"Squeak"

In the kitchen, Cai Hongming brushed the red rat soaked in the juice of the herbs after disinfection with a layer of honey and put it in the oil pan.

Soon after the birth of the little red rat, the whole body is pink, not contaminated with the acquired pollution, the inside is bright, crystal clear, is a rare ingredient.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous dish called honey. According to the second volume of "The Ruling and Wild Mountains" written by Zhang Ling in the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded: "The people of Lingnan are good at honey, that is, the rat fetus is not instantaneous, and the whole body is naked, and it is fed with honey, nailed to the feast, and walks with a slur." To take it, bite it, chirp and make a sound, so it is called honey. ”

This honey chirp is actually the current three squeaks.

Why is it called a squeak?

Because it is a newborn red mouse, when the eater picks it up with chopsticks, the little red mouse is frightened and will "squeak" (this is the first squeak); When it is put into the seasoning, the little red mouse is frightened again, and will "squeak" again, (this is the second squeak); When placed in the eater's mouth, the little red rat is frightened again and makes a final "squeak" (three squeaks in total).

It's a simple dish, but it takes a lot of gluttonous motivation and courage to taste it – because it's meant to be eaten raw.

In addition to the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also has relevant records of this dish.

According to the "Yanzhu Temple" in Zhang Dai's "Dream Memories of Tao'an" in the Ming Dynasty, when many sacrificial tributes are mentioned, there are "Yunnan honey chirps, Emei snow maggots" and other things that belong to the "irrational" category. And the "rat" article of Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty also recorded: "The people of Huizhou take the newborn ones with their eyes closed and have no hair, raise them with honey, and use them to offer their relatives and nobles." Eating it is still chirping, and it is called honey. Xu Ke of the Qing Dynasty also contained in "Qing Barnyard Banknotes": "Cantonese cuisine has the so-called honey barbecue, rats." The rat gives birth to a child. The white hair is long and partial, soaked in honey. When eating, the host pours wine, the waiter distributes it, and when the entrance is in the mouth, there is still a chirping sound. However, he is not a guest. There is no such grand setting. If it is as big as a cat, it will be dried as a breast. ”

It can be seen how famous this dish was in ancient times, otherwise it would not have been handed down from ancient times to the present.

But Cai Hongming didn't do three squeaks today, because it was too challenging to have a strong heart, and it is estimated that no one in the family will be able to enjoy it.

What he wants to do is a puff pastry little red mouse, also called a honey red mouse.

Afraid that the little red rat was unclean in the wild, he specially washed it with warm water, scrubbed and disinfected it with warm alcohol, and then put it into the warm juice made of medicinal herbs to soak. Let it taste slowly. At this time, the little red mouse is still alive. After soaking, he brushed the little red rat with a layer of honey and soy sauce and put it in the oil pan to fry.

The live little red rat entered the pan, squeaked, and then was silent.

Next to her, Lu Qiaohong looked straight and said, "Brother, you are so cruel!" ”

Cai Hongming rolled his eyes and said angrily: "What is not cruel to eat?" You don't eat meat cruelly. It was cut off from the pig; You are not cruel when you eat vegetables, that is also life; You drink water without cruelty. There's tens of thousands of bacteria in there. To put it this way, we don't have to eat anything, we don't have to drink, we should be a fairy who eats and drinks dew. ”

Lu Qiaohong couldn't say anything about him, puffed out her mouth, and glared at him angrily.

The fire of frying the little red rat should not be too big. Because the skin of the newborn red rat is very tender and thin, if the fire is too strong, the surface will be charred, so it can only be soaked and fried with slow fire, and when the skin is golden, it is almost the same.

Except for fried red rats. Cai Hongming also stewed a big pot of vole dishes with sea cucumbers, abalone, partridges, winter bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, fungus and other mountain delicacies. In the evening, in addition to the delicacies made by the women in the family, the two dishes made by Cai Hongming with voles and red mice were the most conspicuous.

Lu Yimin looked at the crispy red rat on the plate on the table, and asked Cai Hongming, "Brother, can this thing really be eaten?" ”

"Of course you can eat it, but if you can't eat it, what am I doing it for?"

Although he said this, Lu Yimin was still a little hesitant, and Jiang Yuhan also wanted to try the taste, but he didn't dare to put down the chopsticks.

Cai Lang watched from the side and said; "What can't you eat, I think when I was in the war, I didn't eat anything, not to mention fried little red rats, when I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it, even the hairy rats had to be eaten raw." After saying that, he picked up a little red mouse and ate it.

Cai Tianshou followed and clamped one.

Lu Qitian also ate a lot of strange things, and he also tried to eat one.

There are not many red rats found from the vole nest, only twelve, Cai Lang one, Cai Tianshou one, Lu Qitian also one, there are only nine left. Lu Yimin and Jiang Yuhan, who were still hesitant, saw it and hurriedly clipped one. Chewing and chewing, the two of them felt that this crispy little red rat tasted really good.

After eating, Lu Yimin suddenly discovered a strange thing.

Ah Gong obviously caught the little red mouse earlier than him, why was he still chewing after eating, so he was curious: "Ah Gong, why are you still eating?" ”

"I'm tasting it right now." Cai Lang said very seriously.

Lu Yimin didn't believe it, and asked angrily with a tiger's face: "Grandpa, you didn't eat just now, right?" ”

This immediately caused a burst of laughter.

Cai Lang was arrogant just now, but he was actually a little hesitant in his heart. After he caught the little red mouse, he didn't eat it, but just hid it under his tongue and chewed it with his mouth. After seeing that they all ate, he slowly ate it, but he didn't expect to be discovered by Lu Yimin.

It is said that the old naughty boy, the old naughty boy, that is, the older he gets, the more like a child, and he is talking about an old man like Cai Lang.

Hearing everyone's laughter, Lu Yimin didn't know that he had been deceived by his grandfather, and suddenly felt that his whole life was not good.

However, the crispy fried little red rats tasted really good, and after a while, all twelve little red rats were eaten. Most of them are eaten by men, and women are still a little resistant to this kind of thing after all, and they feel hairy when they think of eating it in their mouths. But Lu Qiaohong and Shi Wan'er still tasted it bravely, and felt that the taste was indeed very delicious.

Little red rat no one dares to eat, but vole meat is different, and the vole meat stewed with mountain delicacies and game is unanimously welcomed by everyone, and it doesn't take long to be divided.

In addition to the dishes in the evening, Cai Hongming also took out a jar of Korla fragrant pear wine.

This wine is made by him from the Korla fragrant pears after the snow, without adding anything, and it is not soaked in rice wine. One hundred catties of Korla fragrant pears were finally made into wine, and only about twenty catties were made, which was very rare. When brewing, Cai Hongming used the spring water in the jade beads, and added a little purple gourd water as a guide, and the wine brewed was clear and sweet, and it was wonderful. In addition, it also has the effect of clearing the heart and calming the mind, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

Cai Lang only drank one glass, and he felt that his armpits were windy, and he was a little fluttery. When I woke up the next day, I felt clear-headed and didn't have any sequelae of alcohol at all.

Although he is already old, because of his success in boxing, and Cai Hongming secretly gave him the water in the jade toad liquid and purple gourd in private, he now looks only fifty or sixty years old, speaks sonorously and powerfully, is energetic, and walks vigorously.

In the third year of junior high school, Cai Tianfu and his wife rushed back from the northwest.

After his parents came back, Cai Hongming was much more relaxed, and he no longer had to stay at home all day to accompany the elderly to entertain guests, so he took his wife and daughter to lead a bunch of cousins and cousins to go around the mountains and rivers and visit the temple fair. (To be continued......)