Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 713 Cooking
For example, in Zhou Zhi’s mind, one of the best poems written by the ancients on Mount Anle, the poem written by Lujiao in the Song Dynasty, “The path of moss is next to the slope of the rock, and the forest is Taoism. Fish play with the moon in the lake at night, and deer sleep in flowers in spring.” It can be called a masterpiece, It's a pity that the original stele has disappeared.

Under the word "Leshan", it is written by Dai Yingkui, a tribute student in the Qing Dynasty, who was 90 years old when you traveled to the mountains.

Poetry is also good poetry, but the situation is precarious.

Zhou Zhi felt that he had something to do again, at least he had to save the rubbings of the whole mountain's stone inscriptions, so that when the cultural center wanted to reshape the stele cliffs in the future, at least there would be a reference.

Zhou Zhi was interested in these things. As he went down the mountain, Zhou Zhi introduced the ins and outs of these stone inscriptions and the identity and background of the creators to the friends around him, and the uncle who accompanied him were all amazed.

This guy is even more native than our mountain people!

At the foot of the mountain, there is an earthen platform with a small path on the side, and a short walk into it is the famous bowl of water.

This is a cliff, and the spring water seeps slowly from the bottom of the cliff, filling a small stone pit at the bottom of the cliff.

The spring water is clear and sweet. When visitors come here, they should "plan to share a drink with the mountain spirits, and try to compare their innocence with their hearts".

There is also a nice name here, called "Xu Youpiao".

Xu You was a famous hermit. Emperor Yao wanted to hand over the world to him. He thought that his ears were dirty, so he ran to the river to wash his ears.

As a result, another hermit, Fan Jian, saw it and asked him, "Are your ears dirty?"

Xu You then said what Yao told him.

Fan Jian was drinking the cow, so he took the cow and left after hearing this, ashamed of letting the cow drink water downstream of Xu You's earwashing.

"Xu You Piao" means that the water is so clean that only a hermit like Xu You deserves to drink it.

While Zhou Zhi was telling stories to everyone, he used zong leaves to bring out the spring water to fill everyone's pots.After hearing the story, Wei Fei was very dissatisfied: "Give me more water, why should Xu Youcai deserve to drink? He has been a hermit all his life, which means that his ability has not been tested. Why do you think he can be a Kyushu pastor? I think he is a fake." Qinggao, you put on such an appearance because you know you are not up to the task!"

Zhou Zhi couldn't help being a little speechless: "In ancient legends, if you want to be true, it's boring. The premise of this story is that Xu You did have the opportunity and ability to win the world and didn't do it. What he praised was a way to maintain his true self and not be influenced by external interests. Seductive sentiments. You've got to focus on rationality, and there's no way to tell this story."

But I was a little frustrated after I finished speaking: "However, what you said is right. After a thousand years, people will compete to counterfeit, talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and be full of male robbers and female prostitutes, but it has become a big problem."

"That's right!" Wei Fei said, "No one knows whether it is the performance of the real self, so this is a false proposition and cannot be used as an indicator for consideration."

Zhou Zhi gave him a thumbs up, and passed the water bottle over: "The dog spit out the truth, what Fei Ji said coincides with what the Sixth Patriarch, Wang Yangming saw, and you deserve to drink this pot."

We will say goodbye to Uncle Mountain Man here, and we will go home along the old stone road.

There are farmlands on both sides of the road, and the rice has already hung down, and it is not far from harvesting.

After passing through a valley, the team returned to the Jigeng Road, and after a short walk, it was Anleshan Township Primary School.

Find the owner in a farm, negotiate the price, and Zhou Zhi asks the friends to collect the vegetables.

Summer is the season when vegetables are in full bloom. The host family is worried that there are too many melons and eggplants to eat. With only 20 yuan, the friends can get a bunch of peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, cowpeas, cucumbers, water spinach, Kidney beans, sweet potato tips, blood-skin vegetables...

Zhou Zhi and Feng Xueshan went to the kitchen and spent another 100 yuan to choose a piece of cured pork leg and a set of cured pork ribs.

For this farm family, it was another windfall.

It was agreed that Feng Xueshan would treat everyone to dinner, so Feng Xueshan paid for the money, and went to Wei Fei's house to process it.

After walking through the dam with a lot of booty, we arrived at Anleshan Township Primary School.

Wei's father and Wei's mother couldn't find it funny when they saw the team returning with full load: "Oh, is this a trip to the mountains or a robbery?"

Next, Zhou Zhi began to assign tasks, Wei's father and Wei's mother rested, Feng Xueshan, the chef, helped prepare the ingredients, the girls helped pick and wash vegetables, and the boys went to the fish pond to touch snails.

It has been a long time since I promised to make snails for Miss Wei Yi.

Wei Fei ran to the bamboo grove as hard as he could, and brought two hens over after a while: "Elbow, kill them for me!"

"Hey, I haven't seen this chicken in two months. It's been well-raised." Zhou Zhi saw that the mental outlook of the two chickens was different: "It's quite fat."

"I don't care who's coming back." Wei Yi spit while picking the pepper stalks: "I don't chop or mix the sweet potatoes, I shouldn't let him raise chickens to be lazy, and the chickens will be raised for him to grow pheasants." gone."

"There are not a lot of dishes today, why don't we just eat one?" Feng Xueshan said with a smile.

"Two!" Wei Fei bowed his hands to Feng Xueshan and Zhou Zhizhi: "If you can eat more one, feed one less."

It turns out that this baby came up with this idea!Everyone laughed happily.

Killed the chicken and scalded it, roasted the pork leg and scraped the skin, boiled it in a big pot, Zhouzhi cleaned the chicken offal, and helped Feng Xueshan chop ginger, pickled pepper and other seasonings, and all that was left was to burn the fire.

Feng Xueshan was very capable, with quick hands and feet, and in just a short while, she prepared all the seasonings, and also blanched the water spinach and eggplant and put them on the plate.

There was no need for such people in the kitchen, and the girls went out to play by the water.

"Elbow, let's go, teach me how to fish!" Dad Wei popped up at the kitchen door, still holding a dip net and two fishing rods in his hand.

"That's right, it's easy for a man to do the job of lighting a fire." Wei's mother also snatched in: "You go teach the old man to fish. He's addicted to fishing and his skills are poor. You can teach him the elbows!"

In fact, this is an excuse. Parents and mothers still have old ideas, thinking that it is embarrassing to let their children come to work actively, and they will wait for food if they don’t do anything. They want to do something anyway.

"You go, elbow." Feng Xueshan took out the boiled hen and soaked it in cold water, so that the chicken skin would be firm and crispy, and at the same time, she was still burning chili peppers to make chili sauce: "There are actually not many summer dishes. Yes, there will be tomato scrambled eggs and fried chicken giblets in a while, and now there is only boiled bacon. You can cook the snails in a while."

"That's fine." Zhou Zhi said: "You boil the pot of water again, and when they come back with the snails, they will scald them to death and take the meat. They don't have time to raise them to spit mud, so they can only take the meat."

"Well, I see, you and uncle go fishing."

Dad Wei used half-cooked sweet potatoes and tender corn for fishing. If these two were not nested, he would die waiting for passing fish, and the harvest would be dismal.

But Zhou Zhi was surprised that the deep pond outside could be used for fishing: "I remember when I came here last year, it was said that the pond had already been contracted out?"

"It was contracted out." Wei's father stared at Zhou Zhi and watched him prepare the bait: "It turned out that the water was too deep, and there were many rocks and field ridges below, so I couldn't pull the bottom net, so I had to beat the upper silver carp to finish the job, and the rest You can't get a lot of fish."

"So this year the boss has released the pond as well. As long as it's not fishing for his silver carp, all other fish will be three yuan a catty."

(End of this chapter)