Chapter 4: The Hare Storm
"Quick! Fast! Stop, catch it!! In the field of Uncle Jiu's house next to him, there was a commotion. Gu Ye looked over curiously and found that Uncle Nine was taking his three sons to intercept a gray hare.
The hare was in a hurry, and scurried around the ground like a headless fly. Suddenly, it kicked its legs violently, drilled under Uncle Jiu's crotch, and came straight to Gu Ye, who was squatting and cutting sorghum ears.
In the 15 years of troubled times, Gu Ye was not in vain, although her skills were ridiculed by the ice cube face as the scum of Zhan Wu, but here, I don't know how much stronger than ordinary people. She picked up a stalk and smashed it on the hare's head with speed, hard, and precision. This small body has not fully recovered, and its strength is not great, but it can only smash the hare and faint.
The ownerless wild things on the mountain are generally the ones who catch them, and the three sons of Uncle Nine showed disappointed eyes. When Aunt Jiu saw it, she smiled on the side and said, "Xiao Ye, you really hit this pole accurately!" β
Gu Ye smirked, "It's just a coincidence." After saying that, he scratched his head embarrassedly.
Aunt Jiu glanced at the rabbit and said to her: "This rabbit is quite fat, to say the least, it is four or five catties." You are just sick and weak, so you just need to eat some rabbit meat to make up for it. β
"This rabbit was tired by Uncle Nine and a few brothers, and he couldn't run here to me, so he was lucky to catch it, if you want to say that Uncle Nine has a lot of strength, I think we are still half a family!" It's not easy to eat a meal of meat these days, Gu Ye thanked Aunt Jiu's family for their kindness and help to their brothers and sisters, and didn't want to have this hare alone, so he proposed.
"Dead girl, are you stupid? Why do we share the rabbits caught by our family with other people's families? It just so happens that there is not much bacon in the family reserve, and the labor intensity of the autumn harvest is so large, how can there be no meat? This rabbit can be stewed with radish vermicelli for several meals! β
The moment Gu Ye knocked the hare unconscious with one shot, Liu also saw it and walked over happily. Hearing that Gu Ye generously divided half of the rabbit meat, he hurriedly stopped it - this damn money-loser, he actually pushed the rabbit meat out, didn't he have a brain?
Gu Ye saw Liu's greedy face, and said expressionlessly: "This rabbit was discovered by Uncle Jiu, and he injured his leg and couldn't run fast, so he was smashed by me by chance." The ninth uncle and ninth aunt took pity on my frailty and gave me all the credit. However, my mother taught me from a young age that I should not take advantage of others in vain, and I should always be grateful for the help of others. This rabbit, I left half of it to take advantage of Uncle Nine and them. β
When Aunt Jiu heard her say this, and then looked at Liu's expression of eagerness to eat people, she immediately understood Gu Ye's mind in her heart. If the Liu family was asked to take all the rabbits, the Gu Ming brothers and sisters didn't know if they could eat a bite, and maybe they would end up in the stomachs of the big and the small.
Thinking about these clearly, Aunt Jiu decided to accept the half of the rabbit, she didn't take advantage of Xiao Ye's child, and when it was cooked, she called the two children home, and they could eat two more bites.
Liu Shi angrily raised the sickle in his hand and slashed at Gu Ye's head. Uncle Jiu's face changed suddenly, he stepped forward and grabbed the handle of the sickle, and snatched it down: "What are you doing here?" What should I do if I cut a child? β
"Uncle Ninth and I teach the child, what are you mixing with? What do you want? I still want to beat people, come and see, my brother-in-law is bullying my sister-in-law, and if you don't come to the house, your daughter-in-law will be beaten to death! Liu sat on the ground, patted his thighs and cried in a long voice.
"Ninth brother, what are you doing? You are angry with me, what is it to bully women! Gu Qiao stopped in front of Liu, his eyes widened with anger, and his face turned red with anger.
I think that at the beginning, he was the second shopkeeper in the Yancheng shop, and every time he came back, even the patriarch was polite to him. What now? The younger brother of the clan can step on him casually! It's all Miao's fault, if it weren't for her, he might have sat in the position of the big shopkeeper, and now he is eating and drinking spicy food in the city!
"Seventh brother, the seventh sister-in-law has gone too far, how can she cut a child with a sickle! Is this a lesson to children? It's a matter of human life! Don't just listen to your daughter-in-law, there are not only two of us in this field, the three mothers and the ten brothers are also watching, who is right and who is wrong, justice is in the hearts of the people! Gu Mo threw the sickle in his hand at Gu Qiao's feet, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.
Gu Qiao was also aware of the disdainful gazes of the clansmen and villagers at this time, his face was hot, he dragged Liu up and gritted his teeth and asked, "Gu Ye, why is she hindering your eyes?" She's just at fault, you just scold her a few words. Look at her body, she walks shakingly, you go down with a sickle and beat her out, in front of so many people, you don't even have a chance to defend yourself. If someone dies, will the patriarch be able to tolerate you? Then I will have to be implicated. β
"Do you know how annoying this cheap girl is, she ......" Liu looked at the rabbit that was carried by Aunt Jiu unwillingly, resentful.
"Alright, isn't it just half a rabbit! Don't be embarrassed here! Gu Qiao interrupted her impatiently. In front of so many people, for those few mouthfuls of meat, do you think he is not embarrassed enough?
Liu reluctantly got up from the ground, and whispered in his mouth: "To put it lightly, half a rabbit can save some food, and you can eat two meals, it's really not a family that doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are......"
When the sun was waning, Gu Ye carried half a peeled hare and went home to have dinner. Liu Shi shouted uncomfortably in the back: "You loser dead girl, don't do it all at once, marinate the rest with salt, and you can eat it at noon tomorrow!" β
Sister Li, who also went home to cook, took Gu Ye's hand and whispered, "When you come to my house in the evening, I will leave you a bowl of rabbit meat." There is also this rabbit skin, when my father is ready, let my mother make you a vest, wear it in the jacket in winter, but it will be warm. β
"Rabbit skin, I'll be cheeky and take it," in her memory, the original owner had almost no warm clothes, and she was lucky not to freeze to death all these years, "Rabbit meat can't be divided into a few mouthfuls of each of your seven people, so you don't need to keep it for me." We're going to have to stew rabbit meat at night. β
"Your stingy stepmother, how many pieces of meat can you eat? That's it, remember to come over at night......" While speaking, the two had already arrived at the door of the house, and Sister Li couldn't help but say another word before entering the house.
Gu Ye washed the rabbit meat, chopped it into small pieces, flew through the water, and boiled a pot of thick broth. Most of the rabbit meat was taken out and stewed with radish, and the remaining broth was added with sand cucumber taken out of the space, and a pot of "sand cucumber rabbit broth" was cooked.
Because of the delay in the stew, when the people who worked in the fields came back, the rabbit meat was still stewed in the pot. As soon as Liu entered the door, he went straight to the kitchen, and when he saw that dinner was not ready, he immediately became energetic: "It's almost an hour since I came back, and the meal hasn't been cooked yet, you lazy, did you sneak away to sleep?" β
When he opened the pot, Liu screamed: "You dead girl, why don't you starve to death?" Didn't you leave half of the rabbit meat for tomorrow? Why is it all stewed? I think about eating all day long, why don't I eat you to death!! β
"Did you say that? I didn't hear it! Gu Ye added a piece of firewood to the stove and began to paste cakes into the pot.
Seeing that Gu Ye was no longer trembling as before, crying and begging for mercy, the fire in Liu's heart rushed up, picked up his fat palm, and slapped his head towards the back of Gu Ye's head.
Gu Ye seemed to have eyes behind him, and the moment his palm fell, he moved a step to the side slightly. The palm that Liu used all his strength fell into his empty hand, his body staggered, and he almost fell into the pot of stewed rabbit meat.
Gu Ye was nervous for a moment: It's hard to eat a meal of meat, don't be polluted by the Liu family! She wasn't interested in stewed human flesh.
"Do you dare to hide? See if I don't beat you to deathβ" Liu, with a pair of triangular dead fish eyes, searched the kitchen, bent down and picked up the burning stick.
"It smells so good! Mother, when can I start eating, I'm starving to death!! Da Zhuang smelled the smell of meat, got into the kitchen and went straight to the stove, a pair of black claws about to scoop rabbit meat into the boiling pot.
Liu couldn't care about beating people, grabbed his eldest son's hand, and shouted: "Get away, don't want your hand?" Don't burn you!! "It's not a nice word, but it contains a lot of concern.
"Meat, meat! Mother, eat meat...... "Xiao Zhuang moved his little short legs, pounced over and hugged Liu's thighs, shouting non-stop.
"The meat is not cooked, so go wash your hands first, sit at the table and wait. Da Zhuang, take your brother out to play, don't get hot! For his own flesh and blood, Liu's eyes are full of warmth.
Soon, the meal was out of the pot. Gu Ye took advantage of the gap when Liu Shi turned around, filled a small half bowl of rabbit meat, and quickly put it into the space. Liu picked up the remaining pot of rabbit meat stewed radish, her brows furrowed - why did she think the amount of rabbit meat was not right? But when the rabbit meat came out of the pot, she was staring at it, and the thief girl didn't dare to eat it under her nose. Could it be that the rabbit is too thin?
"In charge, Gu Ye, this dead girl is too loser, and she stewed all the rabbit meat. Or...... Shall we save half for tomorrow morning? Looking at the pot full of rabbit meat, Liu's heart hurt like blood. This is eating meat, this is digging out her heart!
It's rare to be able to let go of eating meat, Gu Qiao waved his hand and said, "What to keep, it's hot today, and you can't be spoiled overnight?" If you're tired of the day, eat more meat to make up for it! After speaking, he stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a piece of rabbit meat and put it in his mouth.
When stewing meat, Gu Ye put spices such as star anise, cinnamon bay leaves, plus spices such as monosodium glutamate and cumin, the rabbit meat was not fishy at all, and it tasted a peculiar fragrance. Gu Qiao was full of praise, and specially awarded Gu Ye a piece of rabbit meat.
There was a lot of rabbit meat, and despite the thief-like Liu staring, Gu Ye still ate several pieces of rabbit meat. The fragrant rabbit meat and the thick broth have finally eaten a comfortable meal after traveling through so far.