Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 161
Chapter 160 Two: Honey Roasted Rabbit

The most special thing is that where the stems and leaves grow on the ground, a large piece of root is exposed on the ground, covered with long golden hairs, ten centimeters long, shining brightly under the slanting light from the forest. very beautiful.

Li Junge immediately shouted: "Uncle Pharmacist! Uncle Pharmacist, come and take a look at this, is it the golden retriever you mentioned!"

Uncle Medicine Master is about to come over, and when he sees this thing, he is overjoyed: "Hahaha! This trip was not in vain! This is it!"

Uncle Orion also ran over and said, "So it's it. I've seen a lot of it before going to the mountains. It's quite a lot of work to find it!"

While chanting the words to ask for medicine, Uncle Pharmacist carefully removed a section of golden-haired root, about the size of a white head, and put it in the back basket, then poured some ashes from a gourd and wiped it on the rest. On the incision of half of the plant, and sprinkled rice around the golden retriever dog, he stood up and said: "It's all done, this trip is not in vain!"

Li Junge was interested in the ceremony and said, "What was the rule just now?"

Uncle Pharmacist said: "When you ask for medicine from Grandpa Mountain God, you must sprinkle rice to thank God when you encounter precious medicinal materials. What counts as precious is in your own heart. Golden retrievers are all domesticated now, and the medicinal power is not enough to cure Liu Rong, so We just came out to look for wild ones. After searching for more than a day, Grandpa Mountain God is kind, and we have to pay for it."

As the three of them went down the mountain, Uncle Medicine Master introduced the rules of going to the mountain to ask for medicine: "This business has its own rules, which can be summed up in four simple ones: collect herbs and save seeds, don't be alone, respect ancestors and gods, and never leave your body with fire."

"When my old man took me into the mountains for the first time, the first sentence when explaining the rules was to collect herbs and save seeds. This rule is afraid of lighting up the herbs, and the second is that some herbs need to be nourished by the sky and the earth for many years before they can be made into medicine. Picking in advance not only The potency of the medicine is not enough, and resources are wasted. Therefore, this is the first big rule for the herb collectors."

"Don't be alone. It's easy to understand. It's dangerous to go into the mountains, especially those places where we herbalists go. Therefore, we must have companions to take care of us. Even if we find precious medicinal materials, we can't think of leaving alone. Exclusive. There are many Longmen arrays here, all of which are about a certain pharmacist discovering a good medicinal material, but he entered the mountain alone for the second time without his companions, and then some lost their way and starved to death, some fell to death, and some were bitten to death by bears and leopards. It's very absurd."

"The third respect is the Patriarch. We call Grandpa Medicine Master, who is what you call Shennong. Without him, there would be no business. Just recite his name silently when entering the mountain."

"The sacrifice is to the grandfather of the mountain god. I hope he will bless you and give you good medicine. It is said that there are many spiritual medicines that cannot be seen if you don't respect the ancestors and worship the gods."

"This set of rituals has its reasons. First of all, it is to calm down and take the medicine collection as a serious matter, so that you can be careful and avoid the danger brought by it. Shooting cannons to scare away wild animals can also reduce the risk.”

"But with you two mountain runners here, I didn't use the trick of blowing cannons and trumpets, so I didn't have to startle the villagers. But I still want to meditate on the ancestor and the mountain god in my heart."

"You guys think more about the last one than I do, so I don't need to say more."

Having said this, Li Junge's admiration for the herb pickers added another layer.

Returning to the slope with prickly bubbles, Uncle Yaoshi went to pick raspberries, and Uncle Li Junge and Uncle Orion went to collect raspberries.

Bai Da was very excited when he saw that a pole was bounced and the rope was dragged to a small bush.

It's that khaki little bitch again!Come on guys!
As soon as he took two steps, he saw a shrub pole bouncing "whoosh", and Bai Da was staggered with a "ow", and the baby stepped into his own cover at this time!

A group of younger brothers and sisters laughed so hard that the eldest brother was so ashamed!

Li Junge let out an "Ouch", and hurried up to take off the cover on Bai Da's hind leg, and taught him a lesson while undoing it: "Look, if you are in a hurry, you will definitely drive piles, so be careful in the future."

Bai Da hides in Li Junge's arms and rolls around begging for comfort: Dad, you guys did it all, pay me for my shame!
Uncle Orion laughed loudly: "I still think you are really smart! It's not the same middle suit!"

He found a hare from under the bushes, and Uncle Orion handed it to Li Junge: "Come on, it seems that we can have lunch before going down the mountain."

Li Junge said with a smile: "Blessed is this noon, fried bee pupae, honey roasted rabbit!"

Three people and eight dogs returned to the camp. Li Junge took the rabbit to the stream to clean it up. After a while, Uncle Orion came to wash it with a pack of ripe prickly pears.

After packing up the two of them and returning to the camp, Uncle Yaoshi had already taken out a small pot of bee pupae.

Bee pupa does not refer to pure bee pupa, but also includes bee larvae.

Li Junge cut a few bamboo sticks and poked at the rabbit meat, then seasoned it with ginger, onion, garlic and salt.

Boil a pot of boiling water, cook the internal organs and feed them to Bai Da.

Then pour all the oil you brought into the pot, heat it until it is half mature, pour the bee pupa into it and fry it.

Fry until the shell hardens, then turn off the heat and continue frying.

Then another fire pit was set up next to it.

Take out the good-sized rabbit, pull out the sticky wrist and snap off the ribs with the back of the knife, cut two bamboo strips, insert them from the front and rear legs respectively and stretch them straight, then clamp the wide bamboo strips to make the rabbit into a flat plate.

Turn off the open fire in the fire pit, leaving only the charcoal fire, and start roasting the rabbit while brushing oil.

After a while, the aroma of rabbit meat came out, mixed with the smell of fried bee chrysalis, making people drool.

Seeing that the bee pupae were almost fried, Li Junge handed the rabbit to Uncle Orion to continue roasting, and he went to fish out the bee pupae to drain the oil.

Changing the pot, adding some base oil for frying bee pupae, Li Junge threw in the ginger, scallion, and garlic from the rabbits and fried them until fragrant, and then took out a handful of dried chilies, cut them into pieces and threw them in.

After the spicy taste came up, I threw in a handful of peppercorns and turned it over a few times, then poured the fried bee pupae in, and stir-fried until the bee pupae and seasonings were fully mixed, then sprinkled some salt, and brought the pot together side.

He took some honey and mixed the prickly bubbles with it, cut two short sticks and put them inside, served them together with the fried bee pupae, took the rabbit back from Uncle Orion, and said: "Uncle Orion, Uncle Pharmacist, this The bee chrysalis should be eaten while it is hot, you guys eat it first, I will continue to roast the rabbit."

Uncle Yaoshi and Uncle Yaoshi held white tea in their left hand and a stick in their right hand, and they pierced a bee pupa for a while, and a stinger for a while, eating so much that they couldn't see their eyes.

Uncle Orion was still regretful: "Oh, I finished drinking yesterday's wine, and now it's gone. If I can have another sip of wine, I won't even give it to a god!"

Li Junge's heart moved, he put the rabbit stand on the ground, went to his bag to fish it out, took out a bottle of Langjiu from the space, and said: "Hehehe, I actually have a bottle hidden."

The two were overjoyed when they saw it: "Brother, bring it here! We don't mention this, and you are going to take it down the mountain, right?!"

This wine was left over from the Jiu Dou Bowl last time. Li Junge threw a few bottles to the island to see the changes.

Uncle Orion also took out the plug to cut three small bamboo cups, and Uncle Medicine Master pulled a piece of mint and rubbed it in to clean the bamboo membrane inside.

Uncle Orion poured the wine and said, "This wine is too expensive! Come on, Pharmacist, let's follow Piwa as a fastidious person and drink from cups!"

Uncle Pharmacist was also greedy, raised his wine glass and clinked with Uncle Orion, turned his head and shouted: "Hurry up, Piwa! We are waiting for you while we eat!"

Li Junge saw that the rabbit was almost roasted, and the skin was already golden, so he took honey to brush the rabbit, and waited until the sugar color was baked and the whole rabbit turned reddish brown, then he picked it up and placed it between the two of them. With a piece of banana leaf, untie the rabbit and remove the bamboo piece, shouting: "The honey-roasted rabbit is served!"

Uncle Yaoshi tore off a rabbit leg and took a bite. The caramel roasted by the honey was so fragrant that he couldn't close his mouth. Piwa, you are this!"

Uncle Orion also said: "This time I went to the mountain with Piwa, and I ate well, slept well, and drank well! I want it!"

Bai Da and the others were so greedy that they were spinning around: Grandpa and Dad, you eat meat, at least you lose a bone!

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Satisfied with wine and meat, the three of them took a nap in the woods after eating, and then went down the mountain.

It was almost time for dinner when we came down the mountain, so Li Junge wanted to see Ayin, so he called his parents and took Uncle Yaoshi to Uncle Orion's house for dinner.

When he came to Uncle Orion's house, Uncle Orion asked Aunt Miao to cook bacon, sausage, and smoked fish, and then asked Miaowa to pick vegetables and shoot bamboo shoots and dried mushrooms. He and Uncle Pharmacist picked medicine to get honey.

Some medicines need to be processed while they are fresh. The two are old partners, and Uncle Yaoshi is as familiar as he is at home, and he doesn't care about taking the dustpan and dustpan.

The first thing to deal with is the hive.

The hive nursery area is separate from the honey storage area.

Li Junge couldn't do anything else well, so he just dug out bee pupae. This Ah Yin must like to eat it, so I'll have to get it for her later.

Uncle Orion and Uncle Pharmacist handle the part with honey.

Pull out a large stainless steel basin, Uncle Orion boils hot water in the open dam, Uncle Pharmacist removes the honeycomb layer by layer, puts a thin blade into the hot water to heat, gently scrapes off the sealing beeswax, and then Put the waxed knife back into the hot water to melt the wax.

Uncle Orion took out a splint covered with wide-eyed barbed wire, spread the waxed honeycomb on the splint, and when it was almost full, closed the splint and shook it violently in the shaking bucket.

The centrifugal principle throws all the honey out, and flows along the wall of the shaking bucket to the bottom of the bucket.

If it is a domestic bee, it is enough to put the honeycomb that has been shaken into the beehive again, and some honey left on the honeycomb will be reused by the bees, so there is no waste at all.

The wild bees are different, and they have to pack the hive with gauze and squeeze it to squeeze out the remaining honey.

Then put the gauze bag into a large pot filled with beeswax and cook to let the beeswax melt and precipitate.

Although the two cooperated tacitly, a large bag of honey was kept until dark.

Things are not easy to come by, and the whole body is full of treasures. The hive itself is a kind of medicinal material. Beeswax is also used in many rural areas, not to mention honey, so it needs to be handled carefully.

I didn't finish it until it was dark. At this time, Ayin also came back. He was very happy to see them: "Uncle Erhu, you are back, where is Erpi?"

(End of this chapter)