Chapter 10: The Outside World

The road is less than 100 meters away, full of weeds and not very tall and sparse trees, mostly pines and cypresses, but also many other local miscellaneous trees. Locust tree, elm, almond, hickory, vitex, wild hawthorn, wild persimmon...... Li Wei, who was originally a northerner, knew many people.

Not far from Li Wei, a few sparrows are not afraid of people at all. On a tree three or four meters away from Li Wei, while chattering about something, he glanced at Li Wei, a "big monster" called a human being, from time to time.

These little guys may have never flown out of this mountain forest, so they didn't know the horror of the monster in front of them, and they didn't even notice the saliva flowing from the corner of Li Wei's mouth.

"Your mother, although I really don't like the smell of fried sparrows, it's good to eat one or two once in a while to change the taste! I'm in a hurry, I'll knock you all down! ”

What made Li Wei's eyes even hotter was the few very long and beautiful colorful feathers he found in the grass, although he had never seen the real thing, but he guessed at a glance that it was pheasant feathers.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Wei felt that his mouth began to secrete saliva again, and he couldn't control it if he wanted to. Ever since he had eaten a real pheasant once, he could never forget this extremely delicious game.

But it's a pity that after walking around the neighborhood a few times, Li Wei didn't find a trace of a pheasant. Obviously, they had already run away, and they didn't know when the feathers had fallen off.

However, since this thing is in this mountain forest, it is all dishes in his own bowl for Li Wei. Find someone to inquire about or just the guy into the woods and walk around the woods, afraid that there will be no pheasants to eat?

"This is bitter hemp, my mother's favorite eater!"

A large clump of bitter hemp cabbage, that one is distributed among the weeds, Li Wei squatted down, and after a while, he dug a large handful, which was enough for the two of them to have a good meal!

This kind of wild vegetable, which is also called bitter herb, soybean grass, girl flower and other names, is also a non-toxic wild plant that is used both medicine and food. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, stopping dysentery, and treating dysentery, hemorrhoidal fistula, jaundice, etc.

However, Li Wei knew that the name of this vegetable was because of its legendary antihypertensive effect. My mother in another world is a high blood pressure patient for more than 20 years, I don't know who I heard that bitter hemp has a blood pressure lowering effect, and every spring I have to take a car to the suburbs and the countryside to dig bitter hemp and come back to eat.

Bitter hemp is an annual herb that sprouts in the spring and begins to grow in the spring, turning purplish-red in color and withering after frost in the fall. Like all bitter vegetables, it does have a strong effect of clearing fire, detoxifying, and lowering blood pressure. At the turn of spring and summer, if you find a ditch in the countryside, you can dig a lot of kung fu in a while.

Although it's a little late to eat it now, and the bitterness is very bitter, but a little less is not in the way at all.

Take it home and clean it, and eat it raw with your freshly fermented bean paste, which is a godsend delicacy for those who don't have green and yellow and like bitter hemp at the turn of spring and summer.

In addition, there is a kind of oil dish dish that looks very similar to it, and it may be confused if you are not familiar with it, but as long as you eat it a few times, you can tell the difference at a glance.

In addition to these two kinds of wild vegetables that Li Wei prefers, such as camellia, wild leek, mother-in-law, horse lotus cabbage, wild onions, toad grass, etc., these are also edible wild vegetables, and Li Wei has no love for them.

By the time he saw a forest of twenty or thirty toon trees, he was so excited that he didn't know what to do!

Every year when the season came down, his mother would buy some and make him toon fried eggs. It's just that because the family income is not much, this thing is expensive in the city, and it is difficult for him to let go of it.

The most enjoyable time to eat was when he went to college in the capital and went to the surrounding mountains with his classmates. In a villager's house, the villager gave them a good meal of mountain delicacies.

Among them are fresh, tender toon buds that have just been picked in the morning.

The young leaves of the toon are hung on the batter and fried in the oil pan, and it becomes toon fish. Crispy and delicious, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, it tastes great for those who love the special taste of toon!

There are also toon tofu tofu, toon peanuts, toon cake, toon simply pickled with salt (not recommended to eat, it is said to be super high in nitrate), and of course, toon fried eggs.

For people who live in the countryside and have toon trees in front of and behind their houses, toons are not unusual. But Li Wei has always lived in the city, and he has only seen the toon tree once.

At the same time, he also found that there were very few people in this world, including the Federation, who ate this delicacy, known as the delicacy of the vegetable on the tree.

It is said that as early as the Han Dynasty, the ancestors began to eat toon buds. But I don't know why, but now, Li Wei found in his mind that it seems that this delicacy has been eliminated from everyone's recipes.

There are many other ingredients and dishes that are famous in the same world, but now they are not well-known, and there is not even a single news. For example, Kung Pao chicken, Dongpo meat, dumplings, fried dough sticks, oil cakes, etc., which have been popular all over the world in his world, have never appeared.

Even many of Li Wei's favorite fish dishes, people in this world don't even eat them. Especially the freshwater fish, which is one of the four major fishes, has been ruthlessly "abandoned" by people because of its many spines in this world!

This is similar to the eating habits of Americans who have no shortage of fish resources in his world, probably because the Chinese Federation in this world is so powerful that almost half of the Pacific Ocean has become the inland sea of the Federation.

The federal control of the population is also in place, and the population of the vast federal area has just exceeded one billion. This has reached its peak, and according to expert estimates, the federal population has already begun to age!

The federation of this world can definitely be called a vast land, both in total and per capita. Therefore, the Chinese people in this world really do not lack all kinds of food.

As a result, picking and choosing became inevitable. Don't eat what tastes bad, don't eat what might be poisoned, and throw away what is inconvenient to eat, that's the food of the "poor"!

This made Li Wei very dissatisfied, he already planned to open a restaurant after leaving the mountain, not to mention some of the classic dishes he liked, which must be seen by the people of this world.

picked a little tender toon buds, Li Wei didn't plan to pick more. It is now the end of May, and it is said that since the middle of April, the nitrate and nitrite content in the toon has increased dramatically, and it is no longer suitable for consumption.

Moreover, whether this thing is salted and preserved, or frozen after blanching, it will cause the nitrate content to rise sharply, which is seriously exceeded. Because toon is also high in protein, it is easy to combine with nitrate to form nitrosamines, which are highly carcinogenic, and are indeed not suitable for diners.

Eating toon is to eat the more tender the better, the fresher the better. The fresher and more tender it is, the less nitrite and nitrate it contains, and of course the smaller the safety hazards.

With wild vegetables in one hand and toons in the other, Li Wei was ready to end the passage trip for the time being. After he went back, he had to discuss his future plans with the patriarch Third Master.

For the familiar and unfamiliar outside world, Li Wei was both curious and a little worried. No one has been born in the village for more than ten years, and I still don't know what the outside world has become?

"Cluck, cluck, cluck......"

"Whose chickens are coming here? No, is it a pheasant? ”

Looking around, before Li Wei could finish looking, he heard a clucking rooster cry coming from the woods next to him. Li Wei's expression was straight, and he quietly activated the light crossbow on his wrist.

Turning up the power to the smallest single shot mode and dealing with just a few pheasants is cruel enough. In this way, Li Wei is still afraid that he will be afraid of vaporizing the whole pheasant directly!

Soon, a large pheasant with extremely beautiful feathers and "big shoulders and round waist" took steps and walked out of the dark and cool woods.

Before he completely walked out of the forest, he found Li Wei standing on the side of the road. Especially from the hand that Li Wei raised to aim at him, it sensitively discovered an extremely dangerous aura.

Alert, it was about to spread its wings and run away, but unfortunately, it was too late!

After a flash of light, Li Wei looked at the pheasant that fell to the ground silently and was stunned!

The power itself was adjusted to the minimum, but in this way, the upper part of the neck was hit, and the entire chicken head and neck were completely vaporized. The wound was scorched before even a drop of blood could come out.

Not only that, Li Wei clearly saw that after the light arrow passed through the neck of the chicken, it shot obliquely into the ground in the woods, and a black hole appeared in front of Li Wei's eyes.

"That's amazing!" After speaking, Li Wei stepped forward, bent down to pick up the headless pheasant, and took a closer look.

"Lao Tzu's archery skills are awesome! Hit the target! ”

In fact, this is a very normal thing, not to mention that it is a pheasant, it is a faster bird, in the face of this kind of light arrow that is faster than a bullet, it can only be obediently killed!

Satisfied, I took a look at this fat and strong pheasant, which could weigh five or six pounds, and stripped off the hair was enough for my mother and myself to eat two meals.

However, no one has enough good things. So, Li Wei looked around unwillingly. If you shoot a few more, you can go back and eat them with a few more tricks.

Spicy chicken, roast chicken, fried chicken, roast chicken, smoked chicken, called flower chicken, steamed chicken, stewed chicken soup, boneless chicken and so on. Braised red, spicy stir-fry, stewed, barbecued, don't do too much!

Thinking of those various chicken dishes, Li Wei's saliva secretion accelerated again, and the thick aroma of chicken soup wafted around his nose.

"Forget it, count yourself lucky today, Lao Tzu is going home for dinner!"

After making up his mind, Li Wei turned around and strode away in the direction of home.