Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Chapter 213: Changing Meat

"You've done a pretty good job here." Jiang Yu looked around. The surroundings were smoked with insect repellent herbs, which might have been lit not long ago, so there was still a trace of smell in the cave.

"I just tidied it this morning. Since you said you were going hunting, I guess there would be a lot of prey, so I tidied this place up to make it easier to put things." Yi Chi put all the packed meat on a rack covered with hay.

Jiang Yu helped him put them away, and they finished quickly.

Yi Chi ordered some more dried insect repellent herbs, then locked the fence door tightly before leaving with Jiang Yu with peace of mind.

The two of them each carried a bundle of firewood and walked to Yaoer Mountain. Jiang Yu took out a little wild boar from the backpack and placed it next to the stove in his house. "You should also take care of this. It will be enough for several meals."

"I know. Do you want me to help you make yours?" Yi Chi thought that braised wild boar was very good.

However, for storage purposes, he planned to pickle some bacon and smoke the two hind legs. The internal organs had to be eaten quickly, or they could be put in when braising the pig's head. The braised large intestine also tasted good.

"No need for that. The little wild boar is not that big. We can finish it in two or three days." Jiang Yu can eat two kilograms of meat in one meal.

This little wild boar looks heavy, but after removing its head, it only weighs about 70 kilograms.

Wu Aiqing would definitely also want some bacon or something, there would be even less left, and a few people could share it and it would be finished quickly.

After all, people these days have big appetites. Even Xue Li, a woman with a small stomach in modern times, can now eat a large bowl of rice in one meal. By the time her leg injury heals and she can walk, she will have to gain at least 6 or 7 kilograms.

"Okay, it's getting dark, so be careful when you go down the mountain. I'll go to the stream tomorrow to continue collecting the meat, what are your plans?" Yi Chi sent Jiang Yu out and couldn't help but ask her a question.

Jiang Yu thought about it and she had no other plans. She would go for a walk in the mountains and stock up on some fresh meat. As for what happened afterwards, "I'll come and help you later." With so much meat, no one knew how long Yi Chi had been busy alone last year.

She originally didn't know that smoking meat was so troublesome, but now that she knows, she certainly can't just sit there and watch.

Of course the most important reason is that she and Yi Chi got along very well over the past year, so she is willing to share the burden with each other.

"Okay. I'll bring you something delicious." Yi Chi's eyebrows suddenly curved like a crescent moon.

When Jiang Yu heard that it was delicious, he smiled and said, "Okay~"

The two people who had agreed to meet parted outside the woods. Jiang Yu went down the mountain by herself, and Yi Chi watched her back as she walked away.

When they returned to the educated youth center, the old educated youth in the front yard looked at the heavy basket of ginger fish and immediately became envious.

Fang Qianqian pursed her lips. Finally, the desire to eat meat overcame her timidity. She thought about the previous two times their communication was quite harmonious, so she mustered up the courage to call Jiang Yu, "Hey, Jiang Yu."

Jiang Yu stopped and looked over in confusion.

"Did you catch any prey? Can I trade some with you?" Fang Qianqian rubbed the corners of her clothes vigorously to relieve her tension and embarrassment.

Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect her to make such a request, but it didn't seem impossible. "Wait a minute. I'll let Wu Aiqing clean it up first, and then tell you."

"And me, I want to..." He Yuanchao still had scars and bruises on his face, and he gasped in pain when he got excited.

"Okay, you wait a moment. If anyone else wants to change, be ready..." Jiang Yu didn't intend to refuse them and made a gesture of counting money.

After all, these old educated youths had their problems, but they seemed less disgusting than the villagers. Besides, they all lived in the same compound, so as long as they didn't cause trouble and didn't make her suffer, exchanging some meat was acceptable.

"Okay, okay, thank you, Jiang Yu." Fang Qianqian clenched her fists happily and watched her enter the backyard with great satisfaction.

The male educated youth next to them looked at each other. Zhao Chunjiang, Liu Qiang, Huang Ranbo and Lin Si immediately went back to their rooms to look for their wallets, while the poor Chen Lei and Chen Xiaohua stood silently in the yard without saying a word.

Of course they both want to eat meat, but what can they do when they are short of money?

At this moment, the two of them tacitly chose to have dinner with the old educated youth.

As for Jiang Yu, they dared not to provoke such a big guy, otherwise, if things went wrong, not only would they not be able to eat meat, they might even have their mouths filled with shit, so they dared not open their mouths and talk nonsense.

Back in the backyard, Wu Aiqing heard that the people in the front yard wanted to trade for some meat, so he quickly asked Jiang Yu for his opinion, which part should be traded?

Jiang Yu didn’t know which piece of meat was good and which was average, so he just said it didn’t matter!

Wu Aiqing had no idea what to do with this hands-off shopkeeper, so he had to take matters into his own hands.

The two hind legs are good for pickling bacon, the ribs are good for sweet and sour, braised, and stewed with radish, the spine must be saved for Xueli stew to supplement calcium, and there are four pig trotters, which must also be saved...

Finally, he cut out the part where the front legs connected to the belly and prepared to sell it. If that was not enough, he would sell the part on the buttocks as well.

Jiang Yu put the things out and asked him if he was ready.

"Go and call for help, but keep your voice down so that people outside don't hear it." Wu Aiqing hurriedly reminded them, and then she and Chen Jinghan hid the remaining meat together.

Jiang Yu said "oh" and went to the window of Fang Qianqian's room and knocked twice.

"Ginger fish?" Fang Qianqian's voice came.

"Yes, come here and keep your voice down." Jiang Yu also lowered his voice and said.

"Okay, okay." Fang Qianqian quickly responded in a low voice.

After a while, Fang Qianqian, He Yuanchao and the three people from Liu Qiang's room came over.

Zhao Chunjiang lived next to Wu Aiqing's house, so he arrived the fastest.

Wu Aiqing pointed at the meat on the stove and said, "It's a cleaned wild boar. I picked the part with the most fat for you. You can also make some lard later."

They have no shortage of oil and water, so they like meat with more lean meat and less fat. However, the old educated youth don’t even have much time to go out, and they only see meat a few times a year, so naturally they prefer fat meat.

Fortunately, it was a little wild boar, and the sow took good care of it, so it still had some fat. If it was an old sow, it would only have the lean meat to satisfy its craving.

"Okay, okay, how do I exchange this meat?" Zhao Chunjiang was drooling as he looked at the meat. He had been busy harvesting recently and had no time to go up the mountain to set traps, so he hadn't eaten meat for a while. Now when he suddenly saw so much meat, he was even more greedy.

Chen Jinghan said, "Pork at the supply and marketing cooperative is 4 cents a pound and requires a ticket, while the black market is double that to 8 cents and no ticket is required. We won't make much more than you, so we'll still charge 8 cents a pound, okay?"

"Okay, okay, okay, this is good meat. We can't even get it if we go out and buy it. We are getting a bargain at this price." Zhao Chunjiang said in surprise. He quickly took out two yuan and said, "I'll buy two and a half kilograms. It's exactly two yuan."

"Okay." Wu Aiqing nodded and started cutting the meat.