Chapter 67: Five Eyes in Distress
The fire was blazing, and Liu Mang put two branches between the mud balls wrapped in the pheasant and put them into the fire to roast. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The bamboo tubes containing the rice are slowly roasted with some charcoal from the fire.
After a while, the green bamboo tube was roasted and yellowed, and a large number of fine blisters emerged from the skin of the bamboo tube, making a "squeak" sound.
"Boss, can you eat it?" asked Goyan, swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
"I'll have to wait a minute, the rice in here will have to be simmered before it tastes good. Liu Mang turned over with a bamboo tube with a branch, and simply told them about the origin of the flower chicken mentioned when he was silent and bragged to him.
Historical legend called the flower chicken, originally from ZJ, also called rich chicken.
Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops to fight the country, once he lost the battle and ran for three days and three nights, and the enemy chased after him.
Zhu Yuanzhang was exhausted and hungry. At this moment, he saw a fire on the ground in front of him, and there was a pile of mud in the middle of the fire, and an old man squatting next to him.
So, Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"
When Lao Zhaohua saw that it was Zhu Yuanzhang, he hurriedly said: "I'm roasting chicken to the king." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised when he heard it, and he took the chicken out of the fire and opened the mud, which was fragrant. Zhu Yuanzhang was full of praise while eating.
Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang has been smooth sailing in the war and has become the emperor. Later, he named this chicken a rich chicken.
After the story was over, the bamboo tube rice was almost ready, Liu Mang pulled the bamboo tube out of the charcoal, and pulled a handful of hay to wipe off the black smoke and water vapor roasted on it.
"Eat, be careful of the burn. ”
Goyan carefully cut the bamboo tube in half from the center with a firewood knife, and a special aroma of rice mixed with rice wafted into everyone's noses.
The rice, which was supposed to be white, has now turned yellow. This is the effect of the oil in the bacon cubes being forced out by the heat and penetrating into the rice.
Five Eyes and Wu Jing folded two branches as chopsticks, buried their heads, and ate in small bites.
The rice was so hot that they couldn't breathe at it, but they didn't want to waste a moment waiting for it to cool down, because it was as if a hand was grabbing the food in their mouths and pulling it down.
The mushroom grains and pheasant offal are enclosed in a bamboo tube, and the temperature of the charcoal fire allows the rice and the umami of the two condiments to be completely mixed together. With the fragrance of bamboo that constantly pours into the nose, the two of them can't stop at all.
"Be careful, eat slowly, there's a chicken here." Liu Mang couldn't help but remind.
"yes, and chickens. Their eyes lit up, and they raised their heads at the same time.
"Look, that's the main thing!" Liu Mang used a piece of wood to pull out the already hard mud ball in the fire.
After a little cooler, Liu Mang found a pebble and slowly knocked away the layer of mud shell that was pasted on the pheasant.
The mud sticks the chicken feathers together and is roasted over the fire to completely condense together.
With a flick, the feathers on the pheasant's body fell off along with the mud shell. It's like peeling a hard-boiled egg, and the pheasant with the inside of the mud ball is exposed.
"Wonderful! This method is good, it's cleaner than the one that was specially plucked!" Wu Jing couldn't help but exclaim.
"Come, taste!" Liu Mang broke off two chicken thighs and handed them to Wuyan and Wu Jing respectively.
Wu Jing looked at the chicken leg in his hand. The chicken thighs are as white as jade, slightly steaming, and covered with a layer of crystal oil, not like they are roasted over fire, but like they are steamed.
When you smell it closely, it doesn't seem to be anything special except for the fragrance of the pheasant meat itself.
Wu Jing put it in his mouth and bit it, chewed it lightly twice, and his eyes immediately widened.
The tenderness of this chicken leg was simply beyond his imagination. It is probably because the mud shell completely encloses the chicken, and the pheasant itself does not lose a trace of water, but is all locked in the chicken.
What's more special is that the chicken is not tasteless as he imagined, and the flavor of the seasoning penetrates into the meat, but it is firmly locked under the chicken skin.
As the teeth bite, these smells all burst out, tumbling and surging in the mouth one after another, making people want to stop.
"Ba Shi! It's really Ba Shi! Brother Mang! Sure enough, Old Man Zhu has eaten a chicken full of praise! If you can eat one a day, you won't do it for me to be the emperor!"
Wu Jing gnawed the chicken leg to the point of only one bone in a few bites, but he was reluctant to throw away the bone, but sucked and sucked.
"Even the bones have a taste!
Wuyan also ate with relish, but he didn't gobble it up like Wu Jing, but took a bite of chicken and a bite of bamboo rice, so beautiful that both eyes narrowed into a slit.
When the three of them finished this sumptuous lunch, Five Eyes and Wu Jing stood up in unison.
"Fatty! Add some oil in the afternoon! You rush from the grass, I'll let the dogs bite! I want to get a few more pheasants to eat at night!"
"Understood!" Five-Eyes rolled up his sleeves and clutched the stick he had picked up. His expression was solemn, as if he was about to go to battle.
"Uh, I said you should stop in moderation, pay attention to safety!" Liu Mang was very helpless, these two treasures are not safe anywhere.
Afternoon......
Five-Eyes holds a stick and says "Oak... Oak...", like a mad bear, struck the trees in the woods like a mad bear, driving away the hares and pheasants that were hidden inside.
Wu Jing whistled, driving several mastiffs back and forth in the forest, and as soon as there was a stir, several mastiffs pounced at the same time.
Liu Mang sighed and followed them leisurely.
He carries a hoe on his shoulder, if he sees any ingredients for cooking. For example, wild vegetables, mountain delicacies, etc., he dug them up. took advantage of the fact that the two of them didn't notice him, and then secretly put it into the space.
Along the way, Liu Mang not only found a few rare mushrooms, linzhi, kudzu and the like, but also dug up a lot of fruit tree seedlings.
These are intended to be planted in the space for the monkeys who have already made their home there.
Five-Eyed and Wujing's harvest was also good, although they didn't hunt wild boars, roe deer and other larger animals. But the pheasants caught two more, and also caught a fat hare of at least eight or nine pounds.
"Ahh
"Something's wrong!?" Liu Mang was shocked, grabbed the hoe and rushed up.
Peeling off the low bushes in front of him, he saw that Five Eyes was leaning against a large tree. His face was pale, his glasses fell to the side, and both eyes were bulging out.
"Monk! Come and help! It's a snake!"
Around the neck of the five eyes is a large snake with a thick arm, yellow and white, like a colorful scarf.
"What's wrong?!What's wrong?!" Wu Jing also hurriedly ran over, startled.
Liu Mang rushed forward and grabbed the snake's tail and wanted to help tear it off, but Wu Jing hurriedly stopped it.
"Brother Mang, this is a cauliflower snake, it's not poisonous, if you pull it like this, it will only get tighter and tighter. ”
"Ahh
"Look at me!" Wu Jing broke a stalk of grass: "As soon as the snake is loosened, you will lift its tail and shake it up." Be careful! Don't get bitten by it, it's not venomous, but this snake is so big, it must tear off a piece of meat. ”
Liu Mang nodded, and Wu Jing brushed aside a piece of the scale on the abdomen of the big snake, and then gently inserted it with a grass stem.
The big snake let this stab, and the whole body loosened, Liu Mang hurriedly untied it from the neck of the five eyes, slipped its tail with one hand, and pinched its seven inches with the other.
"Suffocate Lao Tzu!" "Five-eyed picked up the eye belt from the ground, and slapped the snake twice angrily.
"You're lucky! Dead fat! This is a cauliflower snake, it's not poisonous, if you meet a bamboo leaf, you'll be here today. ”
Wu Jing took out a snakeskin bag, opened her mouth, and asked Liu Mang to put the big snake in and tie it up.
"Where did you stab just now?" Liu Mang asked strangely.
"Haha! Snake's ditch (chrysanthemum)!" Wu Jing laughed.
Let this make a fuss, everyone was not in the mood to chase pheasants and rabbits anymore, but hurried towards the direction of the temple.