Song Tiantian and her friends were too young to soak in the hot spring pool, so after soaking for about ten minutes, the children climbed ashore, changed into clean clothes, and started playing around the cave.
Not long after they came out of the cave, Song Tiantian was attracted by the wild fruits on the mountain.
In October, many wild fruits on the mountain have begun to mature. In addition, because there are hot springs on this mountain, the fruit trees mature earlier than those in other places.
Song Tiantian was attracted by the small thorn ball that had already matured to the point of cracking.
As soon as I saw the forest not far from the cave, I saw a lot of brown thorn balls rolling on the ground and mixed with the dead yellow leaves.
If you look closely, you can see a pair of reddish-brown fruits through the small cracks.
As soon as Song Tiantian saw the little thorn balls all over the ground, she immediately lost the desire to play and ran towards them.
"It's really chestnuts. There are so many chestnuts here." Song Tiantian said excitedly, and was about to reach out to grab the small thorn ball.
But before she could touch the small thorn ball, she was quickly pulled back by Xiang Nan, who was standing beside her: "Wait!"
"What's wrong?" Song Tiantian's big eyes were still full of excitement about seeing the chestnuts.
"You don't want to just grab the chestnut ball like this, do you?" Xiangfangnan's words made the little girl look at the chestnut ball hurriedly. When she saw that it was covered with sharp thorns, the little girl immediately retracted her hand.
"Wait a minute, I'll get a pair of gloves from my bag." As she said that, Song Tiantian quickly ran towards the hot spring cave.
After a while, she took out the small handbag that she had put in the hole when she was changing clothes.
Lu Chuanbei was leaning against the hot spring pool eating fruit when he saw Song Tiantian running quickly into the cave next door with a hurried look on her face. She quickly grabbed something and ran out quickly.
Upon seeing this, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but sit up and shouted at the little guy who was about to run away: "Tiantian, where are you going?"
"Pick up chestnuts." Song Tiantian shouted without turning around, "There are so many chestnuts in the woods outside. I want to pick up some and take them back."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qi, who had been calm at first, suddenly lost his composure and asked, "What? There are chestnuts here?"
You know, this is the third day since they came here, and after these few days of consumption, there are not many ingredients left from the food they bought at the vegetable market.
Originally, Xu Qi was still worried about what to do with the remaining time.
After all, judging from Director Liu's expression, it didn't seem like he would let them go down the mountain to replenish food.
But now, there are chestnuts!
This made Xu Qi, who was worried about not having enough ingredients, unable to make enough soup.
Xu Qi quickly stood up and walked towards the cave next door: "I'll go pick up some chestnuts too."
"Wait for me, I'll go too." Lu Chuanbei responded hurriedly: "We've been soaking for more than half an hour, it's almost time to get out."
"Then I'll go too. It just so happens that I've never picked chestnuts before, so I might as well give it a try today." He Xuebin also came out of the hot spring pool eager to try.
When Lu Chuanbei and the others changed their clothes and came out of the hot spring, Song Tiantian had already distributed a pair of gloves from her bag to everyone. Then they squatted in the chestnut forest and picked up all the small thorn balls and piled them together.
The chestnut forest, which has not been visited for a long time, is not only full of ripe chestnuts that have fallen, but has also become a paradise for many creatures.
Just after Song Tiantian and the others had been picking up the chestnuts for a while, they saw a few cackling birds flying over their heads and running to the side to compete with them for the ownership of the chestnuts.
He Jingnian looked at the big rooster with a colorful comb on its head, which looked particularly gorgeous. It flapped its wings and flew over their heads, and landed directly on the chestnuts they had just piled up, and started pecking at them.
I saw it stretching out its pointed beak and pecking at the chestnuts that had already ripened and burst. After a while, it pecked a hole in the fruit, revealing the golden flesh.
Song Tiantian and the others were stunned when they saw a chicken eating chestnuts for the first time.
Song Tiantian couldn't help but look at the pheasant's beak: "What good teeth! It can even peck open chestnuts."
[Pfft... Tiantian, is there something wrong with your focus?]
[Ahem, ahem, ahem, Tiantian, are you trying to choke me to death and inherit my Taobao account?]
I was initially surprised that chickens would eat chestnuts, but Tiantian's words immediately made me pay attention to pheasant beaks...
[But having said that, this pheasant's beak is really impressive. It can even peck open such a hard chestnut shell.]
[That's right, my broken teeth make it hard for me to even chew bones, but these pheasants can eat chestnuts with ease. I really envy them.]
[I didn't think much of it at first, but when I saw the comments above, I suddenly burst into tears, because I actually have a good mouth. How can this be justified? ]
[It’s hard to explain, but I’m not much better…]
"Yes...wait a minute." Xu Anjia, who was almost led into a ditch by Song Tiantian, quickly stood up and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's quickly drive the pheasant away and stop it from pecking at us, otherwise we won't be able to eat the chestnuts we picked."
As he spoke, Xu Anjia started to drive the pheasant that was still standing on the chestnut pile: "Go away, go away, don't eat my chestnuts."
The pheasant was not afraid of people at all. It just flapped its wings a few times, changed its place and continued pecking at the chestnut pile.
When Lu Chuanbei and the others came over, they happened to see Xu Anjia chasing pheasants. When He Xuebin saw this, his eyes lit up: "It's chickens!"
Fang Xiuzhu even directly asked Zhang Bosong, who was not far away, "Is this chicken pheasant or free-range?"
Zhang Bosong looked up proudly and said, "They're free-range. All the edible animals you see now were released here by the program team in advance."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qi, who was originally afraid of the pheasant and didn't dare to take action, immediately rolled up his sleeves and shouted to Xu Anjia, "Jia Jia, drive the chicken over to me! When I catch it, we'll have chestnut roast chicken tonight!"
Xu Anjia's eyes lit up immediately: "Okay!"
"I'll help too."
As he said that, He Jingnian and Xu Anjia pounced towards the big rooster, which was unaware of the crisis that was approaching.
The big rooster spread its wings and flew backwards, but Xu Qi, who had set his sights on it, grabbed its wings. It only let out a few screams and clucks before Xu Qi lifted it upside down.
"Not bad, it weighs more than four pounds. If you remove the hair, it will probably weigh more than three pounds. With the chestnuts, it is enough to cook a big pot." Xu Qi said with satisfaction while holding the big rooster.
Big Rooster: Are you being polite? I just ate a few of your chestnuts. Why are you treating me like this?
[Haha, the person above has expressed the rooster's feelings. But looking at the size of this rooster, the chestnut stew must be delicious, slurp...]
[We have the menu for dinner. I'm going to go buy some chicken and chestnuts now!]
[Those who can't cook are already looking at takeout...]
After Xu Qi tied up the big rooster that had come to his doorstep with a rope made of dry grass, he saw a few free-range chickens that had never experienced the dangers of the world, foraging in the chestnut forest.
As soon as they saw them, Xu Qi and the others' eyes lit up as if they had seen meat and vegetables delivered to their doorstep.
"Another extra meal is delivered to your door."
"What are you waiting for? Catch them now!"
"I'll go over there!"
Having said that, Lu Chuanbei and the others immediately got ready to take action, ready to teach these naive little chickens a good lesson.
Chicken: Are you polite?
While these adults were chasing chickens around in the chestnut forest, Song Tiantian and the others were not idle either, picking up chestnuts from the ground and putting them together.
By the time Lu Chuanbei and his friends caught two more chickens, the chestnut balls that Song Tiantian and his friends had placed on the ground had piled up into a small hill.
And they only picked up a small part of it. In addition to the large number of chestnut balls that fell on the ground and no one picked them up, there were also many hanging on the branches.
But they didn't have any tools with them at the moment, so they didn't have time to knock all the chestnuts off the book and take them away.
Lu Chuanbei and He Xuebin returned to the village early, found a few bamboo baskets and backpacks, and filled them with most of the chestnut balls picked by Song Tiantian and the others. They came back again for the remaining ones and picked up all the chestnuts that had piled up like a small mountain.
After returning to the courtyard, everyone directly poured out the chestnut balls in the bamboo baskets, then picked up shovels, wooden boards, etc., and hit the chestnut balls to knock the ripe chestnuts out of the cracked chestnut balls.
Song Tiantian and the others picked up the fallen chestnuts, put them in a basket, and handed it to Xu Qi who was giving the rooster a boiling water bath in the kitchen.
Xu Qi, who had already bathed and plucked the three chickens, took the basket full of chestnuts and started cutting the chestnuts with a kitchen knife.
I saw him holding a kitchen knife and making a cross-shaped cut on the chestnut with ease. Then he used the tip of the knife to turn and pick at the cut, and the chestnut shell fell off.
Dangdangdang
Soon, the shelled chestnuts filled a large basin. Then he scooped a few spoonfuls of hot water from the pot and poured it over the shelled chestnuts in the basin.
The boiling hot water will separate the chestnut skin and flesh in a moment. Then quickly take it out, rinse it under cold water while using your hands to separate the skin, and you will get a complete chestnut flesh.
After processing the chestnuts, Xu Qi began to prepare the side dishes. After all the ingredients were prepared, Xu Qi began to show his skills in the kitchen.
As the aroma of chestnut stewed chicken gradually wafted through the kitchen, Lu Chuanbei and his companions gathered all the chestnuts from the front yard. They didn't discard the chestnut balls, but spread them out to dry in a corner of the yard. Once they were completely dry, they could be used as firewood, eliminating any waste.
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