Chapter 104

Wine is the essence of grain; the more you drink, the younger you get!

Don't know about younger, but it's true that it's filling!

The two people who were already starving and collapsed, after one mouthful of wine, directly lost the feeling of hunger!

It is said that when the heroic predecessors crossed the Chishui River four times, because there was no food, they relied on wine to hold on and win the final victory!

So, wine is absolutely good stuff!

Each drank two more mouthfuls, and Wang An screwed the cap of the wine flask back on; it's quite good to drink a little of this thing, warm and filling.

If you drink too much, the dog is still a dog, but whether a person is still a person, that's not certain!

Besides, the main thing is that if you drink too much of this thing, even if the person doesn't change, it will delay things!

Seeing Mu Xueli looked at the wine flask in Wang An's hand with reluctance, as if he hadn't drunk enough.

Of course, Wang An hadn't drunk enough either!

However, the main difference between humans and animals is that humans can create and use tools!

Actually, there is another very important difference: humans have self-control! People who have no self-control to the extreme are definitely what people call "worse than beasts"!

Sitting by the fire, waiting for the meat to be stewed and the pancakes to be roasted, the two chatted idly.

Finally, the pancakes were roasted, but because the two had drunk wine, they no longer had that feeling of collapse.

So they were all waiting for the gazelle meat to come out of the pot; the unique gamey smell of the stewed gazelle meat had already spread.

The three dogs each ate a hare; although they weren't full, they definitely weren't hungry, but at this time, the three dogs were all drooling while smelling the scent!

This stewed mutton smell was truly too damn fragrant!

The two just stared at the pot, staring quietly!

This trip into the mountains, the two didn't need to use linden bark to make bowls; Seeing Mu Xueli brought two quite large wooden bowls and a wooden spoon!

He said his father-in-law Mu Hua had chiseled them out bit by bit at home with a chisel! Although the bowls looked very rough, this father-in-law's intention was absolutely moving!

This wooden bowl was made of dry red pine; the pine smell was already very faint, but it was quite hard!

Seeing Mu Xueli even showed Wang An, using this bowl to smash snow; it sounded "clank clank" when smashed; using this bowl as a hammer was no problem at all!

In the expectant eyes of the two, the meat was finally cooked; Wang An used the wooden spoon to scoop out the blood foam on top, then each scooped a bowl of soup, and they started drinking happily!

Wang An discovered that although mutton is gamey, if you don't put any seasoning in it, only salt and chili powder, this mutton soup is very delicious!

Black bear meat soup or wild boar meat soup can't compare at all!

Mainly because they didn't cut mountain pepper today, and they didn't bring what they cut yesterday, so they didn't put it in; otherwise, if they had thrown a few pieces in, maybe this soup would be even more delicious.

After a bowl of soup, the two started gnawing on the meat; the meat was just cooked and not soft, but when stuffed into the mouth, it was delicious, chewy and getting more fragrant the more you chewed!

Too damn delicious!

Humans are like this; eating only meat, you always feel something is missing in your stomach, always wanting to eat a little more rice!

After a pot of meat, the two weren't full either, and started eating pancakes; although they had just eaten meat, and these pancakes were scratching their throats, eating while drinking soup was quite fragrant!

Four pancakes, the two finished them all! To be honest, they were barely full; if there were more, they could still eat some.

Full and satisfied, the two cleaned up the pots and bowls, smoked another cigarette, and continued waiting; mainly because the two horses hadn't eaten much fodder yet!

This whole journey depended on them; the fodder Wang An brought into the mountains now was all mixed by Wang Dazhu in advance.

Dry grass, cornmeal, corn kernels, sorghum, and a little soybean meal; soybean meal is something Wang Dazhu exchanged with people at the market; this thing is the best thing to feed livestock!

And the family is no longer short of corn and sorghum; Wang Dazhu takes every opportunity to exchange with people in the county town; every time he goes to the county town to sell meat, he can exchange a hundred or eighty jin!

Must say, people in the county town are richer than people in the village, and have more grain, and most importantly, they dare to eat more and are more willing to eat!

Generally, exchanging meat is five or six jin of corn or sorghum for one jin of wild boar meat or roe deer meat, and seven jin of corn or sorghum for one jin of black bear meat!

Naturally, there are also exchanges using black beans or soybeans, but very few use beans; clearly, they plant quite a few, but don't know why beans are so scarce; maybe they were sent to support somewhere!

Using fine grain to exchange for meat to eat, currently there is none; maybe every family's fine grain isn't abundant!

Black bear is a general term for black bear and brown bear; anyway, these two things don't have good eyesight, and the meat quality is about the same! Locals call them that for convenience; everyone knows what it is.

Of course, whether meat is valuable depends mainly on how fat or lean it is; the more fat, the more valuable it is, and pure fat is the most valuable.

In this era, ribs aren't valuable; it should be said that as long as it's meat with bones, it's not valuable! You can't even sell it for a few cents a jin; many times, they are giveaways when selling meat!

With more corn and sorghum exchanged, there's enough feed for the horses, so the horses grow fat and become stronger, and their fur becomes more lustrous; the current big stallion and big mare are like this!

Compared to when they first arrived home, they have completely changed; you can't recognize that these are the two horses from back then!

Waiting for another half hour, feeling that the big stallion and big blue horse had eaten enough fodder, the two drove the sled and continued to track!

Completely repeating the morning's operations, all kinds of twists and turns, and still having to find and track.

Just around 3 o'clock, when the sun was about to set, the two had just bypassed a pile of bushes when Da Hei, tied behind the sled, suddenly barked frantically.

Immediately after, all three dogs bared their teeth and were ready for a great enemy.

The two knew there must be something nearby!

Both got off the sled, holding guns in their left hands and leading the horses with their right, constantly vigilantly scanning the direction the three dogs were barking!

There were many tall trees in the mountain forest; although the sun was still hanging in the sky, it was actually already dark in the forest.

Wang An's main purpose in bringing dogs today was for vigilance, so naturally, he wouldn't let the dogs loose to fight.

Besides, now whether it was the horses or the dogs, they were all very tired after running for a day; going out of their way to find other prey would be like having their brains kicked by a donkey and then filled with water!

After walking two or three li, the three dogs finally settled down, and the two drove the sled and continued forward.

However, this situation seemed to be just the beginning; after walking another ten-plus li, the sun was already sticking to the ground, and the three dogs barked frantically again.

The big stallion just became irritable for a moment and then settled down, but the big blue horse became restless; Seeing Mu Xueli hugged the big blue horse's head to soothe it, and the big blue horse finally calmed down.

The big blue horse is a gelding; actually, normal stallions, if they aren't used as stud horses, need to be castrated if they want to be used, otherwise they are very difficult to tame and very hard to control!

Donkeys and mules, including cattle, are the same; only Wang An's big stallion is an exception! Very special!

Not only was it not gelded, but it was also very obedient and not very afraid of other fierce beasts; most importantly, it dared to fight wolves; it was a very strange and very awesome existence among the horse group!

The two led the horses through again; it was about to get dark, and Wang An really didn't want to cause extra trouble; even if they fought, they should wait until they saw the gazelles!

Just as the sky was completely dark and only half the sun remained, the three dogs barked frantically, and the big stallion was also a bit restless, pawing the ground with its front hooves!

The big blue horse was even more like it was on fire, jumping up and down; if Seeing Mu Xueli hadn't grabbed the reins tightly, the big blue horse would have turned around immediately and run away for its life!

At this time, Wang An, who was walking in front, saw an astonishing scene—so many gazelles!

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