take a wife to support the family

Chapter 7 Stewed Chicken Soup with Mountain Mushrooms 2
These days, the technology of casting iron in the countryside is really mediocre. Iron knives are easy to rust, and once rusted, they become blunt and difficult to use.

Song Haonian dipped in water and used a whetstone to polish off the dark red rust on the surface of the blade, and then polished the blade until it was sharp. He scratched the blade with his thumb to test the sharpness. He was very satisfied, so he put away the good things and walked to The yard picks which chicken to kill.

Li Baihe heard a few half-sized chickens screaming in a panic, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly called Song Haonian: "Hey, come here!"

She really didn't know what to call Song Haonian, so she had to call it vaguely.

Song Haonian heard it, came in and looked at her, Lily pursed her lips, and said: "Choose a little rooster and kill it, save the hen to lay eggs."

Apart from crowing and mating, roosters really don't have much use.This brood of hens must be kept to lay eggs. She is not in a hurry to hatch chicks to raise them now. When the chicks are hatched, she can borrow roosters from other places. At that time, it is enough to return a pullet or half a basket of eggs. Well, after this calculation, it is indeed more cost-effective to kill a rooster.

Song Haonian couldn't help grinning after hearing what she said, he is a man, and his heart is not too careful, but after listening to her, he understood that killing a rooster is indeed more cost-effective than killing a hen.

His daughter-in-law, who has been married for half a year, is usually dumbfounded. Seeing him is like a mouse seeing a cat. Today, she finally has some meaning to live life, which made him feel that life is brighter all of a sudden.

Here Song Haonian went to the kitchen, boiled a large pot of hot water on the stove, and caught a half-sized rooster in the yard, held down its wings, bent its neck back, cut off the trachea, and the rooster died. The struggle stopped.

Bloodletting, all the blood is put in a stoneware bowl, the chicken is thrown in a wooden basin and scalded with freshly boiled boiling water, and when you wipe it with your hands, most of the chicken feathers will naturally fall off.

There were some fluff and hair roots that were not easy to fall off. Song Haonian ironed it again, and pulled out the hair roots bit by bit.

Then take a knife to cut two slits from the chicken thigh, break it open, and take out the viscera together with the pouch.Put the edible offal—chicken heart, stomach, and kidney—in a small bowl, and throw the rest inedible into a broken bamboo dustpan for the time being, and bring it to brother Liu's dog to eat.

There is thick dead skin on the chicken feet, which can be wiped off with hot water.The neck is cut open, and all the dirt inside is washed off. Before the crown grows, the dirt on the top and the cuticles on the mouth and tongue are rubbed off.Then scald the chicken inside and out with hot water again, and this is considered to be the end of the chicken.

In the basket that Mrs. Liu sent in the morning, besides steamed buns, there was also a handful of dried wild mushrooms. Song Haonian picked a few big ones and soaked them in hot water.

Re-boil a pot of hot water, cut the chicken in half from left to right, and hang half of it under the eaves. In addition, the general chicken is chopped into pieces and boiled in the pot.

The chicken feathers are still useful, the color is good, and the Maofeng is intact, and some are left to dry in the yard, and the rest are splashed far away with the sewage in the wooden basin.

After tidying up these things, Song Haonian couldn't take it easy, seeing that the fence was broken down to a large piece, and a few chickens were jumping in and out, it really looked shameful.

Lily has been so sick for the past few days that she doesn't care about raising chickens at all. When they are hungry, they go out to the woods to find food, and come back when they are full. Either it was stolen too, or it was time to run away.

Song Haonian thought about it, and drove all the chickens into an empty room in his house.There are three thatched houses in his house, one in the middle is used as a bedroom, the one on the east is the kitchen, where food and firewood are also stored, and the one on the west is left empty, where some agricultural tools and the like are placed.

At that time, the eldest girl originally wanted to keep the piglets in the house on the west side, but she was too timid to tell Song Haonian, so she had to keep them in the yard first, but someone stole them and stepped on the fence. .

At this moment, Song Haonian looked at the broken fence, it was not pleasing to the eye, and he thought it would be better to mend it.

Enter the door and say hello to Lily: "The chicken has been stewed, I'll go and chop some wicker and come back, you..."

In the middle of speaking, Song Haonian didn't know whether to say "Don't be afraid when you are alone at home" or "Don't run around when you are at home", scratched his head, and went out with a knife.

The Baishui River meanders out from the low hills and reaches the plains, forming a gentle arc. The side with flat terrain and fertile soil is Qingliu Town.

The streets and alleys of the town are full of willow trees, and there are one or two weeping willows in front of almost every house. In spring and summer, thousands of green silk ribbons hang down, swaying the clear water and white geese, which is very beautiful.

In winter, these willow trees look like old men with thinning hair, hanging down their branches listlessly.

Song Haonian lives on the edge of Qingliu Town, and he can only walk two or three hundred steps away. The next slope is Baishui River, and willow trees of all sizes grow in the crevices of the rocky beach by the river.He didn't want to cut down the dwarf willow tree in front of his fence, so he walked quickly to the river.

The branches for a fence should not be too soft that they will not stand upright, nor too hard that they will not bend and weave a fence.

Song Haonian and his brothers built the three thatched huts bit by bit, so he has experience in building fences. He climbed up a tree, cut a few suitable branches, and then cut another tree.

It is not possible to cut down a tree all at once, but to give it some room to breathe before it can grow again next year. This is the experience of farmers.

After a while, Song Haonian cut down a dozen or so branches, tied a thin branch into a bundle, carried it home, found the iron picket from the west house, and tried his hand on the ground under the fence.

It had just snowed, and the ground was frozen hard, and I went down with my head, but left a white mark.

After digging several times, a hole was dug out, and a few branches were put in according to a certain direction, covered with soil and stepped on firmly.Then weave the remaining branches and the original fence together, and the work is completed.

After these things were done, the chicken in the pot began to emit fragrance. Song Haonian lifted the lid of the pot to look at the color of the meat, poured the soaked wild mushrooms in and cooked them together, took out a bamboo basket and put it on A few buns left in the morning are placed on the pot, and the steamed buns are heated with the steam from the chicken broth.

When the steamed stuffed buns are hot, the chicken soup will be ready. In the salt pot, there is yellow and agglomerated coarse salt. Use a wooden spoon to pound some particles and put them in the soup. Together with the cage drawer, it was carried to the bedroom.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Lily propping her hands on the side of the bed, so weak that she couldn't stand up.Song Haonian hastily put down the pot, strode over, and pressed Lily on the bed: "What are you messing with!"

Lily muttered: "I, I..."

"The doctor said not to let you move around, take care of it!" Song Haonian said sternly.Seeing how thin she was, Song Haonian was really afraid that she would be blown away by the wind as soon as she went out.

Lily was anxious and embarrassed, and blurted out: "I want to relieve myself!"

(End of this chapter)