Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

"It tastes bad."

Gu Siwei took a piece of fish and put it in the bowl. After taking two bites, he said something to the big guy.

"It's hard to say whether it's delicious or not. I think it's extremely delicious. Mr. Tao, your taste is really good."

Qiao Yitong held a bowl in one hand and a large white-faced steamed bun in the other hand. There were two chopsticks in the hand holding the steamed bun. At this moment, there were obvious traces of soup on the steamed bun. It was not necessary to look at Qiao Yitong's hand. The steamed buns were soaked in the soup, and then I ate the steamed buns with the delicious taste of the soup.

Tao Yisheng saw Qiao Yitong's way of eating and praised with a smile: "Comrade Qiao still knows how to eat it. The best thing about it is this soup. Those who don't know can eat fish or meat. Only those who know how to eat can eat it." Only then did I realize that the soup is the most delicious, whether it is mixed with rice or dipped in pasta, it is first-class.

In the past, when the dignitaries ate this soup, they would use finger-sized steamed buns. They would first dip them into the soup, then roll them twice with chopsticks. When they took them out, they would hold them on a small plate. Go up and put the small milk steamed bun to your mouth together with the small plate dripping with soup.

You can only take a half bite, then pour the soup on the remaining half with a spoon, and only then can you eat the remaining half."

"How about something to eat?"

Hu Yanping was a little dumbfounded. He knew about the small milk steamed buns. They were not that big in total. The big ones were about the size of a mahjong tile. How could you eat such a big thing in two bites?

Thinking of this, Hu Yanping looked at the white-faced steamed bun in his hand, which was almost half as big as his face, and felt lucky in his heart: Fortunately, the steamed bun in our hand is big enough.

Thinking of this, I took a big bite and suddenly felt that the steamed bun was a little dry, so I picked up the bowl in my hand and took a sip of the soup along the edge of the bowl.

The soup that was so fresh that it lost its eyebrows, coupled with the large white noodle steamed buns that became sweeter and fragrant the more they chewed, Hu Yanping felt that this day was much more interesting than going to school.

No matter what Hu Yanping thought, everyone was happily eating the steamed buns and soup. For a while, no one moved their chopsticks to the fish, meat and mutton in the bowl.

"Is this material good?"

Tao Yisheng put down the bowl in his hand and asked Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei looked at his appearance, took a bite of the steamed bun soup, and said angrily: "The ingredients are good, but if you want me to learn from your teacher, then there is no need to discuss it. I am not interested."

Tao Yisheng laughed after hearing this and said: "I didn't ask you to become a disciple or anything. I thought that we may not have such a fate, so it would be unsightly to force it."

"Well, that's good." Gu Siwei didn't take it seriously. He said yes and invited the old man and the big guys to eat meat together.

"We all eat meat, so what's the point of just eating soup and steamed buns? We can't just rely on steamed buns to fill our stomachs. We can't take these fish and meat back to Da Mao and Yougui! Come on, eat! Eat! Chopsticks greet you."

Gu Siwei said repeatedly.

After hearing Gu Siwei's greeting, everyone picked up a piece of meat each, but after eating, they returned to their previous appearance, with steamed buns dipped in soup.

"Brother Siwei, can you come to eat here often in the future?"

When Hu Yanping thought about eating the food cooked by his mother when he went back, he suddenly felt that half of the fun in life had been lost. There was nothing going on at school anyway, and he just played all day long, so why not just play with Gu Siwei.

As soon as he thought of this, Hu Yanping started thinking, preparing to lie to Siwei.

Who is Hu Yanqiu? Hu Yanping's biological sister had watched him grow up. To put it mildly, Hu Yanqiu knew what he was doing when he pouted his butt.

"Don't do anything to me. Just come home with us tomorrow. If you get into trouble, I'll beat you up." Hu Yanqiu glared at his younger brother.

"Who said I was playing here? You are thinking too much. I am not here, and there is no electricity or anything."

He obviously wanted to be here, but his sister noticed it, but this boy refused to admit it at all.

Hu Yanqiu glanced at him gently, and the meaning was clear: How can you hide your little thoughts from me?

Hu Yanping shrank his neck and continued eating his steamed buns.

Gu Siwei listened and thought about it for a while before he understood that if there hadn't been a problem with the child last time, Gu Siwei might have agreed to come down. Now, he wouldn't let Hu Yanping stay, even if Hu Yanqiu was happy, he wouldn't be happy. .

Anyone who has nothing to do can help others take care of their children, it’s free.

Suddenly no one said anything. After about five or six minutes, Hu Yanping finally couldn't help it anymore and started asking Tao Yisheng questions.

"Grandpa Tao, what ingredients did you use for this soup? How can it taste like this?"

"Children, don't ask random questions, this is something confidential," Hu Yanqiu shouted.

Tao Yisheng laughed and said: "It doesn't matter. Even if you know what the material is, it is not easy for ordinary people to match it. And if you don't match it well, the material can be fatal."

"Deadly?"

When Hu Yanping heard this, he became even more energetic. He looked at Tao Yisheng eagerly and said clearly in his eyes: Say it quickly, say it quickly.

Tao Yisheng seemed to be interested too, and opened his mouth and said: "The most common ones are mushrooms. The big loose mushrooms in the mountains are dried in the sun and ground into powder after removing the umbrellas. Only the stems are powdered, not the umbrella ones. This is the base, that is, the foundation. And There are several common mushrooms and mountain vines in the mountains. It doesn’t matter if I tell you about them.

One is purple flower vine, and the other is called thorn vine. The leaves of the two are taken. The mushrooms include Laoshan mushroom, Huashan mushroom and Big yellow mushroom. Next comes the key point. The two most important flavors are the sap leaves of the arrow tree, which are dried and powdered."

Hearing the arrow tree, Sicui blurted out: "Can this thing be eaten?"

"you know?"

Hearing Sicui's conversation, Hu Yanping immediately asked.

Sicui nodded and said: "Guess why this tree is called arrow tree? Because the old hunters in the village will put the sap of this tree on their arrowheads to hunt wild boars. The sap of this tree is poisonous and It's very powerful, let alone a hit, even if it's scratched a little bit of skin, it's a narrow escape. When the old hunter touches the arrowhead, he will wrap the arrowhead with a leather sheath."

When Tao Yisheng heard Sicui's words, he couldn't help but wonder: "You girl actually knows this. Many people in their thirties have never heard of it."

Sicui said: "My father told me this before when he was here."

"Arrow tree?" Gu Siwei thought it looked a bit like the arrow tree in the Amazon jungle. It seemed that the natives there also used its juice to smear arrowheads.

"People here call it the Arrow Tree. I don't know if it is called that in other places. However, this kind of tree is rare now. In the past, livestock would eat it by mistake, so most people would just cut it down when they saw it. Over time, it was only found in the deep mountains. I have occasionally found a tree like this, but there are not many of them, just seventeen or eight.

Although this tree is extremely poisonous, it is small and poses no danger to the tree. Once the tree grows up and blocks the sunlight, it will die within a few days."

Tao Yisheng explained.

"Oh~!"

In response, Gu Siwei listened to Tao Yisheng while eating the meat.

Not only Gu Siwei, but other people were also listening with great interest. Tao Yisheng also seemed to enjoy this scene, with a group of juniors listening intently to his story.

Tao Yisheng talked about a lot, including how to prepare soup. Of course, he didn't talk about the most important one, and it was impossible for him to talk about it, which was how to remove the toxicity of arrow tree sap. Without this recipe, even if he told you every You don't dare to adjust the amount of ingredients, because the extremely poisonous stuff can kill people if you're not careful.

Anyway, no one cares. The only one who cares too much, Hu Yanping, is just a good guy. Do you expect him to make soup? How could he be interested in cooking when he was half a baby who didn't even know how to work in the kitchen?

So the picnic took a bit long, lasting more than two hours. When the sun was almost setting, a group of people packed up their things and boarded the boat.

After returning to Yinsong Cliff, Gu Siweixuan sent everyone to the cliff, while he drove the boat all the way to Liu Guo Valley and asked the two families when they wanted to use the boat.

The two families don't know how to use a boat now. They wish they could divide the day into two days, focusing entirely on their own fields.

So Gu Siwei went to look at his boat again. There were a few more cracks, but other than that there was nothing interesting to see. After just going around in a circle, he was ready to go back to Yinsong Cliff.

As soon as he got on the boat, he heard his aunt calling him from the other side.

"Fourth dimension, fourth dimension!"

Gu Siwei raised his head and waved to the aunt who spoke.

"Siwei, do you want a cat at home? Come on, you definitely want it. Our kitten is one month old. It would be nice to give one to your family. Then it would be nice to catch mice and so on."

Without waiting for Gu Siwei to express his opinion, the aunt made the decision for Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei originally said he didn't want it, but after thinking about it, it wouldn't be a problem to have a cat at home now. As for catching mice, there would definitely be no problem. Now all the cats in the village are good at catching mice, and people can't eat. How can there be any problem? Feed them the extra stuff, and any cat that can't catch mice will probably starve to death.

"Then thank you."

Gu Siwei smiled.

"Why are you so polite? Let's go. Forget it, come here and give me a lift. I'll catch the cat for you."

The aunt wiped two hands on her legs and came to the river to wait for Gu Siwei to row over to pick her up.

Gu Siwei picked up his aunt here and rowed the boat directly to the door of his aunt's house. He stopped the boat first and followed his aunt into the yard of her house.

The cat was not in the house, but in a small shed to the east. When the shed door was opened, there was a small wooden box inside. There were several handfuls of straw and several pieces of rags that were almost broken into strips.

Several thin kittens of different colors were crawling around in the wooden box, making meowing sounds at the same time.

"Isn't this a little small?"

Gu Siwei felt that this kitten was a bit too small. Would it be easy to take it home and feed it if it was so big?

The aunt smiled and said: "They are not young anymore. A little rice porridge can feed them. You see which one you want and you can take it yourself."

Gu Siwei squatted next to the kitten's nest and took a look. It seemed that after seeing it, he still felt that Daju looked better. The main reason was that Daju was the largest. He could tell at a glance that he was a foodie. He fed himself to such a poor condition. Most fat, Gu Siwei appreciates this ability.

"Just this one, I like the orange one better," Gu Siwei said.

"Okay, you can take it." Auntie smiled happily.

As far as my aunt is concerned, this cat has been on sale for a few days, and so far not many people want it. Who doesn’t have a cat?

If there were no cats, what little food we had in the house would not be enough for the mice. Cats would be much more useful than dogs now. Without the cats, wouldn’t the little food in the house become cheaper for the mice?