"Grandfather, we caught another two hundred rabbits. Let's drink some soup."
At the end of the bridge, nine people of different ages were driving their carriages back.
One of the little boys pointed at the soup pot and swallowed a few times.
"Okay, the imperial examination starts today. Let's also get a good luck for the Li Family Zhuangzi."
Old Ban looked at the tied up wild boar on the carriage and smiled.
His family of nine had been avenged. Bi Zai and his family had been dealt with.
He originally thought that his children had strange abilities and would be taken away by the Li Family Zhuangzi.
However, the Li Family Zhuangzi didn't care about them at all since they arrived in Zhuangzi.
According to the villagers, they had better ears, better eyes, and better voice control. What else did they have?
As for the family's fighting ability, the villagers didn't care. Fighting a war wasn't about personal ability.
When two armies faced each other, if a person was strong, they could try to break through the formation.
On the contrary, the Ban family was relieved. No one treated the children as monsters.
The children went to class together with the adults.
Now that they had recovered, they set off three days ago to look for animals in the mountains.
The Li Family Zhuangzi said that they needed a large number of wild rabbits and a special wild boar breed to maintain a certain percentage of wildness.
It was best to get a male wild boar and then mate it with the female boar born from the previous male wild boar and domestic sow.
Through mating again and again, they would obtain better pig breeds.
They needed to eat coarse grain, grow faster, and have more lean meat, not fat meat.
They also didn't get sick easily and were less wild.
They were very difficult to cultivate. Once they were raised well, it would be good for the entire Tang dynasty.
When the Ban family heard this, they took the initiative to go out with good bows and knives, as well as compressed biscuits and meat floss.
Spring wasn't suitable for hunting. They had to give the wild animals a chance to reproduce.
The family of nine cooperated with each other to catch the animals alive.
They drove two ox-carts, each drawn by two oxen, with cages and ropes.
Rabbits were the easiest to catch. They had footprints, smells, and movements.
The children could easily find the rabbit nests and put them into cages.
They didn't touch the other roe deer. They would wait until after the breeding season.
The wild boar was the goal of the whole family. It was a male boar, and the requirements were big enough.
Tied up in the car was a big wild boar that weighed more than 500 kilograms, a boar.
Two of the wild boar's tusks were broken. They were sawed off at the root because they could be sold for a high price.
And as long as the pig is alive, try not to have any teeth.
As a result, the old man's two daughters-in-law subdued the wild boar with a rope, just like hanging on a wire.
Usually, they would practice the coordination between men and women. A long spear could be used as a foothold for their daughter-in-law.
In the forest, with the help of the ropes hanging from the branches, the daughter-in-law flew through the air.
A pit, a trap, and a saw. The big wild boar, which weighed more than 500 kilograms, was tied up there in a sullen manner.
The whole family didn't want to go back to their hometown. They planned to settle down in the Li Family Zhuangzi.
After signing the contract, she would belong to the Li Family Zhuangzi from now on.
They were willing to do what they could for their families. For example, it was not difficult to catch a male wild boar that weighed more than 500 kilograms.
If they didn't know that the Imperial Examinations were starting today, they wouldn't have come back.
Their bows and crossbows hadn't fired a single arrow. Their knives weren't stained with blood. All of them were captured alive.
They ate the food they brought with them. They didn't kill animals at the beginning of spring.
Not only them, all the hunters were resting at home and making tools. They didn't even catch rabbits.
If someone was relatively free, they would bring things into the mountains to find a hunter's hut. They would repair it and add some salt.
Seeing that the branches were long and slanted, they would chop them off with an axe, tie them into bundles, and pile them next to the hut.
The Ban Family wasn't just a hunter's family. They were very familiar with this aspect.
When they went, they directly brought bacon, salt, and salted dried tofu.
When they came across a hunter's hut, they took out the meat jerky that the hunter made with salt and replaced it with bacon.
Because it was going to rain a lot and it was too wet, that kind of meat couldn't be preserved. However, bacon and sausages were no problem.
When they came back today, they planned to rest and go again in two days.
When the people of the Li Family Zhuangzi went out, they would also drink soup at the bridge when they came back. It was a ritual.
"Old Ban, the pigs you caught were a great help. Let's eat a jiamo. Li Dongzhu taught us. Put the chicken pieces one by one, then roast them and cut them with a knife."
The barbecued meat seller next to them greeted them. If the people of the Li Family Zhuangzi came over and wanted to eat, he wouldn't charge them.
The Li Family Zhuangzi always taught them how to make various kinds of food. He felt that this one was suitable for him.
How to put the meat, how to roast it, how to roast it for a long time, and so on. The Li Family Zhuangzi taught them from the beginning to the end, including what seasonings to use.
Other people made a certain kind of food that was delicious and made a lot of money. If they became an apprentice, how many years would it take to learn the recipe?
"Okay, one for each person. Put more meat." Old Ban was not polite. He threw two bags of frozen mushrooms over.
These two bags of frozen mushrooms could be exchanged for twenty jiamos. Fresh frozen mushrooms in spring were bought at a high price in big restaurants like Heavenly Earth.
The two bags of frozen mushrooms given by Old Ban were slightly bigger. He didn't want to give the small ones. He wanted to take them back to the Zhuangzi.
Frozen mushrooms, slippery mushrooms, pine mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, yellow mud balls, and other mushrooms, the smaller the better.
"How can this be? Two for each person. "The jiamo seller estimated the value and wanted to give more.
Mushrooms could be made into mushroom sauce and sold in jiamos. It was not easy to buy such mushrooms now.
"I'll give you this snake. Take it back and eat it." The old lady pulled her hand out from her sleeve, and a four-foot-long snake was "conjured" out of it.
Damn it, the eye was pierced by an iron awl. There was also a hole at the seven-inch position.
"This snake …" The jiamo seller swallowed his saliva. He liked this kind of snake.
"It suddenly jumped down from the tree and wanted to bite my girl. My girl dodged it, grabbed its tail, and swung it. The two grandsons made up for it."
The old lady said as if it was not a big deal. It was quite normal.
A picture suddenly appeared in the mind of the jiamo seller. A poisonous snake jumped down from the tree and went straight to the little girl.
The little girl dodged slightly, stretched out her hand to grab the snake's tail and threw it to the ground. The two younger boys attacked at the same time. One pierced the snake's eye, the other pierced the snake's seven-inch position.
"Is it poisonous?" He was afraid that he would die.
"Took it out and put it in a small bottle. It's cold now. Let's see if it can be used. It's said that it can be made into a medicine for snake bites."
His eldest son looked like a scholar, and he spoke in a gentle manner.
While they were talking, the soup was served.
There was wild vegetable soup on the duck rack. There were oil flowers and shallots on the soup. It was the season, and the greenhouse was ready to transplant the shallot seedlings.
There was a lot of ginger foam. At the beginning of spring, the air was strong. Chang 'an was in the north, and the spring water and the spring wind penetrated the bones.
It was just like the well water in the summer, which made the bones hurt.
When the production of ginger was high and the price was low, the Li Family Zhuangzi raised the price to buy the dried ginger.
Shallots and ginger could be stored dry, but garlic couldn't. Ginger was afraid of cold, and garlic was afraid of heat.
Therefore, when garlic was stored, it was made into sweet garlic, salted garlic, and Laba garlic.
"Grandpa, how much does our Zhuangzi spend a year to make soup?" The boy who had just called him grandpa called him grandpa again.
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