186. Dungeon Gatekeeper

Whether baked rice cakes can be made delicious or not has little to do with the specific baked chef, the focus is on how well the rice cakes themselves are made.

Pan Xiang didn't say anything nonsense at this point, the rice cakes he brought were all of extremely high quality.

To say that eating rice cakes in the big summer, something that is theoretically eaten during the New Year, is quite weird.

But in these days, as long as someone consumes, someone will supply; And as long as you can afford the price, you can still get a fairly good quality product. This bag of rice cakes doesn't seem too strange.

Rice cakes are a specialty of the south, and they are mixed with glutinous rice with a certain amount of late rice after autumn, washed and soaked thoroughly and ground into rice flour.

Rice noodles are steamed on the shelf, and the large steaming bucket is not the kind that is only half a meter high that is commonly used, but a large bucket that needs to be watched by several people at the head of the big stove together, and is more than one meter high.

Mixing, soaking, steaming, these are all technical work, and must be carried by experienced masters.

Otherwise, the ratio of rice noodles in any step is incorrect, and the taste of the rice cake will change, and this change is usually in a bad direction.

When the rice noodles are steamed, this will enter the most important and least skill-free step: scooping. This is commonly known as the step of beating rice cakes.

The steamed rice dough is rich in water, and it is necessary to squeeze out all the water to make the texture of the rice dough firm and delicate, and this is the final finished rice cake.

The rice dough that has just come out of the steaming bucket is fragrant, fluffy, and steaming, so beware of the gluttonous children at home stealing it.

If you make a small amount of rice cakes at home and eat them yourself, you can use an ordinary rice cake bucket and a long-handled wooden hammer to hammer it down. But if it's going to be a mass production, this won't work.

At this time, it is necessary to use a lump sum cake burden.

The rice dough is placed on the panel, still covered with a steaming cloth. To prevent sticking, spray with some water.

There is a bucket under the panel to catch the water seeping from above, and a bar is placed horizontally on the top of the panel to hold down the rice dough.

The pole is made of thick bamboo, and a strong man sits at each end, relying on his own weight, sitting on the pole and pressing the pole down.

With this force, the rice dough is also continuously squeezed down and down until it is completely compacted, and the rice cake is really done.

In the process of pressing, the dough will be folded and pressed again and again, and often two tall men will be tired and sweaty after pressing a piece of rice cake.

But the more effort you put to make the rice cake, the better the taste. Sweet and soft, especially the kind of toughness, can be stretched very long and continuously, very chewy.

Of course, there is also a little bit of attention to when eating this sticky rice cake, that is, you must not be greedy.

If you are too greedy, you can wrap a large piece in one bite. Turning around, sticky and pulling, sticking to the throat, you can't swallow it all together, it's really impossible to suffocate to death.

Pan Xiang is carrying this kind of rice cake of extremely high quality.

As an experienced chef, Hao Dong naturally won't let such a thing as choking people to death happen. Therefore, each piece of baked rice cake is not large, and it is the size of a bite.

The barbecue iron chisels and the like were packed together, but now they all fell under the hole with the ponies. Fortunately, Hao Dong has a habit of putting some spices and sauces in his backpack, so that there will not be nothing at this time.

But there are only spices and no tools, which does cause some trouble to his operation. In the end, in order to atone for his crimes, Pan Xiang went down to the cave.

Although he couldn't get all the horses on his own, it was still okay to get a little bit of something out of his bag.

While Hao Dong was carefully baking rice cakes on the side, Zhao Zheng and the queen also finished studying the switch and confirmed that the function of that thing was just to open this door.

Seeing that Qi Jue and they haven't come up, but there is no information feedback, it is estimated that there should not be much danger underneath, but the area may not be small. Then unless you follow along, you can only wait.

Time can't be wasted, Zhao Zheng dragged Pan Xiang down the cave, planning to find a way to get the horse out first.

As a result, they went until Hao Dong baked all the rice cakes, and the two of them had not returned.

The queen looked determined, and so did Shirahoshi. Bai Xing fell asleep on the ground, but Hao Dong felt a little worried, so he couldn't help but go to the entrance of the cave to look at it several times.

Unfortunately, even though it was close to noon, the entrance to the cave was still dark and difficult to see. I could only vaguely see the tails of a few ponies flicking around, and it was obvious that they were indeed empty underneath.

Hao Dong had the heart to shout twice, but when he looked back at the sleepy queen and the already asleep Bai Xing, he didn't dare to do so. As for the mobile phone or something, it can't be connected at the moment, it seems that there is a shield under the ground.

Fortunately, the few people who went down knew that they were hungry, and seeing that the sun was starting to turn westward, the four guys finally returned to the ground one after another.

The first to come up was Pan Xiang, who was in a mess, his clothes became wrinkled, his head was covered with dust, and he was crying with a sad face.

He was followed by Ergou, who was in much better condition than Pan Xiang, but also looked a little haggard.

In the end, Qi Jue and Zhao Zheng came up together, and among the four of them, they still looked clean and tidy, but they seemed to sweat a lot.

When these two people came out, they also took the help of the others who had been brought down to get all the material bags that had been brought down.

However, when Hao Dong brought them rice cakes, they did not take them immediately, but turned over and went back.

The first thing Pan Xiang and Ergou did when they returned to the ground was to pour water hard, and they each drank a large bottle of 1.5L before they finally had the strength to speak.

Ergou said two words in the first sentence: "Hey, Mom! ”

Pan Xiang was relatively more reliable at this time, took the rice cakes handed over by Hao Dong and ate them one bite at a time, while slowly talking about what they had encountered underground.

It turned out that there should indeed be an underground village or even an underground city, but now that the people inside are empty, the area where they just went down has become a snake cave.

Pan Xiang didn't know very well what happened to Hao Dong, nor did he know what the expedition team was investigating before, he only knew that when he went down and saw the scene in front of him, it was really quite surprising.

Because the corner of the cave was not a passage, but a very large underground cavern, and there were traces of reinforced concrete supports along the edges.

Pan Xiang didn't look carefully when he went down to get the baking fork and the like for the first time, and it was dark inside, he only knew that there should be a passage there, but he didn't know the specific situation.

When Zhao Zheng came down together this time, the two of them brought flashlights, and when they saw what they looked like, they were shocked.

This look is an artificial cave, Zhao Zheng and Pan Xiang are not timid, curiosity came up, so they walked a few more steps inside. That is, those extra steps made them hear strange sounds.

It sounded like a bag of hemp was dragging on the floor, and it didn't sound slow. The two of them immediately subconsciously relaxed their hands and feet, and carefully groped in the direction of the sound.

The second dog drank a large bottle of water and finally gasped. Hearing Pan Xiang say this, the big-footed girl kicked over directly: ", you're paralyzed!" If you two hadn't sneaked over like this, would it have been like that! ”

Although Ergou is babbling, he rarely has such a furious mood. At this time, even the queen, who has always been as steady as Mount Tai, is a little curious: "What did you encounter down there?" ”

Ergou opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just pointed in the direction of the hole: "They are going out." ”

Zhao Zheng returned to the ground, holding a rope nearly as thick as a child's arm. If you look closely, you can see that it is several strands of thick rope braided together.

Hao Dong was also curious, what would it be that would require such a thick rope?

The three ponies had been hoisted out before, and the other two were fine except for one with a lame hind leg.

Zhao Zheng tied them to the other jujube red horses to form a small team, and then tied the thick rope to them, and with a flick of the whip, the horse team slowly walked forward, and the things behind it were gradually revealed.

Hao Dong's curiosity completely turned into surprise when he finally saw what was being dragged out, but fortunately, after the scene at the bottom of Qinghai Lake, he would not be immediately shocked now.

Once in Guangxi, he and Ergou accidentally ate poisonous snake meat, and finally hallucinated and were chased by a large snake dozens of meters long. And now, he discovers that his dream has finally come true.

Although he knew that it would be dragged out like this, that thing must have died thoroughly, but watching the long snake body being dragged out of the hole little by little, Hao Dong still felt a chill down his spine.

The snake's head alone was nearly a meter long.

The mouth was completely pried open, and the long, sharp fangs inside glistened in the sun. The snake letter was estimated to be at least seventy or eighty centimeters long, black, purple, black, purple, drooping, dragging out saliva from all over the ground.

Although the snake's body is tinged with a layer of grayish white, it can be seen that the original scales should be the colorful kind, and I don't know how long it has been underground before it will change to its current color.

Pan Xiang knew that he was in trouble, and as soon as he saw Zhao Zheng coming up, he went over to help. So Hao Dong could only ask Ergou: "You have been down for so long, just because you bumped into this guy?" ”

Speaking of this, the second dog is angry:

"! We've gotten around this thing. Xiao Qi asked me to come back and report to you first, and he planned to go inside again to take a look. As a result, the two idiots came after them, and they didn't know how to dodge, so they bumped into each other directly! ”

Needless to say, the process can be guessed, but Hao Dong still feels a little strange: "Why did you make such a mess?" ”

There were four of them underground, and they didn't feel it on the ground at all when they were fighting, so the intensity must have been controlled within a certain range.

Pan Xiang's lack of actual combat experience in the field can't deal with it, although Ergou is unreliable, but he still has some real kung fu under his hands, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't get himself to the same decay as Pan Xiang.

This time, before the second dog could speak, Zhao Zheng interjected first: "It's all my fault, I owe you this time, and I am obligated to do whatever I need next time." ”

To say that Zhao Zheng was actually dragged down by Pan Xiang.

That guy has no problem dealing with people, and he can use one as ten, but this kind of unconventional creature is definitely the first time he has seen it in his life, and it is so energetic as soon as he comes up, almost a conditioned reflex, his legs are so weak that he can't move at all.

But at that time, the snake had already discovered them, Zhao Zheng didn't think about leaving him alone, seeing that he ran out, Pan Xiang was still squatting there and couldn't move, so he could only go back and drag people to run.

After such a delay, they were chased by the snake behind them, and the two immediately fell into a crisis together.

Fortunately, Ergou had already begun to return at that time, and immediately went over to help, but the result was that he replaced Zhao Zheng, and it became that he dragged Pan Xiang to escape, and finally made the two of them the same embarrassment.