Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 129 Picnic
Chapter 130
When they came to the abandoned house, Li Junge first went to the stream to fetch water to soak the rice, and then said to several people: "Well, let's divide the work, Brother Li, go pick the ginger leaves, do you know the ginger leaves? The kind of plants with big leaves on the sides, the kind used to make rice dumplings and yellow rice cakes, try to pick as much as possible. Zhu Erchong, go and clean up these turtle doves, they are just missing, so let’s count them as an addition, Ba Po and I Go to collect firewood, cut bamboo, and make mushroom rice in bamboo tubes at noon today."

There is a bamboo forest behind the two old lychee trees that are dying. Li Junge took off his back, cut off two thicker young bamboos, picked off the branches, and took out a hand saw from his backpack and gave it to Wang Congjun to drag it first. Go to the abandoned house foundation to change bamboo tubes.

Generally, there is a firewood mountain behind the house. No one has come here for so many years. There are many dead branches and old trees on the back mountain. Li Junge cut two bundles of firewood, cut out a bamboo with two sharp ends to make a pole, and carried the firewood down the mountain. Come.

It's not a big deal to carry more than a hundred catties of a body that is constantly nourished by the spiritual spring.

Six stone ponds were built on the open space, and Li Junge began to burn firewood into charcoal.

Wang Congjun has already made more than twenty bamboo tubes, and he is using sticks to dig out the bamboo joints there.Li Shuping was clever enough to fold the picked ginger leaves into small boxes for him, and fixed the borders with bamboo sticks.

Zhu Chaoan came over with a bunch of cleaned turtledoves and said, "Hey, Brother Li, you are really meticulous. I have eaten with Piwa many times in the mountains, but I have never seen him make a lunch box."

After speaking, he said to Li Junge: "Erpi, look what this is. I found it when I was washing turtledoves by the water. There are many more over there. It looks like celery."

Li Junge was taken aback, and was so frightened that he threw away the firewood and rushed over to check it, complaining: "Pig worms, don't mess around, there are many kinds of plants like celery, and it will be troublesome if you pick poisonous celery. Legend has it that Socrates Poisoned to death by hemlock juice!"

After inspecting the picked plants, he broke them off and smelled them, and said, "Fortunately, this is indeed water celery. I can add a dish for everyone at noon. If they can pick fungus, the fungus mixed with water The taste of celery is a must."

Then he popularized science to a few people: "The easiest way to distinguish wild celery and hemlock is to break it and smell it. Hemlock has a foul smell, and cress has a clear fragrance. In addition, the stems of cress are smooth. The stems of the hemlock are hairy and can be touched by hand, and the hemlock has yellow flowers, the cress has white flowers, the leaves of hemlock are palmately divided, and the leaves of cress are pinnately divided."

"If you can't tell the difference between plants in the wild, it's best not to try it lightly. There are not a few people who use sumac buds as toon buds, poison celery as cress, and old wood fungus as ganoderma."

Hearing the nods of several people, Li Junge sent Zhu Chaoan to search for cress, put the turtledoves into a ginger box, and began to chop bamboo sticks. Wang Congjun and Li Shuping began to put on skewers.

When he was almost ready, Li Junge blew his eagle whistle.

After a while, the people in each group came out of the wild forest under the leadership of Bai Da and Da Dai, all of them were elated.

Yu Xiaorong triumphantly ran over holding a mushroom like a small umbrella: "Erpi Erpi, look I picked up such a big one!"

Li Junge was startled when he saw it: "How is it possible! You are Ji Cong! How could it be so big!"

Li Yuning said: "Uncle Erpi, we dug down more than 60 centimeters and it came out. The termite nest was not damaged, otherwise it would be bigger."

Li Junge said: "It's amazing, it must weigh two catties, right? Even I have never seen such a big one!"

Wang Jixing murmured, "You're so pissed off! I won't let go of it even if I let her put it in my back basket."

Yan Fang said with regret: "There are too many mushrooms in this forest. We found a fungus from a tree in the middle of the forest. Before we had finished harvesting the dog, we pulled my trouser leg to let it out."

Li Junge said: "Have you really picked the fungus? Zhuer Chong found the cress, and today's noon cress mixed with fungus is a hurdle!"

Wang Wenqiang said: "Master, our two groups are the most, and the baskets are full."

Asked everyone to dump the mushrooms in the three baskets on the open space, Li Junge said: "Come, come, each take a bamboo stick and a handful of medlar leaves, and go to clean up some mushrooms, mainly chicken fir, santang mushroom, matsutake and so on. For porcini mushrooms, if you see hand-green oil wax mushrooms and red mushrooms, you can use less to make bacon rice. If these things are not overcooked, you may see elves. Save it and go down the mountain to burn the meat at night. "

Li Xingyu Zhonglu clapped his hands, and said, "Can Uncle Li really see elves? We want to play with elves."

Wang Congjun laughed loudly: "Uncle Li is lying to you, it will be terrible to see the little elf, it is poisoned by eating mushrooms!"

The girls started to barbecue, and the boys and the kids chopped up the washed chicken fir, porcini, green palm, and some miscellaneous fungi, mixed them with soaked rice and diced bacon, and began to pour them into the bamboo tube.

Fill about two-thirds of the water, then fill the bamboo tube with water, stuff it with lemongrass, smear the outside with mud, and lean on a large tree stump that has fallen down. There are five groups of four knots in total, and burn them under each group. Li Yuning, Li Yusong, Li Yuduo, Wang Congjun, and Liu Chengxian each took care of the firewood.

Finally freed the pot, Li Junge boiled water again, soaked the cress and fungus separately, then added salt, minced ginger and garlic, and sesame oil.

Using the lid of the pot as a container to hold water celery mixed with fungus, Li Junge said to everyone: "You guys eat the skewers first, and I will look around here and make a pot of herbal tea for drinking."

Yan Fang said: "There are so many children, why don't we just drink plain water, it's fine."

Li Junge said: "I went to look for the white tea tree. It is a kind of eucalyptus plant. It has nothing to do with tea. It is just good for quenching heat and thirst. The children here like to drink it. Generally, the old house A few trees will be planted later.”

When I came to the back mountain, I turned around, and as expected, there were several white tea trees, and the oldest one was as thick as a person's arms.

This is amazing, the white tea tree grows slowly, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of years to grow.

There was no one around, and the Tai Chi Stone was faintly warm again. Li Junge directly put the big white tea tree into the space.

Cut off a branch from a small white tea tree next to it and took it back to the open space.

A group of people had already eaten and drank, and each of the children held a few skewers in their hands, and their mouths were full of oil.

Seeing Li Junge scraping off the bark, cutting the branches into pieces and throwing them into the pot to cook, Hu Xiaoyong asked curiously, "Uncle Li, what are you cooking the wood for? Can this wood be eaten?"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "You can't bite this wood, but after boiling for a while, the pot of water will turn into tea, and it will be delicious after cooling down."

After talking about Li Junge, he went to the barbecue. The aroma of the grilled chicken is too strong for even a god.

Ye Xiaoqin put her hair on her head, handed Li Junge a bunch of roasted five flowers and a bunch of lotus root slices, and said, "Er Pi, hurry up and eat something, you've been busy all morning."

Li Junge saw that Qi Feifei was using chicken fir as a brush to oil the lotus root slices, and said, "Haha, Feifei, your brush is quite a luxury."

After taking the skewers from Ye Xiaoqin, he took a bite and shouted to everyone: "Keep your appetite, don't wait until the bamboo tube rice with mushrooms and bacon is ready, it will be bad if you don't have a stomach to eat."

Zhu Chaoan said: "It won't drip, at worst we'll go play in the stream in a while, and eat after playing!"

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The rice in the bamboo tube has been cooked for more than half an hour, and there are no more blisters on the mouth of the bamboo tube, and instead there are bursts of tempting aroma.

Li Junge picked out a bamboo tube of lemongrass, broke the bamboo tube a little with a stick, and tore the bamboo tube down to open a piece.

The annual bamboo tube has a lot of water, tenderness and fragrance.

I picked out some rice with the tip of a skewer and tasted it. The rice was already cooked, and the aroma of various mushrooms and bacon mixed in my mouth, plus the taste of new rice, bamboo tube and lemongrass, compared with the barbecue.

"It's ready, go to the fire." Li Junge called the fire watchers to put the bamboo tubes into the baskets with bamboo sticks, and carried them to the stream to wash off the mud on the bamboo tubes.

I didn't say just now that the mud on the bamboo tube is to isolate the oxygen, so as not to burn the bamboo tube after carbonization during the cooking process.

When they came back, they still leaned the bamboo tubes on the tree trunk, simmered them with the remaining fire ash to keep them warm, and then cut them open one by one, saying: "Everyone brings a ginger bowl, it tastes good when it's hot. There is a bag of chopped scallions on the side, if you can eat some scallions, the taste will be even better!"

Everyone got a bowl of ginger leaf rice in a bamboo tube, topped with a few slices of grilled meat and vegetables, and sprinkled with chopped green onions. It was a satisfying meal.

After the tea was boiled, Li Junge put the pot into the stream to cool it down, then took out a roll of tinfoil paper for barbecue from his bag, tore off a few sheets to make plates, put the shredded chicken fir on it and baked it .

Some don't put anything, some put some oil, some sprinkle chili pepper powder in addition to oil, and some sprinkle chopped green onion after oiling.

All kinds of seasoning combinations, in short, have one characteristic: let the mouth water.

The smell is a greeting, there is no need to shout, everyone will gather around, and the plate is cooked and emptied.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Li Junge quickly made a few more baking trays and said, "Do it yourself and have enough food and clothing. If it doesn't work, I can't always serve the people. I'm so hungry."

He was digging with a bowl of mushroom rice when he saw Liu Chengxian coming over with some roasted turtledoves, and said, "Nine turtledoves, exactly one for each of the nine children."

The adults stared at the oily roasted turtledove and swallowed, but Li Yuduo said: "Uncles and aunts, you can eat it, we can often eat it in Lijiagou."

Li Junge also said: "Yes, yes, it's just a little less, so you can share it."

Hu Yonggang took the opportunity to educate his children: "Xiaoyong, you see how modest your brothers and sisters are, and you should learn more from them."

After being polite, everyone divided the turtledoves.

Li Shu evenly divided a wing and half of the breast, and he couldn't stop licking his lips after eating: "Oh, I knew that roasted turtledove tasted like this, but I just tried my best to be laughed at by everyone, and I had to take a few times to blur the photos, okay?" Let Ma Tou catch a few more!"

(End of this chapter)