Chapter 368: Toon Tree
"There seemed to be a few big trees growing there before, but the trees were washed down during the rainstorm last year, and they may have covered the bayberry tree before...... Chen Xuhui also saw the bayberry tree for the first time, and he guessed after recalling.
"When the bayberry is almost ripe, let's go and have a look, I like to eat bayberry very much." Mu Xiu thought of the taste of bayberry, and his mouth began to drool. "After more than a month, there are still many wild fruits in the mountain that are ripe, green plums, peaches, and apricots, and when the time comes, let's go up the mountain to pick more." Chen Xuhui's favorite thing in the past was the summer in June, and eating these wild fruits can also fill his stomach.
"Hmm." Mu Xiu's plan in his heart was to remove these fruit trees and plant a two-acre land of fruit trees.
After a busy day's farm work, Chen Xuhui drove an ox cart, Mu Xiaoshu drove a tractor to take everyone home, and Mu Xiu rode a bicycle and followed Chen Xuhui's ox cart slowly.
Mu Xiaoshu's tractor was separated from them, and they were soon out of sight, but Mu Xiu was enjoying the wind blowing in his face at this time.
Suddenly, a special familiar fragrance came.
"Brother Chen, I'll go over there and take a look." Mu Xiu turned around the bicycle and followed the scent to find it.
"Hey, Mu Xiu, slow down, I'll go with you, it's dangerous to be alone." Chen Xuhui originally wanted to put down the ox cart and chase it, but the road was too narrow, the ox cart couldn't pass, and he was afraid that the ox would be lost if he put the ox here, so in a hurry, he untied the cart on the ox and led the ox to chase it in the direction that Mu Xiu left.
Mu Xiu turned around a small hill and saw only a dirt ditch, from which two trees grew, which turned out to be toon trees.
Mu Xiu was overjoyed, hurriedly put the bicycle on the ground, ran towards the toon tree, and when he got closer, he saw that the toon had grown toon buds, which exuded a unique fragrance.
Chen Xuhui also rushed over out of breath at this time, and when he saw Mu Xiu standing next to the ditch, he hurriedly shouted: "Mu Xiu, be careful, don't fall into the ditch." ”
"Brother Chen, this ditch is not deep, come and see, there is a toon tree here." Mu Xiu beckoned to Chen Xuhui.
Chen Xuhui let go of the rope of the morning glory, walked over, looked at Rang Muxiu picking toon leaves, and asked curiously: "This tuncai is stinky and not delicious, why are you picking this, Muxiu." ”
"I think the toon is delicious, I'll make it for everyone to eat at night, Brother Chen, take a look, can you move this toon tree home and plant it?" Mu Xiu said this, his hand did not stop, and he quickly picked the toon leaves.
"Toon? Where does this smell?? Chen Xuhui heard Mu Xiu call Tsubaki a toon, although it was a little strange, but he still obeyed Mu Xiu's words, he jumped into the ditch at once, broke a branch from the side, and pulled at the root of the tree for a while.
Chen Xuhui stood up, tilted his head and said to Mu Xiu above his head: "The roots of this tree are a little deep, tomorrow I will bring tools and come over with Uncle Mu, I should be able to dig it out." ”
"Okay, let's pick some more before we go." There is already a small half basket in the frame behind Muxiu's bicycle.
The two of them picked two baskets full of toon leaves, and then went home, Zhou Shuilian had already prepared the meal.
"What are you two doing, we've been back for a while, and if you don't come back, you're going to go out and look for it." Mu Xiaoshu asked worriedly.
"On the way back, I happened to see a toon, so I picked some and came back." Mu Xiu explained.
"Toon? Isn't this Tsubaki? The taste is so bad, I think it's right to call it stinky tun, do you like to eat tsubaki vegetables? This is usually not eaten. Zhou Shuilian covered her nose and said.
"Toons are full of treasures, the toons in early spring are the most fresh, toons can be made into pickles, you can also stir-fry, the taste is very good, tonight I will make two dishes, you go to eat first, I will be fine soon." Mu Xiu rolled up his sleeves, took the toon from the back basket of the bicycle to the pressurized water well, picked it up, washed it, and brought it into the kitchen.
Mu Xiu first added water to the pot to boil, and put the washed toon into the pot with water, only the toon after the water will have a fragrance, and the special taste of the toon will also decrease after the water.
Put the toon in a basin of cold water to cool it, take it out and drain the water, then chop the toon, beat four eggs into the bowl, add salt and chopped toon, stir well, and beat the egg mixture.
Add oil to the hot pan, put in the toon and egg liquid after the oil is hot, stir-fry over medium heat, and the eggs can be served on a plate after they are scrambled.
Put the remaining drained toon into a bowl, put in a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of light soy sauce, two spoons of oil, a spoonful of vinegar and a spoonful of sugar, use chopsticks to stir the seasoning and toon well, and when it is finally put on a plate, drizzle two spoons of sesame oil, and it's good.
Mu Xiu brought the two dishes into the hall and put them on the dining table.
"Okay, it's done, this is the easiest way to make toon, let's try it." Mu Xiu pointed to the two plates of toons and said, It's just that everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and you didn't move your chopsticks.
"Taste it!" Mu Xiu saw that everyone was motionless, so he urged.
Chen Xuhui and Zhou Shuilian admired their faces the most and were the first to raise their chopsticks.
"The taste is refreshing and delicious." Zhou Shuilian first took a pair of chopsticks to cool toon, tasted it, and her eyes lit up, she continued: "With such a lot of sesame oil, no wonder it is so delicious, we used to eat toon vegetables, but we all fried them casually, bitter and astringent, difficult to swallow." ”
Chen Xuhui nodded again and again.
"I really didn't expect that the taste of this toon scrambled eggs is really fragrant, no wonder you call it toon, Xiu, or you are amazing, if I were killed, I wouldn't have thought of eating scrambled eggs with toon." Mu Shui also exclaimed.
Indeed, in the early years, eating eggs was a luxury thing, who would use eggs to wrap this stinky Tsubaki dish to stir-fry, and scrambled eggs are also waste oil, no one will make this kind of dish that is simply a waste of money......
"Toon tofu mixed with tofu, toon balls, toon sauce, toon dumplings, these are all delicious." Mu Xiu wrenched his fingers to list other ways to make toons.
"There are so many ways to do it, it sounds like I want to eat it." Zhou Shuilian exclaimed.
"Dad, tomorrow you and Brother Chen will transplant those two toon trees into our yard together, I want to use toon to make pickles." Mu Xiu said to Mu Shui.
"Okay." Mu Shui nodded.
"Hey, what are you doing, everyone still has to eat! You're so selfish, you know, you don't know. Mu Xiu suddenly knocked Li Hu's chopsticks, who were lifting the plate and constantly pulling toon scrambled eggs into his bowl.
Li Hu put down the plate with some reluctance, and muttered in his mouth: "I'm still a child, give me all the delicious food, I will grow my body after eating!" ”
"You're still a child, and you'll have more opportunities to eat delicious things in the future, so in the future, if it's delicious, fun and easy to wear, remember to give us to eat first, play first, and use it first, you know?" Mu Xiu said to Li Hu very reasonably.