Chapter 154: Tian Luoxiang
By a group of boys playing with the bear, Bian Rui returned to the kitchen and began to deal with the snails, so he added water to the basin, poured the snails into it, and poured a few drops of sesame oil into it, so that the snails could spit out the dirty things in their stomachs. Throwing the space for a while, Bian Rui took out the basin, and the snails in the basin almost vomited out the dirty things.
Click!
Bian Rui moved a small bench and sat next to the basin, holding a snail in one hand and pliers in the other, and when the pliers crushed the tail of the snail, it would make a crisp clicking sound.
The snail with the tail of the snail clamped was copied twice in the water, and Bian Rui threw the snail into the small bamboo basket next to it.
Bian Rui's movements were fast, and the clicking sound was non-stop, and he quickly clamped the small half of the basket.
"Do you have anything to eat?"
Yan Lan was sweating profusely, and ran into the kitchen in a hurry, but Bian Rui was sandwiching a snail, so he walked to the basket and squatted down, turned it over a few times with his hand and said, "Can this be clean?"
Bian Rui said: "It's not clean, you throw the shell in my face." What do you want to eat?".
"Feel free to do it, I'll feed the bears, don't you say that these two bears are so cute, it seems that they can do everything except talk, and they can ride bicycles......" Yan Lan said happily.
When Bian Rui heard this, he immediately asked, "What? The car, where did the car come from?"
Yan saw Bian Rui's appearance and smiled: "Look at you like that, don't worry, the bear didn't ride your little sheep, he rode on a bicycle, and your nephew rode it, and he rode it quite well."
As soon as he heard that it was not his own car, Bian Rui breathed a sigh of relief, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong, so he said to Yan Lan: "When did you become my little sheep, let me tell you that you have been riding this car for a long time, you have to pay me back today no matter what, I haven't had a few times since I bought it."
"Look at you, why are you so stingy, I will buy one when I pay my salary after a while, and you will pay back this car" Yan Lan was also a little embarrassed when she heard Bian Rui say this, this car has indeed been borrowed for a long time.
But she was embarrassed, but she didn't spare Bian Rui, she didn't know what was going on, the longer she got along with Bian Rui, the more she felt that sometimes she couldn't control her temper. If this car belonged to someone else, even if it was a good friend, at most Yan Lan would borrow it for a day or two and then send it back with a full tank of fuel. But after riding Bian Rui's motorcycle for so long, Yan Lan didn't even think about sending it back.
"Get me a pair of pliers, I'll help you with a clip," Yan Lan said.
Bian Rui was taken aback when he heard this, and immediately pushed Yan Lan away: "Don't dare to bother you, the eldest lady, you better go outside and play with the two bears for a while." By the way, if you don't eat at my place at noon, I'll cook an extra meal if you are."
Yan Lan immediately said when she heard this: "Isn't it stupid for me?" Can I not rub the rice after ordering this, hurry up, in addition to the snails, there will be a plate of fish-flavored shredded pork today, and the soup will have a loofah egg soup, which is almost enough."
"You're direct," Bian Rui smiled at Yan Lan.
Yan Lan was not polite, she stood up directly, walked to the wooden hook where the basket was hung, and reached out and dragged the bottom of the basket to remove the basket from the hook.
"Don't say I don't work and eat, I'll go pick eggplants and loofahs for you."
Saying that, Yan Lan walked to the door with the basket on her shoulder, stopped two steps after arriving at the door, turned her head and asked Bian Rui, "I just heard your nephew say that he was going to pick wild strawberries in a while, how many wild strawberries do you have here?"
Hearing Yan Lan's question, Bian Rui patted his head: "How did I forget this!"
There are a lot of wild strawberries in the mountains, most of them are concentrated in two or three places, and among the mountains surrounding the village, there are always some mounds with shallow soil on the slopes, and there are no trees, so they are replaced by some small plants, and there are two or three places full of wild strawberries, and the strawberries are not big, almost the size of a dollar coin, not like the artificially planted ones that can grow into the size of a doll's fist.
The taste of wild strawberries is average for those who have never tasted them, because even if they are completely red, they are a little sour, and they are not as sweet as the strawberries that are grown.
However, for the children in the countryside, they are not so picky, and most people are reluctant to buy strawberries for more than 30 yuan a pound for their children to eat, so every year when the wild strawberries are ripe, the children in the neighborhood will call their friends to pick wild strawberries to eat.
"Why don't I take you to pick wild strawberries in the afternoon?" asked Bian Rui.
Yan Lan shook her head when she heard this: "No, I still have to go to class in the afternoon, not tomorrow, tomorrow I want to go to the county with my parents, about the day after tomorrow, do you have time the day after tomorrow?"
Bian Rui snorted: "Then the day after tomorrow."
It's the middle of May, it's the time when the strawberries are ripe naturally, and in another ten days, the strawberries will be gone, and the wild strawberry season is very short, only twenty days before and after, and the strawberries will be gone after this time. And this year's weather is a little hot, it is estimated that it will not take ten days, at most seven or eight days this wild strawberry will be gone.
Thinking of this, Bian Rui decided to pick some in the afternoon, not only to satisfy his own cravings, but also to give his daughter and Yan Lan a taste.
Bian Rui continued to pick up the snails, while Yan Lan carried the basket to the vegetable garden at the door to choose vegetables.
As soon as they arrived at the door, the two bears saw Yan Lan come out with a basket, and immediately ran over, looking at Yan Lan with blank eyes, and the four black paws couldn't stop stunned at the basket.
"Sister Yan Lan, this bear wants your basket" The kid guessed what the bear meant.
Yan Lan heard and handed the basket into the hands of the female bear, only to see the female bear take the basket and immediately put it on the crook of her arm and stood up from the ground.
The little bear son was in a hurry, and he roared to grab the blue child on his mother's carry, making a whirring sound in his mouth.
"Don't grab it, I'll get you another one"
After Yan Lan finished speaking, she opened her legs and ran to the kitchen, and soon picked up a basket and handed it to the bear son, and then the bear son was also like the mother bear, and he picked up the basket like a bear.
When Yan Lan saw it, she said with a smile: "Go, follow me to choose vegetables."
After speaking, Yan Lan took the lead and walked towards the vegetable garden, and the two bears also carried baskets and followed Yan Lan with their bodies upright.
After entering the garden, the two bears did not move the vegetables, and honestly followed behind Yan Lan, allowing Yan Lan to pick things and put them in the basket they carried on their arms.
"Here, eat a tomato!"
Yan Lan picked two tomatoes and stuffed one directly into their mouths.
Only then did the two bears chew on it in a big gulp.
"Sister Yan Lan, why don't you talk to my uncle and give me a bear, if you take it out, it's much more powerful than leading a dog," a kid stood outside the vegetable garden and said to Yan Lan inside.
Although the boys are skinny, they will not enter other people's vegetable gardens at will, mainly for fear of trampling the vegetables in the vegetable garden. Every kid standing here has been beaten since he was a child, and although he doesn't beat him when he grows up, they can't wipe off this face, that is, they are sensible and don't harm the vegetable garden.
"Take it out, before you can take it out, the police will come to arrest you," Yan Lan said with a smile and looked back at the boy who spoke.
While speaking, Yan Lan chose a cucumber and brushed the thorns on the cucumber, divided it into two pieces, half of which was fed to the mother bear and half to the bear son.
Anyway, Yan Lan chose this dish, and she didn't pick many eggplants and loofahs, but most of the ripe tomatoes and cucumbers went into the stomachs of the two bears.
There were two of them at noon, so Yan Lan only picked a round eggplant and a tender loofah more than one meter long, these boys outside Bian Rui didn't serve food at noon at noon, just these boys, Bian Rui estimated that he had to work for an hour to fill their bellies.
As the saying goes, half the size eats the poor man, these boys are in this period, a bowl of white rice can be eaten with pickles, where does Bian Rui dare to keep them to eat.
It's not just Bian Rui, as long as it's not a happy event, or there is something big in the family, no family will have nothing to do with inviting these boys to dinner.
And these boys are also very self-aware, seeing Yan Lan out of the vegetable garden, they all went back to their respective homes and went to find their own mothers.
Bian Rui has already clamped all the snails, threw the garbage into the bag, took the snails to the side of the stream outside the house, immersed the small bamboo basket in the water, grabbed the snails with one hand and began to knead them gently, kneaded them for about a minute, carried the basket out of the water, drained the water, and then repeated the above action, and cleaned all the snails two or three times in a row.
When I returned to the courtyard, I found two bears squatting at the door of the kitchen, like the door god, with their butts facing outwards and their faces in, not knowing what they were looking at.
Waiting for Bian Rui to arrive at the door, he found that the two bears were looking at Yan Lan, and Yan Lan was cutting shredded meat at this moment.
Yan Lan felt that someone was blocking the light at the door, and when she turned her head and saw Bian Rui coming back, she opened her mouth and asked, "How are you going to feed these two bears later?"
"How else can you feed it, what can the dog eat, what will they eat," Bian Rui stepped into the house.
Yan Lan asked curiously, "These two eat meat."
"To be correct, bears are omnivores, and they eat not only meat, but also fruits and mushrooms."
Bian Rui came to the house as he spoke, put down the basket, and began to grab a stack of small basins, grabbing the spices one by one. The roasted snail must be spicy, and if it is not spicy, half of the flavor will be missing, so the first thing Bian Rui grabbed here is the dried red pepper, and the remaining star anise, cinnamon and anything are naturally indispensable, and as for the seasoning of three green onions, ginger and garlic, it is even more indispensable.
"You can't keep feeding vegetarians, and vegetarians don't carry hunger" Yan Lan also wanted to fight for the right to eat meat for the two bears.
Bian Rui didn't say a word and stretched out a hand at Yan Lan.
"What for?"
"Take the money, where does the meat come from without money, don't you need money for meat? Well, I don't have a lot, I take 4,000 yuan from my salary every month to buy meat for the two bears, and I guarantee that they will have meat to eat every day," Bian Rui said.
Yan Lan stopped hearing this: "What do you want, four thousand yuan a month, I only have a few dollars a month, give you four thousand and I will drink the northwest wind."
"So, this bear can't eat meat every day, I'll get a basket of sweet potatoes, grind them up and cook them in the pot, and then I'll make them a meat flavor, or I'll pour it with broth, it's a bit meaty and enjoyable," Bian Rui said.
Yan Lan was stunned for a while, and gave a thumbs up to Bian Rui: "You really can, even the bear has to be deceived and made sweet potatoes into a meaty taste, learned from the Dream of Red Mansions, right?"
"You underestimate me" Bian Rui didn't care about Yan Lan's ridicule, and boasted with a smile: "It's quite simple to make meat flavor, it's the combination of spices." It's really not good to fry them in oil, so I can't believe that they can't eat them with so much oil?"
"......" Yan Lan felt that it was a bit self-conscious to talk to a cook about this.
"Let's take care of ourselves first" Bian Rui prepared the ingredients at this time, asked Yan Lan to go behind the stove to light the fire for himself, and rolled up his sleeves to prepare to burn the snails.
Yan Lan quickly burned the fire when she heard this, and as soon as the pot was hot, Rui put the oil, and then put the heavy incense into the oil pot and fried the non-palm fragrance, and then fished out the spices, and then put in the dried chili pepper and a few green peppercorns, and after frying for a while, pour the snails into the pot and stir-fry, in the process of stir-frying, add soy sauce, a little cooking wine or something, and finally add half a scoop of water to cover the pot lid.
As soon as the lid was closed, within five minutes, the pot gas floated out along the seams of the wooden lid.
"Wow, it's so fragrant, it's much more fragrant than Uncle Wu's" Yan Lan sniffed and praised Bian Rui.
Bian Rui's face was pale: "If I can't compare to Old Man Wu, then my more than ten years of beating will not be in vain?"