The young man in white seemed to realize something, and his face immediately changed, "Ahem, hehe!" Take it! ”

Zhou Zhi hesitated for a while, in vain, and he didn't know them, this was a wild goose shot down by others, and it always felt inappropriate to take it himself.

"You're a man, how can you grind and chirp like this? If you are told to take it, you will take it! Seeing that Zhou Zhi hesitated and did not move, the young man in white raised his eyebrows and said displeasedly.

"In that case, that kid has thanked the son!" Zhou Zhi still held the wild goose in his hand and arched his hand towards him, and said.

The young man in white didn't look at Zhou Zhi anymore, turned his head behind him and said, "Brother, let's go!" ”

The red horse was about to do it, but the young man in white suddenly said to Zhou Zhi, "By the way, return that feather arrow to me." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhi hurriedly pulled out the feather arrow from the wild goose's neck, and handed the feather arrow in his hand to the white-clothed young man.

The young man in white stretched out his little hand to catch the feather arrow.

Slender hands, white jade crystal.

This is a hand that only a woman can have, and the coquettish laughter of "giggles" just now made Zhou Zhi conclude that she should be a woman.

Zhou Zhi glanced at the jade hand slightly, his heart couldn't help but move, and his eyes couldn't help but stagnate. The woman in white saw Zhou Zhi staring at her little hand, her face suddenly turned cold, and she said coquettishly, "You are so rude!" ”

Quickly snatched the feather arrow from Zhou Zhi's hand.

At this time, Zhou Zhi had already looked away, and his face turned red. It is said that Zhou Zhi looked at her hand not intentionally, but was just surprised and curious. I didn't expect this handsome young man to be a woman dressed as a man, and it was unbelievable that such a white and delicate little hand could bend a bow and shoot down the flying geese.

was scolded by the woman in white, and Zhou Zhi was embarrassed.

The woman in white ignored Zhou Zhi no longer, put the feather arrow into the quiver, and slammed her legs into the horse's belly, and the red horse's four hooves spread and galloped away.

The man in Tsing Yi and the four healthy servants behind him also urged their horses to follow closely behind, and the man in Tsing Yi glared at Zhou Zhi fiercely as he passed by Zhou Zhi's side. Obviously, he had just seen Zhou Zhi's expression.

Six horses raised smoke and dust all the way and headed in the direction of Gaochang Town.

Zhou Zhi looked at their distant backs, and secretly smiled bitterly, what's the matter? Am I an indecent person? It's inexplicable.

Hehe! Anyway, if you get a wild goose today, you can finally let the family get wet meat and satisfy their hunger.

Zhou Zhi carried the wild goose in his hand and returned to the grain drying field. This wild goose weighs about four or five pounds and is very fat. Zhou Zhi got the wild goose, and he had already envied those farmers, and they said to Zhou Zhi, "Zhou Zhi boy, I got a wild goose for nothing today, it's really a shit luck!" ”

Their family background is similar to Zhou Zhi's family, and they will not see meat for a year and a half, and they live a life of "half a year's grain for bran vegetables".

Zhou Zhi smiled indifferently at them and did not speak.

Yes, there is only one wild goose, do you want to give it to them? Didn't you see that the little brother Zhou Shaocheng had already forgotten to chase the birds and sparrows at this time, staring at the geese and almost drooling? Moreover, he was inexplicably reprimanded by the girl in white. The wild goose must be his own.

Give the wild goose to the younger brother Zhou Shaocheng, let him take it home, hand it over to his mother, and there will be a fat wild goose meat to eat at night.

The younger brother Zhou Shaocheng went home happily.

Half an hour later, the younger brother Zhou Shaocheng returned and changed shifts with Zhou Zhi.

After Zhou Zhi returned home, his mother and sister were busy with a happy face, and the wild geese had already plucked their feathers, and they were disemboweling the wild goose at this time. Take out the intestines, leave the heart and liver, then wash the wild goose, cut it into egg-sized pieces, and soak it in cold water.

Zhou He, the mother, said that soaking for two hours like this can remove the smell of wild goose meat.

While eating lunch, Zhou Zhi watched the two of them busy, and his heart was also happy. I secretly thought that if I could eat meat every day in the future, how good it would be for my mother and sister to be so happy and busy.

Yes, definitely, our Zhou family will definitely be able to have meat to eat.

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When it was nearly dusk, Zhou Zhi collected all the rice in the drying field and pushed it home with a wheelbarrow.

The paddy has dried up and will not have to be dried again tomorrow. Zhou Zhi stacked them all on the north wall of the stove house. This is to be used as next year's seed, and it must be kept.

Mother and sister were already busy in front of the stove at this time, most of the water in the black iron pot was boiling hot, and my sister Zhou Luyun poured all the wild goose meat into the water, which was about to boil. Looking at his sister's simple approach, Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Sister, the smell of wild goose meat cooked in this way is difficult to get rid of, let me do it!" ”

"You?" Zhou Luyun said with a stunned face. Even the mother on the side was surprised. You must know that in the past, Zhou Zhi only knew how to eat, where would he cook?

Zhou Zhi still smiled, "I remember that the year before last, my father picked up an injured wild goose out of nowhere, and although the wild goose meat made by my sister at that time was delicious, it still had a fishy smell. ”

"What? Can you make the meat not fishy? Zhou Luyun asked in surprise.

"I can give it a try, I think it will work." Zhou Zhi said.

Seeing Zhou Zhi's sincere face, his mother and sister looked at Zhou Zhi as if they had never known Zhou Zhi. It was still his mother-in-law Zhou He who finally said, "Xiaoyun, let Xiao Zhi try, Xiao Zhi seemed to have changed when he fell into a coma that time, maybe he can really make the wild goose meat well." ”

Zhou Luyun had no choice but to agree.

Zhou Zhi immediately squatted in front of the stove and added a few handfuls of firewood to the stove, and the fire became even stronger. After a cup of tea, the water in the pot boiled, and the dark red wild goose meat rolled with the hot water.

Sister Zhou Luyun has been standing aside, wondering, "Xiaozhi, aren't they all the same fire and cooking meat?" How is your approach different from mine? ”

"Of course it's different!" Zhou Zhi smiled, then stood up. Use long chopsticks to remove the only two-minute cooked wild goose meat from the pot one by one. Then scoop out all the hot water in the iron pot and pour it out.

"Humph! What a waste of effort! Zhou Luyun said unhappily.

"My sister just has to look at it, the cooked wild goose meat has actually removed some of the fishy smell, but the fishy smell remains in the water, so the water must be thrown away." Zhou Zhi explained slowly.

Seeing that Zhou Zhi understood very well, Zhou Luyun became more and more surprised. My brother's fall really became too much, as if he knew a lot of things and understood a lot of truths, it was really unimaginable.

After boiling the wild goose meat three times in this way, Zhou Zhi stopped, and the meat was already three weeks cooked.

The last time, Zhou Zhi boiled half a pot of water, poured all the wild goose meat into the pot, and there was another fierce fire, until the meat in the pot rolled up, and then the low heat was slow.

Taking advantage of the small fire in the stove slowly burning, Zhou Zhi took more than a dozen soybeans and threw them into the pot. Because of the official horses, Zhou Zhi's family planted some soybeans as fodder for the horses. Goose meat is hard to cook soft, and soybeans contain a kind of ketone that can promote the ripening of meat.

Zhou Zhi then went to the courtyard to pull a few green onions back, wash them and cut them off and put them into the pot.

The courtyard was planted with a bunch of green onions. However, this green onion has never been used like this, and it is all used as a dipping sauce and eaten raw.

Daddy loves garlic very much, and in the spring he planted some in the yard, which was already harvested and put into the firewood room. Zhou Zhi took the garlic, peeled the two ends, cut all the garlic cloves into powder and threw them into the pot.

That's all there is to it, and it would be better if there were more spices. But now the spices of the Ming Dynasty are very expensive, and only those wealthy families will buy a little. People like them don't know what spices are.

In fact, you should also put some chili peppers. However, it seems that chili peppers were only introduced to China from the Americas at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It's a shame.

Watching the wild goose meat in the pot keep rolling, and the rich aroma of the meat slowly drifting away, the little brother Zhou Shaocheng was already standing in front of the pot, sucking his saliva.

"Xiaocheng, you go and bring the half jar of wine that Daddy Zhang gave to Daddy a year ago." Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered and said hurriedly.

A few years ago, Daddy Zhang castrated a pig for a wealthy family, and they gave him a jar of wine. Father Zhang sent half an altar to Daddy Zhou Tie.

Zhou Tie had never drunk alcohol before, and that time he felt extra sweet after just taking a sip. But he took that sip and resolutely stopped drinking. He was worried that he would become addicted to alcohol, and if he became addicted to alcohol again in such a poor family, then he would not be able to live this life. For this reason, the small half jar of wine has been kept in the firewood room.

Wine is the most fishy, how can you forget this stubble?

The younger brother Zhou Shaocheng was already impatient, always looking forward to the wild goose meat being cooked quickly, and the two little short legs rushed away and rushed back.

Because the wine has been left for a long time, the aroma is overflowing when the mud lid is opened. Zhou Zhi poured some wine into the pot, and then added salt.

The small fire in the stove is burning all the time, and the pot is boiling all the time.

Half an hour passed, and Zhou Zhi stopped burning the fire.

The small stove house was fragrant, and Zhou Zhi said excitedly, "Okay, the stewed wild goose meat is finally ready!" ”