Su Hua turned her gaze, glancing over the three brooding hens before picking up the two idle hens beside her.
Two-year-old hens are the best for making dragon and phoenix soup.
She had been eating wild pheasants all the time and hadn't had domestic chicken in a long time, so she was craving it.
After sharpening the knife for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea...
"Hua'er, Second Sister-in-law has already lit the fire, let's hurry up and make Dragon and Phoenix Soup!" Qian Shi sat in front of the stove, looking at the two large basins of chicken and snake meat that Su Hua and Zhao Shi brought in, her smile was almost overflowing.
The old Taoist priest who prescribed the fertility medicine once said that if one could eat nourishing foods like snake meat along with the medicine during the period of taking it, the chances of having a boy would be even greater.
Snake meat is rare, so she had Su Erhu search around the hillside these days, but they didn't find a single snake, let alone snake meat.
Now, this huge basin full of snake meat is simply a gift from God.
That's enough for her to eat to her heart's content for several days.
As soon as Su Hua put down the wooden basin, she looked up and saw that the woman's face had developed many more red bumps. What used to be just a small patch on her cheekbone had now spread densely all over her face, looking even more frightening in the dim yellow firelight.
The fishy stench emanating from her body was now far more intense than before, which had been barely perceptible.
Even just looking through the stove gave me a chill.
Su Hua frowned slightly, "Second sister-in-law, you should avoid taking these fertility drugs of unknown origin..."
However, before she could finish speaking, Madam Qian waved her hand to interrupt her, "This is not some medicine of unknown origin! Hua'er, you don't need to worry about me. It's getting late, and my husband and the others will be back from the county soon. Let's hurry up and start cooking this soup."
Seeing her resistant expression, Su Hua sighed inwardly and swallowed her words.
She then added half a pot of water to the pot, put the prepared snake pieces and chicken pieces into the pot, and added the washed red dates and ginseng. She had quite a few ginsengs in her space, and this time she put in a 30-year-old ginseng, which was not too eye-catching, but its nourishing effect was not bad.
The key to Dragon and Phoenix Soup lies in the natural flavor of the ingredients themselves, so there's no need to add any other spices.
Once the soup boils over high heat, skim off the foam on the surface with a spoon, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for about half an hour.
Before serving, sprinkle on a handful of goji berries and a little salt, and the Dragon and Phoenix Soup is ready.
The firewood in the stove was steaming, and the bonfire in the backyard was roaring.
Su Dalang's three little radish heads and Da Niu and Da Bai were all gathered around the campfire, their five pairs of eyes, ten pupils, all fixed on the skewers of grilling over the fire, with strings of glistening drool hanging from the corners of their mouths.
"Big brother, the skewers should be ready by now, right?" Su Erlang wiped his mouth, his eyes sparkling as he pointed to Da Niu and Da Bai beside him. "Look, they're all drooling over them, and Auntie must be hungry too. How about I try them for Auntie and Da Niu first?"
Su Dalang glared at his own bratty younger brother. In the past four years, this guy had called him "big brother" a handful of times.
Despite the disdain, none of the necessary procedures could be omitted.
He walked to the side with his hands behind his back, picked up a bowl of bright red chili powder, and was about to sprinkle it on. "My aunt said earlier that barbecue seasoning alone isn't enough; you also need to add a handful of chili powder to make it flavorful... Oh dear..."
Halfway through his sentence, his forehead suddenly felt damp. "Why did it suddenly start raining when everything was perfectly fine?"
He raised his hand to wipe it, but all he felt was a sticky mess, with a salty chive flavor.
Su Dalang's round face immediately wrinkled up.
"What the hell! Who the hell spat in my face?"
"What? Spitting?" Upon hearing this, Su Erlang stood up abruptly, glanced at Su Dalang's forehead with wide eyes, and hurriedly waved his little hands, "Dalang, that's not me, I didn't eat chives for lunch."
Chunhua, standing to the side, shook her head vigorously, "Big brother, it wasn't Chunhua! Chunhua didn't eat chives either! Not only did she not eat them at noon, but she didn't eat them this morning either!"
Da Niu and Da Bai didn't utter a sound when they saw the three of them, but they moved a little closer to the roasted venison.
However, while they are fast, some people can move even faster.
All that could be heard was the sound of wind flashing—
Dozens of skewers of roasted meat on the campfire had vanished.
All that was left was a bare pile of grills.
"Waaaaah! Meat! Auntie's meat!" Chunhua paused in her head-shaking motion, looked in the direction the sound of the wind was coming from, and what she saw made her feel terrible.
"Who are you? Why are you trying to steal my aunt's meat skewers?!"
When the two brothers came to their senses, their eyes widened in shock, and they were speechless for a long time.
What normal elderly person could run that fast?
It's hard to say whether what's up there is a person or a ghost!
Meanwhile, the siblings, Da Niu and Da Bai, who had been eagerly eyeing the barbecue, could no longer resist. With a whoosh, they pounced under the old locust tree, grabbed the ground with all four paws, and began to climb up the trunk.
As he climbed, he didn't forget to shout out.
"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!"
Inside the kitchen, Su Hua heard the intermittent roars of the tiger and her heart skipped a beat.
Da Niu and Da Bai were already intelligent, and with the nourishment of the spatial water droplets they ate three times a day these days, they were even more understanding than ordinary wild beasts and birds of prey. They had been quiet and well-behaved in the courtyard these days, never roaring like tigers, let alone roaring like this.
Zhao's face turned pale upon hearing this. "What's going on outside? Has something happened?"
Before he could finish speaking, his toes were already uncontrollably leading him toward the backyard.
Qian instinctively covered her ears, her body trembling slightly. Watching Zhao and Su Hua's figures disappear at the kitchen door, her feet seemed rooted to the ground as she muttered to herself, "The most important thing about making soup is controlling the heat. I'll stay here and watch the fire for you two."
This tiger is impossible to tame; only a fool would go near it at a time like this.
However, thinking of her daughter who was still in the backyard, she couldn't help but stand up, press herself against the kitchen window, and crane her neck to look outside.
As soon as Su Hua and her companion reached the backyard entrance, they heard a booming voice rang out from the old locust tree, "Tsk, all of you, don't be so stingy. Let this old man have a taste for you first, it won't hurt you!"
The two looked up and saw an old man with white beard, white hair and white eyebrows sitting boldly on an old locust tree that blocked out the sky at the far end of the backyard.
He wore a coarse cloth garment patched upon patched, the clothes were dusty and gray, and his snow-white hair was messy like a chicken coop on his head, but his complexion was extremely ruddy, and his eyes shone brightly.
He was holding a handful of kebabs and excitedly stuffing them into his mouth.
Below the tree trunk, two white lumps, one large and one small, were struggling to climb upwards.
Just as the tiger's mouth was about to bite into the kebab—
But then she saw the white-haired old man lightly leap from the branches of the old locust tree to another large tree like a gust of white wind. His speed was no less than that of Xiao Jinhan's lightness skill, which she had seen before.
Su Hua narrowed her almond-shaped eyes slightly. When did such a powerful figure appear in their Shanghe Village?
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