Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 927 Food
Chapter 920 Food

The two walked all the way to the Den of Miserables, while Li Junge told Bell the story of the Bawangxiu in the legend of the Miao family.

Soon the two arrived outside the Den of Miserable People, and Li Junge told Bell the story here again, and then said to him: "This is the place where Bawangyi was first discovered, and it is the base camp for Hei Niu and Hei Wa to spend the winter. The products here are extremely rich, enough to ensure the nutrition of the babies in the belly of the black girl."

The two came to the swamp behind the house, and Li Junge began to look for ingredients to prepare lunch.

After cutting down a piece of bamboo, Li Junge made some simple cages, found some snails, smashed them and threw them in, and began to install eel cages in the fields.

Bell also learned to make one.

After the cage was safe, Li Junge took him to look for other ingredients.

In the mountains in autumn, there are mainly fruits, and the vegetables are not abundant enough, but the swamps in autumn are different.

Chili, bloodskin, mint, fish parsley, cattail...

This used to be the agricultural base of the bandits, and there are all kinds of vegetables. Li Junge also picked a pumpkin and a winter melon.

In a place by the water, there is a clump of grass like Nandi, but the leaves are wider and softer.

Seeing Li Junge's appearance, Bell asked, "Is this edible?"

Li Junge said: "This is called Gaosun, which is water bamboo, a vegetable with good taste."

After finishing speaking, he said with a smile: "It's not a coincidence that you came here. The deliciousness in the mountains, the mushrooms are just out of season, and the winter bamboo shoots are out of season. But with this, it can barely replace the regret of not being able to eat fresh bamboo shoots."

"Before the Tang Dynasty, tall bamboo shoots were cultivated as food crops. In addition to the five grains, there was also a saying of six grains, which refers to it and is called 'wild'."

"Its seeds are called wild rice or Diao Hu. The famous 'Diao Hu Rice' in the Tang Dynasty was made from its seeds."

"Later, people discovered that some wild rice plants will not head because of the infection of smut, but the plants have no signs of disease, but the stems continue to expand and gradually form spindle-shaped fleshy stems. The ancestors took it and tasted it, and it was quite good. eat."

"So our ancestors used the smut fungus to prevent Zizania japonica from flowering and fruiting, and propagated this diseased and deformed plant, transforming this plant from grain to vegetable. This is the tall bamboo shoots that are eaten now, and other places also care about it. It's called Zizania."

Bell nodded and praised: "This is a kind of wisdom in life."

Li Junge said with a smile: "This kind of wisdom is reflected in us rural people, especially rural women. My performance on the uninhabited island was criticized by my grandma when I came back, saying that it made Ah Yin suffer. , could actually be better.”

Bell was speechless: "Then her requirements are too high, she must not know how I live in the wild..."

The high bamboo shoots in Shuzhou are divided into two seasons: April and September. Only one or two plants in this clump of Zizania have flowers, and the rest are probably pregnant with Zizania.

The two went down to the swamp, and sure enough they dug out some fat stalks.

After removing the leaves, Li Junge showed the white stalks to Bell: "Look, this is the tall bamboo shoot."

Bell laughed: "Like ivory."

Li Junge shook his head: "There is another kind of ivory in the water, but you can't eat it now. You have to wait until March and April, when the calamus's tender stems grow, and dig them out. That is a serious ivory dish."

The two continued to move forward, and a clump of plants similar to taro appeared in the swamp, but the wild stems were thinner and the leaves were pointed and heart-shaped.

Li Junge said: "This is citrus mushroom, and it's in season now, let's go, let's get some."

Bell said: "So many vegetables, today is another big meal, which reminds me of the banquet in "No Man's Island"."

Li Junge said with a smile: "There are not so many dishes, but the taste will never let you down."

Shiitake mushrooms are small bulbs full of starch. They can do whatever potatoes and taro can do.

Finally, when they came to a field of sweet potatoes, Li Junge took Bell to dig a lot of sweet potatoes, but he didn't eat them, but scattered them and replanted them.

A lot of young sweet potato seedlings were picked.

Bell felt strange: "Huh? This is a sweet potato, right? Jungle, why did you plant it back?"

Li Junge said: "This is the customary rule of our mountain runners here. You see, I don't pick all the vegetables I pick."

"And the tall bamboo shoots and twig mushrooms just now have been transplanted separately, but you didn't notice it."

"This is for coming to the mountains next year. The output in this field will be more abundant. The sweet potatoes here are very small, so eating the roots is worse than eating the leaves. Now is a good time to disperse them and expand the colony. Come again next year, this Wherever sweet potatoes are produced, there will be many more sweet potato plants.”

Bell nodded secretly: "I kind of understand how you protect the mountains and forests, and give back to nature when you ask for it. This is a virtuous circle."

Li Junge said: "Yes, for example, terraced fields are the best model for water and soil conservation. Planting thousands of years of sloping land can also maintain water and soil integrity, rich in organic matter, soil does not compact, and the environment does not deteriorate. To feed generations of Chinese people The power of the land is not diminished. Looking at other civilizations, we really have to admire the wisdom of our ancestors."

In fact, there are many products in the field, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, blood-skinned vegetables, sunflower, wild leeks, pickled ears... Li Junge thinks that none of them are special, and they may not suit the taste of foreigners, so they all let them go.

The two of them made such a big circle in the swamp, and when they got back to the eel cage, there were already many eels and loaches in it.

Go back to the camp in front of the Den of Bitterness and start preparing for cooking.

Li Junge cut the eel into slices and seasoned it with cooking wine and salt.

The small eel is directly scalded to death, and the panlong eel is fried and roasted in an iron pan.

While washing and peeling the loach, put the watercress, wild garlic, and sliced ​​ginger in the oil pan and fry until fragrant, add water to boil, add loach and wax gourd and cook.

Here, the eel slices are fried in a pan, and then fried with cress.

Use mint, cornus coriander, and chili to burn and tear up, and make a dipping dish for Panlong eel.

Finally, I made a fried sausage with high bamboo shoots and a fried sweet potato vine, and the meal was finished.

Bell was drooling while watching: "Oriental cooking skills are really amazing. In a blink of an eye, there are five dishes, this pumpkin and...why don't you make citrus mushrooms?"

Li Junge said: "These two things are durable, we take them on the road after eating, and save them for dinner at night."

After speaking, he greeted Bell to sit down: "Come, come, I will teach you how to eat shredded eel."

After speaking, he picked up a panlong eel and said, "Look, first pull off the head and pull out the internal organs. If you are not afraid of the bones, you can eat this."

"If you want to eat carefully, look at me."

After speaking, tear off the lean meat on one side of the eel's spine, then the other side, and then the belly: "One, two, three, look, the bones and flesh are separated."

Bell also picked up an eel to try once, and then directly changed the dipping plate with Li Junge: "I'd better eat the one you tore for me..."

Li Junge had a black line on his forehead: "When did I say that I tore it up for you..."

An eel was eaten, and Bell patted his knees with both hands: "Delicious! Absolutely delicious!"

After finishing speaking, he said to the camera: "This eel looks similar to the food image in my previous show, but...but the taste is definitely different! How should I put it, um...it doesn't have a fishy smell, only Mouthful of sweetness, um, spicy taste, and the coolness of mint, ha, and a plant aroma similar to basil... And then there is also a strange taste, no, more precisely, it is a kind of touch that makes your Tongue and mouth produce a tingling sensation..."

Li Junge smiled and said, "That's Sichuan pepper, a spice that we Sichuanese cannot do without."

Bell went on to say: "Well, pepper, this dish feels like all kinds of aromas are dancing on your tongue! It's so delicious... Well, Jungle has already torn another piece for me, so I won't say more ..."

Bell exchanged the seasoning dish with Li Junge's again. Seeing Li Junge's dumbfounded expression, the two photographers burst out laughing.

Li Junge is speechless, I really didn't tear it up for you!I tore it for myself!

Stir-fried sausages with high bamboo shoots and fried eel with cress also amazed Bell. Bell ordered two dishes with chopsticks: "If the dish just now was a rampant domineering man, these two dishes are gentle ladies."

"This fried sausage with bamboo shoots will definitely be well received in Europe. It perfectly shows the fragrance and sweetness of aquatic vegetables, and also highlights the original flavor of the ingredients, which is a bit of French cuisine."

"In this dish of fried eel with water celery, the slight smell of wine is combined with the taste of eel, and the smell of wine brings out the sweetness of eel, which is simply wonderful."

"China is a country of gourmet food, and Jungle's hometown is also the province of gourmet food in this country of gourmet food. Today is really eye-opening."

"Cooking a few dishes in the wild can reach such a level. It's not unreasonable for Jungle to win the title of magician in "No Man's Island"."

Li Junge laughed loudly: "Bell, if you host a food show, it should be good."

Bell laughed and said, "Forgive me for being too excited. Now I feel that I should improve my cooking skills, otherwise I will feel sorry for the celebrities and dignitaries who participated in my show..."

Li Junge said: "This is actually a pursuit of the quality of life. We can be poor and hard, but we can't give up our vision and yearning for a better life. After a hard day, reward yourself and your family with a delicacy. This is our Shu people's attitude towards life."

Bell nodded: "Your optimistic living conditions are very worthy of my study and respect."

Li Junge also nodded: "Optimistic, funny, don't care about small things, and don't compromise on big things. This is probably a local personality of the people here. I don't know how this personality is developed, but I personally appreciate it."

This program is like this, interspersed with some thought-provoking dialogues, which can be regarded as a new style of Bell's program, but Li Junge acts as a mentor in this episode.

Both of them are experts in mountain forests, and it is not difficult to walk. After eating, they continued on the road, and it was almost evening when they arrived at Hei Niu's camp.

(End of this chapter)