"Where did so many chickens come from?" Hu Qing didn't understand.
"Mom, didn't I just say that? The tiger cub was caught in the back mountain." Hu Jiao was not so surprised because she had seen more.
"That's why I said I would also go to the mountains to look for them. Since there are more chickens on the mountains, I don't believe that only the tiger's cubs can be caught."
"Okay, then you go to the mountains tomorrow and take a look. Take your sister-in-law with you." Hu Qing also calmed down.
She was planning that since there was a stalemate, she would temporarily let Hu Jiao stay at home for two days. No matter whether she could catch the chicken or not, she would have to go back after two days. After all, the business could not be delayed.
"Besides catching the chicken, has there been any other news in the Hu family in the past two days?" Hu Qing asked.
"No, everything is the same as before." Before Hu Qing showed disappointment, Hu Jiao quickly added:
"But, I brought something good back, mother, let me show it to you." As she said that, she took out a small package from the animal skin skirt she brought back.
The package is not big, but it is packed tightly.
"What? So mysterious?" Hu Qing immediately became interested.
Hu Jiao opened the stacked animal skins, revealing a handful of snow-white and delicate things.
"This is?..." Hu Qing didn't dare to recognize it.
"You'll know after you try it." Hu Jiao dipped a little on her finger and brought it to Hu Qing's mouth.
Fox Qing stuck out her tongue and licked it, then jumped up: "Is it fine salt?"
"Yes!" Hujiao wrapped the fine salt again.
"The salt mud is so unpalatable. The Hu family already eats fine salt. I took it out secretly while they were not paying attention."
"When did you hide it? Aren't you afraid that Mrs. Hu will scold you if you bring out so much?" Hu Qing took the animal skin filled with fine salt.
"They can't find it. The Hu family has a lot of this kind of fine salt." Hu Jiao said nonchalantly.
"How many? How many?" Hu Qing asked.
Hu Jiao thought for a while, then gestured with her hand to a height of about half a meter, and said, "What I saw was a stone jar about this high, with half the jar inside."
Hu Qing's heart skipped a beat, as if she suddenly saw light in the darkness.
This incident made Hu Qing more excited than the more than forty chickens caught by the Hu family.
If the chicken can run in from the outside, what about the fine salt?
Fine salt has no legs and will not walk in on its own.
The tribe has not gone out to replace salt for many years after Huxiao's accident. Even if some orcs may still keep a little fine salt in their homes, there is definitely no such thing as Hu Jiao said.
Then, the most important question comes: Where does the salt of Hujia come from?
"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing earlier? The last time I came back to ask you, you still pretended not to know anything." Hu Qing scolded her daughter, but there was excitement in her tone that could not be concealed.
"Is this...is this a big deal?" Hu Jiao was also dumbfounded, "I asked Hu Lao Er, and he said that this salt was left behind by Hu Xiao. Although I think they are hiding something from me, but there is fine salt
It’s not a big deal, right?”
"Having fine salt is not a big deal, but having so much fine salt is a big deal!" Hu Qing nodded her daughter's head, hoping she would be smarter.
"As far as I know, even the patriarch's house doesn't have so much fine salt now. Are you sure you read that right?"
"How could I get it wrong? I went in and saw it twice!"
Although Hu Jiao went in secretly every time for fear of being discovered, there should be nothing else in the tank.
"My dear daughter, you did not run away in vain this time, but you have brought great good news to our family. When your brother comes back later, I have to ask him to tell the clan leader about this matter."
Hu Qing held her chest, feeling that a big stone weighing on her heart finally fell to the ground.
"That Hu Zhenzhen has been pretending for so many years, but finally I got the hang of it, huh! Since she doesn't like our Hu family, then I'll let her look good!"
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In the evening, in order to reward the fox girl, Mrs. Hu specially cut off a leg of the red-footed beast and gave it to her to eat.
This is what Langlu just gave me today.
There is a saying that since Lang Ru arranged the task of monitoring the Hu family, the treatment of the Hu family has indeed skyrocketed.
"The meat on the legs of the red-footed beast is the most tender, eat it quickly!" Hu Qing urged Hu Jiao.
It wasn't that she felt sorry for her daughter, it was just that Hu Guoguo and Hu Di were both staring at the leg meat in Hu Jiao's bowl. She was afraid that if Hu Jiao didn't eat it quickly, the two girls would grab it.
This is a piece of raw leg meat.
After the failure of the barbecue last time, Hu Qing simply didn't bother this time and just peeled off the animal skin and ate the raw meat.
Hujiao took a few bites, but the bloody raw meat was hard for her to swallow.
Hu Guoguo looked at the meat in her bowl and asked sourly: "How is it? Is it delicious? Is Hu's chicken delicious?"
Hu Jiao swallowed the meat in her mouth, thought about it, and said honestly: "No, I think chicken is more tender."
Hu Guoguo was waiting for this sentence. As soon as Hu Jiao finished speaking, she slapped Hu Di on the shoulder and said angrily: "Did you hear that your aunt doesn't even think the best leg meat tastes good, and so do we?"
Without that luck, I have never tasted chicken until now."
Hu Di understood it and said to Hu Jiao: "Auntie, if you don't think it tastes good, just give me this piece of leg meat. I think it tastes good."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand to grab the leg meat from Hu Jiao's bowl.
"Eat, eat, eat. Your aunt is a guest when she comes back. Do you know how to be polite?" Hu Qing stopped her.
"Mom, isn't Jiaojiao Xiaodi's aunt? We are all part of the same family, why are you so polite? You think so, Jiaojiao." Hu Guoguo said to Hujiao.
Hu Jiao knew that this eldest sister-in-law was the most difficult to deal with, but her eldest brother was in poor health, and the Hu family was afraid that he would never have a partner after being abandoned by Hu Guoguo. Therefore, my mother had such a strong temper, and she usually gave in to her eldest sister-in-law.
"If Xiao Di likes it, just give it to Xiao Di. I'll just chew a bone." Hu Jiao took the initiative to pour the meat in the bowl into Hu Di's bowl.
Hu Di was not polite, he grabbed the meat and ate it in large pieces.
Hu Qing was just showing off. She cared more about her grandson than her daughter. Now that Hu Jiao took the initiative to give in, she stopped caring about it.
"Eat slowly." Hu Jiao was still concerned about Hu Di, "If your mother and I go to the mountain to catch chicken tomorrow, you can eat chicken."
"By the way, Mom, didn't you say last time that the animal skins you covered yourself with while sleeping were all cracked? My sister happens to be at home, so I'll ask her to patch it up for you tomorrow." Hu Guoguo quickly interrupted.
"But I have to go to the mountains tomorrow..." Hu Jiao explained.
"Oh, yes, you have to go to the mountains tomorrow, so I'll mend the hide at home, and I won't go with my sister."
After going around in a circle, Hu Jiao finally understood what Hu Guoguo meant. It turned out that she just didn't want to go to the mountain.
"It doesn't matter, I can just go by myself. My sister-in-law rarely climbs mountains, so she probably won't be able to walk too far."
As the saying goes, things turn around, Hu Jiao never expected that she was the laziest one in the Hu family, but when she returned to her own home, she became the most capable one. This chapter has been completed!
