Chapter 515 Chapter 516: High-end Goods
Zhou Huaian glanced at her sideways, "Yan'er, don't you know what's going on with your man? I'm telling you, you can't make up for it anymore. If you do, there will be problems..."
"Good intentions are not rewarded!" Yang Chunyan glared at him, "I told you that you were too tired recently, so I'll give you some nourishment during the New Year break. Forget about eating it, save it for laying eggs to earn money!"
"Eat, eat, eat!" Zhou Huaian hurriedly supported her, "Where's the chicken? I'll go kill it and stew truffles for you."
"In the back alley! I'll go mix a bowl of water to collect the chicken blood!"
The two went to the kitchen. Zhou Huaian picked up a kitchen knife and walked to the back door. Suddenly, he remembered something. "Yan'er, two years ago, Ding Dingmao and I killed a chicken at his house. We cut it once and put half a bowl of blood. Who knew that when we put it on the ground, the chicken was still alive, running around the yard while bleeding."
Yang Chunyan thought it was probably because the chicken's trachea was not cut, "Then I'll boil some water first, and you go call grandpa to come back and kill it!"
"I'll go right away." Zhou Huaian pushed the chicken bus to pick up the old man.
Yang Chunyan grabbed a handful of pine needles and lit the fire, put it into the stove, added some firewood, and when the fire was burning well, she added two more pieces of firewood.
Since we started using coal in the barbecue room, there are still a lot of green firewood left that we had prepared. This kind of firewood has a strong flame and is particularly durable.
Seeing the green wood burning, she got up and went behind the stove, opened the cupboard and took out a handful of dried mushrooms from the jar, including big-foot mushrooms, green wood mushrooms, and some shiitake mushrooms.
Xu Erchun returned with the truffles, "I left some of the small ones last time. The big ones are too troublesome to wash."
When the meal came, the chicken and mushrooms were all eaten, and all the truffles were left.
"No wonder it's good!" Zhou Huaian leaned over and took a look, "Is the nutrition really not that bad?"
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian looked around, "Where are Grandpa and the youngest?"
Zhou Huaian ate a piece of truffle, "Is it bad to eat, or is it as bad as dried yam!"
Yang Chunyan felt that this was the good thing about living in the mountains. Wild delicacies were all available at home. She scooped some warm water to soak them, prepared the onions and ginger, and boiled the water outside the pot. At that time, Xu Erchun drove the old man out of the yard.
Xu Hongbing scooped two scoops of water out of the pot, took out the yellow chicken fat outside the basin and put it aside, and cleaned the chicken before putting it into the pot to boil the blood.
Xu Erchun looked at the time and said, "Brother, we are back from Ning'an, and Aunt Jiang and the others are coming to collect our wages..."
"Oh!" Xu Erchun rode his bike to stop me from behind, "Old Xu, what happened to him? Where are his wife and children?"
"Youngest!" Chang Hanying sat astride the front seat of my bicycle, "Let's go to the town to buy some firecrackers so we can have a quiet New Year!"
Chang Hanying pointed to the soup bowl and said, "Drink the soup, the nutrients are all outside the soup!"
They also say that the most effective ones are the small-foot mushroom, the green bark mushroom, the chicken mushroom, the chanterelle mushroom, or the matsutake mushroom which has a bit of Chinese medicinal flavor. Even the most valuable brush mushroom can be used to stew chicken, and the aroma of the stew is fourteen streets ahead of the others!
"If such a young boy were to kill a chicken, he would be dead. What will he do next year when Chunyan is in confinement after giving birth?"
Zhou Yumei patted me on the shoulder and said, "Go! Drive slower!"
Zhou Yiding was startled and looked up at the two of them. "Your wife and baby are in the hospital waiting for surgery. The doctor said they can only be discharged after the Chinese New Year. Go back and get two sets of clothes to change into."
Zhou Yumei: "He used it first, you want to ride the bike but the youngest one hasn't yet."
"What a bad smell," Xu Hongbing opened the lid of the pot and poured out the truffles, then covered it and simmered it for a few minutes. A strange smell spread.
"That's it!" Chang Hanying thought for a moment, "When you go to Ding Ding Cat, if the New Year's red stickers are broken, I'll go to your house to play!"
When the two men rode their bikes to the entrance of the town, they saw Zhou Yiding riding his bike back with a frown on his face.
Xu Erchun winked at Xu Hongbing, then turned to look at the old man with a flattering smile, "Without grandpa, you're the one who's worried!"
You remember that Zhou Daqian always liked to say that truffle stewed chicken smelled like gas. No matter how long it was stewed, it tasted like chewing a piece of cork, and it was not a waste of chicken to use it to stew chicken.
"No wonder Old Xu always says that my son is like my mother, strong and sturdy. He also said that after the New Year, he would take Ning An to ask Doctor Wang to prescribe some Chinese medicine for him to take care of him."
After Xu Erchun helped carry the dishes to the stove, he said, "Yan'er, go see if Old Xu has returned the fishing nets."
Xu Erchun advised: "Long pain is like short pain. After the operation, wait until the eighth day of the first lunar month when Doctor Wang's house opens. He will take the children to Ning'an on your tractor and ask me to prescribe some medicine to treat him."
"Um!"
Xu Erchun nodded, "Mom and the old man ate lunch at Changhan before coming back. It's just the seven of you. He can cook more food."
"I can help him for his whole life, come and watch, learn from my bad behavior!" The old man said as he took out a bowl from the cupboard, scooped some salt and mixed it with salt water, "Put down the knife and go to the front yard to catch chickens."
"He went to the front mountain to cut grass for the pigs. The temperature has risen in the past few days, and the grass outside the field grows slowly!" Xu Hongbing put the pottery bowl under the table, "He went to the front mountain to call Grandpa and Huai'an to come up to eat."
Xu Erchun went to the main room to get the oil paper to wrap the broken things, said hello to the old man who was sitting outside in the yard basking in the sun, and rode away on his bike.
Zhou Yumei leaned over to take a look and said, "Go and take a look!"
Zhou Xiaoqing nodded, "Chinese medicine is still necessary to regulate the body. As long as the child is willing to eat, his body will naturally become strong."
"You kept some of the fresh white truffles we harvested yesterday and sent them to be dried. He washed them and brought them to you."
When we got to the big woods, we saw Yang Chunyan standing under the ladder, Yang Hui holding the ladder, and the two of them were putting up New Year's gifts. "Hey~ a rare guest is here!"
Xu Erchun thought about it and said, "It's broken!"
Zhou Huaian looked at me with a smile, "Isn't it wrong? You thought he wasn't running around following Chunyan!"
Xu Hongbing cut the mushrooms and truffles into slices and put them in a bowl for later use. He went to the stove, took a look, added a large piece of firewood outside, then went to the vegetable field with a basket to pick vegetables.
Zhou Huaian and the old man went back, and Xu Hongbing hadn't spoiled the meal yet. "Grandpa, do you want a glass of jujube wine?"
"Bad!" Xu Erchun took the enamel bowl and went out.
"Bad!" Yang Hui replied with a smile.
Xu Erchun came back with a large porcelain basin, "Yan'er, look, he took out two eggs, and there are extra yolks."
"He should come back earlier. Aunt Jiang, you guys should come to settle the bill later." Xu Hongbing thought for a moment and said, "He should pack some cakes and candies and send them over."
Xu Hongbing laughed and said, "Chicken tastes bad no matter what you cook it with!"
Xu Hongbing recalled the scene when the brother and sister were bickering, and couldn't help laughing. He picked up the soup spoon and scooped the chicken soup into the ceramic bowl, then sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions on the outside, and finally suppressed the strange smell.
The old man smiled and waved his hand, "Drink it in the evening, and you will feel sleepy if you drink it during the day!"
Zhou Jiakang laughed at you for eating wild boars for the bran, and you said I was worshipping the West and that foreigners were civilized... You also said that people from outside the mountains would even feed matsutake mushrooms to pigs in the future, because the price had risen sharply due to the crazy withdrawal of the big day, which caused pigs to have several more delicacies...
The enamel bowl was filled with half a bowl of truffles. In another eighty or seventy years, white truffles as big as quail eggs and fully cooked would cost less than a thousand yuan per pound. The price of fully cooked ones would be even higher.
"You look at people!" Xu Erchun pointed to the area below the fence, "That one is Viola yedoensis, and this one is Bletilla striata and Paeonia suffruticosa..."
Xu Hongbing laughed when he heard it. "Low-quality stuff, chicken stewed with white truffles!"
"I understand."
Chang Hanying picked up the chicken soup and took a sip. "It tastes good!"
"Sister Ma said that chicken only finished laying eggs before the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Xu Erchun: "Will it recur before the surgery?"
After a while, Chang Hanying went out of the house and got a gourd ladle to boil the chicken with water, plucked the feathers, cut open the chicken and took out the internal organs. Before cleaning it, he burned a bundle of grass to burn the fluff under the chicken's body and chopped it into large pieces.
Get the chicken fat out of the wok, add the scallion and ginger to sauté, add the chicken pieces and stir-fry until it changes color, add salt and stir-fry for a few times, then add water, bring to a boil over low heat and simmer over high heat.
Xu Erchun: "I'll drag him away and throw him into the river."
Chang Hanying: "When you came back from the town, you saw my wife and I riding our bikes with our child on our backs and heading to the town in a hurry. The older child must have felt uncomfortable, and my wife's eyes were red."
Xu Erchun: "Go to Old Xu's place!"
"Oh no!" Zhou Huaian climbed down the steps and saw the father and son carrying grass on their backs. He walked down and looked at the medicinal field. "Youngest, can he recognize what kind of herbs he is planting outside his field?"
Zhou Huaian stepped back with the child on his back and sniffed, "What's that smell? It smells weird!"
The chicken outside the pot had been stewed for nearly an hour. Xu Hongbing first put the mushrooms in and boiled them for about ten minutes. The aroma of the mushrooms and the aroma of the chicken soup blended together and emanated.
"Hmm!" Zhou Yiding rubbed his face, "Yiding, I'll return the bike to him later!"
"Bad luck! If you come back, he will add it to the account book here!"
Yang Chunyan leaned against the ladder and smiled: "Where is he going?"
"Don't look down on his uncle. We are not paying attention to you!" Xu Erchun touched Zhou Xiaoxi's face and walked towards the stairs.
"Normally, a hernia should be mild, so why does Old Xu look like that?"
It was only when Xu Erchun arrived at Zhou Yumei's house that he realized Zhou Yiding had left the fishing net at my house. He said he had a hernia attack, so he borrowed a bicycle to take the child to the town for medical treatment.
"Why would he worry when his sister-in-law is at home!" Zhou Yumei patted me on the back and said, "Ride slower. When you come back, we will come back too."
Xu Hongbing took the porcelain bowl and said, "Today we stewed the fresh ones. In the past we used dried truffles."
Xu Hongbing was actually also vague. "I heard it's very bad. If it doesn't have a nourishing effect, why would the elderly use it to make wine?"
"The doctor said it will come back." Zhou Yiding's eyes were red. "It's heartbreaking to think that such a big one will have to undergo surgery!"
"Welcome! Please!" Xu Erchun straddled the bicycle and made an inviting gesture with a smile.
"Oh!" Chang Hanying looked at it, "Is he going to use white truffles or white ones?"
Yang Hui glanced at me with a smile, "He even said he was going to his house for lunch!"
Thinking that everyone in each family would start cooking from today, I pulled out two lettuces and took them home to blanch them before mixing them together. There were a few radishes outside, so I cut them into shreds and stir-fried them, and added some truffle stewed chicken. Eight dishes were enough for seven people.
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