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Chapter Eighty-Four: The Egret and the Pheasant on the Summer Solstice

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In the early morning, the rooster crows and several magpies in the trees chirp that the happy event is coming. Li Feng, who got up early, sprinkled rice to feed the chickens, causing a group of hens to coo. Today is the summer solstice, and from today the summer really begins. There's an old saying 'but the summer solstice isn't hot' but it's actually very hot these days. The summer solstice was a relatively important festival in the past, and now Lijiagang has the custom of 'winter solstice dumplings and summer solstice noodles', and the days of eating cold noodles on the summer solstice will become hotter and hotter after the summer solstice. Li Jiagang customs, in addition to cold noodles, 'summer solstice, kill chicken knife', every summer solstice, every family to kill a big rooster, eat a meal, make up for a supplement. Li Feng's task here is to catch a rooster.

Li Feng's family has more than 20 chickens, and there are only three roosters, all of which have long tails, very bright coats, and fat tops. Li Feng held the fishing net in his hand, and while sprinkling rice, he was thinking about which one, the three roosters were about the same. As for which one Li Feng chooses, the main thing is to look at the chicken thighs, this person likes to eat chicken thighs the most. I like to eat Xingye's chicken wings, but he changed it to my favorite chicken thighs.

"Okay, that's you." Li Feng's net pocket flew quickly, and a rooster with strong legs was pocketed by a sturdy net. "Hehe, chick, I'll be fast, it doesn't hurt." Li Feng held a kitchen knife in one hand and a rooster in the other, and the rooster plucked the hair on his neck. Li Feng felt that he was a little cruel, such a beautiful chicken was going to die under his own knife, how can he say that Brother Chicken will have a good birth in the next life.

Li Feng is not a good hand at killing chickens and bloodletting, of course, this is the experience summed up after many failures. I remember the first time I killed a chicken, my little hands trembled so much, and when I went down, the chicken seemed to be fine, spreading its wings and running all over the yard, making the whole yard bloody, which was even more terrifying than the murder scene. Now, Li Feng is ingenious, looking at the half bowl of bright red chicken blood at his feet. Li Feng was quite proud, as for the chicken feathers that Meng Meng and the bell wanted, Li Feng pulled them out early, a few chicken feathers are really beautiful, and they are really good materials for making shuttlecocks.

Red and yellow with a little bit of gold-edged chicken feathers, each one is more than ten centimeters long, the neck is shorter, and the shuttlecock made together is not only good-looking, kicking the shuttlecock, not easy to float, not crooked or slanted, the best material.

The small pot is scalded with hot water, the chicken feathers are easier to pluck out, Li Feng is not rusty in dealing with the rooster, and the big rooster has been white and tender and hairless for a while.

Breakfast is quite light, one boiled egg per person, half a boiled duck egg per person, a piece of water bun per person, no oil, only water, this is the custom of the summer solstice, it is very difficult to do. Boil water, mix good noodles, and spread out buns on boiling water. At least Li Feng can't do it well, such a meaty water stall bun. Mung bean porridge to clear heat and relieve fire, cold toon leaves, cucumber strips, preserved egg tofu, stuffed beans, all cold dishes. The summer solstice is not hot, and most of the cold dishes are eaten in the morning, and everyone is very comfortable eating.

The weather is hot, there is stuffiness, all light is the most delicious, after breakfast, the mother took Meng Meng and the bell to the river to pick medicinal herbs, make sachets. The doll under the age of ten wears a sachet, Zhang Lan has not made these for many years, and she looks quite excited, and she looks curious at the girl, and follows closely one by one, looking strange. As for what was in the sachet, Li Feng knew a little, but it was just a few medicinal materials that could be seen everywhere.

The sachet was hooked out by Zhang Lan some time ago, looking at the likes of a few girls and making a few more by the way, the sachet is made of green, red, yellow, white, and black silk threads, looking gorgeous in color, and it looks quite beautiful. It's just that now there is no matching clothing, it doesn't look too good, as long as the little baby hangs around the neck, it's good.

The sachet is hung for children to prevent the infestation of poisonous insects, has the function of poisoning and warding off evil, and has become a symbol of good luck in life. In the past, there was no fan, air conditioning, the heat was big in summer, and people were prone to heat stroke, especially the poor physical resistance of the little baby, which was most prone to heat stroke.

At noon, Li Feng looked at Meng Meng and the bell showing the sachet on his chest in front of him, and shook his head, especially Meng Meng seemed to be carrying the sachet to others. Triumphant, the little tail is up to the sky.

For lunch, the staple food is cold noodles, this cold noodles are different from the past, they are made by Zhang Lan herself, the noodles are wide, and Li Feng adjusted the ingredients early. The cold vermicelli I bought, accompanied by cucumber shreds, shredded potatoes, shredded kelp, shredded radish, five kinds of silk represent non-toxic, eat five silks, and the five poisons will not invade in summer.

Of course, the most important thing is the braised rooster, a big plate, purple sauce, looking at the drooling, especially the two chicken thighs, revealing a chicken bone, the muscles break through the chicken skin, revealing the tender chicken. looked at Li Feng's drooling, but unfortunately, in the blink of an eye, a chicken leg went into someone else's bowl.

watched Zhang Lan clip one for the bell, Xiaoqing clipped one for Mengmeng, two little babies, and their little hands grabbed and gnawed on them. "It's delicious, better than KFC." Meng Meng ate a mouth full of oil, which made Li Feng on the side envious, so he could only clip a chicken wing and roar in his heart, I love to eat wings.

The cold noodles are good, wider, more vigorous, with five threads, bitter herbs, seasonings, and most importantly, aged vinegar, it is really delicious and invincible. Li Feng ate two large bowls in a row, and then put down his hand and ate a big bowl with Meng Meng and Bell in a row. After lunch, Li Feng thought about resting for a while, he slowly got used to it these days, and after eating, he rested for a while.

Who knows, after a while, there was a cute surprise outside, Li Feng went out to see, the old hen in the yard with more than a dozen chicks that had just broken the shell jumped out of the chicken nest. The fluffy chicken cub is very cute, Li Feng only remembered at this time that the egret eggs he put in some time ago, the egret hatching time is about the same as that of the chick, and it should have broken the shell.

Li Feng looked behind the hen, he didn't see the egret, this thing is different from the chick, Li Feng was a little depressed, is it a bad guy, it's impossible.

Luck is so bad, Li Feng was stunned, walked a few steps quickly, came to the chicken nest, and took a look, there were not only light blue egret eggs in the chicken nest, but also a few wild eggs, what was going on? Li Feng picked it up and looked at it, there were cracks on the wild eggs, and it seemed that they would come out in a while.

As for the egret eggs, Li Feng couldn't figure out this thing, so he took a pot, filled it with some warm water, and put two egret eggs in it.

"Hey, uncle, what is this, how can it move?" Li Feng's weird behavior did not escape the cuteness of teasing the chickens on the side, as for the old hen on the side, the cuteness is not filmed, and the little guy is holding a big fan in his hand.

Li Feng looked at the egret eggs in circles in the water, and breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the little egret inside has been formed, but it has not come out yet. I had no choice but to move to another hen's nest, and this time I put the egret eggs in it quite smoothly. As for a few little pheasants, in less than two hours, they all came out, the pheasants were smaller than the chickens, the old hen didn't see anything, Li Feng put the little pheasants next to the hens, and the little ones looked a little weak, but they didn't run slowly.

Eating chicken at noon, Li Feng was still thinking about raising more roosters, next time he killed two, four big chicken legs, he always had his own share. In the afternoon, this person looked at the chickens running all over the yard, grinning, especially a few small pheasants, the more they looked, the more cute they became, and it would be a bowl of delicious food in a few months.

As for the cute and bell who were originally shouting to hit the shell, this will be very obedient to catch insects and feed the chickens. Li Feng finally gave birth in peace, it seems that it is really time for these chickens to come out, as for the egret, they can only go with the flow, but it seems that it will not be a few days.

I didn't think about it, in the evening, when Li Feng was feeding the hens, he listened to a few cries in the chicken nest, and when he opened the hens, he saw that the two little egrets had a few feathers, scattered and scattered, with long mouths, no matter how they looked, they didn't have the graceful posture of spreading their wings and flying in the sky. Li Feng took out the two little guys, looked them up and down, and felt that there was just one word, ugly.

The egret is out of the shell, and it can't be put in this hen's nest, so you can only see if the hen out of the nest recognizes it. Who knows, this hen pecked for a while, it wasn't for Li Feng's quick reaction, these two stupid birds, maybe they were dead. Packed up the bamboo cage, put the two stupid birds in, waited for the bell to come, and thought about giving it to the little girl, that time it didn't mean that she liked the cowback heron, and this egret was not a heron. Who knew that she almost didn't scare the little girl into crying, and even the cute people on the side looked at Li Feng viciously. This thing is really ugly, Li Feng thinks it's better to forget it, it's okay to scare the two girls out of the bell.

At night, I heard about a few girls with chickens out of the shell, and looked at the two egrets in the bamboo cage on the side and said it was impossible, which was too ugly. Li Feng repeatedly assured that this was an egret, but Lin Ying didn't seem to believe it, and shook her head and said that their bird-watching platform was not responsible for adopting domestic birds and beasts.

Li Feng didn't understand very much, how did these two stupid birds become domestic, and they couldn't be raised. Get some small fish and shrimp to see, the second bird is not stupid enough to be hungry, and it looks like it can eat. Li Feng is relieved, it's good that he can't die, but it's too ugly, and it looks more depressing than a vulture.

Li Feng in Taolin sold several times in the evening, but several old people shook their heads when they looked at the ugly appearance of the egret, and the whole was like a hairless chicken. Even a few old people suspected that Li Feng was mistaken, it was an egret here, maybe it was a vulture or something, or a crow, and they had never seen such an ugly bird.

In desperation, Li Feng could only raise it by himself, but fortunately, these two things were not picky eaters, and the small fish and shrimp were full. Meng Meng and the bells, looking interesting, stuffing some fish and shrimp from time to time, at least starving to death, Li Feng didn't pay much attention to these, and made some small fish and shrimp every day. The two little birds have good vitality.