slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 111
He returned to the village with a full harvest.

As soon as I entered the village, it happened that Li Licheng was weaving lanterns in front of the kiln. Seeing Cang Hai and the three came back happily, and the fishing cage he made was still installed in the car, he guessed that the harvest was not small.

So Li Licheng opened his mouth and asked: "It seems that the harvest is good, let me see what you caught."

Cang Hai smiled: "Grandpa Li, the harvest is really good, half a bucket of eels, and a fat vegetable snake."

While talking, he got out of the car and reached out to remove the cages on the car. Ping An and Shi Wei immediately got out of the car to help when they saw it. The three of them worked together and quickly unloaded several cages from the cart.

Li Licheng stretched out his finger to the wall of the kiln mouth: "Just put it there, just put it outside to dry."

Cang Hai set up the cage by the wall, opened his mouth and asked, "Do you have any pots at home?"

Li Licheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the room: "Yes, what do you want this thing for?"

"Send some rice field eels for you to try." Cang Hai said as he walked into the kiln, opened the curtain and entered the house, saw an iron basin at a glance, stretched out his hand to the side of the cart, picked up four rice field eels with his fingers and put them in the basin inside.

Li Licheng was not too polite, he waited for Cang Hai to bring the basin over, stretched his head to look at it and praised: "Good guy, he's not small, it's time to eat."

"Isn't it? No more snacks. If it is bigger, the meat will be a bit old and not tasty. Now this eel is at the right time." Cang Hai weighed the basin and said with a smile.

"Two are enough to try something new, take two back..." Li Licheng said.

Ping An reached out and patted the plastic bucket: "Grandpa Li, there are still a lot here. The second brother said that each family will share some later, so that everyone can taste it."

Hearing Ping'an's words, Li Licheng no longer refused, and said to Cang Hai: "Well, let's put it here, I will wash my hands and take care of it."

After finishing speaking, Li Licheng put down the lantern stand in his hand, clapped his hands, took the basin and put it at his feet, reached out and picked up the bamboo knife, cut off a small bamboo slice, cut it twice, and brought it to Cang Hai .

"What is this?" Cang Hai took the bamboo piece and asked curiously.

Li Licheng said: "The knife that scratches the eel".

While talking, Li Licheng also cut one for himself, picked up an eel in his hand, turned up its belly, and directly stabbed the bamboo tip into it. After piercing, with one hand, the eel's belly was scratched When it is opened, the whole movement is as smooth as flowing clouds and flowing water.

"So that's how it works, thank you, Lord." Cang Hai understood at a glance.

Just as he was about to leave, Li Licheng stopped Cang Hai: "By the way, Haiwazi, I forgot to say that snake meat and eel are not good to eat together. You'd better eat it in two meals, or you will hurt yourself."

Cang Hai stopped in his tracks after hearing this, and turned around to ask, "Is there such a theory?"

Li Licheng nodded and said affirmatively: "The old man must have a reason for saying this, you just bear with it, and eat eels at noon and snakes at night."

Cang Hai's whole face became tangled when he heard this, because if the snake didn't eat it, it would definitely not survive until noon, the entire spine was shaken loose by the iron head, it's not easy to live until now. It's definitely not going to work at night, let's eat it at noon, Shi Wei doesn't eat snake meat.

In this way, there is still a little trouble for lunch at noon today.

Cang Hai was struggling, Li Liren walked over with small steps leisurely while smoking a cigarette.

"Yo, what is this for?"

After Cang Hai said hello, he said with a smile: "Second Grandpa Li, it's just in time for you to come, take two eels back to try something new, and save them and send them to your home safely later."

"Eel? Where did the eel come from?"

Speaking of which, Li Liren came to the side of the cart and glanced at the eel in the plastic bucket.

"Oh, the guys are all wild eels, about the same size, where did you get the eels?" Li Liren was originally a cook in the country, so he knew something about these wild animals.

"Ponds have grown in the field I've contracted. These are all caught in cages. Anyway, I've caught a lot of them. I'll give them a taste today. I'll have guests over tomorrow, so they'll all be wiped out." Cang Hai explained.

After hearing this, Li Liren said: "You boy, I really don't know what to say about you. You can get at least a few hundred yuan for a bucket of eels in the county, and the price in restaurants in the city can be even higher. You When I arrived, I directly offered sacrifices to my five internal organs temple."

Li Licheng said at this time: "Second brother, tell Haiwazi, is it true that snakes and eels cannot be eaten together?"

Li Liren opened his mouth and asked, "Where are the snakes?"

Hearing Li Liren's words, Tietou pointed at the snake cage and grinned at Li Licheng.

Li Liren reached out and picked up the cage, pushed aside the grass plug on it, put his head in and saw that there was really a vegetable snake in it, and it was motionless, so he poured the snake out, thinking that the snake was dead, But after pouring it out, I saw that the snake was still spitting out the letter, and the snake's head was still twisting and twisting, ready to bite.

"Yo, it's not dead yet? Are the bones shaken apart?"

Pingan said: "The iron head is shaking."

"This snake is not bad, by the way, don't eat this snake, boy, it's just for your third grandpa, his blood vessels are a little bad," Li Liren said.

After hearing this, Cang Hai said generously: "That's fine, you can just take it away."

Li Liren was also polite, turned around and went into Li Licheng's house, took out a basin, caught four eels, then turned around and went downhill with the snake in his hand.

The three of Cang Hai returned to the kitchen and unloaded their things. Cang Hai started to clean up the rice field eels, Shi Wei went to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden, Ping An sent the ugly donkey back to the barn, and sent two eels to each family at the same time. Let the big guys try it.

Open up the eel, scrape the belly, remove the internal organs, wash it, cut it into small pieces of [-] to [-] centimeters, put it in a basin, and prepare to make a stir-fried eel section. This is the main course at noon today, and the rest of Cang Hai is going to be dried Stir-fried green beans, then stir-fried chopped green onion eggs, served with green vegetable tofu soup.

After returning safely, a fire was lit, and Cang Hai began to get busy.

When all the dishes were out of the pot and they were ready to eat, Li Liren came over with a small plate.

"Eat this piece?"

Li Liren smiled and put the small plate on Cang Hai's small table.

"Send so much, do you have anything to eat?" Cang Hai asked.

What Li Liren brought over was snake meat. The finished snake meat was white and tender, and served with green and red chopped peppers, it looked very attractive.

"There's a lot of meat, don't worry, the third one has it. You can try how my snake meat is made. I don't have any ingredients, but the snake meat is tender and fragrant," Li Liren said.

After hearing this, Cang Hai said to Ping An: "Go get a pair of chopsticks!"

Li Liren immediately waved his hand and said: "I don't eat here, I've made it at home. If I eat here, your second grandma will be at home alone. You eat, don't use chopsticks, come back and sit down."

Hearing what Li Liren said, Ping An stopped and turned to look at Cang Hai.

Li Liren raised his eyebrows: "You boy, I can't help you anymore. Come back and sit down and eat your meal honestly. I'm leaving now."

Cang Hai picked up a chopstick of snake meat and was about to put it in his mouth, when he suddenly remembered what Li Licheng said just now: "Can this snake meat be eaten with eel?"

"It's okay to eat a couple of chopsticks, don't eat too much, it's not too much anyway, and the three of you can share it," Li Liren said with a smile.

Hearing this, Cang Hai put the snake meat in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and felt that the tender snake meat and the spicy aroma of chili ignited his taste buds.

He gave Li Liren a thumbs up: "It tastes delicious."

Li Liren smiled with satisfaction: "It's okay, I haven't done it for a long time, the heat is still not enough today, it's a little old, if it is tenderer, the taste will be better, the best thing is that the meat will be juicy when you bite it It’s good, now it’s a little old and can’t reach the best taste.”

"It's already great, I can't catch up with you in making this thing," Cang Hai praised sincerely.

This is a fact. If Canghai made it, it would definitely be stir-fried, but Li Liren's made it, there is no oily taste, and the snake meat is fresh and slippery, with a hint of spicy taste, which is very special. Li felt his own saliva dripping out.

"When I have time to teach you, anyone can do this thing, but it's really difficult to do it well. I just don't know when the next time will be." Li Liren smiled and said with a little regret.

Cang Hai said: "If there is one, there will be two. Don't worry, there will definitely be such an opportunity in the future."

"Doctor Shi, why don't you move your chopsticks? Try my skills." Li Liren found that Shi Wei didn't move the snake with a chopstick, so he opened his mouth and asked.

Shi Wei said: "I don't eat snake meat."

Pingan then said: "Not only does the teacher and doctor not eat snake meat, she is also afraid of snakes."

"Oh, that's a pity, Haiwazi and Pinganwa took advantage of this delicious food. All right, eat it, I'll go back to eat too."

After speaking, the old man turned and left.

"Second Grandpa Li, go slowly!" Cang Hai said towards the old man's back.

Ping An and Shi Wei followed suit.

After hearing this, the old man waved his hand behind his back, indicating that he understood.

As soon as Li Liren left, Cang Hai shared the snake meat. The tiger head and the iron head each had two yuan each. It was divided up.

"So delicious?"

Shi Wei saw that Ping An was eating straight, and Cang Hai had a look of recollection after eating the last chopsticks, so she asked curiously.

Cang Hai nodded: "It's really delicious. I've eaten snake meat before, but the taste is not much different from that of eel, it's all spice. Grandpa Li can't taste the spice at all. It's full of flavor. It’s all the delicious smell of snake meat, and it also has a slightly spicy salty taste, which is very delicious.”

"Yeah, delicious!"

Ping An took two mouthfuls of rice with the snake meat in his mouth.

"Don't you think it's weird to eat snake meat?" Shi Wei asked.

"What's so strange about this, don't you just eat the rice field eel, doesn't it look similar to a snake?" Cang Hai said while thinking about the snake meat.

"Different"

"What's different has no feet, and they all crawl on the ground," Cang Hai said.

"Isn't it disgusting to think about snakes, twisting and sliding forward on the ground, and thinking about the way this thing crawls makes me feel uncomfortable all over?" Shi Wei felt the urge to shiver when she said this, she didn't understand why some people like to eat this thing .

Cang Hai shrugged his shoulders and continued to eat his meal with his head down.

Everyone concentrated on eating, and the food on the whole table was naturally swept away. Of course, the one with the biggest belly was the tiger head. This guy had a food intake of one and a half seas, and the three people were full. He, the dog, and Tie Tou all basked in the sun in front of the kiln.

(End of this chapter)