70: Raising a wife, the whole village is inhaling the aroma of stewed meat.

The eldest and second eldest brothers were dealing with the wolves.

These wolf pelts are all valuable; if they're skinned intact, they can fetch a good price.

Zhou Qingwen comfortably took a bucket of hot water to take a bath. These days, people just wear their underwear and rinse off behind the door.

Zhou Qingwen took a comfortable shower and changed into a set of clothes, still patched, with another tear on his knee. Looking at it, he saw that the patch had a hole in it.

Liu Yue'e immediately said, "I'll patch up the hole in your knee for you tonight."

Zhou Qingwen's lips twitched slightly.

He, a time traveler, still hasn't had the chance to wear new clothes?

I'm so frustrated!

However, making money is quite difficult these days.

For someone like him, being able to eat meat even a few times after traveling back in time is quite a rare thing.

Besides, you have to wear new clothes?

And look at this dilapidated house?

Zhou Qingwen felt that his task was arduous.

However, the more challenging life becomes, the more motivated Zhou Qingwen becomes!

This reminded him that before he transmigrated, he didn't have a girlfriend, and he would drool when he saw other couples.

Now things are fine, Yu Yalan has agreed to date him.

Yu Yalan's appearance was among the best in the county.

Looking across the entire Zhouzhuang production brigade, there wasn't a single girl who could rival Yu Yalan.

Therefore, as soon as Yu Yalan arrived, she became the number one beauty in the entire village.

However, many young men wanted to steal a few glances at her.

However, because of Yu Yalan's status as a capitalist, she was still a marginalized member of the "Five Black Categories".

Ordinary farming families wouldn't dare to take her in.

Especially since Yu Yalan is so beautiful, all the young men in the village are eyeing her with longing, but no one dares to say a word to her.

Zhou Qingwen was the one who went up to talk to Yu Yalan's family as soon as they arrived.

Yu Yalan happened to hear that he had been rejected by his fiancé.

I felt a little bit of sympathy for him.

But it's only been two days.

This week, Qingwen changed his listless state and went hunting in the mountains.

And every time, they always succeeded!

Zhou Qingwen put on his clothes, picked up the bucket and took it back to the kitchen. He saw that his sister-in-law was already stewing wolf ribs. Zhou Qingwen went under the eaves, took some dried chili peppers, some Sichuan peppercorns and dried star anise, and took them in to his sister-in-law, saying, "Sister-in-law, put these in to stew, and the wolf ribs will be even more fragrant later."

The older sister-in-law picked up a chipped bowl and placed it here: "Put it here."

Zhou Qingwen did as he was told and put it down. His sister-in-law rinsed it with a little clean well water and threw it into the pot.

Wolf chops were simmering in the pot.

Zhou Jinfeng exclaimed excitedly, "Third Uncle, this wolf steak is so big! I can eat two pieces!"

Second sister-in-law laughed and said, "You little rascal, aren't you afraid you'll have trouble pooping after eating so much?"

Zhou Qingwen laughed and said, "Two pieces it is. After eating the wolf chops, drink plenty of warm water. Definitely don't drink cold well water, or you'll get diarrhea!"

Zhou Jinfeng's eyes widened as he exclaimed, "Great! Hehe! We'll get wolf chops!"

The eldest brother also cleaned up the wolf's head and pulled out all the wolf's teeth one by one.

Wolf teeth are used as a medicinal material. Many children in the village would grind wolf teeth into powder and mix it with some medicine if they were frightened at night or had a cold or fever. One tooth would solve the problem.

Of course, these are all folk remedies from that era.

Zhou Qingwen wanted these wolf teeth so he could go to town tomorrow and get a proper hunting license!

Otherwise, if someone goes into the mountains without a hunting license and hunts too much game, others will become envious and jealous.

Hunters with hunting licenses would hand over a small amount of meat to the village each month as work points.

If you exchange a lot of meat, you'll get full marks.

If you hand in less meat, you'll get fewer work points.

For example, a man earns ten work points a day.

If a wolf household can deliver two catties of meat to the village every day, they will be counted as ten work points.

Now Zhou Qingwen took the wolf meat to the brigade leader's house.

The brigade leader was given two jin of wolf meat, plus two days' work points, totaling four jin of wolf meat. The brigade leader immediately found the points book and recorded Zhou Qingwen's work points as full marks.

Furthermore, the work points done by his family members were all recorded as exceeding the quota.

The more you exceed the quota, the more grain you will receive at the end of the month when it's time to distribute the grain.

After giving the brigade leader two jin plus four jin of wolf meat, Zhou Qingwen left.

The captain felt a little nervous at this moment.

He usually keeps the hunting rifle hanging on the wall and takes great care of cleaning and maintaining it.

However, bullets on the black market are too expensive.

Sometimes you can buy five bullets and still not hit a single pheasant.

They even paid extra for five bullets.

Therefore, the captain's hunting rifle became just for show.

The captain hasn't gone hunting in a long time.

He immediately became the brigade leader, and his work points were always full, ensuring his family had enough grain.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about food.

But this meat?

It's been such a long, long time since I've tasted meat.

The brigade leader's wife immediately cut a pound of meat to stir-fry.

"Let's cook two pounds of meat together; we'll eat our fill today!"

The captain's wife swallowed hard: "Okay!"

Zhou Qingwen returned home just as his sister-in-law was ladling a large basin of stewed wolf ribs out of the pot. "Dinner's ready!"

After that, everyone had half a bowl of corn porridge in their bowls, and then each person had a wolf steak.

This wolf steak is made by cutting it in half from the middle, so that each piece is divided into two.

When you eat it, it smells so good you almost want to swallow your tongue.

Especially Zhou Jinfeng's food; his little face was chubby like a little squirrel.

While eating, I even licked my lips with my tongue, licking all the oil into them.

The whole family buried themselves in eating the wolf chops, they were so delicious, all that was left was the rhythm of chewing and swallowing.

The soup from the wolf ribs was also brought up by the eldest sister-in-law. After everyone ate the corn porridge, they drank a bowl of soup.

It smelled absolutely wonderful.

Several families nearby were sniffing the delicious aroma in the air: "Who's eating meat?"

"Oh dear! Is there even a question? It's definitely the Zhou family!"

"Sigh, when will I be able to eat meat again?"

"Forget about it! Didn't you see that Sun Erniu and He Gousheng were both injured by wild boars? They'll be crippled from now on!"

The man was Zhuang Maoshan, Zhou Qingwen's neighbor to the left, and the woman was his wife, Liu Cunhua.

The two of them drank corn porridge, ate sauerkraut, and some pickled garlic.

"Smelling the aroma of other people's meat while eating our corn porridge, pickled garlic, and sauerkraut, I feel like I'm not eating, I'm being tortured!"

Zhuang Maoshan swallowed a mouthful of pickled garlic, scratched his mouth a few times, and then scratched the back of his neck a few times. "No, I can't eat anymore. The smell of this meat is making my mouth water!"

Liu Cunhua said incredulously, "Zhuang Maoshan, you're something else! You want to eat meat? Are you out of your mind? We only have half a jin of meat coupons and fifty cents in savings. You can't even think about taking those coupons; that's for next month's gas money!"

Liu Cunhua took a sip of corn porridge and said, "I feel like I could eat two bowls of corn porridge just smelling the aroma of meat from Zhou Qingwen's house and drinking our corn porridge!"

Zhuang Maoshan looked resentful: "How come Zhou Qingwen has such good luck? He's the only one who can catch prey? Sun Erniu and He Gousheng are really two good-for-nothings!"

Liu Cunhua rolled her eyes and said, "What can you do? Can you fan the flames for them?"