38. Picnic

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Deng Ji and the others came over, but saw Tian Feng wearing a hat and sitting on the rocks by the river fishing, Deng Ji shouted loudly: "Mr. Yuan Hao, how is the harvest?" ”

When fishing, there are few people who don't like to be quiet, and the most annoying others are shouting and disturbing and startling away the fish, Tian Feng suddenly turned around and glared: "Call elsewhere, don't disturb me fishing!" ”

Deng Ji shook the big snake in his hand, raised the kettle again, and smiled at him: "I still want to enjoy it with my husband, in this case, I'll find someone else!" ”

After shouting the sentence just now, Tian Feng had seen clearly the things wrapped around Deng Ji's hands, and immediately regretted it, it was not easy to eat with the thieves in the cauldron every day, and it was not easy to be full, not to mention that he was such a big man who was not tired of eating, and he was actually panicked when he heard that there was a shortage of food in the valley recently, but the two sides had a stiff quarrel before, but he only came to fish alone with the thieves, which not only showed elegance, but also quietly helped a little.

It's rare that the thief head opened a small stove today, and it is not that he can't get along with himself when he drives him away, although Tian Feng is square, he can't help but save his mouth and stomach at this time: "I caught a two-foot-long red-eyed trout today, and it is difficult to catch this fish with a net (Note 1), eat it together?" ”

When he raised his hand, there were several wild fish, all of which were tied to their gills with straw ropes and hidden in the water, and the largest trout was not more than two feet long.

Deng Ji laughed at this time and said, "Then please ask Mr. to treat the fish, I will make the snake, let's make the fish and snake soup together!" ”

Tian Feng nodded in agreement, Wu Ji had a knife on his body to defend himself, Deng Ji borrowed it from her, and asked her and Jiao Shi to go to the river to clean the cooking utensils, wild vegetables and mushrooms, and find a tree at home to prepare to cut the snake.

Use a hardwood branch to nail the snake to the tree from seven inches, the knife cuts the skin under the neck, easily cut off the whole snake skin, and then remove the internal organs, all you see is white snake meat, but unfortunately I forgot to bring wine, the snake gall is not needed for a while, so I have to find a few leaves to wrap it first.

There are snake gall bladders available, accompanied by beauties, and celebrities to accompany them, today should indeed be drinking, but the two worlds are teenagers, and they are not addicted to wine, and they forgot when they came, and they were thinking about whether to call Jiao's back to find an altar to come over, and there was a loud voice from a distance: "What a handsome Qu Shuai, dare to steal food behind me?" ”

Looking up, it was Che Xiao, Han Qi, Guo Shi, and Ma Pi, Deng Ji couldn't help laughing: "My nose is upside down, how do you know that I caught a snake?" ”

Several people laughed together, and Che Huang replied: "When I returned from hunting, I heard that Lei Gong caught snakes in the valley and wanted to eat alone, but he forgot to bring wine in a hurry, and he fulfilled his subordinate responsibilities and came to pay tribute!" ”

Only then did he see Guo Shi carrying the wine jar, Ma Pi carrying two pheasants, Han Qi had a roe deer leg in his hand, and only Che Xiao was empty-handed, Deng Ji couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Bring the wine quickly, otherwise the snake will be cold!" ”

Just these few people, but there are a lot of ingredients, and they can't eat them at all, so they take so much, but they are afraid that the soldiers will be dissatisfied, but Han Qi smiled and said: "Today's luck is good, we have a lot of prey, so I will allow them to get two roe deer to cook, and eat with the old and weak, and the diet over there is not bad!" ”

While talking, Xie Yun also came with more than ten naughty boys, Xiao Tian Feng followed behind, since Tian Feng was willing to go out of the mountain to teach, Tian Yu's life was much better, no one bullied him anymore, but was willing to take him to play, and no one dared to mention cutting his little ** or something like that, this kid is a greedy mouth, no more determined than his eldest brother, and soon Xie Yun went up to the tree to dig out the bird's nest, went down to the river to fish for shrimp and other countless means of food to conquer, and followed the naughty children all day long.

Seeing that Tian Feng was also there, the naughty boys were a little dumbfounded, but Xie Yun was still bold, and leaned closer and smiled: "Brother Pimple, we have ...... more eggs we got today."

Recently, I opened the corner of my clothes and saw that there were a lot of bird eggs in it, but every naughty boy was like this, even Tian Yu was no exception, all with short clothes, I am afraid that there are not two or three hundred, most of the birds lay eggs in spring and autumn, but this season is rare, Deng Ji smiled and asked: "Where did you find so many birds?" ”

"There was a cliff six or seven miles up the river, full of turtledoves, and we had a great deal of effort to climb up, but most of the nests were empty, and some of the chicks were too young to ask for them, so they only picked up some eggs and came back......"

Do turtledoves still lay eggs in early summer? Deng Ji nodded, the thousands of turtle doves on the cliff had also been discovered, but unfortunately they were too high to go up, and it was estimated that Xie Yun and they only picked up some cheap ones in the low places.

It's not easy to make a living these years, Deng Ji just wanted to cook at will, but he didn't know that the scale was so large that it became a banquet, anyway, there were many foods, and these people couldn't finish it, so he asked Xie Yun to take the two children back to invite Tian Feng, Che Xiao, Han Qi, Guo Shi, and Ma Pi's family together, and by the way, they went to the room to ask for all kinds of condiments, dishes and chopsticks.

In this life, in addition to salt, Deng Ji has only seen mustard, knotweed, pepper, onion, garlic, sauce and other condiments, with his level naturally does not know, mustard, knotweed, pepper, green onion is native to our country, garlic is from the Western Regions, Zhang Qian through the Western Regions before it was introduced, until this time is only a few hundred years, China originally only has small garlic; As for the bean sauce, it was originally a dish, but it was gradually changed to a condiment.

There are many people to do things, let the children go to find firewood, adults to clean all kinds of meat, set up a stove to boil water, mountain mushrooms are the first to be thrown in, snakes, pheasants, roe deer all kinds of meat are also cut into pieces and thrown in, boiled into a pot of hodgepodge.

Waiting for Xie Yun to lead his family members to come, put a few spices in, not long after, the soup was hot, and the strong fragrance came to the nose, life in the thief's den was difficult, and the meat hunted on weekdays was divided among thousands of people, and it was good for each person to get one or two pieces, not to mention those naughty children, even women from big families such as Tian Feng's wife and concubine, Wu family, and Jiao family swallowed their saliva in a frustration.

Tian Feng's eldest son, Tian Lei, also arrived, he had been beaten a few times before, and he didn't deal with Xie Yun very much, ignoring no one all the way, and when he came here, he was attracted by the fragrance, and he looked like a little adult, he didn't care about it, but secretly squirmed his Adam's apple.

After several kinds of meat are boiled, the unboiled fish and wild vegetables are poured into the kettle, and then the eggs are broken and added, but there are many bad eggs that have been formed inside, so they have to be discarded.

In a short time, when it was ready to eat, the women took down the firewood, and each of them filled a large bowl with a spoon, and the river breeze blew, and all the nobles, nobles, officials, peasants, and urchins sat down on the ground and enjoyed themselves on the riverside.

It's not about the level of cooking, it's just that the meat is tender and the wild vegetables are the most delicious, and it doesn't take long for almost everyone to eat with a greasy mouth.

At the beginning, Tian Yu remembered his father's teachings that he did not say anything when he ate and did not say anything when he slept in bed, so he just blew into the bowl, and when he thought he was cool and couldn't wait to move his chopsticks, he was so hot that he screamed, and he was reluctant to spit out the meat, so he covered his mouth and swallowed it.

Looking at Tian Yu's naΓ―ve state, a cadre of people naturally clapped and laughed, even Tian Feng couldn't help laughing and scolding twice, Xie Yun asked him to stick out his tongue and blow for him for a while, it is estimated that his bowl should be cold, first sipped the soup, and suddenly screamed, with him as an example, everyone began to move chopsticks.

Just after two bites, Tian Lei also disregarded the image like a younger brother, if he was at home before, this kind of soup banquet was nothing, but after suffering so much among the thieves, the taste was suddenly different.

Tian Feng also cared about the identity of celebrities before, put a piece of meat into his mouth, closed his eyes and chewed to feel the charm, when he opened his eyes, he saw that Che Huang had already gotten up to add a second bowl, Guo Shi was not much slower than him, just in his arms two words of foodie, the two guys had added to the third bowl, so he was startled, and then he couldn't care about being reserved, and was busy pulling the bowl in a big mouth.

Deng Ji and the others were not slow, only a few women chewed slowly, they did not eat much, at most two bowls of meat were enough, and there was no need to compete with the men.

Several kinds of meat have their own characteristics, but Wu Miao loves to pick snake meat that has not been eaten before, Jiao's is not very greasy, after a while, Deng Ji will pick all the snake meat in the bowl with Wu's, fish and wild vegetables to Jiao's, but his own family is no taboo, only eat roe deer and pheasant.

In front of everyone's eyes, Wu Jiao's second wife made a red face, but the little man was so considerate, but he was also a little warm, Xie Yun laughed at them twice, and said: "Brother Pimple, let's eat like this every day in the future?" ”

Deng Ji glared at him angrily, the class of this team is clear, although the old and weak have no opinions, but if it goes on like this for a long time, the soldiers will be dissatisfied, and this kind of thing can only be done occasionally.

After the scum in the kettle was drunk, the men were still unsatisfied, and even Tian Feng sighed: "It's really delicious in the world, and the soup is excellent, but it's a pity that you can't ask for more!" ”

The women went to the river to wash the cooking utensils and chopsticks, saw Xie Yun and the children played two marksmanship trips, and practiced the frog jumps and push-ups taught by Deng Ji.

Note 1: Trout, the ancients believed that it was good at netting.