The sisters-in-law came back soon and packed the remaining wild animals in their backpacks. Jiang Haixia still walked briskly with the roe deer basket on her back.
The group went down the mountain and arrived at Lin Qingqing’s house smoothly.
The door is closed.
Sister-in-law Xiuhong knocked on the door. She had just brought those wild animals back, but Honghua was frightened.
After Xiuhong left, she quickly closed the door and locked it.
Honghua shyly opened the door. When she saw how many people there were, she opened the door wide.
Several people hurried in, and Honghua locked the door again.
Honghua looked at the heavy backpacks on their backs, licked her lips and stood there watching the people remove their backpacks and take out their things.
A small pile of wild animals had been placed next to the water pump, and several people piled on top the wild animals they had just brought back.
Just now, the pile of wild animals on the mountain was covered with grass, and it looked like a big pile. Now on the flat ground in the yard, it looked even more spectacular.
Lin Qingqing asked Jiang Haixia: "Can you peel?"
Jiang Haixia: "I'll do it." After saying that, she pulled out a knife from her waist, opened the leather sheath, and started to process it. deer.
It is still early after eight o'clock, and Sister-in-law Xiuhong, Sister-in-law Xiaoli, and Sister-in-law Yinghong went up the mountain again.
During the two trips they came down, they didn’t bring too many herbs, and they had to go up the mountain in the morning.
After the others left, Lin Qingqing also went to the kitchen to cut the pork she bought yesterday. After cutting, she took the chopping board to the bluestone board in the courtyard to chop the meat.
Jiang Haixia squatted beside the water pump and skinned the deer.
Honghua and Xiaomei were getting herbs under the pergola, looking up at Jiang Haixia from time to time.
Honghua raised her eyebrows towards the water pump and asked in a low voice: "I heard Xiuhong say that she was the one who made all this pile?"
Lin Qing took stock. nod.
Honghua got the confirmation and swallowed. Thinking of the cold and sharp look in her eyes when she saw Jiang Haixia for the first time, her back felt cold even on a hot day.
"Today, my sisters-in-law came over to eat dumplings at noon. I will share some for everyone to take home."
Honghua took another look at the piles of wild animals and said without politeness: "Okay."
Jiang Haixia quickly peeled off a complete deer skin, which was processed by Jiang Haixia and then nailed to the wall over the vegetable field to dry.
She peeled the roe deer skin again. In summer, roe deer have less hair. This skin can be used to pad Lin Qingqing's mattress to prevent moisture. It can also be placed under the sheets to keep warm in winter.
After Lin Qingqing had chopped the meat, Jiang Haixia also processed the roe deer skin and nailed it next to the deer skin to dry.
Lin Qingqing brought some scallions and potatoes, cut them up, put them in the meat, and added some seasoning to the dumpling stuffing.
She didn’t chop the meat too finely. People here like to eat grainy meat.Meat dumplings.
After Jiang Haixia peeled off the two big ones, she peeled off the smaller ones much faster.
Xiaomei turned her back and stopped watching when Jiang Haixia was skinning the deer. It was too bloody.
For a while, the yard was filled with the sound of chopping vegetables and the sound of ‘pricking, pricking, pricking’.
Before Lin Qingqing finished shredding the potatoes, she had already finished skinning the rabbit.
At this time, Xiuhong and several sisters-in-law also came back. They didn’t dig many herbs the first time they went up the mountain, but they dug more this time.
As soon as they came in, they saw a pot of blood-red rabbit meat, piled up like a hill.
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Jiang Haixia was still scraping the grease from the rabbit skin. Sister-in-law Xiuhong put down the basket and asked sisters-in-law Xiaoli and Yinghong to wash the herbs while she washed the rabbits.
"Qingqing, are these rabbits dried and stored whole?"
"Yes, I'll cut the potatoes and get them done." Lin Qingqing stepped up her hands. action.
Sister-in-law Xiuhong looked at the pheasant on the ground and said, "I washed the rabbit first and hung it on the wall to dry. After you cut it, boil water and scald the chicken."
Lin Qingqing: "Okay."
Sister-in-law Xiuhong took out the knife from the kitchen, disemboweled the rabbit, took out the organs, put them in a small basin, and put the eviscerated rabbit back into the basin.
At this time, Sister-in-law Xiaoli and Sister-in-law Yinghong were also busy. Seeing the hill-like pot of rabbits, they had long been numb.
One of the two sisters-in-law washes the disemboweled rabbit, and the other hangs the washed rabbit on a string on the wall to dry.
With the cooperation of the three of them, the number of rabbits in the pot gradually disappeared...
After Lin Qingqing was busy, she went to the kitchen to boil water and serve the pheasants later. Hair removal.
Xiaomei and Honghua just wanted to help, but were stopped by Lin Qingqing.
When the water in the kitchen was boiling, Lin Qingqing scooped it into a bucket, carried it to the yard and poured it into a basin.
Sister-in-law Xiaoli quickly put a dozen pheasants into the basin and turned them over with a stick to make the chickens evenly blanched.
Lin Qingqing brought another bucket of water. After pouring it in, the water was almost as level as the chicken.
The fur can be plucked when the water gets colder. Now there are more than twenty rabbits hanging high or low on the wall.
Seeing that there were about a dozen rabbits in the basin, Lin Qingqing said: "Sister-in-law Xiuhong, the rest are not going to be dried. Let each of the sisters-in-law take one back. We will also burn the rabbits for lunch." "
"Okay." Xiuhong stopped.
Lin Qingqing went back to the house and poured out several bowls of tea, and handed a bowl to each sister-in-law.
Looking at Jiang Haixia who was still scraping rabbit hair grease on the ground, she said: "Drink some water and wait for a while before doing it again."
Jiang Haixia: "No need."
A few times All the sisters-in-law looked at each other and smiled. Sister-in-law Xiuhong pursed her lips at Jiang Haixia, and thenThumbs up.
Sister-in-law Yinghong took a sip of water and put the bowl on the bluestone board: "Leave the chicken feathers to me. I'll do it quickly."
Xiuhong smiled: "Okay. Okay, you're awesome."
This made everyone in the yard laugh. Yinghong glanced at Xiuhong and said, "I'm awesome, why are you jealous?"
Lin Qingqing also smiled lightly, Sister-in-law Yinghong’s character is real.
Sister-in-law Xiuhong stopped being talkative. She drank the water in the bowl in one gulp and said, "I'll make the noodles. Qingqing, don't let me do it, or I'll feel bad for taking a rabbit."
Lin Qingqing: Do they all like to work or something?
She rolled up her sleeves and walked to the kitchen, put on her apron, and came out with the basin. She asked Lin Qingqing where the noodles were, scooped out a large basin of noodles, and put the basin on the bluestone board to knead the noodles.
Sister-in-law Xiaoli and Yinghong squatted down to pluck the chicken feathers, and put the plucked feathers into the basin where the rabbit had just been placed. Lin Qingqing took a knife, cut open the chicken and took out the internal organs, and threw the internal organs into the rabbit basin. , when the time comes, it will be given to whichever sister-in-law wants it.
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