Chapter 31(1/3)
However, it is a bit difficult to find straw. It is no less than finding a needle in the seabed. Du Heng is preparing to go to the spiritual field outside, and maybe he can find something alternative.
Taking advantage of the fact that the spiritual rice was bubbling, Du Heng picked up a sickle and walked out of the yard.
There were lush grass outside the door, and there were many spiritual plants in Jingnan's barrier. Some spiritual plants, Jingnan also added a guardian ban, which could be seen at a glance. Du Heng would not move his ban, so he walked along the ridge of the field for a moment with his head silenced.
At this time, he heard a storm sound from the fields. He separated the thatched grass that was half a person tall, and Du Heng saw a blue snake tail.
It turned out that the cow was lying in the field to eat grass. Du Heng remembered that Xuan Yu said that the cow was actually a kind of fish. At this time, it was lying gentlely in the field and chewing the grass slowly, looking no different from an ordinary cow.
When the cow heard something behind him, it turned around and shook his snake-like tail, which was considered to have said hello.
Du Heng walked to Niu'er and touched its head: "Thank you yesterday. If you hadn't returned to the village to ask Jing Nan and the others for help, Xiaoxiao and I wouldn't know what would have become."
The cow chewed the grass gently, and looked at Du Heng with big eyes. Du Heng thought for a while. He rummaged through the storage bag he carried, and found half a bag of soybeans. He also took a few fresh sea duck eggs and put them on the soybeans: "I don't know what you like to eat."
The cow rolled up its long tongue, and Du Heng saw that there were short and thin barbs on its tongue. With a roll of its tongue, it swept away several sea duck eggs above. As for the soybeans below, Niu Er didn't even look at it. Du Heng smiled and touched Niu Er's head: "So you like to eat duck eggs, I remember."
Jing Nan's voice came: "The cherry beasts are a kind of fish, but they like sunshine, so they often climb up from the water to bask in the sun. They can fly into the sky and enter the water, and have a gentle temper. It's best to be used as mounts."
Du Heng looked over and saw Jing Nan coming over the ridge of the field: "If you are willing to thank it, just feed it a few pickled sea duck eggs. It likes to eat that thing."
When Du Heng heard this, he quickly took out a few mud-covered sea duck eggs from the storage bag. Seeing the duck eggs, Niu Er rolled the duck eggs into his mouth without waiting for Du Heng to wash the mud and sand.
Only a slight sound of the rupture of the eggshell came, and there were sparse egg whites hanging down beside the cow's mouth. It squinted its eyes and swallowed happily. After a while, it lowered its head and even licked the egg whites dripping on the grass leaves.
Du Heng was happy: "I know that domestic animals can eat fresh eggs and duck eggs when they get angry, but for the first time I know that they can eat salty duck eggs." Jing Nan said: "The cherry beasts can flow into the sea through the water, and this saltiness should be just right for them."
Du Heng nodded: "The world is so big and there are so many things. You've seen it. By the way, isn't Feng Gui angry?" Jing Nan twitched his hair and chuckled: "How angry can he be? When he saw Xiaoxiao holding a meatball for him, he immediately smiled. Feng Gui had no moral integrity in front of Xiaoxiao, you don't have to worry about it. Their uncle and nephew were noisy, just get used to it."
Du Heng nodded: "That's good. I see Xiaoxiao is so sad after you left. I thought he would apologize well before Feng Gui would forgive him."
Jing Nan laughed out loud: "Come on, Feng Gui is still worried about how to make fun of laughter, so that only by laughing can you change your mind. Don't worry about them. This kind of noise will happen every now and then. Xuan Yu and I are used to it."
Speaking of Xuan Yu, Du Heng asked with a smile: "Where is Xuan Yu and the others?" Jing Nan pointed to Xuan Yu's house: "I've gone to your house. Lao Dao brought you a lot of wild game, and Xuan Yu is dealing with it. By the way, shouldn't you be in the kitchen? Why did you come to the field?"
Du Heng said: "I want to make braised pork, and I need to find a spiritual plant that can bind meat." Jing Nan asked: "As long as it is a spiritual plant, is it okay? Are there any requirements?"
Du Heng said: "It is best to have a fragrance, non-toxic and odorless, and have long and tough leaves." Jing Nan said: "Don't have too many such spiritual plants, come with me."
Du Heng followed Jing Nan immediately. He saw Jing Nan walk to the purple-red dragon-building grass. He pulled a leaf down and said, "Is it enough?"
The red leaves in Jing Nan's hand were one meter long and five fingers wide, and the long veins were clear. As long as you clean it a little, you could tear them open along the veins. Du Heng took the leaves: "Enough is enough!"
Jing Nan walked behind Du Heng with his hands in his arms, and asked as he walked: "The meatball that Xiaoxiao just held, let me taste one later." Du Heng narrowed his eyes: "Okay~"
When Jing Nan heard that his request was so easy to agree, he asked with great urgency: "I want two more chicken crisps in the past."
Du Heng could only say regretfully: "I'm sorry, the rest was taken away by Xiaoxiao, but if you like it, I will do it again in the future if you have time. If you do it, the first one will be sent to you." Jing Nan was in a good mood: "Trade!"
Lao Dao and Xuan Yu were busy in the yard, and a strong mountain ointment in the large wooden basin was shedding hair in the hot water.
Du Heng greeted Lao Dao: "Have you hunted the mountain paste again? Thank you Lao Dao." Lao Dao rolled up his sleeves and shaved pig hair with Xuan Yu. When he heard Du Heng speak, he quickly stood up and bowed: "Mr. Du, they are all prey in the traps on the mountain. I have caught several of them in the past two days. I was thinking that only Mr. Du can handle these things, so I brought them to you."
Du Heng was very grateful: "Thank you, thank you, you always sent me, what should you do?" The prey has to be hunted to make a living? What should he do if the old knife gives him the prey?
At this time, Jing Nan spoke: "Don't be polite, you two, it sounds like something is wrong. Du Heng, just tell you this. Lao Dao and us are both demon cultivators. We usually don't like these things in front of you. Just keep them in your arms and legs. It's not convenient to go up the mountain."
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan sadly, and Jing Nan's eyebrows and eyes were curved: "Look at what I do?" Du Heng pinched Jing Nan's arm: "Are you almost the same as me?"
He actually said that he had small arms and calves? Jing Nan's figure was even longer than Du Heng, and he looked like a weak scholar who was hiding from the world and famous doctor.
Jing Nan fell angrily: "What did you say? Let's talk about it?" Du Heng carried the leaves of the dragon grass and walked into the kitchen: "I didn't say anything, I'll make braised pork."
Jing Nan complained to Xuan Yu in the yard: "Look, look, how unsighted he is? He actually said that my cultivation is similar to his."
Xuan Yu snapped his fingers, and the black hair in the basin faded away all over his body and exposed his snow-white skin.
Xuan Yu slowly said: "It's not a mistake for those who don't know." Jing Nan snorted: "Just spoil him. I tell you that he must practice in the beginning of spring next year. You don't have to worry about being beaten to death when you go out."
Du Heng untied the lid of the pot and put a meatball out: "Jing Nan, I've eaten meatballs." Jing Nan immediately smiled: "Hey, here we come."
Lao Dao wiped the sweat from his head and said to Xuan Yu: "Sir, Doctor Jing was not like this before." Xuan Yu raised a smile on the corner of his mouth: "I know, because Du Heng has arrived here, we have all become different."
Jing Nan took a bite slowly with the meatballs in his hand. The meaty smell was full of the aroma. Jing Nan narrowed his eyes with satisfaction. He saw Du Heng clean the leaves of the dragon grass and tear it into a handful of thin strips and cleavage the meat. He asked, "What are you doing?"
Du Heng said: "This is also called Dongpo pork. Use straw to tie the meat up and stew it in the pot, so that the meat will have the fragrance of straw but not greasy."
Jing Nan chewed the meatballs and asked, "What about the rope? You can eat it after stewing it with the meat? Why is it called Dongpo pork? Do you need to stew it on the east slope?"
Du Heng was amused and crying: "Doctor Jing, can you stop causing trouble? I'll give you another meatball and eat it." Jing Nan sighed: "What kind of teacher are you, you don't have any patience at all."
While pricking meat, Du Heng explained: "It's because there was a literati named Su Dongpo in ancient times. This was the method he invented to eat meat." Jing Nan thought for a while: "Why haven't I heard of this person?"
Du Heng's mouth twitched, and he knew why he wanted to explain this problem to Jing Nan? Is it okay if I can't explain it clearly at all!
There were twelve pieces of meat that had been ripped into a pot and blanched. When he put the pieces out, the pieces had changed color. Du Heng fryed the sugar color in the pot. The so-called sugar color means adding a little more sugar to the oil, and the oil temperature will melt and change color.
The color of the fried sugar is red and bright, moist but not oily, and looks better than the color of seasoning with soy sauce.
There are many ways to make braised pork, and Du Heng knows more than a dozen. He plans to use the methods commonly used by his father to make them. The production method is simple and eliminates the steaming process.
Du Heng put bundled and solid meat into the fried sugar color. After stir-frying for a few times, each piece of meat was covered with a layer of shiny sugar color. He arranged more than a dozen pieces of meat skins upwards and added boiling water that was covered with meat.
Adding boiling water can make the meat softer and tenderer. If you add cold water, it will make the lean meat burst. In fact, if you have enough rice wine, the taste will be better. But there are so many ingredients in your hand. If you can make things more flexible, please make things more flexible. Du Heng has always felt that being able to use the ingredients in your hand can reflect the chef's skills.
After adding slices of ginger and green onion into the pot to cook the cooking wine, Du Heng covered the pot with the lid. The heat in the pot should not be too big, as it would be easy to dry the soup and paste the pot. Just stew it quietly for half an hour, and the braised pork will be perfect!
Jing Nan poked another ball on the chopsticks at some point. He squinted his eyes and sighed, "It's so difficult..." Du Heng asked, "What's so difficult?"
Jing Nan said: "It's really hard to have a meal. I saw you busy early in the morning, frying and fried, and I haven't eaten it yet." Du Heng was dissatisfied: "Spray out the meatballs you ate!"
Jing Nan swallowed all the remaining meatballs on the chopsticks in one mouthful: "No."
Du Heng looked at the sun and it was almost noon. He remembered that he made wine, chicken crisps and cooked in the morning, so busy that his feet were not stuck on the ground, and he still couldn't take a break. However, when he thought that everyone could get together to have a meal in a while, he didn't feel tired at all.
Du Heng said: "It's too late to stir-fry vegetables, so just take a cucumber." Anyway, the cucumbers are green, and the meaning is almost the same.
Du Heng quickly mixed the cucumbers, and he said to Xuan Yu and the others: "The rice is ready! Will you deal with it in the afternoon?" Xuan Yu immediately stood up and wiped his hands. He handed Du Heng a storage bag: "The processed mountain paste and earthworms also have a Kui Niu inside."
Du Heng reached out to take the storage bag: "So..." After he finished speaking, Du Heng was hit hard by the storage bag in his hand. He was stunned. A small storage bag was too heavy, right?!
Jing Nan squatted beside Du Heng and sighed: "Starting next year, you really have to practice seriously." Xuan Yu quickly pulled Du Heng: "Is it okay?" Lao Dao asked about his well-being: "Isn't my bones broken?"
Du Heng grinned: "It's okay... Who can help me call Xiaoxiao and the others to have dinner..." He looked at the storage bag on the ground with lingering fear. How many things are there? Is it too heavy?
Du Heng fell, but it was not too heavy. He just knelt down to his waist. When he turned around, he could hear his bones clattering. For this reason, Xuan Yu and Lao Dao helped him.
As for the other free food, Jing Nan wouldn't say anything. He looked gentlemanly at the beginning, but his bad nature was revealed in a few days.
Feng Gui? He was sitting there and he was as if he was dominating the world. Du Heng dared not call him.
After looking closely, there were only meatballs and steamed meat pie on the table, cucumber and kelp rib soup. Although the quantity was not large, the portion was quite considerable. Feng Gui glanced at the pot and said, "What else is there?"
Du Heng said, "Branded pork, but it hasn't been cooked yet." Feng Gui asked, "How long does it take to cook?" Du Heng looked at the pot and said, "Half an hour... um... two incense sticks?"
Feng Gui's hand flashed with inspiration: "Okay." Jing Nan ordered while drinking the soup: "Xuan Yu goes to serve the meat!" Xuan Yu: "Don't always use this technique. It would be troublesome if Lao Xia's formation is broken."
Feng Gui said indifferently: "If it doesn't work, let him build another one." Xiaoxiao responded to his uncle: "Jiuchi!"
Du Heng was confused and asked Xuan Yu, "What did Feng Gui do?" Xuan Yu said, "Feng Gui compressed your cooking time, and the meat in your pot should be ready now." Du Heng stood up and unbelievedly lifted the lid of the pot. He was stunned when he saw that the soup, which had just half of the meat in the pot, had been almost collected.
If it weren't for seeing it with your own eyes, Du Heng would have thought he was sleeping in a mess! He looked at Feng Gui in disbelief: "How did you do it?"
Feng Gui was about to speak, but Jing Nan grabbed a ball and stuffed Feng Gui's mouth. He smiled obscenely: "I want to know? Follow us to practice?" It turned out to be the face of a pyramid schemer, and Du Heng didn't want to pay attention to him.
The pork belly that was served was trembling in the plate, and the dragon grass tucked on the meat was bright and red, looking very festive. The thick soup poured on the meat, looking delicious!
Xuan Yu took the plate and put it on the table. When he saw the braised pork, the old knife said, "It smells so good!" He couldn't wait to pick up a piece of meat into the bowl, untied the dragon-building rope. The old knife gently picked up the flesh with chopsticks, and the skin broke, revealing the white fat under the skin that was about to turn into a pool of water.
Take a bite and the meat tastes sweet, but it doesn't feel choked. The best thing is the lean meat layered in the fat, which is red in color, and the chopsticks are crispy and crumbly as soon as they touch it. Lao Dao felt that the fat and lean meat melted in his mouth, and with his tongue stirred, the wonderful taste filled the entire mouth. He could eat three pieces of such meat in one breath!
When looking at the meatballs on the table, Du Heng went to the stove to serve meat for a while, the meatballs were missing half. There were also meatballs on the table and half of the round meatballs were missing.
Feng Gui gnawed the ribs slowly: "Well, it's not bad. No wonder Xiaoxiao pestered you to return to the village." Xiaoxiao proudly raised her head and screamed at Du Heng twice. Just as Du Heng was about to say something, Feng Gui said: "The fact that you gnawed Xiaoxiao and her mouth were exposed, I won't make trouble for you anymore."
Du Heng:...Boss, do you still remember this? Xiaoxiao doesn't mind, you actually mind.
Xuan Yu picked up a chopstick for Du Heng: "Eat." This was said to Feng Gui. Feng Gui raised his eyebrows and Jing Nan whispered: "Have I told you?" Feng Gui's golden eyes swept across Xuan Yu and Du Heng: "That's right, the old tree is blooming."
Du Heng:??? Old Xuan Yu blushed, and he picked up a piece of meat pie for Du Heng: "Eat..."
Today’s food is very good, but these big men always feel that something is missing when they are together.
Feng Gui pondered for a while and finally remembered: "I got a jar of fine wine from the Immortals in the Wine. Can you drink a glass?" Hearing this sentence, Du Heng suddenly remembered: "Oh, look at my memory!"
Du Heng had long thought of drinking, so he fried peanuts in advance. However, in order to cook, he turned around and forgot. In addition to peanuts, he also prepared his 10,000-31 bottle of spiritual wine.
The facts proved that the small bottle of spiritual wine was quite useful. Not only did Du Heng cook the dish for so long, they also drank it once in the middle.
Seeing Du Heng take out spiritual wine, Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "We'll just drink wine, you'd better drink the soup honestly." Du Heng stopped, and he looked at him with guilt and smiled: "Okay, I'll drink the soup. But you can do whatever you want!"
Is there anything better than peanuts when serving wine? After the red-skinned peanuts are oily and bright, the tight red skin can almost wrap the kernels inside. Some peanuts are cracked by the oil temperature, revealing the white meat inside. A little bit of salt is sprinkled on the peanuts, and the red and white look very beautiful.
Du Heng placed peanuts next to the kelp soup, and he scooped a bowl of soup. Jing Nan was gnawing on the ribs, and he suddenly looked up: "You really drink soup?" Du Heng smiled and said: "I'll feed some food to Dahuang. You are all eating, but Dahuang is still hungry."
He was so moved that he shook his hand: "Thank you, thank you."
Du Heng took the bones that Jing Nan had gnawed into the bowl: "Get the bones for Dahuang."
Mixed:...
Jing Nan almost burst into tears with a smile. He said to Hun Yidao: "Do you want to tell him the truth?" Hun Yidao covered his face: "No, no, I want shame."
Du Heng looked confused: "Hmm? What are you talking about?"
To be continued...