Chapter 158: Cabbage Buns with Oil Residues
After the Chen sisters went to work, Zhou Ziwen stayed at home and continued to process his tea seeds.
Without the help of the Chen sisters, Zhou Ziwen's processing speed slowed down a bit. It took three hours for him to finish processing the remaining tea seeds.
After finishing all this, Zhou Ziwen took the tea seeds to the kitchen, lit a fire and fried them to remove moisture.
After removing the moisture, it has to be ground into powder and then steamed. Only after this step is completed can the oil be extracted.
However, Zhou Ziwen did not have an oil press, so he could only use a simple method of squeezing the oil by weight.
This is actually simple. He plans to move a few large stones back tomorrow and process them a little to extract oil.
It’s getting late today, it’s definitely too late.
After frying the tea seeds until fragrant, he went to the stone mill and ground the tea seeds into fine powder.
After finishing all this, it was time to get off work. When he returned home with the ground tea seeds, the Chen sisters had also returned from work.
After greeting Zhou Ziwen and finding that there was nothing else he needed help with, the two sisters started to busy themselves with their own things.
There is still a lot of meat left from the roe deer we hunted yesterday. Zhou Ziwen has processed the meat that he will send out tomorrow, but there is still a lot that has not been processed.
For example, the oil from the roe deer needs to be refined in time.
The internal organs such as intestines and stomach also need to be braised.
Zhou Ziwen no longer needed to take care of these things. Chen Shiying took the lead, and Chen Qiaoyi assisted her. The two sisters were busy as hell.
After the roe deer oil is refined, some dry oil residue is left. This thing is crispy and very fragrant when chewed.
Chen Shiying is a good cook. She chopped up the dry oil residue and mixed it with cabbage to make stuffing, preparing to make dumplings.
Speaking of which, they had never eaten buns in such a long time since coming to the countryside. Today, Chen Shiying suddenly wanted to eat buns, and she happened to have the ingredients at home, so she made them.
Next door, Zhou Ziwen was polishing two stone pillars in the yard when he suddenly smelled the aroma of steamed buns coming from the Chen sisters' house.
"Not bad, my sister-in-law's cooking skills have improved again. The buns she made are so delicious." Zhou Ziwen commented secretly.
With his level of cooking skills, he can basically guess what the other person is cooking just by smelling the food.
The fresh fragrance of white flour and the rich aroma of oil, combined with the vegetarian aroma of cabbage, cannot be hidden from anyone.
Sure enough, when it was time for dinner, Zhou Ziwen came to the Chen sisters' house. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a large bowl of buns on the table.
There is no other dish today, only cabbage and oil residue buns.
"Ziwen, try my cooking." Chen Shiying looked at Zhou Ziwen expectantly.
"Okay!" Zhou Ziwen knew what was going on as soon as he saw the girl's expression.
He took a bite of the bun and immediately revealed a satisfied expression. "Mm, it tastes great, the saltiness is just right, and the ratio of the oil residue to the vegetables is also perfect. The fragrance of the vegetables and the crispiness of the oil residue blend together to create a unique taste. Sister, your cooking skills have improved again!"
"Haha! You only know how to coax me." Being praised by Zhou Ziwen like this, Chen Shiying was rarely shy, but also very happy. She felt that her whole spirit was lifted.
If someone else had praised her, she might not have had any reaction, but Zhou Ziwen's praise was different. After all, in her heart, Zhou Ziwen's cooking skills were much better than hers, and his evaluation was very authoritative.
"I'm not lying. If you don't believe me, ask Yiyi." Zhou Ziwen smiled and looked at the little girl from the Chen family who was eating buns.
"Yeah, the buns I made are delicious!" Chen Qiaoyi nodded repeatedly. Even though her little mouth was burned by the buns that were just out of the pot, she was reluctant to let go and could only keep inhaling.
"Can't you eat slower?" Chen Shiying glanced at her with disdain.
"The buns my sister made are delicious!" Chen Qiaoyi answered vaguely with food in her mouth.
"Haha, just look at Yiyi's expression and you'll know how delicious the buns I make are." Zhou Ziwen said with a smile.
"My craftsmanship is not as good as yours." Chen Shiying said modestly, but couldn't help but smile.
While they were eating buns, the kitchen didn't stop either. Chen Shiying prepared the marinade and put the roe deer's innards into the pot to stew.
While they were eating the buns, the aroma of the stewed buns could already be smelled.
After dinner, Zhou Ziwen returned to his yard and continued to work on the two stone pillars.
He didn't stop working until it was almost dark.
Zhou Ziwen felt that he was becoming more and more diligent. He was either working or on his way to work.
I have to say that there are really few entertainment activities in this era. The reason why I am so busy is that I can't take a break.
Because he has nothing to do when he is free, he wants to sleep. His physical fitness is so strong that he is full of energy.
It’s good enough if I can take a nap after lunch, I can’t sleep at any other time.
Lying in bed at night, Zhou Ziwen missed Yiyi a little. During this period, as his Bajiquan skills improved, his energy became more and more vigorous.
"It's almost there, it's almost there." Zhou Ziwen silently hypnotized himself.
Although I am not married now, it is actually almost the same as being married, except that there is no one to sleep with me at night, it is almost the same as having a wife.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhou Ziwen finally fell asleep.
I woke up the next day feeling refreshed.
After breakfast, Zhou Ziwen rode his bicycle to the county town, carrying a letter and some roe deer meat to send home.
There was nothing else to do this time except sending the letter.
It took him just over an hour to get to the post office and finish his business.
I have to say that having a bicycle is really convenient. It doesn’t take long at all to go to the county town.
After returning, Zhou Ziwen did not go home, but went to the mushroom house.
When he arrived at the mushroom house, the team members were almost busy. They gathered in groups of three or four to observe the growth of the mushrooms, and some were still discussing the cultivation of mushrooms.
In fact, the Mushroom House doesn't need ten people at all, three or five is already a lot.
However, the production team arranged so many people so that Zhou Ziwen could learn the technology of mushroom cultivation.
As for the Chen sisters and Zhou Chaoyang, this was a convenience given to him by the village.
In fact, Zhou Ziwen and the production team had already had a tacit understanding on this matter. The production team took care of his people, and he passed on the technology to the village. It was a mutually beneficial situation.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said openly, as long as everyone understands it in their hearts.
I looked at the growth of the mushrooms and found that they were growing vigorously. The mushrooms in the germination stage were slowly growing into solid bodies. Once the solid bodies matured, the mushrooms would be cultivated.
"Pay attention to ventilation. Don't close the windows tightly. Open them after a while." Zhou Ziwen said to the team members who gathered around him.
"Okay." Everyone nodded immediately.
Both the Chen sisters and the villagers cherish this hard-won opportunity to join the Mushroom Group.
They would remember every word Zhou Ziwen said, write it down on paper, and think carefully about it after returning. Zhou Ziwen was very surprised by their attentiveness.
(End of this chapter)
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