Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 300: Aren’t you feeling sorry for this ugly dog?

Zhou Guo didn't say anything. How could Heidao bite someone else's chicken? He was a puppy that wouldn't even dare to eat meat if it was thrown on the ground.

As she was thinking, the aroma of chicken soup stewed with small flower mushrooms began to waft out. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Chicken soup! She hadn't had a good soup in the past two days. She was used to it. It would be hard for her to stop drinking it all of a sudden.

Hei Dadan lay at her feet with his head on his two front feet, blinking his eyes as he looked at the steaming pot of chicken soup.

The chestnuts were peeled and put into the pot to stew together. After half an hour, the fragrance filled the small valley.

Zhou Guo ate the cake in his hand dryly. The more he ate, the less tasty it was. He wanted to drink the warm soup. "Uncle, are you still not well? It's been stewing for so long. If you keep stewing it, the meat will melt into the soup."

Zhou Dacang raised his head from the fire and wiped the ashes off his face. "Okay, bring me the bowl."

Zhou Guo couldn't wait to hand over the bowl he had prepared long ago, "scoop some flower mushrooms, scoop two chestnuts, and throw one to Heidadan as well. These chestnuts were found by it, so we can't let it not eat them."

Zhou Dacang sighed, "I know, I know. You keep talking about Hei Dadan. I've never seen you like dogs so much before. Did Hei Dadan drug you?"

Zhou Guo said: "That's because you don't know the benefits of black daring yet. You will know in a few days. Take it back, and everyone in your family will like it."

The fragrant chicken soup with flower mushrooms was handed to her. She blew on it, leaned over the bowl and took a sip. The rich aroma of the flower mushrooms exploded on her tongue, so fresh and fragrant that she couldn't help but exhale. She drank half a bowl of soup while it was hot before starting to eat the meat.

The black boy at my feet had already stood up and was looking up with his little head tilted.

Zhou Guo threw two chestnuts and a mushroom to it.

He started eating the meat himself and threw the bones to the dog after finishing it. Both the man and the dog buried their heads and ate the meat happily.

Zhou Dacang also sat down with his bowl to eat. When he looked up and saw this, the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose. He threw away the bones he had eaten and even left some meat on them.

After eating the bones, Zhou Guo ate a boiled chestnut. It was soft, sweet, and full of the aroma of shiitake mushrooms and pheasant meat. After eating one, he wanted more.

She ate seven or eight chestnuts in one go. "It's a pity that we only came across one chestnut tree along the way. Otherwise, we could have eaten bowls of chestnuts."

A dozen at a time is not satisfying at all.

Zhou Dacang said with a smile: "Why, you still want to eat it all at once, and eat bowl by bowl? There are not so many chestnuts for you to eat. If you are lucky, you can find the nest where the little squirrel hides food, maybe there will be enough for you to eat bowl by bowl."

Zhou Guo's eyes lit up. "A little squirrel's nest? Have you ever found one?"

She likes this job.

Zhou Dacang laughed and said, "Squirrels like to hide food all over the ground, but they often forget about it. I still remember one autumn when we went up the mountain to pick flower mushrooms, we came across a tree hole where a squirrel had hidden food. Wow, as soon as the hole was opened, chestnuts, walnuts, peanuts, and acorns fell out in piles. We were so happy that we just packed them in bags. We didn't know how long it had been hiding them. When we went back and weighed the fruits in the tree hole, it weighed seven or eight kilograms."

Zhou Guo said regretfully, "We have to hurry on our way. It's a pity that we can't search all over the mountain for caves. Let's just let them go. It's not easy for such a small creature to hide so much food."

After finishing the chestnut and shiitake mushrooms in the bowl, she took out a pancake, tore it open, and soaked it in the bowl. After it was softened, she started to eat it. This is her favorite way to eat it.

After eating, she threw a piece to Hei Dadan, who finished it in two gulps. After finishing it, he looked at her eagerly, obviously wanting more.

She glanced at Zhou Da Cang on the other side, and had to pick another piece, and reminded him: "Okay, this is the last piece. If you want to eat it again, there will be no more. You haven't finished eating all the bones on the ground. Dogs love eating bones the most, so why don't you like it?"

The black and bold little head moved.

After dinner, Zhou Guo helped to process the hunted prey, skinning, cutting the meat, cutting it into strips, and hanging it over the fire to dry.

A roe deer, three rabbits, two pheasants, and a badger.

While peeling the fruit, Zhou Guo asked, "Are there so many prey in this forest? Can you catch so many by yourself? You can catch as many as Master."

Zhou Dacang shook his head. "How can I compare with you, sir? The day you left, I set a few traps and dug two pits over there. I've had a good harvest over the past two days, but the only thing I actually caught was this roe deer."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I thought you were as good as Master. You won't come out of the mountains without being covered in all kinds of stuff."

Zhou Dacang said, "How can I compare with you, sir?"

The two men cut the meat while talking.

At nightfall, all the meat was processed and hung over the fire to roast.

The two men processed the peeled skin in the simplest way possible, hoping that they could take it away.

Zhou Guo scraped off the fat and meat from the skins, washed them with ash, and spread them out on the stones to dry. "Uncle, we'll catch more prey and more skins in the future. By then, our horses won't be able to carry them anymore."

Zhou Dacang said, "I know. I think we should sell them while we're at it. We can still make some money if we sell them cheaply."

Zhou Guo nodded, "This is the only way. Even though it's not ready yet, it's cheap. If I sell it to the hunters, they will definitely be happy."

By the time everything was done, it was already dark for quite some time.

Zhou Guo washed his face and feet, lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

I didn’t sleep well these past two days. Now that I’m back with my family, I feel relaxed and fall asleep peacefully.

Zhou Dacang took down the wooden stick that was supporting the door, and the small thatched hut instantly became a small closed room. Sleeping in it gave people a sense of security, which was completely different from sleeping in the open air.

Hei Dadan was guarding the door, curled up into a ball and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, after breakfast, the two packed up their things, made sure nothing was left behind, and set off.

Before leaving, Zhou Guo lowered the door of the shed so that anyone passing by could find this place and save the trouble of setting up the shed.

The two men chose a route and trotted along on horseback.

Hei Dadan trotted along beside him.

Zhou Da Cang watched it running and rolling, and couldn't help but say, "Don't you feel sorry for your ugly dog ​​the most? Why don't you feel sorry for it now? Can you bear to watch it run like this?"

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "It's okay. You'll get used to it after running for a while. A dog can't even run. It has to catch rabbits and pheasants to earn food for itself."

Zhou Dacang obviously didn't believe it. "How can it do that? It's true that dogs can catch chickens, but they only catch chickens raised at home, which is really annoying."

Zhou Guo glanced at him, gently squeezed the horse's belly with his legs, and rushed out.