The three of them continued to march east along the mountain road, walking for about 3 hours, that is, more than 6 hours, the sky suddenly changed, it rained heavily, Xia Xue saw a small cave not far ahead, so he took the Ouyang brothers and sisters into the cave to avoid the rain. The heavy rain stopped after more than an hour, and the road became very muddy and difficult to walk.

Xia Xue simply decided to eat lunch in the cave before leaving, she has been gnawing hard and cold dry food for the past few days, Xia Xue thought about changing her taste today and supplementing her nutrition. She heard the pheasant chirping in the mountain forest outside the cave, so she took a bow and arrow and went out, asking the Ouyang brothers and sisters to pick up some dry branches and flammable firewood nearby.

More than an hour later, Xia Xue returned to the cave with three mountain pheasants, and the Ouyang brothers and sisters also collected a lot of relatively dry firewood.

After Xia Xue stacked the firewood, she lit the bonfire with the flint stored in the handle of the dagger. Lick. Lick. In the gloomy cave, the firewood made a small sound in the firelight.

The Ouyang brothers and sisters looked at the mountain pheasants covered with chicken feathers and were a little embarrassed, there was no water source nearby, how to remove feathers and clean the mountain pheasants. Xia Xue smiled mysteriously at Ouyang Yong and Ouyang Qian, who were full of confusion, "I'll cook a new dish for the two of you today - called Flower Chicken." "Calling flower chicken is a delicacy invented by the people in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and no one must have known it in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

After Xia Xue took the three mountain pheasants outside the cave and took out the internal organs, she picked a few beard leaves in the mountain forest. Huye tree belongs to the shrub family, about zhang more than one zhang high, the leaves are round and big, there is a unique fragrance, some places in the Central Plains use Hu Ye to wrap zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival. Xia Xue wrapped the gutted pheasants in Hu leaves, wrapped them in mud, and buried them in the fire to simmer.

Looking at the mountain pheasants wrapped in dirty mud and not even fading their feathers outside, the Ouyang brothers and sisters looked ignorant, and expressed deep doubts about Xia Xue's method of wrapping chickens in soil and leaves and simmering them. However, as time went by, the curling aroma gradually spread in the cave with the wind, stimulating everyone's taste buds, and the Ouyang brothers and sisters all subconsciously swallowed their saliva, staring at the fire with their eyes flowing water.

Xia Xue looked at the green eyes of the Ouyang brothers and sisters, she couldn't help laughing, she sniffed the aroma in the air, and pretended to hesitate mysteriously for a moment in the expectant gaze of Ouyang Yong and Ouyang Qian, before she smiled: "You can eat it." ”

Xia Xue used a branch to dig out the tightly wrapped black iron egg-like chicken from the fire, and the Ouyang brothers and sisters looked at Xia Xue quietly, they really didn't know how to eat these three black things.

Xia Xue looked at the mud wrapped in the outside of the chicken and knew that the meat inside was cooked. In order to prevent her hands from getting hot, Xia Xue let the chicken wrapped in mud dry for a while, and when it was not very hot, Xia Xue picked up her dagger and carefully scratched it on the dirt wrapped outside the chicken. The two black clay shells parted, and the enticing aroma slowly spread.

"Ah, it smells so good!" Ouyang Yong and Ouyang Qian couldn't help but sigh subconsciously. As the shell parted and the chicken feathers fell one after another, the tender chicken meat was finally revealed, and the tangy aroma spread out.

Xia Xue cut two pieces of chicken with a dagger and sent them to Ouyang Yong and Ouyang Qian, after they tasted it carefully, they only felt that the aroma was tangy, the crispy meat was tender, the entrance was crispy, the flavor was unique, and they applauded.

Brother and sister Ouyang never thought that the pheasant could be eaten like this, the chicken feathers could fade so easily, quickly and cleanly without boiling water, and the taste was so delicious.

Ouyang Yong was in a hurry, and he picked up a chicken wrapped in dry mud, and threw it directly to the ground, the dry mud peeled off, and the chicken feathers also fell off, and the aroma was overflowing, Ouyang Yong was overjoyed, so he grabbed the chicken and devoured it. Looking at Ouyang Yong's slanderous appearance, Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian couldn't help but giggle......