"How long will this be smoked?" Yan Yu, who was blushing, leaned over and asked, looking at the meat hanging on the charcoal stove.
"You have to dry the water and make it into dried meat, which can be kept for a long time." Yan Laoer said.
Yan Yu had a flash of inspiration and looked at the cow who had just put her down.
Ask it: "Cow, the fodder can be compressed and dried, but can the meat strips be used?"
Yan Laoer and Li Xuemei turned to look at it at the same time.
Ox——nods his head to live up to expectations.
Yan Yu cheered and clapped her hands happily: "Come on, come on, how do you do it? Can you open your belly? Let's put the meat in?"
The cow walked over calmly, shook his head first, and then opened his mouth.
Yan Laoer:......
Li Xuemei:......
Yan Yu:......
Yan Laoer asked a question that everyone was concerned about: "If you eat it and process it, where does the dried meat come out?"
Don't be what they think!
The cow's tail pointed exactly in the direction they expected.
The three of them felt like they were struck by thunder!
Then the cow's mouth opened and closed.
so far so good.
I breathed a sigh of relief instantly.
It's good to go in and out, but actually it doesn't matter when you think about it, and it's not really awesome. The front and back openings are what you need to restore the real awesomeness.
But I really can't get over the hurdle in my heart, ahem, I feel a little awkward.
Yan Laoer tentatively put a long strip of meat in. After a few breaths, the cow spit out a piece of dried meat...
"Hahahahahaha..." Yan Yu almost laughed like crazy.
“If we get rich, we can make money by processing and making dried meat for people!
Can we also make spiced meat jerky, spicy meat jerky... By the way, is it okay to just keep it in the stomach without spitting it out?"
She looked at the cow, who nodded.
Yan Yu laughed like a convulsion again, and continued to ask the cow: "Can the meat be used as jerky, vegetables, or fruits?" She trotted around the cow and continued to ask: "There is a lot of space in your belly.
Is there anything else I can put there? Can it be stored in categories?”
The cow kept nodding and nodding.
Li Xuemei: "What should I do if it eats grass? It can't eat or drink, otherwise people will find it."
"Since it can be stored in categories, there shouldn't be any impact on eating and drinking, right, cow?"
The cow's tail points back to the exit.
Yan Yu understood, "You mean eating and drinking normally will not affect the contents of your stomach, but if you are not allowed to pass it, it will have an impact?"
The cow nodded again.
Yan Laoer said dissatisfied: "Tell me, this guy is so high-tech, why can't he talk? We have to keep guessing. Next time we meet that person, we have to talk to him and upgrade him for us."
"It's better if you can't talk, then you look like a real cow." Li Xuemei doesn't want a cow that can talk. Mooing is good. If she really wants to speak, calling her Princess Iron Fan suddenly will scare her to death!
"Niu, can you refrigerate it?" Yan Yu started to have a lot of ideas.
"Can I stir-fry? Braise? Stew? Why not steam? You can dry it, and if I give you some water, you can steam it, but not? Okay."
"Can you breathe fire? Light a pyre or something?"
"Can it dissipate heat? It can be used as a radiator. Do you know what a radiator is? I don't know. It is a heating device. It dissipates heat so that we are not so cold. Can this be done? Hahahaha!"
"I can only think of this much for now. I'll ask you what comes to mind later, cow! Oh, I have to give you a name. I'll think about it later." Yan Yu stretched out her hand, and the cow's head naturally lowered, and she touched it.
He turned back to the stunned Yan Laoer and said, "Hurry up, Dad, let's start making the jerky!"
Yan Laoer: "Oh, oh!"
The salted raw meat is put in, and the salty dried meat is spit out.
One person and one cow work together seamlessly.
"It's a pity that I didn't bring pepper noodles, chili noodles, and cumin, otherwise the jerky could be made with more flavors." Yan Yu regretted a little.
The weight of dried meat is much smaller than that of raw meat, so I simply don’t save it. I divide a few pieces into each person and put them on my body, so I can take them out whenever I feel hungry.
Pack up and hit the road.
When we got to town, we went straight to the cloth store.
It makes me cry when I talk about it. I was very happy when I sold it, but later I found out that those scattered pieces were very useful.
Can be sewn into large and small bags.
They also needed some wrapping cloth to cover up their embarrassment of having little possessions.
Li Xuemei endured her heartache while pulling the cloth, and she talked to others about it. She pulled out six feet of cloth, which was two copper coins cheaper, and cost one hundred and eighteen coppers.
"I will never buy cloth from outside again!" Li Xuemei regretted: "The cloth on the platform is so cheap, we will buy it from there in the future."
Yan Yu murmured in a low voice: "Every time you learn something, you will gain wisdom. We are still in the exploratory stage, and we will definitely have to pay tuition."
"Buy more bamboo tubes." Yan Laoer walked towards the stall selling bamboo utensils: "It's much cheaper than water bladders."
For things like oil, soy sauce, and vinegar, it's better to put them in bamboo tubes than in jars and jars, because they don't take up much space when stored upright.
"Dad, look at the wheels of those carts." Yan Yu's sharp eyes saw that the wheels of the ox cart going opposite them were wrapped with hemp ropes.
Yan Laoer laughed and went back to buy hemp rope. He imitated others and tried to wrap it. Needless to say, it was pretty good. If he wrapped it twice, the wood inside wouldn't be exposed at all.
Hemp rope was very cheap, so Yan Laoer simply bought a large bundle and threw it on the car. The two iron wheels might come in handy this time.
"Dad, how much money do we have left?" Yan Yu asked.
Yan Laoer counted and said: "There is also a small piece of silver, plus these seven copper plates."
"Then don't buy it, save some for emergencies," Yan Yu said.
You can't have empty pockets. If you want to buy something, you have to reach out to your uncle.
Unable to spend money, the family went back.
Li Xuemei took out the bamboo slips that she had not had time to read yesterday and read them word by word.
Not traditional Chinese, but seal script!
She looked very slowly.
Yan Yu felt dizzy at a glance, "Mother, what is written on it?"
"What's written here should be...the method of making carbon." Li Xuemei looked back at the first column: "The method of burning carbon in a fire."
"Look, there are paintings in the middle."
Yan Yu skipped the text and looked at the individual illustrations. It was the story of a man who burned charcoal using only wood and mud.
sharp!
"It looks very simple, but we don't need it at all!" Yan Yu said, "Mom, I made the wrong choice. I shouldn't have chosen bamboo slip three, but bamboo slip one."
"Those bamboo slips should correspond to various skills. I bought the most useless one."
"How could it be useless?" Yan Laoer interjected: "Daughter, it is useful! You forgot that we are going to the north, but it is very cold. This charcoal-burning method is very useful. Let's not say whether to sell it or not. I know how to do it.
How convenient it is to burn charcoal!
Don’t worry about it at all. If it burns during the day and night, think about how warm our house will be!"
Li Xuemei: "Your father is right. If we go to the north, we can make a living with this craft. It is more reliable than selling dried meat."
"Spicy dried meat, how fragrant it is!" Yan Yu muttered softly.
"Then you must have so many chili peppers!" Li Xuemei replied.
Yan Yu: Mom is right! That little chili noodles is not enough to eat at home.