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Chapter 791 Brown Bread

Chapter 791 Brown Bread

Lu Lu wrapped the remaining rubles in a piece of oilcloth and put them in a hunting bag to be divided when he returned.

While hunting, I got a lot of meat, such as venison and bear meat, and all of them were brought to Ashku's house.

His preservation method followed the Oroqen people's method, part of it was buried in the snow, and the other part was smoked. This was done by his wife.

A fire was built outside the fence, covered with pine branches and other branches and leaves, creating billowing smoke and smoking the hanging strips of meat above.

In the mountains, with a simple hanging pot, all they could eat was some boiled meat or barbecue, plus the millet they brought.

If you eat these things for a long time, you will start to feel dull.

Especially meat, I am afraid of eating it.

Therefore, in the evening, Ashku took matters into his own hands and prepared dinner for Lu Lu and others.

The food is simple, just a meatball made of crumbed bread and venison, mashed potatoes mixed with milk, sugar water flavored with cooked dried fruits, and a salty soup made of sausage and pickled cucumbers.

Lu Lu couldn't name these things. The only thing he could recognize was a mixture of chopped dried fruits, vegetables, and sugar water. It should be called a salad.

After all, after living here for many years, the Ashku family's diet has been assimilated a lot by Maozi.

The things were brought to the table, and Ashku said apologetically: "I'm not very good at cooking, so I can only follow what's in the cafeteria. In recent years, these are the main things that can be eaten in the cafeteria. But don't worry, I have used the best materials at home, not as bad as those in the canteen.

There are no restaurants here like those in the wilderness. Any place called canteens, cafes, restaurants and other places where you can eat are state-owned.

Take this meatball for example. The workers in the cafeteria don't put any meat in it. It's mainly made of some fat meat mixed with crumbled bread.

For mashed potatoes, their recipe requires milk, but generally, a little bit of milk is added and a lot of water is added.

And this one, they call it a salad, which uses some trimmings and a few types of processed vegetables.And the last mixed soup, originally made with cream, but in the cafeteria, you can only eat it with yogurt instead. "

Lu Lu understood the planned economy, but the things that were supposed to be genuine were all fake.

"But it's also cheap. You can buy one for only half a ruble, and a month's lunch only costs more than ten rubles." Ashku added.

"More than ten rubles, is this still cheap?" Zhang Shaofeng remembered that Lu Lu said that one ruble can be exchanged for six or seven yuan. If it were exchanged in Dahuang, more than ten rubles would be six or seventy yuan, which is equivalent to a month's salary. Not enough to eat.

"The workers' wages are between one hundred and fifty to three hundred rubles per month!" Ashku said with a smile, "It is indeed cheap."

"No wonder... Mao Zi is so rich!" Liang Kangbo also sighed.

I have to say that Maozi's economic conditions at this time were indeed quite good.

While they were talking, Ashku's wife brought another piece of pasta (macaroni) to several people. Ashku pointed at the pasta and said: "This is today's staple food. It was first served on a naval ship. Made with chopped lunch meat and pasta, it was later introduced to cafeterias.

The canteen workers are particularly fond of this thing because they have ample opportunity to add strange meats, soft bones, and other undesirable items to it... There is no good food in the canteen. "

Zhang Shaofeng and others have never seen these things at all. Anyway, the food is on the table. Even if it is made by Ashku himself, it doesn't look good to the senses. The key point is that these yellow, yellow, white, green, red and red things It's still sticky and uncomfortable to look at. You can imagine how bad it is when it comes out of the cafeteria.

But no matter what, it can be regarded as a change of taste. If you can eat it, it is good. There is nothing to be picky about.

The place where I live is colder, and Maozi likes high-heat food. This is milk, cream, sugar water, and pickled cucumbers. It is really a mixture of sweet, salty, and sour. The taste is quite weird, and several people are not used to it. .

But on these things, Ashku has done his best.

After barely filling their stomachs, Liang Kangbo and Zhang Shaofeng ran outside frequently. When they came back, they said they had acid reflux and felt uncomfortable.

Lu Lu just smiled and suddenly felt that the meat, millet porridge, barbecue and other things smelled delicious.

Unfortunately, Xiaomi is gone.

"Can you help me buy some food tomorrow?" After chatting after dinner, Lu Lu talked about his needs.

"Okay... I will ask Anba to go to Tenda to buy it for you tomorrow, but..."

Ashku hesitated.

"What's wrong?"

"You can only buy some black bread, wheat or buckwheat!"

"Just buy some wheat and buckwheat!"

Lu Lu said quickly: "I really can't afford this black bread..."

"Black bread... isn't expensive!" Ashku was a little surprised.

"Bread...you should be able to buy some!" Raymond asked, "Is it pastry?"

Lu Lu smiled and said: "I have no idea about black bread at all. Don't think that the word "bread" means it is a good thing. I have eaten this myself and know about black bread... I really don't dare. Compliment!"

Seeing Lu Lu like this, Zhang Shaofeng also became curious: "What's wrong?"

Here at Lao Maozi, the number one staple food is brown bread.This kind of bread is officially called whole wheat bread or bran bread.

As you can tell from the name, it is not the white bread made from refined flour as in the impression.

Although this kind of bread also uses flour, it uses rye flour, and during the making process, some leftover leftovers from flour manufacturing—such as bran and the like—are added.

White bread is only eaten by rich people, and poor people can eat some black bread to satisfy their hunger.

The taste of brown bread is a little sour and salty, but it smells a little rosy - this is because pine wood chips are added to it when baking.

It is a very popular thing, but the production process is very complicated. It takes at least two days just to make the dough, and then it takes a lot of time to bake.

The bread made is extremely hard, and the bottom of the bread can make a banging sound.If a piece of equally hard baguette is inserted into this black bread, it can be used as a war hammer. It is said that in the Middle Ages, countless thieves were beaten to death by bread.

Of course, this does not mean that black bread is not a good thing. On the contrary, in Maozi, it is already a very good food. For most families, black bread is indispensable for every meal.

This also became military ration for a time. On the battlefield, 750 grams of black bread per day was the soldiers' daily ration.

Because they are too hard, it is not easy to cut them. Some soldiers with poor teeth even have to hold them in their mouths for a while, and then they can chew and swallow them after the saliva softens them.

It's not delicious in terms of taste. It contains a lot of wood chips, rice husks and the like, and it doesn't taste as good as raw bread, but it's especially important on the battlefield when you're hungry.

I thought it would be great just for eating. These brick-like things even have some mineral powder added during the production process.

Therefore, in terms of strength, it is really not inferior to bricks, especially after being frozen in winter.

Lu Lu heard what someone said when he was fighting with Mao Zi in his last life.

There have been instances where black bread stopped bullets on the battlefield.

Not only that, during close combat, it was also used by soldiers as bricks. After beating them, if they suddenly took out black bread from their arms, they could beat them to the point of dizziness. It was an existence that could really beat people to death. .

Furthermore, there were cases where black bread was piled up and used as a bunker.

It is estimated that there is no other food in the world that can achieve this level.

"...I can only stay away from such a powerful thing. I'm afraid that my teeth will break when I eat it..." Lu Lu shook his head when he talked about this thing.

"seriously?"

Hearing what Lu Lu said was so mysterious, Zhang Shaofeng and others suddenly became more interested.

At the moment, the ones who have the most say are naturally Ashku and Anba.

So several people turned to look at the two father and son, looking for confirmation.

"It's really hard!" Ashku nodded.

Anba was more direct and went to the house to get two pieces of black bread.

Several people passed it around in their hands for a long time, breaking it and biting it. In the end, they had to be convinced by the frozen "brick".I started to believe what Lu Lu said.

They all shook their heads and said no. This is better than the steamed buns made at home that can crack open pecans.

Lu Lu looked at the few people and smiled slightly: "This thing is actually similar to Harbin's Daliba. There is nothing strange about it. It's just that when the Daliba was made, there weren't so many messy things mixed into it. .”

Dalieba is Harbin's round bread. This thing was passed down from Lao Maozi. In later generations, it became a specialty in Harbin. It weighs five kilograms and has a traditional European flavor.

The bread is like a pot lid, which refers to Daliba.

This bread is very thick and heavy in the hand, so I usually bring this specialty product from Harbin as a gift to others. However, friendship is more important than courtesy, which is true.

Maozi has a vast land and rich resources, and its level of development these days is no less than that of Damei. However, in the area of ​​light industry, it is really useless. When Maozi was disintegrated, there were still a large number of civilians fighting for black bread. With money, they may not be able to Can be bought.

It is not surprising that cans are exchanged for airplanes, and a car of sugar is exchanged for a tank.

In comparison, wheat and buckwheat are both good things. They can be cooked into rice or porridge just like rice. They are truly good things.

The next day, they continued to rest at Ashku's house. As for shopping, they left it to Anba and his mother, who happened to be going to Tenda to buy some daily necessities.

The main things they brought were some grain and tasteless vodka. It was freezing and snowy outside, so wine was indispensable, and the sorghum wine brought by a few people was long gone.

After preparing supplies, a group of seven people plunged into the mountains again. Instead of choosing the place they had walked before, they headed towards Temple Street, which is also the so-called direction of Nikolayevsk.

Mao Zi occupied these places and also changed the place names to Mao Zi, which was difficult to say.

The reason why Lu Lu chose this place was still to explore the direction, which was close to the Xihot Mountains.

Preliminary estimates suggest that this trip will be the only hunting trip this winter.

It is hard to control the weather such as snow. After the New Year, if we come again, it will be difficult to control the weather. If we are not careful, it is entirely possible for people like us to be left here without being able to go back.

Therefore, Lu Lu expected to spend two months returning before the Chinese New Year.After the Chinese New Year, I don’t plan to go out anymore. I will take care of the farm at home and train the dogs.

After investigating the situation here, Lu Lu was also preparing to go to the Xihot Mountains to carry the stick next year.

Along the way, he often used a pen to draw the path and some unmarked villages and facilities on the map book he bought.

This area is too large, larger than the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains. It is not a boundary that can be walked out of in a short time.

After three or four days in-depth, there were mountains and mountains everywhere, no man's land. Even Ashku was quite unfamiliar with these places and bluntly said that he had never been there.

After settling down, the scope of his activities was only around his small wood carving and the bit of land he carved out.

In uninhabited areas, wild animals naturally abound.

After being around for so many days, Ashku and Anba's marksmanship skills were average, but they also had some tacit understanding with Lu Lu and others. Anyway, Lu Lu and his gang could find the prey, so they worked hard to find it. The prey has two more pairs of eyes, which still greatly improves the hunting.

On the morning of the fourth day, after several people had breakfast and went to check the traps set yesterday, they saw the footprints of the first big paw.

Moreover, judging from the reactions of Yuan Bao and the horses, this big paw is not far away.Looking at the direction of the footprints, it was the direction where the trap was laid out yesterday.

Ashku and his son seemed a little worried, but Lu Lu and others were not too afraid.Just to gather people together to prevent being attacked by big claws or something.They didn't think about tracking and hunting Big Claw, they just continued to look for traps, collected the prey, and prepared to collect the prey and hunting equipment before going elsewhere.

Unexpectedly, I saw an extremely rare scene in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)