Chapter 35(1/2)
As soon as Jing Nan and the others entered the kitchen, they saw the braised meat on the dining table. They jumped to the chair and made a trembling chirping sound of surprise. Jing Nan glanced at the dining table: "Is this the meat I cooked last night? Why is it cold?"
Feng Gui's focus was not on the meat. He walked towards the refrigerator with his hands in his arms: "Is this the work of Wanshoufang?" Xuan Yu responded: "Hmm." Feng Gui said: "Did they come to the entrance of the village this morning?" Xuan Yu nodded: "Yes."
Feng Gui sneered: "You run quickly. What thing I sent me last time? I haven't had time to trouble them yet, so they dare to come to the door?"
Du Heng pricked his ears and listened to Feng Gui and Xuan Yu talking. He understood a few things. His refrigerator was made by a shop called Wanshoufang. Feng Gui and Wanshoufang had a dispute. Du Heng was cutting the tendon meat while listening. Xiaoxiao squatted beside the chopping board with two big eyes staring straight at the braised meat, saliva swaying at the corner of his mouth.
The cut tendon meat will reflect green light from a certain angle, and the slices will look like a blue light film appears. Only fresh meat can be used to make meat of this color. Du Heng picked up a piece of meat with tendons on the edge and stuffed it into Xiaoxiao's mouth: "Try it?"
Xiaoxiao squinted her eyes and smashed her mouth: "Chirp~~" Hearing this voice, Du Heng understood, Xiaoxiao was satisfied with the braised pork. He smiled and said, "Just like it, I made a lot of it."
Because Du Heng forgot the time when he was in the refrigerator, his braised eggs were not allowed to be placed in the pot in time to be braised. But it doesn’t matter. After breakfast, he can put the braised eggs and tofu in the pot to slowly be braised.
The tofu soup received unanimous praise. The tofu soup served in the bowl was sticky. Unfortunately, Du Heng did not make fried dough sticks, otherwise the fried dough sticks would be more delicious with tofu soup. However, Xuan Yu and the others didn't care about fried dough sticks. They had braised pork, so they were very satisfied with eating it.
The thinly sliced braised meat is placed on the plate like a flower. A piece of chopsticks is picked up and put into the mouth. The taste is slightly cool, but it is very chewy. Eat it in empty mouth and eat it without salt or light. If you taste it carefully, the meat of the tendon is full of grain and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes.
Eating with sauce is another flavor. With the blessing of sauce, the meat flavor and sauce are perfectly balanced after the meat slices are put into the mouth, making it impossible to stop one piece after another.
While eating, Jing Nan opened up the conversation: "I heard you want to raise a puppy like Chaos?" This was asked by Du Heng, who said frankly: "Yes, I want to raise a puppy."
Jing Nan said to Xuan Yu: "Lao Dao was distressed for a long time last night. You are too tough." Xuan Yu said: "It's not very difficult for him, right?" Du Heng smiled and said: "Yes, yes, there will always be little bitches who are so strong that they like him. When the flowers bloom next spring, there may be puppies."
Jing Nan's mouth twitched for a while, Feng Gui was trembling with his head and shoulders, but he was trembling: "Puchi..." Jing Nan said to Du Heng depressedly: "Do you want puppies so much? Our village is very safe, and no one dares to come without a dog."
Du Heng scratched his cheek and said, "I don't want a puppy to come to protect the house, I just think that raising a dog at home will make you feel more homey." In the future, when conditions allow, he is planning to raise a kitten, and perhaps catch some chicks and ducklings to raise it. Du Heng feels that a family must have pets and livestock to be complete.
Jing Nan thought to himself: "Does it feel like home? Well, I'll let Lao Dao work hard." Du Heng was a little puzzled: "What should Lao Dao work hard for this kind of thing? As long as he let go of the Chaos in his family, Chaos will go to find the little bitch. Oh... I understand, do you want Lao Dao to check on the Chaos for Xuan Du?"
Feng Gui finally couldn't help it, and he almost burst into laughter: "Huang Chuan may never have dreamed that he was so charming. Someone actually wanted to breed him!" Du Heng said: "The breed of Chaos in the Laodao family is so good, and the puppy born must be very well-behaved."
Feng Gui nodded perfunctorily: "Well, be well-behaved." Feng Gui lowered his head and smiled, and Xuan Yu sighed: "Stop laughing."
Du Heng looked at Xuan Yu and the others in confusion, always feeling that they didn't tell him anything, but forget it, just like Jing Nan said, who has no secret in the village?
After drinking the tofu soup, Xuan Yu wiped the corner of his mouth: "I'm going to find Lao Dao today." Du Heng was stunned for a moment: "Is it for the little yellow dog? If it's for the little yellow dog, don't worry, it's hard to walk outside now."
Xuan Yu smiled slightly: "No, Lao Dao's house formation is broken, so I'll help me repair it." Du Heng nodded clearly: "That's it..."
Jing Nan drank the tofu soup and said vaguely: "Well, Lao Dao said yesterday that there were monsters wandering around his house, but he didn't expect to break through the formation of his house." Feng Gui said: "Do you need to go together?"
Xuan Yu said, "No need, I'll go alone." Xuan Yu wiped his mouth and said to Jing Nan, "Old Nan, borrow your umbrella." Jing Nan stared in anger: "What are you calling me? Try calling me again?" Du Heng asked in confusion: "Xuan Yu, why do you need to hold an umbrella when you go out?" Is it to show off? Although Xuan Yu was indeed elegant when he was holding an umbrella, Du Heng thought he looked handsome when he first met Xuan Yu.
Jing Nan looked at Xuan Yu, then said timidly: "My umbrella is called Qianji Umbrella, which is the ancestor of all Qianji Umbrellas on the market. With this umbrella, ordinary monsters dare not approach it." So that's it! Du Heng said that Xuan Yu was fine and did something to do with an umbrella.
Du Heng thought for a while and said, "Jing Nan, is your Thousand Machine Umbrella expensive? If it is not expensive, let's go and play it too. Every time Xuan Yu asks you to borrow an umbrella."
Jing Nan laughed proudly when she heard this: "I can't buy my umbrella. This is the ancestor of the old Jing family. The guys from Wanshuofang borrowed my umbrella to study it for decades, and only studied the unsatisfactory things on the market. Hey..." Jing Nan took a big sip of tofu soup happily, and his expression was like a satisfying fox.
Du Heng could only sigh regretfully: "That's it..." Jing Nan raised his eyes and looked at Du Heng: "Don't worry, they are all from the same village, they just need to take the umbrella at any time. Especially Xuan Yu, I want to use it casually, but I don't charge it." Xuan Yu said to Du Heng: "Yes, don't worry."
Feng Gui actually said to Du Heng for the first time: "Don't worry, near the village, the monster that could hurt Xuan Yu has not been born yet." Du Heng nodded naughtyly: "Oh..." He looked at Xuan Yu, and saw Xuan Yu's lips rising. Seeing Du Heng look over, Xuan Yu blinked at Du Heng: "I'm fine. Didn't you say you have braised pork to bring to Lao Dao? Wait a little while to clean up and I'll take it over there."
After dinner, Du Heng cut two pieces of tendon meat into thin slices and put them in the food box. He also wrapped a few pieces of tendon meat with oil paper, and also wrapped a hoof of mountain paste and placed it in the food box. Xuan Yu said that the old knife was deep in the west mountain, and it took more than half an hour to walk over.
For the sake of the future little yellow dog, Du Heng also added snacks such as braised eggs to the food box with ulterior motives. Du Heng weighed the food box. He didn't know what material the wood was made of, and it was heavy in his hand. However, he heard that there was a huge memory in this food box, which could put several cows in there. Moreover, the things placed inside would not break, so Du Heng would use the food box well and not destroy it.
Du Heng stood at the door to look after Xuan Yu: "Be careful on the road, I'll wait for you to come back for lunch." Xuan Yu held an oil-paper umbrella in one hand and a food box in the other: "Okay." Xuan Yu, who was holding an umbrella, looked particularly beautiful, and Du Heng was dazzled by his smile.
Seeing Xuan Yu's back disappearing into the direction of the west mountain, Du Heng felt a little worried. He was worried that Xuan Yu would not be able to walk on the road, and also worried that the wild beasts in the forest would not have eyes. Jing Nan stood in the spiritual field and fiddled out his spiritual plants from the snow. Seeing Du Heng like this, Jing Nan laughed: "Du Heng, you are almost a husband-hopping stone!"
Du Heng's old face turned red: "What are you talking nonsense..." He admitted that when Xuan Yu slapped the umbrella, he looked straight, but he liked a cute girl! Jing Nan smiled wretchedly: "What's the blushing?" Du Heng couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Do you dig your spiritual plants."
As soon as Du Heng was about to return to his yard, he saw Xiaoxiao jumping off Fenggui's wall: "Jiujiu!!" Fenggui followed Xiaoxiao and chased out of the door: "Come back for me! Lawless you!"
Du Heng and Jing Nan stood in a fixed direction at the direction of Feng Gui's palace. Xiaoxiao was chased by Feng Gui and ran away with her head in her arms. Feng Gui was angry and said, "If you have the ability, don't come back!" Xiaoxiao plunged into the snow and there was no movement. Du Heng could not find him even if he activated his spiritual sense.
Jing Nan was happy: "Have you forced Xiaoxiao to eat the insect again?" Feng Gui snorted: "I have never seen a timid child like him, but I am afraid of the little poisonous insect!" Jing Nan sighed: "Don't laugh at that thing, I feel uncomfortable when I look at it. I tell you, you have kept it for me. If it falls into my spiritual plant field, I will never end up with you."
Feng Gui stood in front of the palace for a while and then calmed down. He looked at Du Heng: "Speaking of it... Du Heng, can you fulfill what you promised me before?" Du Heng was confused: What did he promise?
Until Feng Gui put a storage bag in Du Heng's hand, Du Heng was a little unconscious: "Hey? What is this?" Du Heng opened the storage bag and looked inside. He almost vomited it out at a glance. He saw that the storage bag was densely packed with big flesh worms as thick as fingers!
These insects lost their vitality in the storage bag, one by one, they were soft, but they were still alive. When they took out one and placed it outside, they would still squirm. Du Heng took a look and felt goosebumps appear on his back. The body of the fleshy insect was covered with black and yellow fluff. As the insect twisted and twisted, the fluff shook and shook, Du Heng also felt his goosebumps come in waves.
He wanted to throw the storage bag in his hand! But Feng Gui patted Du Heng's shoulder with a smile: "Xiaoxiao is very picky about food, but he always refuses what you cook. These insects were caught by me from the bathing terrain on the East China Sea. I caught this little bit after working hard. Please let him eat it."
Du Heng was so stiff that he didn't want to speak. Feng Gui stroked his long hair casually. He held his hands and sighed: "I just hope Xiaoxiao can live up to my uncle's hard work." Du Heng:...Ahhh, take it away!!! He is going crazy!!
Du Heng moved a small stool and sat under the eaves of the corridor. He leaned against the large wooden barrel containing bacon behind him and looked at the sky sadly. There was also a storage bag given by Feng Gui under his feet, and the hole of the storage bag was tightly tied. Du Heng was afraid that it would not be tied tight enough, so the insects inside twisted and crawled out.
Such a terrible bug, let alone let Xiaoxiao eat it, even ordinary people will be afraid of it when they see it, right? Moreover, that guy Jing Nan added fuel to the fire and promoted Du Heng some of this kind of bug.
This insect is a famous poisonous insect in the cultivation world. After it turns into a butterfly, it is the famous black-winged golden-tailed abyss butterfly. This butterfly and the other three other pests in the cultivation world are ranked as the four major harms in the cultivation world. The butterfly is highly poisonous. After the powder on the body is sucked into the lungs, it is a must forever to die. The larvae have velvets all over the body. Ordinary people encounter this velvets at the very least, they will swell and suffer from unbearable pain, and at worst, they will foam at the mouth and die.
This kind of insect is also the thing that the elixir practitioners hate the most. Once one is found in the spiritual plant field, it proves that there are thousands of insects in the field. Within ten days, the spiritual plant in the spiritual medicine field will be gnawed to the point where it is bare. Then the insects will move, and no grass will grow wherever they pass. People in the cultivation world hate this poisonous insect but are powerless, just because it is too difficult to deal with this kind of insect.
The reason why Jing Nan was so nervous was that one year when Feng Gui chased Xiaoxiao and fed the insects, the insect fell into his spiritual plant field. Feng Gui didn't pick it up in time and did not find the insect afterwards. By the spring and summer of the next year, half of Jing Nan's spiritual medicine fields were destroyed. If he hadn't been rushing to recruit Feng Gui back to catch the insects, his medicine fields would have been wiped out.
Du Heng began to understand Xiaoxiao's mood. He wouldn't dare to touch such a hateful insect, let alone pluck him ten more courage. Besides, he had to find a way to turn the insect into delicious food. Forgive him, he would rather be beaten by Feng Gui.
Xiaoxiao carefully poked his head out of the courtyard gate: "Jiujiu~" Du Heng looked at him carefully and saw Xiaoxiao hiding pitifully outside the door, with two big eyes staring at Du Heng. Du Heng smiled and waved to Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, come on."
Xiaoxiao looked carefully at the storage bag beside Du Heng, and hesitated to Du Heng. Usually he could jump from the door to the kitchen, but he had been rubbing on this road for three minutes today.
Du Heng waved to Xiaoxiao, and he patted his legs: "Come on." Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, then jumped to Du Heng's legs, and there was a heavy warmth in Du Heng's arms. He touched Xiaoxiao's down and then felt a little better.
Birds love to eat insects. No matter how cute Xiaoxiao is, he is also a feather tribe. Du Heng touched Xiaoxiao's head, and he separated the fluff on his head and looked at it. Tender yellow fluff on his scalp, which was as big as his fingernails, had already appeared. Du Heng touched Xiaoxiao's head lovingly: "Jing Nan's elixir is effective, Xiaoxiao's head has begun to grow fluff on your head."
Xiaoxiao rubbed Du Heng's chest and narrowed his eyes: "Swish swish~" Du Heng hugged him and rubbed him for a while: "Xiaoxiao, are you afraid of insects?" Xiaoxiao shook his head and nodded again. Du Heng smiled: "It's normal. I just saw the storage bag given by Feng Gui, which contained so many insects. I was almost scared to death. Xiaoxiao has you eaten it before?"
Xiaoxiao nodded heavily. This was a nightmare that Xiaoxiao didn't want to recall. Du Heng praised him and said, "Then you are so brave. I dare not touch that kind of insect, and I dare not touch it. Do you dare to eat it, but you are still powerful." Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, and he looked up at Du Heng: "Jiu?"
Du Heng nodded: "Yes, Xiaoxiao is really brave." After a while, Du Heng began to sigh: "But I think Feng Gui is even more powerful. He actually caught so many insects for you. Last time, he still looked down and his heart was still beating and finished a small bowl of insect juice." When he thought of that scene, Du Heng's face began to turn blue, and it was really hard for Feng Gui.
Du Heng had a headache: "I have eaten several types of insects before, but none of them have hair on them. I hate the fuzz on this insect very much. Jing Nan said that if this fuzz is not handled well, it will kill people." Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement, it will kill people. His uncle even forced him to eat it. He is really not bird-like!
Du Heng sighed: "If there is no hair, it will be easy." Xiaoxiao raised his head and looked at Du Heng. Du Heng smiled and touched his back: "In my hometown, there is a local delicacy called Doudan. Do you know, it is about the same size as this kind of insect, but Doudan has no fluff. Doudan is very delicious, whether it is frying or cooking or making soup! After frying the oil, it will be crispy and fragrant!"
A little saliva flowed out of the corner of Xiaoxiao's mouth. He looked at Du Heng deeply. Du Heng looked at the storage bag and then wilted again: "But Dou Dan has no hair..." The insects in his storage bag all had poisonous hair.
Du Heng looked at the sky with a sluggish look: "Xiaoxiao, I think I might be hated by your uncle. He just took care of me to do such a thing, but I couldn't do it." Xiaoxiao rubbed Du Heng's chest, as if comforting Du Heng. Even if his uncle didn't like Du Heng, he liked it.
Du Heng looked at the sky with grievance and hugged her: "It would be great if these insects had no hair." Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, he jumped off Du Heng and walked into the kitchen. Du Heng was having a headache, and he was not in the mood to care about what Xiaoxiao was doing. After a while, Xiaoxiao took a half-burning bloodthirsty vine into his mouth and walked out.
Xiaoxiao threw the bloodthirsty vine to the ground, and a gray-white ashes suddenly appeared on the white eaves of the corridor. Xiaoxiao coughed at the bloodthirsty vine, and a platinum flame appeared in his throat! When the flame touched the bloodthirsty vine, the bloodthirsty vine burned. Du Heng was shocked: "Xiaoxiao, what are you doing?"
Xiaoxiao struggled to look at the storage bag. Finally, he pulled the knot on the storage bag with his mouth and then penetrated it into the storage bag. After Xiaoxiao's head was taken back from the storage bag, he held a big black and yellow meat worm in his mouth. The meat worm struggled a few times. Before it could move too much, Xiaoxiao threw the insect into the flames of the bloodthirsty vine.
As soon as the insect touched the flames, the fluff on its body began to burn. The insect rolled on the ground twice and then died softly. After the flames on the insects were extinguished, a big black and yellow flesh worm appeared in front of Du Heng. The fluff on the insects was burned by the flames!!
Du Heng's eyes lit up: "Xiaoxiao, are you trying to tell me that the fluff on the insects is afraid of fire?" Xiaoxiao nodded.
Du Heng gave Xiaoxiao a thumbs up: "Xiaoxiao is smart!" After finding a way to remove insect fluff, Du Heng immediately rushed to the ground.
Under the eaves of the corridor, Du Heng raised his small stove. When he used the stove, Du Heng would put a casserole on the stove, and basically used this stove to stew the soup. This was the first time that there was no pot on the stove. Du Heng placed a basin next to the stove, with clean water in the basin, and a bamboo basket next to the basin.
Du Heng opened the storage bag, and he endured the discomfort and picked up a bug from the storage bag. The bug struggled at the tip of the chopsticks for a moment, and Du Heng quickly sent the bug to the fire eye of the stove. A slight crackling sound was heard, and the fluff around the insect was removed by the flames before the insect struggled much. Du Heng threw the burned bug into the basin next to him, and within a while, he burned hundreds of bugs.
The burned insect revealed its black and yellow body after being washed with clean water, but its body was no longer as terrifying as it was at the beginning. The insect originally had a pattern similar to the eyes on its side. After being burned, the pattern disappeared. Du Heng had no burden to knock the insect into the basket and filter the water dry: "I dare to do it now."
Xiaoxiao squatted beside him and watched Du Heng move. Du Heng took out a pot from the kitchen and put half a pot of oil in the pot. He put the oil pan on the small stove, then turned and turned back to the kitchen. This time he brought two large plates, one of which contained some starch.
The flame licked the bottom of the oil pan, and Du Heng slowly picked up the insects in the basket and put them on the starch plate to dip them with starch. When the oil in the pan was bubbled in fine bubbles, he tried to throw a insect with starch into the pan.
The insects became straight as soon as they arrived in the oil pan. The insects that were originally long grew from five inches to about eight inches because of their stiffness. The starch pasted the insects' bodies. Those who didn't know about it thought Du Heng was frying the small crispy meat. After a while, the surface of the insects turned slightly yellow, but Du Heng chose to fish the insects up at this time.
Xiaoxiao made a puzzled voice, and Du Heng said with a smile: "Don't worry, let you taste different insects later." Although he had never eaten this kind of insect, Du Heng had the intuition of being a chef. Based on his feelings, he felt that these insects would not be worse than beans when they were fried! Because he had already smelled a strong meat fragrance, which was different from the aroma of fried small crispy meat. This smell stimulated his taste buds and made him start to swallow.
Du Heng threw half of the insects in the pot. Good guy, a straight strip suddenly floated in the pot. Xiaoxiao looked around and smiled. He had never felt so comfortable. It turned out that the insects he hated could also show such a relief to him.
Du Heng quickly fried all the insects in the basket for the first time. At this time, the fried aroma in the yard was already very strong. Jing Nan walked in from outside the door: "What are you doing? It's so fragrant?" Du Heng pointed to the plate next to the stove: "Come on?"
Jing Nan looked carefully and the starch-stuffed insects were straightened by the oil. He looked at it for a while before he realized: "Ouch!! You fry them?!" Du Heng and Xiaoxiao smiled and narrowed their eyes: "Yes, how do you feel?" Looking at the large pile of insects in the plate next to him, Jing Nan bowed and said, "I admire you!"
The oil temperature in the pot quickly rose and it could be fried for a second time.
There is also experience in making fried foods with good color and no greasy color. Du Heng’s experience is - refrying. After refrying, the things are easier to mature, and they have a crispy texture on the outside and tender inside. Moreover, the things that are fried in this way are not greasy.
Du Heng divided the meat worm into the pot, and the sound of thorns and fried was made in the pot. Xiaoxiao stretched out his neck and stared at the pot tightly. Under his eager eyes, the color of the insect that had already appeared yellow slowly darkened and turned golden. When the chopsticks were covered in it, it would make a slight cracking sound when it hit the insect.
In less than a cup of tea, Du Heng felt through his experience that the insects in the pot were already well. He used a hedge to pick up the insects and put them on the plate to control oil, and then put the other half of the insects. The worms that had just been fished out emitted a high temperature, and the squeaking sound of oil flowers came from his body. Du Heng said, "When the cooler is a little, you should be able to eat it."
Du Heng took out the fine salt and pepper noodles, he mixed a portion of dipping sauce carefully, and then carefully sprinkled it on the plate. As soon as the dipping sauce was sprinkled, Xiaoxiao picked up a insect and chewed it. The insect body made a crackling sound in Xiaoxiao's mouth, and Xiaoxiao was very satisfied: "Chirp~~~"
Jing Nan reached out to pinch a flower caterpillar, and he sniffed it: "It smells so fragrant. Look at the worm, it's very snail when it's alive, and it looks delicious after it's fried." Then he opened his mouth and took a bite. Du Heng heard a crisp sound, and the insects were half missing.
Du Hengxin raised his throat: "Jing Nan, this is poisonous!" It was Jing Nan who gave him popular science, so why did he speak by himself?
Jing Nan finished eating one, and he picked up another one and started eating: "This one is fried and it doesn't feel very poisonous. Not to mention me, you can even eat a few." Jing Nan took one and handed it to Du Heng: "Try it, it's okay. If you get poisoned, I'll detoxify you."
Du Heng's mouth twitched. Jing Nan's method was really... damn tempting. Du Heng couldn't help but take a bite. The flower caterpillar just dropped to the right temperature. The skin was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Ignoring the intimidating appearance, it was actually quite delicious. At least it tasted much better than Du Heng imagined. This feeling was even better than ordinary small crispy meat.
Du Heng couldn't help it, and he ate one and took another one: "If I'm poisoned, remember to detoxify me." Jing Nan sat next to Du Heng with his butt and clicked: "Don't worry, I can't die. Oh? Is there any in the storage bag? Fry it a little more."
Du Heng thought this was a good idea. As soon as he was about to open the storage bag, he saw Xiaoxiao stretching his neck and growing his mouth, and took away most of the fried insects in the plate in one bite. However, he did not swallow it, but held it in his mouth. Xiaoxiao slapped Du Heng’s wings, and then ran to the door of the yard.
Du Heng asked in confusion: "Xiaoxiao, where are you going?" Jing Nan smiled: "No need to ask, I must have sent it to Fenggui."
Du Heng chuckled: "This pair of uncles and nephews is really a perfect match." I remembered that when I was making meatballs for Xiaoxiao before, Xiaoxiao was scolded by Feng Gui and cried. As a result, the meatballs were ready. Xiaoxiao took one and sent it to his uncle.
Jing Nan said, "Xiaoxiao is Feng Gui's only blood relative in this world. Even if he is quarreling, it is for his own good. Although Xiaoxiao can't stand his uncle's bad temper, he knows this. You see, he is the most aggressive in opposing his uncle. If anyone bullies Feng Gui, Xiaoxiao will not agree." Jing Nan stuffed half of the insect in his hand into his mouth: "This is a relative."
Du Heng smiled slightly: "Yes..." He also has relatives, but his relatives don't know where they are. Thinking of his parents' faces, Du Heng's expression was a little depressed. However, he quickly became energetic, and he couldn't help him in the despair. Only by plucking up the courage can he face life with a smile.
To be continued...