Chapter 9: Eating Spring Wild Mushroom Chicken Soup
Yu Zhile wanted to go to the stream to pick some water celery, so the two of them went down the mountain from another direction and met many villagers.
Many people have witnessed Yu Zhile's domineering side, and they were evasive towards her, instead greeting Zhou Yuesheng with a cold face.
Zhou Yuesheng nodded in response and turned to look at Yu Zhile's expression.
Yu Zhile always had a faint smile on his face and didn't care at all.
Zhou Yuesheng had a new understanding of her psychological qualities.
The stream flows down from the mountain stream, the sound of gurgling water is leisurely, and the green water celery bursts with infinite vitality.
Water celery has a crisp texture, makes a crisp sound when picked, and its leaves have a special fragrance.
The audience in the live broadcast room also had polarized attitudes towards this smell, some found it fascinating, while others avoided it.
"Water celery can be eaten cold or stir-fried." Yu Zhile bent down to pick some. "However, I plan to pick some and pickle them. I will make sour water celery fish later. It goes well with rice."
On the way home, Zhou Yuesheng still carried the two full baskets, while Yu Zhile only carried a handful of water celery.
Chen Zhao was answering questions for Yu Yue in the yard. He looked up and saw that they were carrying so many things, so he hurried out to pick them up.
"Sister, why are you picking sour fruits? These are sour and astringent." Chen Zhao is two years older than Yu Zhile, but he likes to follow Yu Yue's example and shout.
Yu Zhile answered as he sorted the things in the backpack: "Use it as seasoning. I'll make something new for you in a couple of days."
Chen Zhao, who had already been conquered by the two meals, was full of anticipation, which made her laugh out loud.
Zhou Yuesheng glanced at Chen Zhao, who had a greedy look on his face, and still included him in the list of suspicious persons.
Yu Zhile washed the loquats, prickly ash and wild strawberries and put them in a bamboo basin.
The loquat flesh was delicate and juicy, the pear was sour and sweet, and the wild strawberry was sweet and delicious. Everyone enjoyed the meal to their heart's content.
After a while, Yu Zhile brought out the wooden basin and said, "Pick the water celery first and pickle it after dinner."
To pickle water celery, you need to remove the leaves and carefully clean the dirt between the branches, which is a bit of a laborious task.
Fortunately, Chen Zhao was a chatterbox and kept sharing interesting stories about his previous life in the compound, so time passed quickly.
Zhou Yuesheng had not lived in Beijing for a long time, but he had a lot of information and was able to quickly deduce Chen Zhao's identity from the details.
Therefore, the degree of suspicion of Chen Zhao in his heart rose sharply.
After washing the water celery, he placed it in a dustpan to dry, and then Yu Zhile started to prepare lunch.
Zhou Yuesheng was assigned to process the pheasants. She planned to stew one with mushroom and chicken soup, and rub the other with salt and dry it to eat the next day or the day after tomorrow.
"Sister, let me wash the vegetables." Chen Zhao patted his chest and rushed to do the job.
Yu Zhile handed all the wild vegetables picked from the hillside behind to him and Yu Yue. Yu Yue knew how to prepare each wild vegetable.
She turned around to process the black fern. After washing it, she blanched it in boiling water and soaked it in cold water for more than a day before it could be eaten.
Everyone was quietly working on their work, only Chen Zhao chatted with Yu Yue from time to time. The courtyard was quiet and peaceful.
Cut the chicken into pieces and soak them in water to remove the blood. Wash them and put them in a pot with cold water. When the water boils, add the cleaned wild mushrooms and simmer over low heat.
There are a lot of vegetables today. Except for the Chinese toon used for scrambled eggs, Yu Zhile made all the other vegetables into cold dishes.
She asked Zhou Yuesheng to knead some dough and bake a large bowl of small pancakes to wrap the cold dishes.
Boil the toon in boiling water, remove from the water, chop and squeeze out the water, crack into the eggs, add salt and stir, heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry evenly after the bottom solidifies until cooked.
In just a few minutes, a pot of fragrant scrambled eggs with Chinese toon is ready.
At that time, the whole courtyard was filled with the rich aroma of wild mushroom and chicken soup. Even Chen Zhao, who was used to eating good food, was drooling, not to mention the audience in the live broadcast room.
[It smells so good, I want to eat it so badly!!!]
[How can there be such delicious food in the universe? I threw away my nutrient solution in anger! ]
[Cloud live broadcast! Immediately use the small window function! I want to eat the dishes made by the anchor! ]
【Ahhhhhh, I can smell the food but I can't eat it. The host is so cruel.】
Yu Zhile chuckled: "Okay, this live broadcast ends here. Thank you all for watching. There will be another live broadcast of catching seafood in three days. Welcome to follow."
After turning on the synaesthesia function, her live broadcast room became the most popular live broadcast on the day of the cloud live broadcast.
The audience said goodbye reluctantly, but fortunately, the live broadcast can be watched through the cloud, so they can keep savoring all the wonderful smells they have come into contact with today.
"Sister, this pancake is really well-made. It goes really well with the cold dish."
"Sister, this wild mushroom chicken soup is so delicious that it makes my eyebrows fall off. Your cooking skills are really amazing."
Chen Zhao has a lively and cheerful personality. Every time he tastes a dish, he can pour out a basket of good words.
"Eat more if it tastes good." Yu Zhile's smiling eyes were like a waxing moon, which made Zhou Yuesheng dazed again.
After lunch, she dried the water celery, rolled handfuls of it into circles and stuffed them into the kimchi jar. She then poured in the boiled and cooled pepper and salt water, and then added ginger, garlic cloves, rock sugar and white wine in turn, and then sealed the jar.
It is easy to feel sleepy after eating and drinking too much, and the glaring afternoon sunlight also makes people's eyelids almost stick together.
Yu Zhile glanced at the bamboo shoots piled in the corner, went over their final arrangements in his mind, and yawned as he walked into the house.
After a nap, Yu Zhile began to process the spring bamboo shoots.
Part of the tender bamboo shoots is kept for stir-frying with chicken, the other part is sliced and dried into bamboo shoots, and the older part is used to make pickled bamboo shoots.
Peel the bamboo shoots and wash them several times. Drain the water and divide them into four. Then cut them in half into pieces. Leave a few pieces of bamboo shoots to boil in water and let it cool. Add them to the jar to cover the bamboo shoots and seal the jar.
In the following days, Yu Zhile did not go up the mountain again. Except for the fried chicken with spring bamboo shoots on the first day, the food at home was simple, with only stewed rice and cold wild vegetables.
Zhou Yuesheng went out twice more at night, and his suspicions about his home only increased.
There is no other reason. The fact that people can eat stewed rice to their heart's content is very noteworthy in Haiyu Village, and the quality of Yu's rice is incredibly good.
Late one night, Zhou Yuesheng climbed over the wall shrouded in fog and looked at Yu Yue in the wheelchair in the moonlight.
"Backyard." Yu Yue stared at him for a few seconds and shook the wheelchair.
Zhou Yuesheng stared at his straight back and his heart sank. After Yu Yue spoke, he realized that he really looked down on the person in front of him.
"Thick calluses on the palm of your hand, walk with your toes pointed straight ahead, and hold the second section of your index finger with your thumb when you swing your arm." Yu Yue had a faint smile on his face, "I don't need to point out your identity."
He didn't wait for Zhou Yuesheng to respond and continued, "I don't care what mission you do, my bottom line is Yu Zhile. If she gets hurt, I can't guarantee that you will fall to the ground from drug poisoning one day."
After saying that, he gave Zhou Yuesheng an innocent smile and left him alone.
Zhou Yuesheng fell into a long silence.
Facing an adult who was obviously stronger than himself, Yu Yue was able to remain calm and threaten him. He really didn't look like a 15-year-old kid.
However, Yu Yue acted as if he knew nothing about Zhile's actions behind his back.
The tiny clues were tangled and unclear. Zhou Yuesheng pressed his solar plexus and could only remain alert and wait for the people in the town to send back news.
The next morning, Yu Zhile got up early to go to the beach before daybreak.
When Yu Haizong learned that she wanted to make a kitchen shelf, he specially delivered wood yesterday afternoon.
Zhou Yuesheng stayed at home today to make a kitchen shelf. The blueprint was given to him by Yu Zhile last night.
The sea breeze blows gently, bringing a salty scent.
"Good morning, I'm catching the early tide today." Yu Zhile has good sleep quality and is full of energy.
Her live broadcast depends on the tide. The time has been changed temporarily and there are not many people in the live broadcast room at this moment.
【Host, good morning.】
[The sky is beautiful! Can we see the sunrise later? I have never seen the sunrise over the sea. ]
[Is this the smell of the sea? How wonderful! The wind seems to carry moisture.]
"We can see the sunrise. Let's watch it together later!" Yu Zhile looked at the barrage and interacted with the audience.
The tide has receded, exposing the beaches and mudflats.
Yu Zhile usually walks towards the reef area first, bending over and searching among the cracks in the rocks.
After moving a large rock, a group of large black insects with blunt spikes on their bodies lazily moved forward.
"This is a sea cucumber." Yu Zhile picked up one and gestured with it. It was almost as long as her palm. "Sea cucumbers can help you sleep better and beautify your skin. You can make sea cucumbers with scallions, steamed eggs, and stew soup. They are usually preserved in dried form."
Suddenly, the sea cucumber in her hand began to spit out orange-brown objects.
[Uh... it seems a bit...]
[Can it really beautify your skin? It's so ugly. ]
【Ah, what is it doing? Kind of gross. 】
"This is the sea cucumber's way of self-preservation. It spits out its internal organs to confuse the enemy. It is regenerative." Yu Zhile put it in the water and shook it to wash off the mucus.
Then, she picked up other sea cucumbers one by one and smashed them against the rocks, explaining: "Sea cucumbers become hard after they die, so you can just handle them normally when you get home."
[Anchor, can we eat the things full of thorns in the water in the northeast? ]
xxxx suddenly asked.
Yu Zhile looked in the direction he said, and saw some reflection on the water, so he walked closer to take a look.
On the edge of the reef are densely packed sea urchins whose color almost blends in with the reef.
"It's edible. This thing is called sea urchin. Cut it open here and eat the yellow part inside." The bamboo tongs that Yu Zhile bought finally came in handy. He picked out a sea urchin and showed its mouth.
"This can be eaten raw. It has a smooth texture, and is delicious and sweet. It can be used to stew eggs or mix with rice."
As he spoke, Yu Zhile began to pick some big sea urchins and put them into the bamboo basket. Soon, half of the basket was filled.
Afterwards, she walked around the reef area and found several abalones clinging to the reef. It took a lot of effort to pry them off.
"This is abalone. The meat is chewy and can be used as seafood in sauce or grilled."
The gentle waves washed over the beach, exposing shells, and Yu Zhile happily picked them up along the coastline.
The sky suddenly brightened, the sun appeared above the horizon, and the sea and sky were dyed orange and yellow.
Yu Zhile stared at the sun rising slowly and the sparkling sea.
For a moment, the screen was blank and the audience stared at the screen intently, afraid of missing any change.
After a long time, the sky was completely bright and the sun was getting warmer.
Yu Zhile came back to his senses: "Okay, let's continue fishing. The sun is out, and many seafood that don't have time to lie on the sand will melt in the sun."
After a while, she rescued a long-legged octopus from under the seabird's mouth. The octopus had been stranded for some time and was lacking in energy.
"It's still alive, so it won't affect your eating." Yu Zhile put it into the bamboo basket.
As she spoke, she spotted a few lively tiger prawns, chased them for a long distance, and successfully caught them.
These two items are seafood that have appeared in the live broadcast room before, and she only briefly mentioned the names.
Old audiences consciously educate new audiences about eating methods and fully demonstrate their expectations for the food live broadcast session.
Yu Zhile looked up at the barrage when his leg was suddenly hit.
She looked down and found that it was cod.
Cod is a deep-sea fish and is rarely seen alive, which was a big surprise today.
It happened to be spring, and shepherd's purse was growing well, so Yu Zhile planned to make a shepherd's purse and cod soup.
"We are lucky today. This is cod, which is quite rare." Yu Zhile said with a smile, "Okay, the tide is coming in, so today's live broadcast of fishing ends here. There will be a cooking live broadcast at 11 o'clock. Welcome to watch it."
The cod that Yu Zhile caught weighed five or six kilograms, and the bamboo basket could not hold it all, so he had to carry it in his hands.
On her way back, she met a young woman.
The two looked at each other, and the woman's gaze shifted from her rice to the cod in her hand, and then to her bamboo basket that was full to the brim, her face full of surprise.
Yu Zhile didn't recognize the other person, so he walked past her and continued walking towards the backyard.
What she didn't know was that the woman turned around and followed her, staring at the seafood she picked up, her eyes full of greed.
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