Chapter 73: The Explosive Eel Section
"Don't blame Gong, we've been on the road for a day, hurry back and make some delicious stuff to fill your stomach!" Yu Wuya hurriedly played a round.
"Okay, let's go~, go home and make something to eat, I'm hungry too!" Chen Xu shrugged indifferently, and as soon as he turned around, his face was about to laugh.
"Little sister come here, uncle will take you on horseback!" Yu Wuya looked at the tattered apricots who were also wearing, picked her up with a smile on his face, turned over the horse, and couldn't wait to run to Chen Xu's house with his legs between the belly of the horse.
"Brother, bring back the wheat!" Apricot rode on horseback and turned around excitedly and shouted.
"Drive~" The woman in black glanced at Chen Xu with disgust as if she was looking at a piece of, her slender legs were slightly clamped, and the cyan horse snorted at Chen Xu.
I'll go, Chen Xu quickly jumped away to avoid the snot foam in his face, and then watched the woman in black leave with the horse carrying the money bag.
Nima is a gourd scoop, why are all the women of the Qin Dynasty so unreasonable, do you blame me, Lao Tzu is so poor when he crosses over!
By the time Chen Xu came home with half a load of wheat grains, Chen Jiang had already cooked the rice, and Xing'er was standing outside the pigsty with the woman in black and throwing wild vegetables inside to feed a group of small wild boars.
And Yu Wuya had already rolled up his sleeves and started to set up a barbecue grill with stones next to the stove.
"Eun Gong, what do you eat at night? How do you cook that braised beef noodle? Yu Wuya enthusiastically helped Chen Xu put the burden next, and asked excitedly.
"I can't eat beef noodles yet, there is a lack of ingredients, so let's eat something else for the time being!"
For the sake of this foodie bringing back a large bag of money, Chen Xu felt that this foodie could still be well received, after all, all the previous efforts were finally rewarded, and a few tubes of tea actually brought back more than 13,000 yuan for him, which was completely beyond his expectations.
You must know that the money of the Qin Dynasty is still quite valuable, except for the fact that food and meat are more expensive, everything else is cheap.
For example, the pottery bowl, the cheapest in the town is only one dollar, only two catties of grain, ten dollars for a horse of burlap, twenty dollars for fine linen, and the farm tools are also cheap, the state has subsidies, a hoe weighs three catties, and the price is only twenty yuan.
You must know that these things are durable things, a bowl can be used as a family heirloom for several lifetimes, if you die and put it in a coffin for burial, it is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars after two thousand years, and the same is true for hoes, only linen is considered a daily consumable, but for the poor who can't afford to eat haha, I don't care too much about wearing clothes, a piece of cloth made of clothes can be worn for five, six, seven or eight years, just like Chen Xu's family, the burlap clothes worn by the body were made many years ago when Chen Hu was still there, Although the clothes are seriously gone, it doesn't matter if you wear them in summer, some ten-year-old boys and seven or eight-year-old girls in the village still run around naked all day long, full of primitive and wild natural atmosphere.
Poverty is not unique to the Qin Dynasty, there have been poor people who can't open the pot and can't afford to wear clothes for more than 2,000 years, even in the 21st century, you can still see on the news that some people in mountainous areas live in thatched huts, live in caves, and the family has no pants to wear, and the poverty of this era has not undergone any essential changes.
Chen Xu's family now has some money, and they can also make a few sets of good clothes to wear, and the cloth has been bought back but has been doing it, because the village is poor, if his family wears clean new clothes, it will cause their family to be separated in the village, and this good relationship and atmosphere will soon be broken.
Suffering from inequality instead of being few is the essential reason for the formation of class antagonism.
You eat well and dress well, show off in a group of poor people, and the end result is either isolated or averaged, and there will be no third outcome.
The sun slowly set, and under Chen Xu's control, a strong fragrance began to emanate in the sunset.
Yu Wuya was like a big horse monkey constantly jumping around beside him, coming to the cooking jar from time to time to open the lid and smell it, and then show a look of intoxication on his face.
Chen Xu is dealing with a big fish that is more than a foot long, which was brought back from the river a few days ago and has been kept in a broken pottery jar.
Scrape the scales, remove the gills and internal organs, cut the surface obliquely a few times, and then marinate it with ginger salt to remove the fishy smell.
There were also seven or eight yellow eels the thickness of thumbs in the water tank, which were also cut open, and gently smashed on the stone slab with the back of a knife, and then the backbone was removed with a dagger and cut into small pieces more than an inch long.
The woman in black was still wearing a face towel that had never been taken off, standing in the sunset and watching Chen Xu's rough movements and blood on her hands from a distance, her eyes showed a look of disgust, as if she regretted coming to this place with her senior brother this time.
This is the young man who fried the peerless immortal tea touted by the senior brother?
And if that's what he is? The reverie on the way to that came all the way collapsed at this time, and there was no more charming thought in my heart.
How can such an unclothed mountain village savage be worthy of a few words as a disciple of the Immortal Family!
And Chen Xu also had no enthusiasm for this woman.
However, this woman looks like she is sixteen or seventeen years old, and she is still in high school in the future, and he will definitely not meet her as a twenty-five or sixteen social brother.
"Engong, can you eat the long worms in this water?" Yu Wuya watched Chen Xu skillfully handle the yellow eel, and asked with a little surprise.
"Well, this thing is a delicious thing, it tastes much better than big fish, and it has a special function!" Chen Xu put the sliced eel into a clay bowl and pickled it with ginger and salt.
"What function?"
"Aphrodisiac!"
"Really?" Yu Wuya's eyes suddenly showed inexplicable surprise.
"Go pick a few apricots for me, the greener the better!" Chen Xu nodded and instructed Yu Wuya to pick apricots.
Now it is the season when the wheat is ripe, and most of the green apricots on the trees have turned yellow, but even if this wild apricot is ripe, it is still very sour, Chen Xu gave up after eating it twice, but Chen Jiang sometimes gets some big ones to peel them and dry them into dried apricots, and it is still good to use them as snacks in winter.
After a busy time, everything was ready, Chen Xu washed his hands and put the clay pot that he usually stir-fried on the earthen stove, and the various seasonings prepared by Xing'er had also been prepared.
"Apricot, fire!"
"Okay!" Xing'er hurriedly stuffed the firewood into the stove, as the flames burned, the temperature of the clay pot quickly increased, Chen Xu rubbed his hands, took a deep breath and began to stir-fry.
The hot eel section used to be Chen Xu's favorite dish.
However, in later generations, wild eels were basically not seen, and the vegetable market bought them were all farmed, and I heard that countless pesticides and antibiotics should be put into the pond, and there were many parasites, so he rarely ate them, and occasionally ate them, and they could only eat them when they returned to their hometown in the countryside in the summer, and then they would be remembered for a year.