Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 84 Are you afraid of eating snakes?
Cheng He picked up the shovel and started digging the ground.

It is summer now, the weather is hot, and people inevitably have a strong summer fire. He wants to dig some dandelions for cooking to extinguish the fire.

Natural wild vegetables like this are good for the human body and have no side effects, which are better than medicines.The key is that the taste is very good, and it is a pure wild vegetable that is difficult to buy in the market.

I am used to eating big fish and meat, and it is really a good thing to come to such a plate of fresh wild vegetables once in a while.

This kind of wild vegetable is very common in the mountains, and you can dig a bowl casually.

While following the dandelions on the ground, Cheng He accidentally found a large piece of ground fungus on a soil slope.

He was overjoyed, this is a good thing!
Usually only after it rains, this thing will grow wildly.He thought about it, probably a small spring next to it added humidity to the surrounding area. Although it didn't rain, this thing also grew very vigorously.

Without hesitation, he picked up the shovel and shoveled some.

Take it back and mix it cold, the taste is really positive.Even if people in the mountains have tasted all the wild vegetables, they will think that this kind of ground fungus tastes very good.

I heard it from my parents when I was a kid.When the times are not good, there will be no pick-up and no food.But as long as it rains, this kind of ground fungus will grow on the ground, which can provide several meals for the poor.

In those days, these were life-saving things!
Now that life is better, there is no shortage of meat in everyone's home, but some people will always think of eating this, to relieve the greasy, and to change the taste. This is a good choice.

And the few people who followed him felt very novel about these things. If Cheng He hadn't brought them into the mountain, they wouldn't have known that there were still such edible things in the mountain.

Like their self-driving tour, it is just to see where there are beautiful mountains and rivers, to inhale the oxygen in the natural forest, to exercise the body by climbing mountains, and at most to have a self-service barbecue in the forest. How do you know that there are so many interesting things in the mountains?

This trip to the mountains and forests to find wild game feels natural and relaxing.

There is also an episode of good things. When several people walked deeper and deeper in the mountains, they encountered a cauliflower snake.

The snake was thick and big, and the yellow markings on its body were quite scary. A person following Cheng Helai almost stepped on it, and he screamed in fright, and did not dare to move.

The cauliflower snake is very aggressive. Although it is not poisonous, it can also scare people who are afraid of snakes.

For a moment, the cauliflower snake confronted the man, with its head raised high, as if waiting for an opportunity to move, and the man's forehead was covered with sweat, and he dared not move.

Cheng He took the shovel and aimed at the seven inches of the snake at the right time to hit it.

It is said that the shovel is too short, and it is very dangerous to use it to beat snakes.But Cheng He knew that it was not poisonous, and he was so fast now that there was no time for the snake to react between the blows.

Cheng He hit it with one blow, and the shovel almost cut off the snake's head at once.

Cheng He felt sorry for the snake for killing a life.

Lifting the snake's tail, he asked the people behind him, "Are you afraid of eating snakes?"

Snake meat is actually very delicious and nutritious. Its protein content is higher than that of beef, and it also contains amino acids, which can be said to be very beneficial to the human body.

But there are many people who are afraid of eating snakes.

So Cheng He asked them first.

Anyway, the snake has already been killed, so if you don't eat it, you won't eat it.

To be honest, almost all the three people who followed him were dumbfounded.

Seeing the snake was enough to make their scalps tingle with fright, but it was even more inconceivable to see Cheng He killing it with a shovel.

That's just a shovel!

It's only fifty or sixty centimeters long, shorter than a snake, isn't he afraid?

There are so many strange people in the mountains!

awesome!

They sincerely admire Cheng He.

So they quickly answered Cheng He's question: "Eat! Don't be afraid!"

What a joke, others dare to kill snakes, but they dare not eat them, isn't that a joke?
They have never eaten snakes, but they have some knowledge.Snake meat soup in the hotel is not cheap, and a pure wild snake like this is really rare!

If you encounter a good thing but miss it, it is undoubtedly a treasure, and no one wants to let it go!
Cheng He smiled, knowing that they were obviously a little scared, but still bit the bullet and said they wanted to eat.Even if they have foresight, dishes made of snake meat are not often available.

Then make a snake soup.

This snake is very thick, and it weighs at least two catties. Add some ingredients, and a bowl of snake meat soup is quite enough.

With the snake meat, Cheng He picked some wild mushrooms and stewed them together later.

Just thinking about what to do, there was a commotion not far away, and Napoleon got out from the short grass with something in his mouth.

Approaching, this guy handed the prey in his mouth to Cheng He's hands like a dog.

Cheng He couldn't help laughing, this guy is fine, he came back with a mountain turtledove in his mouth, and he has been raising it for so long, this guy is a bit useful!
Just thinking about getting some meat dishes or something, this guy came at the right time.

Napoleon refused to leave, and stayed where he was to receive the reward. Cheng He reached out and patted its head, and said, "Good job! The turtledove's ass will be yours for a while!"

Napoleon held his head high and left satisfied, like a decorated general.

Turtle dove can be stewed, braised, or roasted.But in terms of nutrition, stew is the best.

The three guests were also amazed that a dog could catch a turtledove, and it didn't eat it by itself.

Tsk tsk tsk, this dog is about to become a sperm.

Today's food is good, there are wild snakes to eat, and wild turtledoves to eat.A worthwhile trip, a worthwhile trip!
Later, with good luck, Cheng He got a fat hare with the help of Napoleon.

I originally wanted to get another fish, but looking at the dishes today, it seems that it is almost the same.

When I went back, I saw that the hibiscus flowers on the side of the road were blooming well, so Cheng He also picked a handful.Fried hibiscus flowers are also a good dish, with a good taste and fragrance.

In fact, hibiscus flowers can also be used as medicine to clear away heat and stop bleeding.

Today's lunch can be said to be very rich, and the bamboo basket behind Cheng He is almost full, all of which are naturally grown game.

Back in the courtyard, Cheng He began to prepare.

Snake meat takes the longest to make, so it should be made first.First remove the head and tail of the snake, the skin and internal organs, cut into 3 cm long sections, and then cut some ginger slices, garlic slices and other condiments.

Heat the oil in the pan, sauté the seasoning until fragrant, then add the snake meat and stir-fry, add some cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, then add the washed wild mushrooms, add water and simmer slowly.

This is also boiled on high heat first, and then simmered on low heat to stew out all the nutrients in the snake meat and mushrooms.

After a while, you can smell a light and fresh fragrance, which is mouth-watering.

Snake meat soup is very good for people. It can tonify deficiency, dispel cold and dampness, dispel wind and dredge collaterals.For rheumatoid arthritis, damp arthralgia, cold arthralgia, sciatica, numbness of limbs and other diseases, especially for patients with rheumatic heart disease, it has an auxiliary therapeutic effect.

It can be said that people above middle age are very suitable to eat this.

And these visitors are also in their 40s, which is the time when they think about health care all day long.

As the snake meat simmered slowly, the rest of the dish was much easier.

Dandelion scrambled eggs, this is a common wild vegetable.Fragrant, fresh and tender, with taste, the method is also very simple.

Just clean the ground fungus.But this kind of thing grows close to the ground, so pay special attention when washing, otherwise there will be sand.

Blanch it in a pot, then pick it up, add some diced green onion, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, chili oil, etc., and let it cool for a while.

Followed by stewed turtledove.

Cheng He dug up a Polygonum multiflorum planted in the yard and stewed it in the turtledove.The turtledove is too small to fill a plate without adding something.

When digging Polygonum multiflorum, Cheng He was very surprised. It turned out that when it was planted, it was only a small size. It did not expect that it would grow so big in less than a month.

Except when he thought of it occasionally, he let some of his own golden light into these Polygonum multiflorum plants, and didn't apply any fertilizer!
For wild things like Polygonum multiflorum, too much artificial care is not good.If too much fertilizer is applied and Polygonum multiflorum grows too fat, then it looks like it was farmed, and it will not be worth much.

But now, they are all the same size!

However, apart from growing faster, nothing else has changed.The wild Polygonum multiflorum looks natural, but it is ugly. The texture is very deep, not as smooth and flat as the farmed ones, and the roots are very long. The current state is similar to that in the wild.

It can be said that the Polygonum multiflorum that was dug out is still in a completely wild state except that it grows extremely fast.

In just one month of planting, they have reached the size of nearly 50 years of growth.If you plant it for a while, it will be really amazing!

If you sell it in the city, it may be worth some money.

　Thank you [King Zhizhi Zhiming] for your support again.Thanks also to all my friends for continuing to vote.thank you all!
　　
　
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