Chapter 104 People who know how to eat usually have a good life
"Chicken stewed with mushrooms is the best, and it's extremely delicious, but how do we stew the chicken now?"
Now, it was impossible to stew a chicken. How could I have time to stew a chicken when I was in a hurry? Besides, where could I get a chicken?
Xie Yanyan came up with a time-saving and simple way to eat it: roast it!
As I walked, I searched for wild vegetables that could be used on the mountain. After a while, I found a field of wild sesame on the hillside.
I don’t know how many generations these sesame seeds have reproduced, but they have formed a long sesame belt scattered on the hillside.
She said to Zhou Shaoyu, "Please pick some tender sesame leaves for me. Don't break them."
Zhou Shaoyu asked curiously: "How do you eat sesame leaves?"
[You don’t know how to stir-fry sesame leaves?]
Xie Yanyan: "Let's grill meat and grill matsutake mushrooms and wrap them in sesame leaves. Don't worry, it's delicious."
When Zhou Jin heard the word "delicious", he immediately said, "I'll go pick sesame leaves." He jumped down nimbly, picked a large bunch, and washed them in the spring water.
Zhou Shaoyu brought a piece of stone slab the size of a go board from nearby. It wasn't very flat, but it was ideal in the wild. He washed it in water and said, "How about using this to bake?"
"That's great." Xie Yanyan was thinking about using the prince's iron pot, and it would be so cool to have this small stone slab.
Wash the matsutake, slice it, brush it with olive oil, and grill it on a stone slab.
Xie Yanyan took out a few pounds of pork belly covered with ice from the basket.
Let Xie An cut the slices into thin slices, and everyone started to grill. The military generals' grilling skills were much better than those of ordinary women.
Xie Anfeng took the pork belly and smelled it. It was still cool and not spoiled. He told the prince: "Yan'er was holding ice and snuggling with it."
The prince smiled and said, "Miss San is thoughtful."
The slate-baked matsutake mushrooms have a unique flavor. She took out a few cucumbers from the basket, washed them, cut them into strips, green peppers, shredded green onions, and sliced garlic.
As for the barbecue sauce, she was too lazy to prepare it and just took it out from the space.
After they were all baked, she demonstrated how to eat them.
Take the washed sesame leaves, wrap the matsutake, cucumber, green pepper, shredded green onion and pork belly with the sauce, and roll them into thumb-sized rolls.
Korean barbecue reference!
"Pack whatever you like. Garlic is delicious, but it leaves your breath. Green pepper is a little spicy, but it's refreshing. You can choose."
Taizi, Zhou Shaoyu, and Dongliu all followed her example and wrapped meat and matsutake mushrooms in sesame leaves. The freshness of the matsutake mushrooms, the aroma and chewiness of the grilled meat, plus a variety of sauces, were all indescribable: delicious!
"Miss Xie likes to cook?" The prince said happily, "This is the first time I've seen you eat like this."
"I don't like it." Xie Yanyan said without hesitation, "But I won't miss the Matsutake mushroom."
Zhou Shaoyu smiled with satisfaction.
[Good answer, what good things are you thinking about? You want her to cook for you every day? ]
The roasted matsutake mushrooms are rich in aroma, crisp and smooth in taste. Paired with green peppers and the sizzling barbecued meat, they whet your appetite just by looking at them.
The aroma is fragrant, the flavor is authentic, and the key word is fresh!
There were enough matsutake mushrooms, and the feast was extremely enjoyable. Zhou Shaoyu kept grabbing food and quietly passed the matsutake mushrooms to Xie Yanyan.
Xu Wenrong glanced at Zhou Shaoyu secretly several times.
Zhou Shaoyu suddenly turned to him and said, "Not tasty?"
"It's delicious. I didn't expect there would be such delicious food in this desolate mountain." Xu Wenrong smiled and said solemnly, "People who know how to eat usually have good luck in life."
The prince agreed: "To be honest, this is the first time I know that sesame leaves can be eaten and are so delicious."
Zhou Shaoyu originally wanted to say that the people were extremely hungry and even children could eat different foods, so what was the point of sesame leaves?
But he didn't want to mention this. Xie Yanyan made such delicious food, why should he bring up something that would spoil the fun!
Suddenly, a falcon called a few times overhead.
Dong Shisan blew a few "toot" sounds on his bamboo whistle towards the sky.
The falcon fluttered down and landed on Dong Shisan's shoulder.
Except for the two guides, everyone else understood what was going on, so they didn't even look at it and continued to shout and yell about rolling barbecue rolls and sandwiching matsutake mushrooms.
After a while, the falcon spread its wings and flew away again.
Dong Shisan handed a note to the prince.
The prince looked at it, expressionless on his face, and handed it back to Dong Shisan.
"The disaster is getting more and more serious. We need to speed up," said the prince.
The guide knew that they were going to the northwest to help with the locust disaster, and he admired them and said, "You are noble people. You endured so much hardship to help with the disaster. But the locust disaster is too difficult to save. No one has been able to save it since ancient times."
The prince said: "We are also doing our part. As for whether we can save him or not, we will not regret it if we have done our best."
The guide agreed with him and said that saving lives is like putting out a fire and disaster relief is like saving lives. After eating the Matsutake mushrooms, everyone set off.
From the beginning of the Chen hour to the You hour, five hours had passed. The prince asked Xie Yanyan twice, and Xie Yanyan said he could hold on. He did not ask to stop again, and climbed over three more hills in one breath.
The prince's golden crown was askew and his hair was wet with sweat. Although he was wearing the hat prepared by Liu Qi, his face and neck were sunburned by the strong sun.
Xie Yanyan took out a few straw hats from the basket and gave them to Xie Anfeng, Xu Wenrong, Zhou Shaoyu and Zhou Jin. He not only wore a straw hat himself, but also applied sunscreen on his face, neck, hands and arms.
She asked Zhou Shaoyu if he wanted to apply it, but Zhou Shaoyu just took it and applied it no matter what she gave him.
Xu Wenrong and Xie Anfeng did not say anything and just did the painting.
So when the sun went down, they washed their faces and necks in the mountain stream without getting any sunburn.
The prince was sunburned and his skin was in great pain, but he did not complain or feel tired. Dong Liu felt so distressed that after applying medicine on his wounds, he went to Xie Yanyan to discuss whether it was possible to apply sunscreen on the prince tomorrow.
Xie Yanyan gave them a bottle.
Dong Liu handed it to the prince, who looked at the bottle over and over for a while and said, "Miss San, your bottle is really exquisite."
Not only is this sunscreen expensive, the bottle itself is probably worth a lot of money.
"Yes, I bought it from foreigners."
Another foreigner!
The prince held the sunscreen in his hand and was shocked. Protective clothing and sunscreen can make so many powerful objects. The national strength of the foreigners can be seen. I must be diligent, otherwise I will not be able to defeat them.
At night, they still found a flat place to set up camp. The prince was very tired today and his whole body ached. Zhou Shaoyu and Dong Liu went deep into the woods, shot two pheasants, and stewed a pot of chicken soup for the prince.
There are many people in the prince's group and not enough pots. No matter how powerful Xie Yanyan's backpack is, it is still too abrupt to take out a pot, so she thought about how to cook dinner before she rested.
Seeing a clump of big bamboos in the forest, she said to Xie Anfeng: "Cut a few bamboo tubes and take them with us. We will make bamboo tube rice later."
Xie An was on the march and fought in battles, and he knew about bamboo tube rice, but he had never cooked it.
Zhou Jin saw him chopping bamboo tubes and followed him to chop bamboo tubes. His master wanted to eat for free, so he couldn't just do nothing.
Clean the bamboo tube, put rice, diced bacon, beans, diced potatoes in it, add some soy sauce and water, and cover it with a lid.
She built an earthen kiln on the ground with stones and soil, and today she was kilning bamboo tube rice.
Then she said to Xie Anfeng: "Dad, you and your cousin should prepare the chicken. I have lotus leaves in my basket. Let's make beggar's chicken."
(End of this chapter)
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