novelaction Chapter 394: Chinese Toon and Eggs
Chapter 394: Chinese Toon and Eggs
"Yes, this thing will grow again if you pinch it. It can be pinched for at least a month. There are some on several hills, so you can pinch a lot."
With so many people picking the weeds together, it didn't take long to finish picking all the weeds on the field and put them all into Zhou's sacks.
Li kept thanking him.
Everyone waved their hands and said, "What's there to thank you for? It's just a matter of helping out. In the past, we would have looked down on this thing if we hadn't even glanced at it for a second. Now that you've come forward and shared this idea, we can have an extra dish on our table. We should be the ones to thank you."
Everyone smiled and said yes.
Li smiled and said, "What's there to hide? It's just a wild vegetable."
We harvested so much from this field yesterday that the people who went up the mountain today picked a lot and took it back, but they still filled three full sacks, and there was still some left.
Zhou Guo didn't think it was too much. He tied up the pockets and placed one bag horizontally on Li's backpack. Zhou Guo tied the remaining two sacks to a wooden stick, put them on his shoulders and carried them.
Others saw her as a little kid, carrying a small basket of goat mushrooms on her back and two big sacks of ferns on her shoulders. The ferns were freshly picked and were not light in weight.
He smacked his lips and said, "Although I've seen this girl's strength many times, I still have to say, she's really strong!"
His tone was full of envy. How great it would be if this person was born in his own family. One person could do the work of three people!
Someone else said, "Don't think about it. You only see that she is strong and works a lot, but you don't see that she eats a lot. Last year, when I went to her house to eat the pig-killing dinner, I saw this girl holding the bowl and eating three full bowls of dry rice. You say she can eat so much at this age? If she grows up, she will eat six or seven bowls at a time. Who can afford to support her in a family like ours? If she doesn't eat enough, she will have no strength. So, if she was born in a family like ours, it would be useless. We can't afford to support her!"
Everyone sighed.
The heads of the families at the foot of the mountain are already waiting.
Seeing them coming down, they couldn't help but complain, "Others have already left, why are you so slow? We waited and waited but you didn't show up. We were about to go up the mountain to look for you, and it's almost dark!"
The old man was also waiting under the tree. Zhou Guo came forward with his load on his shoulder and said with a smile, "Master, look, we have grabbed a few sacks."
The old man glared at her, "You, why are you pinching so much? Are you planning to eat only this every day these days?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Why dry the leftovers? This thing is just like beans. Once dried, it will swell up again after being soaked in hot water. You can stew it with meat or eat it cold."
The old man didn't have much feeling for stewed meat, but when it came to cold dishes, he thought of the cold bracken from last night. The taste was really good, and he couldn't help but nod when he thought of it, "If the taste can be the same as last night, that would be fine."
Zhou Guo was speechless, "...it's already dried out in the sun, no matter how much you soak it, it won't be restored to its current state. Although the taste is a little worse, I think it's not much different."
"Let's go." The old man stood up with a sack in his hand, picked up a dead log that was as thick as a thigh and two meters long, and walked towards the foot of the mountain.
All the villagers went out without leaving anyone behind, and they returned in an orderly manner.
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Today we collected the most mountain products.
Three backpacks and a sack of sheep mushrooms, one sack was picked up by the old man.
A sack with many bundles of toon buds.
Three sacks of bracken.
They were lying all over the yard, which was a spectacular sight.
Zhou Xing pointed at the goat mushrooms and said, "Let's pick out the good ones and take them to the county town to sell them tomorrow like everyone else."
Everyone nodded, saying that it could make money.
Zhou Guo pointed at the Chinese toon buds and bracken and said, "Why don't we pick some of these up as well and take them to see if we can sell them?"
Everyone shook their heads. "No, even if we bring it, no one will buy it. We should just keep this disgusting food for ourselves."
Zhou Guo crossed his arms and said, "It tastes bad? Didn't you enjoy the meal last night? Why do you think it tastes bad now?"
Zhou Gu chuckled and said, "Isn't it that people outside are afraid that they don't know how to do it?"
Zhou Guo spread his hands, "If we don't know how to do it, we can just tell them, then they will know it, and the people in the city are rich, they don't lack the money for the seasoning, and the result they make may be better than ours."
Everyone's eyes lit up. Yes, we can also tell others about this method.
Seeing them starting to tidy up the things on the ground, Zhou Guo grabbed a handful of toon sprouts and went to cook. In fact, the meal had already been prepared, but the toon sprouts had to be served on the table today.
No matter whether it tastes good or not, since it has been picked from the mountains, it must be served on the table.
Blanch the toon buds in hot water until they change color, then remove them, wash them, and cut them into small pieces.
I saved about ten eggs to eat during the spring ploughing season.
Take out four of them, crack them into a large bowl, put the chopped toon sprouts in, add salt, and mix them together with the egg liquid.
When the oil is hot, pour the mixed eggs and Chinese toon into it. It immediately starts sizzling and a rich aroma emerges.
……
The dishes are still the same as yesterday, but today there is an additional dish of scrambled eggs with Chinese toon.
The Zhou family was surprised to see that there was an egg in the Chinese toon.
Zhou Mai said: "There are eggs in it. It must be delicious if it's made with eggs!"
“Why didn’t I think of using an egg stall before?!” Zhou Gu touched his head.
Zhou Xing said helplessly: "Brother, the eggs in our family were sold for money before. Who would be willing to eat them like this? Even if they wanted to eat them, they would make egg drop soup. Even before, no one would have thought that a wild vegetable would need eggs to go with it."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Don't just look at it, try your hand at it."
Seeing that she didn't even lift her chopsticks, the old man raised his eyebrows and took the lead in picking up a piece of cold bracken and eating it.
There were eggs. Zhou Gu was the first to reach out for the chopsticks, pick up a small piece and put it into his mouth.
His brows furrowed.
"Huh? Why do you react like that? It's still so unpalatable even with the egg added?"
Zhou Gu hesitated for a long time and couldn't come up with the right words.
No one could resist and stretched out their chopsticks to eat. Eggs are so delicious, and they must be delicious with toon buds.
But no one knew that they ate in silence.
Zhou Guo: "Tsk, come on, how does it taste?"
The old man was eating food but his eyes were fixed on them.
Zhou Gu finally spoke up: "How should I put it? It smelled a bit bad at first, but it became fragrant as I ate it. It didn't have the weird taste I had before. I don't know if it's because of the eggs or because it's overcooked."
Zhou Mai said: "I said it would be delicious with eggs. Sure enough, it turns out that toon sprouts should be paired with eggs. I wonder if it would taste better with chicken?"
Despite this, Zhou Xing and Zhou Mi still don't like him very much, but they don't hate him as much as before.
Zhou Su loved to eat it and couldn't stop eating with chopsticks.
Li smiled and said, "I think it's delicious. There are eggs in it, and there's so much oil. It's very fragrant."
Zhou Guo ate a piece himself. Hmm, it still tasted the same, not much better. However, the wild ones seemed to be a little better than the ones he grew himself.