Love? I'm reborn and I just want to get rewards

Chapter 356: Surprised or not?

Su Huai stayed at home for a week, dealt with all the messy matters among relatives and neighbors, and then set off north.

Xiao Gu is now in Wuying National Forest Park, um, which is roughly the area where YC City is adjacent to Lesser Khingan Mountains. Su Huai has never been there before.

It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others. In Banla's hometown, which Su Huai has never been to, Gu Tongshu actually set up a farm there. All the Banla Mountain outside the forest park belongs to him.

When I got there and took a look, wow, it’s so comfortable!
Next door is the largest lush red pine primeval forest in China. The farm is built on a hillside, with the blue artificial Lifeng Lake at its feet and the ecological park further up.

There is a gentle breeze and the temperature is about 20 degrees. Every breath you take is filled with natural pure oxygen with a fresh fragrance.

When Su Huai's car drove to the gate at the foot of the mountain of the farm, Gu Jiuyue came to greet him, skipping and jumping in a full set of sportswear.

"Huh? You look really good."

Su Huai looked at her with a smile, and Kuku praised her: "It seems that you have continued to work hard and are in a good mood, which is why you are so healthy."

"of course!"

Xiao Gu nodded happily and said as if presenting a treasure: "Not only do I get up early every day to exercise, but I also help grandma with farm work in the afternoon!"

"So amazing? What can you do now?"

“Picking cucumbers, picking persimmons, picking fungus…”

After picking a lot of things, she suddenly became excited: "Oh, yes, I also fed a sable!"

Su Huai was not one to spoil the fun, and immediately exclaimed: "Wow! Isn't that a first-class protected animal in the country?"

"Yes!" Gu Jiuyue was like a happy puppy, showing off to him to her heart's content, "Xiaoduo is a wild sable. It often comes to play with me because it likes me. I'll take you to see it later. It's super pretty and cute!"

Su Huai pretended to blame her: "Such an interesting thing, why didn't you post it on your Moments earlier?"

"I forgot!"

Xiao Gu stuck out his tongue, took the camera from Sister Wu and put it in Su Huai's hand.

"Then I'll leave it to you. When I play with Xiaoduo again, you can help us take pictures."

"Hold it well, you!"

As they walked leisurely up the stairs, Su Huai noticed that Gu Jiuyue's face turned red very quickly, but she was still in good spirits.

Any improvement in cardiopulmonary function?
It seems that this year's practice of Vajra Kung Fu was not in vain...

Xiao Gu still hasn't practiced the 9th version yet, and basically only finishes 6 times. Su Huai and her don't force her, as long as she is moderate.

This resulted in her being much healthier than she was in her previous life, and she was able to cope with life in the mountains.

When he arrived at the farm, Su Huai realized that the entire hilltop was contracted by Gu Tongshu. There were no indigenous people, only a group of staff hired from nearby villages.

"Come on, I'll take you to see our vegetable garden!"

Gu Jiuyue excitedly pulled him to the side, showing off as she walked: "The vegetables grown at home are of different varieties. I guarantee you have never eaten them."

Then go ahead.

The vegetable garden is neither big nor small, and very farm-like - meaning, it is modern but not large in scale, and each variety is grown based on "how much the family can eat", not for sale.

Among the lush green plants, Su Huai saw a pile of red tomatoes at a glance.

There was no difference in appearance. When Gu Jiuyue took out a wet tissue and wiped him carefully, Su Huai took a bite, hiss!

It is sandy, sticky and gritty, 8% sweet and 2% sour, with a rich taste and is extremely sweet.

"Is it delicious?"

Xiao Gu looked at him expectantly.

Gou Huai nodded vigorously: "Oh, it smells so good! It smells like the taste I remember from my childhood."

Xiao Gu boasted while learning on the spot: "This variety has long been out of stock outside. It seems that even the seeds are not available for purchase. The skin is thin and the meat is tender. Although the taste is particularly good, it is not convenient to transport, cannot be stored for a long time, has a low yield, and is difficult to deal with diseases and insect pests, so it has been abandoned.

Nowadays, farmers use greenhouses to grow high-yield varieties. They look beautiful, but they really don’t taste good. When I was in Jinling, I never ate raw tomatoes.

Moreover, our farm is at a high altitude, we use black soil for planting, and we use mountain spring water for irrigation, so the things we grow are different..."

Listening to her chatter, Su Huai felt it was both funny and interesting.

In fact, he knew all the reasons, and he had also long experienced how unpalatable the vegetables in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas were.

But she likes to talk, so just coax her.

Su Huai teased, "Wow, so smart. You rich people in the south can't eat good food in your own country, so you think about it all over the world, right?"

"hey-hey……"

Little Gu laughed awkwardly and muttered, "It's not me who figured it out. Ask Old Gu."

"Then what should I ask him... Hey, Mani Mani?"

Su Huai had just said half of his words when a big rat suddenly jumped out from his feet. Then a big cat jumped out from among the green leaves, swooped past his feet, caught the rat on the spot, held it in its mouth, and raised its head with a loud noise.

"Brother, is this your cafeteria?"

Su Huai smiled and greeted the tabby cat, then turned to look at Gu Jiuyue: "Are you not scared?"

Xiao Gu seemed to be fine. He squatted down and talked to the tabby cat: "Brother Scar, well done! But, after eating mice, you can't go and harm chickens and ducks anymore~~~"

She is not afraid of mice at all. Is this scientific?
Forget it, there are even more unscientific things anyway - the tabby cat with a scar on its face actually meowed at Gu Jiuyue, as if it really understood and agreed, then twisted its butt and left to find a place to eat.

As soon as it left, a hen popped out from the pile of leaves, looked around, stretched its neck, and picked up a cabbage worm to eat.

Su Huai couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Our vegetable garden is really like a farm!"

"Is that so?" Gu Jiuyue counted on her fingers happily, "Don't underestimate the size of the vegetable garden. In fact, it is damaged by insects, birds, and small animals every year, so the yield is very low. But you can see dozens or even hundreds of animals here..."

Su Huai nodded, looked the hen up and down, and asked suddenly, "How old are you?"

"Gu, gu!"

The little hen clucked a few times.

Su Huai nodded with satisfaction: "He's already one and a half years old... It's the right time to eat. Elbow, come into the house with me!"

Seeing that Su Huai was about to roll up his sleeves to do the job, Gu Jiuyue was so happy that she laughed so hard.

"Susu, you are so naughty! Hey, don't grab, don't grab. If you want to eat chicken, I will ask them to pick it for you!"

“Are they all free-range chickens that eat insects?”

Su Huai asked while drooling: "Oh, I'm so greedy for this, do we have a clay stove at home? I'll make you an awesome dish later!"

In an instant, Xiao Gu's curiosity was aroused to the highest point. He stopped walking around the garden and pulled Su Huai to the side.

Because the farm itself is too large, the residential area and functional area are separated. Xiao Gu took him to a kitchen with an earthen stove and a large iron pot, and asked his aunt to get two chickens.

Sister Wu, Cheng Lihua and others, as well as Su Huai's team members, all came over after hearing the news.

"Xiao Su, can you do this?"

Sister Andy was eating melon seeds and chatting.

"Just wait and see whether it works or not!"

Su Huai started to order the cook in a boastful tone: "Auntie, help me pluck the chicken feathers." He got three chickens in total, two small roosters with reed catkins, weighing 5.5 kilograms in total, and one pheasant, which was so skinny that it weighed less than 2.2 kilograms.

Su Huai swung the boning knife and chopped the chicken into small pieces. He checked it carefully and nodded with satisfaction.

The Phoenix Chicken is a bit thin, but the Luhua Chicken has very beautiful greasy yellow fat under the skin.

Free-range chickens in rural areas only eat insects and grains and do not eat feed, but they are not necessarily skinny.

In a favorable environment with sufficient food, they grow slowly and naturally, and have good fat distribution no matter how much exercise they do.

This kind of "fat chicken" is particularly suitable for stir-frying in a large pot in farmers' homes.

Soak the chicken pieces in water to remove the blood.

Then turn on the high heat, do not put any oil in the large iron pan, simply rub the bottom with a piece of pork skin, then put the chicken pieces directly into the pan and stir-fry vigorously.

As long as you move quickly enough, the chicken won't get burnt and stick to the bottom of the pan.

As the stir-frying continues, the fat melts and the oil is fried out, becoming a natural spice, and soon a rich aroma wafts out.

"Oh? You really can do that?"

The ladies were all shocked. Su Huai's actions were so realistic, and the smell made them salivate.

"What are you talking about! Keep it simple."

Su Huai proudly brought a basin of simply rinsed dry soybeans, poured it into the pot, and continued to stir-fry.

There was a crackling sound as he cooked the food. He worked hard while adding seasonings calmly.

Star anise, salt, soy sauce, a little oyster sauce...

Remove a few pieces of firewood, reduce the heat, and then add ginger slices. Use thick slices of old ginger that have no moisture. Fry until the ginger slices are golden and slightly charred. The chicken pieces and soybeans are basically cooked.

This is an extremely physically demanding wood-fired pot dish that is not often seen in daily life, because it not only requires a large iron pot on a rural earthen stove, but also requires stir-frying throughout the entire process, which is extremely tiring.

But the final result was also very good.

Although only a few common seasonings and the simplest steps are used, the aroma and taste of the chicken are truly brought out.

The aroma of the ginger slices is fully fried and blends perfectly with the aroma of the chicken. The chicken absorbs the fragrance of the ginger, and the ginger slices absorb the meaty aroma of the chicken, and the two blend perfectly.

The dried chicken is fragrant, chewy and tasty. The more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. The ginger slices are neither burnt nor charred, and neither mushy nor mushy. They taste dry, fragrant and slightly spicy, a hundred times better than potato chips.

Although the dried soybeans inside are also fried, they are not dry and crispy because they absorb a lot of oil. The taste is between soft and crispy. Xiao Gu eats it with rice one spoonful at a time, and his mouth is full of fragrance.

"Wow! Isn't this delicious?"

In fact, she usually doesn't eat such oily things, but today she made an exception and ate several chicken legs and a chicken neck.

The most delicious part of the chicken is the chicken neck, followed by the chicken head. Su Huai just boasted for a while, and when she turned around again, there was not a single one of the six and a half chicken heads left. Sister Wu and others laughed evilly at her, rubbing their heads and grinning.

As a result, Xiao Gu gave her half to Chef Su...

There are only two dishes today, the other one is pickled vegetables. The aunt made egg sauce, local eggs with bean paste, the taste is amazing.

Dried tofu, cucumbers and green onions are essential, and the rest of the leafy vegetables can be picked at will in the garden. Pick whichever ones are tender, they are all equally sweet.

After the meal, except for Xiao Gu, Cheng Lihua and Su Huai, everyone else lay on the chairs with their hands on their stomachs. When the aunt came to clean up the mess, the group of people held their stomachs, groaned and moved towards the yard, step by step, holding on to the wall to go out.

Su Huai was heartbroken to Gao Zhong, Dave, Tang Xian'er and the others: "Look at what you have become! Have I always been at a disadvantage with you? It's so embarrassing!"

Then Sister Wu and Andy got angry: "Stop looking at us! Who are you scolding? I just haven't eaten it, I'm just greedy, what's wrong?"

The group of big sisters were so full of energy that they couldn't move, but they were merciless with their tongues. They fought back and forth, scolding Su Huai so much that he ran away in panic.

At this time in the afternoon, the temperature was rising. Xiao Gu giggled and pulled him back to the bedroom.

Don't overthink it, just chat.

"Susu, how long can you play with me?"

Su Huai thought about it and realized that there were three main things that needed to be dealt with during the summer vacation - the first was to inspect branches across the country, the second was to go to Sichuan to discuss an agricultural product planting base, and the third was to go to a major dog producer in the Middle East to deal with matters related to overseas bases.

The latter two jobs are quite flexible, and it’s hard to say how long they will take, but it should be no problem to take a week off completely.

"Tentatively set for one week."

Su Huai replied very skillfully: "But if your physical condition allows, I can take you out for a walk."

Gu Jiuyue's eyes suddenly sparkled: "Really? Where are you going?"

Su Huai briefly told her about the itinerary, but surprisingly, she was not interested in Dubai at all. Instead, she wanted to go to Mianyang, Sichuan to continue exploring the mountains with Gou Huai.

"What's grown there? Bamboo shoots? Mushrooms?"

"I really don't know that."

Su Huai thought about the videos Liziqi had shot, and felt that there seemed to be everything there, but there seemed to be very few particularly famous exclusive agricultural products.

For example, Northeast rice, Xinjiang fruits, Inner Mongolia beef and mutton, Hainan coconuts, Guangxi sugar oranges, etc. are all good things that everyone knows they are.

Mianyang is actually not involved in anything. If it weren’t for Li Ziqi, that place would have little presence.

"We'll see when the time comes. In the end, we'll just have to make finished products. If we just sell the raw materials, the added value will be too low."

"Oh."

Xiao Gu nodded obediently and asked again: "How long will you stay in Dubai?"

"It's hard to say. The layout over there is quite important. Fu Yu has done his best, but there are still many problems... By the way, does our Lao Gu have any acquaintances over there?"

"I don't know either. He'll be here soon. You can talk to him."

Gu Jiuyue suddenly narrowed her eyes and smiled slyly: "I'll help you to pick him up, you make today's dry fried chicken again, and then give him some wine..."

Good, good, what a filial girl!

Gou Huai was overjoyed, and pointed at the lake under his feet with high spirits: "I can also cook mixed fish and tofu stew in an iron pot. When the time comes, you can help me, and we will go fishing. We will catch and cook by ourselves. I guarantee that he will be drunk and even tell him his bank password!"

There was a sudden thunderclap in the cloudless sky of Shanghai. Gu Tongshu, who was working in the office, looked out the window, extremely puzzled.

What exploded in this hot weather?

He stood in front of the French window, put his hands behind his back, and looked around. He didn't find anything wrong, but a sense of superiority arose spontaneously.

The battle in the board of directors has been completely won, and the buyers of the real estate-related shares he personally held have been found. He will be able to cash out at a high price soon. How can he not be proud?
"Yueyue, wait a few more days, Daddy will give you some pocket money right away, then you can invest in whatever you want..."

Gu Tongshu was very proud and felt that there was no other father in the world who was more responsible and capable than himself.

After being so happy for a while, he called Chu Yan and said, "Arrange the flight route. I want to stay with Yueyue for a few days."

Chu Yan responded and was about to leave when he suddenly asked, "Where's that boy? Has he arrived?"

"Yeah, I just arrived today."

"Damn, he's so annoying..."

Gu Tongshu muttered something, but soon revealed a wicked smile - Bastard, I don't want to play real estate anymore, I'm here to compete with you for short videos, are you surprised? !

The two of them calculated their own plans, and finally started the Nth collision...

(End of this chapter)