madman and kidnapper

Chapter 79 Chicken Stew with Mushrooms
"Hey, old Du, I'm a ignorant person, I can't see the way, and I don't want to talk nonsense," Li Guaizi looked around the room twisting and turning, imitating the accent of his own village chief, listening He got up and dragged his voice, "I'm just a little strange, you see that the decoration of your store is quite high-grade, why do you have such a kang? People have changed beds in the city, and they are soft. Don't use this kang like ours. Seems like, even though you made a futon, you still have to sit cross-legged, and city people are not used to sitting.”

Lao Du was taken aback when he heard this, but he didn't show off like Li Chi. He had a happy face, and he patted the kang with one hand:
"Hey brother Li, you live in the village, don't you know the difference between a kang and a bed? The bed is soft, so soft that you can't even put a table on it, so how can you eat? We Although this kang is a little harder, look, it can be placed on a square table and it will be stable, so you can have a meal and a rest."

"Oh, oh..." Li Guaizi slapped his forehead, and Fang remembered that this was a place to eat.

"Brother, wait a moment, I'll give you a try on our electric kang."

Lao Du stretched out his hand to turn the switch, and after a while, everyone's legs and feet on the kang could feel the heat.

"Oops," Li Chi pushed his legs on the futon, and smiled a little dryly, "It's such a 'enjoyment' to sit on the hot kang with the air conditioner on in this hot summer, hahahaha..."

Old Du also laughed twice, then stretched out his hand to turn on the switch.

"I'm showing it to Brother Li. Our electric kang is different from the earthen kang in the village. The temperature is adjustable. It can be as hot as you want, and the whole kang heats up evenly."

Li Guaizi didn't feel the heat. After all, he grew up sleeping on the hot kang, not to mention this time, it is the hottest few days of the year. It's hot, so I'm used to it.

He fumbled back and forth on the kang quite strangely, and glanced at Tao Qing from time to time.

"Hey," the kidnapper reached out to poke Tao Qing, and carefully discussed with her, "This is a good thing, let's make one later? You said that you don't like to sleep on the kang every time you start a fire, because you think it's too hot. Up to now I don’t even want to cook rice, let’s change it to something like this, how nice..."

Tao Qing frowned at first, and just wanted to say, "Why wait until I cook by myself", but after thinking about it again, she felt that it was quite appropriate. Indeed, if this electric kang is changed, the stove can be replaced Once it is changed, when the stove and the kang are separated, no matter how long the pot burns, the kang will at least be cool.

"It's fine, it doesn't look like it will cost much..."

Tao Qing was a little tempted. She reckoned that there would be some money left over after finishing the business. The money would be earned back sooner or later. If the price was right, it would be okay to enjoy it first.

Li Chi was listening, and before he could say anything, Lao Du took the words first.

"Oh, don't worry about it," Lao Du waved his hands, his face full of disapproval, "It's very good if you say to open a shop and install this, but if it's in our own house, let's forget it Don't look at the freshness at the beginning, it is really not as convenient as the earthen kang for later use, think about it, in the cold winter, you finished cooking the pot, but the kang is still cold, and you have to spend extra electricity to warm the kang, burning money Hey! Besides, if you really have that money, why don’t you need an air conditioner?”

"Oh, also..."

Tao Qing thought about it carefully, and decided that it's better not to worry about it, anyway, it's only been hot for a few days, at worst, install an air conditioner.

The person in charge of the money at home rested his mind, but Li Guaizi's heart was still itchy. He looked around at the things in the house, looking at everything, and wanted to make a set at home. It didn't matter for him to watch the fun by himself. Talking about love, Tao Qing is used to enjoying it, and he really discussed it with the kidnappers in a serious manner. The two discussed vigorously, and Lao Du was next to him to help explain. Several dilapidated houses were transformed into mansions.

"Cough, cough..."

Li Chi held back for a long time. He didn't feel left out, but he couldn't get in the way at all. Watching the waiter serve the food, Li Chi quickly raised his mouth:
"Hey, brothers, let's have a bite first, and discuss the 'homestay' while eating."

Li Chi added the accent on the word "homestay", hoping that the confused couple would quickly bring the topic back to the right track.

"Yes, yes, let's eat first," Old Du cheerfully greeted, "Brothers, you are free, these are melons and fruits grown in our own fields, and they have not been treated with medicine, and chickens, pigs, etc. We raised it ourselves, and the food we ate was decent feed, so tender, come here, Li’s daughter-in-law, try this blueberry juice, it’s freshly squeezed, and it’s just for you to drink, neither of them have any.”

Tao Qing pleasantly accepted the pot of blue-purple juice that Lao Du handed over, and she held up the bottle to look carefully, and found that there was still a layer of pulp on the bottom of the pot, which was indeed freshly squeezed.

"Hey, tell me you set up this table. After all, we are here to investigate, and I am really sorry to make you spend so much money."

Tao Qing saw that the dishes on the table were beautifully arranged. Although they were all farm dishes, the color and aroma were obviously of the same level as the restaurants.

"No, thank you, Village Chief Du," Li Chi said hastily, "I heard that we are coming, but they entertained us according to the highest standards."

Lao Du smiled and waved his hands, urging everyone to try it.

Kidnap had moved his chopsticks by the side a long time ago. He was tense before, afraid of being underestimated by others. When the food was on the table, his old face could no longer be tense. Holding the chopsticks in his hand, he took a sneaky bite while the three of them were talking. He thought he was covering his head with a leaf, but in fact it was just covering his eyes.

In order to prevent Li Guaizi from being too embarrassing, Li Chi hurriedly asked Tao Qing to put down his chopsticks, and waited for the woman on the table to start, so that old thing would no longer have to act like a sneaky thief.

"Try this little chicken stewed with mushrooms. It's an authentic running pheasant." Lao Du took a piece of chicken for each of the three with his chopsticks. "Although it's what we usually eat, the taste is definitely different."

If ordinary people were guests at other people's places, they would surely just say "delicious" when encountering such a situation, but who is Li Guaizi? Is that an ordinary person?Can he have the thinking of ordinary people?
That must be no.

The old man stuffed the chicken legs on the plate directly into his mouth, and spit out a naked chicken bone in the next second. He could only hear him chewing and spitting out without shame:

"It tastes good, buddy, but these two main things are not very good, it's a pity that this ingredient is gone."

"Cough! Cough!"

It wasn't just Li Chi who was coughing now, Lao Du couldn't hold it back, but he had been the village head for so many years, and he had seen all kinds of people, so after coughing, even if he was unhappy in his heart, his face It's okay to go up.

"Brother Li, what does this mean? You mean, the meat and mushrooms in my pot are not worth as much as an ingredient?"

Hearing these words made her a bit angry, even though Tao Qing never confuses the old man's face with her own face, at this moment she also felt that the kidnapper's words were ugly, so she quickly smoothed things over:
"Brother, he has never seen the world, how can he know what is delicious and what is not, so don't listen to him."

"Where is it!" Old Du stared, obviously not believing it, "I heard this from people who have seen good things, otherwise why would you think that my chicken and mushrooms are not even as good as the ingredients, brother Li , Tell me, what’s wrong with it?”

Tao Qing quietly twisted the kidnapper's leg under the table. The old man broke out in a cold sweat belatedly. Admittedly.

If others are angry and calm down after a while, this old Du is just the opposite. He wanted to be tense at first, but the more he thought about the matter, the less he liked it. It's also straightened up a lot, and I just want the kidnapper to say something, otherwise this matter will really be difficult.

"Yeah, that's not what it means..."

The kidnapper was at a loss as to what to say. If it was in front of his own village chief, it would be okay to play tricks, but this is the village chief of another village. If he did that again, he would lose face to the whole village. what?
"What do you mean by that!" Although Lao Du still said this with a smile, his tone was already hardened.

Li Guaizi tried his best to search for the memories of his study in his mind, and he just babbled nonsense:
"I, what I said, it's not good. I don't want to say that the meat and mushrooms are not good. What I mean is that your cook's craftsmanship is too good. The focus is on the craftsmanship. If the taste of the meat and mushrooms is better It’s even better if you can keep up.”

Although the meaning remained unchanged, these words still made Lao Du feel a lot more comfortable. His heart was relieved, and his rationality returned. He breathed a sigh of relief, and his back, which had been straight just now, slowly bent go back.

Old Du half joked half complained and said:

"Hey, this is a running pheasant. Free-range chickens are better than chickens kept in cages, right? Brother, you are too picky."

Lao Du said that Li Guaizi didn't know what to do, so what's the matter?He doesn't know anything else, he is really "professional" in raising chickens.

So, regardless of Tao's feelings, the old man was pinching his thigh desperately, and talking about "chicken" to Lao Du with a trembling mouth.

"Brother, do you know what I do? I'm not a farmer! Eh!"

As soon as the kidnapper was halfway through speaking, he was choked up by Tao Qing, and his voice rose instantly, as if he was emphasizing it.

Lao Du nodded, thinking that I didn't think of you as a farmer. How can a farmer marry a beautiful wife who is so much younger than himself?
The kidnapper managed to pull away Tao Qing's pair of "chicken claws" embedded in his flesh, and he rubbed his legs for a long time before the pain gradually dissipated, and he moved the futon he was sitting on outside. After a while, after making sure that Tao Qing could not calmly come over and pinch herself, she raised her head and continued to brag:

"I raise chickens."

"Oh, he owns a chicken farm." Lao Du thought to himself.

"As soon as I taste your chicken, I know that the chicken does run in the field, but it must run on flat ground, not the authentic 'running pheasant'."

The kidnapper looked confident.

"Yo, you can taste this!"

Lao Du stared, the chickens in this store were all raised under the forest in the village, the forest was flat, and it was a field of saplings planted by others, so there was no slope, and it was a good place to surround it with a net. A place to raise chickens.

"That's not it." Kidnap also followed Lao Du's stare, looking at the bluffing, "The meat of the pheasant is firm. Although it is tender, it has a chewy texture. The kind of chewy texture is not as good as old hen chicken. The energy to move, I don’t understand the specifics, like this, I will ask Brother Li Chi to send you one later, the chickens I raised with my own hands, besides the chicken feed, I also fed a lot The things in the mountains and the fields, those chickens are growing strong!"

Li Chi, who was lit, supported his head with one hand, and sighed quietly as he sat aside. If Tao Qing wasn't here, he would have already lit the cigarette.

Who is this, this is too depressing.

In contrast to the depressed Li Chi, Lao Du had long put aside his previous displeasure, thinking that Li Guaizi was an expert.

"That's true, that's true, when I look back, I really have to just taste it, then Brother Li, I know what's going on with this chicken, what about the mushrooms? These are the best mushrooms bought in the mushroom factory. "

"Alas," when it comes to mushrooms, Kidnap suddenly sighed, pretending to be mysterious, "This mushroom is actually quite good, and there is really nothing to choose, but before, our family's conditions are not good. I often go to the mountains to pick up mountain goods, and what I eat is also from the mountains.”

As the kidnapper said, he suddenly reached out and patted Tao Qing, and then said to Lao Du:
"Don't look at your sister-in-law as a hard worker, but she's actually pretty good at it. She cooks my family's meals. I used to pick up a kind of mushroom on the mountain before. Hiss, it's called 'sticky nest'. Every time I pick some up, your sister-in-law will stew them with the chicken, which is actually the same as chicken stewed with mushrooms, except that the mushrooms have become that kind of 'sticky nest'."

"Ouch," Lao Du slapped his thigh immediately after hearing this, and sighed repeatedly, "'Sticky Nest'! I know, when we didn't have enough food in the past, we used to go up the mountain to pick it up and eat it back. Don't look at it. It looks ugly, yellowish yellow, but there are so many poisonous mushrooms on the mountain, it is the least poisonous, but now that everyone's living conditions are better, there are fewer people who eat it, and occasionally go up the mountain to pick up food. , Most of them are brought back and fried to eat, no one really uses it to stew chicken."

"Hi!" Li Guaizi also sighed, "It's not a big deal, it's the most delicious thing, but that's all, we were poor before, and we were not willing to spend money to buy good mushrooms from others. If the hand is rich, who would take the trouble to go to the mountain to pick it up?"

"No, don't say that, I think it's pretty good, it's a good recipe!"

Lao Du suddenly became excited, and the more he talked, the happier he became.

"Think about it, when people from the city come to eat with us, at first they pictured game food, but in the end, it actually turned into a village taste, which has nothing to do with 'wild' at all, and what they eat is traditional. Farm dishes, of course, now we are not allowed to go up the mountain to catch wild animals, and we can't do that illegal thing, but we can start from other aspects, you are like this 'sticky nest!'"

Lao Du excitedly slapped the table, slapping the other three people in a daze.

Tao Qing was still immersed in the surprise that "the kidnapper can actually fool people into living", but couldn't recover.

Li Chi didn't even want to understand how things turned out like this!
Kidnap felt that this topic seemed to be turning to business, so he didn't have to worry about it. The person who was serious about business was sitting next to him. If he didn't eat the food on the table, it would be cold!

(End of this chapter)