Save the Bachelor of Heaven

After returning home, he put away the hatchet and 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 a hole. I pressed it down and then caught it." Xiang Nan explained.

"Hei Wa is so awesome." Wu Xiancao nodded, then took the fox over, skinned it, bled it and hung it up.

It's winter now, it's freezing cold, and fox meat can be stored for a long time. She planned to stew it again during the New Year's Day.

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

Not to mention eating meat, poor people may not be able to eat fine grains all year round, and 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 that they can eat it all at once. It’s 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.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan sighed. It seemed that he had to find another way to solve the problem in his stomach.

…

After lunch, Xiang Nan was preparing to put the basket on his back and go out to cut grass and chop firewood.

At this moment, I heard the commotion outside.

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

When Bai Jiaxuan's father, Bai Bingde, heard the shouting, he immediately went out and asked, "What happened?"

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

"Something serious has happened, the sky is falling!" He heard the man shouting with a sad face.

Xiang Nan was startled for a moment, then went out to take a look and saw all the villagers gathered in front of Baijiajia, chattering all over the place.

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 stand out among all the men with braids.

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

"The emperor is gone, the emperor's food is lost, and his braids are cut off!"

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

The villagers talked a lot.

When 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 all the heroes came 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 recruitment and collection of donations made it impossible to survive.

…

Later, 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 spreads in the original land, wherever the White Deer passes, crops will be harvested, pests will die, patients will be cured, and disabilities will be restored... It can be said that good things happen 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 held by the surname Bai. This term, the patriarch of the Bai family is Bai Jiaxuan's father, Bai Bingde.

Because Bailu has 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 come 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 had gone 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 cut 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's winter now, and the river has frozen.

Xiang Nan cracked the ice with his 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 then used a sickle to cut open the fish, and threw the intestines, gills, scales, etc. into the water. Then he used his palms to do his exercises. Under his blazing Qi, the fish was quickly cooked.

Xiang Nan followed and started eating.

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 hard to come by. Therefore, fish, shrimp, crab and the like are not actually good things to the common people.

On the other hand, the fatty pork that modern people avoid is a rare and top-notch product at that time.

…

Although there was no seasoning on these grilled fish and it tasted very fishy, ​​it was still meat after all, and it 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.

Then, 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 the basket.

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 my hair for you." Lu Zilin scolded.

"I said I would go in and pay the bill, but why do you have to rush there?" Bai Jiaxuan said with a smile.

"The bastard rushed to go there, you are 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.