With An Dashan's help, the father and daughter dug half a basket of shepherd's purse in a short while. An Ning said, "That's enough, Dad. Let's go home quickly or we'll be late for lunch."
An Dashan looked at the sky and found that it was indeed late, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back now."
The three of them were walking on the way home, and they met people from the village from time to time, and they greeted them warmly.
After returning home, An Ning asked An Dashan to help pick the shepherd's purse, and then she went to knead the dough first.
An Ning first put a spoonful of salt in the flour and mixed it evenly before kneading the dough. After the dough was kneaded, An Dashan had already picked the shepherd's purse. An Ning said, "Dad, help me light the fire. I want to blanch the shepherd's purse, otherwise it will taste bitter."
An Dashan lit the fire, filled the pot with water and started to chop the meat. After the water boiled, An Ning put the selected shepherd's purse into the pot, added salt and blanched it for a while, then took it out and put it in cold water, so that the color of the shepherd's purse would remain green. Squeeze the water out of the shepherd's purse, then chop it into small pieces and set it aside for later use.
At this time, An Dashan had also chopped the meat filling. An Ning put the meat filling and shepherd's purse in a large bowl, chopped the green onion and ginger, put them in the bowl, added salt, soy sauce, lard and sesame oil, and mixed them evenly. The wonton filling was ready.
An Ning wrapped the wontons skillfully, put the wontons in after the water boiled and cooked for half a quarter of an hour. Then she put seaweed, salt and sesame oil in a large porcelain bowl, scooped two spoonfuls of hot soup from the pot into the bowl, and then put the wontons in.
An Dashan brought the wontons into the main room with great tact, and An Ning followed closely with a bowl. Gao had been hungry for a long time and had already eaten two pieces of cake. At this time, she could not wait to sit down at the table when she smelled the fragrant wontons in the basin. An Ning served a bowl of wontons to everyone, and the three of them sat down at the table and started eating.
An Dashan took a sip of the soup and exclaimed, "It's so delicious!"
Gao also nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that wild vegetables could be cooked so deliciously!"
An Ning hadn't eaten such delicious shepherd's purse wontons for a long time. She didn't bother to talk, but just nodded while eating.
After dinner, An Dashan said, "Ningning, I plan to go to town this afternoon to buy materials for building the back house. Will you come with me?"
An Ning thought for a moment and said, "Dad, I won't go. Don't forget to take those male rabbits to the restaurant."
An Dashan nodded and said, "Don't worry! I won't forget it."
An Dashan said to An Ning, "Ning Ning, what have you been doing in the house these past two days? You hardly go out."
An Ning smiled mysteriously and said, "Dad, don't worry about this."
An Dashan didn't ask any more questions. He just smiled and turned to leave the room.
An Ning had nothing to do these days. She was trying to grow lotus roots in her space. Next to the land that An Dashan had just bought was a small pond. It was called a pond, but it wasn't really that big. It was about one meter deep and covered an area of one acre. The lake also belonged to the landlord. Because the pond was not managed, there was nothing else except a few wild fish.
When An Dashan bought the land, the landowner gave him the pond as a gift. An Dashan didn't think the pond had any value, so he didn't tell An Ning. It wasn't until a few days ago when An Dashan took An Ning to the land for a tour that An Ning realized that there was a pond in her home.
An Ning would not waste such a good place. Since returning that day, An Ning has been thinking about whether he can grow lotus roots in his space. There happened to be a bag of lotus root seeds in his space, which An Ning bought online. Because during that time, An Ning followed a blogger who planted a lot of lotus roots in a large water tank at home. When the flowers bloom, you can enjoy the flowers, and when the flowers fade, you can eat lotus roots and lotus seeds. Lotus leaves can also be used to make beggar chicken. When you get tired of eating lotus roots, you can also make some lotus root powder.
An Ning was very envious after seeing it, so she bought a large water tank and a bag of lotus root seeds online. However, before she could plant them, she came here and forgot about it until she saw the pond a few days ago.
Because there were not many seeds, only one packet, An Ning simply put some soil from the space into a large water tank, then filled it with water and planted the seeds. Since he had no experience in this area, he could only leave it to fate.
An Ning had done nothing else these days, except to go into the space from time to time to take a look. Because the space had the effect of accelerating the ripening of crops, the lotus roots in the large water tank had already bloomed in just a few days. It was estimated that the lotus seeds would be ripe soon.
An Ning felt that the large water tank was a little small at this time, so he used his mind to dig a large hole one meter deep and about twenty square meters in the space, filled it with water, and then planted the lotus seeds when they were ripe. It is estimated that by May, lotus roots can be planted in the lake.
After An Ning finished cleaning up, she returned to the room. She went into the space and saw that the lotus leaves had grown very big, so she picked off the two largest lotus leaves and prepared to make a beggar's chicken later.
An Ning looked at the lotus seeds in the lotus pod and found that they were not yet ripe, so she left the space.
An Ning put the lotus leaf in the kitchen and went to the backyard. After An Ning kept taking chickens out of the space, there were already thirty or forty chickens in the backyard. An Ning caught a fat old hen, bled it and plucked its feathers skillfully, and it took a short while to finish the old hen.
An Ning took the processed chicken to the kitchen, put onion, ginger, star anise, bay leaves, pepper powder, soy sauce, a little white wine and salt in a large bowl, and gave the hen a full body massage. After massaging for a while, she put all the ingredients into the chicken's stomach and marinated it for half an hour to let it absorb the flavors.
An Ning took advantage of this time to dig up some soil from her own vegetable garden, sifted the soil with a sieve to remove the dead branches and leaves, and then added a little water to make mud.
After the mud is mixed and the chicken is almost marinated, An Ning wraps the chicken with cleaned lotus leaves, and then ties it with cotton ropes to prevent it from falling apart. After wrapping the lotus leaves, she starts to wrap the mud, applying it layer by layer to a thickness of about one centimeter.
After wrapping the chicken in mud, An Ning dug a big hole in the backyard, put the chicken wrapped in mud in it, then filled the hole, put a pile of charcoal and firewood on top, lit the fire, and waited for about half an hour before eating.
An Ning called Gao out and said, "Mom, you stay here and help me light the fire. I'll go cook."
Gao didn't know what An Ning was doing, but she knew it must be delicious, so she nodded and said, "Go ahead. I can still handle this fire."
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