Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 211 Food and Knowledge

The rest of the clean meat picked out from the big snails is another dish.

Put the snail meat into clean water, add salt and scrub several times, and drain the water after getting clean snail meat.

Heat up the pot, dry roast the snail meat, and roast the moisture on the surface of the snail meat.

Put lard in the pot, add Chinese prickly ash, pickled ginger, pickled chili and stir-fry until it becomes fragrant and red, then add snail meat and stir-fry.

Then add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, and cooking wine, stir-fry a few times to bring out the aroma and take away the fishy smell, add minced garlic sprouts and red pepper rings, and finally add salt and stir-fry out of the pan.

This is Zhou Zhi's first time making this dish, and it is also prepared according to the method of frying duck gizzards according to the material and taste of the snail meat, but it only uses an extra flavor of oyster sauce.

By the time the two dishes were served, Wei Yi and his friends had already started talking about the snails.

Neither Wei Yi nor Master Qiao had eaten this dish before, Wei Fei had it once or twice, and Yang He ate it the most. While teaching them how to pick the snail meat with toothpicks, he expressed regret: "It's just served cold with beer, no Perfect for the season..."

Zhou Zhi: "Then drink something hot."

"Can you drink hot beer?"

"Wait a minute..."

In fact, hot beer is very simple, that is, beer is boiled with rock sugar, goji berry and longan meat fermented glutinous rice. Except that the temperature is reduced and the tail is a bit bitter, it is actually quite delicious.

Jiachuan people are used to sour, astringent, and bitter foods such as bitter bamboo shoots, Houttuynia cordata, and green fruits. For Jiachuan people, it is not called bitterness, but flavor.

Wei Fei's parents were a little funny about Zhou Zhi's endlessly weird food, but the taste was indeed good, and it was suitable for girls.

My daughter is also big-hearted. During this period of time, she wants to sprint for a graduate student. Jiachuan has only produced one graduate student so far, and that is Kudingcha. My daughter is going to be... the second?

So when Lao Wei sees his daughter gleefully nibbling at the bit of meat inside the small snail, holding boiled beer that is as bland as fermented glutinous rice and constantly inviting this one to that one, the excitement on the table makes her feel comfortable.

There is only one thing. My sister is 22 this year. If she fails the postgraduate entrance examination, it will be fine. If she does, it will be delayed for two years. Then she will be 24 and find a job at 25. Even if she falls in love immediately, she will only talk for one year until she gets married. Also 26 passed...

My God, this is not a detailed account, once I calculate it, even the fried snail meat with elbows is not delicious...

But my friends don’t think so. There is no doubt that the dish of spicy fried snail meat is very successful, especially with a little oyster sauce, which is a seasoning that is rarely used in Jiachuan families. A characteristic sweet aroma.

Wei Yi ate very happily, and looked at Zhou Zhi with a smile: "No wonder the elbow dared to praise this for a year. It turns out that the taste of snails is really good."

"Sister, you can't blame me for this, can you? You have to work and study during the summer vacation, or you won't come back, or else this thing will be enough."

"You support me if you don't work and study?" Wei Yi gave Zhou Zhi a look: "It's easy to say!"

The speaker had no intention, but the listener was interested, so Wu Qiaomu opened his mouth, and Zhou Zhi was so frightened that he hurriedly interrupted: "It's okay, it's okay, there are summer ways to eat this snail in summer, and there are winter ways to eat it in winter. , but it seems that our snails in Jiachuan don’t feel thin after eating..."

"It has something to do with the climate, after all, this is the northernmost subtropical climate." Master Qiao was finally distracted by Zhou Zhi's success, and he didn't expose Wei Yi's despicable attributes of dog licking in front of Wei's father and mother, and turned to study geography scientific issues.

"Actually, Jiachuan is like this. There are many geographical phenomena of anti-latitude, right? For example..."

"litchi."

"Longan."

"Olives."

"Uh... stupid duck?"

"Hahaha, that doesn't count." Zhou Zhi laughed and said, "However, there are many migratory birds like egrets that stop migrating in Jiachuan, so can it be counted?"

"It can be counted, does the salamander count?"

"Salamanders can't be counted, there are many in the mountains of Qianzhou."

"Does hummingbird count?" Dad Wei asked suddenly.

"Hummingbird?" Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao looked at each other, then turned to Dad Wei together: "Jiachuan still has this thing, isn't it possible?"

"Why not!" Father Wei is not used to boiled beer, so he still drinks his own head song, and now it's on his face: "In the Qinggang forest in Anleshan's hometown, when a few dwarf paulownia trees bloom, there are hummingbirds coming to eat the nectar."

After speaking, I was a little uncertain: "The bird that eats nectar, the one that shines, is the hummingbird?"

"Oh, I'm afraid it's true!" Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao felt as if they had discovered a new continent: "This clue is too important, I have to tell Teacher Jiang!"

"Stop talking about that." Wei Yi waved his hand: "Yuzi, are you really determined to take the Shu University exam?"

"It's not that I want to take the Shu University exam, it's what I want to learn. Now in the whole of China, only Mr. Gu is the most authoritative." Zhou Zhi said, "And Mr. Gu is at Shu University, so I can only take the exam for Shu University."

"What knowledge? There is only one person in the whole country who can teach it?"

"I think it is very important. It can explain clearly where we Chinese people come from. Exegesis."

"Really?" Wei Yi only knew that Zhou Zhi was doing something about literature and history, but he didn't expect that Zhou Zhi had raised his research to such a high level: "Elbow, let's listen to it, why is this knowledge so important?" It's as important as you say."

Zhou Zhi said: "Exegesis is a traditional Chinese discipline that studies the meaning of ancient Chinese words. Its earliest origin is traditional Chinese philology—a branch of primary school."

"In the beginning, the meaning of exegesis was 'Tongjing', which is the 'Study of Interpretation' that exists to help students understand ancient classics."

"While it explains the meaning of ancient Chinese words, it also analyzes the grammatical and rhetorical phenomena in ancient books. It studies ancient documents from the perspective of language and helps people read classical documents."

"Isn't this just a dictionary?" Wei Yi didn't understand: "So you're learning this knowledge, and you're actually memorizing dictionaries?"

"Huh?" Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "That's not the case. Exegesis can be divided into a broad sense and a narrow sense. The broad sense of exegesis includes phonology and philology, while the narrow sense of exegesis is only in primary school. Subject."

"It wasn't until Mr. Zhang Taiyan wrote "The Beginning of Wen" and renamed "Primary School" as "Learning of Language and Characters" that China had etymology in the modern scientific sense, and "The Beginning of Wen" became the first book with modern scientific A monograph on the etymology of meaning, Mr. Zhang has also become the founder of modern Chinese language and philology."

"The next important figure is Mr. Huang Kan Huang. On the basis of Mr. Zhang's 'learning of language and writing', he further developed the concept of the subject."

"Mr. Huang said: 'The exegesis is the reason, that is, the original meaning. The exegesis, the smoothness, is the extended meaning. The exegesis is to explain the meaning of the language with language'.

'If you use the language of this place to explain the language of another place, or use the language of the present to explain the language of the past, although it is all about exegesis, it is not the principle of composition.

True exegesis has no limitations of time and place at the beginning, and it discusses its formulas and clarifies its meanings and examples in order to seek the system and origin of language and characters. "

(End of this chapter)