Chapter 147 146. He Really Likes It
Eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer.
Zhou Yi planned to have stewed mutton with radish for lunch, and there was a fat wild sheep in the backyard.
Wild black goat meat is delicious but hard to catch. It can only be found in deep mountains and old forests. Even in the game restaurant owned by Haiwei, it is only seen less than twice a year.
When June 6th was selling mutton to the hunter for a banquet, Lei Li told him that if he had any more of this kind of mountain products, he could take them to Lei's house or a Sichuan restaurant.
The hunter thought that goats could make money at a high price, so he went into the mountains before winter and caught two wild black goats and sent them to the Lei family's house. Lei Li gave them a good price and let them celebrate the New Year.
Zhou Yi still has some ideas about protecting wild animals and refusing to buy or sell them. After all, nowadays, not only wild sheep, but even the flowers and grasses on the mountains may be classified as national first or second class, and if you are not careful, you will end up in jail.
Zhou Yi served in the army as a soldier, so he has a deeper understanding of abiding by laws and regulations and setting an example.
However, there was no such law during the Dayou Dynasty. It was just because they valued farming that it was forbidden to kill birds and sell their eggs during the spring when birds were breeding, so that the birds could eat more pests and protect the crops.
However, pheasants and wild pheasants do not belong to this category, so hunters often hunt pheasants and rabbits to sell.
Winter is cold, and wild animals need to store fat to survive the winter. Therefore, wild sheep and rabbits are plump at this time. The red foxes in the mountains have also changed into silver clothes, and their snow-white fur is very popular among merchants in the county.
However, Zhou Yi and Lei Li did not pursue her.
The fur is just for warmth, and a circle of it is added inside the collar and cuffs to keep out the wind and cold. It looks nice, especially since Lei Li has fair skin. The gray and white rabbit fur collar makes his red lips, white teeth and eyebrows look picturesque, and he looks better and better the more you look at him.
White soup gurgle.
Appropriate medicinal herbs and wild delicacies are thrown in, as well as diced frost-bitten radishes. The high temperature generated by the burning pine wood also emits a pine-like fragrance, which makes the mutton even more fresh and fragrant.
Lei Li opened the lid and picked up a piece with chopsticks to eat. It was hot and sweet, so delicious and hot that it made him feel sublime.
"fresh!"
Lei Li gave a thumbs up and picked up another piece of radish. The radish mixed with the flavor of meat was sweet and fragrant, and it was stewed until it was soft and rotten, so it could be eaten even by Xiao Jiang.
Little Ginger has grown eight little teeth, four on each of the upper and lower gums, like small corn cobs. They look very cute and small, but Zhou Yi, who had his finger bitten by the little baby, and Lei Li, who saw him grinding his teeth and looking at the little wooden horse, both know that those little teeth are very powerful.
If Little Jiang wasn't too young to eat mutton, Lei Li would have wanted to give him two lamb chops to nibble on to appease his craving for anything.
"Bake some harder cookies for Little Ginger later and put goat milk in them."
Lei Li said as he ate the mutton, it was clearly a big pot of stewed mutton and radish for lunch, he ate it with gusto, as if it was a hot pot.
However, this sheep is fat, each weighing seventy or eighty kilograms. After slaughtering it, part of the meat can be used to stew radishes. It will not be a problem for Lei Li to eat so much.
"OK."
Zhou Yi nodded.
Seeing that the mutton and radish were almost cooked, he turned off the fire and left only a large piece of wood burning slowly in the stove. Seeing that Lei Li liked it, he served him another bowl and added some hot noodles.
The rice in Qingmi County is good.
The new rice is ground into rice slurry and steamed in a steamer. It is then cut into noodles that are neither too wide nor too thin. They are soft, smooth and sticky. Thin noodles can be served cold, thick noodles can be stir-fried, or hot noodles can be made into soup noodles. Each noodle has its own merits.
"I'll make some bread while I'm at it. What flavor do you want? My uncle sent me a few jars of honey this year, and my parents bought a lot of milk yesterday. Shredded cheese would be delicious on bread, too."
"Then eat the milk flavored one."
Lei Li nodded, then laughed and said, "Da Zhuang gave birth to a cub this spring and produced buffalo milk. It really tastes different from the milk outside, and it's also different from goat's milk."
"The milk shipped on the ship is from Dongyuan. The cows there eat grass and grow on the grassland, so the taste is different."
Zhou Yi said, "Grassland cow milk is rich and mellow, while buffalo milk is light and sweet, each with its own unique flavor. I'll try making some yogurt next time, but I'm not sure if it will turn out well. I'm worried it might spoil and give me diarrhea."
"It's okay for you to have diarrhea once or twice at such a young age."
Lei Li had never had yogurt before, and after hearing what Zhou Yi said, he also wanted to try it.
"By the way, the snow this year seems to be heavier than in previous years. I feel like it's going to be very cold this year. Don't always use cold water when cooking. I feel bad if you get your hands cold."
Lei Li was grinning.
Zhou Yi was used to the coquettish and corny words that came out of his mouth smoothly and naturally. He didn't understand how he could always say such things. The person who said it was not ashamed, but the person who listened to it felt embarrassed.
"If the snow gets any heavier, I'm afraid the refugees in Nanjiang will have a hard time surviving the winter."
Zhou Yi looked out the window and saw snowflakes falling heavily. It was very different from the insignificant snow last year. This first snowfall was quite majestic.
"If the snow gets heavier and the weather gets even colder, why don't we go over there and see if we can donate some cotton clothes, rice, or flour?"
Lei Li nodded and said, "After all, money isn't too tight for us right now. Those refugees went to build the road, and they ate some rice and meat to replenish their energy. But after all, they suffered a disaster and left their homes, so I'm afraid they won't have a good time this cold winter."
"Having more people at home means earning money and providing food. One more mouth to feed doesn't mean one more pair of chopsticks. It's even harder for a woman or husband who has lost their loved one. It's even harder if they have children. They might be targeted by hooligans."
"Definitely."
Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "The locust plague in Nanjiang was said to be over in November. Although it's difficult to completely eradicate it, there's no guarantee the locusts won't return when the weather gets hotter. If the snow is heavy enough this year, the remaining larvae and eggs in the ground will freeze to death. Then we won't have to worry about rainfall or locust drought next year."
Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest.
This is not groundless talk.
"If spring comes and the disaster situation in Nanjiang improves, they can return to their hometown. It's also quick to take a boat from the port. Many rivers in Nanjiang flow through Xiling."
"Just get through this winter and everything will be fine."
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The whole family gathered around a table to eat mutton stewed with radish.
There was a stove lit under the table, and hot water with wolfberries and red dates was boiling on the stove. There was firewood in the stove, as well as sweet roasted sweet potatoes and roasted peanuts, which were put in by Lei Dashan and Liu Ye'er.
Bake it and have it as a snack.
Sweet and hot.
His family used to have no money and no snacks, so Brother Li liked to eat these in winter. Now there are more delicious snacks, but the couple still have the habit of baking them for their children, and Lei Li also likes to eat some.
Although they are already a wealthy family in the eyes of others, they feel that their lives are not much different from before. They just eat and wear more abundantly, but they are still the same people at heart.
"This mutton is delicious. I started sweating all over my body after eating it."
Liu Yeer said as she ate.
Lei Li nodded and said as he ate, "It's from the deep mountains. If it doesn't taste good, the price would be a waste. It would be great if we could have deer. We've never had venison."
Deer are rarer than sheep.
Sheep are alert but reckless and violent, while deer are alert but timid and fast. They can run away in a flash, and it is rare to see a deer.
If it weren't for the fact that the New Year was approaching and the account books from the county and the provincial capital were all flying over, and he was busy paying business taxes, etc., Lei Li would have wanted to go to the mountains to hunt wild sheep and wild deer.
If you don't come across sheep or deer, you can come across a fox or rabbit that has just shed its fur. You can get a snow-white fur and make a rabbit or fox fur collar for your baby.
Lei Li has only hunted wild boars in his life and has never hunted wild sheep.
Although he looks tough, he is very careful about his life. He would never go to the mountains alone, as he is afraid that his parents would be bullied if he died.
But now he has someone he can lean on for support.
Lei Li, having eaten and drunk his fill, sat in a rocking chair and watched Zhou Yi coaxing the baby. The tall man lowered his eyebrows and smiled in a pleasing manner, giving off the feeling of a virtuous and fragile husband, which made Lei Li feel itchy.
"Husband."
Lei Li waved at him, and when he came over obediently, he covered the little ginger's eyes, pinched his chin and kissed him twice, then said with a smile, "I remembered to cover the baby's eyes this time."
The last time he kissed Zhou Yi without avoiding Xiao Sheng Jiang, Zhou Yi blushed and felt hot for a long time. He almost got angry with Lei Li, fearing that Xiao Sheng Jiang would learn his immoral ways when he grew up and harm other people's precious children.
"He who steals the bell while covering his ears."
Zhou Yi glanced at him.
Although little Jiang had his eyes covered and could not see, he could hear the voices of his two fathers. He could not express himself in words, but he could clearly hear the adults' tone.
Seeing that daddy was covering his eyes, he thought they were doing something fun behind his back. He grabbed daddy's hand with his little hand, trying to push it away. His little head looked left and right, and his black eyes blinked.
“Daddy!”
This voice is full of energy.
"What's wrong?"
Lei Li smiled and hugged him, stroking his chin coaxingly, but glanced at Zhou Yi with a frown, "What happened to our baby?"
"Father!"
"Father!"
Little Jiang grabbed Zhou Yi's hand again, and Lei Li's with the other, pulling them as close as before. He looked at them with his innocent and lovely eyes, wanting them to demonstrate what they had just done and not be stingy in sharing with him.
"The baby will understand when he grows up."
Lei Li said with a smile, and with half of his thumb held by Xiao Sheng Jiang, he used his index finger to hook Zhou Yi's hand, and scratched his palm with his fingertips, like a kitten. Soon Zhou Yi held his hand tightly and he could not move.
"Daddy?"
Little Ginger was a little confused and tilted his head like a puppy. After thinking for a while, he still didn't understand what his father meant, so he held both of his father's hands tightly, but his little hands could only hold half of his thumb.
"Dad! Dad!"
Little Ginger's voice is babyish but loud.
Liu Ye'er, who was embroidering in the inner room, heard everything and came out to see what was going on. She said with a smile, "What are you talking about? I heard Sheng Jiang calling him 'Daddy' so loudly, and I thought you two were just playing by yourself without paying any attention to him."
This was also a joke to the couple.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi hang out regardless of time and place. Sometimes she would secretly pinch Zhou Yi's hand, leg or waist at the dinner table, smiling as if she had done something bad and was unrepentant. If you have the guts, hit my cat.
They are all family members.
There are no rules for eating.
When Liu Ye'er saw this, she just smiled. Sometimes she couldn't help but talk to Zhou Yi, asking Lei Li to stop teasing him all the time. Lei Li would then look at Zhou Yi with a smile and ask him if he also liked her teasing him.
Zhou Yi said yes and no, and no and no, after all, Lei Li was like this...
He really likes it.
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