Yun Amu looked at her cheerfully, "Xiao Qing, I want to marinate more meat and bury less meat in the snow."
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a while and said: "Cut the wild boar into pieces, marinate and fry them into fried meat. Store them in a vat and eat them slowly. The rest are made into dried meat. The liver is marinated and smoked and dried, and the bones are put away.
, bury the tripe in the snow and stew it for soup."
Yun Amu nodded, "Okay, luckily I saved enough aniseed this year."
"You go and help separate the internal organs, and I'll grind the aniseed to prepare five-spice powder." Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile.
Yun Amu nodded and called A Yu and others out.
Yao Xiaoqing stir-fried star anise, grass fruit, pepper and other aniseed ingredients and took them to the stone mill to grind them into powder.
Yun Amu, Ayu and the others shoveled the snow into a large pot, heated it, and washed their stomachs with hot water.
Bao Amu took people to the warehouse to drag baskets, and put the stomach, intestines, suet, meat and bones that Ah Chong and the others had stripped out separately into the baskets.
Jiang Li and Mu Feng chased them up the mountain and captured two bison, a dozen wild boars and some musk deer. The group chopped down sticks and vines and happily carried the wild animals down the mountain.
I saw a crowd of people at the entrance of the canteen, and a group of people were busy as if they didn't feel cold at all.
Yao Xiaoqing mixed the ground aniseed, salt and a small amount of sugar into the cut meat and marinated it. He brought the suet cut by Yun Amu and others to the kitchen.
Ayu added a few pieces of firewood to the stove, lit the pine needles with a fire stick and put them into the stove. The fire started. After the two refined the oil, the meat was almost marinated.
Yao Xiaoqing poured a ladle of rapeseed oil into the pot, poured the marinated wild boar meat into the pot and started frying in cold oil. Slowly, the aroma of the aniseed ingredients spread, and bursts of aroma filled his nostrils.
Gou's mouth watered.
Ayu sniffed, "Xiaoqing smells so good!"
"The reason why there is aniseed in the meat."
Yao Xiaoqing kept stirring with a spatula to prevent the pork from sticking to the pan until the meat in the pan turned golden brown. He took it out with a slotted spoon and put it into a half-sized jar, and then scooped out the oil in the pan and poured it over.
on top until the oil covers the meat.
After frying more than ten tanks of fried meat in a row, I finished frying the pork belly. Then I started to blanch the cleaned offal of wild animals. Some of the blanched offal were marinated, and some were put into bamboo baskets and carried outside to be frozen.
If you want to eat, just pry a piece out.
It was getting dark and the snow was getting heavier. It was no longer possible to work outside, so everyone had to drag the wild animals into the canteen to continue.
Yao Xiaoqing climbed to the top of the building and looked at the gray and black clouds in the west getting thicker and thicker. He sighed, "It's a blessing, not a curse. It's a disaster that cannot be avoided. What is supposed to come will always come."
Jiang Li also came upstairs at some point, "Do you think it was a volcanic eruption or an earthquake?"
Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the sky, "Look, the clouds in the west have turned gray-black. I have been here for so long and I have never seen the clouds in the sky with such a color.
I'm worried that the weather will get colder and colder and will last for a while. We have to go up the mountain while we can still, cut down more trees and burn charcoal to keep out the cold."
Seeing her sad face, Jiang Li smiled and consoled her: "There must be a way for cars to reach the mountain, and for boats to reach the bridge. Don't worry, you will always find a way."
Yao Xiaoqing said quietly: "I also hope I guessed wrong."
Jiang Li looked at her with some distress, and said softly: "There is still me! If it doesn't work, I will take people into the mountains to hunt. It's windy upstairs, so you go downstairs. Tomorrow I will take people up the mountains to cut down trees and prepare the firewood.
adequate."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yeah! I'm going to talk to my father. There are also Shishan and the tribes in the south. I need to remind them."
Jiang Li nodded, "We need to remind them so that they don't have to come over for relief when they run out of food!"
The two went downstairs together. Jiang Li helped in the dining hall to remove bones and chop meat. Yao Xiaoqing went to the refining room and told Yao Hu about her worries.
Dashi and Shan both opened their eyes wide after hearing this, "Xiaoqing, you mean this year will be colder than the year before?"
"Yes!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded.
Yao Hu believed her words deeply and patted her shoulder, "Just let them do what you think should be done. Father will listen to you."
The two of them also nodded in agreement, "Yes, Xiaoqing, whatever you think can be done well, we will do it."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, and seeing Yao Hu frowning, he comforted him: "Don't worry too much, maybe I guessed wrong!"
Yao Hu looked at his daughter distressedly, "My father is incompetent and makes you worry every time something happens."
Yao Xiaoqing raised her head and looked at him with a look of dismay on her face, "Who told your daughter to be so capable!"
Several people looked at her and laughed, "Yes! Xiaoqing is the most capable witch in this area."
Yao Xiaoqing's face turned red, "Okay! The food in the cafeteria is also ready. Let's go back for dinner together. Everything will be delicious tonight."
The three of them thought about the wild animals they had captured today and nodded happily, "Okay, let's go eat something delicious."
When they arrived at the canteen, Yao Xiaoqing called Ah Hei and the others to the canteen, told everyone what she was worried about, and said: "From today on, we have two meals a day. Except for the warriors who patrol and look out, everyone can only eat five cents."
full."
Everyone responded in unison: "Yes, Green Witch."
When we woke up early the next morning, everyone found that there was thick snow on the roof and open space.
Wolf and Spear led their men to shovel the snow away, while Muba and Bao went up to the roof to sweep the snow off. Jiang Li, Mufeng and the others drank soy milk and took bean dregs cakes and went up the mountain.
Dashu Hequan went to the small tribe in the south and told them that it might get colder and asked them to cut down more trees.
According to Yao Xiaoqing's instructions, he told them how to make animal offal and how to make charcoal, and reminded them to eat sparingly.
After hearing this, the deer and others felt their hearts tremble. After a moment of silence, they all calmed down and asked the woman to dig out the discarded animal offal from the snowdrift, while the man went up the mountain to cut down the trees.
Jiang Li took Mu Feng and the others up the mountain, looking for small trees with thick arms and cutting them down. They dragged them back to the tribe and piled them into the empty cattle pens and pig pens. A Chong Bo and Yu and the others chopped the trees and put them into the kiln for burning.
Making charcoal did not stop until the pens were completely filled.
As expected, the weather is getting colder and colder. I used to not have to wear animal skin clothes and pants when the fire was burning in the house, but now I have to wear them to avoid feeling cold.
A Gen and A Chun, the old uncles from the breeding team, were in the chicken shed and the duck shed burning charcoal fire, but in the end many chickens and ducks froze to death. They were so heartbroken that they even shed tears.
Yun Amu comforted the two of them, "I've kept the hatching eggs! When the weather warms up, we'll hatch the chicks and ducks again."
Agen nodded, "Chickens and ducks don't lay much eggs when it's cold, so be sure to save the eggs and not eat them."
Yun Amu smiled and nodded, "Don't worry, I will definitely keep the eggs."