Chapter 1103: Simply makes one drool

Without the old cow's dragging, the sidecar pulling Wang An and the two plus an old cow unloaded into several pieces is not very laborious.

So soon, the two rode the sidecar back to Wang An's house.

Seeing Wang An and the two pulling the cow head and a pile of meat back, Mu Xueqing said with shock:

"Did you two kill someone else's cow?"

The reason Mu Xueqing asked this was because Wang An's house had pigs, sheep, and also roe deer and deer. Mu Xueqing thought it was impossible for Wang An to buy a cow and kill it just to eat beef.

Moreover, there are no wild cows in these big mountains, so Wang An and Wang Li could pull back the cow head, cow skin, and cow bones, it must be that they killed someone else's cow.

Wang An said with a smile:

"What are you talking about? What is killing someone else's cow? This is our cow, I bought it with Old Five today, just day after day, talking nonsense, hahahahaha..."

It's just that as he spoke, Wang An couldn't help laughing.

Mainly because whenever he thought of the full gallbladder of bezoar, Wang An's little mood was particularly beautiful.

Mu Xueqing frowned and said with some complaints:

"Our house has pigs and sheep, and if it doesn't work, there are roe deer. If you want to eat meat, just kill it. Do you have to eat beef? Eating beef is not cost-effective."

It had to be admitted that this woman Mu Xueqing was definitely a good woman who lived a proper life. With Wang An's strength, she was reluctant to even buy a cow to eat.

Wang An stopped laughing, took out the cloth bag containing bezoar, and said to Mu Xueqing mysteriously:

"Look at what this is, hehehehe..."

Mu Xueqing took the small cloth bag suspiciously, opened it, took it out, and exclaimed:

"Oh my god, this... this wouldn't be bezoar, right? How can this cow have so much bezoar?"

Mu Xueqing recognized it at a glance, Wang An lost his mystery, and shook his head: 【1103-1

"Who knows what's going on with that? It just happened to have this much bezoar."

Mu Xueqing asked with a sudden realization:

"So you mean you only bought this cow for the bezoar?"

Wang An nodded and said in a very smug tone:

"Yep, this cow only cost 300 yuan. How about that? Was this a good deal?"

Mu Xueqing rolled her eyes at Wang An and said with a smile:

"That's definitely a good deal. If you ask me, you two brothers shouldn't even go into the mountains anymore; just specialize in finding cows with bezoars. This stuff is safe and makes money—how great is that?"

As soon as Mu Xueqing said this, Wang An couldn't be smug anymore. The main thing is that cows with bezoars aren't like Chinese cabbage; how could they be so easy to come by? If they were really that easy to find, bezoars wouldn't be so valuable.

Consequently, Wang An didn't even take the bait and just said directly:

"Well, wife, you go inside. When you're done, just like when we dealt with the boar sand last time, scrape off the mucous membrane on the bezoar, then get two pieces of paper to pad it, and leave it in our room to air-dry."

Seeing that Wang An didn't dare to respond, Mu Xueqing agreed with a smile, then cradled her large belly and went inside.

After Mu Xueqing went inside, Wang Li suddenly said:

"Fourth Brother, could it be that my sister-in-law is pregnant with two children? I remember that none of the pregnant women in our village have bellies as big as hers. Hers is just too big."

Wang An had already noticed this issue, so he nodded and said:

"Yeah, I think so too. Your sister-in-law is likely carrying twins. I just don't know if they're girls or boys."

Wang Li said with a chuckle:

"Wouldn't it be great if they were two boys? My uncle and aunt would be over the moon."

Wang An said with a completely indifferent expression:

"Anything is fine. I'm not picky. It would be perfect if it were a boy and a girl; then I'd have both, haha."

That's what he said, but Wang An's true thoughts were that boys and girls are the same. However, he was quite looking forward to the birth of the children; after all, this was the bloodline born from Wang An's two lifetimes of existence!

The two of them chatted while unloading the beef from the sidecar and breaking it down into small pieces. After about half of it was broken down, Wang An said to Wang Li:

"Fifth, you handle the rest yourself. I'm going to get the fire going under the big pot, then stew all these beef bones. When the time comes, I'll call my second uncle, second aunt, and Xiaorong over, and tonight our two families will gnaw on beef bones."

Wang Li looked at the beef bones, which didn't have much meat on them, and frowned as he said:

"I think these bones aren't even worth eating. You could gnaw on them for ages and barely get a mouthful of meat. If you eat this little meat, won't your teeth spark?"

It must be said, this old cow was truly damn thin. There was only a thin layer of meat on the ribs, and it was all lean meat—not a single bit of fat.

Listening to Wang Li's exaggerated words and watching his very exaggerated movements, Wang An couldn't help but laugh. He pointed at the beef offal and said with annoyance:

"Isn't there still the beef offal? When the time comes, we'll stew it together with the bones; it's guaranteed to be delicious."

Wang Li looked at Wang An and suddenly said with a hopeful face:

"Fourth Brother, it's been a while since we had fish. How about we catch a big fish to eat too?"

Wang An looked at the beef bones and beef, wondering if they would even stew until tender, and thought for a moment before saying:

"That works. Then hurry up and finish trimming the meat, then go cast a net in the fish pond. Whatever fish we catch, that's what we'll eat."

Because Wang An's fish pond was large enough, the water plants inside and the weeds around the pond grew very lushly.

Therefore, the fish inside weren't really taken care of and weren't fed often. Only when cleaning up the vegetable garden would they throw the pulled weeds and various vegetable leaves into the pond.

However, what's quite magical is that the fish in Wang An's pond were actually doing quite well. The living fish were all jumping around, and as for dead fish, they were probably eaten by the live ones; in any case, he had never seen dead fish floating in the pond.

Wang An suspected that the reason these fish were doing so well was because the spring provided a constant supply of fresh water.

Regardless of the reason, with this fish pond, it was damn convenient for Wang An's family whenever they wanted to eat fish.

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Li agreed with a smile:

"Hey, alright, Fourth Brother."

As he spoke, Wang Li sped up his movements.

Wang An began to start the fire and scrub the pot, then after cleaning the beef bones and offal, he threw them all into the big pot at once.

It must be said, although the cow was thin, the beef bones and offal were quite substantial. The 12-inch big iron pot in the yard was filled to the brim.

While blanching, Wang An prepared various seasonings. Wang An had bought quite a few seasonings last time, and this time they would come in handy.

After blanching, Wang An scooped all the beef bones and offal into another pot, and immediately after, he began to stir-fry the stewing ingredients.

A basin of black bear oil went into the pot, and half a bucket of soybean oil was poured in as well. After the oil was hot, he added green onion segments, ginger, star anise, dried chili, mountain pepper, ice, soybean paste, and a whole bunch of other seasonings. After stir-frying until fragrant, he added half a pot of cold water directly, then put the beef bones and offal into the soup.

Fearing the beef bones wouldn't stew until tender, Wang An pressed a circle of bricks onto the wooden pot lid, and he even used cloth strips to plug the gaps on the lid.

Before long, the fragrance of the beef and the various seasonings permeated the entire yard.

It must be said, this smell was simply mouth-watering.

(End of chapter)