Chapter 690 Insatiable
After staying at the village chief's house for half a month, November entered. The weather became colder and colder, and the rain gradually stopped.
Three days after the rain stopped, Chu Jingqi was full of expectations. On the sixth day of November, the first heavy snowfall of the year finally arrived.
Chu Jingqi immediately called Li Sangwu and told him to set off immediately.
"We will leave immediately before the snow on the ground is still thick," Chu Jingqi said.
Li Sangwu was stunned, with a face full of shock, "Starting at this time, it's snowing so heavily, this road..."
"The snow on the ground is not thick now, so we can still walk. When the snow gets thicker, we will clear the snow while walking. Why, you still want to wait for the snow to melt before walking? I'm afraid we will have to wait until the next year, this winter, for us to walk. We have to be stuck here, and the road after the snow melts will not be as easy as it is now.”
Chu Jingqi insisted on setting off now, with a tone that could not be refused, "You have so many escorts, don't you know how to clear the snow?"
Li Sangwu looked ashamed and responded repeatedly, "Then let's get ready and set off immediately after lunch."
Only then did Chu Jingqi sigh with satisfaction.
In fact, Li Sangwu and his bodyguards were not willing to continue living here. The food and accommodation provided by him and his bodyguards were not as good as those of Chu Jingqi and others. They had all lost a lot of weight and wanted to leave here a long time ago, but the rain blocked their way. The road is difficult to walk. It is snowing heavily now. Although the road is frozen hard and easier to walk than the mud road, the snow is too heavy and it also blocks the road.
And walking while clearing the snow is too slow.
However, no matter how slow it is, it is still better than being trapped here for several months.
After Li Sangwu figured this out, he went back and ordered the escorts to prepare the carriage and pack things. After preparing to have lunch, everyone set off to leave.
Shengdi and Chu Cang were also busy packing their things.
Chu Cong looked at the remaining half of the basket of pork, two chickens, and some offal, and said, "Chu Fei, do we still have a basket of meat on the carriage? Such a lot of meat is raw. We bring it with us." If there is no firewood to cook on the road, I’m afraid I won’t be able to eat the raw meat. How about we take advantage of some time in the morning to cook all the raw meat and take it away directly?”
"Well, that's a good idea." Chu Fei agreed.
It has been raining outside for nearly a month, and the firewood on the road has already been soaked. It cannot be used to light a fire. It is better to make raw meat into cooked meat while there is firewood at the village chief's house. When the time comes, use the firewood on the carriage to eat. You can eat it as soon as the stove heats it up.
"Then I will also cook the sorghum rice. When the time comes, it can be eaten by melting it with hot water." Chu Cang's eyes were bright and he called to Shengdi excitedly, "Go, take off the baskets of meat from the carriage, I will Cook it all."
When Shengdi heard this, he sighed and took down another basket of meat.
Chu Fei was responsible for washing the meat, Shengdi was responsible for lighting the fire, and Chu Cong was responsible for changing the knife, cutting the ingredients, dividing the basket and a half of meat into several portions, and cooking them one by one.
The village chief's wife smelled the aroma and ran out to take a look. Her eyes almost popped out of her head, "Oh, where did you buy this meat? Why is there so much?"
Then, the little eyes were aimed at the small half basket of meat.
There was still half a basket of meat in Chu Cong's west room. She knew that her family was crying and fussing at first, so the old man took out six taels of silver and bought four kilograms of meat for the family. She hasn't eaten it since the Dada Ya Festival.
The price of the meat was sky-high and she was reluctant to buy it.
How uncomfortable it is to smell the aroma of meat every day but not be able to eat it. Every time when eating, it feels like there are ten thousand gluttons wandering around in the stomach. It is so uncomfortable to hold a bowl of rice but find it difficult to swallow. Several times, she would boil the cabbage in the bowl and eat it as if it were meat.
I thought that Chu Cong and the others were leaving. Rich young masters and wives like them should not be so stingy. When they left, this small half basket of leftover raw meat should be left with her family no matter what. After all, They had also lived in her house for more than half a month, but what was Chu Cong doing now?
Do you plan to have a big meal before leaving? How can you eat so much meat in one meal?
The rest...
When the village chief's wife thought that the rest would be left to her family, she grinned with joy from behind her ears.
So, when Chu Cong asked to borrow her two pots to braise pork, the village chief's wife agreed without saying a word.
Three pots were used to braise the meat together, and one person was responsible for making the fire. It was a very busy time.
Chu Cong and Chu Fei were busy working in front of the stove, and they were exhausted and sweating profusely.
The two women worked neatly and quickly. Chu Cong first put the meat that Chu Fei washed out into the pot and blanched it, then changed the water, added the ingredients, added salt, and poured soy sauce...
After closing the lid of the pot, Chu Fei washed out the remaining large pumpkins, half a large bag of potatoes, and half a bag of sweet potatoes, peeled them, and cut them into pieces.
After three pots of meat were braised, there was only enough meat left to braise one pot. In the two empty pots, all the pumpkins, potatoes and sweet potatoes were cooked.
After the pumpkin, potatoes and sweet potatoes were cooked, Chu Zang Chu Fei was busy crushing them, seasoning them, and making them into pumpkin cakes, potato cakes, and sweet potato cakes.
One pot was used to make cakes, and the remaining pot was used to cook sorghum rice. Two large pots were cooked in total, and the remaining sorghum rice was cooked.
The few kilograms of rice left were to be left for the princess to cook porridge, but Chu Cang didn't move. There were stoves and small stew pots on both her and the princess's carriages. When they arrived, Ma Bao also brought two of them. The bottom of the carriage is filled with charcoal, enough to burn for several months, which is perfect for cooking porridge.
Before noon, Chu Cong and the others had divided a basket and a half of meat into four pots and braised them. When the braised meat cooled down, Chu Fei put them one by one into baskets lined with clean oil paper.
Pumpkin cakes, potato cakes, and sweet potato cakes were also made in two large pots, which emitted bursts of fragrance and made people in the yard salivate.
The sorghum rice was also cooked, enough to feed the six of them for more than a month.
After the food had cooled down, Chu Cang bought a few clean cloth bags with the village chief's wife and put all the dry food in them.
At the beginning of autumn, the village chief's wife happened to buy a few new cloth bags to prepare grain. The grain has not been harvested yet, so the cloth bags are idle. However, she didn't want to sell them at first, but the price Chu Cang gave her was high. Five bags, Give her a hundred coins.
You know, she only spent seven cents to buy a cloth bag.
For five cloth bags, she could earn sixty-five cents, which was a good deal.
The village chief's wife hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
However, she reached out and asked Chu Cong for two hundred coins. Chu Cong gritted his teeth and gave it to her.
It was only a hundred pennies. In her eyes, it was nothing. It was just the actions of the village chief's wife that made her very angry, greedy and never satisfied.
This kind of person is the most annoying.
(End of chapter)