Chapter 20 Wild Roast Beef

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

"Yue'er, it's you who did it again." Shen Yinxing hugged Longyue aside and scraped her little nose lovingly.

"Hehehe, I can't hide anything from grandma." Longyue lay in Shen Yinxing's ear and whispered: "Mom, we don't have to worry about running out of water on the way. There is half a pond of water in my space now."

"She is indeed my daughter!" Shen Yinxing kissed Long Yue's little bun face.

With water, everyone's faces look happy.

The people in Xujia Village also carried large and small buckets and began to fill the water. The old, weak, women and children in the village also took a refreshing drink from the cool pool water.

People in other villages were also afraid that another fight would cause the gods to be dissatisfied, so they took the water back without fighting.

Seeing that everyone had almost finished drinking, Xu Jingyang also brought the old cow to drink water. As a result, before the old cow could reach the edge of the pond, it suddenly lay on the ground and refused to move.

Xu Jingyang broke three canes, but the old cow was still lying on the ground. He was so angry that he pointed at the cow's nose and cursed: "You evil beast, how dare you disobey the imperial edict, I order you to get up quickly, otherwise I will cramp your muscles and pull out your bones." !”

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

"Brother, your cow probably can't get up." A villager nearby kicked the cow's butt, then smacked his mouth and said, "This cow is old and can't walk."

"How old is it? When I bought the cow, the farmer who sold the cow said that this cow is in its prime." Xu Jingyang went to the cow's nose and tried to make it stand up again.

"Hey! Brother, you are definitely deceived. Look at you, you are a cow. Your fur is messy and dull, your skin is dry and rough, your eye sockets are sunken, your eyes are dull, and you have layers and layers of wrinkles under your eyes. You are definitely old. The cow is about to lose its teeth."

After saying that, the villager went to pry the old cow's mouth open again: "Look, the teeth of your old cow are so worn that the roots of the teeth are exposed. Brother, you are definitely deceived."

It is not surprising to say that they were cheated when buying cattle. No one in the family of four in Longyue had ever done farm work, and they knew very little about the common sense of farm life. When they knew how to buy cattle, they did not know how to buy cattle. I just wanted to let the oxen pull the cart instead of walking.

Along the way, the old cow took a family of four for two to three hundred miles. It was considered that he worked hard without complaint and exerted his last remaining energy.

But when he saw that he was about to start his journey, the old cow still fell to his knees and refused to take another step forward.

"This cow is old and can't walk anymore."

When the villagers saw this, they all suggested that the cow be slaughtered and used as food rations. We couldn't let a cow delay our journey. We were running for our lives. If we were delayed for a long time, it would be troublesome if the Qiang people behind us caught up.

Longyue looked at the old cow's big flashing eyes. To be honest, she couldn't bear to kill the cow now. After all, she had some feelings for the old cow along the way, and if there was no cow in the future, If you don't have a car, you can only drive on Route 11 with two legs and walk.

If we had to walk for the next few hundred miles, I don't know how many pairs of shoes would 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 final meal.

The old cow also chewed obediently, mooed a few times from time to time, and looked into the distance with cloudy eyes, as if he knew that he didn't have much time left.

Xu Jingyang agreed with killing the cow because he felt that the cow was disobedient and should be killed. The liar who sold the cow should also be killed because he had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor.

Finally, the old village chief came with a butcher from the village, and with everyone watching, he ended the old cow's hard-working life.

The butcher was skilled in his skills. After a few passes with his snow-white knife into the old cow's body, the skin and flesh were separated. After a while, the entire cowhide was peeled off intact.

The skinned cowhide can be used to make water bags, boots, and cloaks, but there are a lot of these things in Hazy Moon's space, so they are given to the butcher as payment for slaughtering the cow.

The butcher buried some cow offal in the soil. According to the tradition of Xujia Village, slaughtering cows is to honor the land god, so the cow's water became the best sacrifice.

When the cow was being killed, Ogyue turned away and couldn't bear to watch, but later during the pastrami, Ogyue sat by the fire and kept drooling.

Because the weather is hot, meat is prone to spoilage and smell, so the villagers found a pile of dry thatch and smoked the beef. The beef smoked with lemongrass has a great flavor and is easy to preserve.

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

As the sun sets, people in the village light bonfires, skewer smoked beef with sharpened sticks, and roast it on the fire. After a while, the aroma of barbecue fills the entire night sky.

When the beef is roasted until it drips with oil, sprinkle salt on it. No need to add any spices, it is enough to draw out the gluttons in people's stomachs.

Now that we have water, we can knead the dough. Several women knead the dough and fry the wheat cakes in a pan on the fire. When the pastrami on the branches oozes grease, they use a knife to cut the meat pieces.

Cut it into thin slices, then cut the wheat cake in half, put the oily beef inside, and a fragrant beef cake is ready.

When Oyue took a bite, she saw that the wheat cake was crispy on the outside, and the roasted beef on the inside was full of fat, and the meat was chewy. The aroma of wheat mixed with the aroma of meat made her tongue lose track of it in an instant.

There were also some women who picked wild vegetables in the fields, washed them by the pond, and then fried them in butter in a pan. The aroma of the wild vegetables fried in butter was too strong, and the sound of people slobbering could be heard all over the place.

Haoyue, who has never liked eating wild vegetables, ate them deliciously.

After eating, the children lay down on the hay and began to count the stars in the sky. Several women gathered around the fire to mend clothes. Shen Yinxing also sat next to him to study at first, but she stopped studying after a while.

I stopped sewing and went to teach those half-grown boys how to do martial arts boxing.

The current tranquility always gave Longyue an illusion. She felt that her journey was not like fleeing from famine, but more like going on a vacation.

When the bonfire was burning brightly, the old village chief gathered everyone together with a smile and said he had something to talk about.

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

Longyue thought to herself, that's it. She didn't really want to hear the old village chief read the genealogy, so she felt drowsy while listening, but Xu Jingyang listened with great interest.

Finally, when everyone was about to fall asleep after listening, the old villager finally revealed the real purpose of his convening everyone to talk tonight.
Chapter completed!