Chapter 51 Chapter 51-Two-in-one chicken stewed with chicken mushrooms, a unique mountain delicacy...
Pei Ying lowered his eyes calmly, and suddenly the feeling of their fingers clasped together came to his mind.
The sun was slowly moving westward, and the setting sun lengthened their shadows. Pei Ying finished, and Lin Chuntao also came back to her senses.
"Please help me get the chopping board. I'll chop it up and cook it first."
Lin Chuntao stood up and took out the chopping board.
After the chicken was chopped, Pei Ying went to wash the intestines, and Lin Chuntao washed the pot, added lard and started frying the chicken.
The chicken stewed with chicken mushrooms does not need to be fried until golden brown like last time. It only needs to be stir-fried slightly to release some chicken oil. When it is almost done, Lin Chuntao adds water, puts the cleaned internal organs in, covers the lid and starts cooking.
After finishing all this, Pei Ying took the wood ash and went to wash his hands twice.
By the time Lin Chunxing and the others returned, the chicken in the pot had already begun to smell fragrant. The sisters rushed into the yard and shouted, "Sister, is the chicken already cooked?"
Lin Chuntao looked at them and smiled, "It's cooking. Where did you go today? You're back so late."
Lin Chunhe chuckled and replied to Lin Chuntao, "We went to Shapo with Sister Qingqing and the others. Brother Jiaye said there were yellow bubbles there, but we didn't find anything."
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Hurry up and wash your hands. Rest for a while before eating chicken."
After Lin Chunxing put the pig feed away, she threw some to the piglets.
She watched the piglets munching on the grass and smiled at Lin Chuntao, "Sister, the piglets seem to have grown a bit."
There were a lot of things going on these days, and Lin Chuntao hardly took care of the piglet. It was all Lin Chunxing and the others who took care of it. When she heard Lin Chunxing say this, she also went over to take a look. It didn't gain much weight, but its frame had grown bigger, it was a little taller, and it was a little longer.
“It’s growing pretty fast.”
"By the time of the New Year, it should weigh 200 kilograms, right?"
Lin Chunxing's eyes sparkled with anticipation. Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "There will definitely be one."
Nowadays, it's not uncommon for a pig to weigh 400 to 500 kilograms in a year. But with feed and grain, can a grass-eating pig weigh 200 kilograms? Lin Chuntao wasn't quite sure, but no matter what, she had to find a way to fatten up the pig in the future. Otherwise, even if she slaughtered a 200-kilogram pig, she wouldn't get much lard.
Lin Chuntao patted her shoulder gently and said, "Go wash your hands quickly, the chicken is almost cooked."
Lin Chunxing smiled and sniffed, "It smells really good already."
"I haven't added the chicken mushrooms yet. It will be more fragrant after I add them later."
The two sisters turned around together. Lin Chunhe and Lin Duoer, who had already washed their hands, were already standing around the pot. One of them stretched out her hand to fan the hot steam from it, while the other closed her eyes and inhaled it. Lin Chuntao couldn't help laughing when she saw them.
The sunset glow on the horizon is like gold, so beautiful.
They sat in the sunset, listening to the chicken soup bubbling in the iron pot, with happy smiles on their faces.
At the gate of the old Lin family's courtyard, Lin Jialang and his younger brother and sister also squatted at the gate, looking into the distance from time to time. They didn't stand up until Lin Miaomiao came back, but hurried over to greet her.
"Sister Miaomiao, are you back?"
Lin Miaomiao hummed calmly. Lin Jialang wasn't sure what she meant. Was it a success or not? He could only ask, "How is it going? Did grandma say anything?"
Lin Miaomiao remained silent, and the Lin family beside her looked displeased.
"Lin Jialang, that's my grandmother, not yours! How do you want to go to your grandmother's house? It's not far away."
Lin Jialang's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Are Lin Jiacai and the others going to cut off ties with him?
Everything was fine in the morning, but changed after I came back. That means Lin Miaomiao and the others' problem has been resolved, but it has nothing to do with them.
As for his grandmother's house, he didn't have the courage to go there. His mother and aunt had a big fight a few years ago, and they didn't like them very much.
I thought Lin Miaomiao and the others shared the same plight as me, but I didn't expect that they would draw a clear line between themselves and me so soon.
"Sister Miaomiao, are we going to separate and live our own lives?"
Lin Jialang's question made Lin Miaomiao stunned for a moment, but she quickly said, "I'm also asking for help. I don't have the ability to take care of you three siblings, so let's separate them."
Lin Jialang looked at Lin Miaomiao's cold eyes for a long time before nodding.
Seeing that Lin Jialang agreed readily, Lin Miaomiao stopped talking and turned to go to the kitchen to cook. Lin Jialang asked his younger brother Lin Jiarong to help. He said he was going to get some firewood, and after leaving the yard, he went to Lin Cunzheng's house.
Lin Cunzheng and his friends had just returned from the mountain. When they saw Lin Jialang coming to say that he wanted to split up the family business, they frowned.
"How about you six divide it?" Lin Cunzheng asked.
Lin Jialang nodded, then said, "Miao Miao went to her grandmother's house today. I don't know if she found a solution, but when she came back she told me that she wanted to live separately. We don't really have much to divide, but we have some food, pots and pans, and the house. Please help us divide it up clearly, Grandpa, so that we won't be involved in the future."
The old couple looked at each other and then sighed, "Okay, I'll go with you."
Lin Miaomiao and the others had just finished making the buckwheat cakes when Lin Jialang came in with Lin Cunzheng.
He looked at the two pancakes. Lin Jiacai and his friends held the thick one, while Lin Jiarong held the thin one. Lin Cunzheng looked at Lin Miaomiao, feeling a little disappointed, but he didn't say anything.
"Miaomiao, Jialang said you two are going to separate?"
Lin Miaomiao frowned upon hearing this, looked at Lin Jialang unhappily, and said lightly: "We have to live separately. I can't take care of six people. You have to take care of yourself."
There is nothing to say about this. Lin Miaomiao is not very old and they are still children. It cannot be said that one takes care of whom. It should be that the siblings support each other and live their lives.
Since they wanted to separate and they were willing, he had no choice but to help.
Sun looked at the two cakes, and the more she looked at them, the more she felt that they were a little dazzling. She said lightly, "It's good to have them separated."
"What do you want to share first?" Sun turned around and asked Lin Jialang. Lin Jialang saw the cake in his brother's hand and replied, "Let's share the grain first."
Lin Cunzheng said, "The grain needs to be weighed. Go back and ask your aunt to bring the scale. Do you have any sacks at home?"
Lin Jialang went into the house and took a look, and found two.
Sun went over to take it and said, "Okay, then go get the scale."
Lin Jialang left, and the old lady went into the house to take a look. In addition to the buckwheat noodles, there was also some buckwheat bran, which she took out as well.
Lin Miaomiao was unhappy. There was not much food left at home. She just wanted to give a little to Lin Jialang and the others, and she would carry the rest to her grandmother's house. But she didn't expect Lin Jialang to be so cunning that he called people over without even informing her in advance. She looked at the old couple like this, as if they were going to divide it equally.
She couldn't think of any good reason to refuse to split it equally.
While waiting for Lin Jialang to bring back the scale, Chen Dongniang followed suit and quickly divided the buckwheat flour and bran into two portions.
A serving of 63 jin of buckwheat noodles and more than 40 jin of bran.
After the food was distributed, they started to distribute the houses. The old Lin family had a total of six houses, and Lin Cunzheng divided it in the middle. Lin Miaomiao and Lin Jialang chose for themselves. Lin Miaomiao took the lead in choosing the room where the old lady and her family had lived and the two rooms next to it. Lin Jialang passively accepted the rest. As long as there was a place to live, there was nothing for him to fight for.
There is only one pigpen in the backyard, and there is a shed next to it, but it has no door.
Lin Miaomiao said she wanted the pigpen and gave the shed next to it to Lin Jialang.
Since there were no pigs to raise now, Lin Jialang agreed directly.
After the houses were divided up, only pots, pans, and some farm tools like backpacks were left.
The bowls and chopsticks can be divided equally, but there is only one iron pot.
Before Sun and Lin Cunzheng could say anything, Lin Miaomiao said, "We have to give us this iron pot, and we can give them an extra clay pot."
Sun said, "If the bowls and chopsticks are separated, there's only one pot, one steamer, and one kitchen. No matter who gets them, what will happen to the others?"
Lin Miaomiao pouted in dissatisfaction, and Lin Cunzheng said, "The steamer, the iron pot, and the kitchen will not be separated. You can use them together. On weekdays, one can cook after the other is done."
Lin Miaomiao snorted coldly, "What if they do it and occupy it and don't let us in to do it?"
Sun frowned. It was like this. Who was occupying the position and not allowing whom to do it? We don’t know.
"You, Jiacai, and Jialiang are older, so Jialang and Xiao Dujuan wouldn't dare to monopolize the position and not let you do it. On the contrary, Miaomiao, you are older, so don't bully your younger siblings."
"You have separated, but you are not enemies. You are still cousins. Although you live your own lives, you still have to help each other when you need help."
The old lady wanted to say that there was an existing example right in front of her, so that Lin Miaomiao shouldn't be so overbearing, but it was obvious that she didn't seem to listen and didn't respond.
Lincunzheng asked: "Miaomiao? Do you agree regardless?"
Lin Miaomiao said unhappily, "Whatever you say is fine."
Sun said, "It's not impossible to divide it. You take the clay pot and I take the iron pot. We have to divide it equally. You can sell the iron pot at a shop in the county town and get half each. But it won't be easy to sell it and buy another one."
Listening to Sun's words, Lin Miaomiao had an idea in her mind, but she just raised her eyes and glanced at Sun: "Then do as Grandma said, we won't divide it, and use it together."
Lin Miaomiao agreed, and Lin Jialang had no objection. Then they divided up some cabinets, adults' clothes, dustpans, and some chairs and benches in the house.
After the things were divided, Lin Cunzheng wrote a document and the six siblings put their fingerprints on it, and the family was considered divided.
Before they were about to leave, Sun asked Lin Miaomiao, "I heard you went to your grandmother's house. Did they agree to adopt you?"
Lin Miaomiao revealed a smug look and said, "It's agreed. My uncle went to find my third grandfather, and we will go to adopt the child tomorrow with the household registration."
Sun looked at her with a calm expression.
"Okay, if we can adopt him, it's fine. We siblings will have a good life in the future."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Lin Jialang again and said, "Jialang, move the things back into the house."
Lin Jialang nodded, and after sending the old couple out of the house, he began to ask Lin Jiarong and Xiao Dujuan to move things into the house.
Lin Miaomiao watched the old couple leave. As soon as the gate closed, she cursed in the yard, "Well, Lin Jialang! You've grown up so well that you actually sneaked off to find Grandfather and the others to divide the family property? Don't you think you can curry favor with those old couple like Lin Chuntao and the others did?"
Lin Jialang looked at Lin Miaomiao's angry expression and said in a deep voice, "It was Sister Miaomiao who told me to split up the family, so I went to find my great grandfather and the others."
Hearing what Lin Jialang said, Lin Miaomiao was so angry that her teeth were itching. She wanted to divide the family, but not in this way!
This thief, Lin Jialang, is as cunning as his parents.
Lin Miaomiao glared at him with gritted teeth and said angrily, "Just wait!"
Lin Jialang didn't argue with her. After moving his things in with his younger brother and sister, he cleaned the house.
It was almost dark when the work was done. Lin Jialang sat at the door of the house looking at the empty yard. Suddenly, he felt that his heart was even emptier than the yard.
Lin Miaomiao and the others have already found a place to stay, but he and his younger brothers and sisters still don’t know where to go.
Lin Chuntao and her friends sat in the sunset and ate chicken stewed with chicken mushrooms. The pheasant they made last time was very fragrant, but after blanching the vegetables and boiling the green peppers, the taste became spicy and mellow, and a bit stronger.
The chicken today tasted completely different. The fresh and fragrant chicken mushrooms made the chicken soup sweet and fresh. Pei Ying had eaten mushrooms many times, but this was his first time eating chicken mushrooms. He often heard people in the shop talk about eating chicken mushrooms as if they were divine meat. He originally thought they were too exaggerated.
To this day, he has tasted the chicken stewed with chicken mushrooms made by Lin Chuntao.
The mushrooms I ate before had a good texture and were delicious, but the fragrance was not very strong. This chicken mushroom is different. Its fragrance blends with the flavor of chicken, making it even more addictive.
This time, Lin Chuntao was reluctant to use the soup to cook the vegetables. She drank two bowls of soup before eating.
The sisters followed her to drink, and after finishing, they were very satisfied. Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "It's a pity that chicken mushrooms are not often found. After dinner, we can fry some chicken mushroom oil and set it aside. We can put some in the noodles when we eat them in the future. It will be super delicious."
Pei Ying no longer thought about asking for noodles. After drinking the soup, he served himself some rice and started to soak the rice in the soup. The chicken and chicken soup seemed to be several times more delicious than the mutton hotpot he had a few days ago.
Blame it on him for not having studied and having no talent, otherwise he would have been able to compose a couple of poems by now. He finally understood now that Zhang Dayong and the others weren't exaggerating; delicacies from the mountains should have this kind of flavor.
After dinner, it was getting dark.
Pei Ying and Lin Chuntao, who were very satisfied with their meal, sat in the yard to rest, while Lin Chunxing and the others, who were very happy, ran to play with Lin Qingqing and the others.
There was not much entertainment for everyone. The children played with stones or kicked shuttlecocks, or played hide-and-seek at dusk, hiding from each other all night long.
Lin Qingqing and Lin Chunxing hadn't been playing for long when they heard that Lin Miaomiao and Lin Jialang were going to separate, so a group of half-grown children ran over to take a peek.
The three sisters witnessed the separation of Lin Miaomiao and Lin Jialang.
Although there was no big quarrel, it was like a basin of cold water that was poured down accidentally from above, chilling me from the top of my head to the bottom of my heart.
Lin Jiacai and Lin Jiarong used to be very good friends and often played together.
It only took a few days for this to happen.
While they were dividing the property, Lin Jiaye casually remarked, "Jialang is quite smart. He knew to call Grandpa and the others over. If he and Miaomiao had to divide the property, Miaomiao would definitely not give him so much."
Lin Qingqing sighed softly and said, "Miaomiao is still as domineering as her mother."
Lin Chunxing said nothing, and they played for a while, but later on, Lin Chunxing and the others became a little absent-minded.
Ever since they were kicked out of the house, Lin Chuntao had been taking care of everything, including food, clothes, and even picking mushrooms to sell to save money. They did contribute, but if they thought about it carefully, they would be worse off than Lin Jialang and the others if it weren't for Lin Chuntao's efforts.
Lin Jiaye said Lin Jialang was smart.
Thinking back to when they passed by today and Lin Jialang had called her "sister" in a gentle voice, and then thinking about their thoughts at that time and Lin Chuntao's words, she felt a strange sense of irony.
Children who are protected by their parents can live a carefree life without having to worry about anything.
Lin Qingqing and Lin Jiaye are among them.
But since their parents were gone, the sisters had no idea that they could live a carefree life.
Even Lin Miaomiao and Lin Jialang have their own little thoughts in order to survive. They are not much better than Lin Miaomiao and others, and they even start to show kindness indiscriminately.
No wonder my sister is angry.
It was getting dark, and Lin Qingqing's mother came to look for them, so the friends dispersed.
Lin Chunxing took Lin Chunhe and Lin Duoer home.
The three sisters were unusually silent on the way.
Lin Chuntao looked at the three people who came in. They looked like eggplants hit by frost, without any of the spirit they had when they left just now.
She thought he had a quarrel with the village kids or something, so she asked, "What happened to you three?"
Lin Chunxing looked at Lin Chuntao sitting on the chair. She pursed her lips and said, "Miaomiao and Jialang have separated."
Lin Chuntao paused for a moment after hearing this, then said, "So fast?"
"I thought it would take two or three days." After she finished speaking, Lin Chunxing and the others fell silent. Looking at their expressions, Lin Chuntao raised her eyebrows slightly and asked, "What's wrong? Do you think they look pitiful?"
Hearing her words, Pei Ying beside her turned his head to look over. Lin Chuntao's expression was calm. Pei Ying glanced at the three sisters, only to see them shaking their heads in unison.
Lin Chuntao didn't say anything more about this and looked at the medicine jar on the ground.
"The medicine has just been heated up. Go get a bowl and pour it over to drink."
The three sisters went into the house to get their bowls. Pei Ying blew on the bowl in her hand and warned, "It's a little hot. Be careful not to get burned."
In fact, the sisters were soft-hearted, and Lin Chuntao was not that angry. After all, they were kind people.
But if a person is kind without principles and bottom line, he will become a pitiful creature who can be bullied by everyone.
Lin Miaomiao and Lin Jialang are pitiful, but Lin Miaomiao was able to go to her grandmother for help. After she came up with the solution, she immediately made a little plan and wanted to divide the family after returning. When Lin Jialang learned that Lin Miaomiao wanted to get rid of them brothers and sisters, he quickly reacted and called Lin Cunzheng to come, at least to ensure that he got what belonged to him.
If they had not been separated, she would have been demoted like the adults in the Lin family, leaving Lin Chunxing and Lin Chunhe, and the three sisters would have been leftovers.
Now that they are young, she lives with them, but she cannot be a nanny for the rest of her life. She has to grow up and live on her own in the future.
By the time I finished drinking the medicine, it was completely dark.
After boiling water and washing up, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.
At the hour of Yin the next day, the system reported the location of the mushrooms, and Lin Chuntao and Pei Ying set out into the mountains to pick mushrooms as usual.
A few days after the summer rain, there are the most mushrooms in the mountains. Today, the system reported red mushrooms, and most of the red mushrooms were picked up in the backpack. Lin Chuntao herself picked up a full bamboo basket of green-headed mushrooms and pine-hair mushrooms.
If it weren't for the fact that she had picked up so much and had no place to put it, Lin Chuntao would have been reluctant to leave the mountain.
Although she arrived a little late today, because they were red mushrooms, Dr. He from the clinic wanted to dry them, so she didn't carry them to the stall, but carried them directly to the clinic.
There are four or five kinds of mushrooms left in the bamboo basket. They are difficult to sort and the price is not high if they are mixed together. Lin Chuntao plans to carry them back to eat.
It was still early when she finished her work, and it would take a long time for Pei Ying to come back, so she went to say hello to Pei Ying and went home early.
When they were halfway there and saw that there was no one around, Lin Chuntao called up the control panel, took out two buckets of flour, and went to the living area to exchange some yeast powder.
Thinking that several people in this family need to take care of their health, eating more staple foods can slowly nourish a person's qi and blood.
She often goes out in the middle of the night and doesn't have time to make breakfast, so she prepares some steamed buns and keeps them aside. In the morning, she can steam them and boil an egg for breakfast.
When she returned home with her things on her back, the sisters were about to go cut grass for the pigs. They were a little surprised to see her come back suddenly, "Sister, didn't you go to the county town?"
Lin Chuntao replied, "Yes, I did. The red mushrooms I picked up today were taken away by the doctor who prescribed medicine for us. I didn't wait for your brother-in-law and came back first."
"Are you going to cut grass for the pigs?"
Lin Chunxing nodded: "Have you had breakfast?"
"We each ate a sweet potato, and there's another one buried in the ashes. Do you want to eat it, sister?"
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Please help me dig it out and peel it. I will go with you later and dig wild vegetables."
Lin Chunxing responded, took a branch and dug the sweet potato out of the ashes, brushed off the ashes and waited for it to cool down before peeling it.
Lin Chuntao went into the house, put down the backpack, turned around and came out to wash her hands, then went back to the house to get a clay basin and scooped a few spoonfuls of flour into it. She estimated that she added some yeast and stirred it directly into the flour, then took it outside to scoop water and knead the flour.
Lin Duoer saw Lin Chuntao carrying the clay basin out and hurried over.
"Sister, what are you going to cook?"
“Making steamed buns.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Duoer swallowed her saliva and asked, "Is this the one we ate in the county town last time?"
Lin Chuntao shook her head slightly: "No stuffing, just steam the dough directly."
Lin Duo'er didn't know what Lin Chuntao was talking about, but she remembered that the melon cake Lin Chuntao made with this white flour last time was very fragrant and delicious. Her heart was suddenly filled with anticipation.
Lin Chuntao scooped some water and poured it in, stirring it with chopsticks. After watching the flour begin to turn into flocs, she began to knead the dough. After kneading out a smooth dough, she brought it back into the house and covered it with a straw lid.
Lin Chunxing had already peeled the sweet potatoes for her.
"Thanks."
Lin Chunxing smiled slightly, and Lin Chuntao went to find a hoe while eating and put the backpack on her back.
"Lock the door and let's go."
Lin Duoer opened her mouth, thinking that she would be able to eat in a while, but unexpectedly Lin Chuntao shouted to lock the door and go to work.
Lin Chunxing went forward and locked the door. Seeing Lin Duoer like that, Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "I made that when I came back to prepare lunch. Let's go. I'll be back soon."
Lin Duoer smiled foolishly and followed them out of the yard.
The sun was warm and the temperature was just right in the morning, and the fields were full of people working.
Lin Chuntao first went to the field to check on the corn. After just a few days, the corn seedlings were already about three inches tall. The vegetable field was even greener, and the water spinach had grown very tall. Lin Chuntao was very happy.
"We can harvest these vegetables and eat them in a few days."
Lin Chuntao was talking to Lin Chunxing and the others, but Lin Changhua, who had just walked down to the field, took over the conversation.
"Chun Tao, the vegetables you planted are growing very fast."
Lin Chuntao looked up and saw him, then greeted him with a smile, "Second Uncle."
"My kind of bamboo shoots ripen quickly. Are you here to weed?"
Lin Changhua looked at the corn seedlings in her field and said with a smile: "No, I was just taking a look. Your corn seedlings look good. Have you checked to see if there are any insects? Some insects will eat the roots of the corn. You have to look carefully. If there are any, sprinkle some wood ash water on it to look for insects."
Lin Chuntao smiled and agreed, "Thank you, Second Uncle."
Lin Changhua waved his hand and walked forward with the sickle.
Lin Chuntao crouched down in the field and looked carefully. She did see a few corn plants eaten by insects, but not many. She looked around the broken corn seedlings and found a wriggling white insect.
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