Chapter 30453047【The Emperor is gone】
After returning home, he put away the hatchet and the basket. Xiang Nan carried the fox to the courtyard and handed it to Wu Xiancao.
“Hei Wa, how did you get it?” Wu Xiancao was a little surprised when he saw it.
"When I was mowing the grass, I saw it hiding in the hole. I pressed it down and then caught it." Xiang Nan explained.
"Hei Wa is really awesome." Wu Xiancao nodded, then took the fox over, skinned it, bled it and hung it up.
It is winter now, the weather is freezing, and fox meat can be stored for a long time. She planned to stew it and eat it during the New Year''s Day.
In ancient times until the 1990s, eating meat was a problem for ordinary people.
Poor people may not be able to eat fine grains all year round, let alone meat. White flour is a good thing. You may not be able to eat a meal of white flour dumplings during the Chinese New Year, let alone eat meat.
?Even if you raise chickens and pigs, they are not for eating meat, but for selling them for money. Even if they are eggs, they are reluctant to eat them. They have to save them and sell them.
??And even if you are a rich man, there is no reason to eat meat every day. For example, the Bai family is considered a high-class family in Bailuyuan, but they only weigh how many pounds of meat to eat during the New Year and festivals.
?A family can eat so many kilograms of meat in several mouthfuls. Not to mention eating until they are full in one sitting, it is good to have some meat. So even if you get fox meat, you won''t stew it and eat it immediately. You have to freeze it first and wait for the New Year to eat it.
Xiang Nan sighed when he saw this. It seemed that he had to find another way to solve the problem.
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After lunch, Xiang Nan was preparing to put a basket on his back and go out to cut grass and chop firewood.
At this moment, I heard a commotion outside.
“Patriarch, come out quickly, something happened!” A villager rushed in and shouted.
??Bai Jiaxuan''s father, Bai Bingde, heard the shouting and immediately went out to greet him, asking, "What happened?"
??Bai Zhaoshi, Wu Xiancao, Bai Xiaowen, and Bai Xiaowu also followed out curiously.
"Something serious has happened, the sky is falling!" I heard the man shouting with a sad face.
Xiang Nan was startled for a moment, and then went out to take a look. He saw all the villagers gathered in front of hundreds of houses, chatting with each other, and the sky was full of excitement.
Among them, the most eye-catching one is Lu Zilin.
The braids on his head were gone and turned into short hair that reached his neck, which made him look particularly awkward among the men with braids.
“It’s not good, the Qing Dynasty is gone, and the emperor has stepped down.”
“The emperor is gone, the royal rations are lost, and the braids are cut off!”
“I heard that the name of the country has been changed to the Republic of China, and the emperor’s name has also been changed to ‘President’.”
??The villagers talked a lot.
As soon as Xiang Nan heard this, he knew that the Revolution of 1911 had broken out.
This is really a historic event. It''s just that the Republic of China was actually more decadent and darker than the late Qing Dynasty.
Because in the late Qing Dynasty, although the rulers were corrupt, there was only one family.
After entering the Republic of China, warlords fought in a melee, and the heroes rose up together. After you sang, I came on stage, and the king''s flag changed on the city wall. No matter who comes to power, they will first plunder the people.
?There are countless exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes. The life of ordinary people is even more difficult than in the late Qing Dynasty.
Even Bai Jiaxuan lamented that famine, plague, and bandits did not defeat Bailuyuan, but the National Government''s conscription and collection of donations made it impossible to survive.
…?Subsequently, Bai Bingde summoned everyone to the Bailu Village Ancestral Hall to discuss matters.
??The Bailu Village Ancestral Hall is shared by the Bailu family. It is said that a long time ago, Bailuyuan was called Houjia Village. Because it often encountered disasters, the clan leader suggested that the village change its surname.
Because the legend of the White Deer was spread in the original land. Wherever the White Deer passed, crops were harvested, pests were all dead, patients were cured, and disabilities were restored... It can be said that good things happened everywhere.
So the village was renamed Bailuyuan, and all the villagers were honored by Bailu. The elder''s eldest son''s surname is Bai, and the second eldest son''s surname is Lu.
??Historically, the patriarch of Bailuyuan has been surnamed Bai. The head of the Bai family this time is Bai Jiaxuan''s father, Bai Bingde.
Because the White Deer are from the same ancestor, they share the same ancestral hall. If there is any major issue in the clan, the villagers of Bailuyuan will be invited to the ancestral hall to discuss the matter.
However, Xiang Nan and others are too young and are not qualified to enter the ancestral hall. In addition, people like Bai Xing''er, who breed livestock, belong to the lower class and are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. Unless an exception is made!
Seeing that everyone went to the ancestral hall to discuss matters, Xiang Nan was not qualified to enter, and he was not interested in knowing about the ancestral hall, so he continued to chop wood and mow the grass with a basket on his back.
After cutting a basket of grass, Xiang Nan came to the river beach.
The river beach is a branch of the Zishui River, nourishing hundreds of acres of farmland on both sides of the river.
?It is already winter now, and the river water has frozen.
Xiang Nan cracked the ice with one palm and fished out the broken ice, leaving a hole as big as a bowl.
?After a while, some fish came to the hole to breathe fresh air. Xiang Nan took the opportunity to take action, catching one at a time, and soon caught three big fish, estimated to be at least a pound.
Xiang Nan immediately cut open the fish with a sickle, threw the intestines, gills, scales, etc. into the water, and then used his palms to perform exercises. Under his blazing Qi, the fish was quickly cooked.
Xiang Nan then started to eat.
?He is now growing taller, and there is no meat or fish in his three meals a day, so his stomach is really short of oil and water.
?Such a poor life was difficult for Xiang Nan, who was accustomed to eating well and eating fine food, to endure it, so he secretly opened a small stove for himself.
?But to be honest, the fish grilled in this way is not delicious because no seasoning is used. The smell is very fishy and not fragrant enough.
In ancient times, fish, shrimps, crabs, river mussels, snails, etc. were not considered good things. Because this type of river food has a relatively strong fishy and earthy smell, seasonings are needed to suppress the strange smell.
In ancient times, spices were valuable items, and even salt was not easy to obtain. Therefore, fish, shrimp, crab and the like are not actually good things to the common people.
Fatty pork, which modern people avoid, was a rare and top-notch product at that time.
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Although these grilled fish were not seasoned and tasted very fishy, ??they were still meat after all, and they would be useful if eaten in the stomach, so Xiang Nan ate them all and threw all the fish bones into the river, which was a disaster. The corpse is gone.
After that, he faced the cold wind for more than an hour. When the smell had almost dissipated and it started to get dark, he returned to the village carrying a basket on his back.
At this time, he happened to see Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin walking out of the ancestral hall.
?Lu Zilin still had disheveled hair and a depressed look on his face. Bai Jiaxuan looked at his unlucky look, and the smile on his face never stopped.
“You are still smiling like a fool, I cut off your hair for you.” Lu Zilin scolded.
“I said I would go in to pay the bill, but why did you have to rush there?” Bai Jiaxuan said with a smile.
“You’re just rushing to go there because you’re just trying to make money off me~” Lu Zilin felt indignant.
"Jiaxuanda, Zilinda~" Xiang Nan greeted, and then followed Bai Jiaxuan back to Bai''s house.
(End of this chapter)