Chapter 874: Sprinkle New Year cakes, year after year higher

After breakfast, the whole family started to get busy.

Mainly to move all the livestock, such as horses, sheep, deer, roe deer, and wild boars, to the livestock pens in the new courtyard.

The reason for using the method of leading instead of driving was because most of these livestock in Wang An's house were caught from the mountains by Wang An, Seeing Mu Xueli, and Wang Li.

If they were all let go, they might run away, and even if Wang An's house had 8 dogs, they might not be able to stop them.

As for the mother wolf and the 4 wolf cubs, just let them go and follow the dogs; anyway, it wasn't far, just a distance of a hundred meters or so.

The current mother wolf was fat and round, no longer having the appearance a wolf should have, looking just like a pig.

Don't know if it had lost its wild nature or had fallen in love with the current comfortable life, anyway, Wang An felt that even if it were allowed to return to the mountains now, it might not go back.

After all, it's so good at Wang An's house: no wind, no rain, and someone brings food to its mouth every meal; it's simply the peak of life—no, the peak of wolf life!

And these 4 wolf cubs had now been assimilated by the dogs.

The reason they were assimilated was partly because they stayed with the dogs all day and were influenced by the dogs to be dog-like.

On the other hand, it was because since they could eat on their own, their food had to include one thing: "Spirit-Opening Powder."

Wang An believed that this Spirit-Opening Powder was definitely not only effective for eagles, but should also be effective for other animals.

Because Wang An guessed that the reason those four dogs had such a big change was very likely because they were fed Spirit-Opening Powder.

Of course, this was just Wang An's guess; as for why the 4 dogs suddenly became full of wolf nature, Wang An also couldn't figure it out.

However, setting aside the 4 dogs, Wang An was very satisfied that the 4 wolf cubs could be assimilated into what they were now.

Anyway, once winter comes, these 4 wolf cubs will also join the dog pack to participate in hunting, and Wang An is really looking forward to their performance.

By then, just Wang An himself will have 8 dogs and 4 wolves, plus Seeing Mu Xueli and Wang Li's 7 dogs; just thinking about that scene makes one feel blood boiling.

But what gave Wang An a headache were these two lynxes.

These two lynxes now each had to weigh nearly 20 jin.

Perhaps because they were taken home by Wang An to raise shortly after they were born, these two lynxes now, besides catching mice and sparrows, didn't show the ferocity they should have had.

To put it bluntly, these two lynxes seemed to have been raised astray by Wang An's family.

Of course, maybe it was because Wang An never gave them a chance to show off in the mountains, so their talents were buried.

So Wang An planned to take them to the mountains to try when he had a chance.

If they could produce a surprise, wouldn't that be a huge profit?

It's just that for lynxes, Wang An didn't know how to train them; mainly because he had never heard of anyone raising these things, so Wang An felt a headache.

Busy until after 10 o'clock in the morning, all the livestock were moved to the livestock pens in the new courtyard.

It must be said, because the new livestock pens were more spacious, the number of various livestock seemed very small, especially the roe deer pen and the deer shed, which seemed even more empty.

Clearly, Wang An still needed to continue catching roe deer and deer, otherwise it would be a waste of such a large livestock pen. After moving all the livestock, Wang Dazhu, Wang An, and Wang Yi, the three generations, started using a small cart to transport grain, as well as those antiques, paintings, and large coins.

The current price of these antiques and paintings was still in the starting stage, so Wang An didn't plan to sell them now.

But besides those treasures, Wang An absolutely wouldn't keep those ordinary goods forever.

Mainly because in Wang An's view, besides being able to look at them, these things were actually useless, and if those paintings were eaten by insects or damaged in other ways, it would be a huge loss.

These painting boxes were all placed by Wang An in the ceiling of the house, which was the gap in the tripod beam.

The reason Wang An dared to place the paintings so casually was because the box researched by the little devils was indeed very impressive; it neither attracted insects nor rats, and it was fine after being placed in the rocky mountain for so many years, so it would definitely be fine on the ceiling.

As for porcelain, Wang An didn't specifically take care of it, because porcelain only needs to be placed there as long as it isn't broken, and it will be fine for many years.

And those large coins, which were ancient coins, besides those that were relatively precious and rare like Kaiyuan Tongbao, Wang An didn't pay attention to the rest and threw them directly into the warehouse.

These ordinary large coins, even if they reached later generations, would only be worth ten or eight yuan each. If Wang An didn't have enough quantity, this thing wouldn't have much collection value.

Silver dollars were the same; Wang An only took a small part that was very valuable, and the rest were collected by Wang Dazhu.

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Mainly because this generation of Wang Dazhu had a special affection for silver dollars.

While the three men were busy moving miscellaneous things, Liu Guilan and Mu Xueqing were not idle either.

Because this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to Wang An and Mu Xueqing's house to cook.

No way, since they had already found a fortune teller, they had to do it according to what the fortune teller said.

However, the food for lunch today wasn't dumplings, but New Year cakes.

Locally, "making New Year cakes" isn't called New Year cakes, but "sprinkling New Year cakes."

Because the way of making this flour food is completely different from other things.

Besides fried noodles, basically all flour foods need to be mixed with water, but New Year cakes don't need that.

To say the way of making this thing is also very simple: put half a pot of water in the pot, then put the flat bottom directly into the pot, spread the cooked red beans, cowpeas, or kidney beans on the flat bottom, wait for the water to boil, and directly sprinkle large yellow rice flour layer by layer on the flat bottom.

As for "flat bottom," this thing is the local name; some places also call it a steamer or a grate, anyway, it is something that must be used for steaming steamed buns and New Year cakes.

It's just that the "flat bottom" used locally is made of sorghum stalks or narrow wooden boards, and the gap between the wooden boards is very small, so the beans won't leak down.

And the reason for steaming New Year cakes at noon, in Liu Guilan's words, is "live in a new house, eat New Year cakes, the family's life will be higher year after year."

Anyway, no matter what they eat, Liu Guilan can always come up with a few words symbolizing a beautiful life.

Thanks to "Emperor of the Great Empire" for the tip, thank you, thank you!

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