Chapter 1120

Without the old cow's dragging, the sidecar pulling Wang An and the other plus an old cow divided into several chunks wasn't very strenuous.

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

Seeing Wang An and the other pull back the cow's head and a pile of meat, Mu Xueqing said with a face full of shock:

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

The reason Mu Xueqing asked this was that Wang An's house had herds of horses, pigs, and sheep, and there were also roe deer and deer; Mu Xueqing believed that Wang An couldn't have bought a cow just to kill it for beef.

Moreover, there are no wild cows in these mountains, so Wang An and Wang Li being able to pull back the cow's head, cowhide, and cow bones must mean they killed someone else's cow.

Wang An said with a smile:

"What kind of talk is that? What do you mean by killing someone else's cow? This is our cow; it's one Fifth and I bought today. You talk nonsense every single day. Hahahaha..."

It was just that as he spoke, Wang An couldn't help but laugh.

Mainly, whenever he thought of that gallbladder full of bezoar, Wang An's mood was especially beautiful.

Mu Xueqing frowned and said with some complaint:

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

It must be said that this woman, Mu Xueqing, was absolutely a good woman who lived her life properly. With the strength of Wang An's family, she was even reluctant to buy a cow to eat.

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

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

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

"Oh my god, this... this wouldn't be bezoar, would it? How could this cow have so much bezoar?"

Mu Xueqing recognized it at a glance, and Wang An immediately lost his sense of mystery, so he shook his head and said:

"Who knows what's going on? It just has this much bezoar."

Mu Xueqing asked with a sudden realization:

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

Wang An nodded and said in a very smug tone:

"Yeah, this cow only cost 300 yuan. How about it? Was this cow worth buying?"

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

"That's definitely worth it. If you ask me, you two brothers shouldn't go into the mountains anymore and should just specialize in messing with cows that have bezoar. This thing is safe and makes money; how good is that?"

As soon as Mu Xueqing said this, Wang An couldn't be smug anymore; mainly because cows with bezoar aren't Chinese cabbage—how could they be so easily encountered? If they were really that easy to encounter, bezoar wouldn't be so valuable.

Consequently, Wang An didn't even reply and said directly:

"Anyway, wife, go into the house. Just like I did with the pig sand last time, scrape off the mucous membrane on the bezoar, then put two sheets of paper under it, and put it in our room to air-dry."

Seeing Wang An didn't dare to reply, Mu Xueqing promised with a smile and then walked into the house with her big belly.

After Mu Xueqing went into the house, Wang Li suddenly said:

"Fourth Brother, do you think my sister-in-law might be pregnant with two children? I remember the pregnant women in our Tuntun don't have bellies as big as sister-in-law's; hers is too big."

Wang An had long discovered this problem, so Wang An nodded and said:

"Yeah, I feel the same. Your sister-in-law is probably pregnant with twins; I just don't know if they are girls or boys."

Wang Li said with a smile:

"It would be great if they were two boys, right? My uncle and aunt would be so happy."

Wang An said with a face of indifference:

"Anything is fine; I'm not picky. It would be perfect if they were boy-girl twins; I would have both a son and a daughter. Hahahaha..."

That's what he said, but Wang An's real thought was that boys and girls are the same. However, for the birth of the children, Wang An was quite expectant; you have to know this is the bloodline born from Wang An's two lifetimes!

The two chatted while unloading the beef from the sidecar and dismantling it into small chunks. After dismantling about half, Wang An said to Wang Li:

"Fifth, you sort out the rest yourself. I'll go set a fire for the big pot, and then I'll stew all these cow bones. When it's time, I'll call my second uncle, second aunt, and Xiaorong over, and our two families will gnaw on cow bones tonight."

Wang Li looked at the cow bones with little meat and frowned, saying:

"I feel like these bones are extra to eat; you have to bite several times to 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, without a bit of fat.

Listening to Wang Li's exaggerated words and looking at Wang Li's very exaggerated actions, Wang An couldn't help but laugh. He pointed at the cow's offal and said irritably:

"Aren't there cow innards? When the time comes, stew them together with the bones; it's guaranteed to be delicious."

Wang Li looked at Wang An and suddenly said with a look of hope:

"Fourth Brother, it's been a while since we've eaten fish. Why don't we get a big fish to eat?"

Wang An looked at the cow bones and beef that he didn't know if they could be stewed until soft, thought for a moment, and said:

"That's fine, then hurry up and trim the meat, then go to the fish pond and cast a net. Whatever fish we catch, we'll eat."

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

So the fish inside were basically not managed and were not fed often; only when tidying up the vegetable garden would they throw the weeds and various vegetable leaves into the fish pond.

However, what was quite magical was that these fish in Wang An's house lived quite well; the living fish were jumping around, and as for the dead fish, they might have been eaten by the living fish. Anyway, he had never seen dead fish floating up in the fish pond.

Wang An suspected that the reason these fish lived so well was because that spring eye provided live water all the time.

No matter what, with the existence of this fish pond, it was truly damn convenient for Wang An's family to want to eat fish.

After Wang An finished speaking, Wang Li smiled and promised:

"Hey, alright, Fourth Brother."

As he spoke, Wang Li quickened his movements.

And Wang An started to light the fire and wash the pot, and after cleaning the cow bones and cow innards, he threw them all into the big pot.

It must be said, although the cow was thin, these cow bones and cow innards were truly not few; the 12-inch big iron pot in the courtyard was filled to the brim.

When blanching, Wang An prepared various seasonings; Wang An bought quite a lot of seasonings last time, and they could be used this time.

After blanching, Wang An scooped all the cow bones and cow innards into another pot, and immediately after, Wang An started to stir-fry the stewing ingredients.

A basin of bear oil went into the pot, and half a bucket of soybean oil was also poured into the pot. After the oil was hot, he put in 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 more than half a pot of cold water and then put the cow bones and cow innards into the soup.

Afraid that the cow bones wouldn't be stewed until soft, Wang An pressed a circle of bricks on the wooden pot lid, and even the gaps on the pot lid were blocked by Wang An with cloth strips.

In a short time, the fragrance of beef and the fragrance of various seasonings permeated the entire courtyard.

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

(End of chapter)