Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 88 The Gift of the Squirrel

Qiao Miwei noticed from the side, this girl is really good, and it can be seen that her tutor is very good, such a girl even Qiao Miwei likes it, she really can't understand why Qin Zhiyuan doesn't like her.

When it was meal time, Mother Qiao hurriedly went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat. By the way, she also brought Qiao Miwei to the kitchen, "Weiwei, you go to Taoyuan to catch two fish and get some vegetables. Do you want to catch another duck?"

Qiao Mi nodded slightly, and pushed the door into Taoyuan. The drying ground is now drying peanuts and mung beans, which will be put away in two days. When these things are put away, the vegetables in Taoyuan should also be collected. After another busy day, Qiao Miwei went to Taoyuan's house to get a big basin, caught two big fish in the fish pond, and caught a lot of shrimp, and sent them outside for Mother Qiao to handle, and she went back to Picking vegetables in Taoyuan, Qiao Miwei planted the unplanted rapeseed in the garden outside, and there is a lot of space here, so she planted a lot of each kind. She picked a bunch of kidney beans first, and looked at the loofah hanging on the branch. With a tender head, she went up and picked two more, sent them out in a small basket, and then caught another duck and took it out of Taoyuan.

Qiao's mother looked at it and still felt that it was missing, "Wei Wei, go up the mountain to see if you can get some game. You have to get six dishes anyway."

"Oh." Qiao Miwei agreed, thinking that she had entered Taoyuan again, she called Dahei, and went up the mountain from the other side, just in time to see if there were any other good things that she hadn't found.

The trees on the side are not as lush as those facing the south, but there are not many. Fortunately, there are not as many weeds as there, and it is relatively easy to go up the mountain. When you enter the forest, you will first see a pine forest, emitting a slight pine oil Dahei sniffed at the left side of the front and sniffed at the right side. Sometimes there would be voles running through the bushes. Dahei wanted to catch them, but Qiao Miwei stopped him. She knew that some places also eat mice, but She couldn't accept it, and thinking of Xia Yao, she guessed that she wouldn't dare to eat it either.

There are a lot of bees here. I guess there should be some flowering trees not far away. There are large wild beehives hanging on some pine trees. Qiao Mi was afraid of being stung, so he walked around far away. The sound, when she looked up, it turned out to be a squirrel holding a pine cone and gnawing on it. Seeing her looking up, the squirrel also tilted its head to look back. Qiao Miwei thought that there had never been any large animals threatening these small animals here. The lives of the squirrels, so they have no sense of crisis at all. Qiao Mi looked at it amusedly, bent down on the ground, picked up a small stone and threw it towards the squirrel's direction. The stone drew an arc in the air and hit it far away. There was a slight crackling sound on a tree trunk, the squirrel immediately stood up, turned its head to look at the place where the sound came from, then turned back immediately, and then it did something that left Qiao Miwei speechless , It also imitated Qiao Miwei and threw the pine cone in her hand towards her. Qiao Miwei was hit on the shoulder by the pine cone before he could react, and bounced to the ground again.

Qiao Mi was slightly surprised, and looked up at the squirrel. Unexpectedly, the squirrel jumped up and down the tree happily because it hit the target, and then ran away in a hurry.

Dahei regarded the squirrel's behavior as a provocation, and barked several times in the direction the squirrel was running away. Qiao Mi patted its head slightly to calm it down, and saw the pine cone thrown to her by the squirrel not far away, With attention, Mother Qiao asked her to prepare the ingredients, so she should get some pine nuts. It happens that there are tender corns at home, so I can make a dish of sweet corn with pine nuts. Girls like to eat it, but no one cuts down the trees here, and they all grow. It’s very tall. Although Qiao Miwei can climb fruit trees, he has nothing to do with this kind of straight trees. After walking around a few trees, he found a lot of pine cones and shells on the ground. Qiao Miwei picked up two I opened it and looked at it. There were basically no seeds inside. It was probably thrown down after being eaten up by squirrels.

It seems that it is not easy to get some pine nuts. It is best to have a long tree trunk. Unfortunately, this forest is full of pine trees, and the branches grow tall. The branch broke, and the pine tree that had just thrown the pine cone at her appeared again, holding another pine cone in his hand, squatting on the trunk and chewing, Qiao Mi was moved slightly, and quickly found another stone and pointed at it. The squirrel threw it, because there was a precedent for the first time, this time the squirrel was not afraid, and immediately threw the pine cone in his hand. Unexpectedly, the throw was very accurate, and it hit her forehead directly, Joe Mi Wei didn't hide on purpose, let the pine cone fall on it, and the happy squirrel circled around again.

Qiao Miwei waited for the squirrel to finish playing, then picked up another stone and threw it over. The squirrel was very polite and gave her back a pine cone. A squirrel appeared, took a second look, and then smashed Qiao Miwei together. Slowly, a small pile of pine cones piled up at her feet.

It may be that the little squirrel later felt that Qiao Miwei's behavior was bullying them, so he yelled twice into the forest, and three more squirrels came after a while. The squirrels deliberately let the squirrels hit her, and she still got hit badly when she blocked from left to right. After hitting her for a while, the squirrels felt that such a large animal like Qiao Miwei couldn't climb trees, and there was no danger at all, so it was boring. Squeaking and leaving one after another, Qiao Mi took a breather, quickly put all the pine cones on the ground in baskets, and walked back. Unexpectedly, when he reached the edge of the forest, the previous squirrel followed him. When Mi Wei turned around, it squeaked at Qiao Mi.

Qiao Miwei got Songta in a good mood, lifted the basket and patted the squirrel, "Thank you, I will come to see you another day."

The squirrel didn't know how to understand it. Anyway, it jumped up and down a couple of times. Qiao Miwei walked and it followed. It didn't stop until the foot of Kuaishan. Qiao Miwei took a pine cone from the basket and threw it to the squirrel. Just strode down the mountain.

When she got out of Taoyuan, she saw that Mother Qiao had already killed the duck, so she hurried over to offer the treasure, "Mom, what do you think I got?"

Mother Qiao looked back and saw that it was a basket of pine cones, so she laughed, "It's just pine cones, what's so good about it, we always went up the mountain to eat it when we were young."

"Really?" Qiao Miwei was envious, "Mom, you know how expensive pine nuts are now."

While Qiao Mi skillfully opened the duck, she instructed Qiao Mi to chop the pine nuts slightly, "You take a tong and put the pine cones into the furnace to roast, and when they are cooked, smash the pine nuts hard and the pine nuts will come out."

"Oh." Qiao Miwei took out the tongs from the coal basket and stretched the pine nuts into the hearth, "How do you know if the roasting is done?"

"I'll take a look later. I'll know if I bake two of them. There's nothing technical about it." Mother Qiao said without looking back.

After a while, the scent came out from the pine cone, Qiao Miwei hurriedly took out the pine cone to have a look, "Is it all right?"

"It will take a while." Mother Qiao said with a glance.

"What is so fragrant?" Yu Yawen couldn't help asking when she smelled the special fragrance when she came in.

"It's the pine cone." Qiao Miwei pointed to the basket at his feet.

Yu Yawen walked to the front of the basket and looked at it in surprise, "What is that? Why does it smell like pine nuts?"

"Haha." Mother Qiao couldn't help laughing, "I haven't been to the countryside, have you? Pine nuts are the seeds inside the pine cones, which grow on pine trees."

Yu Yawen blushed and said, "Actually, I should know, but I didn't think about it for a while." She knelt down and roasted pine nuts with Qiao Miwei, "How did you make it so rich today?"

"There are guests at home, by the way, you haven't seen it yet." Qiao Miwei said.

Yu Yawen nodded, "Then I'll go say hello." She got up and left the kitchen.

The pine nuts on Qiao Miwei's side were roasted, and she threw them on the ground hard, as Mother Qiao said, all the pine nuts fell out, she quickly squatted down to pick up all the pine nuts, and then put several pine cones into the furnace together , I couldn’t help but opened one with my hands and ate it, “Oh, it’s so delicious.”

Seeing that Qiao Miwei ate several in a row, Mother Qiao couldn't help reminding, "Save some for cooking, and bring the rest to the house for the guests to taste."

"Oh." After baking a few more pine cones, she took out the pine nuts and put them on a plate. When the plate was almost full, she took it up and sent it to the house. The room was very lively, and the three of Sun Ying also came over. Several people sat around the Kang table and chatted. Qiao Miwei put the pine nuts on the table, "Taste all of them."

Qin Zhiyuan looked down, "Yo, it's actually pine nuts, they're freshly roasted, they're really fragrant."

Xiao Tianyou also smelled the fragrance, and grabbed Yu Yawen's sleeve to grab the pine nuts. Qiao Miwei pushed the pine nuts towards Qin Zhiyuan and Xia Yao, "Try it, it's guaranteed to be pure wild."

Xia Yao reached out and took one, peeled it off and ate it, "Well, it smells so good."

Yu Yawen also grabbed a small handful and put it in front of her to peel for Xiao Tianyou. Father Qiao peeled one and fed it to Xiao Tianyou's mouth.

Qiao Miwei helped to fill everyone's teacups with water and said, "Wait a little longer, the food will be ready soon."

Qin Zhiyuan hurriedly said, "Take it easy, we're not hungry yet."

Qiao Miwei went back to the kitchen. Mother Qiao had already cleaned up the duck. Qiao Miwei asked while peeling the pine nuts, "Mom, have you decided what to cook yet?"

Mother Qiao pointed to the ingredients and said, "Braised duck with tree mushrooms, fried loofah, salt and pepper potatoes, corn with pine nuts, fried shrimp, fried kidney beans, how about it? Let's see if we need to mix it with cold dishes after we finish cooking?"

Qiao Mi nodded slightly, "Okay, let's divide the work, one pot per person."

"You stew the duck, and I'll fry the shrimp." Mother Qiao handed the big bowl of duck to Qiao Miwei.

Stewed duck with tree mushrooms is very fragrant. In spring, Tian Xiuniang often went to the mountains to pick mushrooms. Later, half of the inedible ones were marinated, and the other half were dried in the sun. There were tree mushrooms that were very suitable for stewed ducks. Qiao Mi turned over Soak the tree mushrooms in water, then start to dismember the duck, chop the duck meat into pieces and put it in a large bowl, cut the green onion, shredded ginger and garlic slices, after thinking about it, I went to Taoyuan to pick a green pepper, washed it clean Cut into pieces neatly placed on the chopping board.

(End of this chapter)