Chapter 348: Paddy Field
The steamed noodles are not as tough as those bought in the market. They will become soft and break easily after soaking for a long time.
After Zhao Yeqing finished eating, he picked up the bowl and used chopsticks to pick up the broken rice noodles and the small condiments at the bottom of the bowl and slurped them up.
The bright red paint dyed her lips red, and Mu Xi handed her a handkerchief to wipe her mouth.
"Are you full? Do you want to eat more snails?"
Zhao Yeqing burped: "Eat!"
There is only a little meat on snails and they don't take up much space in your stomach, so of course you should eat them.
The snail meat that Mu Xi had peeled earlier and put into the rice noodles was soaked with the flavor of snail noodles, and it was difficult to taste the original flavor of the fried snails.
Mu Xi put a large plate of snails on the table. Zhao Yeqing skillfully pinched a snail between his index finger and thumb, and stuffed his middle finger into the snail's tail that had been cut off.
Bring the snail to your mouth, suck it hard with your lips, and slightly release your middle finger while sucking, and the whole snail meat will be sucked out.
When she was a child, this was one of the most common snacks for children in the mountains. She had already mastered the technique of sucking snails and never needed to use a toothpick.
Perilla and snails are a perfect match. The special aroma makes the taste of the snails more layered, fresh, fragrant and sweet.
After finishing a plate of snails, he really couldn't eat another bite.
There were still a lot of fried snails left, and a lot of snail noodle soup base left. There were pork and beef bones with meat in the soup pot that could still be gnawed.
Zhao Yeqing ate snail noodles today, and she would definitely eat it again tomorrow. While she went to take a shower, Mu Xi steamed a lot of rice noodles. After cutting them, she was afraid that the noodles would stick together after being left for too long, so she drizzled a little oil on them, mixed them, and put them in the refrigerator.
When you want to eat it tomorrow morning, just heat up the soup, add seasoning, and pour the hot soup over it and you can eat it again.
This homemade snail noodle doesn’t smell bad, and it’s different from the smell of the bagged ones you bought before. But the equally troublesome thing is that even if it doesn’t smell bad, you will still have a strong smell of snail noodles on your body.
After Zhao Yeqing finished taking a shower, he asked Mu Xi to take a shower too.
The popularity of snail noodles lasted for almost a week at home before gradually fading. Zhao Yeqing had thought about raising snails several times. If she had not had no experience in this area, she would have started it.
Fortunately, there were a lot of snails in the rice fields this year, so he could enjoy a satisfying meal. Mu Xi also went to the stream and caught a lot of stone snails, and boiled them into a super concentrated snail soup base.
Divide it into small portions and freeze them into blocks in the refrigerator for later use. Even when there are no stone snails or field snails in the season, you can still use them to cook snail noodles.
The ducks in the incubator can now be released. In just one week, they have grown a lot bigger. When they first came to the yard, they were so scared that they didn't dare to run around.
Three days after they hatched, Zhao Yeqing changed their feed from half-cooked rice to small insects. The ducklings that walked to the grass in the yard saw the insects and knew that they were their food. They lowered their heads and kept chattering.
Zhao Yeqing was very satisfied looking at the ten lively little ducks. He just hoped that they could grow up healthily and expand the duck population quickly.
After all, the only thing missing from her snail noodles is tiger skin duck feet.
I remember when I first went to Nanshi, Guangxi Province, I once ate a delicacy that used a soup base similar to that of snail noodles to cook various ingredients, and the main ingredient was tiger skin duck feet.
The delicacy is called Snail and Duck Feet Casserole. The duck feet inside are stewed until they are soft and boneless. They melt in your mouth with just a sip.
As Zhao Yeqing thought about it, he couldn't help swallowing.
"Looking at a duck that's just over a week old swallowing its saliva, you're amazing."
When Mu Xi came in from the back door, he saw Zhao Yeqing's appearance. He shook his head in confusion and threw the sweet potato vines he had just cut on the ground.
The sweet potato vines thrown on the ground were relatively old, and he had a handful of tender ones in his hand, planning to fry them tonight.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the number of sweet potato vines and estimated that they were not enough to feed the pigs at home.
"It seems that the sows we kept are all pregnant. If all else fails, we should just kill the males first."
Zhao Yeqing was actually not very interested in the meat of the two boars, because the two boars were to be used for breeding, so they had not been castrated before. He estimated that the pork would not taste so good and the pigs would grow thin.
Pigs that have not been castrated always have more or less pig smell, and they are not able to eat much and gain weight. The boars kept for breeding have only weighed over 100 kilograms so far, while the sows have already weighed nearly 200 kilograms.
The only animals that can be slaughtered in the pigsty now are two boars used for breeding and two pregnant sows. The remaining sow is a castrated boar that has not been slaughtered yet.
I've been eating a lot lately. I took out the leftover meat and made braised meat as a side dish for snail noodles, and I only emptied half of the refrigerator.
At most, it can only hold the meat of a pig.
"Then kill the castrated one first. Put it in the refrigerator if it can fit. If it can't fit, make bacon or sausage."
The castrated boars and the two pregnant sows can simply continue to give birth. All the piglets born this year will be castrated. After all, sows can give birth for four or five years, so just let these two pairs continue giving birth.
The two men were already familiar with slaughtering pigs, but this pig was much heavier. They were obviously all boars, but this castrated one weighed almost 200 pounds, the same as a sow, and was a whole circle larger than the boar next to it.
There were some twists and turns in slaughtering the pig this time. When the pig was pulled out, it seemed to be aware of something and kept struggling.
We finally dragged it out and knocked it out, which took a lot of time. At one point, it ran away and kicked over the drying rack in the yard.
This pig is really fat. The white lard scraped out fills a small basin. Without this pig, I guess the pig feed will not be so tight in the short term.
The pigs in the pigsty seemed not to notice that there was one less companion around. When Zhao Yeqing went to throw the sweet potato vines into the pigpen, the pigs inside were still eating happily and falling asleep after eating without feeling that there was anything wrong.
There are only four pigs left, and the pigpen has become cleaner. The weather has become warmer recently, so after Mu Xi finished cleaning, he took down a few logs from the wooden walls around the pigpen, making the lower half have a fence and the upper half is hollow.
All open areas of the animal shed should be opened for ventilation to prevent mosquitoes from breeding inside.
The rice had entered the stage of releasing water during the day and irrigating it at night. Zhao Yeqing was standing at the edge of the field draining water. Just as she stretched her hand to the water outlet at the edge of the field, something in the field suddenly jumped out, scaring her so much that she almost fell into the water.
Before she could see clearly, the thing whooshed away in the water, splashing muddy water along the way.
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