Chapter 21: No Rice Cooking
Although Zhao Deguang found a very good job in the mine with the efforts of his daughter-in-law, the next problem is still very head-scratching. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Because according to the rules of Zhaojialou, anyone who goes to work has to invite guests to eat, although it is not a big banquet, but seven or eight tables of wine and meat delicacies are indispensable.
Zhao Deguang's daughter-in-law is powerful, but she is also a person who loves face, so she doesn't want to be looked down upon in this regard, so the banquet naturally has to be held, and she doesn't want to be less chicken, duck and fish.
But as a woman, no matter how powerful she is, it is impossible to make these seven or eight tables of food out of thin air, so she twisted Zhao Deguang and hurriedly tried to find a way to solve the problem of food and banquets, so that her face would be bright and she could happily send Zhao Deguang to work.
Although the ideal is very plump, the reality is also very skinny, because the Zhao family at this time is really not rich, and the things that can be feasted are only a piglet that has not been slaughtered, two laying hens, and a small bag of white noodles can be taken out.
If you invite dozens of people to eat and drink, the things you make will not be enough to stuff your teeth.
Zhao Deguang's daughter-in-law pushed all the problems on her man, and as the only abbot of the Zhao family in Lunan that year, Zhao Deguang did not disappoint.
Zhao Deguang used his excellent cooking skills to interpret what it means to be "a good woman is difficult to cook without rice...... That's because you're not smart enough."
After starting to prepare for the banquet, Zhao Deguang first took his son up the mountain to cut elm firewood.
Zhao Deguang's method of chopping firewood is particularly special, he first led the child to the steepest mountain outside the village, and then found a thick-wristed miscellaneous wood with his own child.
After chopping the firewood, Zhao Deguang asked Zhao Haikun to roll the wood as much as possible, and then threw it all directly from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, saving the manpower of carrying firewood down the mountain.
After that, Zhao Deguang took the children from the foot of the mountain, collected all the branches and forks, took them home, sorted the elm branches, got the elm bark, elm leaves, and even elm roots, and boiled them in a large cauldron.
These things, after the high temperature cooking of elm firewood, became a very viscous substance, and then Zhao Deguang mixed the finely fried plant ash, miscellaneous grain noodles, cornmeal and some white noodles into it according to the proportion, naturally precipitated, layered, and made into a kind of "anointing oil" general substance.
After the preliminary completion, Zhao Deguang once again exerted his exquisite skills and sensitive sense of smell, he found salt, vinegar, bitter tangerine peel, sugar, spicy seeds, and configured.
Zhao Deguang knows that the taste of all things in the world, but all in people's mouths, are inseparable from the five original flavors of "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty", so as long as the proportion of seasonings of these five flavors is accurate, then the taste obtained can imitate all things in the world!
Therefore, Zhao Deguang miraculously cooked the flavor of spiced pork with five-flavor seasoning, and used elm fiber to pass off as animal fiber, mixed noodles and white noodles as imitation agents, and then integrated and precipitated a kind of "artificial meat".
With this kind of artificial meat, when they are stewed together with the small pork at home in a ratio of three to two, and an appropriate amount of tofu is added, you can look fat and thin, crystal clear, and fragrant. It makes people think that it is a real stewed pig's hind fat.
This trick can make the Zhao family's pork turn into two and two into three, and then Zhao Deguang concocted it in the same way, making "vegetarian chicken" and "vegetarian eggs" respectively.
The problem of the Zhao family's meat, eggs and poultry was solved, and it naturally filled the façade, but it was a pity that Zhao Deguang's son, Zhao Haijuan, broke his leg because of this.
After all, to make seven or eight tables of vegetarian food, it takes a lot of elm bark and leaves, and in order to obtain these raw materials, Zhao Haiju had to follow his father to the cliffs of Yimeng Mountain.
At first, the father took Zhao Haiju up the mountain together, but on the last day before the feast, because Zhao Deguang was busy with the ingredients, he could only let his son take an axe and basket and go to the mountain to dig the bark by himself.
At that time, because the elm tree was a kind of "wood food", it was a scarce resource, and the elm trees on the surface had long been cut down and digested by the villagers, and it was not easy to find them.
Therefore, Zhao Haijuan searched deeper and deeper, and finally according to his father's instructions, he also gave up the intention of chopping wood, and only single-mindedly, holding an axe, and pulling elm bark and elm leaves.
Because of the tight time and heavy tasks, Zhao Haiyu went deeper and deeper, and finally entered a ravine that he was not familiar with and got lost.
Zhao Haijuan, who suddenly lost his way, was very anxious in his heart, he was worried that he would encounter wild boars and other fierce beasts on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was worried that he would be angry with his father if he went back late.
Therefore, Zhao Haihu walked eagerly among the woods and strange rocks, walking, and then did not know for a long time, until the middle of the moon and the sky, he found a familiar road.
Zhao Haijuan, who saw the road, let out a long breath in his heart, and then he followed the moonlight, carrying a basket full of elm bark and elm money and trotted home.
In an excited mood, Zhao Haiju was very fast at first, but as he walked, he felt that the situation was wrong.
Because at this time, he found himself in the shadow of the moonlight...... There were two shadows! one of them was one's own, and the other was ...... "Grows" on the side of his shoulder! And the shadow seems to be unable to shake off, silently, but it follows closely with itself.
This sudden discovery made Zhao Haiyu frightened, after all, the environment was good at that time, and there were a lot of wild boars, wild wolves, foxes, and wild dogs.
Thinking of this, in order to protect himself, Zhao Haiyu quickly took out the axe from his waist and looked behind him.
Suddenly, Zhao Haiju was extremely surprised to find that standing behind him was an old man he had never seen before, a little lost and depressed!
This old man, dressed in a blue earthen coat and with a wrinkled face in the moonlight, was not from his own village, which made Zhao Haiyu feel uneasy.
Therefore, Zhao Haiju asked extremely vigilantly who the old man was, and why did he follow him all the time?
After listening to Zhao Haiyu's words, the old man was very embarrassed and said that he was a foreigner who lived in Lanling, because his family was in a bad flood, and he really had no way to live, so he wanted to come to his relatives in Zhao's house.
I never thought that the old man was in too much of a hurry, and he lost his way in the nearby Shirengu, and he couldn't get out of this cliff for a long time, and he saw Zhao Haiju in despair, so he thought it was a savior, and ran to follow.
After the old man finished speaking, he smiled at Zhao Haiyu and said, "Little brother, do you live nearby? I'm lost, I hope you can take me for a ride, okay?"