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When eating chicken without meat, Feng Gui was not satisfied. Although the chicken was tender and smooth, it tasted sweet! It was not like he had never eaten sweet meat before. The braised pork made by Du Heng was sweet. It was just that the sweetness of sugar and soy sauce was added, which was different from the sweetness of coconut.
Moreover, Feng Gui didn't like the white sweet meat. He always felt that the chicken boiled in coconut water and then taken out looked weird.
But when he put the chicken in the sauce, he tasted another flavor. The tenderness of the chicken and the salty and sour taste of the sauce complemented each other, and the sweetness of the coconut juice was diluted, leaving only a light coconut fragrance!
Du Heng dipped the chicken in the sauce and said regretfully, "It's a pity there is no galangal. It would taste better if it was seasoned with galangal!" After all, ginger has a spicier taste than galangal.
Hearing this, Jing Nan raised his head: "Huh? Sand ginger? I have it." Du Heng stared at Jing Nan: "You've been out for more than half a year, where can you get fresh sand ginger?"
Jing Nan felt around in his sleeves for a while, then opened the storage bag. After a while, he pulled out a bunch of light brown rhizomes covered in mud and sand. Du Heng took a closer look and saw that it was indeed sand ginger!
Jing Nan placed the ginger at the foot of the table. He gnawed the chicken head proudly and said, "I should have most of the spiritual plants in the cultivation world. You can ask me for them next time."
Du Heng happily picked up the sand ginger. The skin of the sand ginger is fuller than that of fresh ginger. Clusters of small sand gingers gathered together, short and cute. Du Heng broke off a few sand gingers, and the sand gingers made a crisp snapping sound. You can tell that the sand ginger is of very good quality at a glance! Especially when it is cut, a fragrance comes to your nose, which is completely different from the spicy taste of fresh ginger.
Du Heng adjusted the sauce again, and it tasted even better than before!
Xiaoxiao chewed the water chestnuts in the hot pot. While eating, he picked up some food for Xiaoyumao: "Xiaoyumao, eat more. The water chestnuts are delicious." Taishuhong sat dignifiedly: "Thank you."
Feng Gui glanced at Tai Shuhong and said, "Hong'er, you are about the same age as Xiaoxiao. Logically speaking, you shouldn't be so mature after turning into a human form."
Tai Shuhong said embarrassedly: "When I first transformed, I was indeed about the same size as Xiaoxiao, but after several years I was still that size. I was afraid that my fellow disciples would laugh at me, so I used some illusion."
Feng Gui smiled and said, "You don't need to use illusions in front of us."
Tai Shuhong nodded slightly, and a white-gold spiritual light burst out from his body. After the burning spiritual energy dissipated, Xiaoxiao had a child who was about his age. After becoming smaller, Tai Shuhong looked even thinner, and everyone felt sorry for his pointed face.
After a moment of silence, everyone began to put food on the plate in front of Tai Shuhong: "Eat more."
Du Heng sighed: "I just regret that the Phantom Dzi Pearl is not with me. If it were, I could cook more dishes for Hong'er." Look at how thin the child is. He should be nourished.
Jing Nan ate the coconut meat slowly. He looked at Xiao Xiao and Tai Shuhong with a smile: "These two children really look like childhood sweethearts." Feng Gui said proudly: "Of course!"
When everyone has scooped out most of the chicken from the pot, they can put other dishes in to blanch. The most popular dish is the sausage made by Du Heng. This time, Du Heng did not make Sichuan-style sausages, but slightly sweet minced meat sausages.
The slightly pink sausage is sliced thinly and slightly rolled up after being slightly blanched in the pan. It tastes great when dipped in the sauce!
Just as everyone was enjoying their meal, Nuo Nuo's crying could be heard again. Du Heng quickly put down his bowl and said, "Hey, here it comes."
Everyone laughed as they watched Du Heng jogging towards the room.
Du Heng pushed the door open and saw Yan Huaizhen was awake. He had already gotten out of bed and picked up Nuonuo from the barrier. Xuan Yu set up a formation, and when someone picked up Nuonuo, the water ball would automatically wrap around Nuonuo.
When Du Heng entered the room, Yan Huai tried to coax Nuonuo gently. But Nuonuo refused to listen and just cried loudly, with small lavender pearls rolling all over the floor.
Yan Huaizhen looked up at Du Heng awkwardly: "I don't know what's going on... this child is crying so hard."
Du Heng felt guilty! He didn't dare tell Yan Huaizhen that Nuonuo treated him as his father because of his mistake. He quickly took the little mermaid from Yan Huaizhen's hand: "Why did you get out of bed? Go up and lie down! Your wound is not healed yet!"
I don't know anything else, but when Du Heng was in his hometown, he and his mother visited a new mother. He knew that new mothers in confinement should not exert themselves, let alone be exposed to the wind. Du Heng urged Yan Huaizhen to climb onto the bed: "Hurry up and lie back! Your body hasn't recovered yet!"
Nuonuo was still crying, Du Heng skillfully took out three small silver fish from his arms and handed them to Nuonuo, and Nuonuo ate the fish like noodles. After eating, Nuonuo smiled at Du Heng heartlessly, and Du Heng put Nuonuo on the bed: "Come, cultivate your relationship with your father."
He scratched his head in embarrassment. "Um... I'm sorry. I heard that little mermaids will regard the first person they see as their parents. I came in once when you were unconscious before. I think Nuonuo mistook me for you, but don't worry, the child has a bad memory, so he just needs to stay with you for a while."
Yan Huaizhen looked at Du Heng gratefully: "Thank you." Seeing that Du Heng was puzzled, Yan Huaizhen said: "If it weren't for you, my child and I would have died."
Du Heng breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Yan Huaizhen didn't mind the fact that the child recognized the wrong father. From the fact that Yan Huaizhen thanked him as soon as he woke up, it seemed that he was a mermaid who knew how to be grateful.
He smiled and said, "Are you hungry? I made you some light meals and will bring them to you right away."
Yan Huaizhen didn't have time to say no, Du Heng had already walked out the door: "Xiaoyu, Yan Huaizhen is awake!"
After a while, Yan Huaizhen was half lying on the bed, and a small square table appeared in front of him. On the square table, there was a bowl of egg custard, a plate of stir-fried vegetables, a bowl of lean meat soup, and a roasted pigeon. He could enjoy the meal by just sitting up a little.
Du Heng rubbed his hands: "I don't know what you like to eat, so I prepared it according to the standards of human cultivators. See if it suits your appetite." Yan Huai was very grateful: "Thank you... I don't know your name, benefactor."
Du Heng smiled and said, "You can just call me Du Heng. This is my Taoist partner Xuan Yu." Xuan Yu nodded, "Hello."
Yan Huaizhen looked at Xuan Yu in surprise: "This name and the demon god..." Xuan Yu responded: "Yes, it's me."
Yan Huai was really shocked. He wanted to turn over and get out of bed again, but Du Heng held him down: "Don't move. Just lie down and talk."
Yan Huaizhen bowed respectfully to Xuan Yu and said, "Greetings, Lord Dragon." If Du Heng hadn't held him down, he would have been lying on the ground. Yan Huaizhen felt like his heart was about to jump out of his mouth.
This is the Dragon King! ! The one who is deified in the water tribe! When his name is mentioned, everyone in the water tribe knows him. I didn't expect that I would meet the idol I have admired since childhood in this state. Yan Huai really wanted to hold his face and scream.
Xuan Yu said: "No need to be polite, you need to rest now. If there is anything, we can talk about it after you have rested." Yan Huaizhen's eyes sparkled, and a blush appeared on his cheeks: "Thank you, Lord Long!"
Yan Huaizhen looked at Du Heng again: "I didn't expect that I would be saved by my benefactor and Lord Long. I can never repay you for saving my life." Du Heng smiled and said: "The greatest reward for us is that you take good care of your health."
Yan Huaizhen...was moved to tears.
As expected, he sat on the bed and ate the love meal Du Heng prepared for him. When he picked up the spoon, he thought that even if Du Heng made shit, he would eat it all. But when he took the first bite, he couldn't stop.
Isn't this too delicious?! The food that the monks on the shore eat is so delicious? It's much better than the various sashimi that the mermaids eat!
After Nuonuo played with the water polo for a while, he fell asleep again. Du Heng thought of his unfinished lunch. He smiled at Yan Huaizhen and said, "You eat first. We'll be outside. Just call me if you need anything."
Yan Huaizhen had rice stuck on his face. He bowed to Du Heng and said, "Thank you, benefactor!" If Du Heng had not seen with his own eyes that Yan Huaizhen had given birth to a child, he would have thought that he was still a teenager who had not grown up.
Seeing Yan Huaizhen like that, Du Heng sighed as he walked out the door: "What a sin! I wonder which beast would attack a child who hasn't even grown up yet."
Xuan Yu said: "He should be an adult, but he looks younger." Or is Yan Huai really a little naive? Xuan Yu thought: "The water tribe is quite interesting."
Du Heng didn't know why he had such a feeling, so he asked curiously, "Hmm? Why do you say that?"
Xuan Yu explained: "The demon cultivators who live in the water are either very scheming or as simple as fish." Du Heng almost fell. If Xuan Yu hadn't stopped him, Du Heng would have fallen to the ground.
Du Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Xiaoyu, what are you talking about?"
Xuan Yu blinked: "Just telling the truth."
Jing Nan laughed after hearing Xuan Yu's words: "According to what Xiaoyu said, I'm afraid the people on the shore are the same." Feng Gui picked up some spicy rice and threw it into his mouth: "Xiaoyu only sees two kinds of people, smart and stupid."
Du Heng turned his head to look at Xuan Yu. He thought that in Xuan Yu's eyes, he must not be considered smart.
The coconut chicken hotpot was surprisingly delicious, and everyone ate up the entire table of dishes. However, without the Magical Dzi Beads, everyone felt a little unsatisfied.
At this moment, Xiaoxiao was pestering Du Heng and whining: "Du Hengheng, I don't think I'm full..."
Du Heng was busy collecting the dishes. He handed the pot to Xuan Yu: "Are you not full? How about I make you some snacks this afternoon?" Xiao Xiao took the opportunity to make a request: "Can I have some snacks I've never had before?"
Du Heng usually met Xiaoxiao's requests. He thought about how Lao Dao and his friends had brought back a lot of small octopuses in the morning, and after thinking about it, he said, "Can I make you octopus balls this afternoon?"
It was something he had never eaten before! Xiaoxiao nodded immediately: "Okay, okay! Can I help you clean the table?" Xiaoxiao wished that Du Heng would go make octopus balls right now so that he could eat them right away.
Du Heng pretended not to know the hidden meaning of Xiaoxiao's words. He touched Xiaoxiao with a smile and said, "Oh, Xiaoxiao is so sensible." After saying this, he went back to Yan Huaizhen's room.
Xiaoxiao said jealously: "I know, Xiaoyu and I are not the youngest children anymore. Du Hengheng has a new lover, so he doesn't love us anymore."
Feng Gui was drinking hot tea. He glanced at her and smiled: "Be content." Thinking of their childhood, not to mention all the miserable times, Feng Lin really didn't know how to appreciate what he had!
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Yan Huaizhen finished eating the loving meal Du Heng prepared. He was now lying on the bed contentedly, reaching his hand into the water ball and stroking Nuonuo's little face. Seeing Du Heng coming in, Yan Huaizhen wanted to get out of bed again. Du Heng held him down: "You can't get down. You have to stay in bed for a month."
Yan Huaizhen was stunned. He said weakly, "One... one month? I don't think I'm injured that badly..."
Du Heng said seriously: "No, it's not about whether you can get hurt or not, but you have given birth to a child. You need to stay in confinement!" Yan Huaizhen was confused: "...Huh?"
Du Heng said, "Your body is weak after giving birth. You can't be exposed to the wind, can't carry weight, can't walk, can't touch cold water..." Du Heng said a lot of things and then met Yan Huaizhen's confused eyes.
He concluded: "In short, you have to take good care of your body!"
Yan Huaizhen swallowed his saliva and nodded: "I will listen to you, benefactor. Whatever you say is what I will do."
Du Heng pulled the small table off the bed and looked at Nuonuo in the water ball. "By the way, I don't know how the mermaids take care of the little mermaids. Now Nuonuo is fed with small silver fish that we caught. Do you think we need to add anything else?"
Yan Huaizhen held Du Heng's hands sincerely: "Benefactor, you are so good to us father and son. This kind of silverfish is very precious and is most suitable for young cubs to eat." Who would have thought that the small silverfish caught by the Zhou brothers would be the most suitable food?
Du Heng couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the two burly men. They were worthy of being from the Kunpeng clan and were very knowledgeable!
Du Heng said to Yan Huaizhen earnestly: "When we reach the mermaid tribe, if you are willing, you can go back. If not, you and Nuonuo can stay with us."
Yan Huaizhen's eyes were bright, his big ice-blue eyes were watery: "My benefactor, you are so kind to my father and me."
Du Heng sighed: "It's a bit difficult to raise a child alone. The child has another father...ah...
"It would be better for this scumbag who lets his pregnant wife and children wander around to die sooner rather than later.
Yan Huaizhen also sighed: "Oh..." There was loneliness in his eyes. Du Heng felt that he was right as soon as he saw it.
He comforted her softly, "It's okay, look at Nuonuo, any unhappiness will pass. Don't be sad during the confinement period..."
Outside the door, Jing Nan had already fallen on the bed with laughter. He knocked on the bed board with tears in his eyes. “Hahahaha!! He actually let a fish have confinement after childbirth!!” Feng Gui was holding back his laughter in agony. “The key is that the fish didn’t resist…”
Xuan Yu raised his lips: "Don't blame him, just blame him for some strange knowledge he learned in another world over the years."
Du Heng didn't think there was anything wrong, but when he arrived in the living room, he saw that everyone was trying to hold back their laughter. He couldn't help but smile and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xuan Yu changed the subject: "We were wondering what delicious octopus balls you mentioned are."
Du Heng got excited again. He rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll do it! Xiaoyu, help me make the mold!"
According to Du Heng, the mold was strange in appearance. It was rectangular, and on the bottom black iron sheet appeared hemispheres with a diameter of one inch and a depth of half an inch. These hemispheres were staggered and close together. There were sixty hemispheres on a slice, which looked very strange at first glance.
But Du Heng has made so many strange molds, so this one is not a big deal.
Du Heng was steaming flour. He mixed ordinary flour and starch in a ratio of four to one and put it in a steamer. After two incense sticks of steaming, the ordinary flour would turn into low-gluten flour. The low-gluten flour he made before had run out, so this time he could make it again.
The steamed flour was whiter and softer than ordinary flour. Du Heng took two spoonfuls and put them in a wooden basin. Then he took out ten eggs and cracked them into another wooden basin: "Xiaoyu, beat the eggs."
Xuan Yu responded, and then Long Jun took the wooden basin and beat the eggs with a clatter. After a while, the eggs with distinct egg white and yolk turned into half a basin of golden egg liquid.
Du Heng poured the sifted flour into the egg liquid. The egg liquid was not enough to soak all the flour, but it didn't matter, Du Heng had already prepared clean water. The clean water needed to be slightly more, Du Heng prepared four spoons of clean water, exactly twice the amount of flour.
After pouring in the water, he also poured a small spoonful of plum wine into the wooden basin. There were some unmelted dough lumps in the batter mixed with water, and Xuan Yu used his spiritual energy to fish them out. The batter left in the wooden basin was golden in color and smelled of a faint plum fragrance.
While Xuan Yu was processing the batter, Du Heng was processing the baby octopus.
The octopuses that Lao Dao and his team caught had tentacles as big as a palm. When they were put in the pool to wash, they stuck to the bottom of the pool. When they tried to catch them with their hands, they would stick to their hands and they couldn't be shaken off.
Such small octopus is especially delicious when blanched and eaten with wine. Of course, it tastes even better when made into small meatballs.
Du Heng rinsed the octopus with water, then put ginger slices and white wine into the pot. After the water boiled, he poured half of the pond of small octopuses into the pot.
The octopuses shrank into a small ball when they came into contact with the boiling water. Du Heng counted to ten and fished them out of the pot. The octopuses had lost their initial grayish white color and turned pinkish white. Their eight tentacles turned outward and bounced when they fell into the colander.
Du Heng couldn't help but shed tears from the corner of his mouth: "It smells so good."
He rinsed the little octopuses with cold water and squeezed their mouths out from between their claws one by one.
After the octopus, he took out a few onions and a cabbage. After chopping the onions and cabbage into small pieces, he also took out the prawns.
It was quite enjoyable to watch Du Heng handle the ingredients. When other people handle the same ingredients, they are always not neat and tidy. But Du Heng was different. Even when he was peeling shrimps, he could give people a feeling of flowing water.
Once he cuts the shrimp into cubes, the preparations are almost complete.
The pot that had just been made was placed on the stove. The fire slowly baked the bottom of the pot. Du Heng brushed a layer of soybean oil on each ball of the pot.
After the pan was heated, he poured 70% of the batter into each small ball. There was a slight sound where the batter touched the pan, but the batter in the middle remained flowing. Du Heng sprinkled shrimp granules in the middle of the batter, and after the shrimp was added, the batter rose slightly.
The batter was far from what Du Heng needed, so he boldly sprinkled onions and cabbage shreds on the batter. When he placed the small octopuses head down in the middle of the batter, the ball was immediately filled with ingredients, and some batter even overflowed.
Du Heng was not worried about the batter overflowing, he even used a spoon to pour another circle of batter in the middle of the pot.
It was time to test his skills! Du Heng took out a small bamboo stick, and everyone saw him use it to poke around the round ball in the pot, and an irregular octopus ball with a small claw appeared in the semicircle.
Chonghua and the others came over:
Hey? This is fun, let me try it? "
Du Heng handed over the bamboo stick with a smile: "Would you like to try it?"
Chonghua imitated Du Heng and used a bamboo stick to make a circle of batter around the ball. Du Heng did it very skillfully, but when it was his turn, the batter had its own ideas.
They just refused to run into the ball, and refused to form a ball that wrapped the little octopus. They lay all over the place and twisted this way and that, looking like rebellious children.
Chonghua struggled for a long time but failed to make a ball. Then he looked at Du Heng, who had already made the prototypes of the other dumplings!
Chonghua was depressed: "How can this be possible? What's going on?" The more he poked, the more disobedient the little ball became. Finally, Chonghua was so angry that he threw the bamboo stick and said, "No more playing!"
Du Heng laughed so hard that his belly hurt. He taught the method: "You have to roll the batter into small balls." Chonghua was not convinced: "But there is something inside the ball."
Du Heng said: "Just move the batter that has already formed inside the ball to the outside, forming a layer on the outside first, and let the inside bake slowly."
After Lao Dao and his men tried, they all succeeded. The generals were all very proud: "Hey, it wasn't that difficult!"
Xuan Yu said slowly, "Well, it's not difficult. I'll let you guys make the next pot?" The generals scattered like birds and beasts. What a joke, asking them to make meatballs? They can even make a hole in the pot!
The batter on the outside of the meatballs was fried in oil, and they turned from light yellow to golden yellow. As Du Heng poked them and rolled them in the small balls, the unsolidified batter in the center flowed out and formed new balls. If it weren't for the little octopus's claws sticking out and affecting the shape of the balls, Du Heng could have rolled the batter into balls.
Because they were wrapped with a whole octopus, today's meatballs needed to stay in the pot for a while longer. With Du Heng's quick stirring, the meatballs in the pot all turned into octopus balls with round heads and eight small claws underneath.
They tumbled around in the pot, each meatball was slightly larger than a ball, and the pot was filled with octopus claws. At first glance, they looked... oddly cute.
While the octopus balls were tumbling in the pot, Du Heng prepared the sauce. In fact, he could use the sweet noodle sauce he had made before, but the sweet noodle sauce always lacked that flavor.
In fact, it is not difficult to prepare the sauce. Du Heng added a spoonful of soy sauce and a spoonful of sugar to the pot, and then added a spoonful of water to dissolve it, and poured half a spoonful of green plum wine. After the sauce in the pot boiled, half a spoonful of starch was dissolved with two spoonfuls of water and added to the pot. When it simmered together until it became thick, the sauce was ready!
Du Heng called out to Xuan Yu: "Xiao Yu, can you help me plane some wooden fish flowers?" Xuan Yu replied: "Okay." Without a professional plane, only Xuan Yu could slice out complete and beautiful wooden fish flowers.
Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyu stood by the pot. They looked at the octopus claws sticking out from the meatballs and said, "Wow~" They look so delicious!
Du Heng turned up the heat on the stove so that the skin of the meatballs could be crispier. He smiled and said, "Wait a little longer, it will be ready soon."
Soon, the octopus balls were ready. The balls had eight small claws on their heads and the balls underneath were golden and round. After being poured with thick sauce, the aroma wafted far away.
Du Heng sprinkled a layer of bonito flakes on the meatballs. After being heated, the bonito flakes began to twist on the surface of the meatballs, making the meatballs suddenly interesting and delicious!
Du Heng handed the plate to Xiaoxiao and the others. He poked two bamboo sticks on the meatballs and said, "Eat it!"
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