Chapter 80 Cured Meat

After Yunxi returned from the backyard, she heard the sound of a loudspeaker outside. She glanced at her watch and realized that everyone was going to work this afternoon.

However, considering the heavy rain these past two days, some fields may have too much water, so the ditches need to be dug up to drain the water.

After the digging is finished, we shouldn't have to work tomorrow. We need to let the excess water drain out and then let it sit in the sun for a day before we can go back to work.

I couldn't waste any more time, so I quickly picked up my basket and prepared to go up the mountain. After finishing today's tasks, I could then take care of my own business.

She also had to sneak out at night to harvest the soybeans in her private plot; she couldn't waste any time.

As I reached the door, I suddenly remembered that it had been raining heavily for the past two days, making the roads difficult to travel on, and the mountains might be difficult to climb as well.

These cloth shoes are not suitable for going up the mountain. I need to quickly find my old rain boots from Xiaoyunxi so that I won't get my pants wet.

I walked up the mountain and didn't see a single person on the way. It felt like I was the only one going up the mountain to cut pig feed.

I rushed to the pig farm, but there were only two people there who had been watching over it. Even Grandma Cheng and Grandma Huang weren't there.

I went inside and asked around and found out that they weren't collecting pig feed today. It had just rained heavily, and they were worried that if the pigs ate the collected feed, it might cause some problems.

Why don't I have this impression in my memory?

Yunxi tried hard to recall her memories and realized that her grandmother usually wouldn't let her go out after it rained.

However, she fell outside, and since her grandmother usually did some work like cutting pig feed, Yunxi didn't care much about the work she did. She would do it if she wanted to, and not do it if she didn't want to.

Since there was no need to hand in any tasks, Yunxi headed straight home to get back quickly, since she had plenty of things to do back home anyway.

Just now, while cooking, I mixed some green beans and wild vegetables with salt. When I get home, I'll put them in a jar and store them in my space after ten days or half a month, once they're ready to eat.

After returning home, Yunxi got busy. Things that should have been done a long time ago had been delayed until now because of a lack of raw materials.

We have everything we need now, so we should get things done as soon as possible, so that we don't have time to do them when school starts.

They simply packed the green beans and salted wild vegetables into a jar and placed it in the room next to the kitchen.

The room was filled with all sorts of kitchen supplies, including the pickled green beans and other salted vegetables I had made myself last time.

It took more than half an hour to fill it up. Thinking that there were still many wild vegetables in the space that hadn't been salted, I quickly took them all out and prepared them while I was at it.

Although a lot of jars will be needed, once the pickled vegetables are ready to eat after half a month, all the vegetables will be stored in the space, and the jars will be emptied.

This way, it's not too wasteful of tools, and you don't have to worry about not having enough jars.

There were so many wild vegetables in the space that had been blanched last time, and a lot of them needed to be pickled. It took more than two hours to pickle all the wild vegetables with salt.

We've used so many jars that we only have a few left empty. If we want to use them again, we'll have to wait until this batch is finished and empty the jars before continuing.

After all the wild vegetables to be pickled were prepared, Yunxi took out the strips of pork belly from her spatial storage.

After washing them once, all the pork belly was rubbed with salt and then placed in a large vat, layer by layer.

There was so much meat that needed salting that it took several hours to finally rub all the pork belly that was going to be cured into salted meat with salt.

Five large vats were filled to the brim with pork belly. This was only half of all the pork belly; Yunxi planned to smoke the rest into cured pork.

It took a lot of effort. The salt on each piece of pork belly was rubbed in very evenly, trying not to miss any part. It was really hard work.

She wanted to try both salted pork and cured pork, since they tasted different and she didn't need any meat anyway, so she decided to try both.

When you go up the mountain in a couple of days, cut down some branches from wild fruit trees, and also some fragrant branches. When they are half-dry, they are best used to smoke meat.

Besides the pork belly, there was also some very lean meat in the space. There was relatively more lean meat, and I was glad that the wild boars I hunted were of a decent weight, otherwise there would have been even less pork belly.

Then there are the half-grown pigs. They probably ate well on the mountain, so although they weren't very big, they had quite a lot of fat on them.

There's quite a lot of lard piled up in the space. It seems I'll have to find a chance to render it all into oil. But since it's a bit too smelly to do this kind of work at home, it's not really suitable.

I also wanted to go up the mountain to catch some pheasants and rabbits to give to my eldest uncle, fourth uncle, seventh uncle, and ninth uncle.

After all, they did something really big for me. Even though they didn't want me to know, I couldn't just pretend I knew nothing.

As a demon, she doesn't understand human relationships. When it comes to things that aren't humane, she knows that if you do something for her, she can't let you suffer a loss, otherwise no one will help her next time.

While catching pheasants and rabbits in the mountains, I also found a relatively secluded place and rendered all the lard in my space.

As darkness fell, he put the five vats of meat into his spatial storage and went to the left wing. The left wing was completely empty, which was just the right amount of space to put the large vats inside.

After checking the entire room to make sure there were no rat holes or other places where animals could enter, the five large tanks in the space were released.

In other words, there is no flow of time in this space, and anything placed inside will remain still. Otherwise, she would prefer to leave it in the space.

The rats here are ridiculously large. Whether it was when there was only one peach tree in Yunxi or now that there are fewer people around, the rats we encounter are all exceptionally large and terrifying.

After making sure all the doors and windows were tightly closed and checking them several times to make sure nothing that shouldn't be there got in, I left satisfied.