Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 198

The children were not idle either, they went to paddy fields or rivers to catch loaches under the leadership of Qi Polu, the king of children.These days, it is very difficult for ordinary people to buy some meat. Many people only buy meat once or twice in their lives, or even once in their lives. If they want to eat meat, they have to use their brains to catch a field mouse or a loach. , just to satisfy their cravings, these children have been doing this job with their families at a young age, and they are very familiar with their business, so they can catch one right.The guy in charge of cooking happily killed the loach and eel, cut it into sections and put it in the pot and stir-fried until it was browned. When the rice was almost cooked, he poured it into the rice and stirred it, then covered the pot. Soon, a pot of fragrant loach rice released a tempting aroma.

An Ning was also in the line of catching loaches, digging out this hole and poking at that one, making mud all over her body and face.It's a pity that those loach's movements were much faster than hers, and after tossing and tossing for a long time, they still got nothing. The best result was seeing a section of mud from the loach. The tail swung at her twice, and then it disappeared after a swipe. A little mud monkey was there crying and staring at the empty loach hole in a daze.After a while, she shouted to Qi Polu in frustration: "Brother Polu, why can't I always catch them?"

Qi Polu curled his lips, and said, "You are so clumsy, what can you grab? Look at me!" Jumping to An Ning's side, the cat and the cat looked around.An Ning followed lightly, with a nervous expression on her face.At this time, a section of tail appeared in the grass, before An Ning could react, Qi Polu had already made a move like lightning, grabbed the tail at once, lifted it up, and shouted happily: "Haha, what a great harvest! This guy can beat a hundred or so loaches!"

An Ning stared blankly at a thing that was more than five feet long and almost thicker than her arm, twisting its body vigorously in Qi Polu's hands, and her whole body froze there.Qi Polu grabbed the guy's head and said to An Ning carelessly, "Young girl, don't worry, it's not poisonous, and it's fat enough to make soup..."

Before she finished speaking, An Ning had already reacted and let out a scream: "Snake! Snake!" The nasty mountain snake cooperatively spat out a red letter at her, scaring her back several feet, Covering his face and crying all the way, he rushed towards Xiao Yufang.Qi Polu shouted: "Don't be afraid, little girl, this snake can't hurt anyone!" He pinched three inches of his spoils and chased An Ning, the more he chased, the faster An Ning ran, and even rolled and crawled.Not only An Ning, but also Cheng Qi, Liu Ziyan, and the maids brought by Fang Yizhi screamed when they saw the snake in his hand, jumping around on the river beach.

Yang Menglong's eyes lit up, he rushed over and pulled the snake out of Qi Polu's hand, pinched the snake's belly with his hand, felt the thickness of the snake's flesh, and exclaimed joyfully: "Excellent! It's so long and so big, it's too big!" Thirty or forty duck necks have been smashed!" Without further ado, he pulled out the dog's leg knife and chopped off the snake's head, then peeled the skin, picked out the internal organs, cut it into pieces and threw it into the pot to cook the snake soup.

Fang Yizhi really wanted to throw his knife into the sky!
After a lot of tossing, the food was finally ready and ready to eat.The staple food is loach rice (there is also rice field eel) and simmered noodles. Each person has a large bowl, which is full. There are more dishes, such as stir-fried alfalfa seedlings, oily pickled fresh, and mutton soup with a snake. , everything is very attractive.The children each received their meal, and sat around the group of gang leaders to eat hard. This was probably the most satisfying meal they had ever eaten in their lives.Xue Siming, Wang Tiechui, Zhong Ning, Xu Gong and the others each had a bowl of saozi noodles, and they ate so much that they accidentally thought they had entered a pig farm.Zhang Tong and Fang Yizhi saw it, and cursed inwardly: "Vulgar! Uneducated!" But they had to admit that the noodles were really delicious, and they even sped up their movements a lot when eating.

Chili peppers have been introduced to China for a short time, and no one has tried large-scale planting, so there are not many people who have eaten chili peppers. At least Cheng Shi, Cheng Jun, and Cheng Qi are the first time to eat such spicy things. Just one mouthful, and the tip of the nose is sweating.Cheng Qi sticks out her tongue without any ladylike image and exhales: "It's so spicy, so spicy! I don't know how you can stand such a spicy thing!"

Without raising his head, Xue Siming stuffed his mouth with noodles, and stretched his chopsticks towards a plate of fried pork with fresh bamboo shoots, and said vaguely: "The most delicious thing we Shaanxi people can eat since we were young is a little meat. Chop it into saozi and cook a bowl of noodles. We grew up smelling the aroma of this saozi noodle... Well, before there was only Sichuan pepper, which always felt like a fly in the ointment, but now with this chili, it is simply delicious!"

Zhong Ning nodded happily. Apparently, saozi noodles with chili was more to his liking.

Cheng Qi looked at the bowl of noodles soaked in the bright red soup with a sad face, she really couldn't eat such a spicy thing.

Wu Yong tasted a piece of fresh bamboo shoots, and gave Qi Hu a thumbs up: "Good craftsmanship, the frying is extremely delicious!"

Qi Hu smiled and said: "My father-in-law won the prize. These bamboo shoots are a home-cooked dish in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I grew up eating bamboo shoots. Later, when I joined the army and went outside the Great Wall, I didn't have much chance to eat them, and my craftsmanship fell behind. If 20 years ago , I promise everyone will swallow it with their tongues."

Wu Yong smiled: "That's really a great regret!"

"Get out of the way, here comes the fresh and hot slate barbecue!" While yelling, Yang Menglong ran over with two plates of sizzling slate roast beef, and placed them in the middle like a monkey presenting a treasure, proudly He said: "This is my favorite, I guarantee you will still want to eat it!" Picking up the knife, he quickly cut pieces of barbecued meat the size of a palm into small pieces, until the gravy drenched.After cutting it, he confidently put the largest piece into Xiao Yufang's bowl, and pushed the smaller piece towards Liu Ziyan, saying: "This is for you!" It took a few pieces in one breath.Zhang Tong, Wu Yong, Fang Yizhi, Qi Hu, Xue Siming, Wang Tiehammer... unanimously stuck out their chopsticks and fought fiercely on the plate.Seeing this scene for the first time, Cheng Shi, Cheng Jun, and Cheng Qi were all dumbfounded. These guys must be counted as characters, especially Wu Yong, Fang Yizhi, and Zhang Tong, all of whom are of great status. Why are people so... so uneducated?Cheng Ji anxiously reminded the master and his brothers and sisters: "Hurry up and grab it! If you don't grab it, you won't be able to eat anything!" Picking up chopsticks, he joined the ranks of snatching.

The three fell into a state of sluggishness again.When they saw Wang Tiechui finish off a bowl of noodles in a few mouthfuls, and rushed towards the pot in three steps at a time, they finally believed what the second child said, if they didn't grab it, they would really get nothing to eat!
So, these few also joined the ranks of the scramble...

I have to say that the barbecue made by Yang Menglong is indeed tender and juicy. Once chewed, the mouth is full of oil and gravy, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant. Everyone applauded after tasting it.Coupled with the hot simmered noodles, fragrant loach rice, light fried alfalfa, and fresh, sweet and crisp fried bamboo shoots, it makes up a table of delicacies that people can't stop.Anyway, it's not so particular in the wild, everyone let go of their stomachs and eat, leaving everything to chopsticks, teeth and tongue.

Satisfied with wine and food, Cheng Shi lightly touched his bulging belly and sighed with a smile: "In the past few years, this is the first time this old man has such a good appetite, and he ate three bowls of rice in one meal!"

Qi Hu burped and said, "I'm getting old, I can't do it! When I was young, I could eat a catty of rice without talking!"

Wu Yong held a piece of slate barbecue that he managed to get his hands on, and smiled: "In the past, even pig iron could be chewed and swallowed by the teeth, but there was nothing to eat at that time, and now I can eat everything, but the teeth are not good. I can't chew it anymore!" Put this piece of meat into the An Ning bowl that was still chopping vigorously.

An Ning puffed up her cheeks, and said vaguely, "Thank you, Grandpa Wu!"

Wu Yong stroked her head and said with a smile: "Eat slowly, no one will grab your food. If anyone dares to grab your food, I will have Jin Yiwei break his leg!" The tone is very much like a grandfather talking to his little grandson.

Yang Menglong swallowed the last piece of barbecue with some difficulty, and glanced at the dining table with a few grains of rice on the tip of his nose. Good guy, all the plates are as clean as if they were licked by a dog, and there is nothing left.Fortunately, he had enough food in the Anning bowl just now, otherwise this little girl would only have rice.He muttered in dissatisfaction: "You gang of robbers are more violent than me!"

Fang Yizhi picked the gap between his teeth with a toothpick, and said calmly: "I learned that from you too. I said, you should also move Fudi to Nanyang City, right? Lai Lai is in Wuyang, does it make sense?"

Yang Menglong looked blank: "Move the mansion to Nanyang City? How do you move such a big house?"

Fang Yizhi scolded: "Don't pretend to be foolish! As the commander of a guard, you are responsible for the safety of 30 people in Nanyang, and you have a heavy responsibility. You should be in Nanyang City to coordinate the overall situation, but you always rely on Wuyang, a small place. What does it look like!"

Zhang Tong said nervously: "Master Fang, you are digging the roots of the officials!" After Yang Menglong took over the defense of Nanyang, Fang Yizhi urged Yang Menglong to move to Nanyang City several times. It's heart-wrenching.Thanks to Yang Menglong, a large amount of wasteland in Wuyang County has now been reclaimed, and the number of refugees who have come to naturalize is increasing day by day. Thousands of households in Wuyang are full of chickens and ducks, cattle and sheep are running all over the mountains, and many factories have been built, almost killing the idlers. Absorbed completely, he has been an official in Wuyang for so many years, and it is the first time he has seen such a prosperous situation.Now Fang Yizhi wants Yang Menglong to move to Nanyang City, it will be fatal, he doesn't believe that another person can do better than Yang Menglong.

Fang Yizhi understood the difficulties of this subordinate, sighed, and said: "Zhiling, I understand your difficulties, let alone you, I would not be willing to let him go, but... I also have my difficulties. In the thirteen counties of Nanyang, with a population of 30 and hundreds of officials, there are not many people who can be used. There are many people who make a mess of things! I can only let him go to see if he can help a little. ..."

Yang Menglong muttered: "Don't look for me, it's useless to look for me, I can't help! Don't say I can't help, even a god can't help!"

Fang Yizhi stared at it, and said in a bad tone, "You haven't even tried it, how do you know it won't work?"

Yang Menglong said: "There's no need to try, it just won't work anyway! It's easy to let me run the health center. I just need to organize manpower to reclaim wasteland and repair canals. Anyway, there are so many wastelands here. If they are reclaimed, they will be mine. There are two thousand elite soldiers. No one dares to grind their teeth with me. But when I get to Nanyang, even if I organize the people to reclaim the wasteland, it will not be long before the gang of Jin gentry who are more ruthless than leeches will take it away by any means. What can I do? I can't Lead troops to help the people get their fields back, right? Then I will offend all the Jin gentry in Nanyang. How many heads do I have?"

Fang Yizhi said: "Just follow what you did in Wuyang and let it go. If the sky falls, I will help you!"

Yang Menglong said: "You can't stand it, in the end it's me who gets crushed!"

The old and the young stared at each other fiercely, their eyes almost sparking sparks in the air.

(End of this chapter)