Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 117 Building a Shack

The sauerkraut stewed with big bones is delicious, and even the soup is especially tasty.

The white meat was stewed to the perfect temperature, and Lin Ruolan’s knife skills were also good, with the slices cut into even thicknesses.

I picked up a piece, dipped it into the bowl of garlic sauce with trembling hands, and put it in my mouth. The more I chewed it, the more delicious it became.

Everyone ate a lot at this meal. Xiao Zhi ate a bowl and a half of rhubarb rice, drank a bowl of sauerkraut soup, and gnawed on a lot of bones.

In the end, her belly was bulging with the baby and she was walking back and forth on the ground with her hands holding her belly.

Liu Dongshan and Qu Shaoyang also heated up half a pot of wine, asking each person to drink a little to activate their blood circulation.

After the meal, it was already late, so Qu Shaoyang helped to clean up the food.

There was nothing to do here, so Qu Shaoyang went to take a walk over there and chat with everyone.

As for the guys, needless to say, they ate up two large bowls of pickled cabbage and big bones.

The few plates of meat that were on the top were all eaten up without leaving a single piece, and even the sauerkraut soup was used to soak the rice.

The guys' mouths were all greasy from eating, and they were either lying or sitting on the kang, bragging loudly.

Seeing Qu Shaoyang coming in, the servants hurriedly got up from the kang and warmly invited Qu Shaoyang to sit on it.

Qu Shaoyang didn't hesitate, took off his shoes and sat on the kang, "How is it? Did you eat enough tonight?"

"We are full, we are full, Boss, the pickled cabbage stew is delicious, we drank up all the soup.

The meat is delicious too." Everyone started talking at once.

“Okay, as long as you’re full.

No matter what, you guys follow me and come to work for me. I can’t say whether the food is good or not, but I can guarantee that you will have enough to eat.”

This group of guys are pretty good and they do their job well.

Qu Shaoyang went to the mountains to work every day, and did not delay the work inside and outside the house at all. Qu Shaoyang was quite satisfied.

"Oh, boss, what you said is really wrong. Just take this meal. Not to mention it's a burden, even if it's the landlord in our hometown, he wouldn't dare to eat like this unless it's a festival."

Someone said loudly, and the others laughed when they heard it.

This is also true. In fact, most landlords save money bit by bit, live frugally and save money to buy more land.

The bigger the family fortune, the more stingy they are, and they often can't even afford to eat delicious food.

"The old man of the landlord Wu family in our village is extremely stingy.

Every meal at home was just cornmeal rice and pickles. When the daughters-in-law had enough, they would cook for themselves or go back to their parents' home to improve their diet.

The rice with small grains was braised for one meal and fried for the next, and it was eaten by the old couple and their sons.

Some people took advantage of the excitement to tell stories about the landlords in their village.

"This family is so dependent on you, your eyes are all blue.

After the land was harvested, it was time to collect rent everywhere, so the landlord Wu went out to collect rent.

At home, the eldest daughter-in-law said to the old woman, "It's really tight, let's make some dumplings."

The old woman calculated the date and thought that it was almost time for the landlord Wu to come back to collect the rent. So she agreed and made dumplings at home.

"I was making dumplings on one side, sending my children home on the other, and guarding the village entrance.

Seeing Landlord Wu coming back from afar, his wife scooped a bowl of soybeans and poured it onto the open space in front of her house.

Then let the daughters-in-law quickly cook dumplings. "

"Landlord Wu had just arrived at his doorstep when he saw the yellow ground outside was full of beans. He got so angry that he started to curse.

While cursing, he took off his hat and picked up the beans one by one into the hat.

He was picking beans here, while dumplings were cooked at home and they were eaten up in a rush. Everywhere in the house was cleaned up, leaving a plate of dumplings alone in the pot.

After Landlord Wu finished picking the beans, he went into the house cursing, and his wife brought out dumplings from the pot.

I told them that someone in the village made some dumplings and sent them to me today, but no one was willing to eat them, so they left them for Landlord Wu.”

"When he heard that it was a gift from someone, the landlord Wu was very happy. He stopped cursing and just sat there eating dumplings."

When the guy said this, the others laughed out loud, and Qu Shaoyang also laughed.

After chatting and laughing with everyone for a while, Qu Shaoyang stood up, put on his hat and went back to his room.

Before leaving, he told everyone to rest early and go up the mountain to work tomorrow.

The next morning, Qu Shaoyang took his family servants and various tools and went up the mountain.

It is not easy to build a shack in the ice and snow, but human wisdom is infinite and we can always find a way.

After a few more days of hard work, everyone finally built the shack.

There was a stove and a kang inside, and the fire was kept burning from morning to night, making the house warm and comfortable to live in.

While the guys were busy building the house, Qu Shaoyang went to test the traps and snares whenever he had time, and he found some great results.

We could catch several pheasants and rabbits every day, and even one or two roe deer occasionally.

The most surprising thing was that one day when Qu Shaoyang went to walk the pestle, he unexpectedly discovered that under the huge tree, there were two small creatures with purple and black fur, about the same size as domestic cats. They were the sables, one of the three treasures of Northeast China.

Sable fur is a treasure and was presented as tribute to the royal family.

The best hunter can only get three or five sable skins in a winter.

For an ordinary hunter, he would be lucky if he could hunt one or two sable skins.

In the past, the Dashengwula government stipulated that adult males must hand in a sable skin every year, and those who failed to complete the task would be punished.

This shows how precious and rare sable fur is.

The sable was killed by a huge tree. Its head was broken, but its fur was not damaged at all and was very intact.

Qu Shaoyang did not bring the sable back to the shack. Instead, he skinned the sable directly on the mountain, rolled the skin into a roll, and took it back in his arms.

Once the shack is built, it means that this piece of mountain land is occupied by someone, and those who follow the rules will not come again.

Of course, if you encounter someone who doesn't follow the rules and steals prey, and a conflict arises, it's not difficult to kill two people in the mountains.

It all depends on who strikes harder.

Therefore, most people, once they see a shack in the mountains, will not touch the surrounding mortars or pestles.

Qu Shaoyang led people to build shacks on the mountain and they were busy.

He didn't know that something big happened in the village at this time.

Wang Jiaxiang led his two sons into the mountains to kill Heixiazi Cang, but he didn't want to kill Tulu.

The black bear sat on Wang Jiaxiang's butt, bit off one of his legs, and scratched his back several times.

Fortunately, Wang Jiaxiang’s two sons risked their lives to save their father.

Together with the Wang family's two dogs, Dahei and Erhei, they risked their lives to save Wang Jiaxiang's life.

But both dogs died on the mountain.

When Qu Shaoyang came back from the mountain and learned the news, he was shocked.

"Uncle Wang? He went to measure the black bear? He didn't even have a gun, and he dared to measure the black bear? Isn't that courting death?"

(End of this chapter)