he committed the crime of defrauding the king.

In the end, the old village chief came over with a butcher in the village, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, the old cow ended his life of hard work.

The butcher was skillful, and after the snow-white knife sank into the old cow's body and walked back and forth a few times, the skin and flesh were separated, and in a short time the whole cowhide was peeled off intact.

The peeled cowhide can be used to make water bags and boots to make cloaks, but there are many of these things in the space of Haoyue, so they are given to the butcher as a reward for slaughtering cows.

The butcher buried some of the cow's internal organs in the soil, and according to the tradition of Xujia Village, the slaughter of the cow was to honor the land god, so the cow went into the water to become the best sacrifice.

When the cow was killed, Haoyue looked away a little unbearable, but later when the pastrami was made, Haoyue sat by the fire and drooled vigorously.

Because the weather is hot, the meat is easy to spoil and smell, so the villagers found a bunch of dried thatch to smoke the beef, the lemongrass smoked beef has a great flavor and is easy to preserve.

Haoyue's family didn't know how to cook, and the beef was all cleaned up by people from the village.

As the sun goes down, the villagers light a bonfire, skewer the smoked beef with sharpened sticks, and roast it over the fire, and in a short time the smell of roasted meat fills the night sky.

When the beef is roasted until it drips oil, it is sprinkled with salt on top without adding any spices, which is enough to hook out the cravings in people's stomachs.

Now that there was water and the dough could be mixed, the women kneaded a handful of dough and baked the wheat cakes in a pan over the fire, and when the pastrami on the branches had oozing fat, they sliced the meat pieces with a knife, and then cut the wheat cakes in half, and put the oily beef in them, and a fragrant beef patty was ready.

As soon as Haoyue bit it, the wheat cake on the outside was crispy, the roasted beef inside was full of fat, the meat was chewy, and the wheat fragrance was mixed with the meat aroma, so that her tongue couldn't find the north in an instant.

There were also some women who picked wild vegetables in the field, washed them by the pond, and then fried them in a pot with butter, and the aroma of the wild vegetables fried in butter was so strong that the sound of people sucking saliva rang out on the ground, and even Haoyue, who had never liked to eat wild vegetables, ate it fragrantly.

When they were full, as soon as the children lay down on the hay, they began to count the stars in the sky, and several women were sewing and mending clothes around the fire, and Shen Yinxing also sat next to her to study at first, but after learning for a while, she left the needlework and thread and ran to teach those half-grown children to play military physical boxing.

The current tranquility always gave Haoyue an illusion, she felt that she didn't feel like she was out to escape the famine, but more like she came out for a vacation.

When the bonfire was burning, the old village chief gathered everyone together with a smile on crutches, saying that he had something to talk about.

Next, the old village chief talked about the history of Xujia Village and the ancestors of Xujia Village.

Haoyue thought to herself, just this matter, she didn't want to listen to the old village chief read the family tree, so she listened to it drowsily, but Xu Jingyang listened to it with relish.

At last, when everyone was almost asleep, the old village finally told the true purpose of his meeting to-night.