"Your father is really powerful, follow you, you don't have to worry about going hungry anywhere." Along the way, Yunli followed them and saw a lot of new things, which also made him grow a lot of knowledge, and he sincerely admired it.

"It's nothing great, everyone in the mountains knows this, but the things that the teacher told us before are more interesting, and they are very different from what we see on TV." Hearing Yunli's praise, Huang Yanli was still very happy, a girl of her age inevitably had a strong longing for the colorful life outside.

When he went back, the four wild ducks had already been processed, Huang Yanli's father Huang Damin dug a shallow pit with dry branches and made a fire on it, while his mother Xu Yin was stuffing the small wild bamboo shoots, fungus, wild mushrooms, and wild vegetables that he had picked before into the stomach of the wild ducks, and tied them up with grass and vines.

"What's the use of putting this in there?" Yunli also noticed that before the sealing, Brother Chen would stuff a few finger-sized gray and white stones into the stomach of each wild duck and mix them in the wild vegetables.

"Lick it and you'll understand." Brother Chen threw one of the stones to Yunli and sold Guan Zidao.

Although Yun Li felt a little ridiculous, but he had always been eager to learn, he had nothing to worry about, and after a few careful observations, he found nothing in particular, so he followed Brother Chen's words, put the stone to his mouth, and licked it tentatively.

Soon, the answer travels from the taste buds to the brain.

"It turned out to be an ore with salt components, so while seasoning, you can also use the characteristics of ore heat accumulation to increase the internal temperature and speed up the speed of hot ripening, killing two birds with one stone." Yun Li smacked his lips and said suddenly.

"It seems that your kid hasn't wasted half a year's meal, hurry up and bring the banana leaves, brother, I'll pass you a famous dish today, after learning it, don't worry about not being able to please your mother-in-law, haha!" Brother Chen's words amused everyone.

I saw him pick out the two smaller wild ducks, hand one of them to Yun Li, signal Yun Li to follow his steps, and then carry the duck and roast it back and forth on the fire, and when the skin of the wild duck was slightly yellowed, Brother Chen took back the wild duck, wrapped it in a banana leaf, and finally smeared a thick layer of silt on the surface of the leaf.

"After roasting, the speed of wrapping should be fast, and the leaves do not need to be too much, two layers are enough." The whole process, Brother Chen completed it very quickly, and Yunli is not bad, he can probably keep up with the progress, but in some points, he still needs Brother Chen to point out from the side.

After a while, two mud strips wrapped in wild ducks were made, and the fire was opened, and the two mud-wrapped wild ducks were put into the pit, waiting for the charcoal fire to bake them, and the dish called the wild ducks was finished.

The other two larger mallards are grilled and roasted on sticks only after the wood has burned through and formed a red-hot charcoal. The purpose of this is to use a specific high temperature to quickly cook the food, and on the premise of not burning the food, but also to lock in the moisture in the food, similar to the principle of the oven we usually use.

A few people gathered around the fire, under the shade of the big tree, chatting while eating wild fruits, smelling the aroma of the rushing face, and looking forward to the food that was about to be completed.

"By the way, at the wild duck's nest before, you seem to have said that there is one less delicacy, what kind of delicacy is that?" Yun Li recalled their previous conversation, so he raised the question.

"Your kid has been in Deer Town for half a year, do you know why this Deer Town is called Deer Town, and why Banlu Mountain is called Banlu Mountain?" Brother Chen's style did not change, and he still did not give Yunli an answer directly.

Yun Li looked at everyone's expressions, obviously, they all knew the inside story, and he was not sluggish, he understood the general idea after thinking about it, but he still couldn't help but ask:

"That is to say, there used to be a herd of deer in this mountain?"

"A sika deer with gray-white spots, which is a unique breed here, has been extinct for 30 years." It was Brother Chen who told the reason.

"At that time, when a child was born, we would go to the mountains to catch a spotted deer, and when the moon was full, it would be slaughtered, and the two horns would be left for the newborn baby, which could ward off evil spirits and bless health, but in Ali's generation, there would be no spotted deer to catch." Huang Yanli's mother, Xu Yin, still knows a lot about the spotted deer, and she can't help but recall the past.

"In my grandfather's generation, there were still a lot of spotted deer, and then the economy opened up, and some people hunted a large number of spotted deer, smuggled them to the border to sell for money, and then they became extinct, like these wild ducks, there are many fewer than a few years ago, fortunately, the villagers are aware of this, and no longer do a nest of things, otherwise this mountain will be destroyed in the hands of our generation."

Huang Damin sighed while flipping the wooden stick in his hand, and the two wild ducks kept popping up oil splashes, so Huang Damin overlapped them together, so that the oil was distributed all over the body, and the color looked more attractive.

"In some ancient books, we can know that thousands of years ago, there were records of the activities of spotted deer here, and it is a pity that they became extinct." As a teacher, Brother Chen is also quite sad about this.

He was also a native of Luzhen, and he still keeps the pair of spotted antlers that his parents took him when he was born, and although he has no children of his own, he does not want this tradition to be cut off.

Even now they don't need to rely on the resources of the mountains to survive well, but for the mountain people, they have a unique affection for the mountains, which has been rooted in their hearts since childhood, and I am afraid that there is nothing to replace them.

Yunli is not from the mountains, but from the feelings expressed by Brother Chen, he can also understand a thing or two, and he also hopes that his manor can make some contributions to the people here.

"The duck is roasted, come and eat it first." Huang Damin's shout broke everyone's contemplation, and the two burnt wild ducks also attracted everyone's attention again.

Huang Yanli's mother, Xu Yin, put two wild ducks on the banana leaves, grabbed one foot with one hand, and broke the wild ducks very lightly, revealing the steaming vegetarian dishes inside.

After picking out the stones that had been put in before with small bamboo branches, Xu Yin divided the wild duck and vegetarian vegetables into five portions, wrapped them in plantain leaves, and distributed them to everyone one by one.

When you go out, in the mountains and wilderness, you are not a particular person, you just pick it up with your hands and eat it.

The freshly roasted wild duck is still quite hot, and the vegetarian dishes in it are soaked in oil and are also very hot, but Yunli is not that patient, and he eats it with bared teeth while blowing.

Yunli is not a good person, usually three meals are not very particular, just fill the stomach, since he came to Luzhen to teach, under the influence of Brother Chen, he began to pursue food, and this roast wild duck is definitely one of the most delicious he has ever eaten in his life.

The skin of the wild duck is crispy but not greasy, the meat is firm and tender, and it only needs a little salt to bring out the best in its game. The vegetarian dishes wrapped in the inside, after sucking the gravy of the wild duck, show their own unique flavors, the small wild bamboo shoots are fresh and crisp and tender, the wild mushrooms and gravy are blended, the meat is also vegetarian, the fungus is soft and glutinous, the mountain vegetables are fragrant and cooked, they are eaten separately, each has its own flavor, mixed to eat, and it is unique and interesting.

The wild duck is not big, five people eat it separately, and it is quickly swept away, and everyone eats differently, but the mood is the same, and the meaning is still unfinished.

"I won't get tired of this gadget no matter how many times I eat it." Brother Chen grabbed a handful of leaves to wipe his hands and said with a smile.

"That is, in the past, when we went into the mountains, we could eat four or five of them alone, but now we can only beat our teeth and enjoy it." Huang Damin echoed as he continued to add firewood to the fire, leaving the two ducks, which needed some time to simmer.

"By the way, there is enough water in this mountain, and I have been walking for most of the day, but I haven't found anything." In the interval between the waiting of the group, Yun asked at the entrance.

This trip into the mountain, he didn't just come to play, the lack of water on the west side of Xiaolu Mountain, in fact, can be solved by bringing water from Banlu Mountain through guò, but after walking for most of the day, he didn't find a suitable water source, which made him very confused.

"Teacher Yun, you can ask the right person this time, the water sources of Banlu Mountain are concentrated on the opposite side, and the ones that flow to this side are all small streams, so Dalu Mountain and Xiaolu Mountain are both dry land and are not suitable for farming."

As a farmer in Shanglu Village, Huang Damin naturally knew a lot about Banlu Mountain, so he pointed to the direction and introduced the situation to Yunli, seeing Yunli's sad face, he reluctantly continued to add:

"Actually, there is a water source, and at the intersection of Banlu Mountain, Xiaolu Mountain, and Dalu Mountain, it is a flat valley, and during the rainy season, a lot of rainwater accumulates here, which is very similar to a wetland. In the past, those bosses took advantage of the rainy season to hire people to dig ditches to divert water, but the water storage in the rainy season is different every year, and if you are unlucky, you can't draw much water in a year. ”

"Boss Zhao, who used to plant fruit trees, couldn't even recover the fruit because of the dry season, and we still helped dig those diversion canals." Xu Yin also added on the side.

Yunli's earliest idea was to divert water from Banlu Mountain, but after listening to Huang Damin's statement, he found that this method was not easy to implement. First of all, the rainfall is unstable, which is not something that can be controlled by man, and Yunli can't pin the hope of the manor on the will of heaven. Secondly, planting crops can be different from planting fruit trees and bamboo, and requires stable irrigation to ensure the harvest.

In fact, the best way is to build an automated irrigation system with pipes, which can not only obtain a stable water supply, but also greatly reduce manual labor, but the cost required is not a small amount, and Yunli cannot afford it nowadays. Xiaolushan's contracting fee alone has cost him most of his savings, and now the funds on hand will be used for the next batch of crops.