cultivating immortals and planting the fields

Chapter 37 Four Men, One Table of Wine
In the afternoon, Mr. Zhang came back and removed the scales of the piebald snake, bled it, and took the gall to make wine.Then chop it into pieces and put it in a large pot, part of it is braised in soy sauce, and part of it is made into snake soup. The fat bamboo rats weigh almost two catties after bloodletting and skinning.Mr. Zhang added dried bamboo shoots and stewed it.After a while, the fragrance of Kung Fu wafted through half the village.Before it was dark, the village head, uncle and nephew came down with wine.

Several people worked together, Mr. Zhang took the spoon, Zhang Wei, the village chief Zhang Yourong, and the village chief's nephew Zhang Shengli. The three elders picked beans, tomatoes, eggplants, and vegetables, and cleaned them. He also got into the kitchen to help the old man cook the cauldron.

Stir-fried in a large pot, stewed in a small pot, and a table full of dishes was served in a short while.Wine is good wine, and the golden dress is foolish.The dishes are good dishes, and the small green vegetables produced in Zhangwa are limitedly supplied by star hotels in the provincial capital.The soup is piebald snake and carrot soup. Of course, the two main dishes of braised snake meat and stewed bamboo rat meat are indispensable.As for Xiao Keke, she had already picked up a large bowl of meat before it was served on the table, and then ate a tomato, holding a big red tomato in her arms, and Zhang Wei coaxed her to sleep on her bed I'm going to bed.Not to mention Xiao Keke, the little girl who is only five years old sleeps alone.Apart from her fondness for food, this girl is also extremely clever and well-known in the whole village as a young adult.Addition and subtraction within one hundred and one come with just opening your mouth. The famous little child prodigy has a sweet mouth, which is very attractive.

Each of the eight-cent cups was filled with a large cup. Not to mention, the wine smelled quite mellow, but Zhang Wei stopped touching his mouth after taking a sip. Grandpa made his own wine, Grandpa Zhang laughed straight at Zhang Wei, this kid is a mouthful of good wine, and last time Zhang Wei drank the monkey wine better than anyone else.

When the monkey wine was mentioned, the village head's uncles and nephews drool immediately. Monkey wine is the king of wine. It seems that this position is irreplaceable.It is said that Maotai, the state banquet wine, dare not compete with it for the status of the king.

Speaking of monkey wine, Master Zhang brought up Professor Hu's visit, but not many people in the village knew about Professor Hu's arrival. It is even more impossible for Zhang Wei to say.

The village head felt very sorry for not seeing Professor Hu, and said that the next time Professor Hu came again, Master Zhang must inform him, and the village head wanted to treat him to a few meals. It is estimated that many people in the village knew about it. There is such an idea as the village chief.

Of course, the old village chief didn't forget to ask Mr. Zhang if he still had the monkey wine.Of course, with Zhang Wei and Sun Xiaolei present, it's no wonder the wine can be kept.Even though Zhang Wei doesn't usually drink alcohol, he can drink quite a lot. That gourd of monkey wine made him snatch a small half of it.Professor Hu and Master Zhang finished their chat over a glass of wine, and Zhang Wei and Sun Xiaolei naturally divided up the rest, and Zhang Wei grabbed a lot of it by virtue of his physical strength.Don't look at the wine, which is mellow and sticky to the mouth, but the strength is not low. Even if Sun Xiaolei didn't drink as much as Zhang Wei, he slept for nearly half an afternoon before he was dizzy.When did Zhang Wei drink so much, Sun Xiaolei wondered, even Zhang Wei himself wondered, he knew that his drinking capacity was only half a catty in this life, when would it be okay to drink so much , this 20-year-old monkey wine is worth a pound or two.

Later, Sun Xiaolei wanted to find Zhang Wei for a wine competition, but Zhang Wei always refused on the grounds that the wine was not good.Not to mention, Zhang Wei is a sucker. He used to drink some liquor and beer. This guy has stopped drinking beer since he drank Zhang Ye's self-brewed wine, and he basically doesn't drink monkey wine. The rest of the liquor was gone.Zhang Wei is always pondering on his own to see if he can make some wine that is similar to the fairyland, but the best brew is Baiguo Brew. As the name suggests, it is brewed from various fruits, and it does not necessarily require a hundred kinds of fruits. , as much as you want, this is also a wine making method invented by Du Kang, mash the fruit and put them together to ferment into wine. Almost everyone in Tianting can brew this wine.Zhang Wei also thought about waiting for autumn to see if he would also go to the mountains and pick some wild fruits to brew this Baiguo Niang to satisfy his craving for wine.

When a man drinks, he talks a lot, and when he talks a lot, he also speaks a lot of truth. Master Zhang, Village Chief Zhang, and Zhang Shengli have a bottle of wine, and they talk a lot.Zhang Wei basically stayed with him for eight dollars for a glass of wine. The village head, uncle and nephew heard that Zhang Ye said that Zhang Wei was a good drinker, so they basically stopped shouting.Every time the three of them touched Zhang Wei, it was enough.

After one bottle was finished, another bottle was opened. Zhang Wei didn't drink alcohol, so selling wine was naturally Zhang Wei's business.The four of them ate the dishes on the table. Master Zhang and the village head were full of emotions. They kept eating the bamboo rat meat and thanking the bamboo rat. When there was a famine, no one relied on it. This bamboo rat survived.In the words of the village chief, without this bamboo rat at that time, there would be no Zhang Yourong today.Zhang Wei didn't feel much about it, because he didn't go through the years of famine, so he didn't know, but the bamboo rat meat was really delicious, and Zhang Wei really experienced it.

During the dinner, Zhang Shengli also said that some people in the south are already raising bamboo rats to get rich. Bamboo rats are delicious and have high nutritional value. In some big restaurants, they can be sold for 80 yuan per catty. Raising bamboo rats is easy. And the breeding is fast, one litter a month, one litter can produce five or six, and the bamboo rats can take up to four months from birth to laying down.And it grows very fast. If there is enough food, it can grow a pound in a month.

Then several people discussed the future development direction of Zhangwa Village.Generally speaking, Zhang Wei said when he asked, and he laughed when he felt that he should not say something.Naturally, Zhang Yourong, the village head, was worrying about the affairs of the village, so it was better for him not to intervene.

Speaking of the transformation of the village, the village head Zhang exaggerated Zhang Wei's planning and his own interests to start the development of the village. The village head himself admired Zhang Wei, a young man, and said that if If the village has really developed as Zhang Wei said, then the whole village will be grateful to Zhang Wei, a child from the city.

Then the village head talked about his plan for the future of the village, and asked a few people to discuss it and give some opinions.In short, the future is bright, the future is bright, and the development of Zhangwa Village is certain.

However, Zhang Wei felt that the village chief's plans for the future were well-regulated and developed steadily. He was not like other officials. As long as he was a little slender, he climbed high and looked far away, and finally the foundation he had developed with great difficulty returned to chaos. among.

The four men drank until past ten o'clock. After finishing the two bottles of Jinhudou wine from Zhang Shengli, they opened another bottle of Yinjiannan brought by the village head. Except for Zhang Wei's eight-money wine, the other three were almost the same. At the end of the drinking, the three of them seemed to be all right, except for Zhang Shengli who seemed to be blushing a little. Zhang Wei really admired the drinking capacity of these three people. It seemed that it would be no problem to pour another three bottles.

After removing the wine table, Zhang Wei went to the backyard with a basket to pick some cucumbers and tomatoes for everyone to soothe the hangover.Zhang Wei looked at the big emerald watermelon rolling in the garden in the backyard, but he was thinking in his heart whether the melon was ripe or not, he would pick one and taste it tomorrow.It's impossible for this watermelon to not stop growing for a day, so I have to wait an extra day. This watermelon is not only overgrown, but also late ripening.

The four of them ate another basket of cucumbers and tomatoes. Zhang Shengli praised the food again and again. It was almost eleven o'clock when the village head Zhang and nephew came home. Zhang Shengli had to leave Zhang Wei with a pair of bamboo rats , Said to go back and raise it, if it is raised well, this is also a way to make money.

(End of this chapter)