Chapter 751: Coming Close Enough

On the way down the mountain, while Wang An was giving Wang Li a lecture, Da Hei and the group of dogs didn't stay idle either, catching a rabbit or a wild chicken from time to time.

However, dogs chasing rabbits is generally difficult for one hunting dog to do, and normally it has to be two or more dogs together to surround and intercept.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the dog's ability and speed.

Because the speed of a hunting dog is about 10 meters per second, while the speed of a rabbit is about 8 meters per second; theoretically, a rabbit cannot outrun a dog.

But in fact, the rabbit's movements are unpredictable, turning as soon as it wants to, and one doesn't know when it will make a turn in place, so if one dog chases a rabbit, it will be played around by the rabbit.

And two dogs or multiple dogs chasing together will be very easy, and in just a few minutes, a rabbit will be directly taken down.

Two hours later, Wang An and Wang Li returned home.

On the way back, the harvest of the dogs was also quite good: 4 rabbits, 1 wild chicken, 1 hazel grouse, and 5 roe deer.

One has to admit that this time entering the mountains, the two brothers could be said to have a full harvest.

One big and one small black bear, 12 rabbits, 2 big hazel grouse, 1 wild chicken, 1 hazel grouse, and 5 roe deer.

Of course, besides these meat foods, there were also 6 roots of 5-grade leaf ginseng, 11 roots of 4-grade leaf, 21 roots of 3-grade leaf, 43 roots of second-grade, and two bear gallbladders.

As for the missing rabbit and 4 roe deer, they were stewed by Wang An and his brother and the three Gao brothers at noon.

After taking so much ginseng from others, how could they not eat something good?

Unfortunately, after the meat was stewed, the three Gao brothers only drank some soup; as for the rabbit meat and roe deer meat, they didn't eat a single bite.

According to the three Gao brothers: if there is fat meat, who would eat that dry, thin meat?

Actually, when the three Gao brothers left, Wang An wanted to give them some black bear meat, but they didn't want it, saying that they could eat a meal, and the flower baskets of mountain runners couldn't be stained with meat.

And their journey home was not short, about 100 li, fearing that carrying meat on their bodies would attract wild beasts.

Regarding the rule that mountain runners don't carry meat when entering the mountains, Wang An also knew, because Han Shuisheng had told Wang An.

It's just that it's still that sentence: that's your rule, not my rule! Besides, running mountains is originally a very energy-consuming thing, and you actually set a rule not to let me carry meat to eat, isn't that purely bullshit! Damn! After returning to Wang An's house, looking at such a big pile of meat, the whole family was very happy, and Second Aunt Yao Ping and Shen Wei, who were helping at Wang An's house, were also full of smiles. One could only hear Li Guilan say with a smile:

"Look at my eldest son and my eldest nephew, they are truly capable, they never come back empty-handed when entering the mountains, hahahaha..."

Yao Ping also said very happily:

"Yeah, this old pile of meat, when the time comes, mix it with tofu, vermicelli, and dried cabbage and stew it together, it will truly be enough to eat for several days."

Mu Xueqing also interjected: "The dried potato slices dried in the spring are also quite a lot, I feel they can also be eaten for several meals."

Potatoes have this bad point: as soon as the weather warms up, they will sprout, even in the cellar.

So local people will cut the uneaten potatoes into slices and steam them in the spring, then dry them into potato dried, only then can they be easily preserved.

Of course, only a very small number of families with a lot of grain will do this; as for families short of grain, they will absolutely not do this, and of course, they have no chance to do this, because they have long since eaten them all.

At this time, Second Aunt Yao Ping said generously:

"Yeah, my house also dried quite a lot, I'll bring them all tomorrow." Shen Wei also interjected: "My house also dried two burlap sacks, I'll bring them too when the time comes."

Hearing this, Wang An said to Second Aunt Yao Ping with a smile:

"Second Aunt, your house's doesn't need to be brought, right? Aren't you going to build a house soon? When the time comes, if there's no vegetable to eat, those helpers will complain about you."

One could only hear Yao Ping say indifferently: "My house building is in time, wait until before summer, by that time fresh vegetables will all be down, so there's no need to worry like this."

Wang An said with a smile:

"Hahaha, that's fine, when the time comes, you don't need to worry about the meat, I and your old son will handle it for you properly."

After Wang An finished speaking, Second Aunt Yao Ping immediately said very exaggeratedly:

"Look at my eldest nephew, he is truly good, it's been such a long time, Second Aunt has been waiting for this sentence of yours, hahahaha..."

After Yao Ping finished speaking, everyone followed with a loud "hahahaha..." laugh! After laughing, Wang Dazhu said: "This meat has to be rubbed with salt and put in the cellar, otherwise it will be several days, won't it stink?"

"Yeah, tomorrow's food should be hung in the well first, otherwise it will have a smell even if it's just left for one night."

In this era, it's easy to say in winter, but when the weather is hot, wanting to store fresh meat is a very, very difficult thing.

Besides putting it in the cellar, it's either hanging it in the well.

Besides this, there is also soaking it in cold water, but storing it this way requires changing the water several times a day.

It's just that these three methods can't be stored for many days, at most three or four days, and that's the limit.

Of course, there is one last method, it's just that this method is a bit too troublesome.

That is to prepare a particularly deep cellar in advance, and then store a large amount of ice in this cellar during the coldest winter days.

The reason why it's said to be troublesome is that the water level in the Northeast is very low, and it only takes a few meters of digging to see water, meaning that wanting to find a suitable place to dig this cellar is truly not an easy thing.

As they spoke, everyone became busy together, and Shen Wei didn't need to be arranged, taking the initiative to hold firewood and boil water, looking like she intended to remove the hair for the wild chicken and hazel grouse.

It's just that Wang An led Wang Li directly into the house, mainly because the ginseng hadn't been divided yet, and it would be better to divide it early.

Pouring all the ginseng bundles on the kang, Wang An said to Wang Li: "Come on, let's divide them half and half, divide them and go out to work quickly."

Wang Li was stunned upon hearing this, but said: "Fourth Brother, let's just leave it at that, you dividing half for me is already enough, this time there are so many things, if I take half again, it will be ignorant."

It could be felt that although Wang Li said this, he truly thought so.

Wang An was stunned upon hearing this; although Wang Li's words made sense, Wang An didn't want to care so much with Wang Li.

Therefore, Wang An said with a smile:

"Then let's just come close enough."

After finishing speaking, Wang An divided them very quickly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 752 =====