Farming in Primitive Society

Chapter 19 The Uses of Wine
The two of them hadn't finished processing the offal. Lie, Can and Shi passed by carrying the wild boar meat they shared and the prepared hare, pheasant and fish, and refused their help. Mu Xiaohua gave them the washed pig internal organs and asked them to Go home first and turn on the fire and boil the water.

"That's right." The three obediently went home first and Mu Xiaohua asked Yu beside him, "Yu, is there any wine here?"

"Wine?" Yu thought for a while and said, "Probably only Mu's family has it. What do you want wine for? Do you want to drink it?"

"No." Mu Xiaohua shook her head, "It's for cooking."

The smell of wild rabbits and wild boars will be heavier than that of artificial breeding. In the past, when roasting wild rabbits, salt packets of instant noodles were used to effectively suppress the smell, but now there are no such seasonings, so other methods need to be used to remove the smell These wild game will taste delicious and fragrant, otherwise they will be more unpalatable than artificially farmed ones.

In modern times, cooking wine is used to remove the smell of meat, but cooking wine must not be available in primitive society, so we can only use wine, but only Lao Mu's family has wine, so it seems that wine is quite precious here, what can we do?

"Is wine important?" Yu asked.

"En." Mu Xiaohua nodded, and began to explain the use of wine to Yu.

After hearing this, Yu nodded with an educated face, "That's it! But the wine is only available at my mother's house, and I brought it from outside to give it to my mother."

"Outside?" Mu Xiaohua asked suspiciously, in fact, she had wanted to ask for a long time, what kind of outside was the outside they were talking about?
"Outside means the place outside the Moya Forest. There are many tribes like us outside the Moya Forest."

That's it, Mu Xiaohua nodded abruptly.

Yu continued: "Cheng said that in some places outside, a tribe has thousands of people or even more. Some tribes live not in caves but on trees, and some live in thatched houses. Wine Cheng bought it from the tribal assembly in the Rock Forest outside, and I heard that it was brewed with wild fruits, and a person named Ganlin in the Rock Forest is especially good at brewing wine."

"That's it!" Mu Xiaohua nodded thoughtfully, she felt that the world was slowly developing, and it was more colorful than she imagined.

But no matter how exciting the outside world is, the problem before her at the moment is, wine, wine, she needs wine.

Just when Mu Xiaohua was distressed, Cheng appeared.

Mu Xiaohua and Yu just finished handling the chicken offal and were about to go home. When they got up, Mu Xiaohua was a little dizzy and her legs and feet were numb because of squatting for too long. Yu hurriedly supported her, lowered his head and asked in concern, "How is it? Are you okay?"

Her legs and feet were so numb, Mu Xiaohua simply leaned on Yu's body, "Hiss~ My legs and feet are so numb, let me relax."

It was at such a moment that Cheng appeared, stood on the small road and looked at the two people who were intimate by the river below, and then thought about Mu Xiaohua's avoidance of him, and called out to the two of them with some discomfort.

Mu Xiaohua and Yu looked up and greeted Cheng.

"Is there something wrong?" Yu asked.

"Yeah." Cheng nodded, looked at Yu's hand holding Mu Xiaohua's wrist, then looked at Mu Xiaohua and said, "Xiaohua, I want to ask you, how do you use peppercorns?"

Mu Xiaohua stomped her feet, feeling much better, and asked as she walked on the road, "What are you going to do, fish?"

Cheng watched Mu Xiaohua and Yu walk in front of him without answering, "What are you going to do?"

There is no frying pan or steamer, and the only seasoning is pepper, Mu Xiaohua thought for a while and said, "Let's roast it!"

"Is there any other way besides roasting?" Cheng said a little speechlessly.

"Yes!" Mu Xiaohua said as a matter of course, "It can still be cooked."

"Is it delicious?" Cheng asked doubtfully.

"That depends on how it's cooked." Take boiled fish as an example, it's delicious, Mu Xiaohua couldn't help but licked her lower lip thinking about the taste, feeling a little hungry.

"Let's not talk about cooking, if roasting, how do you use the peppercorns?"

"Bring the pepper..." Mu Xiaohua suddenly stopped talking, rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Do you have wine at home?"

Why did Cheng suddenly mention alcohol with a face full of confusion?Nodded, "Yes."

Mu Xiaohua pursed her lips and smiled, "I'll tell you how to use prickly ash, how about some wine?"

"Why do you want wine?" Cheng frowned, "That stuff is bitter and spicy, and it doesn't taste good at all."

"I didn't use it for drinking, but for marinating meat and fish. You don't need too much, just a little."

"Meat and fish with wine?" Cheng Yi couldn't understand.

Mu Xiaohua had no choice but to explain the use of wine to him, and after listening to it, Cheng was as educated as Yu before, "It turns out that this can get rid of the mutton or fishy smell in the meat!"

"En." Mu Xiaohua nodded, "Boil the peppercorns in water, use the peppercorn juice, salt and some wine to marinate the fish. One thing to note is that you have to cut a few times on both sides of the fish."

"Why do you need to make a few cuts?"

"It is convenient and delicious, but the amount of pepper should be controlled well. Too little will not taste good enough, too much and too heavy will not taste good."

"Use the juice to cook the peppercorns, but what about the peppercorns?"

"There is no need for peppercorns. Peppercorns are numb, so don't eat them directly."

"En." Cheng nodded clearly: "I see, I'll go back and get you some wine, and then I'll see how you do it."

"it is good."

After Cheng left, Mu Xiaohua and Yu went home. Lie and the others had already lit the fire and put the water on. Bring it up!"

"What do you want pots for?" Lie Bujie asked.

"Bring the bacon."

"Okay." Lie Ying quickly walked out of the cave.

Mu Xiaohua was very busy cooking millet porridge in another clay pot.

Not long after, Lie came back with Cheng, Cheng couldn't help frowning because of the peppery smell all over the cave, "Xiaohua, does this peppery smell taste good in fish and meat?"

Ever since she disliked the smell of Amei's hands, Mu Xiaohua knew that he didn't like the smell of peppercorns, "Actually, it depends on personal taste. If you don't like the smell, you won't find it delicious."

"Then I'll try what you made first to see if it tastes good."

"Brother Cheng, don't you just find an excuse to eat?" Can said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Tsk!" Cheng Heng glanced at Can, and said with a smile: "Everyone says they see through, but what's the matter with you?"

Everyone laughed, and Cheng handed a vertical pottery the size of a mineral water bottle to Mu Xiaohua, "I brought several cans of this kind of wine, and I'll give you one."

"Thank you." Mu Xiaohua took it, unexpectedly Cheng was quite generous.

The most needed wine is here, and the prickly ash juice needs to be boiled for a while. Mu Xiaohua decides to wash the pig intestines and tripe first. Just washing the pig intestines and tripe with water can't get rid of the smell, and they have to use salt. Rinse with alcohol to completely remove the smell.

A few steps to the right of Can’s house, there is a well. Mu Xiaohua asked Lie to go with her with a basin, and the others stayed at home to watch the fire.Cheng wanted to go with him, but was stopped by Yu: "Cheng doesn't need to go, just let them go."

"I want to see how Xiaohua washes."

"What's so good about washing it?"

Cheng looked at Yu inquisitively, and Yu looked back at him, the eyes of the two met in the air, as if a series of electric currents were crackling.

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