Chapter 98

This time, because there were quite a few bones, Wang An did not divide the wine-soaking into small jars.

He simply poured about 20 jin of sorghum liquor out of each of the two 50-jin large jars, preparing to soak the bones directly in the large jars.

After cleaning the deer spine bones, deer leg bones, and the bones of the wild leopard with liquor, the preparation work was finished!

I have to say, these bones were picked so clean by his parents and Mu Xueqing that you could barely see any shreds of meat left; it was truly impressive!

However, these spine bones were all too long; in reality, they should have been chopped into pieces before soaking, but Wang An did not want to ruin the overall aesthetic of the deer spine and the wild leopard spine!

The wild leopard spine was stuffed in quite easily, and the leg bones were stuffed in along with it. He then filled the jar with liquor, sealed the mouth, and the wild leopard bone wine was done!

But this sika deer weighed over 200 jin when it was alive! Its spine was long and thick, and it took a serious amount of effort to twist and turn it before it finally fit inside!

Yet, after stuffing it in and taking a look, it was all in vain; a 50-jin jar actually isn't that big, and after stuffing the deer spine in, there was basically no space left in the jar!

Just as he was worrying about this, Mu Xueqing came to the west room. Once Wang An explained the situation, Mu Xueqing said directly, "Just chop off half and give it to my father. My father's waist isn't good; using this stuff to soak wine will definitely be effective."

Seeing that Mu Xueqing seemed quite happy, Wang An was speechless for a moment; his wife is really looking out for her maiden family these days!

But none of that mattered, as long as his wife was happy!

After the spine was picked clean of meat, the bone joints were very obvious. Wang An imitated the operation his brother-in-law used when butchering bones and used a skinning knife to divide the spine into two sections, throwing half into the jar and handing the other half to his wife!

After thinking for a moment, he also handed the deer leg bones to his wife and found a small wooden mallet to give to her as well. Now, the materials for the wine-soaking were all gathered for his father-in-law!

As for the wine soaked with wild leopard bones, he would just take the liquor later!

After finishing with the wine-soaking, Wang An began to study the two deer skins, looking at them against the sunlight.

Sure enough, they used the same recording method; the places where the skin was worn thin were the characters. The large deer skin recorded 9 old ginseng patches, and the small deer skin had 3!

It’s just that the closest of these old patches was still 203 li away! The far ones reached over five hundred li!

There was even one patch that was actually at the border between China and the Russians!

The ginseng hunters of the early years really traveled far!

You have to know, anything over 200 li away is true deep mountain forest, where all kinds of wild beasts, poisonous snakes, and insects are quite abundant!

It is estimated that one might even encounter big paws, and there should be no shortage of wild leopards and wolves!

Even so, after finishing the recording, Wang An almost jumped up with joy. In this way, he now had 13 old ginseng patches!

Some of these old patches would definitely have been discovered and dug up by others, but he would still have a few left. Besides, couldn't he discover a few new patches himself?

Even if only these few old patches remained, they would still be worth a fortune. Wouldn't he be rich?

Calculating the time, in another 6 months—that is, next May, or the fourth lunar month—he could enter the mountains to lift the ginseng.

That would be the time of the sprout-grass market; he could lift the nearby ginseng first, and then wait until July to go deep into the mountains to catch the red-hammer market. Next year, making twenty or thirty thousand yuan would be no problem at all!

Just as he was thinking about these wonderful things, Mu Xueqing suddenly said, "Xiao An, let's go, come back to my maiden home with me."

"Ah? Oh!" Wang An was puzzled, because his brother-in-law had just brought a pile of things home yesterday, but he agreed anyway, because it was possible his wife missed her parents, and he had to accompany her well!

Besides, wandering around aimlessly was quite nice too!

After tidying up, Wang An wanted to harness the sled, but Mu Xueqing spoke up again: "Let's ride horses, let's not take the sled."

Oh? This woman is getting wilder and wilder!

"Ride horses? Can you handle it? This thing isn't as comfortable as a sled, you know?" Wang An asked with a smile.

"Hmph, who are you looking down on?" Mu Xueqing rolled her eyes and said.

And I have to say, that eye-roll was just like a flirtatious glance; it really had a certain charm, and Wang An got hard right then and there!

Mainly because Mu Xueqing's outfit at this moment was also quite charming!

Wearing a hat made of roe deer skin, a high-collared coat made of roe deer skin, and boots made of roe deer skin on her feet!

There was plenty of roe deer skin at home, and he didn't know when Mu Xueqing had made it!

This outfit, worn on Mu Xueqing's tall figure, was truly heroic and spirited! It was really exciting!

This kind of attire is very common in the Northeast because roe deer skin is easy to obtain, not worth much to sell, and relatively simple to tan!

But to look good, it must be worn by a tall person, otherwise, they can't support the clothes!

Wang An smiled and tied the saddles to the two horses, took the bundle his wife handed him, greeted his parents, and the two set off on horseback.

On the road, Wang An originally wanted to walk slowly and leisurely toward his father-in-law's house.

He didn't expect that as soon as Mu Xueqing left the village, she seemed to completely release her nature, shouting and screaming non-stop, riding her horse and darting around everywhere.

She wouldn't take the shortcut, insisting on taking the long way around!

It was like a young lady from ancient times who never stepped out of the house, suddenly released from a cage, incredibly joyful!

That heroic and spirited posture on the horse was truly even more fascinating!

Both sexy and beautiful! Both wild and full of untamed spirit!

After darting around for a long while, this woman started acting up again, insisting on a horse race!

"Xiao An, let's have a race and see who is faster," Mu Xueqing said loudly, then whipped her horse and ran!

Wang An was also stirred up by his wife's playfulness, and suddenly remembered an anti-Japanese movie he had seen in his previous life!

He immediately roared, "Flower girl, where are you running to?"

Then he whipped his horse and chased after her, the two of them chasing each other, galloping all the way across the snow!

This feeling was like a sweetness of love permeating the air! It was genuinely quite joyful and happy!

After circling around in one big loop after another, the two finally arrived at Wang An's father-in-law's house!

At this time, the old couple was cutting up the meat of the black bear and the big brown bear, and there was still a pot of oil rendering on the stove.

There was truly a lot of meat from the black bear and the big brown bear; even split between Wang An and his brother-in-law, each person got over three hundred jin of pure meat!

Seeing their daughter and son-in-law arrive, Mu Hua and his wife were very happy.

Mu Xueqing handed the deer bones to her father. When Mu Hua and his wife heard they were deer bones, they naturally knew the efficacy of this stuff and felt even more gratified that their daughter had married Wang An!

Ever since their daughter got married, life at home had undergone a earth-shaking change in an instant!

Although the son-in-law had a bad reputation, it was only a bad reputation! And that was only to outsiders.

To their own family, there wasn't a single flaw; there wasn't a single place where he fell short!

Especially a few days ago, when Wang An even stood up for Mu Xueli to seek justice and vent his anger.

Plus, yesterday, with the watch Mu Xueli wore, the horse and sled he brought back, and the pile of meat and the radio on the sled, the old couple was already incredibly grateful to Wang An!

This son-in-law was simply too good! He was hard to find even with a lantern!

Upon hearing what Wang An asked his eldest brother to relay, Mu Xueting became even more imposing, and in her excitement, she said, "My brother-in-law even said..."

With one sentence, she completely shut everyone in the family up!

Mu Xueqing went into the house to help cut meat, but she didn't see Mu Xueli. Wang An asked casually, and his father-in-law said Mu Xueli had taken some meat to see his partner. Wang An didn't know the other person, so he didn't ask further.

After chatting for a while, Wang An began to tease his sister-in-law. The child was already seven years old and not even 1 meter tall, but her face and body were clearly a bit fleshy, not as thin as before!

Speaking of building a house, Mu Hua also planned to build a new one, but he wouldn't tear down the old one.

The yard was big enough, with six or seven mu of land; he could just build a new one in front of this house.

Wang An casually agreed to help contact someone to buy bricks, and his father-in-law was naturally incredibly happy!

Actually, it was the same whoever contacted them; bricks from the county brick factory weren't selling well right now. However, Wang An clearly remembered that in his previous life, when he went to the south, bricks had started to be in short supply. At that time, if you wanted to buy bricks, you had to pull strings and use connections!

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