Chapter 52: Vinegar Yam

Two wooden X-shaped wooden horses, on which a sawn log was set up as a workbench, and after a long day of hard work, a gate made of bamboo and wood was completed.

The appearance looks very rough, but it is not easy for Chen Xu, the only advantage of this door is that it is thick, the door frame is made of wood the thickness of a rice bowl directly with a chisel to punch out a few round holes, and then connected with hard wooden nails, and the middle is filled with an old bamboo with the thickness of an arm one by one, after doing it, Chen Xu and Niu Dashi have tried, kicked it up and did not move, but the legs will be hurt by the shock, and the big wild boar is not sure if it can't be stopped, but there is no problem with the small feline like the bobcat leopard.

Tearing down the old gate and replacing the new gate with it, the heavy feeling of opening and closing made Chen Xu's heart relax a lot at once.

There are still a few windows left, and I can finish it with hard work in the afternoon.

Then the bed will be done in the next two days, the basic life will be no problem, the rest still need to repair the toilet, you also need to build a pergola in front of the door, and build the stove, this habit of cooking in the open air is very bad, although it is to ensure safety and do not set the house on fire, but once it is windy and rainy, there is no way to make a fire to cook, you can only eat dry food hungry, especially what to do if it snows in winter, and what to do if the fire is heated at home when it is cold, and you have to build a fire pit in the room, but you have to build a chimney to remove the smoke, But you need bricks to build chimneys, and you definitely can't use stones, and you have to build kilns to burn bricks, and you also need a lot of wood and even coal......

The more he wanted to lack, the more things he lacked, and Chen Xu felt a little disheartened.

There are only ten years left before Qin Shi Huang dies of illness, and in ten years, he must grow strong enough to protect himself and his family, so when can he go out to earn money in this poor mountain village? And in what way to make money?

The wild boar and the big snake did sell a lot of money last time, enough for a poor ordinary family to use for several years, but in Chen Xu's eyes, that is not called making a fortune, making a fortune refers to at least creating a huge company, there is a steady stream of goods for sale, there is a large group of people who are working hard for their goals, and they can make themselves stand firm in Daqin, not to mention a hundred responses, at least no one dares to bully themselves casually, of course, except for Qin Shi Huang Qin Da, now he is the biggest in the whole of China, and he can bully whoever he wants.

"What is Eungong thinking?"

Just when Chen Xu was holding on to the gate and was stunned, the young man in black who was rescued by him stood next to him silently.

"Hey, you're able to walk?" Chen Xu came back to his senses and looked at this handsome young man in surprise.

"Well, your medicine is very good, I feel like my body is recovering quickly after drinking it, but I still need to eat a lot of food to get better and ...... faster"

Foodie! Chen Xu's face darkened slightly.

After waking up from meditation in the morning, he ate a jar of small rice and half a jar of soup made with minced meat, and now it was only noon, and he was hungry again.

But if you want to send this plague god of unknown origin away as soon as possible, you really can't be stingy, the blood is almost dry, and you can get up after sleeping all night, this kind of awesome character can't be offended casually.

So Chen Xu had no choice but to cook, and he himself felt hungry, and now he has rice and meat at home, and there is no problem in changing it to three meals a day.

Make a fire, boil the rice, cut two catties of meat, separate the fat and thin, wash the fat and cut the fat into small slices and put it in the clay pot and simmer for a few minutes, wait for the fat to simmer out, put in the wild garlic and turmeric and fry until fragrant, then add half a pot of water and boil.

He was too lazy to get wild vegetables, so he searched around the house and found two yams, which he got back when he was digging herbs a few days ago.

Chen Xu took the two yams and struggled for a long time, whether to wash them and cut them into pieces and put them in the broth to cook or what to do?

Over the past half a month, I have eaten boiled vegetables every day, and all kinds of ingredients are boiled, otherwise it is roasted if I change the taste, but the roasted yam will definitely not be eaten.

In fact, the vinegared yam is very good, but unfortunately there is no vinegar now!

Vinegar, vinegar! How to get vinegar.

Chen Xu racked his brains to think, and finally his eyes suddenly stared at the slim apricot tree in the center of the small courtyard next to him, among the branches and leaves swaying in the wind in the sun, the blue-green apricots swayed gently, and he instantly felt a sour saliva coming out of his mouth.

Although apricots are also considered a fruit, they are not very popular, because they are too sour, especially apricots that have not been grafted and improved, and they are completely uneaten, unless they are fully ripe, otherwise they can sour their teeth in one bite.

Chen Xu remembered that when he was a child, there was also one in the village, and every time he ate it, he couldn't even bite the steamed bun, so he never touched this fruit again when he grew up.

I don't know what level of dish fried yam with green apricots is, and whether it will reach or exceed the height of the tomato fried mooncakes in the university cafeteria in later generations.

Seeing Chen Xu standing under the apricot tree with a bamboo pole and pounding it, and the green apricots the size of pigeon eggs fluttered and fell, Niu Dashi couldn't help but say: "Brother Xu, the apricots are not ripe yet, what are you doing when you pound them!" ”

"You'll find out in a moment!" Chen Xu dropped the bamboo pole and picked up seven or eight big ones from the ground, took out one and rubbed it on his body and gnawed it.

"Phew~" Chen Xu grinned and spit it out, it was too sour, but he was very excited in his heart, at least it was sour enough, the most important thing is that this acid is very pure and very original, without the slightest pollution.

Wash a few green apricots, dig out the pits with a dagger, and pound them into a green mud in a clay bowl.

A yam is also washed, scraped and sliced for later use.

There is no iron pot at home, so I can only take out a clay pot the size of a rice bowl, wash it and put it on the stove to burn.

When the temperature of the clay pot is very high, add a spoonful of lard, then add the chopped wild garlic and slowly stir-fry it with a bamboo slic, and pour the yam slices into it after the garlic fragrance spreads.

In fact, the method of vinegar yam is very simple, because it is a stir-fry, so the temperature of the oil pot is relatively high, but the clay pot is not good, because the heat conduction is slow, so the yam goes, the temperature drops instantly, and Chen Xu feels that the stir-fry has become a hot dish.

Chen Xu had no choice but to use bamboo slices to constantly stir-fry the yam, slowly with the oil temperature up, the yam was slowly fried, a few minutes later, put in the green apricot puree and stir-fry a few times, then put salt, and start the pot.

Looking at a bowl of yam fried into a green batter, Chen Xu couldn't cry or laugh.

"Brother Xu, I'll try it!" Niu Dashi, who was standing next to him, couldn't help it when he smelled it, so he directly grabbed a piece with his hand and put it in his mouth.

"Wow, it's delicious! It turns out that the apricot stewed yam is so delicious! Crispy and sour, good appetizing. Niu Dashi couldn't help but stare at his eyes, and he screamed excitedly.