Chapter 53: The Village Banquet

It stands to reason that ginseng can't be eaten cold. Why? As the old saying goes, if you have too many tendons, you can't chew them. And the smell is so flattering that it's hard to swallow.

In the impression of ordinary people, ginseng is not only used to decoction medicine, brew medicinal wine, and make soup, at most it is a little extravagant to soak in water to drink! As for eating it raw, I don't know how many thousands of years ago the ancestors did it.

However, in Lijiazhuang, this so-called ginseng, which has obviously been improved, or is simply a new species that has never been discovered in the outside world, can really be eaten cold.

And cut into shreds, poured with sweet and sour sauce, sweet and sour is very delicious. Even if you eat home ginseng alone, the taste is very different from what you imagined.

The crunchy, herbaceous flavor is not as strong as expected, but more of a light fragrance. Even after swallowing, the aftertaste can stay in the mouth for dozens of seconds! It feels like a melon, a little like a cucumber, and a little like a peeled apple shred, so it's hard to tell the difference.

Gao Gaoyu feels that this is like sweet and sour radish shreds from the outside world, which are very similar in appearance and taste. It's just that in terms of taste, this ginseng is much more delicious than shredded radish.

"You can't eat too much of this stuff, and eating too much is not just about nosebleeds. If you eat too much and are not healed in time, it is very scary! ”

Speaking of this, Xiuling's delicate little face was full of fear. Obviously, she must have experienced that kind of scene herself, so much so that it left an indelible terrifying impression on her, and as soon as she mentioned it, she couldn't help but have that terrifying scene in her mind.

Gao Gao Yu sat on the side, saw the fear of the person he liked, reached out to hold her hand, and comforted and encouraged. But before he could stretch it out, the shyness in his heart made him hold back.

People are big girls, in front of so many people, can people be embarrassed? If you are not careful, I am afraid that you will have to be taken to the title of a disciple or a hooligan.

Gao Gaoyu's every move was seen by Li Xiuling, this mountain village girl who dared to say and make trouble, dared to love and hate, didn't care so much, seeing Gao Gaoyu stretched out her hand and was stunned, she simply took the initiative to attack.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed Gao Gaoyu's hand on the table, which suddenly made Gao Gao Yu tremble. Then subconsciously clasp tightly with a soft, warm, delicate hand.

The two of them looked up at each other at the same time, maybe just for a second, maybe a minute, an hour, a day, a month, a year, maybe just an instant, and their faces were flushed at the same time.

"Oops! These two children fell in love at first sight, huh? ”

"You say that these two children are not ashamed, in front of so many people, you look, look, pull and pull, what do they look like? The old patriarch and the village chief don't say that they are in charge? ”

"Why do you care so much? Worry about you? If you have that time, hurry up and clean up the table, you're not hungry, I'm already hungry! ”

Li Zhengjun suddenly stood up and interrupted the chatter of a few idle women in the village, coaxing them to clean up, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and a very meaningful glance at the two young people who fell in love at first sight and were chatting hotly.

"Braised rabbit meat!"

With a shout, several young men and girls served this plate of hot dishes to the table one after another. The boss's plate, which is at least two laps larger than the plate that holds cold dishes, is definitely full of weight.

"This is a hare in the mountains, as long as you go out of the village, there are some in the mountains, and you can't catch them all. One year, this thing was flooded, and the village organized people to hunt hares in the mountains. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiuling put a piece of fragrant rabbit meat on the plate in front of Gao Gaoyu, and stretched out her chopsticks to signal Gao Gao Yu to hurry up and taste it while it was hot.

"That time, when I was young, I followed my sister and my mother into the mountains. As soon as I crossed the west mountain on the side of Zhuangzi, before I reached the foot of the mountain, I saw groups of hares grabbing the grass roots on the mountain. ”

"They're not afraid of people?"

"The average hare is very afraid of people, and if you don't wait to walk in, they will jump and jump away and hear movement from afar, and they will not let you approach at all."

Gao Gao Yu put the piece of rabbit meat in his mouth, and it was not as firewood as he imagined. It stands to reason that this hare runs in the mountains all day long, and has a lot of exercise, so it should be more lean meat and less fat, and it should be very woody and stuffy to eat.

However, the hare meat in his mouth puzzled Gao Gaoyu. A rich aroma filled the mouth, and the teeth were gently closed, and the meat was easily torn apart without any effort.

"But I don't know what happened that time, take down the rabbit, no matter how big or small, I'm not afraid of people at all. Let me tell you this, at that time, Grandpa Guangming set up a machine gun and fired at a large group of rabbits, and there were more than 30 of them that could be distinguished afterwards! ”

HD Yu forgot to chew, listen stupid! Take a big rabbit with a machine gun, if you want to say whether it is reliable or not, it is a machine gun! Even small-caliber light machine guns are far from being comparable to pistols.

One is not good, a machine gun bullet can tear a small hare into pieces, and the flesh is flying, and there is no way to pick it up.

Obediently, a shuttle of machine gun bullets, just intact killed more than 30 of them, plus those that have been crushed, the total number of more than 50 is not unusual!

"The most ruthless is Uncle Zhengjun, he carried a flamethrower on his back, and when he saw the hole and SD, he sprayed fire into it, and it is said that he burned at least thousands of rabbits of all sizes that time."

My good boy! One person killed thousands of rabbits, how many rabbits were there in that rabbit disaster? However, as a soldier, especially the chief of the prince's guard, Gao Gaoyu immediately thought of something that made his forehead suddenly break out in a cold sweat.

A small village chief deep in the mountains, even armed with light machine guns and flamethrowers? Even if there are militia in the village, you don't need to equip flamethrowers, right?

"Huh? A piece of rabbit meat was completely swallowed into his stomach, and the rich aroma kept swirling in his mouth, but before he could taste it for a while, a different aroma of herbs returned from his stomach to his mouth. ”

With a mouth, this aroma gushed out, and Gao Gaoyu's whole person felt refreshed. It seems that he has just eaten a panacea, which makes him feel like he is fluttering.

"Hehe, do you feel it? This is the recipe that has been handed down from the old prince in our village, there are thirteen Chinese herbs and spices in it, in addition to the patriarch, the village chief also has the imperial doctor, and Uncle Zhengjun knows all about the recipe. ”

Li Xiuling smiled coquettishly, staring at Gao Gaoyu without blinking a pair of eyebrows, and continued to explain to him: "It is said that this recipe is still researched by the ancestors, and the meat stewed with it is not only crispy and delicious, not greasy, both men and women eat it is a great tonic, but it can improve physical fitness, enhance human immunity, anti-fatigue, anti-aging, and beauty and beauty!" ”

Others believe it or not, Gao Gao Yu doesn't know, anyway, he himself believes it. He had only just eaten a few pieces of meat, and he felt that the fatigue of the day had dissipated a lot, and the feeling of being full of energy in his body began to return to his body.

"Swordfish stewed in a big iron pot!"

With Li Zhengjun's clear shout, another big plate was brought to the table, and in the oval large plate, there was a whole big fish that Gao Gao Yu had never seen before.

The pointed head and palm-wide body began to get narrower and narrower from the middle, until the tail fin in the shape of a sword and a hammer on the tail became only two fingers wide of an adult!

The whole fish can be 20 centimeters long, and it seems that the fire is too big, and the skin of the fish has been boiled and tattered. The most important thing is that the whole fish is not fried, and after the processing and cleaning, it is directly thrown into the pot and stewed.

The strong smell of fish comes to the nose, mixed with a hint of fishy, but it is not offensive, but it makes people can't help but have a little appetite.

Gao Gao Yu sniffed, and he was very sensitive to the smell, and immediately smelled a trace of acetic acid in the fish aroma. Unlike the old vinegar he often eats, and unlike the balsamic vinegar that chefs love, there seems to be a hint of fruitiness in this vinegar sourness.

"This is a swordfish that we rarely see here, and if you look at this fish as a whole, does it look like an ancient short sword? This is the tip of the sword, this is the body of the sword, but the width is different, and finally this is the sword, if there is a little more sword handle in the back, it will be more similar! ”

Gao Gaoyu nodded, looked at the fish in front of him, and stretched out his chopsticks curiously. Instead of touching the fish, I dipped the soup on the plate with the head of my chopsticks in anticipation.

Fragrant, sweet, sour, spicy, salty, umami, six flavors mixed in the mouth, all the taste buds seemed to explode in an instant, a breath of fresh air rushed straight to his head, so that he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.

"This, this, what's going on?"

As if she knew that Gao Gaoyu would react like this, Li Xiuling did not speak, but pointed to a part of the fish's body and motioned for him to eat another piece of fish.

Although he was full of doubts, Gao Gaoyu still stretched out his chopsticks, followed Xiuling's prompts, picked up a piece of swordfish's back meat, and carefully put it in his mouth.

"Huh?"

As soon as he entered his mouth, Gao Gaoyu was stunned. Is this fish? No way? Even the steamed chicken cake is not so tender and refreshing, right?

As soon as he entered his mouth, the white piece of fish meat was like extremely tender agar tofu, and before his teeth could touch, the piece of fish meat had already slid down his throat and into his stomach.

"It's so tender!"

Even the well-informed HD Yu was surprised to let out such admiration, how could there be such tender fish? Isn't this scientific? How can the flesh of wild fish be so delicate?

"Swordfish is like that, the meat is delicate, especially when it is first fished out. If it is left for more than five hours, especially after freezing, the meat will become old and similar to that of ordinary fish. ”

"The world is so big, there are no surprises!"

After sighing, I thought that even ginseng could be eaten as a cold dish, and this kind of delicate fish was not so unacceptable.

"This fish is still a bit big, if it is a small point, or a palm-length juvenile fish, boil it in a large iron pot, and then simmer it for about ten minutes on low heat, and then it can be out of the pot. The whole fish is put into the mouth from the head, and when you gently sip it and pull the tail with your hand, the whole large spines are pulled out, and the mouth is full of fish meat like tender tofu.