noffsinger Chapter 169 Chinese New Year
Chapter 169 Chinese New Year
When Uncle Shen heard that his niece was in trouble, he was silent for a moment and said, "I'll have someone send you some food later."
"This..." Shen Ruolan hesitated for a moment and said to Uncle Shen, "Uncle, this is not a good idea. It would be bad if I cause you trouble."
In the eyes of outsiders, she is now just a bandit. But if she has the support of people from Yaowang Valley, it would be a different story.
By then, I'm afraid that not only the two countries will be dissatisfied with her, but Yan State will also turn its attention to Yaowang Valley. If this matter really brings trouble to her grandfather's family, she would rather not have it.
After all, they had already gotten through the hardest days, so there was no need for her to put everyone in danger.
Uncle Shen said with a firm face: "Don't worry, I have my own arrangements for this matter."
"In that case, thank you very much, uncle." Seeing that persuasion failed, Shen Ruolan had no choice but to accept it with pleasure.
Uncle Shen nodded to Shen Ruolan and continued to climb the mountain.
Not long after, Shen Ruolan came to the foot of the mountain. Seeing the piles of prey at the entrance of the village, she was so frightened that she staggered back. No wonder her uncle advised her to kill less. It seemed that the problem lay here.
At this time, at the entrance of the village, looking out, there were piles of prey like small mountains, big and small, at least a thousand heads. Shen Ruolan wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and said silently in her heart: "Sorry, sin, I really didn't mean to let everyone kill so many."
Seeing that his master almost fell, Ji Han thought she was afraid, so he quickly stepped forward to support her and said, "Master, these prey are already dead, there is no need to be afraid.
Shen Ruolan nodded at him, adjusted her mood, and asked Ji Han: "Is the hunting trip going smoothly? Also, have all the villages sent people?"
Ji Han told Shen Ruolan truthfully: "My Lord, except for the fact that we had to travel a long distance, everything else went smoothly. All the village chiefs also sent people to go."
Shen Ruolan heard that everyone had left. She glanced at the prey and told Ji Han, "Tell everyone to classify the prey immediately, distribute it to everyone, and leave quickly."
The Chinese New Year is just two days away, so she has to quickly get everyone to bring their prey back home to celebrate the New Year.
"Yes, Master." Ji Han shouted to his companions behind him, "Come on, some people, quickly classify the prey."
"Yes, Manager Ji." After the villagers finished speaking, they hurried forward and started to divide the things neatly.
There is strength in numbers. In less than half an hour, everyone had sorted the prey. Shen Ruolan walked in the middle of the prey and roughly estimated it, then instructed Ji Han: "Ji Han, each village will get thirteen goats, four wild boars, two wolves, two pheasants, and one wild rabbit."
The majority of the prey this time were wild goats, followed by wild boars. There were seventy or eighty wolves, and not many pheasants and hares. There were five tigers, but there were not enough to share, so she kept them.
Ji Han responded to his master: "Yes, Master."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the people in each village and shouted, "Except for the villagers in Fu Village, everyone else should hurry up and line up to receive your gifts."
When the villagers from each village heard that Shen Ruolan had distributed so many things to them, they all said to her excitedly, "Thank you, Chief Village Leader."
You know, the people from Fu Village are the ones who contributed the most to these preys. Most of the time, they were just running errands and doing the hard work. They didn't expect Shen Ruolan to give them so much. How could they not be grateful?
Shen Ruolan looked at them and said, "Go back and tell your boss to work hard next year. I, Shen Ruolan, will not let you down."
"Yes, Chief." The villagers responded loudly to Shen Ruolan.
After Shen Ruolan explained everything to everyone, she solemnly told the people of Nanshan Village, "Especially the people of Nanshan Village. Your village is at the outermost part. If you find any strangers entering the mountain, you must report to me immediately."
The third leader of Nanshan Village came forward and said to Shen Ruolan, "Yes, Chief Village Leader."
The third in command of Nanshan Village had been very dissatisfied with Shen Ruolan before, but after seeing the prey she had just distributed to everyone, his dissatisfaction with her changed a little. It seemed that this ugly woman was not as bad as he had imagined.
"Well, quickly get the prey and send it back quickly so that everyone can have a good new year." Shen Ruolan said.
"Yes," said the third leader of Nanshan Village, and then took the lead to lead the prey.
There were thirty-one villages in total. Excluding the five that had come to seek refuge with her before, there were still twenty-six left, and they were all divided in less than three quarters of an hour.
After distributing them to other villages, Shen Ruolan had some of them sent to the inner mountains, and the rest were all skinned by the river and their internal organs cleaned before being sent to the village.
Ji Han looked at the busy crowd and asked his master, "Master, we probably won't be able to finish the meat during the New Year. How should we store it?"
Although it is winter now, the place where they are is not very cold. If there is no better way to preserve the meat, it will probably go bad in a few days.
"It's okay. Let everyone clean the meat quickly. I will have my own way to store it later." Shen Ruolan was not at all panicked about how to store the meat. As long as there was meat, she had plenty of ways to preserve it.
"Yes," Ji Han replied.
Seeing that nothing was happening down the mountain, Shen Ruolan said something to Ji Han and turned to go up the mountain.
Two days later, after everyone's anticipation day and night, their first New Year's Eve in Nanshan finally arrived.
Early in the morning of that day, Shen Ruolan asked Ji Ning to quickly distribute the food, meat, smoked fish, and the fresh fish that everyone had caught to everyone so that they could prepare a good New Year's Eve dinner.
After feeding her two children, she went to the kitchen and started to get busy.
Normally, she could ask the cooks to do it, but today was Chinese New Year, and it was the first New Year she and her children had spent together. She wanted to make a decent meal for herself and her children. Although her two children were not able to eat yet, the sense of ritual could not be missed.
Because Ji Han and his men had brought back a lot of prey, no one was short of meat today. Shen Ruolan also indulged herself and planned to cook five or six meat dishes and two wild vegetable dishes.
He Gu and several of her companions in the kitchen helped Shen Ruolan.
The group of five or six people, after a few busy breaks, finally prepared the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening. There were a few more dishes than Shen Ruolan expected, including fried cured fish, fresh fish soup, braised tiger's hoof, braised pork, braised spareribs, meatball soup, stir-fried pheasant with chili, stir-fried rabbit with chili, stir-fried pork offal with chili, pheasant stewed with mushrooms, and the last one was stir-fried vegetables. There were eleven dishes in total, filling up the table.
In fact, the so-called braised dish is just Shen Ruolan using some special medicinal juices to adjust the color, and there is no sugar.
Shen Yinghao came in from outside and was a little surprised when he saw the two large tables of rich New Year’s Eve dinner in the main hall.