Chapter 432 The Thatched Cottage(1/2)
Chapter 432 Thatched House
This kind of mushroom is said to be strange because it has a dark green cap and a snow-white stem. From the lower edge of the cap, a delicate white net-like skirt grows, hanging down to the ground, among the withered yellow bamboo leaves.
It looks like a little girl in a white dress, spotless and extremely eye-catching.
Seeing this bunch of mushrooms, Chen Ling was extremely surprised: "Hahaha, oh, I've never picked such fresh bamboo fungus before. I'm so lucky today."
This bamboo fungus is said to be one of the eight delicacies of grass. All of them are delicious.
Even the mountain people like them, who depend on the mountains for food, are sometimes hard to find.
Chen Ling had eaten it only a few times, even if it was just boiled soup, it was so delicious that he will never forget it.
In the final analysis, it is because this thing is not like ordinary mushrooms that can be found everywhere in the wild. You can find a large one.
Dictyophora fungi mostly grows deep in bamboo forests.
On the other hand, it is strange that many people in the local area do not know that this stuff is edible.
Just like dog milk honey, adults and children go to suck its honey, but they don't know that it is a medicinal material called rehmannia glutinosa...
"What a good thing. I happen to have mountain donkey meat at home, and mountain delicacies are paired with game. Tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Chen Ling wiped her saliva and began to squat down and pick the bamboo fungus.
There were more than ten bamboo fungus trees in this clump, but Chen Ling didn't pick them because they were too small. In the end, he picked eleven plants.
Chen Ling thought there were too few, so he divided two plants into Dongtian.
Also planted in the bamboo forest in front of the hut.
Ripening, cultivating new strains, spreading...
A total of more than thirty plants have been picked, and we can make a few dishes in a variety of ways.
Bamboo fungus with mountain donkey meat, bamboo fungus stewed with chicken, etc...
Don’t worry about not being able to preserve this, just dry the bamboo fungus in the sun.
After going down the mountain and returning home, Chen Ling selected a few plants and cleaned them. He took a piece of mountain donkey meat from the small water tower, cut it into large pieces and put it into a pot to stew soup.
Naturally, you have to eat the freshly picked bamboo fungus in the pot as soon as you get home to live up to its delicious taste.
Then he split the dead bamboo he brought back and put it into the stove to light the fire.
Soon after the water boiled, a strange fragrance wafted out of the kitchen.
Even Wang Susu smelled it in her sleep, rubbed her eyes, yawned and walked to the kitchen.
"Aling, what are you planning to eat so early in the morning? It's so delicious."
"Are you awake?"
Chen Ling was cooking noodles in a wok on a small stove. Hearing this, he turned around and smiled slightly: "Look at these mushrooms, do you recognize them?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the bamboo sieve on the table next to him.
Wang Susu looked inside, and when she saw the mushrooms in the bamboo sieve, she opened her red mouth in surprise: "I've seen this before, is it edible? There are so many in the bamboo garden on the mountain. When I was a child, I thought it was dog urine.
Moss and other weird-looking things were kicked to pieces."
"Pfft, you kicked it to pieces?"
Chen Ling was speechless at once, "This is a treasure. We often talk about delicacies from the mountains and the sea, delicacies from the mountains and the sea. This is a veritable delicacy. You will know after you taste it."
Wang Susu walked to the pot, sniffed with her little nose, tilted her head and looked at him, "Hehe, you don't need to taste it, I know it's delicious just by smelling it."
As he spoke, he came over and tapped his head with his feet: "Don't think that I don't know. I got up early in the morning and ran to the mountains without even taking the dog with me."
If her belly hadn't been swollen, she would still look like a little girl.
Chen Ling's heart was filled with tears and a smile in his eyes, "You can't sleep, so get up and take a walk around. I see that you are sleeping soundly, and I don't dare to wake you up. It's better to leave the dog at home to guard the door.
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"Huh, it's not you yet. You had to go through all the trouble last night... It's only been five months, and it's not reliable yet. You didn't listen, otherwise I would have gotten up early."
Wang Susu was angry and ashamed, but fortunately they were an old married couple now, so they were not so blushing that they were speechless.
However, the inherent shyness and inability to let go made her face still look hot. She turned around and said to take Ruirui down to eat, and left in a hurry, for fear that Chen Ling would say something crazy again, which was too explicit for her to hear.
As soon as I heard it, my heart felt numb and my body felt weak.
Chen Ling glanced at his wife's increasingly plump and graceful back, smiled, took out the cooked noodles and put them into bowls.
He and Wang Susu had two big bowls, and Rui Rui had half a bowl.
Add chopped green onions, pickled vegetables, and bean paste, add two ladles of bamboo fungus soup, and pour it over the noodles.
The color of the soup is crystal clear and the room is full of fragrance.
Take a few more pieces of mountain donkey meat that are red, plump, bright-colored, and have no trace of fat in the bowl.
The taste is really amazing.
Mountain delicacies paired with game, even with ordinary noodles, are so delicious that one almost swallows them.
Ruirui had so much fun yesterday that she slept more deeply than Wang Susu in the morning. She usually got up early at seven o'clock, but she still slept soundly today.
But after being carried to the kitchen by Wang Susu, she immediately became very energetic when she smelled the aroma. She didn’t even use spoons or chopsticks, nor did she need to be fed by her parents. She grabbed the meat and fished out the noodles and ate them. After eating, she held the bowl and asked Chen Ling to serve him soup.
Dogs have a big appetite.
The two of them, Chen Ling, finished their noodles and simply drank the soup, which had a different taste, even better than before.
The family of three had a delicious meal.
Half the pot was left for the second elder and Wang Zhenzhen.
Wang Zhenzhen doesn’t have to go to school this weekend.
Just wait until they come over to eat.
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After dinner, Chen Ling prepared to look for two sheep to kill today.
Hang it in a small water tower so that my uncle and the others can eat it when they come.
At this time, Wang Cunye and Wang Zhenzhen took Ruirui outside to play.
Wang Susu and Gao Xiulan were tinkering with rags with a dustpan in the yard.
These rags are used to glue shoe soles and make shoe uppers.
Although you should wear sandals and slippers in the summer, when it comes to working in the fields, you still have to wear the usual slip-ons.
After harvesting wheat and planting corn, there are many busy times.
Wang Susu held the soles of her shoes.
Gao Xiulan picked out a piece of light and thin white fabric and wanted to make two sets of short linings for Wang Cunye and Chen Lingweng.
Farm girls and mothers-in-law can basically do some needlework.
Gao Xiulan and Wang Susu are even more skillful.
Well, now that Wang Susu has limited mobility, she can only make shoes or cut some small clothes for her son.
It's up to Gao Xiulan to get these serious clothes.
The two of them were in the small yard in front of the bamboo house, making clothes and shoes around the table.
Chen Ling was not far away guarding the ditch, killing and skinning the sheep.
A circle of big dogs and a small cat sat squatting around.
Having practiced his skills on so many prey, he is now becoming more and more proficient in his techniques. It only takes seven or eight minutes to kill a sheep.
Easily slaughtered two big fat goats.
Chen Ling used an iron hook to hang it into the small water tower, locked the iron door of the small water tower, and fed the dogs some of the inedible offal left over from the slaughtered sheep.
We even went to the two shanlizi caves outside to throw some fresh offal.
Standing in the distance, wait for a mountain raccoon with colorful fur to emerge from the grass and take its internal organs back into the hole.
Chen Lingcai left with satisfaction.
After all, they were bred to cross between domestic cats and mountain civets, so they definitely need to be raised more maturely.
Otherwise, you won’t be able to catch it in the future, and you won’t have a family member. What kind of pet cat is this?
There are only six or seven days left before the Dragon Boat Festival.
After Chen Ling finished killing the sheep, he went into the cave to look for some leaves with which to make rice dumplings that would be more delicious.
In the past two years, the rice dumpling leaves were given by Liang Hongyu, which are commonly used rice dumpling leaves, namely eyebrow bamboo leaves.
But in the mountains, you can use whatever you have, usually just go to the waterside to pick some reed leaves, which is easier.
Chen Ling searched twice in the cave, tried again and again, and found that he still had reed leaves.
Just use the reed leaves that grow in caves.
To be continued...