The soup is clear, like a stream.
A sky-blue jar with protruding white magnolia flowers on the outside.
There were two white bamboo fungi floating inside, like two flowers, and underneath were fresh, thin bamboo shoots.
Xiaoqi ate it for the first time. After taking a sip of the soup, he felt the sweetness entering his lungs and his whole body felt refreshed.
Bamboo shoots can actually be made like this. There are a lot of bamboo shoots in their Gumula Village because there are many bamboo forests in the mountains. The bamboo shoot production season is from winter to Qingming Festival in spring every year.
Bamboo shoots are also a large part of the annual income of the villagers in Gumula. Winter bamboo shoots are fresh, and spring bamboo shoots are sweet. Winter bamboo shoots are not easy to obtain and usually do not emerge. Just like looking for matsutake mushrooms, you have to observe the terrain and study the cracks in the ground to find them. The skilled villagers can dig more than ten pounds of winter bamboo shoots a day, but the price is also high. There are people in the village who buy them, and one pound is five or six yuan.
Spring bamboo shoots are everywhere in the mountains, and there is no time to dig them up, so the price is very low, from 50 or 60 cents per pound, and later it dropped to 50 or 60 cents per pound. For the villagers, it is completely hard work. Carrying 100 pounds of spring bamboo shoots from the mountains to the village purchasing office only costs 50 or 60 yuan. Those who are strong can go to the mountains four times a day. However, in spring, it rains every day and the mountain roads are muddy. Carrying 100 or 200 pounds of bamboo shoots from the mountains to the village is very tiring.
Xiaoqi doesn't pick up anything. If he walks on that road empty-handed, he will fall.
Bamboo shoots are the dish that Xiaoqi eats the most in his memory. Bamboo shoots are cheap in spring and there is no time to pick them out and sell them. So the villagers would dig up the bamboo shoots and build a kiln on the mountain to roast them. They would chop firewood and smoke the bamboo shoots that were not picked out in time, and make them into dried bamboo shoots to sell, which could also be stored for a longer time.
Stir-fried pork with dried bamboo shoots is an excellent dish to go with rice.
Throughout the spring, bamboo shoots were almost always on the table at home.
But the taste I ate today was completely different. It was fresh bamboo shoots from somewhere in August, and they were very crisp and tender.
Xiaoqi has a big appetite and drank the whole can in one breath. The main reason was that she thought the can was very beautiful. There wasn’t much in it and although it looked big, it actually only contained the amount of a small bowl.
Liang Jiajia ate the food carefully and left most of the soup.
After a while, a waiter came to remove the jars, rearrange the tableware, and serve a new dish.
"Blue Lotus Lion." The waiter announced the name of the dish.
Xiao Qi saw a small transparent glass bowl. It was not the smooth kind of glass, but one with hammered wrinkles around it, which seemed to glow. There were two emerald green lettuce leaves in it, and a meatball was lying in the middle of the leaves.
The meatballs are lion's head meat. When you bite into them, you can feel the fat and lean meat inside, as well as a little crispy sweetness. Xiaoqi ate them all, and then there was the lettuce, which was soaked in the soup. It was not too old, but crispy and sweet.
Seeing that the teacher was eating happily, Liang Jiajia started recording the video again.
But she was also busy eating and just kept her phone there.
The same process continued. Xiaoqi felt very hungry. He had to wait for a while in the middle and didn’t enjoy the meal very much.
However, every time a new dish comes up, there is always a sense of surprise. The third dish is porridge, millet and pumpkin porridge, with a small sea cucumber swimming in it.
It was Xiaoqi’s first time to eat sea cucumber. It looked prickly and like a black caterpillar.
I didn't feel scared. There is a special dish in Gumula Village, which is bee worms. They are fried. When Xiaoqi was a child, she didn't know much about it and was tricked into eating a lot of it. It is said that it is high in protein and bursts with juice in one bite. But when she grew up, she didn't dare to eat it anymore, but she still saw it.
The sea cucumber had no taste, like jelly, bouncy but not sticky. The porridge was surprisingly sweet, with sugar in it. Xiaoqi didn't like sweet porridge very much, and it tasted a bit weird with the sea cucumber, but he ate it all in the spirit of not wasting anything.
Liang Jiajia is the opposite. She will leave some for each dish, depending on the taste. Some dishes may have more, and some may have less. She will only take a small bite of the lion's head. She said she doesn't like to eat fatty meat.
After drinking the porridge, I finally had meat, a fried steak.
It seems that this is the main dish. The portion is quite large for a girl, with three small pieces half a finger thick.
Xiaoqi had eaten steak at Haoxianglai, a thin portion that cost only a few dozen yuan. Her aunt took her and Feifei to eat there.
I thought the steak would be tough since it was so thick, but I didn’t expect it to be so soft and juicy when I bit into it, which was very appetizing.
I even thought it tasted better than the previous dishes.
Liang Jiajia found that her little teacher looked very nice when eating, not at all restrained, especially when eating steak. She seemed to eat it often, and used the knife and fork very skillfully, which made her a little curious.
Because the sense of taste and smell are more sensitive, it will be more painful to smell something unpleasant or eat something unpalatable. On the contrary, eating something delicious and smelling the delicious aroma will become an indescribable enjoyment, which is very wonderful.
Next, a pear was served on a turquoise green plate. Xiao Qi thought it was really a pear, but when Liang Jiajia lifted the branch on the top of the pear, he found that there was a lid on the top of the pear. When he opened it, he saw that half of it was a pear cooked with rock sugar, and the other half was like vermicelli. The waiter had just said it was bird's nest.
I had never eaten bird's nest before, so I naturally couldn't tell whether it was real or not. However, this dessert was sweet but not greasy and very refreshing. Liang Jiajia liked this dish very much and ate it all.
Xiaoqi finished almost every dish, so naturally the dessert was also a piece of cake for him.
The dishes were served one by one, and the meal took almost two hours. Although each portion was small, just a handful, there were twelve dishes in total.
Xiao Qi remembered that the one that cost 300 yuan just now had eight dishes, the one that cost 680 yuan had sixteen dishes, and the one that cost 880 yuan had eighteen dishes.
Xiaoqi went out for a while in the middle of the class. Liang Jiajia thought the teacher was going to the bathroom and didn't pay attention.
Xiaoqi went to the bathroom, and there was actually an ancient drum in the bathroom. It was red and the shell was a little peeling. It looked a bit scary, but there were flowers on the drum.
There is incense burning in the toilet, so it doesn't smell at all.
When she came out, she asked the waiter how to pay the bill. The waiter took her to the bar. She told him the room number, and the other party actually gave her a 20% discount, so the total was 800 yuan.
After paying the bill, Xiaoqi felt a little relieved. She actually had no experience in paying for others' meals, so she didn't know when to pay, so she just paid first.
I felt much more relaxed when I came back. I listened to my student Liang Jiajia chattering: "This store is owned by my mother's friend. They can give discounts. My mother said that the things in there are not expensive at this price."
Xiaoqi felt that it was true that you get what you pay for. She walked into a small restaurant and ordered some dishes for a meal, which cost more than 100 yuan. They were very greasy and some of the dishes were not cooked properly, not to mention such exquisite thought.
Listening to the sound of running water outside and the soft sound of classical music, it is very comfortable and enjoyable to dine here.
The only downside is that the tables and chairs here are very formal and hard, probably to allow guests to savor the food seriously. There are no soft reclining chairs or anything like that. After the meal, Xiaoqi felt very full and sleepy, and wanted to find a sofa to take a nap.
Next time she has the chance, she really wants to bring her parents here to eat.
But considering my parents’ ideas about spending money and my current situation, it feels like it will take a long time.
Liang Jiajia ate happily. When she was paying the bill, she found out that her teacher had bought it first. Her mother had charged her membership card here, and there was a lot of money in it. She just had to record it. Xiao Qi smiled and said, "It's delicious. It's discounted. It's very good."
For the first time, Liang Jiajia felt a little guilty. She had clearly intended to treat the teacher to a meal, but ended up eating for free.
But after pestering the teacher all morning, she also had to go back and say goodbye to the teacher.
Xiaoqi also went back to his aunt's dormitory in the hospital for a nap. He ate too much and felt sleepy. He felt drowsy while walking on the bus and kept nodding his head.
An auntie who took this bus every day recognized the girl as the one who fell down last time because she gave up her seat to a pregnant woman. Seeing her dozing off on the chair, she smiled. She was really a young girl. There were many people on the bus at noon, so the auntie stood next to her, worried that she would fall down.
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