Chapter 52: People Are Not as Good as Cats
On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, everything is lush and green, and insects are chirping and birds are singing.
All the wolfberries have been planted, surrounding most of the foot of the mountain. After being irrigated by Ye Zhen's spiritual energy, the leaves are stretched out, and small purple flowers of varying shades of purple are blooming gracefully. A layer of velvety green has also appeared on the branches...
Those were newly sprouted wolfberry buds, with tender green color bulging out from the spores, trembling and looking delicate and lovely.
The next day, Ye's father saw it and was amazed:
“How can it still sprout at this time of year?”
Most of the leaves surrounding the foot of the mountain are dark in color, mixed with light purple. The mountain is undulating, and one glance at it can't help but make people feel happy.
Father Ye was sighing with emotion, and Ye Zhen spoiled the mood by saying:
“These wolfberry sprouts are ready to eat!”
Father Ye: “…”
Ye Zhen brought a basket of sprouts home and put them directly in the kitchen:
"Mom, let's stir-fry wolfberry sprouts tonight!"
Ye's mother was still wondering where such tender fresh buds came from at this time of year, so she asked directly:
“Where did this come from?”
"They are just planted at the foot of the mountain. They haven't grown well yet." Dad Ye was grumbling. It was obvious that he was very attached to the wolfberries he had just planted. The roots hadn't even taken root yet, but Ye Zhen was already thinking about their buds.
"Dad, look at what you said. I'm not planting this just for show. This thing needs to be pinched more. The more you pinch it, the better it will grow. It can't grow old. Why should I plant it?"
"Didn't you say you wanted to use it as a guardrail?" Ye's father asked doubtfully. Did he remember it wrong?
"Well, this is killing two birds with one stone. When it's young, it can be used as a vegetable. When it's old, it can be used as a fruit. After it takes root for a long time, it can become a fence!"
Ye Zhen argued confidently and refused to admit that she was greedy.
"This sprout is so tender, how do you eat it?" Mother Ye didn't care about the quarrel between the father and son. She turned over the wolfberry sprouts with her hands. They were too tender and she didn't know what to do with them.
“Cold salad and fried eggs!”
Ye Ma’s cooking lacks innovation. She always makes home-cooked dishes. She has never made wolfberry sprouts.
Ye Zhen is not good at cooking, but he has a lot of theoretical knowledge.
When I was studying and eating in the cafeteria, what kind of weird dishes had I not eaten? Stir-fried cucumber with orange slices, apple slices with meat, peach with meat... The cafeteria chef kept up with the times and there was nothing that couldn't be paired, only things that I didn't want to eat.
Ye Zhen, whose taste buds have been pushed to the limit by the various dishes in the cafeteria, also orders takeout for work, so he has gained some experience. However, there is a lot of cooking knowledge on the Internet, and although he is full of confidence every time, he can learn it quickly, but fails when he starts to cook.
After torturing myself for a long time, I can finally understand some truths. No matter what dish it is, no matter whether it is stir-fried or dry-fried, as long as you are willing to add oil, salt and various seasonings, the taste will not be too bad.
Of course, the difference is just adding a spoonful of water when adding too much seasoning. You can still eat it if you endure it.
"Mom, I searched for the recipe of wolfberry sprouts. I saw that it's easy to make if you make it cold. Just treat it as cold bean curd skin, add some garlic and chili, and treat wolfberry sprouts as bean curd skin."
"That wolfberry omelette is even simpler. Haven't you made toon omelette? It's the same principle. They're all sprouts, so why differentiate between them? Just make them the same way."
She had eaten this thing before, but it was made into soup with pork liver. She had never tried stir-frying it.
The leaves of wolfberry sprouts are bitter, but if you blanch them in water and soak them for a while, the bitterness will be reduced a lot, and they will taste fresh and refreshing. Wolfberry sprouts nourish the liver, improve eyesight, clear away heat and replenish deficiency. Eating them in different ways is good for your health.
At this point, Ye Zhen started to brag, "Mom, I'm not saying that even though I can't cook, I have a wealth of theoretical knowledge! You can draw inferences about other situations from one example, right? That's it!"
"Mom, even though you're a good cook, you're a bit conservative. There's no innovation or variety." It's the same dishes every day, and it's hard to change the taste.
Ye's mother smiled with a fake smile: "You've worked so hard, and you're wronged to eat the home-cooked meals I made!"
Ye Zhen: “…”
What did she say wrong? Why is she so weird?
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The water spinach and sweet potato vines on the slope have been growing in large numbers these past two days as if they had taken hormones. These things grow very fast, and Dad Ye is worried that the vegetables will grow old and people will not harvest them.
After picking a handful and frying them, the family no longer has those unnecessary worries.
The emerald green sweet potato vines are tender and fresh, without any old stems or fibers. Ye Ma only adds a little garlic and a little oyster sauce, and stir-fryes them over high heat for a few minutes. No water is needed, as the moisture from the leaves is enough to make them sweet and refreshing.
Delicious.
The whole family has to swallow their tongue.
Dad Ye drank three big bowls by himself.
Little Brother Ye even poured the soup at the bottom of the bowl into the rice, but still felt it was not tasty enough, so he fried the sweet potato leaves that he had saved for the noodles in the morning and ate them all.
"Mom, these sweet potato leaves are so delicious!"
How could it not be delicious? Ye Zhen didn't waste any of the spiritual energy she cultivated. She was stingy and didn't even give a little to other people's fields.
Alas, the landlord has no surplus food, so you should just use the spiritual energy for yourself first.
The neighbor's vegetable garden is also on that side. Fortunately, it was surrounded by a circle of wolfberries, and with the help of spiritual energy, it has grown taller and denser. If you don't look closely, you won't know that the other family's vegetable garden has only a few leaves on the same sweet potato vines. Otherwise, you will know the contrast and the difference, which is really the difference between heaven and earth.
Speaking of vegetables, I don’t know if Zhao Gang’s test results have come out yet, and Ye’s mother is anxious.
There is no time to be impatient. The vegetables in the fields are so delicious that the Ye family eats them three times a day. They are afraid that by the time all the vegetables are picked, what will people buy?
Speaking of Ye Zhen, he has been following his father Ye to dig ditches in the mountains and pull weeds in the fields recently. He has become much more relaxed. I don’t know what shackles he has broken free of, but his cultivation speed has obviously increased at night, and the cyclone in his dantian that is inhaled and exhaled by the earth and wood spiritual roots has increased a lot.
It seems that she can't rest. She works hard every day and her cultivation level has improved a lot. In the past, she meditated for several years but did not move at all.
As usual, Ye Zhen picked out the strawberry seeds that did not survive the spiritual energy shock and glanced at the two turtles kept in the water tank.
Mother Ye sat next to the two cats, holding them in the sun, and combing their hair with a wooden comb that had been discarded at home.
Ever since they learned that the cats had caught soft-shelled turtles for the house, Mother Ye and Grandma Ye have treated them like their treasures.
Ye Zhen took a quick look and saw Ye's mother hugging the two cats and feeding them dried fish affectionately. Humph, there were so many dried fish that half a basin was fried and a little bit was stir-fried with chili peppers. Before Ye Zhen could even satisfy his craving for them, Ye's mother hid them and no one knew where she put them. She said that she would save them for entertaining guests during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Even when little brother Ye wanted to bring some food back to school, he was not allowed to do so, as if he were guarding a treasure. Okay, are you going to give it to the cat this time?
People are really not as good as cats!
The same goes for the turtle. Ye Zhen has to stare at it eight times a day. Now the turtle hides when it sees her. It's because Ye Zhen's mother won't let it eat it right away and has to wait until the Dragon Boat Festival.
She didn't know how many videos of making soft-shelled turtle she had watched on the Internet, and she was just waiting for Ye Ma to provide guidance while she was making it.
Ye's mother said: I'll make you greedy, hey, I won't cook! People who can't cook these days have no right to be picky, just wait!
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