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As soon as Jing Nan and the others entered the kitchen, they saw the braised meat on the dining table. Xiao Xiao jumped onto the chair and chirped in surprise. Jing Nan glanced at the dining table: "Is this the meat we cooked last night? Why is it cold?"
Feng Gui's focus was not on the meat. He walked towards the refrigerator with his hands in his pockets: "Is this the work of Wan Zuofang?" Xuan Yu replied: "Yes." Feng Gui said: "Did they come to the village entrance this morning?" Xuan Yu nodded: "Yes."
Feng Gui sneered, "They ran away really fast. What the hell did they send me last time? I didn't even have time to bother them, but they dared to come to my door?"
Du Heng listened to Feng Gui and Xuan Yu talking with his ears erect. He understood several things. His refrigerator was made by a shop called Wan Zuofang, and Feng Gui and Wan Zuofang had a dispute. Du Heng was cutting the tendon meat while listening. Xiaoxiao squatted beside the chopping board, staring at the braised meat with his big eyes, and saliva was dangling at the corners of his mouth.
The cut tendon meat will reflect green light at a certain angle, and it looks like a layer of blue light film appears on the meat slices. Only fresh meat can be braised to produce meat of this color. Du Heng picked up the piece of meat with tendons on the edge and stuffed it into Xiaoxiao's mouth: "Try it?"
Xiaoxiao squinted her eyes and smacked her lips: "Chi~~" Hearing this sound, Du Heng understood that Xiaoxiao was satisfied with the braised meat. He smiled and said, "Just like it, I've made a lot of it."
Because Du Heng forgot the time while playing with the refrigerator, he failed to put his braised eggs into the pot in time. But it doesn't matter, after breakfast, he can put the braised eggs and tofu into the pot and braise them slowly.
The tofu soup received unanimous praise. The tofu soup in the bowl was thick and sticky. It was a pity that Du Heng did not make fried dough sticks, otherwise the fried dough sticks with tofu soup would be delicious. However, Xuan Yu and his friends did not care about the fried dough sticks. With the braised meat, they were very satisfied.
The thinly sliced braised meat is placed on the plate like a flower. I picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. It tasted slightly cool, but very chewy. It was neither salty nor bland when eaten alone. If you savor it carefully, you will find that the tendon meat is very granular and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.
Eating the meat with sauce has another flavor. With the addition of sauce, the meat aroma and sauce are perfectly balanced after entering the mouth, making people unable to stop eating one piece after another.
During the meal, Jing Nan started talking first: "I heard that you want to raise a puppy like Hun Dun?" This question was asked to Du Heng, and Du Heng answered frankly: "Yes, I want to raise a puppy."
Jing Nan said to Xuan Yu, "Lao Dao was troubled for a long time last night. You are too unreasonable." Xuan Yu said, "It shouldn't be difficult for him, right?" Du Heng smiled and said, "Yes, yes, Da Huang is so strong that there will definitely be a little bitch who likes him. When the spring comes next year, maybe there will be puppies."
The corners of Jing Nan's mouth twitched for a while, Feng Gui's shoulders were shaking with his head down: "Puchi..." Jing Nan said to Du Heng depressedly: "Do you want a puppy so much? Our village is very safe, no one would dare to come without a dog."
Du Heng scratched his cheek and said, "I don't want a puppy to guard the house, I just think it would make me feel more at home if I had a dog." When conditions permit, he plans to raise a kitten, and maybe some chickens and ducks. Du Heng believes that a family is complete only if they have pets and livestock.
Jing Nan seemed to be thinking: "The feeling of home...? Fine, I'll let Lao Dao try hard." Du Heng was puzzled: "Why should Lao Dao try hard for such a thing? As long as he lets go of his Hun Dun, Hun Dun will go find the little bitch himself. Oh... I understand, do you want Lao Dao to check for Hun Dun?"
Feng Gui finally couldn't help himself, he almost burst out laughing: "Hundun probably never dreamed that he was so charming. There are actually people who want to breed him!" Du Heng said: "The Huntun of Lao Dao's family is of such a good breed, the puppies born must be very well-behaved."
Feng Gui nodded perfunctorily: "Yeah, be good and nice." Before she finished speaking, Feng Gui lowered her head and laughed so hard that her body shook. Xuan Yu sighed: "Stop laughing."
Du Heng looked at Xuan Yu and the others in confusion, always feeling that they hadn't told him something. But never mind, as Jing Nan said, everyone in the village has a secret.
Xuan Yu wiped the corner of his mouth after drinking the tofu soup: "I'm going to find Lao Dao today." Du Heng was stunned for a moment: "Is it about the little yellow dog? If it's about the little yellow dog, don't be in a hurry. The road outside is not easy to walk now."
Xuan Yu smiled slightly: "No, it's not that. Lao Dao's house formation is broken, and he wants me to help fix it." Du Heng nodded in understanding: "Is that so..."
Jing Nan drank tofu soup and said vaguely: "Well, Lao Dao said yesterday that there were monsters wandering around his house. I didn't expect that the formation of his house was broken." Feng Gui said: "Do you need to go together?"
Xuan Yu said, "No need, I can go alone." Xuan Yu wiped his mouth and said to Jing Nan, "Old Nan, can I borrow your umbrella?" Jing Nan was so angry that he glared at him, "What did you call me? Try calling me again?" Du Heng asked in confusion, "Xuan Yu, why do you hold an umbrella when you go out?" Is it to show off? Although Xuan Yu was indeed very elegant when holding an umbrella, Du Heng thought he looked so handsome when he held an umbrella when he first met Xuan Yu.
Jing Nan looked at Xuan Yu, and then said arrogantly: "My umbrella is called the Thousand Chance Umbrella, and it is the ancestor of all the Thousand Chance Umbrellas on the market. With this umbrella, ordinary monsters dare not approach." So that's it! Du Heng asked Xuan Yu why he had no time to hold an umbrella.
Du Heng thought for a moment and said, "Jing Nan, is your Thousand Chance Umbrella expensive? If it's not expensive, let's go get one, so Xuan Yu doesn't have to ask you to borrow an umbrella every time."
Hearing this, Jing Nan smiled proudly: "My umbrella cannot be bought, it is an heirloom of the Jing family. Those guys in the Wan Workshop borrowed my umbrella to study it for decades, but they only produced those crappy things on the market. Hey..." Jing Nan happily took a big sip of the tofu soup, his expression was like a sated fox.
Du Heng could only sigh regretfully: "Is that so..." Jing Nan raised his eyelids and looked at Du Heng: "Don't worry, we are all from the same village, you can just take the umbrella whenever you want. Especially Xuan Yu, you can use it as you like, I won't charge you." Xuan Yu said to Du Heng: "Yes, don't worry."
Feng Gui unexpectedly said to Du Heng for the first time: "Don't worry, there are no monsters that can hurt Xuan Yu near the village." Du Heng nodded hesitantly: "Oh oh..." He looked at Xuan Yu, and saw that Xuan Yu's mouth was rising. Seeing Du Heng looking over, Xuan Yu blinked at Du Heng: "I'm fine. Didn't you say you had some braised meat for Lao Dao? Pack it up later, and I'll take it over."
After dinner, Du Heng cut two pieces of tendon meat into thin slices and put them in the food box. He also wrapped a few pieces of tendon meat with oil paper and put a mountain trotter's hoof in the food box. Xuan Yu said that Lao Dao was deep in the West Mountain and it would take more than half an hour to walk there.
For the sake of the little yellow dog in the future, Du Heng also added small snacks such as boiled eggs in the food box. Du Heng weighed the food box. He didn't know what material the wood of the food box was made of. It was heavy in his hand, but he heard that there was something special in this food box. It could hold several cows. And the things put in it would not go bad. Just for these two advantages, Du Heng would use the food box well and not damage it.
Du Heng stood at the door and said to Xuan Yu: "Be careful on the road, I'll wait for you to come back for lunch." Xuan Yu held an oil-paper umbrella in one hand and a lunch box in the other: "Okay." Xuan Yu looked particularly handsome with the umbrella, and Du Heng was dazzled by his smile.
Watching Xuan Yu's back disappear in the direction of the West Mountain, Du Heng felt a little worried. He was worried that Xuan Yu would have a hard time walking on the road, and that the wild animals in the forest would be blind. Jing Nan stood in the spiritual field and pulled his spiritual plants out of the snow. Seeing Du Heng like this, Jing Nan laughed out loud: "Du Heng, you are almost like a husband-waiting stone!"
Du Heng blushed: "What nonsense are you talking about..." He admitted that he stared at Xuan Yu when he opened the umbrella, but he liked cute girls! Jing Nan smiled obscenely: "Why are you blushing?" Du Heng couldn't help but rolled his eyes at him: "Go dig up your spiritual plants."
Just as Du Heng was about to return to his own yard, he saw Xiaoxiao jumping down from Fenggui's fence: "Chirp, chirp!" Fenggui followed Xiaoxiao out of the door: "Come back here! You are so lawless!"
Du Heng and Jing Nan stopped at the same time and looked in the direction of Feng Gui's palace. Xiaoxiao was chased by Feng Gui and ran away with his head in his hands. Feng Gui was so angry that he kept shouting behind him: "If you have the ability, don't come back!" Xiaoxiao dived into the snow and was motionless. Du Heng couldn't find him even with his spiritual sense.
Jing Nan was amused: "Are you forcing Xiao Xiao to eat insects again?" Feng Gui snorted: "I've never seen a child as timid as him. He's actually afraid of a small poisonous insect!" Jing Nan sighed: "That thing disgusts Xiao Xiao, and I feel disgusted too. I'm telling you, you better keep it for me. If it falls into my spiritual plant field, I'll never forgive you."
Feng Gui stood in front of the palace and was angry for a while, then he calmed down. He looked at Du Heng: "Speaking of which... Du Heng, can you fulfill what you promised me before?" Du Heng was confused: What did he promise?
Until Feng Gui put a storage bag in Du Heng's hand, Du Heng was still a little dazed: "Hey? What is this?" Du Heng opened the storage bag and looked inside. He almost vomited at a glance. He saw that the storage bag was densely packed with big fleshy worms as thick as fingers and as long as palms!
These worms lost their vitality in the storage bag, and they were limp one by one, but they were still alive. When one was taken out and placed outside, they would still wriggle. Du Heng took a look and got goose bumps all over his back. The flesh worms were covered with black and yellow fluff. As the worms twisted and turned, the fluff trembled, and Du Heng also felt goose bumps coming from his own body.
He wanted to throw away the storage bag in his hand! But Feng Gui patted Du Heng's shoulder with a smile: "Xiaoxiao is a very picky eater, but he will accept any food you make. I caught these insects from the marshland by the East China Sea. It took a lot of effort to catch this little. Please let him eat it."
Du Heng was too stiff to speak. Feng Gui stroked his long hair in a casual manner. He put his hands in his pockets and sighed, "I just hope Xiaoxiao can live up to the painstaking efforts of an uncle like me." Du Heng: ...Ahhh, take it away!!! He was going crazy!!
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Du Heng moved a small stool and sat under the eaves. He leaned against the big wooden barrel filled with bacon and looked at the sky melancholy. Under his feet was the storage bag given by Feng Gui. The opening of the storage bag was tied tightly. Du Heng was afraid that if it was not tied tightly enough, the bugs inside would crawl out.
Such a terrifying insect, let alone Xiaoxiao eating it, even ordinary people would be afraid of it, right? And Jing Nan added fuel to the fire and gave Du Heng some scientific knowledge about this insect.
This insect is a well-known poisonous insect in the world of cultivation. After it turns into a butterfly, it becomes the famous black-winged golden-tailed abyss butterfly. This butterfly is listed as one of the four major pests in the world of cultivation along with the other three pests. The adult butterfly is highly poisonous. If the powder on its body is inhaled into the lungs, it will be a life or death situation. The larvae are covered with fluff. If ordinary people come into contact with this fluff, they will either swell up and feel unbearable pain, or foam at the mouth and die.
This kind of insect is also the most hated thing by alchemists and medical practitioners. Once one is found in the spiritual plant field, it proves that there are tens of thousands of insects in the field. Within ten days, the spiritual plants in the spiritual medicine field will be eaten up and only the stems will be left. Then the insects will move, and no grass will grow wherever they pass. Everyone in the cultivation world hates this poisonous insect but is powerless, just because this insect is too difficult to deal with.
The reason why Jing Nan was so nervous was that one year when Feng Gui was chasing Xiao Xiao to feed her an insect, an insect fell into his spiritual plant field. Feng Gui did not pick it up in time, and did not find the insect afterwards. By the spring and summer of the following year, half of Jing Nan's spiritual medicine field was destroyed. If he had not urgently called Feng Gui back to catch the insect, his medicine field would have been completely destroyed.
Du Heng began to understand Xiao Xiao's feelings. He would not dare to touch such a disgusting insect, let alone eat it. Moreover, he had to find a way to turn the insect into a delicacy. Forgive him, he would rather be beaten by Feng Gui.
Xiaoxiao carefully poked her head out of the courtyard gate: "Chirp~" Du Heng looked closely and saw Xiaoxiao hiding outside the gate pitifully, staring at Du Heng with two big eyes. Du Heng forced a smile and waved at Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, come here."
Xiaoxiao carefully looked at the storage bag beside Du Heng, and hesitantly walked in front of Du Heng. Usually he could jump from the door to the kitchen, but today he took three minutes to walk this way.
Du Heng waved at Xiaoxiao and patted his legs: "Come up." Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, then jumped onto Du Heng's legs. Du Heng felt a heavy warmth in his arms. He touched Xiaoxiao's down jacket and felt better.
Birds love to eat insects. No matter how cute Xiaoxiao is, he is also a bird. Du Heng touched Xiaoxiao's head and parted the hair on his head to take a look. The nail-sized piece of scalp that he had bitten off before had already sprouted some tender yellow hair. Du Heng touched Xiaoxiao's head lovingly and said, "Jingnan's medicine is effective. Xiaoxiao, hair is starting to grow on your head."
Xiaoxiao rubbed Du Heng's chest, and his big eyes narrowed: "Shhh~" Du Heng hugged him and rubbed him for a while: "Xiaoxiao, are you afraid of bugs?" Xiaoxiao shook his head and nodded. Du Heng smiled: "It's normal. I just saw the storage bag Feng Gui gave me. There were so many bugs in it. I was almost scared to death. Xiaoxiao, have you eaten it before?"
Xiaoxiao nodded heavily. This was a nightmare that Xiaoxiao didn't want to recall. Du Heng praised him, "You are really brave. I don't dare to touch that kind of insect, let alone touch it. You dare to eat it. You are really amazing." Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, and he looked up at Du Heng: "Chiu?"
Du Heng nodded: "Yes, Xiaoxiao is really brave." After a while, Du Heng began to sigh: "But I think Feng Gui is more amazing. He actually caught so many insects for you. Last time, he finished a small bowl of insect juice without changing his expression or heartbeat." When Du Heng thought of that scene, his face began to turn green. It was really difficult for Feng Gui.
Du Heng had a headache: "I have eaten several kinds of insects before, but they all had no hair. I hate the hair on this insect. Jing Nan said that this hair can be fatal if not handled properly." Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement. Even though it was fatal, his uncle still forced him to eat it. What a heartless person!
Du Heng sighed: "It would be easy if there were no hair." Xiaoxiao raised his head and looked at Du Heng. Du Heng smiled and touched his back: "In my hometown, there is a local delicacy called Doudan. You know, it is about the same size as this bug, but there is no hair on the Doudan. Doudan is delicious, whether it is fried, stewed, or made into soup! It is fried in oil and crispy, and it is so fragrant!"
Xiaoxiao's mouth actually drooled a little, and he looked at Du Heng deeply. Du Heng looked at the storage bag and then wilted again: "But bean dan has no hair..." And the insects in his storage bag all have poisonous hairs.
Du Heng looked at the sky dejectedly: "Xiaoxiao, I think your uncle might hate me. He asked me to do this one thing, but I can't do it." Xiaoxiao rubbed Du Heng's chest, as if to comfort Du Heng. Even if her uncle didn't like Du Heng, he did.
Du Heng looked at the sky with resentment and hugged Xiao Xiao: "It would be better if these insects had no hair." Xiao Xiao hesitated for a moment, then jumped off Du Heng and walked into the kitchen. Du Heng was having a headache, and he was in no mood to care about what Xiao Xiao was doing. After a while, Xiao Xiao came out with a half-burned blood-sucking vine in his mouth.
Xiaoxiao threw the blood-sucking vine on the ground, and a ball of gray-white ash suddenly appeared on the white eaves. Xiaoxiao coughed at the blood-sucking vine, and a white-gold flame suddenly emerged from his throat! The flame touched the blood-sucking vine, and the blood-sucking vine burned. Du Heng was startled: "Xiaoxiao, what are you doing?"
Xiaoxiao struggled to look at the storage bag, and finally he used his mouth to untie the knot on the storage bag, and then reached into the storage bag. When Xiaoxiao's head was withdrawn from the storage bag, he held a large black and yellow flesh worm in his mouth. The flesh worm struggled for a few times, and before it could make any more movements, Xiaoxiao threw the worm into the flames of the blood-sucking vine.
As soon as the insect touched the flame, the hair on its body began to crackle and burn. The insect rolled on the ground twice and then died. When the flames on the insect died out, a large black and yellow fleshy worm appeared in front of Du Heng. The hair on the insect's body was burned by the flames! !
Du Heng's eyes lit up: "Xiaoxiao, are you trying to tell me that the hairs on insects are afraid of fire?" Xiaoxiao nodded.
Du Heng gave Xiaoxiao a thumbs up and said, "Xiaoxiao is really smart!" After finding a way to remove the insect fluff, Du Heng immediately got busy.
Under the eaves, Du Heng set up his small stove. Before, when he used the stove, Du Heng would put a clay pot on it, and basically used this stove to stew soup. This was the first time that there was no pot on the stove. Du Heng placed a basin next to the stove with clean water in it and a bamboo dustpan next to it.
Du Heng opened the storage bag, and despite the discomfort, he took out a worm from the storage bag. The worm struggled on the tip of the chopsticks for a while, and Du Heng quickly sent the worm to the fire hole of the stove. There was only a slight crackling sound, and the fluff around the worm was faded away by the flames before it could struggle. Du Heng threw the cooked worm into the basin next to him, and soon he had burned hundreds of worms.
After the burned insect was washed with clean water, its black and yellow body was exposed, but it was no longer as scary as it was at the beginning. The insect originally had eye-like patterns on its side, but after being burned, the patterns disappeared. Du Heng put the insect into a colander to drain the water without any burden: "Now I dare to do it."
Xiaoxiao squatted beside him and watched Du Heng's actions. Du Heng brought out a pot from the kitchen, which was half full of oil. He placed the pot on the small stove, then turned back to the kitchen. This time he took out two large plates, one of which was filled with some starch.
The flames licked the bottom of the oil pan, and Du Heng slowly picked up the worms from the colander and placed them in the starch plate to coat them with starch. When the oil in the pan began to bubble, he tried to throw a worm coated with starch into the pan.
The worm stood up straight as soon as it was put into the oil pan. The worm, which was originally the length of a palm, grew from five inches to about eight inches due to stiffness. The starch covered the worm's body, and those who didn't know thought that Du Heng was frying crispy meat. After a while, the surface of the worm turned slightly yellow, but Du Heng chose to fish the worm out at this time.
Xiaoxiao made a puzzled sound, and Du Heng smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll let you taste different bugs later." Although he had never eaten this kind of bugs, Du Heng had the intuition of a chef. He felt that these bugs would not be worse than bean curd! Because he could already smell a strong meaty aroma, which was different from the aroma of fried crispy meat. This smell stimulated his taste buds and made him start to swallow his saliva.
Du Heng threw half of the bugs into the pot, and wow, a bunch of straight strips of things immediately floated in the pot. Xiaoxiao was watching from the side and laughed. He had never felt so happy before. It turned out that the bugs he hated could also present such a refreshing appearance.
Du Heng quickly fried all the insects in the basket for the first time. At this time, the aroma of fried food in the yard was already very strong. Jing Nan walked in from outside the door: "What are you cooking? It smells so good?" Du Heng pointed to the plate next to the stove: "Come and see?"
Jing Nan took a closer look. The worms covered with starch stood straight after being fried in oil. He looked at them for a while before he realized what was going on: "Ouch! You fried them?!" Du Heng and Xiao Xiao narrowed their eyes together and said, "Yeah, how do you feel?" Looking at the plate full of worms next to him, Jing Nan cupped his hands and said, "I admire you!"
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The oil temperature in the pan rises quickly, and now it's time to fry it for the second time.
There is also experience in making fried food with good color and not greasy. Du Heng's experience is - double frying. After double frying, the food is easier to mature, with a crispy outside and tender inside, and the fried food is not greasy.
Du Heng put half of the worm into the pot, and the pot made a sizzling sound. Xiaoxiao stretched his neck and stared at the pot closely. Under his eager eyes, the worm, which had been yellow before, gradually turned darker and golden. When the chopsticks moved inside, they made a slight clicking sound when they hit the worm.
In less than a cup of tea, Du Heng felt from experience that the worms in the pot were ready. He used a strainer to scoop out the worms and put them on a plate to drain the oil, then put in the other half of the worms. The worms just taken out were emitting high temperatures, and the oil on them made a sizzling sound. Du Heng said, "Wait a little while for them to cool down, and they should be ready to eat."
Du Heng took out some salt, pepper powder, and chili powder, and mixed a dipping sauce carefully, then sprinkled it on the plate. As soon as the dipping sauce was sprinkled on the plate, Xiaoxiao picked up a worm and started chewing it. The worm made a crackling sound in Xiaoxiao's mouth, and Xiaoxiao was very satisfied: "Chiu~~~"
Jing Nan reached out and picked up a caterpillar. He sniffed it and said, "It smells strange. Look at this colorful caterpillar. It's quite creepy when it's alive. It looks delicious after being fried." Then he opened his mouth and took a bite. Du Heng heard a crisp sound, and half of the caterpillar was gone.
Du Heng's heart was in his throat: "Jing Nan, this is poisonous!" Jing Nan was the one who gave him the scientific explanation, so why did he eat it himself?
Jing Nan finished one in a snap, and then he picked up another one and started eating: "This one has been fried, so it doesn't seem to be very poisonous. Not to mention me, even you can eat a few." Jing Nan took one and handed it to Du Heng: "Try it, it's okay. If you are poisoned, I can help you detoxify."
Du Heng's mouth twitched. Jing Nan's method was really... damn tempting. Du Heng couldn't help but take a bite. The caterpillar had just cooled to the right temperature. The skin was crispy and the inside was soft. Ignoring the intimidating appearance, it was actually quite delicious. At least it tasted much better than Du Heng imagined. It felt better than ordinary crispy meat.
Du Heng couldn't help it either. He ate one and took another: "If I'm poisoned, remember to give me the antidote." Jing Nan sat down next to Du Heng and chopped: "Don't worry, you won't die with me here. Hey? Is there anything else in the storage bag? Blast some more."
Du Heng thought this was a good idea. Just as he was about to open the storage bag, he saw Xiaoxiao stretching his neck and opening his mouth to take away most of the fried bugs in the plate in one bite. He did not swallow it, but held it in his mouth. Xiaoxiao flapped her wings at Du Heng and ran to the gate of the yard.
Du Heng asked in confusion: "Xiaoxiao, where are you going?" Jing Nan smiled and said: "No need to ask, it must be sent to Feng Gui."
Du Heng chuckled: "This uncle and nephew are a perfect match." He remembered that when he made meatballs for Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao was scolded by Feng Gui and cried. But when the meatballs were ready, Xiaoxiao took one and gave it to her uncle.
Jing Nan said, "Xiao Xiao is Feng Gui's only blood relative in this world. Even if they quarrel sometimes, it's all for his own good. Although Xiao Xiao can't stand his uncle's bad temper, he also knows this. You see, he is the most enthusiastic in opposing his uncle. If anyone bullies Feng Gui, Xiao Xiao will be the first to disagree." Jing Nan stuffed the half-worm in his hand into his mouth: "This is a relative."
Du Heng smiled: "Yeah..." He also has relatives, but he doesn't know where they are. Thinking of his parents' faces, Du Heng's expression was a little depressed. But he quickly cheered up. Being in a state of despair would not help him. Only by mustering up courage can he face life with a smile.
Du Heng quickly processed the second pot of insects. He smiled and said to Jing Nan, "Feng Gui is really in trouble. I don't know where he caught so many caterpillars." Jing Nan looked at the soft fleshy insects floating in the clear water and said, "Caterpillars? Well, this name is vivid and easy to remember. He should have caught these insects in the marshland of the East China Sea. That place is rarely visited by people, and the insects there are the fattest and most poisonous. Feng Gui goes to catch insects for Xiao Xiao every year, but Xiao Xiao would not cooperate with Feng Gui in previous years."
Thinking of the chaos in the village in those years, Jing Nan couldn't help but smile: "Feng Gui finally got his wish this year."
When the second pot of caterpillars came out of the pot, Feng Gui and Xiao Xiao entered the yard one after the other. It was rare to see Feng Gui smiling, so Du Heng couldn't help but take a closer look. Feng Gui walked to the stove and stood still. He looked Du Heng up and down: "I didn't expect you could really make Xiao Xiao eat the poisonous insects."
Feng Gui took something out from his sleeve and handed it to Du Heng: "Here you go." Du Heng was stunned for a moment: "Huh? What?"
A slightly cool object slid into Du Heng's palm. Du Heng opened his palm and saw a well-behaved white bird squatting in his palm.
This bird is cute and adorable, but it is heavier than an ordinary bird when it falls in the palm of your hand. It is snow-white, except for its eyes, which are black. But its eyes are dull and foggy, as if they are fake.
The bird had no breath or heartbeat, but it tilted its head towards Du Heng: "Chirp~" Du Heng looked at the bird in surprise: "Hey? Is this true?"
Feng Gui said, "Don't you want to write a letter to your fellow disciples in Medicine King Valley? This is the puppet bird for delivering letters." Du Heng finally realized, "Puppet?"
He had heard from Xuan Yu that there was a white jade bird in Fenggui that could fly over Dongji Mountain. Could it be this bird? No matter how he looked at it, it seemed that this frail bird would be blown away by the wind.
Jing Nan chewed on a caterpillar: "White jade bird? This is fine. Du Heng, please accept it. Aren't you going to write a letter?" Du Heng smiled and thanked Feng Gui. He held the bird in both hands: "This...where should I put it?"
Although it was a puppet bird, it could move and sing. Although Du Heng knew that it had no life, he still felt that it was alive. Since it was a living thing, where should he put it?
Feng Gui bent down and picked up caterpillars from the plate next to the small stove. He said, "You can put it anywhere you want. The bird needs spiritual energy to deliver the letter. It's best to give it a spiritual stone when you ask it to deliver the letter, so that it can come back in time."
Du Heng was stunned for a moment: "Come back in time?" What if you can't come back in time?
Feng Gui said: "Yes, sometimes I forget to give the spirit stone, and the bird will run out of energy halfway through flying and fall to the ground. It needs to slowly bask in the sun to recover its strength." Du Heng was shocked. So this is still powered by light?
Du Heng carefully placed the bird in the storage bag he carried with him. There was no food in the bag, only the simple cave that Yun Zhonghe gave him and some small sundries.
Feng Gui and Jing Nan ate two plates of fried caterpillars and left. Du Heng wanted to return the storage bag full of caterpillars to Feng Gui, but Feng Gui said he would leave it with him and Xiao Xiao could come and eat it whenever she wanted in the future.
The few of them ate so many bugs that they didn't need to have lunch. But thinking of Xuan Yu who was still outside, Du Heng started to make lunch.
He wanted to make sweet and sour pork ribs for lunch today. He had been in the village for so long and had never eaten anything with a sweet and sour taste. He didn't know if Xuan Yu liked it.
It is best to use baby ribs to make sweet and sour spareribs. The so-called baby ribs should have even bones and meat. Du Heng took out a few baby ribs from the refrigerator and chopped them into four-inch long pieces. Du Heng pinched the baby ribs soaked in clear water with satisfaction. The meat on the baby ribs was very thick, and some pieces still had crispy bones. The sweet and sour spareribs made from this kind of baby ribs must be delicious.
Du Heng opened the big pot. The braised eggs in the pot had been braised for a whole morning and were now very tasty. Du Heng took a big bowl and took out the braised eggs and tofu from the pot. The braised eggs in the bowl were slightly yellow and smelled of meat. The tofu was especially delicious. One bite was more satisfying than eating meat.
Du Heng couldn't help but eat two pieces of tofu, and then he put the braised eggs with soup and other things into the refrigerator.
Opening the refrigerator door, Du Heng felt like he had entered another world. Before, Xuan Yu said that there was a room in the refrigerator where time was still, but he didn't have any intuitive feeling at that time. But at this moment, after he entered the room with the bowl that was still emitting warmth, he did feel something unusual.
How to express the feeling at this moment? Du Heng had a large bowl of stewed eggs in his hand. Before he entered the room, the stewed eggs on the top were shaking and about to roll down. But after entering the room, the stewed eggs in the bowl remained in a delicate state of rolling down.
Just like a static painting by an artist, the marinated eggs and tofu in Du Heng's bowl did not move. Even the white smoke rising from the bowl did not move... This process was magical. The whole world was still, and only Du Heng could move.
However, Du Heng, who was able to move, did not think too much. He put the bowl on a shelf and went out.
The second advantage of the refrigerator comes into play. No matter what you put in it, the smell will not taint the food.
Du Heng hummed a tune and gently touched the green lotus. His fingertips seemed to touch a real lotus. The refrigerator door opened and closed, a door separating the two worlds.
The author has something to say: Feng Gui: I am complete!
Xiaoxiao: Uncle, you don’t have to force me to eat bugs anymore. I will take the initiative to eat them in the future!
Jing Nan: If there is an outbreak of insects in my medicinal herbs field in the future, I have finally found a way to deal with them.
Du Heng: Actually, I am afraid of caterpillars...
By the way, don’t you like the cute old white cat? Don’t you have any friends to collect the cute me? After writing for so many years, the author’s collection is less than 3,000. I also want to feel the taste of being pampered by everyone! !
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