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Chapter 20 Field Roast Beef

The missing water in the pool suddenly reappeared, and everyone thought it was a miracle, so they rushed to the side of the pool to drink.

"Yue'er, it's you who messed up again." Shen Yinxing hugged Miyue aside, and lovingly scratched her little nose.

"Hee hee hee, you can't hide anything from A-Niang." Obscure Moon whispered in Shen Yinxing's ear, "A-Niang, we don't have to worry about running out of water on the way, now there is half a pool of water in my space."

"As expected of my daughter!" Shen Yinxing kissed Luyue's little bun face.

With the water, everyone's faces were filled with joy.

People in Xujia Village also started pouring water with large buckets and small buckets, and the old and weak women and children in the village also drank the cool water from the pool.

People in other villages were also afraid that another fight would cause dissatisfaction with the gods, so they fetched water and went back without fighting.

Seeing that people were almost drunk, Xu Jingyang also led the old cow to drink water, but the old cow suddenly lay down on the ground before reaching the edge of the pool.

Xu Jingyang pulled out three vines, but the old cow was still lying on the ground. He was so angry that he pointed at the cow's nose and scolded: "You evil animal, how dare you disobey the imperial decree, I order you to get up quickly, or I will pull your bones out!" !"

As a result, after hearing the imperial decree, Lao Niu still didn't bother to pay attention to Xu Jingyang, and pointed his ass at him.

"Brother, your cow probably won't be able to get up anymore." A villager next to him kicked the cow's butt, then smacked his mouth: "This cow is too old to walk."

"How old is it? When I bought the cow, the farmer who sold the cow said that the cow was in its prime." Xu Jingyang took the cow by the nose, trying to make it stand up again.

"Hey! Brother, you are definitely being deceived. Look at your cow. The fur is messy and dull, the skin is dry and rough, the eye sockets are sunken, the eyes are dull, and the wrinkles around the eyes have accumulated layer after layer. You are definitely old. A cow that is about to lose its teeth."

After speaking, the villagers went to break the old cow's mouth again: "Look, your old cow's teeth are so worn that the roots of the teeth are exposed. Brother, you must have been cheated."

It's not surprising to say that they were cheated when buying cattle. None of the four members of Obscure Moon's family has done farm work, and they know little about the common sense of farm life. When they knew how to buy cattle, they also I just want to let the cow pull a cart instead of walking.

Along the way, the old cow dragged his family of four for two to three hundred miles, and he did his best and worked hard, giving full play to the last bit of residual heat.

But seeing that the journey was about to start, the old cow was still on his knees, refusing to take another step forward.

"The cow is too old to walk anymore."

Seeing this, the villagers suggested that the cattle should be slaughtered as rations. We should not let a cow delay our journey. We are running for our lives. If we delay for a long time, it will be troublesome if the Qiang people behind catch up.

Obscure Moon looked at the big eyes of the old cow. To be honest, she couldn't bear to kill the cow now. After all, she had some feelings with the old cow along the way, and if there was no cow on the way If you don’t have a car, you can only walk on the 11th road with two legs.

For the next few hundred miles, if you rely on walking, you don't know how many pairs of shoes will be worn out.

Shen Yinxing was also silent, she touched the cow's head, and then fed the old cow a few handfuls of hay, hoping that it would have a good meal for the last time.

The old cow also started chewing obediently, mooing a few times from time to time, and looked into the distance with cloudy eyes, as if he also knew that his time was numbered.

Xu Jingyang was in favor of killing the cow, because he felt that the cow was disobedient and should be killed, and the liar who sold the cow, who committed the crime of deceiving the king, should also be killed.

Finally, the old village head came with a butcher in the village, and under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he ended the old cow's hard-working life.

The butcher was skillful, and after a few rounds of walking with the snow-white knife into the old cow's body, the skin and flesh were separated, and the whole cowhide was peeled off intact in a short while.

The peeled cowhide can be used to make water bags, boots and cloaks, but there are a lot of these things in the space of Obscure Moon, so they are given to the butcher as a reward for slaughtering cattle.

The butcher buried some offal of the cow in the soil. According to the tradition of Xujia Village, slaughtering a cow is to honor the god of the land, so the best sacrifice is to put the cow into the water.

When slaughtering the cow, Ozuki looked away, feeling a bit unbearable, but when the beef was pastrami, Ozuki sat by the fire, drooling all the time.

Because the weather is hot, the meat is easy to spoil and smell bad, so the villagers found a pile of dried thatch to smoke the beef. The beef smoked with lemongrass has an excellent flavor and is easy to preserve.

No one in Ozuki's family knows how to cook, and people from the village come to help clean up the beef.

As the sun went down, people in the village lit a bonfire, skewered the smoked beef on sharpened wooden sticks, and then roasted it on the fire. After a while, the aroma of the roasted meat filled the entire night sky.

When the beef is roasted until it drips with oil, sprinkle salt on it, without adding any spices, it is enough to hook the gluttons out of people's stomachs.

Now that there is water, the dough can be kneaded. Several women kneaded a handful of dough and baked wheat cakes in a frying pan on the fire. Shave it into thin slices, then cut the wheat cake in half, put the oily beef inside, and a delicious beef cake is ready.

Once Ozuki took a bite, the wheat cake was crispy on the outside, and the roasted beef inside was full of fat, and the meat was chewy. The smell of wheat mixed with the smell of meat made her tongue instantly lost its way.

There are also some women who picked wild vegetables in the wild, washed them by the pond, and then fried them in a pan with butter. Obscure Moon, who never liked to eat wild vegetables, ate deliciously.

When they were full, the children lay down on the hay and began to count the stars in the sky. A few women were mending clothes around the fire. Shen Yinxing also sat by the side to study at first, but she left after learning for a while. Needle and thread, and go to teach those half-children how to play military boxing.

The tranquility at the moment always gives Ozuki an illusion, she feels that her journey is not like fleeing famine, but more like traveling and vacationing.

When the bonfire was burning, the old village chief gathered everyone together with a smile on his crutches, saying that he had something to talk about.

Next, the old village chief talked about the history of Xujia Village and the ancestors of Xujia Village.

Lu Yue thought to herself, just for this matter, she didn't really want to hear the old village head read the genealogy, so she fell asleep listening to it, but Xu Jingyang listened with great interest.

In the end, when everyone was about to fall asleep after listening, the old village finally revealed his real purpose for calling everyone to talk tonight.

(End of this chapter)