Baiyue Cave Master

"We've packed the walnuts in sacks. If it's sunny tomorrow, we'll take the walnuts out to dry. We'll fry them and eat them during the winter."

"Okay, I'll pack them all."

"As for hazelnuts, put them in a sack and put them in the kitchen. Hazelnuts can be eaten fresh or roasted. They can be used to make cakes or stew chicken. Just leave them there."

"Ok."

"For chestnuts, let's remove the hairy shells first. When I have time, I'll cut them into pieces and make sugar-fried chestnuts."

"Sure, we still have plenty of white and brown sugar at home."

"These wild grapes are too sour. Yuanyuan and I can't eat so many. What should we do?"

"As for wild grapes, put them in a wooden basin first.

Tomorrow I will ask the purchaser of the Provincial Electric Motor Factory to buy some things from the provincial capital. Then I will make some wine for us to drink during the winter.

The alcohol content of the wine is not high, and drinking it will be good for your skin. It would be better for you and Yuanyuan to drink it when the time comes."

Widow Du's eyes lit up when she heard this. Is there such a good thing? She was a little impatient.

Zhang Yuanyuan even hugged Wang Yuanchao's arms with both hands and said sweetly:

"Sir, can you make wine?"

Wang Yuanchao said with a smug look on his face:

"Of course, wine is easy to make. I'll teach you when I make it, and you'll be able to do it just by following me once."

Zhang Yuanyuan jumped up happily, clapped her hands, and circled around Wang Yuanchao.

Wang Yuanchao looked at his young wife tenderly and asked with concern:

"You, girl, you've worked all day and you're still jumping around. Aren't you tired?"

It would have been better if she hadn't said anything. As soon as she said it, Zhang Yuanyuan reacted and said sadly:

"I'm tired, how can I not be tired, man? It's really tiring to work. I almost didn't make it in the field.

Alas, it was only after I returned home that I recovered.”

Wang Yuanchao smiled in his heart, without his own spiritual spring water, how could you recover so quickly? However, this is Wang Yuanchao’s secret alone and he will not tell anyone.

"So how many centimeters did my little wife earn today?"

Zhang Yuanyuan's happy face instantly collapsed, and she said shyly:

"My Lord, I only gained 6 centimeters, isn't that useless?"

Wang Yuanchao hugged Zhang Yuanyuan distressedly, rubbed his young wife's erection, and said with concern:

"Silly girl, your husband is the one who supports the family. I didn't marry you to let you go out to work and support the family.

Isn't there a saying? Men are responsible for making money to support the family, while women are responsible for being beautiful.

My little wife, you just need to enjoy yourself at home and be as beautiful as a flower.

If it is not autumn harvest and the team requires you to go to work,

I can't bear to see you suffer this.

My dear wife, just follow me every day. Don't worry too much about the number of centimeters. I am the only thing you need to have at home.

I promise to raise you and my mother-in-law to be as beautiful as flowers, fair and tender."

Zhang Yuanyuan liked to listen to Wang Yuanchao's sweet words. Every time she felt sweet in her heart, she would raise her head from Wang Yuanchao's chest and respond shyly in a mosquito-like voice:

"Well, the masters are very nice."

Widow Du was standing nearby, feeling extremely sad. This kind of happiness was not what she felt. It was too painful. She said sourly:

"Aid Korea, let's work harder, we still have so many deer, silly roe deer, and wild goats that need us to take care of them."

Wang Yuanchao looked at his mother-in-law who looked unnatural, smiled foolishly and said:

"It's okay. I'll skin these animals first. It's easy to cut the meat and bones after the skin is removed."

After saying that, Wang Yuanchao took a wild goat to the prepared wooden board. Wang Yuanchao had bled the prey prepared at home and took it out from the space, so it was very convenient to handle.

Place the sheep on a wooden board with its limbs facing upwards, and use a knife to cut open the skin along the lower neck until it reaches the anus and the tip of the tail.

Then cut a straight line from the inside of each foreleg and hind leg to the joint and hock;

Then use a knife to gradually peel off 5 to 10 centimeters along the chest and abdomen, and then use the fist method to pick and peel at the same time, and the entire sheepskin can be peeled off quickly.

Then, another wild goat was cooked in the same way.

Wang Yuanchao put the roe deer on the wooden board again, and used a small knife to cut left and right from the center line of the belly. Then he used the knife to cut it little by little, holding the back of the knife with his hand, and peeled off the skin little by little. It was very simple.

Finally, it was the deer. Wang Yuanchao sawed off the antlers first.

Then the cleaned antlers are sawed into segments.

Next, soak the sawn antler segments in warm water for a while and then take them out.

Ask the mother-in-law to slice the antler segments into thin slices.

Finally, let the pounded antler slices dry.

Then Wang Yuanchao used a knife to cut the skin of the two front legs from the hooves.

Then cut open the deer's belly from the throat below the head to the crotch of the hind legs.

Then, hold the edge of the belly with one hand, and make a fist with the other hand to push inwards between the skin and flesh to separate them.

Wang Yuanchao peeled off a piece of deerskin in just a few minutes.

After Wang Yuanchao peeled off a few skins, Widow Du happily put them away.

Then take out all the fine salt in the kitchen,

Start to sprinkle it evenly on the skin.

Then fold the skins with the fur facing outwards, wrap the salt inside, and put them into the prepared large vat.

Then add water to cover the surface of the leather and stir it to allow the salt to dissolve and the fur to absorb it.

Wang Yuanchao watched his mother-in-law skillfully making leather in amazement and asked curiously:

"Mother-in-law, I didn't know you could make leather?"

Widow Du laughed complacently and said:

"Haha, how bizarre! When I was little, I often followed my mother and her friends to make leather.

There were many animals in the mountains at that time, and almost every woman in our Red Flag Brigade knew how to make leather.

We can use this deerskin to make deerskin boots, which are best to wear in winter as they keep your feet warm and don't leak water.

Sheepskin can be used to make cashmere coats, which will keep you warm.

This silly roe deer skin can be made into a carpet, which can be placed next to the sofa.

When you hibernate in the winter, when you get off the kang, you don’t have to rush to find your shoes, just step on the carpet.

These are all old skills of our Red Flag Brigade.

Basically, every old woman in every household knows how to do it, but now everyone in the brigade needs to go to work, so there are no dedicated hunters.

There are fewer prey for hunting, so naturally there are fewer fur coats in our Red Flag Brigade.

By Yuanyuan’s generation, these old tricks are basically no longer available.”

Wang Yuanchao also sighed after hearing this, because he knew that with the development of industrialization, more old crafts would gradually be replaced, because industrial products would be newer in style and more efficient.

In the future impetuous society, this kind of craft cannot compete with industrialization at all.