pertwk Chapter 48 Not Eating Fatty Meat
Chapter 48 Not Eating Fatty Meat
In the Hetao region, Chen Tuo and Sun Changkui gave each other a high five as a token of their agreement.
Wu Laowai, who was standing to the side, didn't say anything fair this time either.
Those few moves during the bear hunt almost scared him to death.
If Chen Tuo, that idiot, really gets away with his actions, it's not so bad if he harms himself, but those watching the spectacle are likely to get covered in blood.
"Kid, bear offal doesn't taste very good in water, you might as well throw it into the ice hole..."
After cleaning the bear meat, Wu Laowai pointed to the bear offal on the snow shell and made the decision for Chen Tuo.
"Uncle Wu, what does bear offal taste like?"
Looking at the huge pile of bears swimming on the snow crust, Chen Tuo started to be thrifty and frugal again.
"How would I know? The older generation said it didn't taste good, so they threw it away after they beat it, and I threw it away too."
"Why don't you take it home and try it?"
"Suit yourself! Or why don't you cut off a piece of bear lung and see if the mountain dog will eat it?"
Bear offal is not tasty, Wu Laowai heard this from experienced mountain runners.
When they came to him, they followed suit, hunting bears and throwing them into the water on the spot.
Chen Tuo wanted to try it, and Wu Laowai also wanted to try it to see if bear offal was any good.
After Chen Tuo finished feeding the mountain dog, Wu Laowai pointed to the bear offal on the ground and said:
"I'll skin, butcher, and extract the gallbladder, but I'm not going to clean up the offal. If you want to eat it, you can clean it up yourself! Don't count on Crippled Sun; he can't go down into the ice hole!"
Looking at the bear offal that Wu Laowai was pointing at, Chen Tuo didn't really want to clean it up.
But considering that this was the first prey he had shot, he held his nose and went down into the ice hole.
Since the bear had already hibernated, there wasn't much junk in its stomach, so apart from the strong smell, it was easy to clean up.
Following Wu Laowai's instructions, after rinsing and washing, they rubbed themselves several times with snow before returning to Xiaoyangqi's educated youth settlement.
Old Wu originally intended to leave with his small fish, but the bear blood he had just drunk gave him a surge of energy.
Late at night, he, an old man, couldn't find anyone to vent his frustrations on, so he stayed at the educated youth settlement, intending to flirt with the pretty doctor in front of Sun the Cripple.
Whether the educated youth were present or not, Wu Laowai lived a carefree life.
The Linqu area is not only plagued by hardship for Sun Changkui and Hu Yuling's family.
For families with many members, food is a major concern.
If we can't hold on, we'll starve if we don't loosen our belts.
In Wu Laowai's eyes, the good doctors in the forest area can only hold on for a few more years.
When the child is two years older, the arrogant doctor will be just as conceited as he is now, and the more frivolous he will be when he bows his head.
"Eating and drinking until you're broke" is not an exaggeration.
In two more years, the handsome doctor will be in his early thirties, and still in his prime!
Wu Laowai has spent half his life running around in the mountains, and the one thing he has no shortage of is patience.
The three of them arrived at the educated youth settlement with their own thoughts.
After settling the children in, Hu Yuling immediately took up the knife and used her special skills.
The sharp Yakut knife flew up and down in the skilled doctor's hands.
The bear meat that Wu Laowai and Sun Changkui had haphazardly cut apart turned into neat chunks of meat.
"Xiao Chen, this meat is quite good. According to foreign terms, it should be called snowflake meat. It has a high fat content, and eating a little bit can provide enough calories."
Looking at her five sons sitting in a row in front of the gatehouse of the educated youth settlement, drooling over the bear meat, Hu Yuling felt utterly helpless.
The Xingan Mountains are too cold, and the boy has a huge appetite.
Her eldest child ate more than her when he was five years old.
Now, her and Sun Changkui's appetite is about the same as that of the fourth and fifth sons.
The eldest son eats about the same amount of food as two people, if not two.
The eldest son of the Sun family has just turned ten years old this year.
Hu Yuling was distracted, which Sun Changkui and Wu Laowai noticed.
Although young, Chen Tuo, who considered himself knowledgeable and experienced, naturally saw things clearly.
"Brother-in-law Sun, you can take this meat back and render the fat. I don't really like eating fatty meat. Besides, although the educated youth settlement has pots, it doesn't have jars!"
Outside the gatehouse of the educated youth settlement, there were wooden stakes used as tabletops, piles of bear fat, piles of three-layered fat, and the largest pile of pure muscle.
Hu Yuling not only used surgical techniques to neatly separate various pieces of meat.
She also shaved off the entire fascia on the bear's back, with scattered pieces of fascia and whole bear tendons on the large sheet of fascia.
Hu Yuling also spoke about the back ligament separately, saying that it is cut into thin strips, making it both sturdy and durable.
Without a jar to hold the oil, Chen Tuo simply ran his finger along the surface, treating both fatty grease and marbled meat as fatty meat, which he didn't like.
"Isn't this ridiculous? The water vats and jars at the educated youth settlement were delivered by me, leading a horse-drawn cart—twenty large vats and over a hundred large jars!"
Besides timber, the Songling Forest Area relies mainly on external transportation for its food and daily necessities.
Sun Changkui, who was in charge of the horse stables, also managed the horse-drawn carriage teams during the summer and autumn seasons.
During the summer and autumn seasons, the roads become muddy, so many supplies are transported by horse-drawn carts.
The jars and pots at the educated youth settlement happened to be the goods he had handled.
"Brother-in-law Sun, we're right here in the educated youth settlement. How could I lie to your face? I smashed the warehouse door. Go and see for yourself if you don't believe me."
Upon hearing this, Sun Changkui immediately stood up and walked familiarly toward the warehouse of the educated youth settlement.
With Sun the Cripple gone, Wu the Old Man with his bullish spirit has arrived.
"Young men of the Sun family, would you like to eat braised bear meat?"
Even if he couldn't handle the pretty doctor for the time being, Wu Laowai still had ways to deal with the few rascals in the Sun family.
Once they're thoroughly tamed, who's the father is anyone's guess...
"Uncle Wu, the braised meat is too salty. Can you tell me how the Evenki people in the mountains smoke venison?"
Knowing that Wu Laowai was up to no good by fooling the child, Chen Tuo, who had just called him "sister," could no longer stand idly by.
"For hard smoking, you put whatever's on the charcoal fire. In the fall, you can even urinate on the leaves to make smoke."
Chen Tuo interfered and ruined his plans; Wu Laowai said neither the truth nor anything nice.
"It's from the smell of urine, huh? That's quite a strong flavor, but it's also salty, isn't it? Come on, you guys come with me to get firewood and start a charcoal fire."
Chen Tuo took away his five children, and Hu Yuling immediately stabbed the Yakut knife in her hand into the table.
"Old Wu, if you dare to flirt with me in front of the kids again, I'll smash your wallet..."
When the allocation of supplies went wrong, Hu Yuling, who was destitute, almost ended up in Wu Laowai's yard.
That year, if Sun Changkui, who was serving as a scout on the mountain, hadn't had his leg crushed and amputated, the two would have ended up together by chance.
Hu Yuling really couldn't imagine what she would be like now.
"Da Lingzi, I meant well!"
"Kindness? Then I should thank you? Get lost..."
While lighting the fire, Chen Tuo watched as Hu Yuling gained the upper hand in her struggle with Wu Laowai, and then he grinned.
Kindness is kindness.
Resentment aside.
Friendship is friendship.
Wu Laowai's motives were impure; he was two-faced.
Hong Ye played mind games with sincerity, and he maintained his cooperation.
Sun Changkui and his wife are sincere, and he will be just as sincere.
This kind of behavior may not be likable, but it makes me feel comfortable.
"You guys, from now on, after school and during holidays, come to my place first. I don't eat fatty meat, so I'll save it all for you."
To appease the five sons of the Sun family.
In a good mood, Chen Tuo started humming a Northeastern folk tune again.
"The setting sun casts its last rays over the western hills, a beautiful woman returns to her boudoir, her peach-blossom-colored face reflected in the candlelight..."
He had barely started to raise his voice when Sun Changkui, angrily leaning on his crutches, appeared before him.
"So, why did you go to Beishan? Those bastards sold out the educated youth settlement!"
After seeing the warehouse at the Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement, Sun Changkui realized that the group of educated youths hadn't been polite to Chen Tuo or the Forestry Bureau.
Over the past ten years, all that's left of the iron tools, jars, and cans I've accumulated is the bottom of a bottle from back then...