Chapter 7: A Journey 2
Zhou Nan looked around, Gao Yuan's current home was similar to the old Gao Yuan house where Zhou Nan lived, it was also two stone houses, a courtyard dam built up, and some unknown mountain spirit herbs were drying in the yard.
Gao Yun went to wash rice and cook, and Zhou Nan looked at the sky, that is, it was more than eight o'clock in the morning. Zhou Nan sat on the stone bench in the yard at will, watched Gao Yuan sharpen his knife, Gao Yuan sharpened his knife, and said: "I usually fight a few times, kill a few wild boars, the wild boars dare not come, and the crops can be saved, this time there is a white-haired old boar in the pig herd, look at the hoof prints, there are more than six or seven hundred catties, the wild boar is cunning, running fast, can't shoot at all, and worried about hurting people, so troubled." Zhou Nan reminded: "The boar has a good nose, burn the clamp with fire when you get down the clamp, dig the trap, and rush to the trap, and you have to jump in if you don't jump." Gao Yuan listened to Zhou Nan and said happily: "I just said that you are fine, what you said, why did I forget this perennial hunting?" Zhou Nandao: "I also said it casually, I don't know if it works." Gao Yuan said excitedly: "In the past, when I fought wolves, the clamp was also burned, and it will definitely work." So I went to them and burned all the clips. He turned around and walked out.
Gao Yun heard the movement, hurriedly came out, and shouted, "It's not too late for my brother to eat?" Gao Yuan couldn't say anything, and the person was already out of sight.
Gao Yun couldn't catch Gao Yuan, turned his head and said angrily at Zhou Nan: "Didn't you forget everything?" Why did my brother leave without eating? Zhou Nan just laughed dryly, and when he saw Gao Yun go in to cook, he also followed, and saw that in the kitchen, there was only one stone stove, an iron pot on the stove, what was steaming in the pot, it should be last night's bean rice, there was a handful of vegetables on the table next to it, Zhou Nan couldn't name it, it was tender and green, what kind of wild vegetables should it be. There are also a few eggs next to it. Zhou Nan turned around and went out, on the side of the road outside the door, when he came, Zhou Nan saw a few bushes of wild leeks, this thing was in Zhou Nan's time, but it was expensive and expensive. Zhou Nan pinched some, took it back, washed it with water, put it on the table, and cut it into sections with a knife, Gao Yun looked at what he did strangely, Zhou Nan asked, "Is there oil?" Gao Yun nodded again and again: "There is it in that clay pot a few times, and I don't usually use it." Zhou Nan took it, lifted the lid, it should be oil refined from animal fat, asked Gao Yun for some salt, and said to Gao Yun: "I'll cook for you today." Gao Yun pursed her lips and chuckled: "But I don't know that Brother Zhou can cook?" Laughing, Gao Yun had already steamed the rice, took out the rice and covered it first, cleaned the pot, and watched how Zhou Nan cooked.
Zhou Nan asked Gao Yun to burn the fire, and then when the pot was hot, scoop some oil into it, and after the oil temperature came up, first pour the cut wild leek segments into it and stir-fry, put salt, and then take a few eggs and knock them in, stir-fry together, and after a few clicks, a plate of green and yellow wild leek scrambled eggs is ready. The fragrance of wild leeks is even more tempting to the appetizing. Gao Yun was almost stunned, not to mention that she was going to be stunned, that is, in the entire Wuzhai Mountains, who had ever eaten such a delicacy? Gao Yun asked repeatedly, "Brother Zhou, where did you learn?" ”
Zhou Nan just smiled, when he was eating yesterday, he heard Gao Yun say that the people here cook basically boiled vegetables, and the salt is rarely put in, and he remembered that in the Tang and Song dynasties, it was obviously divided into two systems: southern food and northern food, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, a pattern of sweet in the south and salty in the north was formed. As for the famous "Eight Great Cuisines" in later generations, it will have to wait until the Republic of China. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were no mass-produced rape crops, so there were no fried vegetables in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the stir-fried vegetables of the Song Dynasty were to put the food in a hot pot and stir it repeatedly to cook, which was fried, just like the fried tea of Longjing green tea in the era of Southern Zhou. The Song Dynasty did not have a record of soy sauce until at least the Southern Song Dynasty, and the eight major cuisines of later generations have not yet been scored. Let's eat it.
Gao Yuan returned, and the three of them began to eat. Gao Yuan saw the dishes on the table, he was used to eating wild vegetables, but he was very surprised by the green and yellow dishes, and after eating two bites, he praised him again and again, and kept praising Gao Yun, Gao Yun blushed and told Gao Yuan: "It was made by Brother Zhou, and Brother Zhou made it with oil used to make torches." Although Zhou Nan had already told Gao Yun the key to stir-frying, Gao Yun was still not used to describing it, and could only say that it was torch oil, Gao Yuan stuffed the food in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Brother, didn't you meet the Bodhisattva?" It's so delicious. Zhou Nan prevaricated: "Foolish, where can you cook." It's Big Brother Gao, you're hungry. ”
The three of them ate happily at the meal, and after the meal, Gao Yuan brought all the utensils such as bows, arrows, hunting knives, and went out with a hello to Zhou Nan and Gao Yun, and Da Hei also happily followed out.
Standing outside Gao Yuan's house, Gao Yun pointed to the valley planted with layers of crops in the distance, and said: "The wild boar began to plague the crops at this time in previous years, and it came down from the stream on the mountain every year, and it couldn't be finished every year; After beating this litter, there is still that litter, and the wild boar is so powerful that even the leopards on the mountain hide when they see it. Nothing will happen this year. Zhou Nan comforted: "Brother Gao, there are a lot of them, and they are all veterans, and there are hunting dogs to help, so it will be fine." ”
After a while, there was nothing to do, Zhou Nan and Gao Yun sat idly at the door and talked, Gao Yun said a lot, and Zhou Nan listened a lot. Gao Yun talked about Gao Yuan's swimming in the river when he was a child and was almost swept away by the flood, said that Gao Yuan secretly went out to hunt pheasants when he was twelve or thirteen years old, and was scolded when he returned home, and said that Gao Yuan often ran away with Dr. Zheng, who taught them a group of boys to write...... Zhou Nan knew that Dr. Zheng that Gao Yun said was a wandering Langzhong who came here in an unknown year, who could read and write, and used medical skills to treat many people in this side, so he was very loved by the people in this mountain.
Gao Yun also asked Zhou Nan where he lived and whether he had married a wife. Zhou Nan smiled bitterly in his heart and said vaguely: "It's just that I am wandering around, and when I meet a kind-hearted person, I will do the work, and the master's family will give me food; When he encounters a vicious person, he takes advantage of the chaos and runs away. When I was young, I used to read some books at home, and I also knew some righteousness, but I lived here, but I didn't see my parents, and I never married a wife. ”
Gao Yun heard Zhou Nan say this, and comforted Zhou Nandao: "Even if you are a scholar, you must also be a Han'er, and there will always be a time to find your relatives and return to your ancestors." Zhou Nan sighed and said, "There was a day when I didn't want to be able to return to my hometown. Gao Yun couldn't think of the meaning of his words.
Gao Yun got up and went back to the house, Zhou Nan also came to the courtyard, saw that there was a bow in the yard, so he took it off the wall, and held it in his hand heavily, I don't know what kind of wood the bow body is, the bowstring is like the tendon of some kind of animal, Zhou Nan has never played with a bow, and he has read too many romance novels, and he always feels that the bow must be hundreds of catties of strength to pull it away. I went to open it hard, who knew that although it took a lot of force to pull it away, it was not difficult to pull it away. Zhou Nan changed his left hand to open the bow again, but he still pulled it away steadily. It happened that Gao Yun came out of the house and saw him turning his left and right hands to open the bow, "Ah", he hurriedly asked Zhou Nan to put it down, reached out to take the bow from Zhou Nan's hand, and complained: "Brother Zhou's health is not good, why don't you take care of yourself?" In the past, even my brother couldn't pull it open, but I never thought that Brother Zhou could open it, could it be that Brother Zhou also practiced martial arts archery? ”
Zhou Nan said indifferently: "Since the exile in the Liao Kingdom, I can also learn to shoot ,......arrows" said, both arms forced, and the bow was stretched into a full moon, with the release of the fingers, the bowstring made a low sound, Zhou Nan stroked the back of the bow with his hand, the back of the bow was stacked by several materials, Zhou Nan could see that one is wooden, one is, and one is also wooden, the material on the back of the bow is three overlapped together to feel a heavy texture, and the silk thread woven with a mixture of silk and hemp is tightly wound around the back of the bow, hoping to grasp the thickness in the hand is just right, There are no gorgeous decorations, and they are inconspicuous, but they make Zhou Nan love it.