"Lotus—"

As soon as the sky was bright, a loud trumpet sounded in the valley of Sister A.

The gruff baritone sang the harvest battle in the simplest of rhythms, followed by a flock of high-pitched or low-pitched voices that startled many of the birds that roosted here.

"Hey-the day of the lotus root, hey, the family is happy!

Mother-in-law and little boy look through it!

Two feet stepped through the thousand waves, hey, hey, hey!

With one hand, he took the white lotus root.

Hey, hey, hey, if you want to say that this white lotus has a thousand wonders,

Prince Nezha, he knows the details!

can shape the divine body to break through the thousand armies,

Can go to the nine-day peach feast!

Can enter hundreds of ordinary dishes,

Being able to go to the market is in exchange for money!

In exchange for the money, the mother-in-law is happy,

The old king next door is left to watch!

Prosperity and harmony depend on it,

Brothers, let's take it together!"

More than a dozen sturdy men, either wearing waist-length trousers or simply wearing only a pair of four-sided trousers, sang trumpets and fluttered into the water.

Don't look at the lotus root fields in this Sister Lake, the lotus root is intertwined, and the mud is very deep, if all of them come out, the amount is also very considerable, which is an additional income for the old and young masters in the village.

With these lotus roots, the children and mothers-in-law of the family can change into brand new clothes, and the old people in the family will have money to eat some good supplements, and the men in the mountains are so simple and simple, so that the women in the family can live a good life, so that the old people can enjoy their old age in peace, and they can straighten up their waists to become real gentlemen!

Zhou Dong sighed very much, what is positive energy? This is positive energy!

No matter what time of day, labor is always the most beautiful!

If it weren't for Li Xiuchen and Shen Cheng's hard persuasion, he would have wanted to roll up his sleeves and go down to the lake to touch the lotus root; for the first time since his illness, he was in such a good mood that he felt that his whole body had inexhaustible strength.

Huai Liangren also seemed to be shocked by the scene in front of him, this guy with a serious cleanliness habit actually sat directly on the grass by the lake, holding his mobile phone and taking pictures endlessly.

There are countless lotus roots that have been turned into delicacies by his hands, but this scene of touching the lake is also the first time I have seen it, and it feels very novel.

'Touching the lake and getting tired and dying young', this is not a joke, compared to this kind of hard work, moving bricks is simply the life of the gods.

It's all human, even in today's world of artificial intelligence. After entering the water, the lotus root worker must first use his feet to find the position of the lotus root, and then he has to judge the lotus root path with experience, and then he has to bend down and find the root of the lotus root from the lake mud, first cut off its root, and then pull the root out little by little.

This process must not be reversed, find the wrong root, a good lotus root will be broken in the mud, muddy water into the lotus root is considered waste. After successfully cutting off the root of the lotus root, it is necessary to pull out the root completely by waist force.

How tiring is this job? Change to a fitness guru who has worked out lumps in the gym, and you can let him try it in the lotus root pool. It doesn't take much, pulling out a dozen lotus roots can make him unable to straighten his waist!

"Master Xiao Zhou, you see, it's the best white lotus root. ”

Li Xiucheng took the washed lotus root and ran over, and handed it to Zhou Dong like a treasure.

"Yes, even in our Chudu's lotus root, it is also of the highest grade!"

The white lotus root of Chudu has round pores and reasonable spacing, the lotus root meat is thin and moderately thick, and the whole body is more small and delicate than that of the southern lotus, and the taste of this lotus root has absolutely no meat and dull feeling, the entrance is crisp and juicy, and there is no residue at all.

Huai Liangren leaned over to look at it and nodded slightly.

Of course, a top chef like him is no stranger to the white lotus root in Chudu, and he can see at a glance that the lotus root produced by Ajie Lake is of higher quality than ordinary white lotus root.

This kind of lotus root will not turn gray and black if it is burned and eaten, and if it is used for stir-frying and cold seasoning, it is a first-class delicacy in the world, which is by no means comparable to ordinary lotus roots.

Therefore, if the people of Chudu go to the vegetable market to buy lotus root, they will first ask, is it a real local lotus root? The seller will smile and pat his chest and promise, don't worry, you can't fool anyone to deceive us Chudu people, they are all serious white lotus roots, if you go back and eat badly, just come back and overturn my stall!

Zhou Dong picked a few catties of white lotus root and quickly returned to Li Xiuchen's house, at this time, it was more than six o'clock in the morning, and there was absolutely no problem in making 'green lotus fat and jade porridge' before noon.

After eating the breakfast made by Li Xiuchen's wife, Huai Liang and Shen Cheng began to urge Zhou Dong.

These two people are more anxious than anyone else, and they have been looking forward to this legendary porridge since last night.

'Green Lotus Fat Jade Porridge', hearing this name is particularly lofty, Shen Cheng may want to see a lively scene, but Huai Liangren has long been ready to 'steal the teacher'.

In fact, it's not a stealing teacher, Huai Liangren has already asked Zhou Dong, don't you refuse to watch when you make porridge, right? Zhou Dong replied and said casually, how much you can learn depends on yourself...... The jade porridge is a single high-tech given by the system, and he makes it himself like the upper body of the grandfather, and he really doesn't cherish the broom.

Shen Cheng took the initiative to ask for help, and he had already cleaned the big iron pot of Li Xiuchen's house very quickly, and Zhou Dong arranged for him to get lotus root powder. It is very simple to make lotus root flour, peel and slice the lotus root, put it in a juicer to squeeze it into a slurry, and then filter it out with fine gauze after precipitation, and then dry it in the sun or tumble dry.

And Zhou Dong doesn't require special drying, just put it in a cool place and blow it.

Although he didn't know why he needed lotus root powder to boil porridge, Shen Cheng didn't ask, and honestly went to get it.

Zhou Dong took the inch gold cartilage that Li Xiuchen's wife had just bought, cleaned it with master-level vegetable washing skills, and saw that the mountain spring water in the big iron pot was boiling slightly, so he poured the inch gold cartilage into it and burned it, and did not use the spices of star anise pepper, so he used a large amount of ginger slices and a small amount of green onions.

Huai Liangren nodded slightly: "Are you going to use the soup made of the inchgold cartilage to make the porridge base?" Yes, this is the way of Cantonese porridge, but is this too light?"

After all, he is a connoisseur, and he can see the key point at a glance, and if you want to use meat soup as the bottom of the pot, common spices such as star anise and peppercorns are not used, because it will affect the color of the porridge and the taste is too rude.

It's just that if Cantonese porridge is used in meat, then it must pay attention to the thick taste, and even salted fish can be used as an explosive ingredient, but Zhou Dong chooses an inch of gold cartilage to boil the porridge base, and Huai Liang people will inevitably worry about the weak taste.

Zhou Dong looked at him: "What you want is light, you will know if you look at it." ”

"Oh......" Huai Liangren nodded, rare like an honest baby.

After pressing the fire of the big iron pot, Zhou Dong began to process the white lotus root after noting down the time, and Huai Liangren hurriedly came to him, his eyes wide open, for fear of missing any details.

Zhou Dong first used his master-level vegetable washing skills to clean a few pieces of lotus root, slightly improving the quality of the lotus root, and then removed the root root with a bad taste at the head and tail with a straight knife, and finally cut it into two parts, and directly divided the original ten centimeters long tender root into two.

Several pieces of lotus root are treated like this, depending on what he means is not ready to slice or cut the lotus root into small pieces.

Huai Liangren said curiously: "You shouldn't cook such a large piece of lotus root directly, can this be delicious? ”

Zhou Dong didn't respond to him, picked up a piece of white lotus root in his left hand, and there was already an extra silver needle in his right hand with his head folded into forty-five degrees.

Huai Liangren was dumbfounded, there were no tools in the kitchen that he didn't recognize, but what kind of thing is this, it seems to be a silver needle used in traditional Chinese medicine?

No, this needle is much longer than a normal silver needle, and it has an elbow.

What the hell is this guy doing, I really don't understand......