Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 415 Come and see what good stuff we caught

Shen Yu calculated that if she continued like this, she would definitely not have to pay for her own food expenses, and she might even have some savings every day.

Seven or eight days passed like this, and Shen Yu was thinking of ways to prepare three meals a day at the construction site.

Noodle soup, fried cakes, buns, steamed buns, salty, sweet, all delicious and large in quantity, cooked in turn. Tofu and eggs are also available every day.

The laborers were so happy with the meal that they worked very hard. The section of river embankment, which was originally planned to be repaired in ten days, was completed four days ahead of schedule.

Lu Lang comes to inspect every morning, and if he is not busy in the evening, he will come again and take Shen Yu and Qixi back to the restaurant.

After this section of repair was completed, he invited Master Qian and Master Zhu to come and check it out. It was surprisingly solid and smooth, better than the repairs in previous years.

As the canal repair work progressed, Shen Yu's construction site kitchen had been moved to a guard house ahead of the river section, which was also closer to the restaurant.

That day, Shen Yu prepared lunch and took some time to summarize the accounts of the past few days.

He found that he had about two thousand coins left over from selling firewood to supplement his food expenses and the money he earned from selling firewood.

Shen Yu knew that the daily food expenses did not exceed the limit, but he only vaguely knew that one person could save a few cents, and he had never calculated it carefully.

I didn't expect that when I counted the money today, I would find that little by little it adds up to a lot, and I have saved up so much.

Shen Yu ate the communal meals for seven or eight days. Every night when she returned home, Li and Jiang would cook her favorite dishes in different ways to encourage her to eat more.

Although Shen Yu ate more than usual, she had to rest after dinner, and she didn't dare to eat until she was 100% full, for fear of indigestion and getting sick.

I always eat vegetarian food for breakfast and lunch these days, and I can't help but feel a little greedy.

She looked at the remaining money in the account, and calculated that the two thousand coins would be enough for everyone to have a meat meal together.

With this idea in mind, I started thinking about what dish to cook tomorrow so that everyone can have a good meat meal together.

The next morning, when Shen Yu and her friends arrived at the construction site, they saw Wang Dazhuang and a few others approaching them cheerfully. They held up the things in their hands and showed them to Shen Yu: "Miss Shen, you are here. Come and see what good stuff we have caught."

Taking a look in the morning light, I saw that several people were holding three fat gray hares. They had probably been knocked unconscious, and were being held in their hands, motionless.

Wang Dazhuang said happily: "We came here in the morning to divide the firewood and then went to work on the embankment."

"We were just clearing the weeds when a big rabbit suddenly jumped out. We couldn't let go of such a delicious food, so we went to chase it."

"I didn't expect that there was a rabbit nest on the bank. With so many brothers, we were able to let them run away. We caught three of them at once."

"Girl, let's have rabbit meat for lunch." After Wang Dazhuang said this, he looked at Shen Yu with bright eyes, full of anticipation.

Before Shen Yu could say anything, Liushun and Qixi were already grinning with joy from ear to ear.

He took the big rabbit from the hands of several people and said, "Do you need me to tell you, brothers, you have worked hard. We will give you this rabbit. I guarantee that we will have meat for lunch today."

Shen Yu also smiled and nodded, saying, "It's too late in the morning, so let's have stewed radish and rabbit meat for lunch today."

Wang Dazhuang thanked them, and several people were as happy as children, laughing and playing all the way, and then hurried back to work.

After the others left, Shen Yu smiled and said, "This is really a coincidence. Yesterday I calculated the money I earned from selling firewood these days."

"I was planning to buy some meat to make a meat dish for everyone when I was shopping for ingredients today. Today, I found a rabbit nest on the construction site. This really saves money and satisfies everyone's cravings."

Qixi smiled and said, "Yes, I've been eating it on the construction site every day these days, and I'm getting greedy."

"This rabbit is a good thing. Not only can we eat the rabbit meat, but we can also sell the rabbit skin for some money."

"We will be careful when we skin the rabbit later. When we go shopping for food, we can sell the rabbit skin to a fur merchant."

This sentence reminded Shen Yu. She looked at the hare in the two people's hands and found that its fur was indeed thick, dense and dense.

Although Shen Yu didn't understand these, he knew that fur was a good thing to keep warm in ancient times, so he nodded and said, "That's not bad, the money from the sale of fur will be recorded in the account.

The three of them then went into the house to prepare breakfast.

After the servants had finished their breakfast and cleared away the dishes, Shen Yu began to knead the dough according to the agreed division of labor.

Liushun and Qixi went to the canal to clean up the three rabbits, and carried them back to the guardhouse in a basin.

Qixi took a knife and chopped the rabbit meat, whose head and claws had been removed, into pieces.

Liu Shun had already poured a large basin of clean water and was waiting there, so he rinsed the chopped rabbit meat again with the clear water.

Just as Shen Yu said, I filled the basin with clean water and let the rabbit meat soak for a while to soak out the blood and remove the fishy smell of the rabbit meat.

After finishing all this, Shen Yu also kneaded the dough to be used for lunch today, placed it in a bowl, covered it with a wet towel and kept it awake.

The three of them prepared lunch and then drove the mule cart to sell firewood.

After unloading the firewood from the car, collecting the silver and money, Shen Yu and the other two wrote a list of the quantity of firewood ordered by the ladies and gave it to Zhou Dalang. Then they headed straight for a fur shop in the east of the city.

When they arrived at the fur shop, Liushun and Qixi went to sell the furs, while Shen Yu took advantage of this opportunity to buy some condiments such as bean paste and sweet soy sauce.

The fur of wild rabbits in winter is thick and dense, and three skins were easily exchanged for two hundred and forty silver coins in the fur shop.

After the three of them reunited, Shen Yu learned the selling price and said thoughtfully, "I didn't expect the hare skin to be so expensive."

"If they could regularly hunt a few hares, they would earn much more money than they would from chopping wood, and they would also have meat to eat."

Qi Xi waved his hands with a smile: "That's impossible. Rabbits rarely come out in winter, so it's hard to catch them."

"Even if we can really catch them, if we often find rabbit nests on the embankment, my master and young master will be worried."

Shen Yu thought about it and it was true. It would be too unsafe if the embankment was full of holes made by rabbits.

She couldn't help but smile a little embarrassedly: "Qi Xi is right, I just thought it was too simple."

"But the canal repair work is being carried out along the river bank. Can we find some way to catch some fish along the river?"

"Not only can we eat it ourselves, but in winter, fish are sold in small quantities, and if we sell it, it will be very expensive."

"Uncle Wei, who often delivers fish to restaurants, hasn't been selling fish at his stall these days."

When this was mentioned, the three landlubbers all looked at each other in amazement, none of them had any experience.