Chapter 191 Follow your heart, or do it?

After Gao Mingcheng escaped successfully, he took a detour and then returned to Gaojia Village.

The two dogs, Black Tiger and Elf, were guarding the door. After hearing the noise in the mountain from a distance, they immediately got up and ran towards the mountain, barking as they ran, as if to welcome Gao Mingcheng's return.

Gao Mingcheng ran down the mountain and saw two dogs coming towards him, so he stopped and let them approach him, expressing his joy.

Gao Mingcheng patted the two dogs' heads and said with a cheerful smile, "Don't worry, I'm still strong! Let's go home!"

He returned home with the two dogs and immediately went into the kitchen, gulped down a bowl of water to quench his thirst, and then took out some cakes to eat.

Because he often went to the mountains, he always had pastries at home, including egg cakes, peach cakes, French cakes, rice candies, etc.

This was not enough, so he opened the cupboard and took out the leftovers to eat. He had consumed a lot of energy in the mountains and was very hungry.

When Xuanyuemei was carrying her basket home, she happened to see Gao Mingcheng wolfing down his food, so she stared at him speechlessly and said, "Don't worry, I'll cook now. Why are you so hungry?"

"It's easy to get hungry when you go into the mountains! You can cook more rice and vegetables." Gao Mingcheng explained vaguely, and then waited for Xuanyuemei to cook.

With quick movements, the beautiful women quickly lit a fire and cooked the rice in the small pot first.

The rice was already swollen when the porridge was made in the morning, so it cooks quickly.

The small stove was lit, and then the big stove was lit. Many beauties shouted, "Come and see the fire!"

Gao Mingcheng responded, sat on a low stool under the stove, and began to watch the fire and add firewood. While he was watching the fire, Xuanmei had already quickly washed and cut the vegetables.

These vegetables are freshly picked from the fields, they are very clean, and can be chopped after being rinsed with well water. Today, Xuanmei brought back half a basket of peppers, which are the first batch of green peppers this year. These peppers are of good size and beautiful colors. They are delicious when stir-fried with tiger skin peppers or scrambled eggs or meat.

From the time the peppers grow to the time the pepper tree dies, the more peppers are picked, the longer they grow, and people can hardly live without peppers for every meal.

Many times, when people mention eating spicy food, the first person they think of is Hunanese, because spicy girls are famous. The second person they think of is Chongqing hotpot, because it is spicy and delicious.

But few people know that the real king of eating spicy food is from Jiangxi!

Legend has it that when Jiangxi people eat stir-fried green peppers, they also add dried chili peppers for seasoning! Hunan is spicy, Sichuan and Chongqing are spicy, and Jiangxi is pure spicy!

Gao Mingcheng saw many chefs washing the pot and adding oil. When the oil was hot, they immediately used a knife to sweep the chopped peppers into the big iron pot. Then the unique smell of fried peppers filled the entire kitchen.

Other places may have a special place for cutting vegetables, but here, many people put the chopping board directly on the edge of the pot, and then cut the vegetables while sweeping them into the pot to stir-fry, so the whole cooking process is very fast.

While the peppers were being stir-fried, Xuan Mei had already started cutting a dish, which was a piece of wind-blown meat that had been soaked in water to remove excess salt.

If you want to eat air-blown meat, you have to soak it in cold water in advance. This can not only remove excess salt, but also soften it so that it is easier to chop.

In addition to the wind-blown meat, there was also a plate of dried fish. After the three dishes were fried and placed on the table, from a distance, you would think they were the same dishes because there were chili peppers in each plate!

"Mingcheng, you eat first." Xuanyuemei said. She was afraid that Gao Mingcheng would be hungry, so she asked him to eat first.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at the water in the pot and asked, "What else do you want to cook?"

"I'm afraid you don't have enough to eat, so I'll cook some more noodles and make an egg!" Xuanyuemei said, and then started to beat the eggs into the water. This kind of egg beaten into water and cooked is called "o-ge-egg" in the local dialect. This kind of egg is convenient and saves oil, but it's not fragrant enough!

There was no need to be polite to his wife. He was very hungry and felt really uncomfortable, so Gao Mingcheng served the rice and ate first.

This kind of rice, which is boiled in the morning and then heated up at noon, tastes soft and loose. It is not as chewy and delicious as rice cooked in a large iron pot, but it is convenient and easy to cook.

Because the people in the village are almost busy every day, they cook and eat in a hurry at noon, and only cook rice in a big iron pot in the evening. Because if it is hot in summer, the rice will go bad by the evening if it is left for a day!

Gao Mingcheng had a big appetite and ate very quickly, but he left a small half of each dish for Xiu Haomei.

Xuanyi has a small appetite, so these are more than enough for her. If Gao Mingcheng is not busy, he will wait for Xuanyi to finish eating and then finish the meal.

So there are rarely any leftovers in their house.

After eating three bowls of rice and a bowl of noodles, Gao Mingcheng put down his bowl and chopsticks in satisfaction, leaned back, looking lazy.

In his previous life, he would have smoked a cigarette at this moment, but now, he has quit smoking long ago while his body is not in a position to do so.

In fact, there is a saying that in addition to physical addiction, there is also mental addiction, so it is difficult for some people to quit something.

But Gao Mingcheng didn’t know whether it was because of his strong will or because of his meditation, but after he was reborn, he was not affected by the smoking addiction at all. Even when he saw others smoking, he neither felt disgusted nor tempted.

During the entire meal, Gao Mingcheng completely eliminated the sense of crisis he had encountered in the mountains before. He calmed down and was neither afraid nor overly excited, wanting to try his hand at the crisis.

But he was still worried about the people in the mountains. He didn't know whether they were alive or dead, who they were, or what they were going to do next.

The only thing he could be sure of was that his face was not exposed. Even if he met those people now, they might not be able to recognize him.

But the two flying knives lost in the mountains made him feel vaguely worried.

The situation was so urgent that he had no time to pull out the flying knife that had shot into the hound's head. It could only remain there. However, the knife was not made by a famous craftsman. He wanted to find the blacksmith through the forging marks and then find him through the blacksmith. The whole process would take a lot of time.

Those people had foreign accents, but their equipment was quite good, especially the submachine gun, which simply blinded Gao Mingcheng's eyes.

Therefore, he guessed that these immigrants might be related to some local forces. Well, it was almost certain that they had some relationship with Mr. Luo from last time!

Now, although these people seemed to be going into the mountains to hunt tigers, they were actually coming for him. Therefore, after seeing him, those people directly gave up on the tigers and chased after him.

Gao Mingcheng saw a kind of madness in their actions. He knew that some people were born adventurous and not bound by moral constraints. There were the most such people in troubled times, but now that a prosperous era was about to come and the domestic environment was getting better and better, there was almost no place for them to stay.

These people have two options: one is to suppress their nature and pretend to be honest people, and the other is to go to chaotic areas, where they can make a lot of money and satisfy their inner needs.

This chaotic area can be divided into two types: one is to go to Hong Kong's gambling city, and the other is to go abroad and either join a gang or form a mercenary group.

Gao Mingcheng had encountered this kind of person in his previous life, but he just watched him from afar and did not have any disputes with him. He knew that this kind of person should not be provoked. Once provoked, he would bite like a leech.

Gao Mingcheng looked into the depths of the mountains, wondering what to do next.

He could do something or do nothing, because no matter how rampant those people were, they would not go down the mountain with guns and kill anyone they saw.

After they searched in the mountains for a while and didn't find anyone, they would naturally leave.

As for holding a grudge in his heart, Gao Mingcheng is not afraid. He may not meet him again in this life, so why does he care whether he holds a grudge or not?

Although it was safe to do so, Gao Mingcheng thought about it and felt that it was not appropriate.

He kept looking towards the mountain, his brows slightly furrowed.

This made the beautiful woman next to him a little confused about what he was thinking, but fortunately she lived a happy life in this life and did not have so many worries, so she ignored Gao Mingcheng, cleaned up the kitchen, and went on with her own business.

(End of this chapter)