The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 243 Stewed Goose in Iron Pot

Early the next morning, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu packed their bags, left home with five dogs, and headed for the Yongxing team all the way.It was nearly noon, and the Yongxing Brigade was ahead, and someone behind him shouted: "Brother Zhao Jun, Brother Baoyu!"

The two looked back and saw Huang Gui coming with a gun behind his back.

"Brother Huang, are you coming too?" Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu greeted Huang Gui.

"Yeah." Huang Gui pointed forward and said with a smile: "I know the secretary of their second team. He called our village the day before yesterday and told me to come over today."

Speaking of this, Huang Gui paused, looked at Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, and asked, "Which team are you two going to?"

"Team one." Zhao Jun asked with a smile, "Are we still on the way?"

"Yeah." Huang Gui raised his arms forward and said, "Team [-] and Team [-] are at the front."

While talking, the three of them walked forward together. When they passed the second team, someone picked up Huang Gui on the side of the road. Huang Gui separated from Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, and went to the east village with his friends.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu walked for more than two miles, and asked the old man who had come out of the hut by the roadside, only to find out that the village next to them was the first team of Yongxing.

Seeing the confrontation between the two, the old man asked: "Young man, who are you looking for when you come up to our team?"

"It was Director Tao Dabao who asked us to come here."

"Ah." The old man looked at the dog Zhao Jun and the others were leading, and suddenly realized: "Director Tao, are you looking for you to hunt?"

"Yes." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Isn't this your spring hunting? Director Tao asked us to come and participate for a while."

"Then why don't you go directly to his house?" the old man asked again.

"This..." Zhao Jun hesitated and asked, "Isn't Director Tao busy?"

"That's not a big deal!" The old man tilted his head and said, "How many things does he care about in a day, and he doesn't care about his family."

"Ah." Zhao Jun thought for a while, and then asked, "Did Mr. Tao leave his house too?"

"That's not it." The old man shook his head and said, "The old man lives with his old son."

Hearing that the old man was called Lao Taotou, the old man, he thought the relationship between the two of them was quite good, so Zhao Jun asked him with a smile: "Then let me go and see Mr. Tao first."

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, the old man was a little surprised, and asked, "What's wrong? Boy, do you still know old Tao Tao?"

From the old man's point of view, Zhao Jun was a generation away from Tao Fulin at this age, so it seemed unlikely that he could know each other.

"Yeah." But Zhao Jun said, "I met you on the mountain a while ago."

"Oh, don't talk about it." Hearing this, the old man slapped his thigh and said to Zhao Jun, "That old thing doesn't let the family worry at all. He carries a broken gun on his back every day, and he will find it if he looks around. Going up the mountain, I will worry about his second daughter-in-law."

When Zhao Jun heard this, he just smiled.

In the Northeast, there are quite a few old men and women like this. They don't do it on purpose, but they don't think they are old. Many things that are difficult for them are regarded as a piece of cake by them.

Therefore, there will be some behaviors similar to showing off.In many cases, it is unavoidable to cause trouble to the children. This is the so-called old child.Of course, when children are young, parents will tolerate some immature behaviors of their children.

And when the old man gets old and becomes an old child, the children around him will turn around and tolerate the immature behavior of the old man.

But I have to say that at Tao Fulin's age, it's a bit too much for him to hunt every day.

Seeing that Zhao Jun didn't seem to take it seriously, the old man was agitated all of a sudden, and continued: "His second daughter-in-law is a wonderful person, at home and outside, she doesn't stop working every day, and she has to worry about this old thing when she's done. "

"That... old man." Seeing the old man talking endlessly, Zhao Jun hurriedly stopped him and asked, "What relative are you and his second daughter-in-law?"

"Ah!" The old man replied, "That's my niece."

Zhao Jun nodded and asked, "Then where is your niece's house?"

The old man gestured to Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu took the dog there. When they passed by the small shop, Zhao Jun told Li Baoyu to watch the dog, and he went in and bought two cans of food and put them in his pocket inside.

Then he continued to walk not far, and saw a fenced yard in front of him, an old man was holding his hands behind his back, his legs were constantly raised alternately, and he was fighting with a big white goose.

When Zhao Jun was looking at him, the old man was also looking at him. The moment their eyes met, a smile filled the old man's face.

"Boy Zhao!" The old man abandoned the big white goose and went straight to the gate of the courtyard, but the big white goose chased the old man back two steps.

The old man came out, trotted to meet Zhao Jun, and said as he ran, "Boy Zhao, I've been waiting for you in the courtyard every day, and you're finally here."

"Slow down, slow down." Zhao Jun hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, but he was afraid of bumping into him.

"It's okay, my body is stiff." Old Tao shook his head away from Zhao Jun's hand, although he said something that he didn't agree with.But although he was talking to Zhao Jun, he turned his attention to Li Baoyu.

At this time, he also stopped, turned his head to look at Zhao Jun, then turned his head to look Li Baoyu up and down, and murmured: "Isn't this the one who beat the black blind man that day?"

"Why not, it's him." Zhao Jun knew who the old man was talking about, but he just played sloppy with old Tao.In fact, when the two of them led the dog out this morning, they saw Zhang Yuanmin going out to empty the potty.

But a few days ago, he managed to get this hero home, and Zhao Jun didn't dare to lead him out again.

"Don't fool me." Tao Fulin pointed to Li Baoyu and said to Zhao Jun, "The guy from last time was not half as tall as this young man."

"Haha..." Li Baoyu laughed heartily when he heard this.

Zhao Jun also laughed, and said to Old Tao: "Old man, what you said is too evil."

People, when you see a particularly tall person, it is easy to describe it as an exaggeration. Li Baoyu's height of 1.9 meters is very rare these days.

"Go, enter the courtyard!" At this moment, the old Taotou suddenly remembered that he couldn't exchange greetings outside the courtyard, so he hurriedly greeted the two of them into the courtyard.

It was okay for the three of them to enter the yard, but as soon as the five dogs entered the yard, the big white goose in the yard became honest in an instant, folded its wings and ran to the backyard.

At this time, the old Taotou didn't care about the big white goose anymore, he pointed to a low shed beside the west wall, and said to the two of them, "Boys, you put the dog in the shed over there, there are sacks in there, and put them on the board."

After finishing speaking, the old man left the two of them behind and ran to the front of the house.When he got to the door, he opened it and shouted inside: "Girl, hurry up, we're getting married."

"Who's here?" As soon as the words were finished, a tall and strong northeast woman came out in a hurry.

She is the old man's second daughter-in-law Li Yunxiang.

Tao Fulin waved his hand at Li Yunxiang, then pointed at Zhao Jun, walked in front of Zhao Jun, and said, "This is the one I told you about, the hunting boy Zhao."

"Oh!" Li Yunxiang hurriedly wiped her hands on the apron twice before walking quickly in front of Zhao Jun, grabbed Zhao Jun's hand, and said, "Young man, I have to thank you." !"

"Auntie, no need..."

"No need!" Li Yunxiang said: "You don't even know what you did to us that day. If you hadn't rescued my dad, then I would have hanged myself."

"No, no." Seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly changed the subject, pointed to Li Baoyu beside him, and said to Li Yunxiang, "Auntie, this is my brother Baoyu, Li Baoyu."

"Auntie." Li Baoyu stepped forward, nodded and called Li Yunxiang.

"Hey..." Li Yunxiang just agreed, looked up at Li Baoyu again, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Why is this child so tall?"

"It's probably because the food at home is good." Old Taotou muttered beside him.

"Okay, don't talk about it outside, come in, come in." Li Yunxiang turned sideways, stretched her arms, and beckoned Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu to enter the house.

As soon as he entered the room, Zhao Jun took out two cans of yellow peaches from his pocket, put them on the Kang table, and said to Tao Fulin, "Master, I didn't bring you anything this time, but I bought you two. Bottles and cans. It is said that peaches nourish people, you always stay at home, don’t always run into the mountains.”

Tao Fulin listened to Zhao Jun's previous words very well, with a smile on his face, but when he heard that he was not allowed to run away, old Tao Fulin immediately sternly said, "That's not..."

Li Yunxiang liked to listen to what old Taotou didn't like to hear, so she stepped forward, interrupted Tao Fulin, and said to Zhao Jun: "This kid is really good, just come back next time, don't spend money to buy this There's something to eat. Your two brothers will rest in the house for a while, and my aunt will bring you something to eat."

After speaking, Li Yunxiang went out, brought water to make tea, washed apples, fetched melon seeds, and took out two yellow paper bags, all of which were placed on the kang table.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were guests, Li Yunxiang was afraid that they would be embarrassed and would not do it by himself, so he opened the butter paper bag himself, revealing the furnace fruit and Changbai cake inside.

Stove fruits are quite common, but few people can make Changbai cakes.

"Boy, let's make it up first." Li Yunxiang took a step back, pointed to the table for eating and drinking, and said to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, "Auntie will cook for you now."

"Girl." At this time, Old Tao said, "It's already noon, why don't you give the two children something to eat?"

"Huh?" Li Yunxiang was taken aback for a moment, not understanding Tao Fulin's words.

Tao Fulin looked at Li Yunxiang and said, "It's the first time someone's child comes to our house to serve a job, so you have to give him some hard food."

"That's necessary." Li Yunxiang smiled and said, "Is it okay to kill the goose, Dad?"

Li Yunxiang asked the old boss Tao, then raised his arm and pointed out, saying: "Kill the remaining big goose, okay?"

"Okay!" Old Tao's boss said decisively, "It just made fun of me just now."

Women in Northeast China are also sloppy when they do things. Li Yunxiang kills as soon as he says, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu can't stop them.

I saw Li Yunxiang gather firewood and light a fire to boil water, and then came out of the house aggressively. After a while, I heard the big goose in the yard screaming "Ah", "Ah".

Li Yunxiang grabbed the goose's neck with his left hand, clamped both arms of the goose with his right hand, and forcibly carried the goose weighing seven to eight catties into the house.

As soon as he entered the room, Li Yunxiang held onto the goose's neck and held on to the goose's arms. With his right hand, he pressed the goose's arms to the ground.

Then, Li Yunxiang's right hand was free, and she took the cutting board off the stove and left it on the ground.

At this time, the big goose seemed to understand something, and opened its mouth to let out a final howl.

Li Yunxiang was disturbed when she heard it screaming, fearing that he would disturb Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, she moved the hand holding the goose's neck upwards, grabbed the goose's head, squeezed the goose's beak, and pressed it on the cutting board.

Immediately afterwards, he pulled the kitchen knife from the stove, raised the knife and dropped it, and there was a click, and the goose's head fell to the ground.

At this time, although the big goose was dead, it was still struggling, but Li Yunxiang grabbed and stepped on it without loosening it, and swiftly took a small basin from the stove to drink the goose blood.

When the blood of the goose dries up, the water in the cauldron boils.

Goose feathers can be scalded, but boiling water cannot be used.

It happened that Li Yunxiang scooped out the boiling water, and when it was scooped into a bucket, the water was not enough to boil.

Li Yunxiang pressed the goose into the water, took the stove hook from the side, and put it into the bucket to stir the goose.

After stirring for two laps, Li Yunxiang took out the goose, and skillfully and quickly molted the goose.

The feathers of the big goose are hard to fade, and there are not only quills and feathers, but also a layer of small down on the skin.

After shedding the feathers, Li Yunxiang disemboweled the goose, dragged the lantern hanging to pull back all the intestines, pinched the goose from the goose, threw the intestines away, and then took the goose gall from the liver, and threw it away.

Then, chop the big goose into small pieces, wash it twice in water without blanching, heat the oil in a hot pan, fry the goose meat vigorously, fry the goose skin until slightly dry, then add soy sauce and stir fry.

After the color of soy sauce hung on the big goose, Li Yunxiang scooped water into the pot again, covered the pot, added two handfuls of firewood, turned around and took off a small net bag from the south wall, returned to the stove, and used it from Grab two handfuls of dried potatoes from the net bag and put them in a small basin.

Then, she took a thermos and poured boiling water into the basin.

In the Northeast, small chickens have to be stewed with mushrooms, and big geese have to be stewed with dried potatoes. Otherwise, if you want to put other things, even if you put fresh potatoes, the big goose meat will be fishy.

Put the goose in the pot and wait for the water to boil, Li Yunxiang put a drawer curtain on top of the stewed goose, and put a pot of steamed rice on the drawer curtain.

When Li Yunxiang put the lid on the pot again, the door of her house was pulled open from the outside, and a voice came into the house.

"Mom, why is there a dog in our yard? Why is there no big goose in our house? Why don't we let the dog... huh? Let you stew it."

"Son! Come quickly!" Li Yunxiang saw someone coming, dragged him into the house, and introduced them: "This is my son Tao Fei."

After finishing speaking, Li Yunxiang said to Tao Fei again: "Son, this is your brother Zhao and your brother Li."

Tao Fei is this year, and Li Baoyu has just turned nineteen and is one year older than him, so he has to call Li Baoyu brother.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu stood up very politely, shook hands with Tao Fei one by one, and the three of them went to the kang to eat and drink with the old Tao.

Talking about tomorrow's spring hunt, Tao Fei laughed and said, "Brother Zhao and Brother Li, you two came at a very high time. My uncle had someone pull out the cannon today."

As soon as Li Baoyu heard that there was a cannon, Li Baoyu's eyes lit up, and he only said to Zhao Jun: "If you want to use the cannon, the big claws will also come down."

"This child..." Old Taotou smiled and said, "How can you still have big claws in this year?"

"Why not?" Tao Fei turned around, looked at Tao Fulin, and said, "There is Shilazi behind Xiaoxi Mountain, didn't you say there was a Shilazi two days ago?"

(End of this chapter)