Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 48
When he was thinking wildly, the brooding old hen led the group of teal ducks to "Jiujiu" and kept pecking at the ground. Due to the environment in which they grew up, these teal ducks were not afraid of people. Several boldly stepped forward to peck Liu Junhao's trousers.

To say that a hen leads a group of water ducks is a miracle. These little guys may be like this by nature, and they like to make trouble in the ditch in his yard, scaring all those eels so that they dare not show their heads, even with the ditch. The small fish and shrimp in the game also suffered a lot.Especially those little loaches, these water ducks seem to like to eat them very much, and you can often see two little guys in the yard fighting for each other by pecking at the loach's head and the other by pecking at the loach's tail.

But they are smart, they never get close to the pool where the fire is kept, and they probably know that it can't be messed with.Huotou in the pool has been growing well in the past few months, his scales have become darker, and his size has grown a lot. It seems that he has gained at least five or six catties these days.However, its fierceness has weakened a lot, and it is no longer afraid of people. It has completely formed a conditioned reflex. Whenever it sees Liu Junhao and Professor Zhao, it will float out of the water, swim to the shore and wait with its tail wagging. They feed.

It was four or five o'clock in the afternoon when he was lying down. Just as he was about to fall asleep, a crisp voice came from the door: "Liu Junhao, are you in the yard?"

You don't need to turn your head to know who this person is. In a blink of an eye, Zhang Qian has been teaching in Liujiagou for almost a month, and she has completely adapted to the rhythm here.Every day after school, she likes to go around the courtyard, and by the way, let Qiuqiu catch some small fish and shrimps in the ditch to eat.

"Well, get out of class is over? Why did school end so early today? It seems like it's not here yet?" Liu Junhao sat up straight and asked.

"Classes are over early these days, and it's autumn harvest now. It's good to let them go back to help out after school early. Besides, today is Friday, so it's right for them to have a good Sunday after school." Zhang Qian likes to play here There are reasons, the first is that there seems to be no other idlers in the whole village except him.Even if there are idlers, she is an old lady in her 70s and [-]s. She talks very naggingly, talking about the crops in the field or the short stories of the parents, and she can't get in her mouth at all.In addition, the jujubes in Liu Junhao's yard have recently reached their ripening season, and they taste sweet and sweet.She ate it a few times, and she never forgot it, and she came here today because of the jujube. She hasn't been home for more than a month, and she wants to take something home to see her parents this Sunday.

At first, she didn't dare to tell her parents about her going to the countryside to support education. She was afraid they would be worried, so she only told her brother, but the paper couldn't contain the anger. It wasn't half a month before Zhang's mother knew about it. Well, she was in class that day, when the phone call came, she kept asking her to resign, and she was not allowed to stay in the ravine no matter what.

Zhang Qian went home this time to comfort her old man, but she was worried for a while about what to bring, and the last thing she thought of was the jujube here.

After Liu Junhao heard her talk about his intentions, he picked up a long bamboo pole specially made for beating dates, hooked it vigorously to a branch of a date tree, and then stood under the tree and shook it.

The jujubes fell suddenly like a heavy rain, Liu Junhao gritted his teeth, while Zhang Qian was busy picking up dates under the tree with a bamboo basket, yelling: "Enough, No more, that's enough..."

After shaking two jujube branches, Liu Junhao stopped to pick up dates with Zhang Qian. This year, jujube trees bear more fruit, and these two jujube branches can pick up more than half of the basket.

After Zhang Qian picked up all the jujubes into the basket, she wiped the sweat from her forehead, took out 20 yuan from her pocket and said, "This is jujube money..."

"What kind of money do you want? I'll be angry if you do this again." Liu Junhao grabbed the bamboo basket and walked out of the yard. "I'll send it back to you. You probably won't be able to handle so much."

"No, if you don't want my money, I don't want jujubes." Zhang Qian disagreed with anything. It is understandable to eat some, but she is embarrassed to eat and take it, not to mention that people's jujubes are originally for sale. Money.

This piece of jujube has been beaten by children since it was just crispy, and Liu Junhao didn't say anything. When it was mature, it looked from a distance, and it was a large piece of red, like a cloud of fire floating at the entrance of the village.

Those city people also ran over curiously, and after tasting it, they all paid for it.Unlike Dahuapi, these big jujube trees are more than ten years old, and the jujubes they bear may weigh hundreds of catties. He and Professor Zhao can't finish it, so Liu Junhao Just sell it at the market price of three yuan per catty. Of course, you can eat as much as you want in the yard for free.

The result was beyond Liu Junhao's expectations again. In the past few days, he earned a small 1000 yuan from selling dates alone.However, the jujubes on the tree were still densely packed, and it seemed that they could harvest another three or four hundred catties.

"Okay, then I will charge ten yuan." Seeing her resolute refusal, Liu Junhao had no choice but to accept ten yuan, and then asked, "Are you going to bring something home, do you want to get a couple of catties of rice field eels, or Shall I ask Xiaopi to catch a rabbit and bring it back to you?"

"No, I'm taking the bus, and those things are not easy to carry," Zhang Qian quickly declined. She had considered these things at first, but there are few buses in the countryside, and there are many people on the bus. It's not easy to take.

"That's all right, I'll cook some watermelon seeds for you and you can take them home so that your mother won't nag you after eating them." He has always wanted to fry these watermelon seeds, but he only kept talking about them after saying it a few times. Today happens to be an opportunity.

"We also sell watermelon seeds there, so don't bother."

"Hehe, my watermelon seeds are definitely different from the ones sold in the market. They are boiled in soup. They taste not only the fragrance of melon seeds, but also the fragrance of meat. You will know when I make them. They are absolutely delicious. You can’t wait to swallow the melon seed skin.”

"Will it be too troublesome?" Zhang Qian's mouth was full of water after hearing his attractive description. There is no girl who doesn't like snacks, and melon seeds and plums are the most common food.

"No, it will be soon." After Liu Junhao sent the jujube to her residence, the two went to the river beach to look for Professor Zhao. Sure enough, he and Xiaopi were wandering there.

When Professor Zhao heard that he was going to cook watermelon seeds, he also became interested, so Xiaopi ran around on the river beach for a while, and soon caught a hare.

Back home, Liu Junhao quickly disembowelled the rabbit, then chopped it into small pieces on the chopping board and poured it into clean water to rinse the blood foam.

Here, Professor Zhao began to boil half of the pot of boiling water. Of course, the gauze bag prepared earlier was placed in the pot, and the gauze cloth was filled with seasonings such as star anise, cinnamon, fennel, and dried chili.

After the water boiled for a while, Liu Junhao took the hare meat out of the clear water and put it into the pot to simmer. After about half an hour, he lifted the lid of the pot, and the meat smelled overflowing immediately. The three people waiting in the kitchen swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"It's not over yet, it will be delicious later." Liu Junhao looked at them and smiled.

Zhang Qian blushed immediately when he said this, and turned her head away from looking at him.

After all the meat was boiled, Liu Junhao put the prepared bamboo sieve into the pot, and then continued to cook it with a slow fire until the lid of the pot could no longer cover the fragrance and spread in the room. nodded.

"How about picking two with chopsticks and tasting it?" He smiled and took out the bamboo sieve, then handed them two pairs of chopsticks, and took another one on his own.

The taste of the homemade ones is good, with the meaty aroma of wild rabbits and the smooth and tender taste. It is very delicious, and the three of them almost swallowed the skin of the melon seeds at the same time.After swallowing, there is still a delicate and lubricating taste in the mouth.

This is not yet finished, because the watermelon seeds cooked in this way are relatively sticky and cannot be eaten immediately. They have to be steamed in a steamed bun sieve to remove the oil and gas outside, and at the same time let the meaty aroma be fully immersed in the melon seeds.

However, the cooked hare soup was drinkable. After cooking for half a day, the rabbit meat was completely spoiled, and even the bones smelled like meat when chewed.

Add rice, ladle soup, pour juice... The three of them ate a meal until their tongues almost fell off.

(End of this chapter)