Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 4: Pheasant plucked, half stewed, half fried
  Although the two little guys were still resisting, due to the temptation of the chicken legs and his usual lewdness, the two little guys came to Lu Jiansheng obediently one by one in a moment.

Lu Jiansheng picked up Tangtang and Xixi in one fell swoop.

"Woo~"

"Dad, be gentle."

"Don't worry, daddy won't spank you." Looking at the two little breast dumplings in his arms, Lu Jiansheng felt warm in his heart.

After a while, the two little guys saw that their buttocks were fine, and slowly became active in Lu Jiansheng's arms.

“Where are the drumsticks, daddy?”

The two little guys looked left and right with their big round eyes, but Lu Jiansheng put the sack and the bow and arrow behind them, so Tangtang and Xixi did not see the pheasant in the bag.

"Dad is carrying it. Daddy will do it for you now!" Lu Jiansheng reluctantly put the two children down.

As soon as Tangtang and Xixi put down their food, they ran towards the kitchen on their short legs. Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but smile and followed them.

Bai Ruoxi was not idle either, helping to boil water.
  Once the water is boiled,

"I plan to eat one and sell the other. We will eat pheasants tonight."

"You silly girl! Don't worry, I'm fine!~" It took Lu Jiansheng a long time to comfort Bai Ruoxi,
  Then he took out the sack from behind and took out the dying pheasant.

To make a pheasant, you first need to pluck the feathers
  There are techniques for plucking hair. You can't pull it out by force. You need to scald it with boiling water first. Then the hair will be easier to pull out.

Lu Jiansheng said with a smile, while Bai Ruoxi looked at the two pheasants on the ground.

"I caught the pheasant just for you mother and daughter to eat. I want your mother and daughter to take a good supplement. Besides, this pheasant is going to die and is worthless~"

Lu Jiansheng smiled awkwardly. These days, most of the work in the kitchen is done by women.

Lu Jiansheng said slowly. He knew Bai Ruoxi was stubborn, so he found a reason.

Lu Jiansheng knew what Bai Ruoxi meant. Rice is relatively cheap these days, and can be purchased for more than 1 cent per catty. Although pheasant meat is cheaper than pork, it should cost at least six or seven cents per catty. These two pheasants, It's almost four kilograms, and it can be sold for at least two or three yuan. In Liuligouzi, two or three yuan is not a small amount, and a pheasant weighing more than two kilograms is only one kilogram of meat after being processed. Even if you save money, you can eat one. It is finished in two meals. If I save food instead, I can eat it for ten days and a half.

"Go hunting in the mountains. Do you know how to hunt? What will happen to our family if something happens to you? What will happen to me and the children?" Bai Ruoxi was not happy because she heard that Lu Jiansheng had shot a pheasant. Instead, she looked worried.

"I went hunting in the mountains! I shot two pheasants. Let's eat pheasants today." Lu Jiansheng replied with a smile.

Lu Jiansheng took out an old wooden basin from the house, put the pheasant in it, and then scalded it with boiling water to remove the feathers.

"Tangtang's chicken drumsticks should be eaten with mom!"

"Mom, dad said, give Tangtang some chicken legs today~"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Xixi too!"

"Where did you get the chicken legs, Jiansheng?" Bai Ruoxi couldn't help but asked when she saw the sack on Lu Jiansheng's back behind the little guy.

"You know how to cook? Let me do it!" Bai Ruoxi said in surprise,
  "meeting."

"Here... let's sell both of them. The money will buy us enough rice to feed our family for several days.

"Well, okay then!"

"Then let's cook! I'll do it today." Lu Jiansheng didn't have much fat in his stomach these days. After hunting all afternoon, Lu Jiansheng was already hungry.

The two little guys ran up to Bai Ruoxi and said in a sweet voice.

Two little guys,
  They also gathered around the basin to help pluck the hair!
  When the treatment was almost done, Lu Jiansheng took a knife and chopped the pheasant into pieces.

"Why did you chop up all the pheasants? There is enough left to eat for several days."

Bai Ruoxi saw Lu Jiansheng looking like he was going to chop up all the pheasants, and couldn't help but remind him.

Lu Jiansheng ignored Bai Ruoxi and concentrated on chopping. Then he found an earthen pot that had not been used for a long time in the earthen house. He cleaned it, put part of the pheasant meat into the earthen pot, poured in water, salt and oil, and then put it in The earthen pot is covered and placed in the earthen stove where the fire is burning.

After placing the earthen pot, the iron pot was already hot. As hot smoke came out, Lu Jiansheng took a spoonful of rapeseed oil with a small spoon and poured it along the edge of the pot.

When Bai Ruoxi saw it, she suddenly frowned in distress. This was much more oil than what she had put in just now.

"Put less oil. We only have a little oil at home. This is what my eldest sister brought last time. Your big spoonful is enough for us to eat for several days."

Lu Jiansheng's heart couldn't help but hurt.

He then brought over the basket from the kitchen side.

There are some wild vegetables and some dried chili peppers in it!

Lu Jiansheng knew that Bai Ruoxi took her children to dig the wild vegetables, and that the peppers were all stored by Bai Ruoxi in the past. There was a small vegetable patch in the yard, but it was almost deserted now.

Heat the oil.

Lu Jiansheng then put the pheasant meat in and cooked it. There was a sizzling sound, and the aroma of oil instantly filled the entire courtyard!

After plucking the pheasant feathers, the two little guys were playing in the yard with the pheasant's beautiful feathers. Now they smelled the fragrance and immediately ran over with their hands plucked by the stove. Looked at it!
  "Papa, this is chicken! It tastes so good."

"Xixi wants to eat it, it smells good! It smells so good!"

Lu Jiansheng's heart softened. He looked at Tangtang and Xixi and smiled and said softly, "I'll give it to you when daddy cooks it, okay?"

"it is good!"

The two little guys said in unison.

Lu Jiansheng prepared two dishes.

One is to use the method of stir-frying native chicken.

An earthen pot is used to stew in an earthen stove.

Everyone who has eaten pheasant knows that some people think it is very delicious and fragrant, while others think it is too woody and has a strong earthy smell.

In fact, wild products generally have an earthy smell, but I think the earthy smell is very strong and too woody. This is largely because of the wrong cooking method.
  Stir-fried pheasant according to the most original method of stir-frying native chicken is delicious.

Stewing it in an earthen pot in an earthen stove does not require any seasoning, which makes it more fragrant, and the meat is not vegetable at all.

After a while the food was ready.

Lu Jiansheng took out the earthen pot from the earthen stove and opened the lid of the earthen pot. A smell of fragrance wafted out, and the soup was golden.
  However, when stir-frying pheasant, it is quite a waste of ingredients.

Therefore, Bai Ruoxi even complained about Lu Jiansheng.

"Okay, Tangtang Xixi wash your hands and eat!"

Lu Jiansheng sighed.

He quickly shouted to the two little breast dumplings.

The two little guys can't wait!

Immediately, they ran to the water tank, spooned water to each other and washed their hands.

"Let's eat too."

Lu Jiansheng took four pairs of chopsticks from the wooden tube and four missing bowls, turned to Bai Ruoxi and said.

Immediately afterwards, a family of four came to the lame table to eat.

Lu Jiansheng put a pheasant leg in each of Tangtang and Xixi's bowls. Tangtang and Xixi's hair was withered and yellow, and they looked malnourished. Bai Ruoxi was not much different from Tangtang Xixi, so Lu Jiansheng naturally felt pain in his eyes. In the heart.

(End of this chapter)