Chapter 3045 Chapter 3047【The emperor is gone】

  After returning home, he put the hatchet and basket away, and Xiang Nan took the fox to the courtyard and handed it to Wu Xiancao.

   "Hei Wa, how did you get it here?" Wu Xiancao was a little surprised when he saw it.

   "When I was mowing the grass, I saw it hiding in the hole, so I pressed it down and caught it," Xiang Nan explained.

   "Heiwa is really powerful." Wu Xiancao nodded, then took the fox, skinned it, bled it, and hung it up.

  It's winter now, it's freezing, and fox meat can be stored for a long time. She is going to stew and eat again when the New Year's Eve comes.

  In ancient times until the 1990s, it was a problem for ordinary people to eat meat.

   Poor people don’t eat meat, they may not be able to eat fine grains all year round, white flour is a good thing. You may not be able to eat a meal of white noodle dumplings during the Chinese New Year, let alone meat.

  Even raising chickens and pigs is not for eating meat, but for selling money. Even eggs are reluctant to eat, and they have to be saved and sold.

  Besides, even a rich man has no reason to eat meat every day. For example, the Bai family in Bailuyuan is already regarded as a high-class family, but they only weigh a few catties of meat to eat during the Chinese New Year.

  The family eats so many catties of meat in several bites, not to mention eating all they can in one sitting, it is not bad to be able to get some meat. So even if you get fox meat, you won't stew it right away, but freeze it first, and eat it after the New Year's Eve.

   Seeing this, Xiang Nan sighed. It seems that if he wants to solve the oily stomach, he has to find another way.

  …

  After lunch, Xiang Nan was about to carry the baskets on his back, and then go out to cut grass and firewood.

   At this moment, they heard commotion outside.

   "Patriarch, come out quickly, something has happened!" A villager rushed in and shouted.

  Bai Jiaxuan's father, Bai Bingde, heard the shout and immediately went out to meet him, asking, "What happened?"

  Bai Zhao, Wu Xiancao, Bai Xiaowen, and Bai Xiaowu also followed out curiously.

   "Something has happened, the sky is falling!" But he heard the man cry with a mournful face.

  Xiang Nan was taken aback for a moment, and then went out together to have a look, and saw all the villagers gathered at the gate of Baijia, chattering and chattering.

   Among them, the most eye-catching one is Lu Zilin.

  The braids on his head were gone, and it became neck-length short hair, which looked particularly abrupt among the braided men.

   "It's not good, the Qing Dynasty is gone, and the emperor has stepped down."

   "The emperor is gone, the emperor's food is also lost, and the braid is cut!"

   "I heard that the name of the country has been changed to the Republic of China, and the emperor has also changed his name to 'President'."

  The villagers talked in a hurry.

  As soon as Xiang Nan heard it, he knew that the 1911 Revolution broke 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 at the end of the Qing Dynasty, although the ruler was corrupt, there was only one family at any rate.

  After entering the Republic of China, the warlords fought in a melee, and the heroes rose together. After you sing, I will appear on the stage, and the banner of the king changes on the top of the city. No matter who comes to power, they will search the people first.

  All kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are countless. The life of ordinary people is even more difficult than that in the late Qing Dynasty.

  Even Bai Jiaxuan lamented that famine, plague, and bandits did not destroy Bailuyuan, but the national government’s collection of donations was never peaceful, and it was really unbearable.

  …

   Afterwards, Bai Bingde summoned everyone to discuss matters in the ancestral hall of Bailu Village.

  The ancestral hall of Bailu Village is shared by the two families of Bailu. It is said that a long time ago, Bailuyuan was still called Houjia Village. Because of frequent disasters, the patriarch proposed to change the village's surname.

  Because there is a legend about the white deer in the original place, where the white deer passed, the crops harvested abundantly, the pests all died, the sick were cured, and the disabled recovered... It can be said that good things happen everywhere.

  So the village was renamed Bailuyuan, and all the villagers were honored by Bailu. The patriarch's eldest man's surname is Bai, and his second child's surname is Lu.

  Historically, the patriarch of Bailuyuan has been surnamed Bai. This year, the patriarch of the Bai family is Bai Jiaxuan's father—Bai Bingde.

  Because the white deer share the same ancestor, they share the same ancestral hall. If there is any important matter 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 to enter the ancestral hall. In addition, those who breed animals like Bai Xing'er belong to the low class and are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. Unless there is an exception!

   Seeing that everyone went to the ancestral hall to discuss matters, Xiang Nan was not qualified to go in, and he was not interested in knowing about the ancestral hall, so he continued to chop firewood and mow 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 diversion of the Zishui River, nourishing the 100 mu of farmland on both sides of the river bank.

  It's winter now, and the river is frozen.

  Xiang Nan slapped the ice surface with one palm, fished out the crushed ice, and left a hole the size of a bowl.

   After a while, some fish came to the mouth of the cave to breathe fresh air. Xiang Nan took the opportunity to make a move, he caught one, and soon caught three big fish, which were estimated to be at least a catty.

  Xiang Nan then cut open the fish with a sickle, threw the intestines, gills, scales, etc. into the water, and then exercised his palms. Under his blazing true energy, the fish was cooked quickly.

  Xiang Nan followed suit and began to eat.

  He is growing his body now, and there is no meat in his three meals a day, and his stomach is really short of oil and water.

   Such a poor life is difficult for Xiang Nan, who is used to food and food, to bear it, so he secretly cooks for himself.

  But to be honest, the fish baked in this way is not delicious because no seasoning is used. The fishy smell is very strong, and it is not fragrant enough.

  In ancient times, fish, shrimp, crab, mussels, snails, etc. were not considered good things. Because this type of river fish has a strong fishy and earthy smell, seasoning is needed to suppress the strange smell.

  The ancient spices are valuable items, even salt is not easy to get. Therefore, fish, shrimp, crabs and the like are actually not good things for the common people.

   Fat pork, which is avoided by modern people, was a rare top grade at that time.

  …

Although these grilled fish are not seasoned and taste very fishy, ​​it is still meat after all, so it will be useful in the stomach after all, so Xiang Nan ate it all, and threw all the fishbone into the river, and there was a catastrophe Dead bodies.

  After that, he faced the cold wind and blew it for more than an hour. When the smell was almost gone and it was getting dark, he returned to the village with the baskets on his back.

  At this moment, he happened to see Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin coming out of the ancestral hall.

  Lu Zilin still has disheveled hair, with a gloomy expression on his face. Seeing his unlucky appearance, Bai Jiaxuan never stopped smiling.

   "You're still laughing like a fool, I cut this hair for you." Lu Zilin scolded.

   "I said I'll go in and pay the bill, so you have to rush there." Bai Jiaxuan laughed.

   "Wang Badan just rushed to go, you are the one who made money from me~" Lu Zilin was still indignant.

   "Jiaxuanda, Zilinda~" Xiang Nan greeted, and then followed Bai Jiaxuan back to Bai's house.

  (end of this chapter)