Chapter 105 - 98: Smoked Cured Meat, Building High Walls

Chapter 105: Chapter 98: Smoked Cured Meat, Building High Walls

The weather was beautiful, with a high of over twenty degrees Celsius during the day. The wild boar meat Li Xiang had cured was already dry, but it was still missing a bit of flavor. It lacked the final step: smoking with pine and cypress branches.

By now, New Year’s Day had passed, and it was the beginning of the twelfth lunar month—the perfect time to smoke cured meat.

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