On the way home, Li Cheng walked along the ditch to the foot of the mountain, squatted down from time to time along the way, plucked a few wild garlic and wild onions, and finally dug a few pieces of wild turmeric with a wooden stick in the soil for a few minutes at the foot of the mountain.

These ingredients were all seen when he was picking herbs in the afternoon, and he happened to get some back on the way, and he was used to eating dishes carefully cooked with various spices in later generations, and then suddenly eating the food of boiled grass carp in clear water may be a little unbearable.

However, although you can't eat the delicacy of Chongqing grilled fish in later generations, you can add some wild onions, wild garlic and ginger to simply season.

After going out for half an hour, it was even darker at this time.

Before he reached the gate of the courtyard, Li Cheng had already smelled the smell of meat floating in the air, and he suddenly seduced him with saliva and couldn't stop popping out.

He was so hungry that in an instant, Li Cheng felt countless gluttonous insects crawling out from the inside of his bones, and he trembled a little when he walked.

So I ran to the eaves in a few steps, looked at the snow-white fish meat floating in the steaming clay pot on the stove, and couldn't help but grab a pair of chopsticks from a bamboo tube next to me and fish out a piece of tender meat.

"Hey, it's so fragrant!" When people are hungry, everything they eat is fragrant, and Li Cheng couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

The little girl is no better than him, she has been staring at the crockpot almost without blinking since the beginning of cooking, and she has long been tempted by this fragrance.

Li Cheng tore off a small piece and tasted it, and found that there was only a faint salt taste, and it was not completely ripe.

"Brother, can you give me a taste!" The little girl wants to wear it.

"Here you go! Beware of fish bones. Li Cheng gave the remaining large pieces of fish to the little girl.

A few minutes later, Li Cheng washed the onions, garlic and ginger and came back, and found that the little girl was still licking the fish bones in her hands little by little, there was no meat on it, only a thin bone remained, and her eyes were still staring at the crockpot.

Alas~ Li Cheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, reached out and touched the little girl's messy hair and said, "Go and bring the bowl, I'll put some ingredients and start eating!" ”

"Great, the second girl wants to eat big fish" The little girl jumped up excitedly and went into the house to get the bowl, and soon ran out with two pottery bowls.

Li Cheng had already thrown the green onion, ginger and garlic in his hand into the crockpot, and suddenly a strange fragrance came out with the steam.

These condiments such as onions, ginger, garlic and Sichuan pepper occupy an important place in China's food culture, and they were used very early, almost dating back to the time of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, at least in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Although it has gone through the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Great Qin Empire, the peasants at the bottom are still struggling with extreme hardship.

At the turn of spring and summer, when the green and yellow crops are scarce, the wheat has not yet been harvested, all kinds of wild melons and fruits in the mountains and fields have not yet ripened, and in addition to the years of war and harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, there is almost no surplus grain in every household.

Being able to have food every day and harvest food in summer and autumn has become everyone's greatest wish. I don't dare to think about eating well, it's good to have a stutter.

And seasoning is not necessary for eating, maybe the princes and nobles and wealthy families have this demand, but for the poor families who have eaten the last meal without the next meal, the seasoning has no meaning, far less important than a little salt.

Therefore, in this era, ordinary families generally do not deliberately plant onions, ginger and garlic, and occasionally go to the mountains to pick some seasonings.

And for the Li Cheng family, who have not been able to eat meat for several years, there is no need for it, Li's mother pulls three children alone, and she also planted more than 20 acres of crops on the river beach, so she doesn't have any extra thoughts to serve these meaningless things for survival.

But for Li Cheng, seasoning is almost the same as life, what is the difference between eating vegetables without seasoning and chewing wax?

Especially for meat, without condiments such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, chili and soy sauce, dragon meat has no desire to eat it.

In the light of the fire, the brother and sister sat around the fire and ate the fragrant and hot fish.

"Mm-hmm, it's so fragrant~"

"Suck and slip~"

The little girl's head had never been lifted from the bowl since the beginning, and she was humming and chirping like a little pig.

Li Cheng was already hungry and couldn't support it, except for the first time after sandwiching a piece of fish meat for the little girl, he couldn't help but bury his head in eating.

Although the taste is average, there is no need to be too picky for people who are hungry to the extreme.

Soon all the cans of fish and meat were eaten cleanly, and even the soup was drunk cleanly, and the two of them were not able to eat enough.

Especially the little girl, who was lying on the ground with her little belly and only humming, Li Cheng also kept burping and looking for a thin bamboo stick to start picking her teeth.