Exile at the beginning: I rule the world by drawing cards

Chapter 11 Rabbit meat stewed with radish

It is getting late, and smoke is curling up from the village.

Qin Mengshang walked to the door of his house with a basket full of baskets on his back. He suddenly remembered that his family was short of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and he would definitely not be able to cook tonight.What's more, if he went back like this, Zhou Lingqi would definitely be suspicious and simply take the prey and exchange it for oil and salt, so that it would be easier to explain when asked.

With this thought in mind, he turned and walked towards the village.

She had already inquired about it. Old Man Hu in the village often hunted pheasants and hares from the mountains to sell, and he also collected prey sent by the villagers.

It takes at least two hours to go back and forth to the town. The time cost is not cost-effective, and there is someone in the village who can save you a trip.

It turned out that the Hu family's son was the one who hunted. Later, when the imperial court recruited troops, the son went to fight in the northern border. After waiting for three to five years, he did not come back, so his daughter-in-law ran away with them.Now the only ones left in the Hu family are Mr. Hu, his wife and a teenage grandson.

When Qin Mengshang came to the door, Old Hu was sitting at the door smoking a cigarette. Seeing that she had taken so many things, his drooped eyelids suddenly became stunned.

"So many?! Are you bringing back the rabbit nest?"

There are six rabbits, one big male and one female, and four slightly smaller rabbits. They belong to the same family.

Qin Meng Shang smiled coquettishly: "I found them in the forest. I thought I would keep two of them, so I brought them both back."

"You're lucky."

Old Man Hu was suspicious, so he picked up the largest female rabbit. Seeing that her belly was round and bulging, she thought she was pregnant with a baby, so he didn't hide it and said, "Just keep this one. Seeing how big her belly is, I guess she will give birth soon." A litter of bastards.”

Rabbits have strong reproductive capabilities and can produce six or seven litters a year. With the female rabbit around, you don’t have to worry about running out of rabbits.

Qin Mengshang carried the female rabbit back into the basket, leaving a little rabbit cub to stew tonight, and one pheasant from the two.

Old Man Hu glanced into the basket on her back several times, trying to see what else she could take out.He might not have been able to catch so many prey during his last trip to the mountains. This girl was just too lucky.

Because of his old face, it was hard to ask how she had caught him. He was an old hunter after all, how could he let a junior compete?
His eyes wandered around for a few times, but in the end he couldn't hold back a word, so he turned around and went to the house to get the scale.

The four rabbits weighed almost twelve kilograms in total, and the pheasant was not heavy, only a little over two kilograms.

Old Man Hu rubbed his fingers and counted 270 Wen to her.

After living here for so many days, Qin Mengshang has touched real money for the first time. She thinks that she can only earn ten cents a day by helping out on the river embankment. 270 cents is already a lot for her.I thought I was too lazy to make another trip, so I bought some oil and salt at Hu's house.

Oil and salt are both expensive things, and you have to go to the town to buy them. A small can of oil like this costs [-] cents, and you must know that corn only costs [-] cents a pound.

Qin Mengshang felt a little hurt, so he paid the money and walked home with the remaining coins.

The backpack was much lighter and I could walk faster. When I got home, the sun had just set.

Zhou Lingqi listened to the movement, opened his eyes and looked through the window.Qin Mengshang opened the firewood door in the twilight, and the clouds on the Cangshan Mountain turned into a shadow behind her. When she got closer, she realized that she was carrying a lot of things.

Now that he had money, he looked good at Zhou Lingqi. He smiled and said to him, "Your Highness, I caught two rabbits. How about eating rabbit meat tonight?"

Gee, it’s a bit dazzling.

Zhou Lingqi squinted his eyes and looked at the two rabbits in her arms: "Can you still catch rabbits?"

Qin Mengshang had already thought of an excuse and opened his mouth: "When I was picking mushrooms in the forest today, I put the basket aside. They probably got in by themselves due to the smell." "That chicken also got in by itself. of?"

".Absolutely. It just happened to be trapped by a branch."

Qin Mengshang thought he was very thick-skinned, so why was Zhou Lingqi staring at him like that, inexplicably like a dean?

She put aside her distracting thoughts and went to the back room to find a basket to use as a nest for the female rabbit. Sooner or later the pheasant would be stewed, so just find a rope and tie it up.He brought another rabbit to Zhou Lingqi and asked him to skin it.

She has some talent in cooking, but she really can't do skinning.

Zhou Lingqi had been drinking porridge for two days. When he saw that the fluffy rabbit was looking forward to today's dinner, he didn't ask any further questions and just let her help him out.

There were no injuries on his legs, except that his limbs were weak and weak, and he could still get off the ground.

Qin Mengshang helped the man sit down in the kitchen, took a knife and handed it to him: "Be careful not to let blood stain the fur when peeling it. I want to save it for winter to make a scarf."

Zhou Lingqi: "."

He really knows how to make the best use of everything.

Qin Mengshang originally wanted to make fried rabbit, but that dish requires a lot of oil and there are no chili peppers at the moment.It happened that the radishes given by Li Zheng hadn't been eaten yet, so I took them out and washed them, making a stewed radish with rabbit meat, and washed some wolfberry mushrooms on the way.

After washing the side dishes, Zhou Lingqi had already taken care of the rabbit, and the gray fur was not stained with any blood.I have to say that it would be a pity not to kill pigs with this skill.

The skinned rabbit only weighed two or three pounds, which was enough for the two of them.

Qin Mengshang had never stewed rabbit meat before, but cooking it was no different from following a formula. First blanch it with water, then add oil and stir-fry it, and add all the seasonings at home.According to her previous habit, she should add some dried chili pepper or pepper, but she doesn't have that condition now.Zhou Lingqi couldn't eat spicy food because he was injured, so he had to make a lighter taste.

The kitchen was filled with steam, and Zhou Lingqi sat quietly aside, looking at the young woman busy at the stove, feeling inexplicably that the time had passed in peace.
He was probably crazy and had such a ridiculous delusion.

This box of rabbit meat has been stewed. When you open the lid, you will find a pot full of meat, and the aroma fills the room.

All the time they were exiled, the food they ate was either sour or cold. Now when they saw this pot of rabbit meat, the two of them swallowed their saliva at the same time.

Qin Mengshang didn't hesitate, helped Zhou Lingqi over and sat down, gathered around the steaming small earthen pot, took a bowl and started eating.

The radish is stewed so soft that it can be penetrated with a gentle poke with chopsticks. The mushroom absorbs the soup and is crispy and refreshing.Although the weather is hot, eating hot hot pot makes my heart warm.

Zhou Lingqi held the pottery bowl with a gap in his hand. He felt something strange in his heart, and his eyes fell silently on Qin Mengshang.

The person in front of her was not adorned with fancy clothes, gold or jade, only a simple sarong. Her fair skin was tinged with a layer of pink reflecting the sunset outside the window.The thick and long braid hangs down on the chest, with a simple flower knot tied at the end. I don't know where I learned the pattern.I think she no longer knows how to comb her hair after being separated from others.

"What do you want me to do? Eat." Qin Mengshang handed him a piece of rabbit meat.

Zhou Lingqi lowered his eyes and suppressed the strange color in his eyes.

Maybe it was too long ago, and the rest of his memory was filled with Qin's crazy and foolish appearance, and he almost forgot what she looked like when she was young.

Now that I look closely, it is indeed quite eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)