After the genius was abolished, he became my Taoist companion

65. Stewed Rice with Peas and Bacon

Time flies, and April is drawing to a close in the blink of an eye.For half a month, the small col doesn't seem to have changed much, but every detail can feel the passage of time.

For example, for the fruit trees in the forest, when the leaves slowly return, there are a lot of flowers blooming on the fruit trees.Now the flowers have withered and left green fruits.The leaves of the luxuriant fruit trees are shiny, and the small fruits between the leaves poke out the brain, and they will become bigger, red and sweet in a short time.

The rapeseed flowers in the field have also withered, and the golden color has disappeared, only a few flowers that have not kept up with the main force are still stubbornly supporting a few residual flowers.The green rapeseed pods are long and narrow, and when the breeze blows, the rapeseed pods shake and make a rustling sound.

The corn in the field is as tall as a person, the male flowers at the top have quietly emerged, and slender and growing corn cobs appear on the stalks.It is estimated that after the wheat is harvested, the corn will gradually mature.

The wheat next to the rapeseed has already headed, and the wheat ears with awns are filling quickly in the sun...

Little by little, all herald a good harvest.

Tan Duzhi rolled his wheelchair and strolled slowly on the path outside the courtyard. The flowers on the fence were blooming happily, and the heavy flowers bent their branches. When the wind blew, the petals fell one after another. The path full of gates.

Jin Bao raised his head and gently sniffed a rose flower. It wagged its tail slightly, and seemed to be in a good mood.

Tan Duzhi raised his head and looked in the direction of the stone bridge. According to the time, Ye Huangui should have returned before two cups of tea. Why hasn't he returned today?Did something happen on the way?

As long as Ye Huangui went out these few days, he would go outside the courtyard.Looking at the flowers in the eyes, the mood will become better.However, when Ye Huangui came back tonight, Tan Duzhi had no intention of admiring the flowers.

The wheelchair made a slight sound as it rolled over the gravel road, and Tan Duzhi rolled the wheelchair to the courtyard.

The ground in the courtyard is full of bamboo stalks used to dry dried bamboo shoots. On the round bamboo stalks are placed bamboo shoots of different shades of color. As soon as you enter the yard, the fragrance of the bamboo shoots hits you.

The bamboo shoots are bluish white when they are first dried, but after drying, the color gradually becomes dull, and the plump bamboo shoots gradually become dry.The sun-dried bamboo shoots are as thin as firewood sticks, and the ashen appearance does not show the tenderness before.

Ye Huangui made several trips to Nanshan during this period, picking up a lot of bamboo shoots.He tied up the sun-dried bamboo shoots with string and put them in the storage room, so that they could be stewed in winter.

Tan Duzhi looked in the direction of the vegetable field. In half a month, the vegetables in the vegetable field had changed.

In addition to the leeks, the only remaining vegetables in the previous crop were peas.Peas tend to be vines, they get mixed up with each other, and it is very difficult to separate them.Swollen pods hang on the turquoise vines, and as long as you peel off the pods, you can see round green peas.

New small green vegetables have sprouted in the place where green vegetables were grown before, and Ye Huangui said that in a few days, there will be feather vegetables to eat.

There are two places where lettuce is grown, and now the lettuce has been eaten up.One field was planted with cucumbers, and the other field was planted with beans. At this time, both cucumbers and beans had sprouted two inches above the ground.

In addition, there are peppers that Tan Duzhi likes and tomatoes that he has never eaten. The pepper seedlings and tomato seedlings are both bred by Ye Huangui himself. At this time, the two seedlings are only half a foot long.Although thin, but very energetic.

In the northernmost part near the fence wall, Ye Huangui dug two nests. One nest was filled with loofah seeds, and the other was buried with pumpkin seeds.These two kinds of seeds have just germinated, and you can see the buds with two thick leaves in the nest at a glance.

But Tan Du couldn't tell which one was loofah and which one was pumpkin.Hearing from Ye Huangui, there were other seeds in it, so he couldn't tell the difference.

There are always things in Ye Huangui's vegetable field that Tan Duzhi has never seen before, and every time he sees them, he will be pleasantly surprised.

Across the fence, the chicks are chirping and scratching the dirt to find insects to eat.This group of chicks were the chicks hatched by those two old hens. Perhaps because of Ye Huangui's good care, none of the chicks died young.

After half a month of careful feeding, the chicks have grown from a small ball to a chicken bigger than a fist.The fluff on their bodies has also begun to fall off, and there are a few fluff mixed among the immature feathers, which is very interesting to watch.

The chicks chirped, loud and quiet.Tan Duzhi can tell from their voices whether they are panicking or happy, which is really a big improvement!

Suddenly Tan Duzhi heard a dog barking, and Ye Huangui came back!He hurriedly rolled the wheelchair to the gate of the courtyard.

Ye Huangui began to yell as soon as he crossed the stone bridge: "Old Tan, I'm back!"

Hearing his voice, Tan Duzhi slowed down instead.He stretched out his left hand to straighten his clothes and hair, and then appeared at the gate of the courtyard unhurriedly: "Welcome back."

Ye Huangui got off Jixiang's body in a hurry, and he said, "Look! I brought the rabbit back."

Tan Duzhi looked at the basket: "Rabbit?"

Ye Huangui took off the baskets on Jixiang's back, only to see that the baskets were covered with a layer of nets, and there were five or six big dusty rabbits inside each basket.

Ye Huangui explained: "Here, this is the rabbit that Uncle Fu used to practice his hands. Have you forgotten? Uncle Fu said that he would give me the rest of the rabbits after the practice. A few of them died during the practice. It's all here."

Tan Duzhi looked carefully, and there were traces of sewing on each rabbit's limbs.Because of this, the rabbits are not very energetic, they move their noses nervously and breathe rapidly.Forber's technique is very good, the stitches on the wound are stitched so skillfully that you may not be able to find it without looking carefully.

Tan Duzhi suddenly realized one thing, Fu Bo gave the rabbit to Ye Huangui, does it mean that he has finished training?

Sure enough, Ye Huangui said happily: "Uncle Fu said he is sure now! We bought sixty good-looking phoenix feet, and we can repair your meridians tomorrow!"

Tan Duzhi smiled: "Really? Thank you!"

Ye Huangui smiled and picked up the basket and walked to the side of the chicken coop: "You don't need to thank me, if you want to thank me, thank Uncle Fu! Uncle Fu said that he is going to come to our house to help you perform surgery tomorrow."

Tan Duzhi responded, "Ah."

It's always good to be able to come home for surgery, otherwise Tan Duzhi would have to rush back after the surgery, and the exhausting journey would not be good for the wound.Besides, it would be somewhat inconvenient for Tan Duzhi to stay in the grocery store.

What's more, Ye Huangui had already made arrangements, Lao Tan's diet and daily life during the operation and Fubo's three meals a day must be in charge of him.What could be more relaxing than cooking at home?

Ye Huangui was in a great mood, humming a song, opened the small door to the east and walked to the rabbit cage that had been prepared earlier.

Next to the chicken coop is a suspended square cage, which is two feet high and wide, and eight feet long.There are six two-foot-high metal pillars under the cage to support it firmly. No matter it is windy or rainy, the cage will not fall down.

The cage is made of metal with barbed wire wrapped around it, and only the top wire can be opened.Ye Huangui could feed or catch the rabbits from the top. At this time, he grabbed the rabbit ears and put the rabbits into the cage one by one.

Rabbits like to dig holes and are good at chewing things. If Ye Huangui put them in a bamboo cage, they would all run away in a few days!

This cage was custom-made by him, and it cost five hundred cash.

The rabbits were very nervous when they came to the new environment. They ran around in the cage, creating a commotion in the iron cage.When Ye Huangui put grass into the rabbit cage, the commotion subsided.The rabbits went to graze in peace, and have forgotten why they ran before.

Ye Huangui built a layer of old bamboo mat on top of the rabbit cage. The mat had been cut by him, and when it was covered on the rabbit cage, there was just a section on both sides to block the rain.

Ye Huangui picked up a few stones and pressed them on the mat: "You guys have to eat seriously to grow up and gain weight!"

He and Lao Tan's dreams of shredding rabbits and eating rabbits cold and eating rabbits' heads are counting on them to come true!

Fang Yexuan dug a hole under the rabbit's cage. In the hole, there were worms that could decompose excrement. The rabbit's excrement could leak out of the cage.In this way, he doesn't have to shovel the rabbit's shit every day, and the smell of the rabbits won't be too strong.

After the rabbit was settled, he looked at the sky: "It's time to make lunch. Are you hungry, Old Tan?"

Tan Duzhi was not hungry, Ye Huangui had made a lot of snacks for him during this time and put them on the table, he could pick them up anytime he wanted.Just because he couldn't see Ye Huangui, his appetite wasn't very good.

Hearing Ye Huangui asking himself, Tan Duzhi smiled and said, "It's okay, what shall we have for lunch?"

Ye Huangui thought for a while: "How about making pea rice?"

During this period of time, the meat dishes at home have never stopped. Tan Duzhi serves stewed tiger meat and stir-fried liver and waist every day, and he has not developed a physical aversion to tiger meat. It is purely because Ye Huangui cooks it deliciously.

Tan Duzhi felt that the food he ate recently was indeed a bit meaty, so it was fine to eat some vegetarian food.He smiled and said, "Okay, just pea rice."

Ye Huangui wiped his hands, he carried a bamboo basket and walked towards the east of the corn field.Tan Duzhi followed behind him in confusion: "Didn't you say to make pea rice? How to..."

He even forgot what Ye Huangui planted in this field. What is the name of this kind of crop that can bloom purple flowers?

Kui Ye slowly understood him, and he answered, "Potatoes, this is a potato field."

Tan Duzhi nodded: "Yes, yes. Why are you here?"

Ye Huangui bent down and scraped in the soil next to the potato roots: "Put some new potatoes in the pea rice, it's delicious!"

While talking, he pulled out a yellow-white potato that was the size of an egg from the soil.After digging again, four or five potatoes were picked out from the side.

Tan Duzhi asked in surprise, "Are the potatoes so big?!"

Before seeing the potatoes, Tan Duzhi's impression of the potatoes was only the size of peas.He was still thinking about how Ye Huangui would get the potatoes out of the field when they were ripe.Does it need to be sieved?Sieve bits of potato out of the mash?

Unexpectedly, Ye Huangui picked up a potato the size of an egg with a quick pick, which surprised him!Moreover, the color of the potatoes was different from what he thought. The color looked very nice, and it didn't look like something that could grow out of mud.

Ye Huangui said: "It's not too big. A big potato can grow to the size of a bowl! Do you think the leaves of our potatoes are still green? When the leaves start to wither and turn yellow, the potatoes can be harvested. "

Ye Huangui didn't stop what he was doing, he changed to another place and continued to scrape away the soft soil: "Potatoes grow when they germinate, let's eat them early and enjoy them. What you eat is a rarity!"

When the potatoes are really ripe, I'm afraid that Tan Duzhi will get tired of eating them and don't want to eat them.

66. Stewed Rice with Peas and Bacon

When Ye Huangui came back from the field, there were already a dozen large and small potatoes in his basket.The new potatoes were covered with black dirt, making their skins even better.

After picking the potatoes, Ye Huangui went to pick a small basket of peas.He sat in the main room and peeled peas. When the peas were tender, the skin was thicker and the peas were smaller.And as the beans get bigger and bigger, the skin gets thinner and thinner.

The bean pods that Ye Huangui picked were all ripe. When the thin outer skin was peeled off, the bean and rice inside were green and round, and they were still bouncing when they were thrown into the bowl.

Ye Huangui looked at the sun outside, and he asked Tan Duzhi for his opinion: "Old Tan, I have always wanted to buy vines and plant them, what do you think?"

Tan Duzhi affirmed: "Buy!"

Ye Huangui pointed in the direction of the kitchen: "I want to open another door on the side of the kitchen, so that you don't have to turn through the main entrance to go to the kitchen, and you don't have to carry the muddy vegetables picked from the vegetable field across the living room. Plant a few vines in front of the kitchen and set up a trellis, and you can let the grapes climb the vines. It doesn’t take long to create a shade.”

Ye Huangui looked forward to it: "When the weather is bright in summer, we can choose vegetables under the vine, and we can also put a deck chair under the tree to take a nap! The grape variety is best to buy the kind that is big and sweet, so that we have more Grapes to eat. By the way, you can also build a pool under the grape trellis, so it will be more convenient to wash vegetables!"

Tan Duzhi smiled: "Okay."

The more Ye Huangui talked, the more he looked forward to it: "With the grape trellis, there will be shade, and we can still eat outside with a small stool in the evening!"

Tan Duzhi smiled: "Okay."

Ye Huangui made a final decision: "That's it! I'll go find grape seedlings when you recover."

Not long after, Ye Hugui peeled a large bowl of tender peas out. After cleaning up the peas and rice, he remembered an important thing: "That's right! I almost forgot! Forbe gave me a piece of bacon!"

While speaking, he opened the storage bag, and after rummaging through it for a while, he took out a pork chop: "Look! What a big piece of bacon!"

Tan Duzhi said: "Does Uncle Fu's grocery store still sell bacon?"

Ye Huangui said: "It's for sale! He sells everything from south to north. This piece of bacon was found by Fu Bo when he was clearing the warehouse, and it is a local product of Lanling City!"

While talking, he put the bacon on the chopping board.The black pigskin on the bacon seems to have grown hair, and the color of the ribs attached to it is not very beautiful.But when Ye Huangui cut off a side rib with a horizontal knife, the color of the meat that appeared on the section of the bacon was very beautiful.

The bright red lean meat and the snow-white fat are intertwined, and it looks delicious!

Ye Huangui saw that the ribs on the top had fallen off, leaving only the long strip of meat below the ribs.Although there is only one piece of meat, this piece of meat is heavy, more than a catty!

Ye Huangui gestured with the meat: "Wow, this must be a big pig. Look, one of its ribs is as long as my arm!"

Tan Duzhi thought for a while: "It may be a spirit pig. An ordinary spirit pig can only weigh a thousand catties, which is very huge."

Ye Huangui was speechless: "I've never seen such a big pig! I don't know if it's delicious or not."

While talking, he started a fire in the stove.After the fire ignited, he put the piece of meat on the fire and burned it earnestly.

The remaining pig hairs on the pigskin were burnt so loudly that the fat in the meat was roasted out.When the pork was taken out of the stove, it had become a black charcoal.

Ye Huangui had already prepared a pot of rice washing water, he soaked the meat in the water and went back to his own business.

The skin of new potatoes is particularly easy to remove. During the cleaning process, a large piece of skin can be torn off with a light stroke of your fingernail.The torn skin is slightly transparent, like a film.

After a while, Ye Huangui peeled off the skins of more than a dozen potatoes: "Old Tan, can I make you a braised potato for lunch today?"

Tan Duzhi would have no objection: "Okay."

Ye Huangui divided the potatoes into two halves with more on one side and less on the other. He cut the larger pile into hob pieces, and the other side into diced potatoes as thick as a little finger.

At this time, the bacon had been soaked for a while, so Ye Hugui took it out of the water and looked at it.I saw that the surface of the bacon was covered with black fat, which looked very ugly.

It was difficult for Ye Huanhui to fall back, he picked up the kitchen knife and scraped off the dirt around the meat.The skin of the shaved bacon is golden, the fat is golden and has a slightly transparent feeling.

Ye Huangui carefully cleaned it several times until he made sure that there was no residual dirt on the bacon, and then he cut the meat into cubes about the size of diced potatoes.

He soaked the diced bacon in clean water. Taking advantage of this time, he went to the field to cut a small handful of chives and came back.After he cleaned up the chives, the preparation of the pea rice was not complete.

Tan Duzhi deftly walked around to the stove and started to light the fire. After the pot was hot, Ye Huangui poured a small amount of soybean oil into the pot.After the shredded ginger burst into the pot and gave off its aroma, he poured the bacon into the pot and started to stir-fry.

The diced bacon secreted a lot of fat when it was heated, and there was a small crackling sound from the pot from time to time, and the small oil flowers were splashed with green smoke, and a salty and fragrant bacon smell permeated.

When the diced bacon was stir-fried until the surface turned slightly yellow, Ye Huangui also put the peas and diced potatoes into the pot and stir-fried them together.When these two ingredients meet hot oil, the green one is like a tourmaline, and the yellow one is like a warm jade.Mixed in diced bacon, the yellow, yellow and green are so beautiful.

It wasn't until then that Ye Huangui poured the long-soaked Lingmi into the pot, and then he added a little less water than normal cooking.As soon as the water enters the pot, the movement in the pot is small.

After shoveling the rice in the shovel pot, a piece of golden fat floated on the surface of the rice, of course, there were also a few pieces of fat diced meat mixed in.Ye Huangui poured a spoonful of dark soy sauce and a spoonful of light soy sauce into the pot for coloring, and he put the lid on the pot: "It's fine to cook normally! Old Tan, help light the fire in the pot too."

Tan Duzhi responded: "Okay." After a while he said: "It's already on fire."

There is no creativity at all in braised potatoes, as long as the oil is heated and sliced ​​​​potatoes are fried for a few times, then add dark soy sauce, add a little salt to taste, and add a little sugar to enhance the freshness.Simmer for a while, and when the chopsticks can easily poke into the potatoes, the potatoes will be considered successful.

Although it is a dish without creativity, the taste is not bad.The new potatoes are soft, glutinous and sweet, with the aroma of the earth, which is not found in potatoes that have been stored for a period of time.

In previous years, Ye Huangui would pick up new potatoes the size of egg yolks to make braised potatoes or pan-fried potatoes. This year, it was the first time for him to eat them.

When the sound of rice crackling can be heard from the rice cooker, and the smell of spirit rice can be smelled outside the house, the pea rice is ready.

There were already three dishes on the table at this time, one was braised tiger meat, one was braised new potatoes, and the other was sour bamboo shoots soaked some time ago.

Ye Huangui cut the sour bamboo shoots into inch-long pieces and neatly stacked them on the plate, and put a red pepper on top as a decoration.

When Tan Duzhi came out from behind the stove, he couldn't help laughing when he saw this dish: "This... is it ready?" What's the matter with this stinky smell?

Ye Huangui squeezed two pieces of bamboo shoots and stuffed them into Tan Duzhi's mouth: "I think it should be ready, you should try it first!"

Although the bamboo shoots have an indescribable taste, they are extremely delicious after eating, spicy and delicious, crispy and refreshing!As expected, Tan Duzhi forgot the food for half a month, and now he has strongly defeated the position of pickled radish in his heart as soon as he appeared on the stage.

Ye Huangui saw that Tan Duzhi's expression was very happy, and he smiled and lifted the lid of the pot.A rich aroma came over us, the aroma of rice, peas, and bacon intertwined, smelling this smell, Ye Huangui's belly began to sing: "Ah~ the fragrance is dead~"

He sprinkled chopped scallions on the rice, and quickly loosened the rice with a rice spoon.Grains of rice that have absorbed the soup juice are fragrant and fragrant, exuding heat.

The sauce-dyed rice is mixed with soft-boiled peas, potatoes and bacon, especially diced potatoes.Their edges and corners have long since disappeared. At this time, they lie loosely among the rice and peas, and a light touch of chopsticks can completely turn them into a ball of powder.

On the contrary, the bacon as the core has become the most low-key existence, and the pieces of bacon are fat and thin, and they work hard and exude the fragrance of meat.Too greedy to make money and treasures, circle around the stove.

Ye Huangui couldn't wait to stir a big pot of rice, the thing he was most looking forward to was still below.When the pea rice on the top is sliced, there will be a layer of rice crust near the bottom of the pot.

The crispy pea rice is like a god in Ye Huangui's heart!Who can resist a mouthful of crispy crispy rice crust rich in fat and vegetable aroma? !

The crispy rice was loosened with a light shovel. Even if Ye Huangui poured soy sauce, he could clearly see the golden layer on the outside of the crispy rice.

Ye Huangui directly grabbed a piece of crispy rice with his hands, and he solemnly placed this piece of crispy rice on Lao Tan's paw: "Come on, this is the essence of essence, I won't tell ordinary people to him!"

Tan Duzhi stuffed the crispy rice into his mouth suspiciously, and swallowed it down, "Yeah! With a sound, it is fragrant and crispy, with first-class taste!

Ye Huangui filled the big bowls of the two of them with a bowl full of rice. He purposely compacted the rice a little and covered it with a piece of crispy rice.Seeing Lao Tan eating rice crust one bite at a time, he happily asked, "How is it? Is it delicious?"

Tan Duzhi quickly finished eating a piece of crispy rice, and he still couldn't get enough of it: "It's delicious. Do you have any more?"

He thinks he can eat four bowls of rice today!