Chapter 90

"These Mongolian gazelle horns are not for exchange." Li Long took the Mongolian gazelle head and said to Wang Cai Mi, "Brother Wang Cai Mi, you can exchange for Mongolian gazelle meat, but we have use for the horns."

"Exchanging for one is also fine." Wang Cai Mi smiled and took a clip of bullets and said, "Ten bullets for four jin of Mongolian gazelle meat, I don't want meat, I just want one horn, is that okay?"

"That won't do either." Li Long was very persistent, "If I hunt Mongolian gazelles with horns next time, then I can exchange with you."

"Fine, then give me four jin of Mongolian gazelle meat, I want the female sheep's." Wang Cai Mi settled for the second best.

Li Long and Wang Cai Mi didn't break it, but he was clear that Wang Cai Mi should know the function of these Mongolian gazelle horns.

Now information is not so developed, and the vast majority of people still think that Mongolian gazelles are the same as wild goats, and they won't think of antelopes at all.

Many people came to exchange for Mongolian gazelle meat today. Xu Haijun exchanged ten jin alone, using twenty bullets.

Most of them came to taste something new. In this era, bullets are still relatively easy to get. Every year, the two seasons of militia training require live ammunition shooting. Bullets are also loosely managed. The bullets received from the armed forces department are usually not handed back. Although there is a fixed number registered for how many are fired, it actually depends on personal mood.

The price set by Li Long, ten bullets for four jin of Mongolian gazelle meat, before dark, forty jin of Mongolian gazelle meat was exchanged. If Li Long hadn't let his sister-in-law cut a strip of Mongolian gazelle leg and half a side of female sheep ribs in advance, I'm afraid his own family wouldn't have been able to get female sheep to eat.

When it was dark, seeing that no one was coming, Li Jianguo and Li Long put the remaining Mongolian gazelle meat into the idle room without a fire and hung it up.

"When has our family's meat ever been so rich." Li Jianguo looked at the side of wild boar meat, two sheep, and now two Mongolian gazelles hanging on the beam, feeling emotional.

Just this, there were more than one hundred kilograms of processed fish in the idle room, as well as two large jars of rendered sheep oil and wild boar oil, as well as several plates of mutton offal stored well.

The idle room was almost full.

"What to do if we can't finish eating by spring?" Liang Yumei was also worried.

"Then what to do? Split it." Li Long said with a smile, "Besides Brother-in-law Liang's family, doesn't sister-in-law have two younger sisters? Split some for each family.

If we can't split it here, sell it. Exchanging for things is also fine. People in the team don't have money, but they have a lot of miscellaneous things. If it doesn't work, exchange it for carpenters to make furniture. Anyway, there is a lot of wood at home."

When Li Long said this, Li Jianguo smiled and nodded, his younger brother still had many ghost ideas.

"Let's go, eat, drink mutton soup."

"Mom, I don't want to drink mutton soup." Li Qiang said with a bitter face, "Drinking it every day, I'm tired of drinking it."

"You're capable, you can even be tired of drinking mutton soup, who do you think can eat like this every day?" Liang Yumei scolded.

"But you can't drink it every day..." Li Juan also muttered in a low voice.

"Then I'll grill some mutton for you to eat?" Li Long said with a smile, he saw that the fire in the stove was just right, the red charcoal was burned through, there was no smoke, and no open fire, grilling meat at this time was just right.

"Really? Little Uncle, you haven't grilled anything for us to eat for a long time!" Li Qiang cheered.

"Little Long, you just spoil them." Liang Yumei looked at Li Long with reproach, "How to grill this meat?"

"Simple." Li Long went to break a few thin iron wires, took a knife to cut strips of meat from the sheep hanging in the idle room, strung them on the thin iron wires, then smeared them with salt and spicy noodles, lifted the stove lid, grabbed the long end of the thin iron wires and slowly probed the meat down, and began to rotate.

The thin iron wires left in his hand were relatively long, so it wasn't very hot. The meat only stayed in the stove for less than half a minute, and when it dripped oil, it was lifted up.

"Little Uncle, is it grilled?" Li Qiang asked eagerly on the side.

"Bring the plate over." Li Long ordered.

Li Qiang hurriedly took an enamel plate over, holding it with both hands.

Li Long combed the grilled meat into the plate and said to Li Qiang:

"Go, serve it to your dad and mom, they eat first."

Li Jianguo was drinking mutton soup at the table, listening to this commotion, smiling, that feeling was incomparable.

Since the last time he ate grilled old sparrows, Li Qiang knew that what his little uncle made had to be let his parents eat first, so he didn't struggle, and immediately sent the plate to the table.

Li Long had already shaved the meat again at this time, smeared it with seasoning and started grilling.

Soon, four more skewers of meat were cooked, he combed the meat into the plate again and said to Li Qiang:

"Alright, go eat with your sister."

Li Juan carefully picked up a piece of meat from the plate and handed it to Li Long's mouth: "Uncle, you eat!"

Li Long smiled and ate that piece of meat.

Seeing this, Li Qiang hurriedly picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into Li Long's mouth:

"Uncle, you eat!"

"Good, good, alright, two pieces of meat is enough, you eat, I'll grill more."

Grilled meat naturally has more flavor than mutton soup, but Li Long didn't let them eat too much, it's not easy to digest at night, two skewers each is enough.

The whole family, harmonious and happy.

After eating, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:

"Big Brother, it's New Year in a few days, let's go to the street together tomorrow to buy some things."

"Go to the street?" Hearing this, Li Qiang's eyes lit up, "I want to go!"

At this time, going to the county town to buy things was called "going to the street".

"What New Year's goods don't we have at home, why go to the street?" Liang Yumei was used to being frugal and didn't want to spend more money. Besides, Li Long proposed this, it was certain that he was prepared to spend money. She didn't want her brother-in-law to spend more money.

!.

Wouldn't it be better to save that money to marry a wife?

"Juan and Qiangqiang haven't been to the street for two or three months, right?" Li Long said, "Sister-in-law, you haven't been there for half a year, right? Let's go around, it's New Year, it's just right to be lively."

Liang Yumei looked at Li Jianguo.

Li Juan also looked at her father nervously.

"Let's go." Li Jianguo smiled and said, "It's just right that there's nothing at home."

"But there are so many things at home..." Liang Yumei was still worried.

"Let Sister-in-law Lu help look after it. Anyway, once the door is locked, it's impossible for someone to come and pry the lock at this time, right?" Li Long said.

"That won't happen!" Li Jianguo waved his hand, "Prying the lock at this time is asking for a beating."

This matter was settled just like that.

"By the way, Little Long, you didn't exchange those Mongolian gazelle horns for Wang Cai Mi, what are you keeping them for?" Li Jianguo asked.

"Big Brother, those Mongolian gazelle horns have a great effect." Li Long said, "These Mongolian gazelles are not sheep..."

"If Mongolian gazelles aren't sheep, what can they be? If they aren't sheep, why are they called Mongolian gazelles?" Li Qiang's desire for knowledge had always been very strong.

"Mongolian gazelles, actually should be called yellow antelopes." Li Long only explained one sentence, and Li Jianguo immediately understood.

"No wonder!" He suddenly realized, "Then it really can't be exchanged for him—this thing is a precious medicinal material!"

Seeing that his older brother understood, Li Long didn't explain too much, he continued:

"Then Big Brother, keep the Mongolian gazelle head and horns well, just in case."

"Hmm."

Liang Yumei didn't know and asked:

"What is the function of these horns?"

"Reduce fever, prevent convulsions. If the baby suddenly has a fever, shave some powder from the horns, put it in warm water and let the baby drink it, and the fever will go down." Li Jianguo said, "I really didn't expect that Mongolian gazelles... are actually antelopes!"

"Fortunately, I didn't exchange it, that Wang Cai Mi must have known too." Liang Yumei also suddenly realized, "His eyes are really poisonous."

Li Long smiled, that was also because he had experience.

He returned to the east room and fell asleep peacefully.

It was just that the few people in the west room couldn't sleep soundly as soon as they thought about going to the street tomorrow.

(End of chapter)