My village can't be like this

Chapter 202 The Uninvited Guest

Hearing Zhang An said that he had to grow up to eat with a big bowl, Li Yao was a little bit disappointed.

"Okay, then I'll eat more and grow up quickly."

After finishing speaking, Li Yao shoveled the rice into his mouth.

It can be seen that this little guy has already started to work hard in order to serve the big bowl as soon as possible.

Looking at Zhang An's huge sea bowl, Li Yao was extremely envious.

And he admired how many bowls of rice Zhang An could eat at a time.

All the children in the village knew that Zhang Anli was as big as a cow.

So seeing that Zhang An can eat so much, I feel that it is the reason for eating so much.

In the past, few children were willing to eat well, and most of them had to be fed by adults at home.

The gang of leather monkeys in Changqing Village are different, every time they eat, they squawk and show off the rice.

Because they all wanted to grow up to be like Zhang An.

He is tall, big, and as strong as a cow, and he can often eat with a big bowl. How majestic.

Those powerful people on TV use bowls to eat.

So even if he can't eat much now, sooner or later he will grow up and become a cook like Zhang An.

Zhang An himself didn't know, he just ate a few extra bowls of rice.

He even led a group of children to the road of cooks like this.

If he found out, he didn't know how he would feel.

But for kids, it's good to be a cook.

Especially now that they are all growing their bodies, they eat a lot of food, and their nutrition can keep up.

It's been a long time since I ate stewed rice, and I feel like I can't stop eating it once in a while.

Zhang An used to like this stewed rice very much, and there are not many children who don't like it.

Because the lard has been soaked into the rice grains, and because of the salt, it tastes better than white rice.

Children in this age prefer stewed rice and fried rice instead of stir-fried vegetables.

Especially the stir-fried rice after cooking at home, people with many children in the family often fight.

It's just that it's delicious, but it's easy to get angry if you eat too much, so no one makes it often.

Tonight, because the TV could not be played, no one from Zhang An came over, but it was much quieter.

Because of the power outage at night, the whole village is now completely dark.

Therefore, many people came out on the small roads in the village and by the river.

After all, we have to light kerosene lamps at home, and when we come out, there is still the moon in the sky to illuminate the road.

If you go out for a walk, you can save some kerosene at home.

Zhang An's family did not use kerosene to light the lamps, because Zhang An felt that the smell of kerosene was relatively strong.

After cutting the honey the first few times, Zhang An used the remaining honeycomb to boil a lot of beeswax.

This stuff will be bought by many people in later generations, and it is the raw material of high-end cosmetics.

But I don't know if it's because of the slow development of the domestic cosmetics industry in the past two years, or because of the remoteness of the mountainous areas.

So in Hongyan Town, no one has ever heard of anyone buying beeswax.

So Zhang An shaped the beeswax at home and used it as a candle.

After lighting it, Zhang An found that the beeswax candle had no smoke, and also emitted some aromatic smell.

Zhang An thought that there were still so many scoliids in the space, so he must get some more when he harvested honey next time.

At that time, boil more beeswax to make candles. It will be much better to light such smokeless candles during the Chinese New Year.

Because the candles lit during the Chinese New Year were all sold on the street, there was a lot of black smoke.

From the night of New Year's Eve, this candle will be lit all the time.

When I came up the next day, not only my face, but even my nose was black.

Zhang An couldn't bear these candles long ago, but it's a pity that there are no electronic candles yet, otherwise Zhang An would have bought them long ago.

In the future, if you have smokeless candles at home, you don’t have to worry about getting up on the first day of the new year, looking dirty.

Wang Fang went out for a swim with Zhang An's aunts and then came back.

Because it was pitch black, it was inconvenient to do anything.

So the family of three washed their feet early and went back to the room to rest.

Zhang An, who returned to the room, was very clear-headed.

Even after going back to this era for two or three years, Zhang An has already developed the habit of going to bed early.

Now I don't feel sleepy at all, because I slept so comfortably in the afternoon, and now I have a lot of energy.

Left and right couldn't sleep either, so Zhang An simply went into the space to see what was going on.

As soon as he entered the space, Zhang An saw a picture that was not suitable for children.

Because the few soft-shelled turtles given by Zhang Tie and the others in the afternoon were fighting at the edge of the fish pond.

Zhang An guessed right, the big soft-shelled turtle that Zhang Tie caught was indeed a male.

Because the tail of the male turtle is relatively slender, while the tail of the female turtle is thick and short.

At this moment, the one given by Zhang Tie was taking turns pressing down on the other three.

It had been more than half a day since Zhang An threw them into the space, and now the turtles had grown up a lot.

But even so, the other three soft-shelled turtles were still much smaller than the male soft-shelled turtle.

This guy is really a beast, the other three turtles are still so small, how can he handle it.

But Zhang An didn't have much interest in the animal world, so he didn't bother them directly.

Coming to the other side of the fish pond, Zhang An found the stone pound that had been put in before.

Now these guys are very fat, bigger than those bullfrogs that Zhang An saw later.

And now these guys have bred a lot.

Maybe they sensed that Zhang An was coming, and they started croaking in an instant.

Shi Pound is often caught outside, partly because he is fatter and has bigger targets.

Another aspect is that these guys like to bark very much, and the voice is not small, so it is impossible not to be noticed.

Looking at the fat Shi Pound in front of him, Zhang An couldn't help drooling.

The delicious bullfrog hot pot was the last time Zhang An ate it.

Although there are no bullfrogs now, the stone pound in front of me is much more delicious than bullfrogs.

And it is also said in Materia Medica that stone frogs do not drink unless they are running water, and do not eat unless they are live food.

The growth cycle is longer than that of bullfrogs, the meat is tenderer than bullfrogs, and has higher nutritional value.

Wait until tomorrow to get some out, then make a fish and frog hot pot at home and try it.

After Zhang An turned around in the space, he went to the fish pond.

A few soft-shelled turtles have finished their work and are sleeping on their stomachs by the water.

It may be that his physical strength was too exhausted just now, so he is recharging his energy at the moment.

The next morning, just after dawn, Zhang An got up from the bed.

Zhang An turned on the electric light and there was still no response. It is estimated that something has not been fixed, or the power supply bureau has not sent power yet.

But the night has passed, and it doesn't matter whether the electricity is sent or not during the day.

Zhang An went out to the yard, and felt relieved when he didn't see any dead mice.

He got up early this morning just to see if Gray Ball did it on purpose or by accident.

I just want to see if it will still be like yesterday, making a bunch of dead mice in the yard.

Because when Zhang An came out of the space last night, he heard the gray ball showing its magic outside.

Without going out to see, Zhang An can imagine how miserable the Shushu were when they came out for activities last night.

After Zhang An finished washing, he poured some water on the flowers, plants and trees in the yard.

But when Zhang An was watering the Davidia involucrata tree next to him, he felt a little silly.

Because there were a bunch of dead mice hanging on this Davidia involucrata tree, although there were not as many as yesterday, the number was still quite a lot.

The gray ball is thinking about smoking bacon for the New Year, right? Instead of putting it on the ground, put it on a tree.

Zhang An didn't understand why the owls had stolen the shrike's habit of hanging mice.

If I hadn't seen it myself, let these dead rats sit there for a day or two, what kind of smell would this yard be?

No, it's time for Gray Ball to tidy up.

Here Zhang An pays attention to rewards for meritorious deeds and punishment for demerits.

Gray Ball is indeed good at catching mice, but it's not a big deal to put this dead mouse in the yard every day.

This is not a good habit, and it must be changed.

Zhang An first disposed of the dead mice on the tree, and then threw the gray balls that were about to go back to sleep into the space.

Gray Ball was quite happy when it first entered the space, thinking that Zhang An was rewarding it.

Unexpectedly, Zhang An immediately gave it a brain collapse.

After educating for a long time, Gray Ball didn't know if he understood.

Anyway, in order not to be punished, Huiqiu could only submit to Zhang An's despotic power first.

Education forgot about the gray ball, so Zhang An walked out of the space contentedly, ready to clean the room for the homeowners.

But when Zhang An entered the pen room, he found that besides the few golden roosters, there were two more uninvited guests in his chicken coop.

During the house inspection last night, why didn't I find two more silver chickens in the chicken coop.

Zhang An was a little confused now, thinking that he hadn't brought the silver rooster home before.

They were released once before, and that was also in the mountains. They were released to nature, but they were not kept at home.

But now in the chicken coop at home, those two red faces, black and white impermanence mean that Zhang An is right.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang An was sure that he had never brought this thing out.

Since they didn't get it by themselves, they came here by themselves.

It may be that during weekdays, the golden roosters at home were sent up the mountain, and they came with them when they came back.

It was a coincidence last night, when Zhang An came to close the circle door, because of the power outage, Zhang An didn't pay attention to see clearly.

Zhang An walked towards the chicken pen, and his few golden chickens were not afraid of him.

However, the two new residents immediately got out of the way and began to flop around in the circle, not letting Zhang An get close.

Judging from this performance, these two silver chickens should be wild white pheasants that grew up in the mountains.

Rather than the part that was released to the mountains by itself.

Because Zhang An also encountered silver chickens that he had released several times in the mountains.

Although they were released by Zhang An for so long, they didn't show any fear when they saw Zhang An, and they could obviously remember who Zhang An was.

In the past, Zhang An would try his best to catch these two silver chickens.

But it's different now, not only are they not considered rare, but Zhang An still thinks they are a bit of a bad street.

After all, there are adults or immatures in the space, and there are still a lot of silver chickens that have hatched or have not yet hatched.

So for these two new residents, Zhang An didn't pay much attention to them.

So Zhang An still followed his daily habits, opened the enclosure door to let the animals out of the house, and began to clean up.

As for the two newcomers, let them be happy.

If they stayed, Zhang An's family would have a few golden chickens to eat at one bite, so they wouldn't be hungry.

If they choose to go back to the mountain, then Zhang An doesn't care, anyway, if there are more of them, there will be no more, and if there are less, there will be no less.

The two new silver roosters, seeing Zhang An's golden roosters going out, also followed behind.

After Zhang An finished cleaning the enclosure, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo still hadn't gotten up.

During this period of time, life is not so busy, so no matter who it is, they don't have to get up at dawn.

It was rare for Zhang An to get up early, so seeing that it was still early, he went into the kitchen and started preparing for today's breakfast.

Forget about the noodles, Wang Fang is right, eating noodles every day makes it a bit boring.

Zhang An thought about it and decided to do something else.

steamed stuffed bun?Forget it, Zhang An can make this stuff, but it's a little troublesome to wake up the noodles and prepare the fillings.

After thinking about several things suitable for breakfast, Zhang An finally decided to cook a pot of porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat.

Just do it, and start washing rice right away.

The preserved eggs are ready-made at home, just cut some lean meat later.

Taking advantage of the rice washing time, Zhang An put two preserved eggs in the pot and boiled them for a while, as blanching water.

Because if it is not boiled, the preserved egg and lean pork porridge will be black.

This was only discovered after Zhang An's later generations cooked it many times, after the preserved eggs were boiled later.

The preserved egg and lean meat porridge is not so dark.

When cooking porridge on the fire, Zhang An cut up the preserved eggs and lean meat, and thickened the lean meat with starch for later use.

After about 15 minutes, the rice in the pot was cooked, and Zhang An began to pour in preserved eggs, lean meat, and various seasonings.

The time was just right, and the porridge on Zhang An's fire had just been cooked when he heard his parents get up.

"Why did you get up so early today? When did you get up?"

When Wang Fang walked out of the bedroom, she smelled porridge.

Walking over to take a look, I found Zhang An busy in the kitchen.

"I woke up just after dawn. I went to bed too early last night. I really can't sleep this morning."

The pot of porridge was almost done, so Zhang An took it off the fire.

"Dad, Mom, you are ready to eat after washing up. I cooked porridge in the morning."

In Zhang An's place, no matter what you cook is porridge or porridge, they are all called porridge.

Although some people use japonica rice when cooking porridge, some people use glutinous rice.

But all the porridge is cooked, and sugar is added when drinking the porridge at the end.

Few people know how to cook salty porridge. Of course, adding salt to white porridge is not the only way to do it.

When Grandpa Zhang An was alive, lard had to be added to porridge.

Hearing Zhang An's shout, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo finished washing quickly.

"Dad, I put salt in it, you don't need to add sugar, it won't taste good later."

Seeing that his father was about to pour sugar into the bowl, Zhang An hurriedly stopped him.

There will be salty and sweet ones later, and few people can eat them.

Hearing that salt was added, Zhang Jianguo didn't continue to add sugar, and it's not that he couldn't accept the way of eating porridge with salt.

(End of this chapter)