Chapter 15 Good charcoal baked
Brother Zhao has never eaten such a fragrant chicken, in the past, he hit the chicken is plucked out, the internal organs are digged, a stick is inserted, a fire is set up, and it is roasted directly, every time it is roasted to black and bitter, the fragrance of the chicken can be tasted in addition to the unburned place inside, and there is no umami of chicken in other places, and every time the large and charred meat is cheap and black.
The roast chicken made by Liang Chuan, there is a faint fragrance of the earth, the meat inside is not burnt at all, the meat is not only firm and tender, the fat is smooth but not greasy, only a pinch of salt, it is tender and delicious to eat, with sweet rice, it makes people's appetite move, the rice is one bite after another, stuffed with a mouthful and then a mouthful of meat, it is really a great enjoyment in the world.
Brother Zhao has a bite of rice and a bite of meat, this is the most fragrant and warm meal he has ever eaten in his life.
Yi Niang couldn't help but look at Liang Chuan with admiration, is this a blessing in disguise, I have never heard of Liang Chuan who has been with her for so many years.
Brother Zhao ate all over his face, like he had never eaten chicken in his life, Liang Chuan was secretly frightened, how long had he been hungry, and it was ugly compared to himself. While eating, he slurred words in his mouth and shouted: "Brother. . . You.. This.. Chicken... Too.. Eaten! ”
Liang Chuan couldn't stand it, and scolded: "Eat slowly, don't be the same as the reincarnation of a starving ghost, look at your little talent, isn't it just a chicken, there will be a lot more delicious food in the future." ”
Brother Zhao was hungry and scared, so he was unmoved, but when he heard Liang Chuan say that there was something more delicious, his eyes were like hungry wolves, and he said with a green light: "Brother, I'll go to the mountains to hunt game again, the previous ones were blind, this is what people eat!! ”
Brother Zhao jumped out several ah-ah-ah, which made Liang Chuan and Yi Niang laugh, Yi Niang's mood calmed down a little, and scolded with a smile: "You still laugh at others, don't you want to think about your own eating appearance last night, and you are embarrassed to laugh at other people's Zhao Brother?" ”
Liang Chuan scratched the back of his head, is there?
This meal is very long and fragrant, Liang Chuan himself is the first time to eat meat in this world, a meal is such a fragrant game, it is difficult to eat such a natural delicacy even in later generations, the original chicken aroma, coupled with the coarse salt that is not high in purity, makes people have an endless aftertaste.
After eating, Yi Niang was cleaning up, throwing bones or something to Hei Nose to eat, Liang Chuan and Zhao Di went to see how the charcoal stove was doing.
The charcoal stove was sealed because of several small holes, and there was no way to continue burning without oxygen in it, and the fire inside was extinguished after a while, and the temperature slowly dropped, touching the surface with your hands, because in winter, the heat loss is very fast, and the temperature is basically gone, which is a bit cold and cold.
Liang Chuan looked at this cone of earth, and he didn't know the bottom in his heart!
After becoming a few people, their lives are guaranteed, and if they fail, they have to find another way to make a living! The kung fu of a meal should be about the same, Liang Chuan didn't know what was going on inside, so he took an iron rake and built it, but he didn't build it too deep, for fear of damaging the charcoal inside, and then gently peeled off the soil, because the charcoal inside burned at a very high temperature, and the mud burned to a very hard extent, and it was a bit of a snack to pick up.
However, with patience, all the mud was gradually removed and piled aside. After cleaning the soil outside, the charcoal inside is covered with a layer of soil ash, and it is difficult to see what the charcoal is doing. Liang Chuan stretched out his hand to pry the air and teased that there was no temperature, and then carefully put his hand on the surface of the charcoal to touch it, and carefully confirmed that it was completely cooled before letting Brother Zhao clean up the charcoal and put it aside!
"Brother Zhao, you have to slow down, these treasures are expensive! I can't stand a little pressure, you know! ”
"I know, don't worry, when I'm full, my hands won't tremble, and my strength can be controlled!"
Brother Zhao blew away the ash on the surface with his mouth, and he made a mess with a mouthful. The ash and soil on the charcoal were blown away, and the exposed was the black gold shiny charcoal, although there were no lighting tools, the black gold shiny texture of the charcoal in the moonlight was still clear!
Brother Zhao shouted excitedly: "Look, the three of you really burned into charcoal, it's so beautiful!" It's not like burning charcoal yourself! ”
These firewood were originally primeval forests that grew for tens or hundreds of years, and the density of the wood itself was very large, even if it was burned into charcoal, the volume of charcoal did not shrink much! The volume of a piece of fast is huge and full, neatly stacked together! Liang Chuan watched as the pieces of charcoal were cleaned out and neatly stacked under the eaves at the back of the house, and nearly a hundred catties of wood had just been put in, and there were almost thirty catties of burned! According to the current price on the market, these thirty catties of charcoal can almost be sold for hundreds of dollars, Liang Chuan felt a lot of emotion in his heart, this charcoal burning technique is made out of the mountain of firewood to pick casually, and it is all money when it is burned, no need to worry about the uselessness of no food, this time it should not be worrying about no way to live!
Liang Chuan told Yi Niang the news, and Yi Niang ran over to see the charcoal burned by Liang Chuan, which was indeed different from the charcoal burned in her stove, the stove was white, and it was not burned, I don't know how long this black charcoal can burn! "Third brother, how long can this charcoal burn?" Yi Niang asked.
Liang Chuan himself didn't know: "Uh. . I don't know about this, the first charcoal just came out today, let's test it at night and find out! ”
It was night, Yi Niang brought some straw to Zhao Di and spread it next to Yantai, and the family looked for it and did not find another quilt, and it was still very cold at night at the foot of the mountain, and Yi Niang had been worried that Zhao Di would be frozen when he slept at night. Brother Zhao kept saying that it was okay, "This side is next to the stove, and the fire inside has been burning, so it's warm enough, I used to find a random place outside and sleep directly, where do you dare to expect a quilt!" ”
Liang Chuan said mysteriously: "Brother Zhao, the three of you have said that you will not be starved and cold, you go and move the mud basin at the door to your own house, go!"
Brother Zhao moved the mud pot, Liang Chuan took a red-burning firewood from the belly of the stove, put it in the basin, and then added the charcoal he burned to it, the fire gradually simmered the charcoal red, a pot of charcoal from the beginning of the black and shiny slowly turned into red and white, the white flowers were like silver, and the charcoal became slightly distorted because of the refraction of temperature and light.
The temperature in the house is getting higher and higher with the charcoal fire, the house itself is not big, and now staying in the house is like turning on the heating, wearing more clothes, and even sweating!
Brother Zhao was so happy that he smirked, and said to Liang Chuan: "Third brother, I didn't expect me to have this life, where was I frozen to death at designated nights in the winter, and now I still have this treatment when I sleep with you!" This stuff is usually only used by big households, you know, this thing is not cheap! ”
Liang Chuan asked: "Is this thing very expensive, why can it be used by big households!"
Brother Zhao replied, "Expensive! A pound costs 20 yuan, don't look at our mountains and trees, wild boars and tigers in the gourd mountain have everything, and it is as common as drinking water and eating when you go into the mountains to fetch firewood and be bitten by snakes! Besides, we Fengshan will burn this, so the price is not cheap! The charcoal picked up by ordinary cooking rice is not as beautiful as ours, and the smoke is more flavorful when burned to death, and no one buys it. The government also does not allow private firewood and charcoal! ”
When Liang Chuan heard what Brother Zhao told him, his heart tightened, and he asked, "The government doesn't allow you to chop wood?" Why? So how to cook! ”
Brother Zhao said: "The official family has an imperial order that you can't go up the mountain to collect wages casually, if you can pick it casually, the mountain will be gone, but our Xinghua is different, we have more mountains and less land, and the land that can grow food is not enough. This feeds people for land and firewood, and sometimes the government encourages them to go into the mountains to collect more firewood to pioneer the wilderness, which is really strange! ”
Liang Chuan thought carefully about the joints, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the nomads in the north often went south, and Kaifeng Mansion had what checkpoints could be guarded, and the government could only rely on the dense jungle of nature as a barrier to block the iron horses in the north.
The south is different, although the Song Dynasty experienced the Yongjia Rebellion and the Anshi Rebellion after the two population migrations, but most of the population only moved from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin, the vast area south of the Yangtze River Basin is still in an undeveloped primitive state, the contradiction between man and land forces the people to compete with nature for land, and the control of forest resources is not so strict, not to mention that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, even if the county prince is dozens of miles away from the countryside of Fengshan, and there is no satellite monitoring, the mountain is all bald. No one knows what's going on!
In this era, there is no concept of environmental protection, and it is not good to cut down trees and get some firewood to solve people's livelihood!
This firewood is not burned directly to sell a pound of two or three pennies, now, burned into charcoal directly doubled tenfold, that is, ten catties of charcoal will also produce about three or four catties of charcoal, the yield is a little lower, but what does it matter, the firewood on the mountain is the same as rice, and no one cuts, they secretly cut a little to burn charcoal, and then plant it again!
The charcoal fire made the temperature of the small broken house where Brother Zhao lived warmer and warmer, and Brother Zhao fell asleep lying on the thatch, with his black nose curled up beside him, and he would not scream and move, and it was very quiet. After a while, the snoring of the younger brother came from the room.
Liang Chuan and Yi Niang also climbed into bed, Liang Chuan hugged Yi Niang, and couldn't hold it anymore so he asked her: "Yi Niang, can I ask you a question." Yi Niang replied softly, "What are you going to ask?"
Liang Chuan was really embarrassed to speak, but he felt strange, and he couldn't hold back in his heart: "Yi Niang, how long have we been married?" As soon as Yi Niang heard him ask this question, she knew what he was going to ask next, and Xiao Fan hammered Liang Chuan's chest hard, and scolded angrily: "You want to die!" You don't know how long you will be married! Don't think I don't know what you're asking! You didn't have a good body before, don't blame me! ”
Yi Niang didn't expect Liang Chuan to be completely like a different person, and he was also powerful before, but he was always like a sleeping caterpillar in that aspect, and he was never used for a soft one, so for several years, Yi Niang has always been a virgin!
Liang Chuan actually asked her why she was still a virgin, so angry that she was so angry that she beat her fists, in fact, Liang Chuan encountered an accident this time, the whole person is the same as a different person, not to mention the personality, in terms of body, when he was unconscious, the second brother got up on time every morning and held the quilt high! It's like this every day, and it almost killed her yesterday...
Liang Chuan heard Yi Niang say this, it turned out to be his original master. Let the little beauty suffer the sin of living for so many years in vain! But now that he has an artifact, his body is the original person's, shouldn't this little brother also be the original owner's? It's weird.
Liang Chuan said to Yi Niang: "Okay Yi Niang, I don't mean anything else, don't think about it." Go to bed early, get up at night and see when the charcoal fire will burn out, add a little to it, otherwise Brother Zhao will freeze to death. ”
Yi Niang's anger has not disappeared, and she replied resentfully: "I know, you can sleep, wait for me to get up and add it."