This time, Li Long hadn't cut much meat off the bones. The female roe deer hadn't had all that much meat on her; he got five or six kilograms of boneless meat, leaving the rest on the bones to air-dry together. Gnawing on bare bones wouldn't have been much fun anyway-
While cutting off the meat, Li Long remembered something and couldn't help laughing. In his previous life, when Xu Haijun came back from the army and chatted with them, he had complained about how the cook squad once got hold of a sheep. The company commander asked a border guard from an ethnic minority to help butcher it, planning to use the meaty bones for pilaf at noon.
Once the meat had been cut off, the cook squad leader objected and went straight to the company commander to report that those bones couldn't be used for pilaf. The company commander didn't believe him at first, but when he went over to look, he discovered that the border guard had been far too good at his job. He had stripped the bones completely clean, even removing the membranes... What the hell was there left to eat? They would have to make bone broth instead.
Li Long couldn't strip bones that clean himself, but he believed Harimu and the others certainly could.
He rubbed salt onto the meaty bones and hung them on the rack. When he ran out of room, he crowded together the meat that was already half-dried, then threaded thin wire through the new pieces and hung them up.
The whole rack of meat looked quite impressive. Li Long felt he had brought in a plentiful haul and was full of a sense of accomplishment.
Of course, he wasn't finished yet. He rubbed salt onto the hide, stretched