Chapter 19: The Snail

After getting the edict from Daddy and Uncle Dashan, Xia Cao happily pulled up her trouser legs and sleeves, and in the afternoon she specially changed into an old white dress, which was estimated to be the eldest brother, the second brother and her alternate elders of the three dynasties. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Generally, the land that is finally ploughed in the rice field is not wasted by children, so Xia Cao and Xia Maihe followed Li Dashan's son Li Yongkai in the rice field that was not plowed, fooling around.

The water in the rice fields is irradiated by the afternoon sun, not cool but also a little warm, and the rice stalks are still a little stuck after a winter.

"Second brother, come and I've touched something good!" Xia Cao happily held up the little brother and shouted loudly.

Li Yongkai, the flower messenger who was arranged by his father on the side, said: "Sister Xiaocao, this is a snail, not a baby. ”

To be honest, Li Yongkai is also quite depressed, you took a good lunch break at home, but you were woken up by your own sister with a palm, saying that your father wanted him to go to the field. He also thought that it was a big deal, and when he arrived in the field, his father said that he had nothing to do to play with Xia Cao.

This little brother, this is a snail, not an invasive species that can't be eaten in the field, and the Fushou snail is ok? With it, kudzu vermicelli can be turned into snail noodles.

"Brother Yongkai, isn't this snail edible?" Xia Cao pretended to be stupid and said.

Li Yongkai smiled: "You can eat it!" The ducks in the village love to eat, do you want to compete with the ducks for food? ”

Xia Cao hummed secretly, you just grabbed food with ducks, you don't know the goods, and the food is currently only fed to ducks. Although my chest is small now, but it is also broad, I don't care about you, an ignorant guy, grinning and showing white teeth and saying, "Brother Yongkai hasn't tasted it?" ”

No one has ever been naughty, of course he remembers the feeling of being disgusting and wanting to vomit with a mouth full of sand, but he will never expose it in public, and said: "No one in the village eats it, why don't you take some home and let Qiao Mu try it?" Li Yongkai wanted to disgust Xia Qiaomu for his prank, and Xia Qiaomu laughed out loud at the picture of his brows in the face of these shelled mollusks. He has been living in the shadow of Brother Xia, and he has found the shadow of light.

"Hey! What do you think, boy? Why don't you get the barrel over now!" Xia Maihe looked at Brother Li, who was going crazy, and shouted.

The sun is thin, the fiery sunset renders the whole sky, and the sunset inlays her with golden lace. The people who are busy in the fields also drive the old cows, carry the farm tools on their backs, and return home before the sun sets, ending the busy day.

Xia Muhan also led the two loaches on the path home, and Xia Cao and Xia Maihe also ended the day of playing with the victorious snails.

The two foodies had their noses stinking to the smell of food from afar, and they left their cheap dad and went straight to the house and called: "Big brother, it's so fragrant!" ”

Xia Qiaomu knocked the two people who wanted to steal food with eighteen palms, rushed outside the house, and ordered them to be cleaned before they could enter the house. He already had foresight, just these two are not bound by him, how can they come back if they are not made into monkey mud. Boil water early and wait for them to come back and put it in the pot.

Dressed in a clean and refreshing summer grass, he began to count the treasures in the small wooden barrel, and harvested a lot, dozens of crabs - the size of two thumbs; a basket of shrimp - smaller than a little thumb; Three or five mussels -- the size of a palm, and other than that, they are all snails.

Xia Cao already felt that God had treated her well, and never expected hairy crabs, lobsters, and thousand-year-old river mussels to contain pearls. The meat that can be stuffed between the teeth is also meat, and those who are content are always happy, and after a few days, they will have meat to eat.

When he returned to the house, Xia Cao found that the little fox was gone, and after being a little sad, he scolded the little fox for being a negative man, and ran away without leaving any money to repay the debt, and cursed it for not finding a daughter-in-law in the future, and being lonely for life.

A certain fox in the depths of the 100,000 mountains even sneezed, secretly thinking that it would lose too much hair in winter and not keep out the cold.

After two days of standing and precipitation, the summer grass is the last step to dry the sediment. After finishing this series of difficult technical work, Xia Cao and Xia Maihe's big brother class came.

Compared with yesterday's lazy and lazy appearance, although Xia Maihe did not reach the depth of the head cantilever cone thorn strand today, he was still full of energy like a book. Hearing that Xia Qiaomu rewarded him for cooking a dish for him alone at noon, the goods were so happy that they couldn't find the north.

In the morning, I read and wrote with my eldest brother, and in the afternoon, I went to the field with my second brother to catch shrimp. These days, the small days of summer grass have been moist and leisurely. The kudzu powder in the courtyard has dried up after a long period of sunlight, and it is in the form of a white powder, because it is not perfect for the first time, and there are some small particles in it, which may not be evenly ground at the beginning.

Xia Cao had already been eyeing the vermicelli made of kudzu flour, and that day she was stalking her flour and the queen made kudzu flour into noodles. Facing the grinding daughter Su Shi was not broken, put down the show work in his hand, and kneaded the kudzu powder.

The pork I bought in the town last time was already in the lower stomach, and during this period, Brother Xia also fried a few plates of small shrimp, eating the crispy skin with the shell in his mouth, and he also ate meat. River mussels are boiled in the morning soup, and egg-flavored soup is always better than vegetable soup. For crabs, Brother Xia adheres to the principle of disliking the shell too hard, and throws it in the yard as a pet.

How could Xia Cao let the crab fly in its mouth? It is necessary to break the principle that the eldest brother is so tyrannical. With a three-inch tongue that is not rotten, he said: "Big brother, I think it is a waste to put crabs like this, although this crab can be hard, but when you boil porridge in the morning, put a few into it, and the porridge with umami is more fragrant." And my mother doesn't always say that the second brother eats too fast, which is not good for the stomach, and let the second brother eat crabs when he eats, he can't eat too fast. ”

Xia Cao's words made Xia Qiaomu can't help it, her younger sister loves to eat more than her second brother, just like a locust crossing the border and not letting go of anything. Grabbed the crab every day and said angrily Why didn't the eldest brother cook you, you should have been my plate and stomach, he already knew about it, and used the second brother as an excuse.

Xia Maihe, who was lying on the gun, was also abducted into the corner by Xia Cao and threatened to eat crabs. At first, Xia Maihe didn't agree, he thought of the tooth that was almost broken, and shook his head pretended. Xia Cao told him how to eat the essence of crabs without effort, and it was a threat to cheat on reading, Xia Maihe could only nod.

Only after eating the delicacy of crab meat for the first time, Xia Maihe admired his sister's morality even more. In the future, he will be the first to eat every fresh food made by Xia Cao.

This time, after knowing that Xia Cao was going to make kudzu vermicelli, he not only joined the camp of persuading his mother, but also volunteered to go into the kitchen to boil water.

Xia Cao was well versed in the second brother's hot pillow for eating, and said that he had been given an important task, and turned out of the house, carrying the snails they had come back from Taobao a few days ago. Let him suck the snail clean and take out the snail meat, and she will use scissors to cut off the part of the screw tail that is prone to mud and sand.

Everything was ready, Xia Qiaomu went out for something and didn't come back, and Xia Muhan didn't come back to help with farming. There are three of them left, a mother who can't cook, a second brother who can't cook, and a summer grass who only has theory but no hands-on ability.

Xia Cao looked forward to it for a week and didn't want to wait any longer. It just so happened that the two foxes were not there, and the cooking skills tickled the heart.