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Chapter 174 Caught
In the blink of an eye, it is the Chinese New Year again, and this New Year is destined to be different.
Tao Wuji has gotten much better after a period of treatment.
At least I no longer mistake Xia Shengsheng for Jingwan, and I'm gradually getting familiar with some people, but my memory is still a little confused. Doctor Zhao said that this needs to be recovered slowly and we can't rush it!
Now that there have been promising results, everyone can finally feel relieved.
The Xia family is particularly lively today. First of all, the number of people has increased several times.
However, due to the impact of disasters and war news, everyone cannot be as happy as in previous years!
No family will have extra money to set off firecrackers this New Year!
Moreover, there are many families who don’t see meat on the table. Perhaps if they could have a meal of vegetarian dumplings, it would be great for many families.
There are also some families who used to have a few livestock, and they can see meat dishes during the Chinese New Year!
Except for the other villagers in Kaoshan Village, let alone vegetarian dumplings, even having a bowl of rice porridge would make them happy for several days.
No one can do anything about this situation. No one is a savior. In this difficult time, it is good enough to take care of your own family. Who can care whether others can have food to eat?
The only other one might be Xia Shengsheng's family.
Because water was becoming scarce, the village chief ordered the villagers to kill all their livestock and save the water for everyone to drink.
Xia Shengsheng was no exception. He killed all the sheep, a dozen chickens, and more than 20 rabbits in his family, leaving no one behind.
But the only advantage of winter is that it becomes a natural refrigerator. After the animals are killed, there is no need to make bacon. They can be frozen outside and can be taken out whenever you want to eat them.
Although Xia Shengsheng didn't cook dozens of dishes like last year, she still cooked a rich feast.
Early in the morning, everyone had a simple breakfast with a pancake and a bowl of soy milk.
We didn't do anything complicated at noon. We just took out the frozen mutton, thawed it a little, cut it into thin slices, and left it for everyone to eat in the hot pot.
Shabu-shabu hotpot not only contains mutton, but also lamb ribs, lamb chops and other meat dishes.
Xia Shengsheng also asked the strong man to make a lot of fish balls, chicken balls, and beef balls. When they were put into the pot, they were so delicious.
As for vegetarian dishes, of course, various green vegetables are indispensable, as well as bamboo shoots, kelp, wide noodles, lotus root slices, rattan rolls, enoki mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms.
Anyway, it has everything, which even Tao Siyuan was dumbfounded.
"Aunt, how did you come up with so many different dishes? My father and I have been to countless restaurants, but I didn't expect that there would be so many things to cook in hot pot, and there are several types that I have never seen before!"
Dabanlu is what we now call hotpot. Even though Tao Siyuan has seen a lot of big scenes, he has definitely never seen many modern things.
"I've never seen them before, but now you've seen them. Eat more of them later and get to know their taste. Then you can brag about them to your friends!"
Xia Shengsheng was joking with Tao Siyuan when he said this!
Before Tao Siyuan was forced by her father to learn accounting, she had already been lazy and usually played with some rich young men!
He doesn't do any real work, so Xia Shengsheng used this to tease Tao Siyuan.
Tao Siyuan was not embarrassed at all. He just scratched his head and didn't take Xia Shengsheng's teasing to heart at all.
Xia Shengsheng is not only preparing ingredients for hot pot.
I also asked a few people to make the dumpling filling for the evening.
In the evening, Xia Shengsheng prepared to make several kinds of fillings. After all, there were so many people, and everyone had different tastes!
So order more chopped beef, pork, and chicken breast.
Beef can be made into beef and carrot, pork can be put together with green onions, and chicken breast tastes best with shiitake mushrooms.
Make some sauerkraut with oil, leeks and eggs and it will be complete.
When eating dumplings in the evening, I don’t plan to make any special dishes, just two small cold dishes.
Everything is going on here with great enthusiasm, but something goes wrong over there!
Ma Kui and Zheng Guoqu originally wanted to prepare a few more dishes for their family during the Chinese New Year.
So the two of them sneaked up the mountain without notifying anyone.
Logically speaking, as long as they don't go too deep, nothing will happen.
After all, the drought lasted for such a long time that the trees outside the mountain had already turned yellow.
Only if you go deep into the mountains will you see a little green.
Therefore, most animals and beasts have already moved their nests to places deeper inside that are more suitable for survival.
The two of them wandered around outside for a short day, not only did they not gain anything, they even ran into a few robbers.
The two of them didn't get anything, and they were already very angry! They ran to this deep mountain, and someone actually stopped them and asked for money? Is there any way to reason with them?
So a few people who had different opinions soon started fighting.
Ma Kui and Zheng Guoqu learned a few tricks from Xia Yi and the others, and they had no problem dealing with some petty thieves or ordinary civilians.
But the people they met were very skilled, so skilled that they didn't even give them a chance to fight back and captured them.
After arresting them, they simply searched their bodies and found nothing useful, so they tied them up and took them away.
One of them took a note he had prepared in advance and ran towards the Kaoshan Village at the foot of the mountain.
Although he was still far away from the gate of Kaoshan Village, he didn't dare to get any closer. Instead, he took the bow and arrow on his back, put the note on it, and shot it towards the gate of Kaoshan Village.
The arrow was shot quite accurately and hit the gate of Kaoshan Village directly.
This alarmed Ma Da and Li Er who were guarding above.
At first the two men thought that bandits were raiding the village and were about to ring the gong to let everyone prepare for battle. Later, it was Mada who discovered that there was no one outside the Kaoshan Village except for the arrow shot on the gate, and there seemed to be something hanging on the arrow!
So they quickly stopped Li Er, and the two of them went down to open the gate. They looked around and saw that there was nothing wrong, so they pulled out the arrow that was stuck in the gate.
After pulling it out, they saw that there was a piece of paper hanging on it. They spread out the paper and looked at each other.
"What's written on it?" Li Er asked.
"I only know the character for one, I don't know the others!"
Although Martha's son had been educated and his wife could read a few words, he really could not read a single word. It was good enough for him to recognize a single word. So, the two of them could only take the things back and close the door.
You Mada ran back home and asked his son to see what was written on it first, while Li Er continued to guard the gate!