Such a big rhino is really like a mountain by the river, this is a problem.
For Lin Shuo and his group of foodies, this is not only the sin of poaching, but also the joy of harvest.
This kind of taboo pleasure is the most exciting.
So the few foodies present here are the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, each showing their magical powers.
Breaking down pieces of meat was Zhang Jin's job.
This time you can't use a small knife, and go straight to the Tang knife.
The young man cut and chopped, that is with ease.
Obviously it is very cruel to disassemble the body parts. This kid moves fast and slow, and occasionally stops to think about the knife path.
Lin Shuo stared at it for a long time, thinking that if the strange creatures became extinct in the future, this kid could go to the vegetable market to sell beef and play a hand at disassembling them on the spot.
Whether the beef is good or not is second to none. This boy will not die of starvation just because of his knife skills.
The rhinoceros meat was broken down by Zhang Jin, and Lin Shuo picked four big pieces of fat and thin tendon meat, and began to roast them on the campfire.
These four pieces of leg meat add up to more than one hundred catties. Lin Shuo sprinkled a lot of secret seasoning on it, and it was everyone's dinner today.
While Lin Shuo was grilling meat, Zhang Jin didn't stay idle either.
The boy pulled some charcoal from the bottom of the campfire, and at the same time lit a fire beside the camp.
Then he cut off a few large slices of rhinoceros meat as thin as a cicada's wing, and took them to show off to Wei Xingshan for a long time, and Old Wei finally understood his intention.
The two of them worked together, collected local materials, took branches, bamboo poles and vines, tied them together, and made several sets of wooden frames, which looked similar to horizontal bars.
Under the wooden shelf, put a charcoal fire, and the rhinoceros meat is sliced thinly, and a large piece is put on the air.
After drying, no other seasoning is needed, just a layer of salt is applied to adjust the base flavor, and the rest is left alone.
As long as the charcoal fire continues at the bottom, the heat of the night is forced up, and Zhang Jindao's meat slices are very thin, and the meat will become jerky the next day.
This is the dry food for everyone.
This job looks not difficult, but the rhino is too big and has too much meat.
There is only one night of drying time, and the meat must be cut extremely thin, and there is no room for a few slices of meat to dry on a set of racks.
As a result, Zhang Jin and Wei Xingshan's toss, Anne was forced to cancel the "painting prison".
Wei Xingshan built the wooden frame all night, and never stopped. The wooden frame and charcoal fire were spread out halfway up the mountainside, and the scope has greatly exceeded Anne's "painting prison".
Anne felt that if the "painting prison" was not withdrawn, this group of old men had such a good time, who might be hurt.
After nightfall, this mountain is seen from a distance as a glowing red charcoal fire. This mountain is so smoky that it has become a production base for jerky.
And the river at the foot of the mountain is really a river of blood.
From this movement, Lin Shuo knew that no animals would approach this place tonight.
But it doesn't matter if it's a day late, after all, this rhino has completely solved the problem of food for this trip according to Zhang Jin and Wei Xingshan's tossing method.
In the future, Lin Shuo or Zhang Jin would no longer need to go hunting, so they could be regarded as sharpening their knives and not mistakenly chopping firewood.
After everyone finished eating Lin Shuo's barbecue, and wiped off the oil in their mouths, Wei Xingshan and Zhang Jin continued their business of making jerky.
Cao Yusheng looked at Lin Shuo and Anne who were idle, then at the leftovers of the rhinoceros, and the river beside him, and waved to Anne: "Come, uncle will teach you a dish."
Cao Yusheng is Miao Guangqi's sworn brother, and Anne is Miao Guangqi's adopted daughter. Logically speaking, Cao Yusheng is Anne's uncle.
Claiming to be "uncle", it is actually Lin Shuo's family relationship, which means that Anne is the daughter-in-law of the Lin family by default.
Anne was a little shy about Cao Yusheng's intentional or unintentional matching before, but now she has gradually gotten used to it.
She nodded generously, and responded: "Please tell me."
Cao Yusheng pointed to the rhino's head: "Bring this rhino's head here."
Right now, the flesh of this rhino has been stripped clean by Zhang Jin, leaving only a pile of white bones.
The rhinoceros went into the water, that is, the internal organs, all of which were thrown away.
Only the rhinoceros head was cut off and put aside. It was about the size of a coffee table and weighed about a hundred catties.
Ordinary women really can't handle it, but Anne is not an ordinary woman, she was dragged here easily, and placed in front of Cao Yusheng and Lin Shuo.
Cao Yusheng looked at the size of the rhino's head, then at the pot he brought this time, and stretched his hand towards Lin Shuo: "Knife."
Lin Shuo patted Ji Kuo, who was chasing his master, and took out another Tang knife from the Zhang family, and handed it out to himself.
Cao Yusheng took the Tang saber, made a gesture on the rhino's head, then bent down, and dug out the rhino's horn with the blade.
This rhinoceros horn is very big, more than a foot long. Cao Yusheng weighed the weight and handed the horn to Lin Shuo: "Since it's already like this, don't waste this horn. You can use this to make a dagger. Read it here." Autumn self-defense is still very good."
The corners of Lin Shuo's mouth twitched, thinking that Uncle Cao had really broken his heart, and he had arranged all the tokens of love for him.
Lin Shuo took the rhinoceros horn and felt that it was quite heavy, weighing about ten catties.
He squatted down, washed it in the river water, and shaved off the minced meat at the bottom with the dagger he carried with him.
The size of this thing was too big to fit in the waist pack, and the backpack was halfway up the mountain, so Lin Shuo simply drilled a hole at the root of the rhino horn, and hung it on Mr. Zhui with a string of straw rope he twisted casually.
When Lin Shuo finished his work, he turned around and saw that Cao Yusheng had roasted the whole rhinoceros head on the bonfire.
The smell of burnt protein is very unpleasant.
When the whole rhinoceros head was charred black, Cao Yusheng dragged the rhinoceros head to the ground and scraped off the scorched skin with a knife.
This job requires patience, and Patriarch Cao spent more than half an hour back and forth before he could shave it clean.
The rhinoceros head after shaving is white with yellow as a whole, the white is the collagen on the epidermis, and the yellow is the burn marks.
Then Cao Yusheng took up the knife and chopped the rhinoceros head into two pieces, took one of them and changed it into a knife, and then threw it into the pot.
The pot that everyone brought this time was purchased locally by Wei Xingshan. He knew that this trip was a group of foodies, so it was a big pot.
But the head of this rhinoceros is even bigger, even if it is only half of it, it will be a piece higher when thrown into the pot, and the water in the pot will not overflow.
Cao Yusheng took out several bottles and cans from the wooden box he was carrying.
Every time he took out a small bottle, he would unplug it and let Anne come and smell it.
"Can you tell what seasoning these are?" Cao Yusheng asked.
"Yeah." Anne nodded.
"Seasoning itself is not a rare thing, the key is the quantity and proportion. Whether the stewed soup is good or not is only a few cents." Cao Yusheng said, "My recipe was from the imperial dining room of the former Qing Dynasty, and it has been lost outside. up.
In order to get this prescription, I threw down 30 to 40 million back and forth, and the face and favor are countless.
Originally, he wanted to pass it on to Cao Mian, but this kid fell in love with a foreign girl, and it might not be good for their family to have dinner in the future.
So, I can only take advantage of you girl. "
While talking, Cao Yusheng took out a small scale from the wooden box. The small weight on the scale was only as big as the tip of a little finger.
"Girl, I'm going to weigh these seasonings, and you have to remember the proportions." After saying this, Cao Yusheng glanced at Lin Shuo, "I know you have a good nose, and the seasonings can't be hidden from you, but I passed this recipe on to my nephew and daughter-in-law, not you, so turn your back and don't peep."
Lin Shuo smiled and changed his sitting position.
"Lin Shuo." Cao Yusheng said again, "Although I'm teaching Nianqiu this dish, you will be the one who will enjoy it later. Don't just sit around, go get me a wooden barrel."
"How old is it?" Lin Shuo asked.
"If it can hold the meat, make another platen, which is a little smaller than the barrel."
"Okay." Lin Shuo agreed, took Tang Dao and got up to work.
Hooping a bucket is an old craft, and it is hard to see now.
The wooden barrels that are hooped out, in order to be durable, it is reasonable to use iron hoops.
The three iron hoops are encircled, and the wooden boards are inserted one by one until a circle is filled, and they bite each other. The key is not to leak.
But now, Lin Shuo knew that the wooden barrel Cao Yusheng wanted was temporary, and there was nowhere to get iron hoops in the wilderness, so he twisted three straw ropes instead.
Collecting local materials, cutting wood and cutting boards, this kind of work was taught by the old man back then, and it was no problem for Lin Shuo.
Although the tool is not very handy, a Tang knife can do it.
I have been busy for more than an hour, and it is already dark at this moment, and the eyes are not very effective, mainly relying on the feeling in the hands.
After the wooden barrel was finished, Lin Shuo tried it by the river, and it was okay without leaking.
When he came to Cao Yusheng with the wooden barrel, Cao Yusheng was turning the half rhinoceros head by the pot.
The aroma of marinade is the most attractive.
At this time, the smell emanating from the pot made Lin Shuo hungry again.
"This dish is called 'Xiaoche Beef'. Of course, the conditions are poor now, and a lot of steps are saved." Cao Yusheng said while turning the rhinoceros head, "We have to wait until the half of the ox's head is stewed, and put the meat on it. Pull the meat off, put it in a wooden barrel and press it on a platen, and freeze it overnight in the river water.
On the second day, the meat and jelly will become a whole piece, and then cut off into pieces with a knife, sprinkled with seasonings, or mixed with a plate for dipping water.
Hey, this taste is not to mention how beautiful it is.
All right, I'm busy here, you should go to sleep. "
"Patriarch Cao, let me keep an eye on it. You are not in good health, go and rest first." Anne said at this time.
"Why do you still call me Patriarch Cao?" Cao Yusheng rolled his eyes.
"Uncle." Anne called softly.
"That's right, all right, just keep an eye on it."
…
This night, Lin Shuo was not on duty.
Because apart from him and Cao Yusheng, the others were busy with their own business, and they were so busy that they didn't sleep at all.
And look at the movement up and down the mountain, not to mention the smoke and fire on the mountain, half a rhinoceros head gurgling in an iron pot at the bottom of the mountain, and the bonfire burning red for a long time, the wild beasts must not dare to approach.
The only thing to guard against is people.
But if it is to defend against people, Zhang Jin, Wei Xingshan, and Anne are enough.
So Lin Shuo slept by the river this time, and slept soundly.
When I opened my eyes again, it was already dawn.
For breakfast, Anne has been busy all night with the "little car rhinoceros head".
The jelly and meat solidification were sliced into thin slices, and placed on the bluestone in front of Lin Shuo, covered with emerald green leaves.
The rhinoceros meat has clear lines, while the jelly has an amber color and is crystal clear in the sun.
As soon as Lin Shuo picked it up and put it in his mouth, he woke up completely. While licking his fingers, he showed his thumb up to Anne, said "hmm" repeatedly, and nodded his head like a chicken smashing rice.
Anne smiled.
This woman showed her face and smiled, she was really charming.
"Zhang Jin and Wei Xingshan have been busy all night, and now they just fell asleep. When they wake up, this jelly will melt, so there is no need to keep it for them." Anne said softly, "Eat more."
"Where's Uncle Cao?" Lin Shuo looked around.
"I'm still asleep on it, I'll keep his share for him."
"Yeah!" Lin Shuo nodded, picked up a piece of meat and handed it to Anne, "Thank you for your hard work, you eat too."
Anne gave Lin Shuo a coquettish look, and instead of taking it with her hands, she lowered her head and covered the piece of meat with her mouth.
The tip of the woman's tongue wiped Lin Shuo's finger, then she raised her head and ate the meat into her mouth.
This behavior should be the woman's whim, but the ambiguous effect brought about made her feel unbearable.
She turned her head away, not daring to look at Lin Shuo.
Lin Shuo was also stunned for a while, then his nose twitched and his face became serious:
"somebody is coming."