2. Meat that cannot be eaten
The ancient river water was different, it was very clear, Ning Xi looked at the sparkling silver fish while washing his clothes: "What a fat fish, why can't you eat it?" â
When she first came, she thought it was strange, everyone was so hungry that they had vegetables, but why didn't anyone catch and eat the fish in this river? Is there any peculiar custom in this place that you can't eat fish?
When I was hungry, I couldn't care so much, so I quietly found a place where no one was to catch a fish and cook it on a fire and was about to eat it, when I was suddenly slapped down: "Die, are you hungry and crazy, dare to eat fish!" â
Ning Xi looked up and saw that it was Aunt Huang in the village, who was usually very good, and she would secretly stuff Ning Xi with an extra bite of food at home, so Ning Xi was still very close to her in her heart: "Auntie, why can't this fish be eaten!" â
"Fish is poisonous, it will kill people if you eat it, everyone in the village knows it, don't you know?"
"Oh, I forgot." Ning Xi was secretly frightened, in his previous life, he was poisoned by eating puffer fish, if he eats fish poisoning again in this life, I don't know if he can go back? However, she is a person who cherishes her life, and she will never do it lightly if she is not completely sure.
The puffer fish that poisoned her to death in her previous life was made by herself, she had absolute confidence in her craft, and the puffer fish eyes and internal organs that were taken out were also clearly counted as many times, it is reasonable to say that it is impossible to be poisonous, but she was poisoned when she tasted it, which is really incomprehensible.
"Alas, what a sin, such a bully for a motherless child, your father is really, for so many years, ignoring ......" Aunt Huang sighed to herself.
"Auntie, do you know where my father is?" The shock in Ning Xi's heart was not small, she always thought that she was an orphan without a father and mother, it turned out that there was a father?
"I heard that I made a lot of money doing business in the city!"
Thinking of his father who made a lot of money in the city, Ning Xi sighed again, how could there be such a ruthless person? Fortunately, he is not the original Ningxi, otherwise he would definitely die of sadness.
The fish in the river were not afraid of people at all, and dared to hit her hand, Ning Xi grabbed a fat fish casually, and deliberately viciously said to a closed fish mouth: "Come again, come again, I will slaughter you and braise you!" â
"And you, make you into boiled fish, and you will make steamed fish......" Ning Xi pointed to the fish in the river on a whim and counted them one by one, "Sauerkraut fish, pine nut fish, fish head tofu soup, drunken carp, sweet and sour fish, spicy fish, chopped pepper fish head, ......"
"So there are so many ways to eat fish!" A clear male voice sounded behind him, so frightened that Ning Xi's hand trembled, and the clothes in his hands almost floated away, so he hurriedly took a step forward and grabbed the clothes back, looked at the soaked trouser legs, and turned back dissatisfied: "Who ......?"
The second half of the sentence is choked in the throat and can't be said, what is Lang Cai, what is picturesque, what is like a fairy, this is it. Ning Xi swore that the stars he had seen in his previous life were not as good-looking as the man in front of him.
Ning Xi looked at the man in a wheelchair blankly, his plain white clothes fluttering in the wind, there was a feeling that I wanted to go back by the wind, beauty is beautiful, but a little less popularity, but unfortunately he is a lame, and he is too thin, and his body will not be too good, Ning Xi secretly regretted in her heart, she still likes sunny and healthy men a little more. But this man is really good-looking, how can there be such a good-looking man?
Ning Xi completely forgot that she was just a thin little girl who looked less than ten years old, and such a demented and almost drooling appearance was really disobedient. The man in front of him seemed to be satisfied with her reaction: "You just said that there are so many kinds of fish, but is it true?" â
Ning Xi hadn't recovered from the shock of the beauty, and replied blankly along with his words: "Of course it's true." â
"Have you seen it with your own eyes?"
"Not only have I seen it, I've eaten it, I'll make it!"
The man smiled: "Nonsense at a young age. â
"Whoever is blowing nonsense, if it weren't for the fact that these fish can't be eaten, I can make it for you on the spot."
The man frowned: "Can't you eat this fish?" â
"yes, it's poisonous."
"Who said that?"
"The people in the village say so, and also, the birds and beasts in the mountains here are all poisonous, I think you are quite raw, you are a foreigner, you must remember not to eat meat in our place!"
"Haha!" Instead, the man laughed, "You also said that you are not boasting, listening to you say this, you have never eaten meat in your life, and you also said that you can cook fish." â
Ning Xi was choked by him and couldn't speak, and suddenly remembered his identity, and seriously remembered that maybe his predecessor had really never eaten meat in his life! Yi Xing shook the wet clothes in his hand: "I haven't eaten it, I haven't eaten it, so what!" "It's not her fault that you can't eat any meat here!
"Hahahaha!" The man seemed to be very happy, "The meat is all poisonous and can't be eaten, haha, I'm laughing to death, what an ignorant countryman!" After speaking, he slapped his palms, and two men in black quietly appeared behind him, lifted their wheelchairs and walked away.
"What a person, so bad!" Ning Xi looked inexplicably in the direction he was going, "You look great, you have the ability to grow a pair of sound legs!" â
Isn't it funny? Ningxi also thought it was funny at first, the green mountains and green waters here, the environment is absolutely natural and pollution-free, how can a living animal be poisonous? But the villagers definitely don't look like jokes, they would rather starve to death than touch half a mouthful of meat, and she doesn't dare to take it lightly. Just in case, she specially caught a hare on the mountain, killed the meat and cooked it and fed it to the dog in the village, but the next day, the dog really died, and the dog owner scolded at the entrance of the village for a long time.
She still didn't believe it, and the next day she did the same and fed another dog for meat, and the dog also died, so there was another rumor of a monster in the village, and it was said that the monster ate dog brains, and those dogs died without brains.
Slowly, Ning Xi also believed that the meat in the village was inedible, and as for the world outside the village, she hadn't been there yet, I don't know.
Hastily washed the clothes and quilt and dragged the basket back, Ning Xi was full of worries about the dry goods in the waste kiln on ZĂ i Mountain, and she almost could save a basket, and when she was full, she could take it to the Zhuangzi to exchange money, and a basket of dry goods could be exchanged for up to thirty Wen, it didn't take long for her to save almost two hundred Wen by relying on this, and she had been buried in the waste kiln, she had to take a look at it every day, otherwise she couldn't rest assured.
As soon as she came to this world, Ning Xi found that the people's recipes here were particularly monotonous, even if they couldn't eat meat, the food also came and went just a few things grown in the ground, as the saying goes, the mountain eats the mountain, she went to the mountain to see, in addition to the small animals running all over the ground, all kinds of mushrooms and fungi are also everywhere, but they just don't eat it.
She tried to pick some mushroom fungus back, and planned to add it when cooking, but she didn't expect the eldest aunt to find out and beat her and scolded her, as if she wanted to poison their Ning family, and then verified that these things were indeed not poisonous, and every time she went up the mountain, she found a broken jar to cook and eat, although there was no taste without oil or salt, but it was better than being hungry, right?
Ning Xi is a person who is particularly good at preparing for a rainy day, and when he is full, he thinks about what to do if he can't find something to eat in winter, so he takes advantage of the good weather to pick some more shiitake mushrooms and dry them, and shiitake mushrooms are only dried in the sun, which will produce a special fragrance, which is more delicious than fresh.
Once when picking shiitake mushrooms, Ning Xi unexpectedly met another person who was also picking shiitake mushrooms, dressed in neat green cloth clothes, looking much more decent than the villagers under the mountain, and only after asking did he know that it was the next person in the villa, named Qingshan, these days the village came up with distinguished guests, and the owner of the village asked him to go up the mountain to find some fresh mountain goods to entertain the guests.
"You people in the lodge eat these things too?" Ning Xi was surprised.
Qingshan nodded: "Naturally, it's food." Ning Xi talked happily with him as if he had found a confidant, only to know that although the people in the mountain villa also eat these things, they usually eat very little, mainly because they can't make them, and they are not delicious when they are made.
Ning Xi can understand this, since she came to this world, she has found that the people here basically have no cooking skills at all, everything is cooked in a pot and eaten, no matter what delicacies from the mountains and seas can be spoiled by them, not to mention such a few lackluster ingredients!
However, it is said that this noble guest in the villa came with the chef this time, and the dishes made were delicious, so the owner of the village went everywhere to collect ingredients for the distinguished guests.
As a senior foodie and super chef, Ning Xi knows ingredients that are not comparable to ordinary people, and he is now interested in pointing out all the edible mountain goods he knows to Qingshan, but Qingshan is very cautious, not that he knows and resolutely does not touch it.
Ning Xi thought about it, ran back to his waste kiln and grabbed a handful of sun-dried shiitake mushrooms, and handed them to Qingshan's nose: "You ask, is it particularly fragrant?" â
"Really, it smells so good, what is this?"
"It's the mushroom you picked now, but it's dried."
Qingshan asked suspiciously about the freshly picked shiitake mushrooms in her hand, which only had a muddy smell, and there was no such fragrance in her hand at all: "No, this smell is not different at all!" â
"Then take a closer look, is the shape the same? This thing will only smell when it is dried. Saying that, Ning Xi broke a small piece and threw it into his mouth, "If you can eat it, it won't pit you!" â
Qingshan carefully compared, tasted it himself, and suddenly became excited: "Do you still have this thing?" Give it all to me, and I'll give you money. â
Ning Xi had already saved most of the basket, so she simply took it all, Qingshan gave her twenty yuan to buy it, she didn't know what the prices in this world were, but usually the eldest aunt and aunt seemed to take it very seriously, and she didn't work hard to get these things, so she happily accepted them at the moment.
A few days later, he met this green mountain again, he told Ningxi that the distinguished guests liked dried shiitake mushrooms very much, so let Ningxi take the dried shiitake mushrooms to the villa in the future, and he took them all, and Ningxi officially found a way to make money.
For the future, Ning Xi is not willing to nest in this small mountain village for the rest of her life, she has not yet thought about what she wants to do, she should not be able to get rid of the road of making a living with cooking, no matter what, she needs capital, so what she has to do now is to save her first pot of gold.