Chapter 29: A Big Meal
Qiao Xi slept very deeply this time. He was so tired. Although he looked very excited during the day, his body could not hold on.
When she got up, she found that it was almost noon. Well, she might as well get up and have lunch directly to get ahead of others.
I put away all the things I bought yesterday so that I can find them when I need them. Then I returned the walnut to the little squirrel and prepared to make lunch.
Qiao Xi took out the spare ribs she bought yesterday and prepared to make a different-world version of lotus root and spare rib soup. Don't ask her how she bought the spare ribs. God knows how excited she was when she saw someone selling pigs, but she found out that most of them were sold whole. How unreasonable was her request for only bones?
In the end, she paid half the price of a pig to buy all the bones of the pig, and of course she also got four pig's trotters as a gift.
This pig was a half-grown pig that she had carefully selected. They said it was a variant of some kind of magical beast, and the meat was very tender regardless of size. However, Qiao Xi was skeptical about what they said, and only dared to try the little pig. She didn't want to face the naughty pig right away.
She took out about two pounds of ribs and put them in water to thaw and soak out the blood. She packaged the rest and let the big-tailed yak freeze them. She recently discovered several plants that looked very similar to ginger. She was going to dig them out today and try it out. The effect would be different.
In the weeds behind the hut, Qiao Xi pulled out the stalk with great force, and dug a few times at the edge with a small hoe, very gently, for fear of damaging the ginger inside.
It came out, she dug up the soil, took out the ginger intact, smelled it, and found the smell was right. She made up her mind to break off a small piece and licked it. Wow, it's so spicy! The taste is right, all I need to do is cook a pot of pork ribs to try it out.
Lotus roots are available at Weiguang Lake. Qiao Xi has seen many strange big birds digging lotus roots to eat, so she also went to dig some this time.
Putting on her waterproof leg covers, which were newly bought yesterday and she couldn't wait to use them, Qiao Xi asked the big-tailed yak and the brown-headed vulture to watch her. If anything went wrong, they could freeze the mud and save her life.
The big-tailed yak was helpless. It could have solved the problem by just rolling on the ground, but Qiao Xi refused to let it.
If she knew about this, Qiao Xi would definitely cry out that she was wronged. With this overturn, the small lotus pond in front of her would be ruined. She didn't want to do anything to stop eating because of choking. It was just some lotus roots, a piece of cake.
Bullshit! In order to fish out the lotus roots from deep in the mud, Qiao Xi used her feet to feel the direction of the lotus roots, and started to fish them out as soon as she felt it. However, the mud was very thick, and she almost had to sink her face into the mud every time before she could fish out the lotus roots. These lotus roots were very thin and long, not much thicker than a bamboo pole, so a few of them were not enough to eat.
what to do? Just fish it out!
By the time Qiao Xi had scooped up enough lotus roots and came out of the water, her entire body was covered in mud. The big-tailed yak even refused to let her touch its snow-white mane, for fear that she would dirty it.
The croaking of the brown-headed vulture echoed in the sky. What a joke, stinky bird.
Qiao Xi thought angrily, when everyone is drooling over the soup later, I won’t give it to them, it will make them so greedy.
Motivated, Josh quickly took a quick bath to wash off the mud, then began to scrub the lotus roots in front of the faucet, washing them carefully before he dared to break them, for fear of washing mud into them.
After a few quick peels of the skin, the blood from the ribs came out. Qiao Xi moved them vigorously to pick out the dirt and broken bones, then washed them again with clean water and they were clean.
Find a cooking pot, put the ribs into the pot with cold water, flatten the washed ginger and throw it into the pot, cook until the foam comes out, and skim off the foam with a spoon.
After skimming it clean, you don’t need to change the water, just put the cut large pieces of lotus root in and stew them together.
The meat is fresh, so there is no need to change the water. The lotus root is not afraid of being boiled but it is afraid of not being peeled, so just simmer it on low heat.
While waiting, Josh made himself a cup of hot honey water, drank it and daydreamed, feeling so comfortable.
In less than an hour, when Qiao Xi poked the lotus root with chopsticks, it had been boiled and shredded. He tasted a piece of the meat and found that those people were right. The meat was indeed tender, fragrant and soft enough.
Add a little salt and stir it. Okay, let’s serve!
Before Qiao Xi brought the pork rib soup to the table, Kong Yanshu was already waiting at the table. How proactive he was.
Josh rewarded it with a piece of pork ribs and let it gnaw on it first.
Wow, the little squirrel grabbed the ribs and exclaimed, confused by the fragrance, and it gnawed and gnawed.
Qiao Xi looked at the stinky bird outside the window, which was pretending not to care but was actually twitching with greed, and deliberately lifted the soup bowl over to make the aroma stronger.
I’m so greedy!
However, no matter how greedy it was, Josh couldn't bear to let it go hungry, so when it wasn't paying attention, he quietly sent a small bowl of pork ribs to the attic.
But Josh just pretended to ignore it. The poor bird thought he was just watching it, so it flew back to the attic dejectedly to heal itself.
As a result, it almost lost the bowl of meat that belonged to it, but it was so delicious that the bird just picked it up and ate it. The bird happily ate the ribs in the attic.
The big-tailed yak here is easier to deal with. Qiao Xi deliberately gave it a piece of pink lotus root, making it think that Qiao Xi was not angry anymore. As a result, it took one bite and didn't give it another bite. Hahahaha, go ahead and drool.
The calf was so angry that his tail was shaking like a propeller. In the end, he accepted Josh's beating before he got the rest of the rations.
Finally it was my turn to eat. Josh scooped a full bowl and ate a large piece of pork ribs without hesitation. It was soft and boneless, and the meat was fragrant. It was delicious!
Take another sip of the soup, the fat from the ribs has been completely integrated into the soup, combined with the light sweetness of the lotus root, take another sip.
Josh, who hadn't had this taste for a long time, took a bite of meat and a sip of soup. He didn't want to eat anything else. He just wanted to eat meat until he was full. Oh my God, do you know what a hard life I have been living these days?
After drinking the last mouthful of soup, Qiao Xi's belly was slightly protruding. She was already full, but her mouth still felt not full. She quickly patted her mouth and said, "Stop eating, you bastard."
He quickly stood up and cleared the dishes, not giving himself the chance to have another bowl.
There were people coming to see the house in the afternoon, so Qiao Xi didn't plan to go back for a nap. He lay on a chair outside the house and slowly digested the food.
After eating and drinking, I don’t want to do anything. I just want to rest and feel comfortable.
Time always passes quickly in the afternoon. Josh was lying in a chair, half asleep and half awake, when he suddenly heard the croaking of a brown-headed vulture. Someone was coming.
But it just circled in the sky without any reaction. It should be the Goben brothers coming. The big-tailed yak should have informed it, it knew it.
After a while, there was a sound of footsteps, and a horse-drawn carriage came running over. The carriage was too deep, and Josh could not see their figures.
When the carriage stopped, Goben stood up from the carriage and greeted Josh, "Hello, Miss Josh, we are here."
(End of this chapter)
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