Buying Some Meat

After all, the fact that their Zou family has a dark room inside the house, that can keep a colder temperature, is just something that is working in favour of their family being the leader of nearby hunters and taking all of the prey. It's not the decisive factor.

The most important thing is the fact, that his brother Zou Xinghe works hard and brings in a good amount of money from selling the prey they hunt, so that after splitting the money all families are satisfied.

If their family couldn't continue to bring income to other hunter's families by taking over all of the prey, why would others still listen to them? That's also the reason why Zou Xinghe has been running around Shenyang recently, in hopes of finding a new buyer for their prey.

Otherwise, if they can't figure out a way to guarantee continued sales, their hunting alliance will probably be gone, or another family will take their position of the leader of the group…

Zou Xinhao looked at Liu Xiaolan and thought whenever this girl could afford to buy the meat. After all, he's been spending most of his time on the mountains and didn't really hear much about the changes of her lifestyle that have happened recently.

All he knew was the fact that Liu Xiaolan got married, but he didn't think that her husband was rich after seeing him come to their home yesterday…

Thinking of this, he asked with a little hesitation, "Girl Liu, are you sure you want to buy some of our prey? Meat costs a lot of money compared to staple food, like wheat or rice…"

Liu Xiaolan might now have had any contact with Zou Xinhao in the past, but she could still understand what he was pointing at. She smiled a little and said, "Uncle Zou, no need to worry. I've earned some money recently…"

"I've lost some blood yesterday, so I'd like to eat some meat to replenish my blood quicker…" She continued, with her smile getting bigger.

Liu Xiaolan almost drooled a little while thinking about eating meat today. Since crossing, the only time she has eaten meat was when Mu Yuchen burned it, so she truly wanted to eat some today.

Thinking of this, Liu Xiaolan felt that she was stupid. So what if she needs to save money for her new house and business, isn't it all to increase the standard of her life? So what's the point in doing it, if she can't even eat a proper meal now?

Liu Xiaolan thought about it and decided. Saving money is good, but only after spending money on improving their daily lives, especially their meals…

"Yes, just show me what meat you have. If I see something that I like, I'll buy it for the market price from you…" Liu Xiaolan said.

Zou Xinhao felt that Liu Xiaolan was a little funny, earning a little money and running to their home shouting to buy some meat, but he wouldn't show it on his face.

Anyway, he might as well take her to their dark room. If she can afford something, he doesn't mind selling it to her, they've been having trouble finding buyers for their prey anyway.

If she can't afford it, then it's just his bad luck today.

"Follow me, girl Liu. I'll take you to our dark room, we've still got some prey that wasn't sold yet because the butcher is preparing to close down…" Zou Xinhao said with a sigh.

Liu Xiaolan went after him and soon they went underground. It would seem that their dark room is still better than the hole Mu Yuchen digged out in her house, at least they have stairs that they can use…

That stupid little fool of hers didn't think that she couldn't jump as high as he can, and didn't dig any normal way of getting up and down to their dark room. Well, perhaps she should buy a ladder from Shopkeeper Liu?

Soon, Liu Xiaolan's thoughts about it run away. They've made it to the dark room, and the amount of food made her very happy.

"Girl Liu, sorry for the way it looks, but we rarely do the butcher's job ourselves. Usually we just sell the whole body of our prey, not parts of it…" Zou Xinhao said apologetically, but was secretly shocked by the fact that Liu Xiaolan looked fine.

After all, which young lady wouldn't be either scared or disgusted by looking at this pile of animals?

Looking around, some dead bodies are lying on the ground. Although Liu Xiaolan came from the modern times, and could get her ingredients in a form ready to be cooked, her father still made her learn a thing or two when she was younger.

Although she truly was feeling a little sick when she first saw a dead, bloody body of a freshly killed chicken, after a few times she has gotten used to it.

Because of that, she knew how to handle non processed products, meat included, and could get the most out of them without the need of looking for a butcher…

Now looking around, there are a few dead deers lying on the ground, also some hare and the most shocking thing for her, a dead wolf!

Liu Xiaolan thought about it and decided to give up. It's true that she never had a chance of eating meat coming from a wolf, but it's still better to stick to something she knows for now.

"Uncle Zou, I'd like to take these 2 hares." Liu Xiaolan said while pointing at two pretty fat hares. "What's the price of them in Shenyang now? I'll pay you the same amount…"

Zou Xinhao saw that she was taking a small sack with money from her sleeve and the way he looked at Liu Xiaolan changed. He smiled happily and said, "Girl, looking at this hares, just give me 200 copper coins and it will be fine."