"Mom, I heard my sister had an accident? Is she alright?"
Zhou Cunzong carried a basket home and a load of firewood on his shoulder, looking every bit the hardworking and capable young man.
Fifteen-year-old Zhou Cunzong is almost 1.8 meters tall. Although he is somewhat thin, he is quite strong.
The boy put down the firewood and handed the basket to Chen Suwen, saying, "Mom, I caught a pheasant. Could you take care of it?"
Chen Suwen frowned as she looked at the bamboo basket. "You really caught a pheasant? Why didn't you run into your father when you went up the mountain?"
Although Chen Suwen stayed with her injured daughter and didn't go out, many people would talk about such a big thing that happened in the brigade.
Some children or gossipy women came over to share with her the news that Zhou Qingyun had caught human traffickers on the mountain and rescued Jinbao.
Since Zhou Qingyun caught the human trafficker in the back mountain, why didn't he encounter Zhou Cunzong?
"Huh? My dad went up the mountain too? I heard on my way back that he went to catch human traffickers."
"Did he go up the mountain to arrest human traffickers?"
Zhou Cunzong was a little stunned. He really hadn't expected his father to go up the mountain. He hadn't met him.
"I'm going to Xishangou. Where did Dad go?"
There are many mountains around Guangming Brigade. The ones further away are naturally higher, but there are also some that are not too high but are quite large.
Therefore, people going up the mountain may not necessarily go in the same direction; it's possible that Zhou Cunzong and Zhou Qingyun went up different mountains.
"Never mind, just be careful, there's all sorts of things up there."
There were many wild animals in this era, including many powerful beasts like wild boars.
And there are also ferocious beasts such as tigers, wolves, or bears.
"Elder sister, boil water and prepare this chicken. We'll stew it in a bit." Chen Suwen never thought about selling the pheasant for other things; she only wanted to eat it.
If it weren't for the fact that she only had two chickens at home, and they needed to be kept to lay eggs, she would have wanted to kill them and eat them.
Chen Suwen looked at the mountains behind Guangming Brigade. One side of the mountain led to another commune, but the other side was a forest that went deeper and deeper.
There must be all sorts of wild animals inside, right?
She quite liked rabbits, but she didn't really like wild boars. As for wolves, bears, and tigers, she never even considered eating their meat.
"Uncle, you're really amazing! You even caught a pheasant!" Xu Huixue came out, took the bamboo basket, and was very happy to see the dead pheasant after removing the contents from it.
It's been a long time since we've had any meat. According to my mother-in-law, we can have a good meal today.
Chen Suwen looked at the pheasant, thought for a moment, and went back into the house to get some dried mushrooms.
The original owner had some, but Chen Suwen took most of it out of her space, which was stockpiled with mushrooms.
Whether they are grown in greenhouses or grow wild in the mountains, they have them all.
Chen Suwen took out some bamboo fungus, morel mushrooms, and other common mushrooms and handed them to Xu Huixue.
"I'll stew it with chicken later, and peel a few potatoes... no, no need to put potatoes in."
Chen Suwen didn't like adding potatoes when stewing chicken with mushrooms, so she changed her mind and said, "Just add some glass noodles and cook them; you don't need to add potatoes."
"But the potatoes still need to be peeled; we'll use them to make a cold salad later."
"Okay." Xu Huixue listened to her mother-in-law and took the things to deal with them.
Although Xu Huixue's cooking skills weren't great, the food she made was still edible, and Chen Suwen's requirements weren't high.
Pheasant stew with mushrooms is a very simple dish that can be delicious even without exceptional culinary skills.
The cold potato salad was similar; Chen Suwen planned to season it herself later, so she didn't expect Xu Huixue's cooking skills to be particularly good.
"Waaaaah—"
Just then, a loud baby crying came from Zhou Cunzhi and Xu Huixue's room, which startled Chen Suwen.
Oh right, she'd completely forgotten that her eldest son's twins had already been born.
Zhou Xian and Zhou Mei's birthdays are in April, and it's already late autumn. The two little ones are almost six months old.
They had just woken up and were hungry, so they couldn't help but cry loudly.
"Hey, Mom's here!"
Xu Huixue was about to kill a chicken when she heard her child crying. She quickly washed her hands and ran back to the room to check on the child.
"Ah Zong, your sister-in-law has to take care of the child, so go and process the pheasant." Chen Suwen didn't insist that Xu Huixue cook while taking care of the child, so she could only ask Zhou Cunzong, the "only free person," to do it.
"ah?"
Zhou Cunzong was stunned for a moment, but he quickly boiled the water, scalded and plucked the pheasant, and then gutted and cleaned it.
Of course, we didn't throw away all the pheasant's internal organs; we cleaned out everything edible and stewed it all together later.
"Wow, it's a hen, carrying eggs."
Chen Suwen looked at the pheasant whose belly had been cut open by Zhou Cunzong. Inside were many eggs, some as small as a grain of rice, some the size of a blueberry or cherry, and some as big as a baby about to be laid.
All these eggs can be stewed together.
Chen Suwen stared at Zhou Cunzong, instructing him to prepare the pheasant, chop the meat, stir-fry it in a pot, and then stew it with water.
This pheasant is quite plump, so although the amount of oil extracted during frying is small, it's not entirely useless. Therefore, the final taste will definitely be quite good.
After stir-frying the pheasant meat, add water and stew. Soak the dried mushrooms in hot water for a while, wash them clean, and add them to stew together.
Actually, mushrooms should be soaked in warm water, but because there wasn't enough time, Chen Suwen could only use hot water.
While stewing chicken soup, Chen Suwen asked her son to help her peel potatoes, as potatoes weren't very big back then.
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