Chapter 54: Farmhouse 4
The bamboo basket on their backs was filled with a lot of picked peaches and yellow peel fruits, and the three girls were obviously having fun.
Lu Xiaojing casually asked, where did Mom go? Lu Xiaoqing said vegetable garden. The three girls became interested and wanted to go to the vegetable garden again.
Lu Xiaojing volunteered to lead them with great interest.
Seeing this, Fu Ling raised his head and explained: "Be careful when walking, don't step on the vegetables!" ”
Yang Yuxi replied with a smile: "Got it!" ”
The Lu family's vegetable garden is neither big nor small, and the irregular vegetable garden of less than one acre is divided into a vegetable plot of different sizes by the hard-working Lu's mother, and all kinds of seasonal vegetables are planted.
Peppers, tomatoes, long beans, radish, eggplant, green beans, cabbage, cucumbers, loofahs, sweet potatoes, corn, leeks, shallots, coriander, etc., grow exceptionally lush because of the abundant chicken manure compost.
There are also several fruit trees planted in the corners of the vegetable garden, loquats, persimmons, plums, except for the persimmon trees, there are only green leaves and no fruits on the other trees, climbing pumpkin vines, loofahs, bitter gourds, chayote and other melon vines, blooming and bearing fruits at will, full of vitality, not to mention how gratifying.
Lu Xiaojing accompanied Yang Yuxi and them into the vegetable garden, the three girls should have never seen such an original rural vegetable garden, they were excited and fresh and curious, and they rushed to help Lu's mother pick chili eggplant loofah beans, which made Lu's mother and Lu Xiaojing laugh non-stop.
Mother Lu, like Lu Xiaojing, also can't understand why they are excited?
Lu's mother thought to herself that these children were so interesting, even if they had never been to the countryside, they would not be like this. What is so rare about this country thing?
Zhao Kexin suddenly said, "Ah! He pointed to a big pumpkin on the plum tree and shouted excitedly: "Look at it, there's a big pumpkin there!" Oops, there's a little one out there! Yikes! And what, what kind of melon is that? I've never seen it before! ”
Seeing this, Yang Yuxi and Fang Hanhan's eyes also lit up, and they screamed excitedly, and the three girls simply widened their eyes and looked for all kinds of melons large and small between the leafy branches and green leaves, and shouted excitedly every time they found one.
Lu's mother and Lu Xiaojing couldn't laugh even more, so Lu's mother simply asked Lu Xiaojing to climb the tree to break a few tender pumpkin vines and go back to make soup. Then pick two or three chayotes by the way.
Lu Xiaojing couldn't wait to behave in front of the big sisters, so she happily said "yes" and climbed the tree in a hurry, which really provoked Yang Yuxi to be careful while praising her again and again.
Lu Xiaojing laughed to reassure them. The village child began to climb trees at the age of three, and could climb a large tree more than one person tall and play on her stomach.
Lu Xiaojing picked three chayotes bigger than her fist, and then folded four fat pumpkin vines that were more than one meter long.
The three girls were holding a chayote and looking at it, and they all said that they had never seen it, and they expressed great anticipation for a taste of dinner.
The three of them expressed a hundred and twenty points of surprise at the pumpkin vine, which has a layer of small pimples on the surface, and the skin is old and hard, and the nails can't be pinched in, can this be eaten?
Mother Lu explained with a smile that this pumpkin vine has to peel off the old and hard skin on the surface, eat the tender inside, and use it to make soup or stir-fry, which is delicious! However, I just don't know if they can get used to it.
When the three girls heard this, they felt that it made sense, and they expressed their expectations.
Returning from the vegetable garden, Lu Xiaoqing had already started cooking.
The three girls helped pick and wash the vegetables, and everything was fresh and fresh.
The pure natural ecological free-range chicken is chopped into pieces, and the soaked mushrooms, lotus seeds, lilies, and ginger are stewed, and the fragrance soon comes out with the steam and wafts everywhere.
Thinking that this is the stewed soup of the chicken that I caught, or the pure natural ecological free-range, I felt that it was particularly magical and looked forward to it, and I salivated one by one: "It's so fragrant!" It smells so good! ”
made Lu's mother laugh, her own food can be liked, which is of course a particularly comforting and pleasant thing.
The chicken is almost stewed, and the various dishes here are also washed and cut, ready to be put into the pot.
The earthen stove and the iron pot, the three girls looked at the freshness again, and wanted to try the stir-fry in the iron pot, so Lu's mother stopped it with a smile, "You can't do this, burn it carefully, or I'll come!" ”
Stir-fried pork slices with fresh bamboo shoots, fried tofu with green peppers and tomatoes, stir-fried beef with beans, pumpkin vines cut into sections with the old skin removed to make soup, and then an egg stall with shallots, and a fried sweet potato sprouts with garlic.
Coupled with a stewed chicken, a table of dishes can also be seen.
"It's all homely things, I'll just do it casually, don't dislike it! If it doesn't taste good, let's go to town tomorrow and buy something else and come back and make it! When Fu Ling told Lu's mother that she was going to have a few guests, Lu's mother was full of confidence that she would definitely be able to entertain her, and she was still confident when cooking.
Fu Ling hurriedly smiled and said, "Aunt Lu is modest, the dishes you cook look very good, and the taste will definitely not be bad!" Besides, these are the freshest ingredients, and they are picked from the vegetable garden and put on the stove, so you can't eat them in the past! ”
"Yes, yes, yes, I really can't eat such a fresh dish!"
"And this chicken, it smells so good!"
"Well, it doesn't look the same!"
"Aunt Lu, your craftsmanship must be good, we will definitely like it, I can't wait, let's go!"
Yang Yuxi's last sentence made everyone laugh, and Lu's mother also laughed, relieved, and beckoned everyone to sit down and eat.
Lu Xiaoqing looked up at Fu Ling, Fu Ling also happened to look at her, and the two looked at each other and smiled. This Yang Yuxi is really lively and cheerful, which makes people like it.
Lu Xiaoqing smiled and beckoned them to drink half a bowl of chicken soup before eating, "This is an authentic local chicken, I didn't add feed when I fed it, I ran around the fence every day, not only the meat is delicious, this soup is also very delicious, I promise it is absolutely different from what you drink on weekdays!" ”
Everyone will be skeptical, chattering to express curiosity and anticipation.
Fu Ling laughed: "What Xiaoqing said is right, you will know it when you taste it." ”
He has been working in the countryside for so long, and occasionally he can't go back to have lunch at the villagers' house, and he has eaten a lot of villagers' own chickens, and the taste is really different from what he used to eat at home.
Especially when you eat such an original chicken for the first time, the feeling of contrast is the most obvious and strong.