Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 154 The Apportioned Cat
"It doesn't taste good."

Gu Siwei took a piece of fish and put it in a bowl, and after taking two bites, he said something to the big guy.

"It's hard to say what it is. Whether it is delicious or not, I think it is delicious to the extreme. Mr. Tao, your taste is really good."

Qiao Yitong is holding the bowl in one hand, and holding a large white flour steamed bun in the other hand. There are also two chopsticks in the hand holding the steamed bun. At this moment, there are obvious traces of soup on the steamed bun. The steamed buns were soaked in the soup, and then I ate the steamed buns because of the deliciousness of the soup.

Tao Yisheng saw Qiao Yitong's way of eating and boasted with a smile: "Comrade Qiao can eat it. The best taste is this soup. Those who don't know can eat fish or meat. Only those who know how to eat Only then did I know that the soup is the most delicious, whether it is mixed with rice or dipped in pasta, it is first-class.

In the past, when eating this food, dignitaries and dignitaries ate the soup. They used finger-sized steamed buns, dipped them in the soup first, then rolled them up and down with chopsticks. On the table, put the small milk steamed buns together with the small saucer dripping with soup to your mouth.

You can only take half a bite, and use a spoon to pour the soup on the remaining half, and then you can eat the remaining half.”

"Is there anything to eat?"

Hu Yanping was a little dumbfounded when he heard that, he knew about the little milk steamed buns, they were not too big in total, the big ones were about the size of a mahjong tile, so you could eat such a big one in two bites?

Thinking of this, Hu Yanping looked at the white-faced steamed buns in his hands that were almost half the size of his face, and felt lucky in his heart: Fortunately, the steamed buns in our hands are big enough.

Thinking of this, he took a bite and suddenly felt that the steamed bun was a bit dry, so he picked up the bowl in his hand and sipped a mouthful of the soup along the edge of the bowl.

Hu Yanping felt that this day was much more interesting than going to school with the fresh soup that had lost his eyebrows and the big white noodle steamed buns that became sweeter and more fragrant as he chewed.

No matter what Hu Yanping thought, everyone happily ate the steamed buns and the soup. For a while, no one touched the fish, meat and mutton in the bowl.

"Is this material good?"

Tao Yisheng put down the bowl in his hand and asked Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei looked at him, took a bite of the steamed bun soup, and said in a buzzing voice: "The ingredients are good, but if you ask me to learn from a teacher, then it's out of the question, I'm not interested."

Tao Yisheng laughed and said, "I didn't ask you to be a teacher or anything. I thought about the fact that our father and I may not have this fate. It would be unbeautiful to force it."

"Well, that's good." Gu Siwei didn't take it seriously, and greeted the old man to eat meat with the big guys after a hum.

"Everyone eats meat, what's the matter with steamed buns just for soup? You can't fill your stomach with steamed buns. You can't take these fish and meat back to Da Mao and Youmu! Come, eat! Eat! Chopsticks say hello."

Gu Siwei said repeatedly.

Hearing Gu Siwei's greeting, the big guys each picked up a piece of meat, but after eating, they returned to the previous appearance, with steamed buns dipped in soup.

"Brother Siwei, can you eat here often in the future?"

When Hu Yanping thought that he would go back to eat the meal cooked by his mother, he suddenly felt that the fun of life had dropped by half. Anyway, there was nothing to do in school, and he just played all day, so why not just play with Gu Siwei.

As soon as he thought of this, Hu Yanping used his brain to prepare for Gu Siwei's words.

Who is Hu Yanqiu?Hu Yanping's own sister, who watched him grow up, put it in a bad way, when he pouted, Hu Yanqiu knew what shit he was shitting on.

"Don't mess with me, just go home with us tomorrow honestly, and I'll beat you if there's any trouble." Hu Yanqiu glared at his younger brother.

"Who said I played here, you think too much, I'm not here, and there is no electricity or something."

He obviously wanted to be here, and his sister found out, but this kid refused to admit it at all.

Hu Yanqiu glanced at him lightly, and the meaning was clear: How could you hide your little thoughts from me?
Hu Yanping shrank his neck and continued to eat his steamed buns.

Gu Siwei listened and pondered for a while before he realized that if it hadn't been for the last time he almost had a problem with the child, Gu Siwei might have responded. Now, he won't let Hu Yanping stay, even if Hu Yanqiu is willing, he won't be happy .

Whoever has nothing to do to help others play with their children is free.

Suddenly everyone stopped talking, and after about five or six minutes, Hu Yanping finally couldn't bear it anymore, and started asking Tao Yisheng about everything.

"Grandpa Tao, what ingredients did you use for this soup, how can you cook it with such a flavor?"

"Kids, don't ask random questions, this is something that is kept secret," Hu Yanqiu shouted.

Tao Yisheng laughed and said: "It's okay, even if you know what the material is, it's not easy for ordinary people to match it, and if you can't match it well, the material will be fatal."

"Death?"

When Hu Yanping heard this, he became even more energetic. He looked at Tao Yisheng eagerly, and said clearly in his eyes: "Hurry up, hurry up."

Tao Yisheng also seemed to be interested, and he opened his mouth and said: "The most common mushrooms are mushrooms. The large loose mushrooms in the mountains are dried and ground into powder after removing the umbrellas. Only the powder of the stems is used, not the umbrellas. This is the foundation, that is, the foundation, and It doesn't matter if I tell you about several kinds of mushrooms and vines that are common in the mountains.

One is purple vine, and the other is thorn vine. The leaves of the two are used. The mushrooms include Laoshan mushroom, Huashan mushroom and rhubarb mushroom.Next comes the important point, the most important two flavors, one is the sap leaves of the arrow tree, which is dried and used as powder.”

Hearing the arrow tree, Sicui blurted out: "Can this thing be eaten?"

"you know?"

Hearing Sicui's accusation, Hu Yanping asked immediately.

Sicui nodded and said, "Guess why this tree is called an arrow tree? Because the old hunters in the village would put the juice of this tree on their arrowheads to hunt wild boars. The juice of this tree is poisonous, and It’s very powerful, let alone a shot, even if you rub a little bit of broken skin, you are close to death. When old hunters get their arrows stained, they will have leather arrow sleeves to cover the arrows.”

Tao Yisheng heard that Sicui's words were well-organized, and he couldn't help but wondered: "You girl even knows this, and now many people in their thirties have never heard of this."

Sicui said: "My grandfather told me about it when he was around."

"Arrow tree?" Why does Gu Siwei feel a bit like a poisonous arrow baby in the Amazon jungle, as if the natives there also use its juice to wipe arrows.

"People here call it Arrow Tree. I don't know if it's called that in other places, but this kind of tree is rare now. In the past, livestock would eat it by mistake, so most people cut it down immediately after seeing it. Over time, it only exists in the deep mountains. I also occasionally found a piece of this kind of tree, and there are not many, just seventeen or eight.

Although this tree is very poisonous, it is small in size and does not pose any danger to the tree. Once the big tree grows up and covers its sunlight, it will die within a few days."

Tao Yisheng explained.

"Oh~!"

In response, Gu Siwei listened to Tao Yisheng while eating the meat.

Not only Gu Siwei, but other people also listened with gusto, and Tao Yisheng seemed to enjoy this scene, a group of juniors listened intently to his story.

Tao Yisheng talked a lot, including how to prepare soup. Of course, he didn’t talk about the most important one, and he couldn’t talk about it, that is, how to get rid of the poison of arrow tree sap. Without this prescription, even if he told you every kind You don't dare to match the amount of ingredients, because if you are not careful, you will die if you are not careful.

Anyway, no one cares. The only one who cares too much is Hu Yanping, who is just a good boy. You expect him to make soup?How can he be interested in cooking for a half-grown baby who doesn't even know how to cook.

So the time for this picnic was a bit long, and it lasted for more than two hours. When the sun was almost slanting, a group of people packed up their things and boarded the boat.

Back at Yinsong Cliff, Gu Siwei sent everyone up to the cliff, while he drove the boat all the way to Liuguo Valley, and asked when the two families would use the boat.

How can the two families use boats now? One day can't wait to be divided into two days, and all their thoughts are on their own fields.

So Gu Siwei went to look at his own boat again. There were more places to wipe the seams. Apart from that, there was nothing to see. After turning around like this, he was ready to return to Yinsong Cliff.

As soon as I got on the boat, I heard my aunt calling me from the opposite side.

"Four-dimensional, four-dimensional!"

Gu Siwei raised his head and waved at the speaking aunt.

"Siwei, do you want a cat in your family? Come on, you definitely want it. Our kitten is full moon. I will give you one. It will be good to catch mice or something when the time comes."

Without waiting for Gu Siwei to express his views, my aunt made a decision for Gu Siwei.

Originally, Gu Siwei said no, but think about it, it’s okay to have a cat at home now. As for catching mice, there must be no problem. Now all the cats in the village are good at catching mice, and people can’t eat. Feed them with extra food, and all cats who can't catch mice are probably starved to death.

"Then I will thank you."

Gu Siwei smiled.

"Why are you being polite, let's go, forget it, come and give me a lift, and I will catch the cat for you."

The aunt wiped her hands on her legs, and came to the river to wait for Gu Siwei to row a boat to pick her up.

Gu Siwei picked up his aunt here, rowed the boat directly to the door of his aunt's house, stopped the boat first, and followed his aunt into the yard of her house.

The cat was not in the house, but in a small shed on the east side. When the door of the shed was opened, there was a small wooden box inside. In the wooden box, there were a few handfuls of straw and a few pieces of rags that were almost torn into strips.

Several skinny kittens of different colors were crawling around in the wooden box, making meowing sounds at the same time.

"It's a little small, isn't it?"

Gu Siwei felt that the kitten was a bit too small. Could it be easy for him to take it back so big?
The aunt smiled and said: "It's not too young, you can feed yourself with a little rice porridge. You can see which one you want, and you can take it yourself."

Gu Siwei squatted on the edge of the kitten's nest and looked at it. It seems that he still thinks that the big orange seems to be more beautiful, mainly because the big orange is the biggest, and he knows that he is a foodie. He feeds himself under such poor conditions. The fattest, Gu Siwei appreciates such a skill.

"Just this one, I like the orange one better," Gu Siwei said.

"Okay, take it with you." Auntie smiled happily.

For my aunt, this cat has been on the market for a few days, and there are not many people who want it. Who doesn't have a cat?

If there is no cat, the few things in my house are not enough for mice to drag. Cats are much more useful than dogs now. Without cats, the little food in the house would be cheaper for mice?

(End of this chapter)