Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

She wouldn't do such a stupid thing, and she wasn't interested in the fox fur. Fox meat smelled good, so it wouldn't matter if she had one less bite.

However, she was still surprised that she could catch the wild goats. She didn't expect that the space vegetables were so effective that they could even lure wild goats from the deep mountains.

This was a big surprise. Han Zhaozhao knew that the space had produced something, which meant that she had mastered the code to lure Rourou into her trap.

From now on, she will no longer have to worry about not having meat to eat!

After walking around the mountain, Han Zhaozhao ran all the way back home.

When she got home, her grandmother had already gone to work, and the rice in the big pot was still hot.

Han Zhaozhao's stomach was rumbling with hunger. She ate voraciously, finishing all the food her grandmother had left for her. Only then did she feel better.

However, this was her two meals. She finished it in one meal and had to make it again at noon.

After cleaning the kitchen, Han Zhaozhao started cutting the radix trichosanthis.

Her grandmother is not at home, so she can do whatever she wants with the door locked!

Han Zhaozhao took out the small medicine chopper that he used to cut Polygonatum sibiricum slices in his previous life from the space warehouse, carried a low table to the yard, moved the basket of medicinal materials to his side, and began to cut Trichosanthes kirilowii.

The old saying is still true: Dexterity is not as good as good tools!

You need special tools for every job you do. If the tools are not easy to use, even the most skillful hands will not produce satisfactory results.

Cutting medicinal materials really requires a small medicine chopper!

Moreover, the small medicine guillotine in Han Zhaozhao's hand is a special tool for Chinese medicine stores that has been improved countless times in later generations. Not only does the knife use a new type of high-strength manganese steel, but it is also sharpened using modern technology, making it both light and sharp.

In less than two hours, Han Zhaozhao had cut more than 100 kilograms of Trichosanthes into slices.

Spread the reed mat and spread the tacca thinly, each piece is snow-white, and each piece is the same thickness, like a field of white snow in winter, very dazzling!

Han Zhaozhao hung the wild goat on the herringbone rack in the backyard and began to skin it.

She can do this job. In her previous life, she and several good friends raised sheep together, and she had seen the uncles in her hometown slaughtering sheep and pigs many times.

Although she had never done it herself, with her experience of killing so many tunas, she would have learned how to do it just by watching!

This job is not difficult for her! As long as she masters the skills, she can do it easily!

Skinning a sheep is not much different from skinning a rabbit, you both hang the rabbit upside down and cut at the hind leg joint first.

Han Zhaozhao learned the technique of slaughtering sheep from his uncle. It does not require any technology, but is purely craftsmanship. The whole process is clean and neat, without any delay, and very quick and efficient.

The first step is to use a sharp knife to circumcise the joint of the sheep's hind hoof, and then move the knife along the sheep's hind leg and gently cut open the sheep's butt.

This step is very important, and the cut must be neither too light nor too heavy.

If you use too much force, it will cut the fascia and muscle. The knife must move in the gap between the sheepskin and the fascia.

This is the key to making a sheepskin complete!

The knife cuts all the way to the sheep's anus, then cuts from the sheep's anus to the other sheep's hind leg, and then cuts open the sheep's hind leg joint ring.

Now you can officially start skinning the sheep!

To take the sheepskin, the knife is just an aid. Use your right hand to push between the sheepskin and the fascia muscles of the sheep's body, and use the other hand to pull and tear it.

In this way, you push and knead with your fist and tear with your other hand, and the sheepskin will be easily removed from the sheep.

People often talk about shearing the wool, shearing the wool, but Han Zhaozhao is not shearing the wool, she is shearing the sheepskin.

The purpose of pulling the mutton off with the skin is, firstly, to keep the mutton clean, and secondly, the sheepskin peeled off in this way will not be damaged at all and will be absolutely complete!

It took Han Zhaozhao about fifteen minutes to peel off the sheepskin completely.

The peeled sheepskin, when held in the hand, basically takes the shape of a complete cloth bag.

If you put this in the desert, you can tie the limbs and the neck opening with ropes and use it as a sheepskin water bag.

This sheepskin pocket has no cuts at all, so not a drop of water will leak out, and its sealing is excellent!

Sheepskin is relatively thin and very tough, has relatively little subcutaneous fat, and the subcutaneous ligaments are particularly thin.

The sheepskin peeled off in this way has basically no residual grease or fat, and there is one less step of removing grease when tanning the leather, which is especially labor-saving and trouble-free.

This technique can be used to skin deer, rabbits, and foxes. The skins that are peeled off will be absolutely beautiful and neat, without any damage at all.

After peeling the sheepskin, it is time to cut the mutton. Gently cut along the midline from the abdomen to the chest, and the sheep's internal organs will appear intact before your eyes.

The next step is even easier, it’s time to remove the internal organs!

Anyone who has killed a chicken will do the same thing next! Put your hand close to the sheep's spine and gently tear the fascia. Then, the whole pile of internal organs will come out.

Of course, the liver and lungs will remain in the chest cavity, and those will be taken out last.

After removing the internal organs, all that was left was to chop the meat, which was even easier. She could eat whatever piece she wanted first and however she wanted.

After killing the sheep, Han Zhaozhao dug the soil to cover the blood on the ground, and put all the mutton, sheepskin and sheep internal organs back into the space.

She didn't cook lunch outside, but directly stewed a pot of lamb ribs in the big casserole in the space, and also cooked a small pot of potatoes.

At noon, Han Zhaozhao finally had a full meal. He finished more than four pounds of lamb ribs and ate a dozen potatoes as big as fists.

The mutton is fresh and mellow, the potatoes are soft and glutinous. With potatoes in the left hand and lamb chops in the right hand, Han Zhaozhao takes a bite here and a bite there. He feels that the days of time travel are also beautiful!

She admits she is a foodie!

No matter how big the difficulties are, as long as she can have enough to eat and eat well, everything else is a small matter to her!

Han Zhaozhao doesn't ask for much, just enough food and clothing is enough!

After flipping through the dried medicinal herbs, Han Zhaozhao went out again in the afternoon.

Han Zhaozhao strolled around like a idler with nothing to do and went to the small market again.

It was just after lunch and there were not many people in the market. There were more people selling things than buying things!

Han Zhaozhao had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she walked around, stopped, looked around, and saw her wherever there was activity.

Most of the old farmers who came in the morning to sell vegetables had sold out and went back. Of those that had not sold out, only some that were of poor quality were left and they were still trying to sell them.

When we arrived in the afternoon, most of the shops were not open yet. Everyone was watching the stalls and squatting together with people they knew to smoke dry tobacco.

There was no sign of urgency in people's expressions. Instead, they looked relaxed, just like old men chatting at the entrance of the alley.

Han Zhaozhao has sharp ears, so he leaned over to listen to the conversation:

"Have you heard? Next year the village will implement an advanced cooperative."

"What's the high-level or low-level thing? Aren't we a production cooperative now?"

“That’s true, but the village cadres said that we are now a mid-level cooperative.

The advanced cooperative must be better than it is now!"

"That's hard to say! When we first joined the cooperative, we were told that we would do farm work together, share grain together, and share money at the end of the year. If we had any difficulties, we could turn to the collective.

But once we really joined the collective, all the land became collective, all the livestock became collective, and all the household belongings became collective.

The farm work is more than when I was farming individually, but the food is not distributed more.

There is no free time throughout the year. If you get sick and take a day off, you have to ask for leave and your work points will be deducted.

I think that joining the society hurts the hardworking and wealthy families, and spoils those families with lazy people.

"I slacked off every day, didn't work hard, and didn't get enough food. If I had known this would be the result, I would never have joined the cooperative!"