Searching for food through the beast world

Food for the people

After eating and drinking enough, the best way to stay up all night is to find entertainment.And now the most suitable thing for a family to play together is backgammon.

Watching Father and Kun play chess, both of them can score a storytelling book, the winner is evenly divided, Ding Xiao regrets in his heart that he really underestimated Father's thinking ability.Sure enough, they are not ordinary people!Playing backgammon with Kun by himself, he won the game at first, but then he failed.If I win at most three out of ten times, then maybe Kun will give me that one time.However, Ding Xiao also reflected on it, and guessed that if he no longer had to make bets with each other, maybe Kun would win less times?Pooh!What the hell am I thinking!

But looking at it, the biological clock began to work, and finally the cub Ding Xiao was carried back to the room by Kun in a daze.And Father He and Father Joan are also happy to go back to the house and do their own work.It's just that when I entered the house, I put a plate of sugar and poured a pot of tea.Looks like a tea party for two? o(╯□╰)o When Ding Xiao woke up the next day, the sun was already high.But with the light of a house like theirs, he couldn't see anything clearly without opening the door.

Sensing movement in the person in his arms, Kun opened his eyes. "woke up?"

Rubbing on the animal skin pillow, Ding Xiao closed his eyes comfortably: "Yeah. Are you hungry? Let me make dumplings." That's what he said, but he still lay on the bed and didn't want to move. .

There is a smile on Kun's face, although no one can see it, but he himself feels good now. "Uncle Qiong is already making dumplings with my second uncle. Go to sleep, you have to work all day today, get some rest. You haven't slept all night."

Ding Xiao muttered in a muffled voice: "I used to read novels all night long."

"Novel? What is that?" Kun asked curiously.

"It's just... a compiled thing, a book written in words, just like the various scrolls at the sacrificial place."

Kun frowned slightly: "Everyone in your place can read?"

Hugging Kun's arm, Ding Xiao continued to reply with his eyes closed: "Well. In our place, small... cubs will start learning to read at the age of four or five. But formal learning begins at the age of six or seven. Learn to write, learn to paint, learn to sing, learn all kinds of things, but there is no such thing as how to hunt, how to survive in the wild. So young people can read and write."

"Xiaoxiao, teach me your characters." In this way, you can understand the three books that Xiaoxiao brought.You can also help Xiaoxiao memorize "Food Notes".In the past, everyone was the same, and he didn't feel anything when only a few people knew words.And he never wanted to be the village head, and Dad never forced himself.Hunting has led a life without words, but now he suddenly feels that what Xiaoxiao understands must be understood by himself, only in this way can he fully own Xiaoxiao.It's not just this person, and it's not just the partner's heart, but also the memories of the past. Although you can't participate, you must understand and know.

After Ding Xiao got dressed and left the room, the cabbage stuffed dumplings jointly made by Apa Qiong and Apa He were already out of the pan.

Xiaoxiao scratched her head embarrassingly: "Father, Father, good morning. I got up late." In fact, although I didn't wake up early, I stayed in bed even later.It was probably due to the lack of sleep yesterday. He felt dizzy today and really didn't want to get up.But now that I'm out of the house, I feel much more awake after blowing a little cool breeze.I'll have a popsicle after breakfast in a while, it's probably more refreshing!

Joan rubbed her son's hair with a smile: "You haven't slept so late, it's normal to be unable to wake up. Go and wash up and eat quickly. Most of the dumplings today were made by your father."

Drinking the corn dregs porridge specially prepared by my father, my stomach is warm, and it is really the best choice for breakfast with the salty and delicious cabbage stuffed dumplings made by my father.It seems that at least my family is used to this way of eating with staple food and side dishes that can be roasted without a meal.

Ding Xiao is very busy this day.Although the amount of meals he had to prepare was not large, the portions were huge, and he couldn't handle it alone.So Aunt Joan and Aunt Liu Dai went to battle together, and by the way, a little Miao Miao who made troubles anytime and anywhere also slipped into the kitchen.

Ding Xiao prepared two stews today.

Let Kun slaughter a long-tailed chicken, shaved off the chicken breast and a chicken leg, chopped the head and claws into pieces, and stewed two big pots of fat chicken with the yellow mushrooms soaked in hair last night and about two catties of pork belly Stewed mushrooms.

The remaining chicken legs were also chopped into small pieces, and made into braised flavor with white beans and yam.Ding Xiao knew that this was Kun’s favorite taste, so he specially set aside a small bowl of braised sauce for later collection, and that bowl of braised sauce was reserved for Kun to dip in steamed buns~!

The chicken breast was loosened by Ding Xiao and cut into small cubes. It was marinated with salt, a little sugar, two spoons of soy sauce and water starch (made before).Then mix salt, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, half a spoonful of chili oil, and a spoonful of water starch into a bowl of juice.Reluctantly parting with love and fried a small bowl of peanuts.This plate of fake Kung Pao Chicken Ding Dingxiao is still worth the money.There is no way, who made me greedy when I saw this dish when I was reading in the first two days.

Put oil in the pan, sauté the onion, ginger, and garlic until fragrant, put the dried chili in and fry until slightly mushy, add the marinated diced chicken, stir fry until the color changes, pour the juice into a bowl and stir well, add the diced purple melon, Continue to stir fry, when the bowl of juice is almost dry, pour the fried peanuts into the pot, stir well and then you can take it out of the pot and put it on a plate.

Although the Kung Pao Chicken was fake, after Ding Xiao tasted it, he thought it tasted good.The purple melon still retains its fragrant and slightly crunchy taste, and the peanuts are still crispy. With the sauce wrapped outside, at least it will satisfy your cravings.

Looking at the peanuts on the plate, Xiao Miaomiao asked seriously: "Brother Xiaoxiao, can I have this bean?"

Ding Xiao took a small wooden spoon and handed it over: "It's a little spicy. This bowl is honey water with a floral fragrance." After speaking, he poured a cup of jasmine honey tea.

Carefully scooped a peanut into his mouth.First she tasted salty, then spicy, and before she picked up the bowl to drink the sweet water, a sweet taste appeared in her mouth.The sweet taste is a combination of spicy and salty, combined with a crispy texture. Although Xiao Miaomiao doesn't know how to describe it, she smiled straightforwardly: "Brother Xiaoxiao, this is delicious!"

He patted Miaomiao's head: "Brother Xiaoxiao and your elder brother will dig a lot of these beans next year, and then Miaomiao will be able to eat as many beans as he wants." Of course, besides digging, he also has to plant, who keeps it a secret now What about the stage.

Miao Miao nodded vigorously: "Okay! Brother Xiaoxiao is the best! Much better than big brother!" After speaking, she ran away with her honey water to show off to her third brother.Although the other party is not jealous at all.

Seeing Ding Xiao's patience and love for Miao Miao, the expression on Father Joan's face was somewhat uncomfortable.Beast God can bring Xiaoxiao to himself, so can he also bring a child to Xiaoxiao?It seems that Xiaoxiao likes little cubs very much.

Liu Dai noticed Qiong's expression and patted her sister-in-law on the shoulder: "Don't worry. Ying and Cang will have children in the future."

The implication is self-evident, Joan looked gratefully at Liu Dai: "Sister-in-law..."

Liu Dai shook her head with a smile: "We are all one family. See how serious Xiaoxiao is, let's talk about those things later."

Joan nodded: "Yes. Then let's steam the steamed buns, the time is almost here."

In fact, the cub Ding Xiao heard what Aunt Liu Dai and Dad said just now.He was deeply troubled by the worries of the two elders.He, he, he just thought that his little sister should be loved and taken care of, how could it become that he wants a cub?impossible!This is not scientific!I, me, a man, I really don't have the strong desire to be a "mother" like my father.But how does this feel to be unclear.

Forget it, let's cook quickly.

The white bean and sweet potato powder made by Xiaoxiao that day has been successfully dried.Not only did he make wide noodles, but he also made many vermicelli with Kunge's special wooden colander.Today he decided to use them all.Stir-fry a plate of sauerkraut vermicelli, and a jar of stewed pork vermicelli.

Sliced ​​pork belly is blanched to remove the blood, and then put sliced ​​green onion, sliced ​​ginger, and a small bag with five-spice powder sewn with linen.Because he didn't know when the wide noodles he made would be boiled, Ding Xiao decided to stew the meat until it was almost ready before adding the wide noodles.Anyway, the meat is already ready, and when the vermicelli is rotten, the vegetables will be ready.He is not afraid of the meat being too rotten, and vermicelli is the most important thing at present.

Sauerkraut Fried Noodles is an extremely simple home-cooked dish in Northeast China.Ding Xiao had a soft spot for this dish in his previous life. In fact, he also liked to eat fried meat with pickled and sour radish, but now he has not seen radish.

Cut the sauerkraut into thin shreds, soak it in clean water to remove the surface, and then squeeze it out.Put the meat oil in the pot, boil it and put the chopped green onion in the pot.Then stir-fry the shredded pork to change color, then put the sauerkraut in and stir-fry.The self-made vermicelli is not too fine to be precise, so it has to be processed in advance.But don't boil it, just soak it in cold water for a while.After adding the vermicelli, stir-fry with the sauerkraut again, pour a large spoonful of bone broth into the pot, then season with vegetable salt, cover the pot and simmer for a while to make the sauerkraut and vermicelli cooked.When the fans are ready, the soup is almost ready.At this time, it is a big bowl out of the pot.

Braised lion head Dingxiao uses badger meat.The deployment is a rich and fragrant five-spice sauce.It is a lion head as big as ten fists, which looks quite spectacular.From mincing the stuffing to beating hard, Brother Kun collaborated to complete it, so he is absolutely confident in the taste of this dish!

After the shredded yam and sweet potato are ready, they are taken out for everyone to eat.Miaomiao little pot friend likes to eat sweets, so he occupies half of the table by himself, eating happily.He also expressed incomprehension for his third brother eating slowly.But the young man was very calm.He will not give up so much meat for a while just to eat a few pieces of yam and sweet potato.He is a male, a male who loves to eat meat!

Sweet and sour carp, sausage platter, twice-cooked pork slices, salt and pepper pork ribs, stir-fried lettuce.There is also red oil jelly made with sweet potato and white bean starch.

After finishing these dishes, it was around three o'clock in the afternoon.The whole family didn't eat at noon, only Xiao Miaomiao wiped out half of the plate of candied sweet potatoes and yams.I'm really not very hungry now.So she once again saw a table full of delicious pouting luck.

Except for Kung Pao Chicken, Fried Sauerkraut Noodles and Red Oil Jelly, this table was all made by Ding Xiao before.But maybe today is the first day of the new year, and everyone feels that the dishes on the table are more delicious than ever.

In fact, the happiest person is Ding Xiao.He had never had so many people have a New Year's reunion dinner together before.Although he has been busy from the morning to the afternoon and now his waist is sore and his arms are sore, he just feels very comfortable.

When he was a child, he was very envious when he saw many people celebrating the New Year in other people's homes. Later, he gradually let himself forget this emotion.In fact, their family's [-]th and first day of junior high school have never been cold.Even in the new year when three people became two again, Ding Xiao did his best to make his father smile.But in fact, Ding Xiao also knows that not only his father feels tired, but also himself.It's just that the father and son depend on each other for life, and he doesn't want his father to have no smile on his face during the Chinese New Year.

The memories in my mind were interrupted by Kun.A steamed bun stuffed with sauerkraut powder was handed to his mouth. "Smile, this is also delicious!"

Seeing Kun's smiling face, Ding Xiao opened his mouth and took a big bite on the steamed bun.I don't know why, but the sweetness in my heart is slightly sour. "When spring comes, our hometown will bake spring cakes, which are very thin cakes. Then roll the fried soil... white bean shreds, sauerkraut fried noodles, bean sprouts made from beans, leek fried Eggs or scrambled tofu and so on. But I like to eat rice porridge while eating spring pancakes, it’s delicious.”

Rice is a food that Kun, He and Qiong are most familiar with. Ding Xiao was fortunate to have seen the appearance of rice when it is mature, so he drew it in more detail.It's just that Peng Jia and Liu Dai don't know anything about it. "Rice porridge? What kind of food is this?" Pengjia asked.

Kun replied with a smile: "Xiaoxiao has drawn me the appearance of that rice, but we haven't found it in our safe zone at all, and I haven't seen it when I went hunting in Aomori. I will continue to look for it next year."

Peng Jia took a bite of the steamed bun, rolled his eyes several times: "Smile, how many things do you remember that you can eat?"

Ding Xiao froze for a moment, then quickly looked at Kun.This question is not easy to answer.Not a lot if I remember.But he has heavenly eyes, as long as he sees something, he knows whether it can be eaten or not.He hasn't even told Kun about this cheating weapon (but your partner has already believed your joke).

Kun once again answered for Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao has told me all the food that Xiaoxiao remembers. I will tell you later." The implication is that you eat when you eat, don't talk about other things.

Uh... For the first time, Pengjia felt that his eldest son's character was difficult to deal with besides not attracting people's liking.He actually blocked himself with one sentence, as if he would be disadvantageous to Xiaoxiao.Sure enough, when the son grows up and has a partner, he won't listen to his father's words. (Actually, he has never heard of you, Mr. Village Chief←_←)

Seeing the slightly trembling expression on the corner of Uncle Pengjia's mouth, Ding Xiao thought it was a little funny.But Kun is really imposing, maybe it will be really suitable to be the village head in the future. "Uncle, people in my hometown use many, many things as food. I can't remember much if I think about it this way, but I can probably think of some if I see it."

Joan ate the wide noodles in pork stewed vermicelli and looked at her precious cubs. "To have a lot of food as food, someone has to try it. The first person to try is great."

Isn't that amazing.In human society, without the keen sense of smell of orcs and the intuition of being connected with nature, the first person to eat crabs is definitely the most admirable.But it's a different matter for someone like me who has a cheating device.That's not right, I have to try it myself to know the taste, there are always ridiculous edible foods, right? "There is a saying in my hometown called 'Food is the sky for the people', which means that people or the most important thing is to be able to eat. Food is as important as the sky. So I think that in order not to be hungry, I can find more Something that can be eaten is a very meaningful thing."