When Lu Yitian saw that Wuyan untied the huge burden on his back and took out a beehive from it, his mouth was cracked to the root of his ears. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"What's this called? It's better to call it sooner rather than to be lucky!" Five-Eyes happily hugged the hive.

Liu Mang lit a torch and used the flame above to quickly burn off the beeswax on the hive. Then pick up a wooden stick and gently tap it on the top and around the hive.

With a rhythmic tapping sound, the chubby white pupa of the hive falls like hail into the large dustpan below.

"This hive is quite big, how did you get it?" Lu Yi asked strangely.

"Just take a cigarette and smoke it. Seeing such a fruitful harvest, the five eyes smiled like a Maitreya Buddha.

If we don't put on a few layers of raincoats and wrap our whole body tightly, we won't be able to walk within five meters. ”

"Believe it or not!" Five-eyed grimaced.

After tapping and eliminating some dead bees, Liu Mang weighed them with his hands, and estimated that they were at least four to five kilograms.

"Uncle Lu, can you roughly describe what the fried bee chrysalis that your aunt used to make tasted like?"

"This one. Lu Yitian closed his eyes and recalled carefully: "The skin is very crisp, the inside is very soft, and it is slightly sour, but the most important thing is that there is a special fragrance, which smells very good." ”

"Isn't it the smell of the bee chrysalis itself after frying?" asked Liu Mang.

"Absolutely not!" Lu Yitian replied with certainty: "I have tried to fry it many times, but there is no such aroma at all, my mother must have added something to it." ”

"Well, take me to the kitchen first. Liu Mang thought for a while, it is difficult to replicate this dish by relying on a person's memory alone, so he has to find other clues.

The three of them came to the kitchen, because they didn't have frequent meetings, and the kitchen boards and cabinets were covered with thick dust, which looked very dim.

Liu Mang wrinkled every day, as a chef, of course, he couldn't tolerate that the place where he worked would be so sloppy.

"Xiao Wu, go fetch water, first clean up the kitchen, and I'll prepare the ingredients. ”

"Oak, Oak... Five-Eyes nodded repeatedly.

Don't look at this fat man who is usually lazy, he belongs to the master who pushes and walks, but as soon as there is something delicious, he will definitely be full of energy. Sometimes Liu Mang even thinks that he is more suitable to be a chef than himself.

Liu Mang put down the bee chrysalis and carefully inspected the kitchen.

This kind of kitchen uses an earthen stove that is common in rural areas, and firewood is burned. All kinds of spices are also poor, except for salt and sugar, Liu Mang finally found only half a bag of monosodium glutamate and a barrel of vegetable oil that had melted into a lump.

"Auntie is gone, haven't you touched these things in the kitchen?" asked Liu Mang.

"I barely moved, I only cooked porridge a few times, fried bee pupae a few times, and usually went to my aunt's house to eat. Lu Yitian touched his head and replied a little embarrassed.

"Strange, I didn't find vinegar, where did that sour taste come from?" Liu Mang muttered to himself.

"Uncle Lu, are you sure that bee chrysalis has a little sour taste?"

"Sure, the sour is sweet, the skin is fragrant and crispy, I don't know how many times I've eaten this dish since I was a child, how can I remember it wrong?"

"No matter, let's try to make one first, step by step. Liu Mang took off his shirt, picked up a rag, and began to clean up the kitchen utensils.

After working for nearly an hour, after the entire kitchen was cleaned up, Liu Mang poured vegetable oil into the pot, and ordered Wuyan to light the fire, ready to cook fried bee pupa.

"Hanging pulp?" asked Liu Mang, holding a cleaned bee chrysalis.

"Hanging pulp?"

"It is to use egg liquid and starch to coat a layer of slurry on the bee pupa. ”

"Oh, oh, hang, I've seen my mother do it before, and it's really going to be wrapped. Lu Yitian replied.

"Oh. Liu Mang asked Lu Yitian to get some eggs, add a little flour and salt to make a simple thin thicken. When the oil in the pot rises, the bee pupae are rolled in the sauce, and they are picked up one by one with chopsticks and put into the oil pot.

Soon, a pot of fragrant, golden yellow color, shaped like a shuttle, and the beautiful distressing fried bee pupae were freshly baked.

"Wait a few minutes to taste it, the oil temperature has not subsided, and the skin of the bee pupae is not crispy enough. Liu Mang's chopsticks flew away the claws that couldn't wait to stretch out.

"It's delicious! But it's not the taste. After the bee pupae cooled down, Lu Yitian put one in his mouth.

"This one tastes good, it can be said that it is better than my mother's cooking, and it suits my taste better. But my father is from SX, and he moved here with my grandfather when he was in the fifties, and he likes things with a sour taste. ”

"But I haven't seen vinegar here, have you run out of vinegar?" asked Liu Mang with some surprise.

"No, it's not. In order to take care of my mother's taste, my father usually does not eat sour, so we never put vinegar in our cooking. It's just that this fried bee pupae is an exception, and I've always been weird, the family has never bought vinegar, but my mother has a little sour taste every time she makes this dish. ”

"That's right. Liu Mang listened and looked for it in the kitchen again, but to his disappointment, he didn't find any other spices.

"Sour, where does the sourness come from?" Liu Mang fell into deep thought, pacing back and forth in the kitchen, and unconsciously walked out of the house.

In front of the house is a vegetable garden fenced with bamboo poles, and many fruit trees are planted around the garden, including peaches, pears, and chestnuts.

Suddenly, a dwarf plant in the corner of the vegetable garden came into his eyes, Liu Mang's head flashed, and he clapped his hands fiercely: "Found it, it's it!"

"Wild hawthorn! The sour smell in the bee chrysalis must come from this!" Liu Mang hurriedly ran over and picked up a handful from the tree.

Then I walked briskly back to the kitchen, cleaned the hawthorn, pounded it into a puree with a stone bowl for pounding garlic, and added it to the sauce that had been prepared.

After re-frying a bee chrysalis, Liu Mang sent it to Lu Yitian.

"Uncle Lu, can you try this plate again and see how it tastes?"

"Yes, really good, Brother Liu Mang, the taste of this bee chrysalis is almost the same as that made by my mother, and it is at least eight or nine points similar in taste. Lu Yitian nodded again and again.

"It's only eight or nine points, so what's the difference with the rest?" Liu Mang hurriedly asked.

"The taste is a little sour, but the main thing is that the fragrance is missing, but this is not bad, I will take it to my old man to taste it and see if he can eat it." Lu Yitian picked up the plate and prepared to run out.

"Wait... Wait... Liu Mang stopped him.

"What's wrong? Brother Liu Mang?"

"Don't give it to the old man first, in case the old man doesn't sleep well, even if he makes the same thing next, he won't move his mouth. Liu Mang analyzed.