Joe's Farming

Cut the rabbit meat into small pieces, wash it repeatedly with spring water to completely remove the blood, then drain the water, add some salt, onion, ginger, and old wine to marinate, and add some sweet potato starch before putting it into the pot.

Gu Feng hadn't come back yet, so Qiao Yu prepared the side dishes first.

The main side dish this time was the large taro grown by the villagers. Each taro was as big as his head. Qiao Yu peeled two taro while running water under a bamboo pipe, then cut them into pieces and soaked them in clean water.

I went to the backyard to pick some garlic sprouts and coriander, picked some green peppers with thin ends and cut them into small pieces, and asked the children to peel a lot of garlic. I pounded star anise, cinnamon, fennel and other spices into five-spice powder, and then waited for Gu Feng to carry the pepper tree back before I started cooking.

Qiao Xing is now the one who rushes to steam the rice. After steaming, he stays in the kitchen to help Qiao Yu. He doesn't go to the yard with Xiaoxue and Xiaoyan to help his father dig holes and bury the soil.

Qiao Yu first heated the oil in the pan until it was 70% cooked, then put the rabbit meat in to fry and remove the moisture. It just so happened that all the oil from frying dough sticks in the morning could be used up, because more oil would make the rabbit more tender.

When the moisture of the rabbit meat is almost gone and it is fried until golden brown, add chili sauce, green pepper segments, a handful of garlic, scallion segments, five-spice powder, and Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry. The aroma will already come out at this time. Add some soy sauce and a little bit of sugar to enhance the flavor.

Finally, add the chopped taro, a large bowl of water, and cover the pot with a lid.

Three fat rabbits and a generous portion of taro. Fortunately, his pot was big, otherwise it wouldn’t have been able to hold all of them.

The fragrant aroma of rabbit meat wafted into the yard.

Xiaoyan swallowed and said, "Daddy, smell it, it smells so good."

Gu Feng smiled at his youngest son and said, "Go wash your hands if you want to eat. Daddy will be done with the planting soon."

Xiaoxue also laughed: "Little Daddy's cooking is really delicious. Xiaoyan and I have gained a lot of weight."

In fact, among the three children, Qiao Xing has changed the most. When he first came, he was dark and thin with sunken cheeks, and his legs were a little lame.

Now he is fair and clean, with flesh on his cheeks, double eyelids and an oval face. Who wouldn't say he is handsome? His legs have to be healed. He takes his younger brothers and sisters to run around the mountains every day, but of course he doesn't dare to run far. Since he came, Qiao Yu and Gu Feng have been relieved a lot.

Qiao Xing carefully wrote down the steps and ingredients used in Qiao Yu's cooking. Seeing how serious he was, Qiao Yu suggested, "You may learn it visually if you remember it this way, but you won't be able to do it when you actually cook it. Next time, I'll stand by and you can do it once."

Qiao Xing nodded vigorously.

At this time, Uncle Wang came over from the front yard with a visiting card in his hand.

"Brother Qiao, this is a visiting card from Lin Da."

Qiao Yu was puzzled as to how their family could receive a visiting card. "Who sent it?"

Qiao Yu asked Qiao Xing to watch the pot and cook it on low heat. When the taro was soft when poked with chopsticks, he could turn off the heat. He went to get the visiting card himself.

Gu Feng had also finished planting the pepper trees by then, and watered them with two buckets of water. While washing his hands, he asked, "Who is it?"

Qiao Yu opened the visiting card and couldn't help but smile: "Xu Yuan and Xu Ning said they had been waiting for a long time for us to move over and get together, but there has been no movement. Did they forget about them? Haha... Really, if he hadn't urged me, I would have really forgotten about it."

Qiao Yu asked the old man again: "Uncle, is Lin still at the door?"

"Yes, yes. He said he received the money and is waiting for a reply."

Qiao Yu was too lazy to write, so he went directly to the front yard to see Lin Da and gave him a message, asking him to tell Xu Yuan that he could come tomorrow.

When he came back, Qiao Xing came over and said that the taro in the pot was ready. Qiao Yu hurried over to add the garlic sprouts and stir them, then found a large bowl and scooped a bowl of it first, then found the largest porcelain basin he bought when he moved to the new house, put the rest in it, and sprinkled chopped green onions and coriander on top.

"Brother Gu." Qiao Yu called.

Gu Feng washed his hands, wiped them with the hem of his clothes and came in: "What's wrong?"

"Send it to Auntie's house and let them try it. Be sure to say that it was the rabbit I hunted."

Gu Feng smiled: "Okay! You hunted them all." Then he quickly took the rabbit meat to Aunt Shi's house. The aroma of rabbit meat kept filling his nose. He couldn't wait to get it delivered so that he could go back home to eat.

Afraid that the children would get bored with just eating vegetables, Qiao Yu also cooked a large bowl of light cabbage soup.

The family sat down neatly, with the dishes and chopsticks all set, waiting for Gu Feng to come back for dinner.

When Gu Feng arrived at Aunt Shi's house, she was also having dinner. Without saying a word, he put down his bowl and left immediately.

Aunt Shi muttered, "Why is this kid still so reluctant to talk to people? He just said that the rabbit was hunted by Brother Qiao. What does this mean? Is he showing off his husband?"

Wang Jie had returned from the store earlier and picked up a piece of rabbit meat with chopsticks. "Mom, Brother Gu must want to go back and eat meat quickly. Please try it. It's delicious. Let Brother Wen learn how to make it someday."

Aunt Shi gave him a slap on the face: "You only know how to eat. Did Brother Wen cook for you?"

Wang Jie: "That's not what I meant. He and Qiao Ge'er have a good relationship. I was wrong. I will learn it. I will learn it. It's really delicious."