"Come, Komatsu, come on!" Hua Manxi ran over, folded two big round leaves on the spot, and picked up all the snails in the field on the leaves.

"Cousin, what are you doing here? What are you picking up this bug for? Although Hua Xiaosong was puzzled, he still walked over to help.

"Komatsu, do you want to eat meat?" Hua Manxi asked him.

When children at this age are the most greedy, how can anyone not want to eat meat? Hua Xiaosong hurriedly nodded vigorously.

"Xiao Song, you see that there are so many snails in this field, relying on the two of us I don't know when we will be able to pick them up, so let's go to the village and call a few friends who have a good time, and say that they will come and help pick up this worm, and we will invite them to eat meat at night." Flower Full Creek Road.

"But don't we have to keep our father's meat before we can eat it?" Hua Komatsu was a little hesitant.

"Don't be afraid, cousin has her own way." Hua Manxi showed a smile, "This bug, it's actually called a snail, it's a very good thing, my cousin can do it, you just have to ask your friends to pick up this bug, pick it up and take it home to me, I will definitely invite you to eat meat at night." ”

"Well, that's great!" Hua Xiaosong showed a sweet smile and ran to the village to call someone.

Hua Manxi first picked up the snails for a while, filled a few leaves to the brim, wrapped them in some wild vines, and carried them home.

She put the snails next to the well and began to clean them, which is a complicated job.

She first fetched several buckets of water, poured the snails into the buckets, and went to the kitchen to grab a handful of salt and sprinkle it in.

Originally, in modern times, snails and other things were to be kept in a bucket for two days to let it spit out the dirty dirt before cooking, but this ancient mountain and water are beautiful, and the time is urgent, and Hua Manxi can't take care of it so much.

In between washing the snails, she went to pick some vegetables from the vegetable garden in front of the yard, and her aunt's vegetable garden was originally taken care of, and a lot of vegetables were planted.

Now it is August, the countryside has July onion and August garlic, radish before autumn and autumn after the autumn season, so the vegetable garden is lush and lush, garlic seedlings are sharp, and a lot of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, eggplant, zucchin, beans, cabbage, mustard greens -

Hua Manxi immediately locked his eyes on the sweet potato leaf. The Hua family raised a big year pig and planted so many sweet potatoes to make pig food for pigs. But in her previous life, she had eaten a lot of sweet potato leaves, and sweet potato leaves were a well-known green vegetable in Guangdong.

Hua Manxi hurriedly picked a large basket of sweet potato leaves, dug up two pieces of ginger, plucked some green onions and garlic, and finally picked a few mint leaves, perilla leaves, and a few small peppers.

In the memory of the original body, this pepper was planted to dry and sprinkle it in the ground to kill insects, not to eat, it was simply a tyrannical thing! Life is bland, what is the joy of no spicy?

She first picked and washed the sweet potato leaves, onions and garlic, then turned around and went to the stove room, lit a fire, and boiled water.

In the interval between the boiling waters, Hua Manxi washed the snails, cut off the tail with a knife, and then went down to the boiling water to boil for a while.

After scooping up the snails that had been cooked for a while, Hua Manxi repaired a thin bamboo skewer with a kitchen knife and began to pick the snail meat.

There are too many snails, she doesn't want to fry them all to eat, pick a part of the snail meat to cook a porridge, the snails are sweet and fragrant, July and August are good seasons to eat snails, and the porridge cooked must be very delicious.

To cook porridge, first add cooking wine, ginger shreds, salt, soy sauce, oil, and marinate the snail meat to taste, and then when the rice porridge is just boiling, pour the snail meat into it and stir well, and then cook it slowly until the rice grains are crystal ripe, and then sprinkle a handful of green onions and garlic to taste when the pot is raised.

After cooking the porridge, Hua Manxi began to fry the snails, first burn the oil, then add ginger, garlic, star anise, pepper, mint leaves, perilla leaves and fry until fragrant, put in the snails and stir-fry, pour in cooking wine, put water and simmer for a while, collect the juice and start the pot.

Finally, Hua Manxi burned the oil again, added minced garlic and stir-fried until fragrant, put in sweet potato leaves and stir-fried, sprinkled with salt after breaking green, and quickly put it on a plate.

Just as the pot was being washed, Hua Xiaosong's anxious voice came: "Cousin! I'm back, where's the meat? ”

"Why is your nose so smart? As soon as I was done, you came back. Hua Manxi took out a large pot of snails and put them in front of Hua Xiaosong, "Smell the fragrance or not, see if I will give you one." ”

She sucked a snail and chewed it slowly, although the ancient conditions were not good, she was alone in the fire and stir-frying, there was no fuel consumption, and the soy sauce was also the simplest, but this snail was fresh in the materials, delicious and fragrant, mixed with the taste of perilla leaves and mint leaves, and with a hint of spicy, it was unstoppable.

"I put a little spicy, not very spicy, you taste it." The flowers are full of streams urging flowers and small songs.

Hua Xiaosong was still a little hesitant, but he saw that Hua Manxi had eaten it, this snail was fried and it was really fragrant, he gritted his teeth, and he also learned from Hua Manxi's appearance and sucked one, he ate it for the first time, and the action was not very skilled, but Hua Manxi had already cut off the tail, so the snail meat was easily sucked out.

The first time he ate spicy, Hua Xiao Songsi gasped a few times, but he really hadn't tasted this taste, it was novel and exciting, his mouth was full of fresh fragrance, he couldn't help but reach out and take another one, the more he ate, the more fragrant it became, and he couldn't stop his mouth.

"Komatsu, we've all washed our hands, aren't you inviting us to eat meat?" A childish voice abruptly interrupted Hua Xiaosong's movements.

"Let's get out, Komatsu." Hua Manxi hurriedly said.

"Okay." Although Hua Xiaosong is young, he has been working since he was a child, and he has a lot of strength, and his face does not change when a large pot of snails is brought out, "Come on, come on, eat meat!" ”

Hua Xiaosong put the snail pot on the table, beckoned a few friends who helped, and said, "Come and eat meat!" Look, eat like this! ”

Hua Xiaosong grabbed a snail and showed his friends how to eat it, and he ate it with spicy oil in his mouth.

"Wow, it's so fragrant, it's delicious—" Big Cow and Iron Egg also ate with their mouths full of oil.

"I've never eaten such delicious meat—"

"Kids, there's porridge here." Hua Manxi first took out a pot and left it for her aunt who went to the ground, and brought out all the pots.

The porridge has been dried for a long time, just not hot, the rice grains are full and not soft, the porridge is sweet and delicious, the snail meat is crispy and smooth, and the children's tongues have to swallow it.

In the end, a large pot of fried snails, a large pot of snail porridge, and a large pot of sweet potato leaves were all eaten, and the children who came to help all walked away with their stomachs.

"Cousin, you really have an idea, this is five cents, I thought it would take a few days to pick it up, but I didn't want to pick it up in half a day!" Hua Xiaosong took out the five texts given by the village chief and handed them to Hua Manxi as if offering a treasure.

Five cents is far from five taels of silver! Hua Manxi frowned and said, "You can give this money to your aunt, by the way, Xiao Song, do you know if there is such a master chef in the village?" ”

"The master chef? I don't know, you have to ask my father. Hua Xiaosong disturbed his head, "I'll take the money to my mother first, and by the way, call my mother back for dinner!" ”

The eldest aunt learned that Hua Manxi fried snails and let the children go to pick up insects to earn five cents, so happily put down the work in the field and rushed back, Hua Manxi hurriedly brought a bowl of snail porridge to her, and the eldest aunt ate her eyebrows and eyes were comfortable.

"Manxi, your craftsmanship is no worse than your mother's." The eldest aunt took out the five cents and handed it to Hua Manxi, "You earned this money, you can take it." ”

"Auntie take it, I'll find a way to make money in the future-" Hua Manxi refused to accept it, and said coquettishly, "I still expect my aunt to help me save to pay off my debts." ”

The two were pushing each other, and Hua Xiaosong said in surprise: "Cousin, my father is back!" ”

Uncle Hua is an honest man, he loves Hua Manxi very much, but unfortunately his leg is lame, and the work of hunting and building walls in the village is not called him, he has no choice but to go to the town every once in a while and wait for the fishing boat to dock and do some carrying.

Carrying seafood smells fishy, shoulders are still salted, ordinary people are willing to do it, and the wages are low.

"Manxi, this is what my uncle bought for you, see if you like it?" Uncle Hua earned his wages this time and pulled a few pieces of flower cloth for Hua Manxi, "You are also old, and you are going to get married at the end of the year, take this cloth and find the Qin family to make two sets of clothes." ”

The Qin family is a tailor in Peach Blossom Village, and his mother-in-law is the best embroiderer.

"Thank you, uncle! Uncle is so nice! Hua Manxi's clothes are torn, so he is naturally very grateful. But the family thing—

"Uncle, the people of the Ding family have come to withdraw from their relatives." Hua Manxi put down the cloth and said in a dumb voice.

"What? Divorced? Didn't you say that you would get married at the end of the year? Why did you quit your relatives in a good way? The uncle looked at Hua Manxi in surprise.

"I went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables two days ago, but for some reason I was covered by someone and pushed off the cliff, and the Ding family spread rumors that I was ruined, and I insisted on withdrawing from my family, we couldn't get a marriage ceremony, and she asked me to marry Nading Erwa——"

"It's too much of a deception! Na Ding Erwa is a fool! The uncle looked sad, took out the purse, turned it over, there were only one or two pieces of broken silver, and his big man instantly turned red, "It's the uncle who can't stand you, it's the uncle who hurt you!" Uncle is useless! ”

"Uncle!" Hua Manxi was also a little moved, and comforted in a low voice, "Later, the Nading family promised us to raise enough five taels of silver a month to retire, otherwise they would come to ask for someone and let me marry to serve Nading's second baby." ”

"A month? Where can we get enough for a month-" Uncle Hua was so anxious that he couldn't do it, "I went to see your mother when I came back from the town, and your mother happened to follow Yuanwai to the city again, otherwise I can ask her to borrow a little from Yuanwai's family-"

"Uncle, don't worry, the silver can always be enough, my mother is a cook, she often teaches me how to cook, I have the craft, this silver will definitely be able to earn enough, but I don't know where there is cooking in this village?" Hua Manxi asked.