Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 304
After complaining about the unconscionable honey dog, Li Hongbing chose a flat highland by the Moon Bay Lake as a campsite, where you can have a panoramic view of the Moon Lake.

Others were not idle either.

Shawa found stones from nearby, built two earthen stoves, and brought an iron pot to stand on the earthen stoves for hot water.

The wolf dogs caught a lot of hares and pheasants, and they were wasted if they didn't eat them. Shan Xing took the wild animals and went to a branch of Moon Bay, where they peeled, plucked, and removed their internal organs.

Li Hongbing collected the viscera of chickens and rabbits, tied them into twists with strings, tied them to branches, and said to the children.

"Go, let's take you to catch crayfish."

"Catch the crayfish!" Anna and Nannan bouncing around and behind Li Hongbing came to a backwater bay with lush aquatic plants. There is running water flowing through here, the water is rich in aquatic plants and the water is gentle. Crayfish like to move around in this kind of place.

"Look out, put the bait in the water later, don't move around, it will scare the crayfish away." Li Hongbing taught the little girls the skills of catching crayfish.

The internal organs of chickens and rabbits were thrown into the water for 10 minutes. Li Hongbing looked at Anna and said, "Hurry up and bring the bucket."

The two girls were carrying buckets, squatting on the bank with wide-eyed eyes, looking nervously at the thin branch.

Li Hongbing slowly lifted the branch, obviously feeling the heavy weight, and the branch was bent into a bow.

When the bait left the water, the two girls let out a wow sound at the same time.

I saw small dark red shrimp holding the bait with their pliers, refusing to let go until they were dragged out of the water.

"bucket!"

Putting the bait into the bucket, Li Hongbing shook his arm, and more than a dozen crayfish fell into the bucket.

Pick up one at random, it weighs almost two or two, has a strong body, a white belly, and a clean and plump tail. It is a serious clear water crayfish.

Looking at the two girls who were eager to try, "Do you understand?"

The two girls nodded their heads like chickens pecking at rice, wishing they could immediately take over the branches and catch a bucket full of crayfish.

"Xiaobai and Sanhui, take care of them, don't let them go into the water." Li Hongbing handed the branch to Anna.

Woohoo!

Xiaobai and Sanhui nodded, and followed the two girls closely together.

Back at the campsite, the cured meat had already started to cook in the two pots, and there were wild rabbits and pheasants that had been cleaned up by wild apricots in the pots.

"Brother, stew or burn wild animals." Shan Xing asked while putting ingredients into the pot.

"It's baked and eaten today, I'll make it."

Rolling up his sleeves, Li Hongbing took out the seasonings he had prepared. There were 3 hares and 3 pheasants in the basin. There would be more than enough to eat in one meal. He picked up a hare and a pheasant and threw them to Mama Bear. .

Roar!
Mother Xiong looked up at Li Hongbing, let out a low growl, picked up the hare and clucked and ate it, and the pheasant was snatched away by the cub.

Regardless of the small size of the bear cubs, they are unambiguous in eating meat. A pheasant is eaten up in a few mouthfuls, and after eating, it goes to the mother bear and begs for rabbit meat.

Half the size, eat Lao Tzu.

Li Hongbing whistled, called Da Hua, and pointed to the wild animals in the pot, "Catch a few more to feed the bear cubs."

Dahua rushed into the meadow when she heard the words.

After finishing the cubs, Li Hongbing continued to work.

First use soybean oil to make a full-body spa for hares and pheasants, then marinate the seasoning with pepper aniseed and dried chili. Go into the pit and ignite.

Pickled hares and pheasants are threaded with peeled willow branches, inserted into the edge of the fire pit, and roasted with hot flames.

When the flame comes into contact with rabbit meat and chicken, there is a sizzling sound, followed by bursts of oily and spice aromas.

Next, the work is much easier. From time to time, the hare and pheasant are turned over and changed sides, so that the meat can be evenly baptized by the flames.

The quality of rabbit meat and chicken meat is relatively low, and the meat contains less fat, especially for roasting. If it is not roasted properly, it will easily become dried meat.

For barbecue, Li Hongbing naturally has his own unique trick. Put lard in a tank, put it on the side of the fire pit to melt, and then apply it on the surface of the meat with a brush. The lard can not only ensure the tenderness of the meat, but also roast a unique Taste.

"Silly boy, come over and stare at the fire. Brush oil on the surface of the barbecue when it bubbles. I'm going to see how many crayfish Anna catches."

Oh!
Sha Wa went to the fire pit and squatted down, staring at the barbecue with wide eyes, his throat trembling uncontrollably.

"Don't worry, I will save you the fattest one later."

Li Hongbing got up and left the camp, before he reached the water's edge, he heard the two girls yelling.

"Sister, hurry up, the shrimp is about to crawl out."

"Xiaobai bites it, it wants to pinch me."

When Li Hongbing approached, he saw that the bucket was already full of crayfish, densely packed, one on top of the other, and some crayfish escaped from the bucket successfully, waving their pincers and crawling into the water.

Step on a small lobster that weighs three or two, lean over and grab it in your hand.

"father!"

"uncle!"

When the noisy two girls came back to see Li Hongbing, their little faces showed color.

Li Hongbing pretended to be surprised, opened his mouth wide and exclaimed, "You guys are really good at catching so many."

giggle!
The two girls laughed triumphantly.

"I'll take the prawns back and deal with them. You guys continue to fish hard." Li Hongbing picked up the bucket and walked to the outlet where the hares and pheasants were just processed.

Pinch off the heads of the prawns and remove the threads, leaving only the claws and tails.

The crayfish in Moon Bay are clear water prawns, which are very clean and only need to be washed a few times.

It seems that a bucket of crayfish is full, and the tails of the shrimp are only a little over 2 catties.

Return to the camp with the cleaned shrimp tails.

The cured meat soup cooked in the iron pot has been filled into the basin, and the strong scent of cured meat attracts the bear cubs, leaving the wild things in their mouths, and screaming around the mountain apricot.

Beside the fire pit, Shawa was focused and used a brush to spread lard on the surface of rabbit meat and chicken from time to time.

Roasted by the hot flame, the surface of rabbit meat and chicken is browned, with fine oil bubbles and crackling sound.

Picking up the vacant iron pot and setting it on the earthen stove, Li Hongbing added a few handfuls of firewood to the stove, and white smoke slowly rose from the iron pot amidst the raging fire.

Dig a large spoonful of lard and put it into the pot. With a pricking sound, the unique aroma of lard overflows. Li Hongbing took up the iron pot and shook it left and right to let the lard fully slide into the pot. Then he poured a spoonful of soybean oil into the pork. Vegetables fried in mixed oil taste more delicious.

Boiling oil in a pan, boiling oil in a pan.

Everything is ready, only the shrimp tail is owed.

Li Hongbing directly poured the crayfish tails into the oil pan. When the shrimp tails touched the hot oil, the color instantly turned bright red.

Stir fry with a spatula constantly so that the shrimp tails are fully in contact with the hot pan. Put the onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, and bean paste prepared in advance into the pan.

The spicy and salty smell reveals a strong shrimp fragrance, allowing the sauce to fully blend with the shrimp tail.

The seasoning is fried out of the pan.

Pour mountain spring water to cover the shrimp tails, add firewood and cook vigorously.

Finished frying the crayfish.

Li Hongbing took Shawa's place, picked up a roasted rabbit, tore off the rabbit's leg, and tasted it.

The outer layer of meat is roasted and buttery, but the meat underneath is tender and chewy, and there is a grassy smell unique to rabbits.

tasty.

The silly boy next to him was stunned, and the corners of his mouth were drooling.

"Here, idiot, help my grandfather taste the saltiness." Li Hongbing handed over the rabbit's leg.

Taking the rabbit leg, the idiot stuffed it into his mouth, giggled, chewed and swallowed the bones, and licked his mouth after eating.

"Grandfather, it's a little light!"

Of course, the seasoning has not been put.

Li Hongbing took out the seasonings he had prepared, and evenly sprinkled cumin, chili powder, and salt on the barbecue. The aroma was instantly overwhelming, and people couldn't help drooling.

"Go and call Anna and Nanna back for dinner."

Oh!
Hearing the meal, the silly baby strode towards the water's edge as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Shan Xing took out a tablecloth and spread it on the floor, and put it on the fresh cucumbers and tomatoes picked in the vegetable garden early in the morning, a pot of stewed potatoes with cured meat, a few plates of pickles, and a basket of white steamed buns steamed last night.

"Bad dad, take the bucket away, all the crayfish we caught ran away." Anna walked back angrily with puffed cheeks.

"Forgot!" Li Hongbing took the pot and filled the pot with the spicy lobster tails that had been drained of juice. The lobster tails just out of the pot were bright red and attractive, "here, this is the crayfish you caught, eat more .”

As soon as the basin was put down, the two girls surrounded the basin like old hens protecting their cubs, "We caught this, and no one can eat it."

"Hmm!" Li Hongbing coughed lightly.

Anna immediately picked up a big prawn tail and brought it to Shan Xing's mouth, and said obediently, "Thank you, Aunt Xing, you eat crayfish."

Human fine!

Shan Xing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and opened her mouth to eat the lobster tail in Anna's hand.

Spicy and fragrant shrimp tails explode the taste buds at the entrance. The shrimp meat is tender and the shrimp is rich in fragrance. The taste is spicy, spicy and fresh.

Anna looked at Li Hongbing with a guilty conscience, and after getting the approval, she grabbed the lobster tail and stuffed it into her mouth.

at this time.

There was a croaking sound in the sky.

Everyone looked up, and the group of crows that had left turned back under the leadership of Bai Zui.

It's just that these crows seem to have something in their mouths.

When the white mouth fell to the ground, with a string of black thorn bubbles in its mouth, it was placed in front of Li Hongbing, croaking softly.

The other crows followed closely behind, put down the wild fruits they picked and flapped their wings to leave.

Soon, the ground was filled with delicacies from the mountains.

There are black thorn bubble, red thorn bubble, August fried, sheep peach, chestnut, mushroom, walnut, mountain grape
"Is this all for me?" Li Hongbing looked at a large pile of wild fruits on the ground in surprise.

quack!

Bai Zui shook his head.

"It's not in vain to support you, it's nothing to take your mother-in-law home often." Li Hongbing scratched Baizui's chin, which was his favorite way to relax in the past.

Bai Zui squinted his eyes, and after enjoying Li Hongbing's service, he yelled at the crowd a few times, flapped his wings and flew into the sky, returned to the crows, and circled the Crow Ridge.

Seeing Bai Zui's vigorous and heroic posture in the air, Li Hongbing was very pleased.

I never thought of anything in return for saving them, nor did I force them to stay in the old house and be by my side.

Born in nature, grew up in nature, and returned to nature, this is my original intention to treat animals.

Putting away the slight sadness, I turned around and saw the two girls holding the basin and eating shrimp tails.

"Wow, you steal food and don't wait for me!"

"Daddy won't eat, let's eat!"

"The little padded jacket is leaking air."

Adults are not like adults, and children are not like children, so they laughed and scrambled.

Shan Xing looked at the child-like Hong Bingge with a faint smile on his face.

Although Brother Hongbing doesn't say anything, he can see what he can do. Sometimes he will squat in Migouzi's burrow to look inside, sometimes he will stand in front of the white-billed bird's nest in a daze, and sometimes he will talk about the animals that left. How are you doing in the mountains? Is there any danger?

"Aunt Xing, Dad is bullying and beating him." Anna suddenly called for help, interrupting Shan Xing's thoughts.

Shan Xing rolled up her sleeves with a smile, and joined in, "Brother, how old are you still grabbing things from children."

The silly boy on the side smiled and watched the grandpa playing around, and the animals lay leisurely on the grass, blowing the wind and breathing the free air.

"Don't make a fuss, three will fight over one, don't be ashamed." Li Hongbing's coat was stained with oil, and he raised his hands in surrender aggrieved.

He didn't eat any lobster tails, but gave away a piece of clothing instead.

"Let's go, silly boy, let's go eat meat." Pretending to be angry, Li Hongbing didn't break his promise, picked the fattest roast rabbit and handed it to silly boy, picked up a roast chicken himself, took a big bite, and deliberately smacked his mouth. A look of intoxication.

"Wow, it's delicious and fragrant, aren't you a fool?"

"Yeah!" The silly baby nodded repeatedly without thinking about talking.

Smelling the aroma of barbecue and seeing only some shrimp claws left in the basin, Anna rolled her eyes, and walked up to Li Hongbing strangely, "Father, Teacher Cui said to share, you eat the shrimp."

"I don't eat shrimp, meat is more delicious." Li Hongbing refused his daughter's exchange with a smile.

Anna is not a good person, she turned her head to Shan Xing and cried, "Aunt Xing, my father bullied me and refused to give me meat."

Shan Xing was more protective of the calf, came over and stretched out her hand without saying a word.

Silent lethality is greater than sound.

Li Hongbing casually handed the roast chicken to Shan Xing. After getting the roast chicken, Shan Xing turned around and handed it to Anna. By the way, he picked up a roast rabbit from the fire pit, tore off the rabbit's legs and gave it to Nanna.

Anna immediately showed a smug smile, and made a face at Li Hongbing. She happily ate the roast chicken, and pursed her lips deliberately to show provocation.

snort!
Little man.

Not familiar with children.

Li Hongbing was very bored, seeing that the clothes on his body were oily and smelled like crayfish.

"I'm full, let's go for a swim in Moon Bay."

After all, I came to the lake alone.

He took off his jacket and plunged into the water.

At this time, it was mid-August in the forest area. As the temperature rose, the water temperature in Moon Bay also reached about 8 degrees.

Being wrapped in the lake water, Li Hongbing felt refreshed.

Hei Feng saw his heart itching, and then jumped into the water, imitating Li Hongbing's appearance, submerged his body in the water, only his head was exposed.

Another person who has no resistance to swimming is the shriveled calf, who has been swimming behind his parents since he was a child, and naturally he will not miss this opportunity.

One person, one horse and one cow, don't have too much fun swimming in the water.

The wolfhounds on the shore paced back and forth enviously, growling lowly in their throats, and cautiously tested the lake water.

"Come down and play." Li Hongbing shouted in the water.

Unable to hold back, Xiaobai leaped into the water, and swam towards Li Hongbing like a dog, setting an example first, and the other dogs followed and jumped into the water.

With a mischievous smile, Li Hongbing dived into the water and lost his father's trace. The wolf dogs howled anxiously and swam towards the direction where their father disappeared with their dogs.

at this time.

Erhei, who was digging the water, suddenly found something under the water and grabbed his tail.

Immediately, the wolf's fur stood on end in fright.

Frightened, the dog planed out of shape, choking on several mouthfuls of lake water.

The whole body sank uncontrollably, and the other wolf dogs heard the screams of their brothers, turned around and swam towards Erhei.

No matter how fierce it is on land, it is useless in water.

No matter how fast a dog planer is, it is still a dog planer.

Although the three wolfhounds tried their best, they could only swim three or four meters, and they were far away from Erhei.

Sudden.

Erhei, who was tossing desperately in the water, felt that he was being hugged by something, turned his head in horror, but saw his father smiling.

Bad dad!
I will never swim again!
……

(End of this chapter)