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Du Heng finally climbed up by grabbing the rocks. He felt that his practice some time ago was in vain.
Jing Nan squatted on the stone in front of him with a smile: "Oh, Du Heng, you can't do it. You can fall down. After all, you are also a monk who has practiced in Peizhu Forest for so long, and he is as clumsy as ordinary people. You want to laugh Do I inherit my family's orchard?"
Du Heng covered his face: "Stop talking, you want face, you want face."
Du Heng summoned his spiritual energy, and his drenched clothes became dry again.Jing Nan glanced at him: "It seems that half-heartedness is not suitable for you, how you left just now, how about you leave now."
It seems that Du Heng has no way to appreciate the beautiful scenery around him. All Du Heng can do is to keep an eye on the road under his feet.Not to mention, such a stare really made him see a good dish to go with wine.When they reached the shallow water area, they saw densely packed snails beside the stone pillars.
Blue and black snails, large and small, are densely attracted to the stone, and you can pick up a large handful by bending down.Du Heng took a look, the biggest snail was bigger than his thumb!
He suddenly regained his energy: "Jing Nan, do you eat snails?"
Jing Nan looked back suspiciously. He saw Du Heng staring at the stone with his head down and his eyes sparkling. It’s the shell that has no meat.”
Du Heng laughed and said, "Hey, don't you understand that? The snails are the fattest during the Ching Ming Festival. After they are picked up and raised for one night, all the dirt in their stomachs will be vomited out. Cut off their buttocks, add spring onions Stir-fry ginger, garlic and a little chili, add some madder, and after the frying is done, you only need to lightly sip the meat inside. It’s perfect for drinking! Don’t you really want to try it?”
Jing Nan was moved by Du Heng's words: "Then... just have a little?"
Du Heng rolled up his sleeves and was about to go fishing for snails, but Jing Nan was disgusted with him again: "You can catch a lot of them with spiritual energy, so why bend down to fish them?"
Du Heng happened to pick up a handful of snails from the side of the pillar. He picked out the big snails and put them in the basket, and threw the small ones into the water again: "You don't know that? There is a saying that eating fish does not make fish happy. The pleasure of getting ingredients is far more than the pleasure of eating. For example, snails are taken out of the stone, leaving the big ones and removing the small ones. This is fun!"
The corners of Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "What's wrong..."
After a while, there was a shallow layer of snails in the back basket on Du Heng's back.Jing Nan was even more disgusted: "What are you fishing for now? Isn't it the same when you come back later?"
Du Heng chuckled: "The snails are nocturnal creatures. When it gets dark, they will hide. When we turn around, maybe they are already hiding in the mud."
Jing Nan looked at the snails in Du Heng's basket.What Du Heng left behind were snails the size of a thumb. When the snails were frightened, they would shrink back into their shells. But after a while, feeling that the crisis was over, they stuck their heads out of the shells to suck the shells of other snails.
Jing Nan questioned: "Is this really edible?" Du Heng gave an affirmative answer: "Yes!"
The closer to the mouth of the gourd, the more aquatic plants there are. Du Heng saw a large piece of water chestnut leaves the size of a bowl on the surface of the water.The thin leaves of the water chestnut are spread on the water surface like flowers, and groups of black and white swans are playing in the water chestnut.
Some of the swans are playing with their little swans, while others are playing in pairs on the water with their necks stretched out.Seeing Du Heng and the others, the swans quickly hid from the lotus leaves behind towards the water chestnut, leaving a high-pitched chirping sound under the blue sky and white clouds.
At this time, some of the lotus leaves have just emerged from the water, and some are stretched to the size of the brim of a hat. From a distance, they are tender and healthy. The lotus leaves of this level are perfect for steaming ribs.
In addition to lotus root and water chestnut, there are also some thin and long wild rice stems growing by the water, but this season's wild rice stems haven't swollen yet, and they will not grow swollen stems for human consumption until early autumn.
There are also some calamus mixed in the wild rice stem, and Du Heng also saw several wild Artemisia annua.It's a pity that he came too late, the artemisia was too old to bite. If it came a month in advance, what a delicious dish it would be!
Jing Nan said softly: "Our goal is too big, and the wild ducks were scared by us and hid in the lotus leaves."
Cold sweat dripped down Du Heng's head: "Jing Nan, the wild duck you're talking about...is it black and white feathers with a long neck?"
Jing Nan nodded: "Yes, isn't it a lot? A group of people."
Du Heng choked up: "In our hometown, these are not wild ducks, but swans."
Jing Nan was very calm: "Whether they are ducks or geese will affect your making salted ducks?"
Du Heng thought for a while: "It doesn't matter." He just didn't think it should be, this group of beautiful elves were playing in the green mountains and green waters, but Jing Nan wanted to make them into salt water geese!
Jing Nan took Du Heng ashore, and there were indeed many swan nests in the grass on the bank, and some swans were still lying on the nests and hatching their eggs.Seeing Jing Nan and the others passing by, the swans stretched their necks and spread their wings and hissed to drive them away.
Jing Nan stepped forward and broke the necks of the two swans, and he even took the eggs under the swans: "Hey, braised eggs! Salted geese!"
When Du Heng came to his senses, there were already a dozen swan eggs and two dead swans lying in Jing Nan's back basket.The swan that lost its spouse wailed softly on the water, which broke Du Heng's heart.
Du Heng took Jing Nan's hand: "Jing Nan, that's enough, let's stop catching them! They also have families and small ones, it can't be like this."
Jing Nan squinted his eyes and looked at the two whining male swans in the pond. With a flash of inspiration, the two male swans immediately stretched their necks and lay on the water.With a flash of inspiration in Jing Nan's hand, the two male geese landed in his back basket.
Du Heng: ...
Jing Nan said calmly, "You're right. They have families and children. They can't survive without their wives and children. So the whole family has to go on the road neatly together."
Du Heng: ...Suddenly I don't want to talk to Jing Nan anymore.
The four swans were piled heavily in the back basket behind Jing Nan, and Du Heng looked at the dead geese with a sore heart: "Let's not use swans to make salt water geese in the future? It's so pitiful."
Jing Nan chuckled lightly: "Let me guess, do you think we have gone too far? Do you think we use our power to bully the weak and kill them? It's best not to take the human way with us. Come to the Realm of Comprehension."
Jing Nan squinted his eyes and looked at the waters in front of him: "Even if we don't prey on them, there will be other monsters or spirit beasts to prey on them. It is the instinct of living beings to eat the strong. If the fist is not hard in the demon world, it will become someone else's prey."
Jing Nan was very calm: "Don't underestimate any species. Do you think we are kind by releasing two geese? Geese can also eat, and the fish and shrimps they eat also have families and children. In a word, we eat by our ability, If the swan has the ability, it can eat me."
Du Heng scratched his cheek, he actually felt that what Jing Nan said made sense.
Jing Nan looked at Du Heng calmly: "You think the Swan family is pitiful, it's nothing more than empathizing with your own emotions. Who in this world has no emotions? Either eat others or be eaten, it's so cruel. These wild ducks They thrive here and are protected by us, if they fall into the territory of other monsters, the entire race will be wiped out."
Du Heng was speechless by Jing Nan, Jing Nan patted Du Heng on the shoulder: "So there is no need to be sad, you should eat and drink. As long as you don't kill or kill indiscriminately, it's not a big problem to take some food properly. "
Du Heng feels that compared with Jing Nan, he is really an ordinary person who can't do anything.
Jing Nan looked at the grass in front of him with his hands in his hands. Just now, he broke the necks of two swans, scaring the other swans away from their nests.
Jing Nan said: "The way of heaven is orderly, and everything has its own destiny. There are so many ducks in front of you...oh, swans. Only a small part of the little life inside these eggshells can grow into it in the end. Therefore, What did you realize?"
Du Heng thought for a while and said: "Then let's take a few less ones, and don't kill them indiscriminately."
Jing Nan was very satisfied: "You are right to think so. By the way, you can get more duck eggs. Some ducklings are eaten by fish when they hatch. Rather than being eaten by fish, it is better to be eaten by me."
Jing Daxian'er was full of reasoning today, but Du Heng couldn't tell him.
In the end, five big geese fell into Jing Nan's back basket.Originally, the last one didn't have to die, but there was a flower swan who chased after Xiaoxiao and bit it.Can Xiaoxiao's violent temper be threatened by a goose?He snapped its neck in one bite.
Jing Nan picked and picked one or two eggs from each nest, and after so many nests, he collected half a basketful of eggs.Jing Nan had no choice but to stuff the dead swan into the storage bag, otherwise his back basket would not be able to hold it.
The fist-sized goose egg white is white and exudes warmth. Jing Nan is delighted: "I really like to eat eggs with ducklings in them. They are so fresh and tender. I used to eat more than a dozen boiled eggs in a meal! Du Heng, You go back and make it spiced for me!"
Du Heng was folding lotus leaves beside him, and he helplessly corrected Jing Nan: "This is a swan, not a duck."
Du Heng didn't go to pick up the eggs, he shot at the lotus leaves and lotus root in the water.He covered the snails at the bottom of the pan with a layer of wet water chestnut leaves.Then he put the hat brim-sized lotus leaves that he picked one by one on top.Thin and white lotus root belts were placed next to the lotus leaves. Du Heng figured that he could make sweet and sour lotus root belts when he got home.
Jing Nan laughed at Du Heng: "In the end, I brought you here, and you picked these lotus leaves back? Hey, what a waste."
Du Heng was not convinced: "It is also rewarding..."
There are also a lot of things in his back basket. When he goes back, he can make steamed rice with lotus leaves and pork ribs with lotus leaves.You can also make vinegared lotus root strips and fried snails, where is it wasted?
Besides, he can come next time, he can pick lotus and lotus pods in summer, water chestnut and lotus root.Come to get water bamboo in autumn, there are so many aquatic plants here, if you can't find plants, you can still get fish.Won't leave empty handed.
At this time, Xiaoxiao and the chicks chirped out in surprise. Du Heng followed the sound and saw groups of gray tadpoles swimming out of the lotus leaves.
The tadpoles are only the size of a little finger and are densely packed. They form different shapes in the water, changing in the water like smoke.Since the swans were scared away by Jing Nan, thousands of tadpoles have swam out from the grass under the lotus leaves!
Jing Nan laughed and said, "Look, this is how one goes up and down. Swans eat tadpoles, how many tadpoles are eaten by swans in the whole lake?"
Du Heng looked at the tadpoles in the water. He had never realized so clearly that they were in the food chain, and they were just a link in the food chain.
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At this time, Niannian suddenly screamed, and it flicked its paw desperately.When Du Heng looked over, he saw a crab holding two pincers of different sizes facing Nian Nian.Niannian gas exploded, and the fur on its neck exploded.
Du Heng held the crab down with one hand, and touched Niannian's down with the other: "Hey, little crab! It looks quite fat~"
If it wasn't for being pinched by crabs every year, Du Heng would not have noticed that there are small crabs the size of half a palm everywhere in the grass.This kind of crab is called crab, with a blue-black back and white belly.When they are in their hands, they proudly hold up two pliers.
The crab in Du Heng's hand is a male, and the lid under its belly is triangular.In the case of female crabs, this cover is round.
Seeing the crab, Du Heng thought of his childhood memories.
When I was young, before the holidays, a group of children in the village would run into the ditch with buckets, and when they saw round holes in the soil next to the ditch, they would dig them out with shovels.
Often there will be one or two crabs hidden in the cave, and the children will rush to catch the crabs and throw them into the bucket.
Sometimes if you are unlucky, what is hidden in the hole is not a crab but a small snake, and everyone will scatter and hide far away.
After the caught crabs go home, they are washed several times in the river, and then they are kept in buckets after they are cleaned.There are also impatient people who can't wait until the next day, and let the crabs go into the pot after a little washing.
Add some soy sauce and salt, and simmer over high heat, and the blue-black crabs will turn orange-red.There will be a dish of braised crabs on the dinner table. Although there is not much meat, it can also whet the children's appetite and eat an extra bowl of rice.If the male host likes to drink, he invites the neighbors to have a little wine, and often a meal can be eaten from the sunset to the moon climbing on the branches.
This is the charm of crabs. It is extremely difficult to eat the meat in the two small pincers.But if you can eat a few of them, you will feel that this is river fish, no less than the puffer fish and loach in spring.
Du Heng's favorite way of making crabs is not braised, but deep-fried.The little crabs were taken home and cleaned up, covered with a layer of batter, and put directly into the oil pan for frying.The fried crabs are so fragrant and crispy that you can eat even the shells.
It has been many years since I tasted this kind of delicacy. Now seeing so many small crabs, Du Heng has changed his mind again.
He happily smiled at them and said, "Help catch the little crabs. Go back and deep-fry the little crabs for you to eat. They are crispy and delicious!"
Hearing this, Xiaoxiao and the others suddenly got excited, and after a while, the three chicks pecked at the crab and threw it into Du Heng's back basket.The crabs crawled under the lotus leaves with bubbles in their mouths. Du Heng was very satisfied: "That's great!"
The corners of Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "You...is this the only thing you can do? Can you catch something with meat?"
Year after year, they worked together, and within a short while they caught half a basket of crabs.When Du Heng picked up the basket, he could hear the sound of them spitting bubbles: "Go, go, go home and fry the little crabs!"
Jing Nan followed behind Du Heng helplessly: "Are you leaving now? Don't look anymore? There are still a lot of aquatic animals here, why don't you take some fish away?"
Du Heng really hesitated: "Fish? There are a lot of fish at home, there are peach blossom fish in the refrigerator, and there are still many sea fish packed back from Yunyan Tower."
Jing Nan shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, whatever you want." He just felt a little pity, it was a rare time, and he only brought this little thing back home, so boring.
Du Heng was in high spirits, he put Xiaoxiao and Nian Suisui in the back basket on his back, and Little Wonton walked in front of him.In his left hand, he held a lotus root belt tied with water bamboo leaves, and in his right hand was a small wonton.Jing Nan almost laughed out loud behind his back, Du Heng looked like he was on a spring outing.
Du Heng raised his voice and said to Jing Nan: "Jing Nan, this is a good place, shall we come back next time?"
Jing Nan said: "I won't come here with you. It's so boring to catch a wild duck and listen to your nagging."
Du Heng was in a hurry: "Don't! It's interesting. Later, I can set up a fishing net and put it in the lake. When I want to eat fish, I can catch two nets. After a while, there will be lotus pods and water chestnuts here. It’s so rich, it’s inexhaustible if you take it slowly.”
Jing Nan put her hands together: "Then if I catch wild ducks next time, will you still talk about me?"
Du Heng's voice was left among the green mountains and green waters: "That's a swan, not a wild duck."
When Du Heng and the others returned to the village, Xuan Yu had already cleaned up Zhu Yan.Xuan Yu was afraid that Du Heng would feel the shock, so he peeled off Zhu Yan's skin, and lost the internal organs and head.The processed Zhu Yanrou turned out to be white, completely different from its rough and scary appearance.
Du Heng looked at Zhu Yan's meat in the storage bag. Just looking at this pile of meat, he couldn't imagine what Zhu Yan was like when he was alive.Now he is staring at Zhu Yan's long arms, the two arms look delicious.
Zhu Yan's arms were thick and strong, stronger than Du Heng's.Senbai's bones are wrapped with a thick layer of tendons. Du Heng thinks that such an arm must be delicious for stewing soup or braised in soy sauce!
Xuanyu was helping Du Heng to pack the lotus leaves he brought back from Nanshan. There were a lot of small crabs chopped in the lotus leaves. Xuanyu accidentally brought out a lot of them. Now the crabs were crawling all over the ground. Xuanyu looked at the The little crab was stunned.
Jing Nan chuckled: "Don't look at me, this is the trophy Du Heng brought back. He said he wanted to make fried crabs. These things are all shells, so they must not taste good."
Xuan Yu caught the crabs one by one and threw them into the tub, he said calmly, "Sounds very good."
After thinking about it for a while, Du Heng finalized today's lunch menu. He prepared to fry small crabs.Stew Zhuyan elbow in clear water, then make spiced broad beans and shredded lettuce!
Jing Nan just catches the swans but doesn't deal with them, and the matter of bloodletting and plucking falls to Xuan Yu again.In the courtyard, Xuanyu was plucking the hair without complaint, and Du Heng was carefully washing the little crabs.Jing Nan was packing the swan eggs he had picked up, while Wen Qiong was helping with the lettuce skins.
Du Heng tore off the cover under the belly of the crab, and put the cleaned crab in the wooden basin next to it.After a while, he got a large basin of cleaned crabs.
The three little chickens firmly remembered what Du Heng said to give them fried crabs, and they followed Du Heng wherever he went.Seeing the eager gazes in their eyes, Du Heng was immediately happy: "Okay, I'll fry crabs for you first."
Du Heng took out two bowls of flour from the refrigerator. He sprinkled two spoonfuls of five-spice powder and one spoonful of pepper powder in the flour, sprinkled a spoonful of fine salt, and cracked two duck eggs in it.When a little cold boiled water is added to the flour, the flour turns into a golden roux.
Du Heng put the live crabs in groups of three or five into the basin containing the batter. The crabs were immediately covered with batter, and the thick batter covered the crabs' sight.The crabs didn't think it was dangerous, they ate the batter in the basin, and one of them vomited bubbles.
After the temperature of the soybean oil in the pot came up, Du Heng threw the battered crabs into the oil pot.The crabs turned red after being put into the pan, and they stiffened and sank to the bottom of the pan.Du Heng was not in a hurry to catch them, he threw the other crabs into the batter basin, and then sent them into the oil pan one by one.
The oil pan creaked, and the crabs that were put in first were squeezed out of the oil pan by the crabs that came in later. At this time, the outline of the crabs could no longer be seen.The claws of the crabs were stuck to the batter, which looked like shuttle-shaped batter.
Du Heng scooped up the sticky crabs on a large plate that had been prepared earlier. The current crabs are good to eat, but they are not as crispy as after the second frying.
There was a smell of fried food in the courtyard, Xiaoxiao they had already been guarding by the stove.When Du Heng took the second fried crab out of the pot, the three chickens all blinked their bright eyes at Du Heng.
Du Heng handed the first three fried crabs to the three chicks respectively.Xiaoxiao is alright, it swallowed the crab with one big mouthful, but Nian Sui Sui is several times smaller than Xiaoxiao, the fried crab is bigger than their head, how should they eat the crab Woolen cloth?
Besides... can chickens eat crabs?The chickens in Du Heng's hometown can only eat food that people crush.
Just when Du Heng was about to help Nian Sui Sui smash the crab, Nian Sui Sui vigorously pecked at the crab shell and crab legs, and the crispy crab was torn apart by them.Under Du Heng's astonished eyes, the two chickens swallowed the crabs in their stomachs very quickly.
Du Heng was almost stunned, his chickens were really strong.
After the crabs were all fried, Du Heng got a large bowl of red and golden fried food.No need for extra seasoning, just bite into it and it's delicious.
Du Heng greeted Jing Nan and the others: "The fried crabs are ready! Let's eat crabs!"
Jing Nan immediately dropped the goose egg in his hand and rushed over: "Come on~~" Looking at Jing Nan's smug mockup, it's hard to imagine that he was the one who disliked him the most.
Wen Qiong came in with a shau-kei, in which there were five or six pieces of lettuce with their skins removed.Wen Qiong put the lettuce in the sink, and she looked at the crabs on the dining table: "I smelled the aroma just now, it looks delicious."
Du Heng took two crabs and handed them to Wen Qiong: "Master eat these two, they are only soft-shelled."
Wen Qiong took a bite, the batter had seasonings in it, it tasted slightly numb, moderately salty and full of flavor.Wen Qiong ate two crabs in three mouthfuls, and she couldn't get enough of them: "It's delicious, but the soft-shell ones seem to be missing something."
When Wen Qiong picked up a hard-shell crab, she knew what was missing.The soft-shelled crab tastes crispy, that's because Du Heng fried the batter crispy.The crab shell has no hardness and tastes soft. Although it is delicious, it is not as crisp as hard-shelled crabs.
After the hard-shelled crabs are deep-fried at high temperature, the shells are crispy, and the batter and crab shells are integrated into the mouth when eaten, and the mouth is full of fragrance.The crab meat and the batter echo each other, making it impossible to stop mouth after mouthful.
Wen Qiong bit the crab with a click: "It's delicious, I like this taste."
Jing Nan also gave an affirmative answer beside him: "Hey, it's not bad. I knew I would have caught more." As he spoke, Jing Nan picked up a big crab and took a big bite.With one bite, the crab lost half of its body, exposing the white meat inside the crab.
Du Heng picked up two more crabs and fed them to Nian Sui Sui. He explained: "The lake on the Nanshan side is clean, and the crabs are fat and clean."
Speaking of which, Du Heng took two big crabs and walked out of the kitchen door. Jing Nan and the others had a good time eating, and his Xiaoyu was still cleaning up the big geese in the yard.
Du Heng handed the crab to Xuan Yu's mouth: "Try it?"
Xuanyu's hand was full of goose feathers, he tilted his head and took a bite, he chewed a few times: "It's very fragrant, I didn't expect this kind of little crab to be able to do this."
Du Heng smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Do you like this taste? If you like it, I will catch more next time I go to Nanshan."
Xuanyu said slowly: "Actually, there is no need to go to the south of Nanshan Mountain. There are many small crabs like this in the stone creek at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. Every autumn, they will climb ashore."
Du Heng said in surprise: "Hey? What else? I didn't find out!"
But thinking about it, he was relieved. How long has he been in the village? He has never experienced the four seasons in the village, let alone the situation around the village?
Xuanyu said: "I like this little crab, it tastes better than peach blossom fish, I can catch some when I have time, shall I?"
Du Heng smiled and nodded: "Okay, I will also make spicy crabs, try spicy crabs next time."
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Suddenly there was a childish quacking sound in the courtyard, like the sound made by a duckling trapped somewhere.Du Heng followed the sound and saw more than a dozen white goose eggs beside the back basket where Jing Nan was standing just now, and the rattling sound came from the goose eggs he picked out.
Du Heng walked over and happened to see cracks appearing on several goose eggs.The wet cygnets in the crack are coming out of their shells!
Du Heng's eyes were wide open, and he exclaimed: "Xuanyu! Look at Xuanyu! The little goose! The little goose has broken its shell!"
Seeing the goslings that came out of their shells, Du Heng poached Jing Nan with his eyes. If it wasn't for Jing Nan's tricks, these goslings would be loved by their parents as soon as they were born.They will break their shells in the nests carefully arranged by their parents. They will grow up eating fresh aquatic plants and plump fish and shrimps in the green mountains and green waters. They will be taught by their parents how to fly and avoid natural enemies.Instead of breaking out of the shell on the cold bluestone ground like now.
Du Heng quickly found a bamboo basket, and he put a thick layer of withered grass in the basket, and put a layer of soft gauze on top of the withered grass.He carefully carried the dozen or so goose eggs and put them in the bamboo basket with spiritual energy, then he asked Xuanyu in a panic: "And then? What should we do next?"
Jing Nan gnawed on the little crab carelessly, and said irresponsibly, "Then make a fire!"
Du Heng didn't come back to his senses for a moment: "What are you doing to boil water?"
Jing Nan said: "Look at the fire and boil the five-spice eggs! The ducklings that have just cracked their shells are the best, they are fresh and tender, and you don't need to spit up the hair."
Du Heng covered more than a dozen goose eggs, afraid that they would hear Jing Nan's devilish words: "Ahhh, you are not allowed to speak! How could you let the little cutie who just hatched hear such terrible words! Your conscience is not good. Will it hurt?"
Jing Nan was extremely calm: "My conscience doesn't hurt at all, he still wants to eat some spiced eggs. Hurry up and boil the boiled eggs!"
Du Heng decided to ignore Jing Nan, he wanted to raise these goslings.
Jing Nan's words awakened Du Heng, and Du Heng suddenly remembered something: "Yes, chickens and ducklings need temperature when they break their shells. Smile, smile?"
Xiaoxiao, who was eating crabs, was carried into the bamboo basket by Du Heng, and Xiaoxiao, who was holding crabs in her mouth, looked dully at the dozen or so goose eggs rolling under her.
He tweeted twice in protest, and saw Du Heng put his hands together and said with a smile: "Smile, these little geese are about to break their shells. Without you, they will freeze to death. You are troubled. Wait for them to break their shells." You will be liberated, can I make you delicious food? Can I make milk pudding?"
Xiaoxiao is very coaxing. When he heard the word milk pudding, he nodded obediently even though he had never eaten it before.
Jing Nan couldn't bear to watch it anymore: "Fortunately, Feng Gui is not at home, if he sees you hatching goose eggs with a smile, he will beat up Xiaoxiao first and then come to clean you up."
Du Heng's gaze involuntarily drifted to the half-basket of goose eggs picked up by Jing Nan, and Jing Nan stood in front of the basket vigilantly: "You are enough, these are my favorite eggs, and there are ducklings in them." , Giving you a dozen or so is already worthy of you, don’t even think about playing with them.”
Du Heng shrugged regretfully. It seemed that the half basket of goose eggs could not escape the fate of spiced eggs.
It is not easy for the goose to break its shell, so Xiaoxiao and Nian Shui took turns guarding the basket.
Xuanyu said to Du Heng: "These little geese won't be as intelligent as they are every year after they hatch. I'm afraid it's not suitable to keep them at home. I'll go find a place in the Lingtian to build a nest for them?"
Du Heng thinks it is feasible, geese love cleanliness, and it is best to have running water and green grass. There are small ditches and green weeds in the spiritual field facing the door of the house. It would be good to build a small house in the field for these goslings to live in. .However, Du Heng felt that before the goslings could forage independently, he had to feed them well, and daily shoveling of excrement was indispensable.
On the stove under the eaves of the verandah, Zhuyan elbows were stewed. The large pieces of elbows were soaked in the milky white soup, which smelled quite fragrant.Du Heng felt that the smell of this meat was different from that of Shan Gao and Kui Niu. After all, it was a wild animal on the mountain, so the taste must be different.
Du Heng cut half a spring bamboo shoot in the soup and threw a chicken fir.He was about to run out of chicken fir, and in two days he would go to Fenggui's yard to see if there was any fresh chicken fir to pick.
The large piece of Zhu Yan's elbow was covered with lean meat, which was slightly gray in color.He didn't know how old Zhu Yan had lived, but he only knew that under the effect of the formation, it had been half an hour, and the lean meat on the elbow was just able to poke.
The delicious smell filled the yard, Du Heng scooped up some soup with a spoon, and he tasted it.The taste of the soup is not bad, Zhuyan's taste is not as annoying as its name, the soup tastes very similar to ordinary beef soup, even a little more fresh than beef soup.
Du Heng took a spoonful of soup and put it in the bowl: "Smile, do you want some soup?"
Xiaoxiao, who was incubating the egg, nodded hurriedly: "Jiujiujiu!" The goslings under Xiaoxiao were more excited than Xiaoxiao: "Quack quack—"
After Du Heng fed Xiaoxiao and finished drinking the soup, he touched Xiaoxiao's belly.Xiaoxiao stood up generously to show off his achievements, six little goslings had already hatched under him!
The gray little goose is very big, one is two or three times bigger than when Sui Sui Sui first picked it up.The goslings huddled together, looking at Du Heng curiously and strangely.
Du Heng picked up the broken eggshell under Xiaoxiao's body. He looked at the white eggshell and said with emotion: "How miraculous, life hatched out of such a small eggshell."
It happened that Xuanyu walked by with the neck of the big goose that had been processed, and Jing Nan said coolly: "How cruel, you have worked so hard to transform from an egg into a goose, and you will be eaten in the end."
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan accusingly: "If you threaten my little goose again, I will put chili in the dish."
This trick worked, Jing Nan complained to Xuan Yu angrily: "Look at Du Heng, it's getting more and more excessive. It's okay to be perfunctory before, but now he's threatening me."
Xuanyu put the big geese in the wooden basin: "If you continue to complain, he will put peppers in the salted geese."
Jing Nan spread her hands together helplessly: "I finally understand, you two are now wearing the same pair of pants, I can't say no to you."
Wen Qiong ate crabs for a while, and she felt that hiccups all smelled like crabs.She was humming a song and was about to pack the lettuce leaves and skins, but Du Heng hurriedly stopped her: "Master, leave it alone! Let me do it!"
Wen Qiong replied: "It's okay, I can help too, I can't just eat rice all the time."
Du Heng said: "No, master, there are goslings at home now, I want to keep the lettuce leaves to feed the goslings."
Jing Nan sighed: "Xiaoyu, at first I thought you could still rank second in the family, but as you get older, your status plummets. Be optimistic, when you raise gooselings, your status may even go down. Goose is not as good."
Xuanyu was very calm: "If the lettuce leaves are not fed to the goslings, Du Heng will cook them into vegetables and feed them to us. Whether to feed the geese or keep them for yourself is up to you."
Jing Nan had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, so it turned out that their status was similar to that of geese.
Du Heng was humming and cutting the shredded lettuce. His knife skill was very beautiful, and the shredded lettuce was even in thickness, which looked like a plate of emerald jade on the plate.
Lettuce is really a good thing. It is soft and glutinous when stewed, crisp and tender when stir-fried, and has different flavors when eaten cold.It is said that it is a cold salad, and the shredded lettuce has to be blanched for a short time.Of course, you can also mix it directly without blanching, but Du Heng thinks that the shredded lettuce made in that way has a natural taste of lettuce, and some people don't like this taste.
The water in the pot boiled, and Du Heng poured the shredded lettuce into the pot and quickly blanched it.The water stood still for a while and just after it boiled, Du Heng took them all out of the cold water.
In the small bowl, Du Heng patted some garlic paste and chopped some shredded red pepper.After the shredded lettuce was blanched, Du Heng added a spoonful of soybean oil to the pot.After the soybean oil was warmed up, Du Heng scooped up the soybean oil and poured it into a small bowl, only to hear a prickling sound, and a smell of minced garlic and chili came out of the small bowl.
This was Jing Nan's most hated combination of seasonings, but after splashing hot oil, the minced garlic no longer choked people, and the spiciness of the chili became mild.Taking advantage of the residual heat in the pot, Du Heng poured a spoonful of vinegar into the pot, and the vinegar after cooking in the pot also became moist.
After the vinegar is put into the pot, it needs to be quickly taken out and added to the bowl. If it was Du Heng before, he really couldn't get this spoonful of vinegar out.
But now Du Heng is a monk, his aura spread evenly along the bottom of the pot, and the vinegar that had been choked by the hot oil and residual heat evaporated a little at this time.Reiki was wrapped in vinegar and poured into the previous garlic bowl. While the seasoning in the bowl was still warm, he sprinkled a spoonful of soy sauce, half a spoonful of salt, and a spoonful of sugar into the bowl.
After stirring all the seasonings while they were hot, he raised his hand and poured the sauce on the lettuce.The emerald green lettuce was immediately stained with sauce, and the red chili shreds lying on the lettuce added a different color to the dish.
Most of the pickles and cold salads made by Du Heng are salty and sweet. They taste salty but sweet, and the sweetness contains saltiness.A bite of the crunchy shredded lettuce is crisp, delicious and layered, which is why Jing Nan likes to eat the dishes made by Du Heng. His dishes are never just sweet or salty like the chefs in Yunyanlou.His dishes can make people aftertaste, make people want to eat again.
Even a simple plate of shredded lettuce can create a taste that the chef of Yunyanlou can't.Jing Nan felt that if he left the village in the future, he would starve.
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Du Heng finally climbed up by grabbing the rocks. He felt that his practice some time ago was in vain.
Jing Nan squatted on the stone in front of him with a smile: "Oh, Du Heng, you can't do it. You can fall down. After all, you are also a monk who has practiced in Peizhu Forest for so long, and he is as clumsy as ordinary people. You want to laugh Do I inherit my family's orchard?"
Du Heng covered his face: "Stop talking, you want face, you want face."
Du Heng summoned his spiritual energy, and his drenched clothes became dry again.Jing Nan glanced at him: "It seems that half-heartedness is not suitable for you, how you left just now, how about you leave now."
It seems that Du Heng has no way to appreciate the beautiful scenery around him. All Du Heng can do is to keep an eye on the road under his feet.Not to mention, such a stare really made him see a good dish to go with wine.When they reached the shallow water area, they saw densely packed snails beside the stone pillars.
Blue and black snails, large and small, are densely attracted to the stone, and you can pick up a large handful by bending down.Du Heng took a look, the biggest snail was bigger than his thumb!
He suddenly regained his energy: "Jing Nan, do you eat snails?"
Jing Nan looked back suspiciously. He saw Du Heng staring at the stone with his head down and his eyes sparkling. It’s the shell that has no meat.”
Du Heng laughed and said, "Hey, don't you understand that? The snails are the fattest during the Ching Ming Festival. After they are picked up and raised for one night, all the dirt in their stomachs will be vomited out. Cut off their buttocks, add spring onions Stir-fry ginger, garlic and a little chili, add some madder, and after the frying is done, you only need to lightly sip the meat inside. It’s perfect for drinking! Don’t you really want to try it?”
Jing Nan was moved by Du Heng's words: "Then... just have a little?"
Du Heng rolled up his sleeves and was about to go fishing for snails, but Jing Nan was disgusted with him again: "You can catch a lot of them with spiritual energy, so why bend down to fish them?"
Du Heng happened to pick up a handful of snails from the side of the pillar. He picked out the big snails and put them in the basket, and threw the small ones into the water again: "You don't know that? There is a saying that eating fish does not make fish happy. The pleasure of getting ingredients is far more than the pleasure of eating. For example, snails are taken out of the stone, leaving the big ones and removing the small ones. This is fun!"
The corners of Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "What's wrong..."
After a while, there was a shallow layer of snails in the back basket on Du Heng's back.Jing Nan was even more disgusted: "What are you fishing for now? Isn't it the same when you come back later?"
Du Heng chuckled: "The snails are nocturnal creatures. When it gets dark, they will hide. When we turn around, maybe they are already hiding in the mud."
Jing Nan looked at the snails in Du Heng's basket.What Du Heng left behind were snails the size of a thumb. When the snails were frightened, they would shrink back into their shells. But after a while, feeling that the crisis was over, they stuck their heads out of the shells to suck the shells of other snails.
Jing Nan questioned: "Is this really edible?" Du Heng gave an affirmative answer: "Yes!"
The closer to the mouth of the gourd, the more aquatic plants there are. Du Heng saw a large piece of water chestnut leaves the size of a bowl on the surface of the water.The thin leaves of the water chestnut are spread on the water surface like flowers, and groups of black and white swans are playing in the water chestnut.
Some of the swans are playing with their little swans, while others are playing in pairs on the water with their necks stretched out.Seeing Du Heng and the others, the swans quickly hid from the lotus leaves behind towards the water chestnut, leaving a high-pitched chirping sound under the blue sky and white clouds.
At this time, some of the lotus leaves have just emerged from the water, and some are stretched to the size of the brim of a hat. From a distance, they are tender and healthy. The lotus leaves of this level are perfect for steaming ribs.
In addition to lotus root and water chestnut, there are also some thin and long wild rice stems growing by the water, but this season's wild rice stems haven't swollen yet, and they will not grow swollen stems for human consumption until early autumn.
There are also some calamus mixed in the wild rice stem, and Du Heng also saw several wild Artemisia annua.It's a pity that he came too late, the artemisia was too old to bite. If it came a month in advance, what a delicious dish it would be!
Jing Nan said softly: "Our goal is too big, and the wild ducks were scared by us and hid in the lotus leaves."
Cold sweat dripped down Du Heng's head: "Jing Nan, the wild duck you're talking about...is it black and white feathers with a long neck?"
Jing Nan nodded: "Yes, isn't it a lot? A group of people."
Du Heng choked up: "In our hometown, these are not wild ducks, but swans."
Jing Nan was very calm: "Whether they are ducks or geese will affect your making salted ducks?"
Du Heng thought for a while: "It doesn't matter." He just didn't think it should be, this group of beautiful elves were playing in the green mountains and green waters, but Jing Nan wanted to make them into salt water geese!
Jing Nan took Du Heng ashore, and there were indeed many swan nests in the grass on the bank, and some swans were still lying on the nests and hatching their eggs.Seeing Jing Nan and the others passing by, the swans stretched their necks and spread their wings and hissed to drive them away.
Jing Nan stepped forward and broke the necks of the two swans, and he even took the eggs under the swans: "Hey, braised eggs! Salted geese!"
When Du Heng came to his senses, there were already a dozen swan eggs and two dead swans lying in Jing Nan's back basket.The swan that lost its spouse wailed softly on the water, which broke Du Heng's heart.
Du Heng took Jing Nan's hand: "Jing Nan, that's enough, let's stop catching them! They also have families and small ones, it can't be like this."
Jing Nan squinted his eyes and looked at the two whining male swans in the pond. With a flash of inspiration, the two male swans immediately stretched their necks and lay on the water.With a flash of inspiration in Jing Nan's hand, the two male geese landed in his back basket.
Du Heng: ...
Jing Nan said calmly, "You're right. They have families and children. They can't survive without their wives and children. So the whole family has to go on the road neatly together."
Du Heng: ...Suddenly I don't want to talk to Jing Nan anymore.
The four swans were piled heavily in the back basket behind Jing Nan, and Du Heng looked at the dead geese with a sore heart: "Let's not use swans to make salt water geese in the future? It's so pitiful."
Jing Nan chuckled lightly: "Let me guess, do you think we have gone too far? Do you think we use our power to bully the weak and kill them? It's best not to take the human way with us. Come to the Realm of Comprehension."
Jing Nan squinted his eyes and looked at the waters in front of him: "Even if we don't prey on them, there will be other monsters or spirit beasts to prey on them. It is the instinct of living beings to eat the strong. If the fist is not hard in the demon world, it will become someone else's prey."
Jing Nan was very calm: "Don't underestimate any species. Do you think we are kind by releasing two geese? Geese can also eat, and the fish and shrimps they eat also have families and children. In a word, we eat by our ability, If the swan has the ability, it can eat me."
Du Heng scratched his cheek, he actually felt that what Jing Nan said made sense.
Jing Nan looked at Du Heng calmly: "You think the Swan family is pitiful, it's nothing more than empathizing with your own emotions. Who in this world has no emotions? Either eat others or be eaten, it's so cruel. These wild ducks They thrive here and are protected by us, if they fall into the territory of other monsters, the entire race will be wiped out."
Du Heng was speechless by Jing Nan, Jing Nan patted Du Heng on the shoulder: "So there is no need to be sad, you should eat and drink. As long as you don't kill or kill indiscriminately, it's not a big problem to take some food properly. "
Du Heng feels that compared with Jing Nan, he is really an ordinary person who can't do anything.
Jing Nan looked at the grass in front of him with his hands in his hands. Just now, he broke the necks of two swans, scaring the other swans away from their nests.
Jing Nan said: "The way of heaven is orderly, and everything has its own destiny. There are so many ducks in front of you...oh, swans. Only a small part of the little life inside these eggshells can grow into it in the end. Therefore, What did you realize?"
Du Heng thought for a while and said: "Then let's take a few less ones, and don't kill them indiscriminately."
Jing Nan was very satisfied: "You are right to think so. By the way, you can get more duck eggs. Some ducklings are eaten by fish when they hatch. Rather than being eaten by fish, it is better to be eaten by me."
Jing Daxian'er was full of reasoning today, but Du Heng couldn't tell him.
In the end, five big geese fell into Jing Nan's back basket.Originally, the last one didn't have to die, but there was a flower swan who chased after Xiaoxiao and bit it.Can Xiaoxiao's violent temper be threatened by a goose?He snapped its neck in one bite.
Jing Nan picked and picked one or two eggs from each nest, and after so many nests, he collected half a basketful of eggs.Jing Nan had no choice but to stuff the dead swan into the storage bag, otherwise his back basket would not be able to hold it.
The fist-sized goose egg white is white and exudes warmth. Jing Nan is delighted: "I really like to eat eggs with ducklings in them. They are so fresh and tender. I used to eat more than a dozen boiled eggs in a meal! Du Heng, You go back and make it spiced for me!"
Du Heng was folding lotus leaves beside him, and he helplessly corrected Jing Nan: "This is a swan, not a duck."
Du Heng didn't go to pick up the eggs, he shot at the lotus leaves and lotus root in the water.He covered the snails at the bottom of the pan with a layer of wet water chestnut leaves.Then he put the hat brim-sized lotus leaves that he picked one by one on top.Thin and white lotus root belts were placed next to the lotus leaves. Du Heng figured that he could make sweet and sour lotus root belts when he got home.
Jing Nan laughed at Du Heng: "In the end, I brought you here, and you picked these lotus leaves back? Hey, what a waste."
Du Heng was not convinced: "It is also rewarding..."
There are also a lot of things in his back basket. When he goes back, he can make steamed rice with lotus leaves and pork ribs with lotus leaves.You can also make vinegared lotus root strips and fried snails, where is it wasted?
Besides, he can come next time, he can pick lotus and lotus pods in summer, water chestnut and lotus root.Come to get water bamboo in autumn, there are so many aquatic plants here, if you can't find plants, you can still get fish.Won't leave empty handed.
At this time, Xiaoxiao and the chicks chirped out in surprise. Du Heng followed the sound and saw groups of gray tadpoles swimming out of the lotus leaves.
The tadpoles are only the size of a little finger and are densely packed. They form different shapes in the water, changing in the water like smoke.Since the swans were scared away by Jing Nan, thousands of tadpoles have swam out from the grass under the lotus leaves!
Jing Nan laughed and said, "Look, this is how one goes up and down. Swans eat tadpoles, how many tadpoles are eaten by swans in the whole lake?"
Du Heng looked at the tadpoles in the water. He had never realized so clearly that they were in the food chain, and they were just a link in the food chain.
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At this time, Niannian suddenly screamed, and it flicked its paw desperately.When Du Heng looked over, he saw a crab holding two pincers of different sizes facing Nian Nian.Niannian gas exploded, and the fur on its neck exploded.
Du Heng held the crab down with one hand, and touched Niannian's down with the other: "Hey, little crab! It looks quite fat~"
If it wasn't for being pinched by crabs every year, Du Heng would not have noticed that there are small crabs the size of half a palm everywhere in the grass.This kind of crab is called crab, with a blue-black back and white belly.When they are in their hands, they proudly hold up two pliers.
The crab in Du Heng's hand is a male, and the lid under its belly is triangular.In the case of female crabs, this cover is round.
Seeing the crab, Du Heng thought of his childhood memories.
When I was young, before the holidays, a group of children in the village would run into the ditch with buckets, and when they saw round holes in the soil next to the ditch, they would dig them out with shovels.
Often there will be one or two crabs hidden in the cave, and the children will rush to catch the crabs and throw them into the bucket.
Sometimes if you are unlucky, what is hidden in the hole is not a crab but a small snake, and everyone will scatter and hide far away.
After the caught crabs go home, they are washed several times in the river, and then they are kept in buckets after they are cleaned.There are also impatient people who can't wait until the next day, and let the crabs go into the pot after a little washing.
Add some soy sauce and salt, and simmer over high heat, and the blue-black crabs will turn orange-red.There will be a dish of braised crabs on the dinner table. Although there is not much meat, it can also whet the children's appetite and eat an extra bowl of rice.If the male host likes to drink, he invites the neighbors to have a little wine, and often a meal can be eaten from the sunset to the moon climbing on the branches.
This is the charm of crabs. It is extremely difficult to eat the meat in the two small pincers.But if you can eat a few of them, you will feel that this is river fish, no less than the puffer fish and loach in spring.
Du Heng's favorite way of making crabs is not braised, but deep-fried.The little crabs were taken home and cleaned up, covered with a layer of batter, and put directly into the oil pan for frying.The fried crabs are so fragrant and crispy that you can eat even the shells.
It has been many years since I tasted this kind of delicacy. Now seeing so many small crabs, Du Heng has changed his mind again.
He happily smiled at them and said, "Help catch the little crabs. Go back and deep-fry the little crabs for you to eat. They are crispy and delicious!"
Hearing this, Xiaoxiao and the others suddenly got excited, and after a while, the three chicks pecked at the crab and threw it into Du Heng's back basket.The crabs crawled under the lotus leaves with bubbles in their mouths. Du Heng was very satisfied: "That's great!"
The corners of Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "You...is this the only thing you can do? Can you catch something with meat?"
Year after year, they worked together, and within a short while they caught half a basket of crabs.When Du Heng picked up the basket, he could hear the sound of them spitting bubbles: "Go, go, go home and fry the little crabs!"
Jing Nan followed behind Du Heng helplessly: "Are you leaving now? Don't look anymore? There are still a lot of aquatic animals here, why don't you take some fish away?"
Du Heng really hesitated: "Fish? There are a lot of fish at home, there are peach blossom fish in the refrigerator, and there are still many sea fish packed back from Yunyan Tower."
Jing Nan shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, whatever you want." He just felt a little pity, it was a rare time, and he only brought this little thing back home, so boring.
Du Heng was in high spirits, he put Xiaoxiao and Nian Suisui in the back basket on his back, and Little Wonton walked in front of him.In his left hand, he held a lotus root belt tied with water bamboo leaves, and in his right hand was a small wonton.Jing Nan almost laughed out loud behind his back, Du Heng looked like he was on a spring outing.
Du Heng raised his voice and said to Jing Nan: "Jing Nan, this is a good place, shall we come back next time?"
Jing Nan said: "I won't come here with you. It's so boring to catch a wild duck and listen to your nagging."
Du Heng was in a hurry: "Don't! It's interesting. Later, I can set up a fishing net and put it in the lake. When I want to eat fish, I can catch two nets. After a while, there will be lotus pods and water chestnuts here. It’s so rich, it’s inexhaustible if you take it slowly.”
Jing Nan put her hands together: "Then if I catch wild ducks next time, will you still talk about me?"
Du Heng's voice was left among the green mountains and green waters: "That's a swan, not a wild duck."
When Du Heng and the others returned to the village, Xuan Yu had already cleaned up Zhu Yan.Xuan Yu was afraid that Du Heng would feel the shock, so he peeled off Zhu Yan's skin, and lost the internal organs and head.The processed Zhu Yanrou turned out to be white, completely different from its rough and scary appearance.
Du Heng looked at Zhu Yan's meat in the storage bag. Just looking at this pile of meat, he couldn't imagine what Zhu Yan was like when he was alive.Now he is staring at Zhu Yan's long arms, the two arms look delicious.
Zhu Yan's arms were thick and strong, stronger than Du Heng's.Senbai's bones are wrapped with a thick layer of tendons. Du Heng thinks that such an arm must be delicious for stewing soup or braised in soy sauce!
Xuanyu was helping Du Heng to pack the lotus leaves he brought back from Nanshan. There were a lot of small crabs chopped in the lotus leaves. Xuanyu accidentally brought out a lot of them. Now the crabs were crawling all over the ground. Xuanyu looked at the The little crab was stunned.
Jing Nan chuckled: "Don't look at me, this is the trophy Du Heng brought back. He said he wanted to make fried crabs. These things are all shells, so they must not taste good."
Xuan Yu caught the crabs one by one and threw them into the tub, he said calmly, "Sounds very good."
After thinking about it for a while, Du Heng finalized today's lunch menu. He prepared to fry small crabs.Stew Zhuyan elbow in clear water, then make spiced broad beans and shredded lettuce!
Jing Nan just catches the swans but doesn't deal with them, and the matter of bloodletting and plucking falls to Xuan Yu again.In the courtyard, Xuanyu was plucking the hair without complaint, and Du Heng was carefully washing the little crabs.Jing Nan was packing the swan eggs he had picked up, while Wen Qiong was helping with the lettuce skins.
Du Heng tore off the cover under the belly of the crab, and put the cleaned crab in the wooden basin next to it.After a while, he got a large basin of cleaned crabs.
The three little chickens firmly remembered what Du Heng said to give them fried crabs, and they followed Du Heng wherever he went.Seeing the eager gazes in their eyes, Du Heng was immediately happy: "Okay, I'll fry crabs for you first."
Du Heng took out two bowls of flour from the refrigerator. He sprinkled two spoonfuls of five-spice powder and one spoonful of pepper powder in the flour, sprinkled a spoonful of fine salt, and cracked two duck eggs in it.When a little cold boiled water is added to the flour, the flour turns into a golden roux.
Du Heng put the live crabs in groups of three or five into the basin containing the batter. The crabs were immediately covered with batter, and the thick batter covered the crabs' sight.The crabs didn't think it was dangerous, they ate the batter in the basin, and one of them vomited bubbles.
After the temperature of the soybean oil in the pot came up, Du Heng threw the battered crabs into the oil pot.The crabs turned red after being put into the pan, and they stiffened and sank to the bottom of the pan.Du Heng was not in a hurry to catch them, he threw the other crabs into the batter basin, and then sent them into the oil pan one by one.
The oil pan creaked, and the crabs that were put in first were squeezed out of the oil pan by the crabs that came in later. At this time, the outline of the crabs could no longer be seen.The claws of the crabs were stuck to the batter, which looked like shuttle-shaped batter.
Du Heng scooped up the sticky crabs on a large plate that had been prepared earlier. The current crabs are good to eat, but they are not as crispy as after the second frying.
There was a smell of fried food in the courtyard, Xiaoxiao they had already been guarding by the stove.When Du Heng took the second fried crab out of the pot, the three chickens all blinked their bright eyes at Du Heng.
Du Heng handed the first three fried crabs to the three chicks respectively.Xiaoxiao is alright, it swallowed the crab with one big mouthful, but Nian Sui Sui is several times smaller than Xiaoxiao, the fried crab is bigger than their head, how should they eat the crab Woolen cloth?
Besides... can chickens eat crabs?The chickens in Du Heng's hometown can only eat food that people crush.
Just when Du Heng was about to help Nian Sui Sui smash the crab, Nian Sui Sui vigorously pecked at the crab shell and crab legs, and the crispy crab was torn apart by them.Under Du Heng's astonished eyes, the two chickens swallowed the crabs in their stomachs very quickly.
Du Heng was almost stunned, his chickens were really strong.
After the crabs were all fried, Du Heng got a large bowl of red and golden fried food.No need for extra seasoning, just bite into it and it's delicious.
Du Heng greeted Jing Nan and the others: "The fried crabs are ready! Let's eat crabs!"
Jing Nan immediately dropped the goose egg in his hand and rushed over: "Come on~~" Looking at Jing Nan's smug mockup, it's hard to imagine that he was the one who disliked him the most.
Wen Qiong came in with a shau-kei, in which there were five or six pieces of lettuce with their skins removed.Wen Qiong put the lettuce in the sink, and she looked at the crabs on the dining table: "I smelled the aroma just now, it looks delicious."
Du Heng took two crabs and handed them to Wen Qiong: "Master eat these two, they are only soft-shelled."
Wen Qiong took a bite, the batter had seasonings in it, it tasted slightly numb, moderately salty and full of flavor.Wen Qiong ate two crabs in three mouthfuls, and she couldn't get enough of them: "It's delicious, but the soft-shell ones seem to be missing something."
When Wen Qiong picked up a hard-shell crab, she knew what was missing.The soft-shelled crab tastes crispy, that's because Du Heng fried the batter crispy.The crab shell has no hardness and tastes soft. Although it is delicious, it is not as crisp as hard-shelled crabs.
After the hard-shelled crabs are deep-fried at high temperature, the shells are crispy, and the batter and crab shells are integrated into the mouth when eaten, and the mouth is full of fragrance.The crab meat and the batter echo each other, making it impossible to stop mouth after mouthful.
Wen Qiong bit the crab with a click: "It's delicious, I like this taste."
Jing Nan also gave an affirmative answer beside him: "Hey, it's not bad. I knew I would have caught more." As he spoke, Jing Nan picked up a big crab and took a big bite.With one bite, the crab lost half of its body, exposing the white meat inside the crab.
Du Heng picked up two more crabs and fed them to Nian Sui Sui. He explained: "The lake on the Nanshan side is clean, and the crabs are fat and clean."
Speaking of which, Du Heng took two big crabs and walked out of the kitchen door. Jing Nan and the others had a good time eating, and his Xiaoyu was still cleaning up the big geese in the yard.
Du Heng handed the crab to Xuan Yu's mouth: "Try it?"
Xuanyu's hand was full of goose feathers, he tilted his head and took a bite, he chewed a few times: "It's very fragrant, I didn't expect this kind of little crab to be able to do this."
Du Heng smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Do you like this taste? If you like it, I will catch more next time I go to Nanshan."
Xuanyu said slowly: "Actually, there is no need to go to the south of Nanshan Mountain. There are many small crabs like this in the stone creek at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. Every autumn, they will climb ashore."
Du Heng said in surprise: "Hey? What else? I didn't find out!"
But thinking about it, he was relieved. How long has he been in the village? He has never experienced the four seasons in the village, let alone the situation around the village?
Xuanyu said: "I like this little crab, it tastes better than peach blossom fish, I can catch some when I have time, shall I?"
Du Heng smiled and nodded: "Okay, I will also make spicy crabs, try spicy crabs next time."
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Suddenly there was a childish quacking sound in the courtyard, like the sound made by a duckling trapped somewhere.Du Heng followed the sound and saw more than a dozen white goose eggs beside the back basket where Jing Nan was standing just now, and the rattling sound came from the goose eggs he picked out.
Du Heng walked over and happened to see cracks appearing on several goose eggs.The wet cygnets in the crack are coming out of their shells!
Du Heng's eyes were wide open, and he exclaimed: "Xuanyu! Look at Xuanyu! The little goose! The little goose has broken its shell!"
Seeing the goslings that came out of their shells, Du Heng poached Jing Nan with his eyes. If it wasn't for Jing Nan's tricks, these goslings would be loved by their parents as soon as they were born.They will break their shells in the nests carefully arranged by their parents. They will grow up eating fresh aquatic plants and plump fish and shrimps in the green mountains and green waters. They will be taught by their parents how to fly and avoid natural enemies.Instead of breaking out of the shell on the cold bluestone ground like now.
Du Heng quickly found a bamboo basket, and he put a thick layer of withered grass in the basket, and put a layer of soft gauze on top of the withered grass.He carefully carried the dozen or so goose eggs and put them in the bamboo basket with spiritual energy, then he asked Xuanyu in a panic: "And then? What should we do next?"
Jing Nan gnawed on the little crab carelessly, and said irresponsibly, "Then make a fire!"
Du Heng didn't come back to his senses for a moment: "What are you doing to boil water?"
Jing Nan said: "Look at the fire and boil the five-spice eggs! The ducklings that have just cracked their shells are the best, they are fresh and tender, and you don't need to spit up the hair."
Du Heng covered more than a dozen goose eggs, afraid that they would hear Jing Nan's devilish words: "Ahhh, you are not allowed to speak! How could you let the little cutie who just hatched hear such terrible words! Your conscience is not good. Will it hurt?"
Jing Nan was extremely calm: "My conscience doesn't hurt at all, he still wants to eat some spiced eggs. Hurry up and boil the boiled eggs!"
Du Heng decided to ignore Jing Nan, he wanted to raise these goslings.
Jing Nan's words awakened Du Heng, and Du Heng suddenly remembered something: "Yes, chickens and ducklings need temperature when they break their shells. Smile, smile?"
Xiaoxiao, who was eating crabs, was carried into the bamboo basket by Du Heng, and Xiaoxiao, who was holding crabs in her mouth, looked dully at the dozen or so goose eggs rolling under her.
He tweeted twice in protest, and saw Du Heng put his hands together and said with a smile: "Smile, these little geese are about to break their shells. Without you, they will freeze to death. You are troubled. Wait for them to break their shells." You will be liberated, can I make you delicious food? Can I make milk pudding?"
Xiaoxiao is very coaxing. When he heard the word milk pudding, he nodded obediently even though he had never eaten it before.
Jing Nan couldn't bear to watch it anymore: "Fortunately, Feng Gui is not at home, if he sees you hatching goose eggs with a smile, he will beat up Xiaoxiao first and then come to clean you up."
Du Heng's gaze involuntarily drifted to the half-basket of goose eggs picked up by Jing Nan, and Jing Nan stood in front of the basket vigilantly: "You are enough, these are my favorite eggs, and there are ducklings in them." , Giving you a dozen or so is already worthy of you, don’t even think about playing with them.”
Du Heng shrugged regretfully. It seemed that the half basket of goose eggs could not escape the fate of spiced eggs.
It is not easy for the goose to break its shell, so Xiaoxiao and Nian Shui took turns guarding the basket.
Xuanyu said to Du Heng: "These little geese won't be as intelligent as they are every year after they hatch. I'm afraid it's not suitable to keep them at home. I'll go find a place in the Lingtian to build a nest for them?"
Du Heng thinks it is feasible, geese love cleanliness, and it is best to have running water and green grass. There are small ditches and green weeds in the spiritual field facing the door of the house. It would be good to build a small house in the field for these goslings to live in. .However, Du Heng felt that before the goslings could forage independently, he had to feed them well, and daily shoveling of excrement was indispensable.
On the stove under the eaves of the verandah, Zhuyan elbows were stewed. The large pieces of elbows were soaked in the milky white soup, which smelled quite fragrant.Du Heng felt that the smell of this meat was different from that of Shan Gao and Kui Niu. After all, it was a wild animal on the mountain, so the taste must be different.
Du Heng cut half a spring bamboo shoot in the soup and threw a chicken fir.He was about to run out of chicken fir, and in two days he would go to Fenggui's yard to see if there was any fresh chicken fir to pick.
The large piece of Zhu Yan's elbow was covered with lean meat, which was slightly gray in color.He didn't know how old Zhu Yan had lived, but he only knew that under the effect of the formation, it had been half an hour, and the lean meat on the elbow was just able to poke.
The delicious smell filled the yard, Du Heng scooped up some soup with a spoon, and he tasted it.The taste of the soup is not bad, Zhuyan's taste is not as annoying as its name, the soup tastes very similar to ordinary beef soup, even a little more fresh than beef soup.
Du Heng took a spoonful of soup and put it in the bowl: "Smile, do you want some soup?"
Xiaoxiao, who was incubating the egg, nodded hurriedly: "Jiujiujiu!" The goslings under Xiaoxiao were more excited than Xiaoxiao: "Quack quack—"
After Du Heng fed Xiaoxiao and finished drinking the soup, he touched Xiaoxiao's belly.Xiaoxiao stood up generously to show off his achievements, six little goslings had already hatched under him!
The gray little goose is very big, one is two or three times bigger than when Sui Sui Sui first picked it up.The goslings huddled together, looking at Du Heng curiously and strangely.
Du Heng picked up the broken eggshell under Xiaoxiao's body. He looked at the white eggshell and said with emotion: "How miraculous, life hatched out of such a small eggshell."
It happened that Xuanyu walked by with the neck of the big goose that had been processed, and Jing Nan said coolly: "How cruel, you have worked so hard to transform from an egg into a goose, and you will be eaten in the end."
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan accusingly: "If you threaten my little goose again, I will put chili in the dish."
This trick worked, Jing Nan complained to Xuan Yu angrily: "Look at Du Heng, it's getting more and more excessive. It's okay to be perfunctory before, but now he's threatening me."
Xuanyu put the big geese in the wooden basin: "If you continue to complain, he will put peppers in the salted geese."
Jing Nan spread her hands together helplessly: "I finally understand, you two are now wearing the same pair of pants, I can't say no to you."
Wen Qiong ate crabs for a while, and she felt that hiccups all smelled like crabs.She was humming a song and was about to pack the lettuce leaves and skins, but Du Heng hurriedly stopped her: "Master, leave it alone! Let me do it!"
Wen Qiong replied: "It's okay, I can help too, I can't just eat rice all the time."
Du Heng said: "No, master, there are goslings at home now, I want to keep the lettuce leaves to feed the goslings."
Jing Nan sighed: "Xiaoyu, at first I thought you could still rank second in the family, but as you get older, your status plummets. Be optimistic, when you raise gooselings, your status may even go down. Goose is not as good."
Xuanyu was very calm: "If the lettuce leaves are not fed to the goslings, Du Heng will cook them into vegetables and feed them to us. Whether to feed the geese or keep them for yourself is up to you."
Jing Nan had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, so it turned out that their status was similar to that of geese.
Du Heng was humming and cutting the shredded lettuce. His knife skill was very beautiful, and the shredded lettuce was even in thickness, which looked like a plate of emerald jade on the plate.
Lettuce is really a good thing. It is soft and glutinous when stewed, crisp and tender when stir-fried, and has different flavors when eaten cold.It is said that it is a cold salad, and the shredded lettuce has to be blanched for a short time.Of course, you can also mix it directly without blanching, but Du Heng thinks that the shredded lettuce made in that way has a natural taste of lettuce, and some people don't like this taste.
The water in the pot boiled, and Du Heng poured the shredded lettuce into the pot and quickly blanched it.The water stood still for a while and just after it boiled, Du Heng took them all out of the cold water.
In the small bowl, Du Heng patted some garlic paste and chopped some shredded red pepper.After the shredded lettuce was blanched, Du Heng added a spoonful of soybean oil to the pot.After the soybean oil was warmed up, Du Heng scooped up the soybean oil and poured it into a small bowl, only to hear a prickling sound, and a smell of minced garlic and chili came out of the small bowl.
This was Jing Nan's most hated combination of seasonings, but after splashing hot oil, the minced garlic no longer choked people, and the spiciness of the chili became mild.Taking advantage of the residual heat in the pot, Du Heng poured a spoonful of vinegar into the pot, and the vinegar after cooking in the pot also became moist.
After the vinegar is put into the pot, it needs to be quickly taken out and added to the bowl. If it was Du Heng before, he really couldn't get this spoonful of vinegar out.
But now Du Heng is a monk, his aura spread evenly along the bottom of the pot, and the vinegar that had been choked by the hot oil and residual heat evaporated a little at this time.Reiki was wrapped in vinegar and poured into the previous garlic bowl. While the seasoning in the bowl was still warm, he sprinkled a spoonful of soy sauce, half a spoonful of salt, and a spoonful of sugar into the bowl.
After stirring all the seasonings while they were hot, he raised his hand and poured the sauce on the lettuce.The emerald green lettuce was immediately stained with sauce, and the red chili shreds lying on the lettuce added a different color to the dish.
Most of the pickles and cold salads made by Du Heng are salty and sweet. They taste salty but sweet, and the sweetness contains saltiness.A bite of the crunchy shredded lettuce is crisp, delicious and layered, which is why Jing Nan likes to eat the dishes made by Du Heng. His dishes are never just sweet or salty like the chefs in Yunyanlou.His dishes can make people aftertaste, make people want to eat again.
Even a simple plate of shredded lettuce can create a taste that the chef of Yunyanlou can't.Jing Nan felt that if he left the village in the future, he would starve.
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