112, a stick to the end of the world
Not only Huang Cansheng, the owner of Red Harbor who fled from Mande to Filso Port, will process the warm heart dry abalone, but Hua Zhenxing will also. Since elementary school, he has not only read recipes, but also received personal guidance from Old Man Yang.
Old man Yang said that this is a pleasant side dish, "can only be used occasionally to cultivate temperament, observe the changes in physical nature, and obtain the delicious taste of the coming year with the work of last year. ”
When Hua Zhenxing grew up, he always felt that Old Man Yang might be fooling him. If you process it yourself, cook it yourself, and taste it yourself, you can really experience the process that his old man said.
But a lot of things here are often done by the chefs, and diners only enjoy the moment when the dishes are served. For example, in the grocery store, Hua Zhenxing is the chef, and Old Man Yang is the diner, and he also expressed his doubts to Yang Tehong.
Old man Yang looked at the processed and juicy soft-hearted abalone that Xiao Hua brought to him, as well as the knife and fork specially matched next to the plate, shook his head and said, "Take it back to the kitchen, cut it and serve it again, pay attention to cutting it evenly!" Aunt Ke said back then, if you don't cut properly, you won't eat. ”
Hua Zhenxing wondered: "Who is Aunt Ke?"
Yang Tehong: "It's Kefuzi's mother!" ”
Hua Zhenxing: "Speaking idioms, didn't your old man also tell me 'square but not cut'"
Old man Yang glared and said, "These are two different things, don't mess around!" You have served such a dish with such effort, and you still need to cut it at the end?"
Hua Zhenxing was helpless, took it back to the kitchen, picked up the knife and fork and cut it, and then sent it to Old Man Yang.
Old man Yang ate several bites with taste, and then put down his chopsticks and said, "What I once said means that it is true." When I eat it, I will also taste the process of making this dish, and I will also taste you who make this dish.
Just like we taste what is happening in the world, not only in this moment. If you're a chef and an accountant, I'm afraid I'd like someone to say what I said back then."
Old man Yang is so good at fooling! But recently, Hua Zhenxing has a little feeling, that is, when I see those non-Suogang residents checking in and brushing noodles, they just choose a noodle every day, which makes it feel like an ancient emperor flipped a brand.
Can people taste the real taste of that bowl of oil-splashed noodles, anyway, Hua Zhenxing himself has tasted it. Some things and some words, whether they are blind or not, depends on experience and realm.
Abalone is also found on the reefs near the mouth of the Beisuo River, especially in the area of Feisuo Harbor, and the locals do not eat it and will not eat it. Every year, Hua Zhenxing will pick the best fresh abalone and process some dried abalone, the quantity is not much, it is eaten at home.
When it is ventilated and dried, it does not have the strange smell of "abalone restaurant" as the ancients said, because it is not a shop that sells fresh food. After the fresh abalone is shelled and cleaned, Hua Zhenxing is tied with cotton thread and threaded into strings to dry, which is tasteless.
In the small dry season between the two rainy seasons, you can hang it directly in the shade of a tree, and the temperature and humidity are quite suitable, but pay attention to the heat of drying. The meat of abalone is thick, and when it is dried on the outside, it will form a protective layer that prevents air and bacteria from entering, while the inside cannot be dried thoroughly and will slowly ferment to form a loose heart.
There are many ingredients that must be fresh, such as bamboo shoots or matsutake mushrooms; There are also some ingredients that are naturally fermented and taste better than fresh ones, and there is a natural process of freshness, such as shiitake mushrooms or scallops.
The dried abalone is amber, with a slight layer of hoarfrost on the surface, and the unique sweet smell is very light, and you can only smell it when you get closer.
When it is almost done, it needs to be placed in a cool and dry place for a period of time, and the soft heart is still fermenting naturally, and then it is considered to be completed. As long as the environment is suitable, the processed dried abalone can be stored for a long time, which is a bit like the raw pus in tea.
The last time Mr. Feng came, he was sitting in the courtyard for lunch, and he saw two bunches of dried abalone hanging in the shade of the tree, which had been almost dried, and had a golden brown and slightly white frost, and he was so hungry that he drooled.
Out of politeness, Hua Zhenxing politely told him that these soft-hearted abalone have not yet been processed, but there are processed last year and the year before last in the grocery store, and if you really want to cook it, the taste of the soft-hearted abalone of the previous year should be better.
Unfortunately, it takes too long to make this dish, and it is impossible to eat it on the same day. If Mr. Feng comes back next time, he can say hello a week in advance, and then he can eat this dish.
This is kind words but it is also true, it takes about a week to make this dish seriously, the process of soaking in water and steaming takes several days, supplemented by various ingredients, it takes almost two days to simmer in a crockpot, and finally the sauce can be prepared and served on the table.
Hua Zhen said it casually last year, and Mr. Feng remembered it.
But the message sent by Mr. Feng is also a reminder to Hua Zhenxing. After a period of busyness and leisure, he seemed to have forgotten something, not the dish he promised last year, but what he had felt.
Recently, although he has not been pushed by the system task, he has also followed the various things in front of him, even if he has been idle, it seems that he has forgotten to take the initiative to find a certain feeling.
The affairs of the Kling District have been on the right track, and there is no need for him to worry about it for the time being, there are others who are busy, so what is he doing every day
In his mind, Zhenxingbang is currently only on the sand table, except for the section of the road that he once escorted Dr. Luo, he has never set foot in so many other places, and he doesn't even know that there are bamboo forests and wild ducks in the mountains.
The world he saw as a child was full of chaos and sin, so he was full of yearning and longing for the unknown and beautiful world. He can't just sit in the safety of the grocery store and look at the dangerous Philoso-Harbour outside the door, and he can't expect a few old people to arrange everything, and the dream of the country is his own dream.
Not to mention anything else, Chunrong Dan was dreamed of by himself. The "Chunrong Dan Refining Task" has only found two medicinal materials so far, is it waiting for these elixirs to pop out by themselves
After putting down the phone, Hua Zhenxing began to pack his backpack and greeted the three old people, as well as Man Man and others, saying that he was going out for a few days.
After Old Man Yang received the call, he went back to the grocery store that night and gave Hua Zhenxing a paper crane.
Old man Yang didn't say much, but just asked Hua Zhenxing to take the paper crane with him, be careful not to lose it, maybe he can protect him at a critical moment. But his old man also reminded that the paper crane may also be unreliable, and everything still has to rely on himself.
Hua Zhenxing thought so, and he also brought a long stick and the wooden magpie he made.
The long stick was also processed by Hua Zhenxing himself, and he once used it to beat dogs, hyenas on the grassland. Later, this stick was used as a chisel by Mr. Ding Qi, and he carved a deep tunnel in a mountain rock, and then it was brought back to the grocery store, and it is said that Old Man Yang processed it again.
Hua Zhenxing picked up this stick and felt very much, it still looked like a long branch that had just been cut down, and the walnut thickness was not even peeled off the bark. But if you look closely, the bark seems to be blended into the grain pattern of wood, and it seems to have been played with for many years to form a unique pulp, which is neither slippery nor astringent in the hand.
Shaking vigorously, the elasticity of the stick is just right, and it is extremely tough, which is no longer the same as the original stick.
He learned to sharpen the wood magpie some time ago, and he could refine the wood with his divine sense between the blades, but now he tried it with the method of divine sense refining and found that this was no longer a material that he could process or that he didn't need to process again.
The stick has a square edge at one end, which doesn't look very sharp, but in the hands of Teacher Ding, it can pierce into the mountain rock, and in the hands of Hua Zhenxing, it can also be used as a spearman.
With a stick in his hand at this moment, Hua Zhenxing inexplicably has a feeling that his strength has increased greatly, if he encounters the original group of hyenas again, he is sure that he can pick them all over without losing the grenade...... This feeling is not right, it is better to be cautious, and throw grenades when it is time to throw them.
Hua Zhen went out with a stick, and the starting point of his trip was the estuary of the Beisuo River. He has been to this place, and in order to complete the "system task six" in the heavy rainy season, he has traveled all over the areas involved in the first and second phases of the Beisuo River Basin Reconstruction Project.
He first looked at the abalone on the reef by the sea, and they were in very good condition and growing very well. He's been doing so much this year that he forgot to process the abalone, but that's okay, there's still stock in the grocery store.
Before going out, he took out a batch of soft-hearted abalone processed the year before last, and Tommanman helped soak it in the past few days, and explained in detail what to do. Soaking does not require too much craftsmanship, just be meticulous and responsible, and Manman is of course no problem. Even if Mr. Wind doesn't come, they can eat it themselves.
In the past three years, Hua Zhenxing has been processing soft-hearted abalone every year, but why didn't I expect to promote it in Feisuogang, because soft-hearted abalone is not oily noodles, it is not a necessary thing for this place, and it can't solve the problems faced here.
It's an ingredient that takes months to process, and after two years it tastes best, and it takes another week to cook it. It's like Hua Zhenxing wants to promote the art of raising the yuan, but he doesn't plan to promote the art of cosmetic surgery.
It's the small dry season, and the mouth of the Beisuo River is no longer visible, but if you look closely, you can still find the current. Small streams of water as thin as sticks spread out and meandered among the barren grass.
If it were normal for this time of year, there would have been very few such flows, but this year it has increased significantly, because the whole basin has changed.
This kind of change is inadvertent, and if you don't deliberately look for and contrast, you won't notice it when you walk through here. Hua Zhenxing carried a stick to the west, stopping at intervals to release the wooden magpies, and recording data on temperature, humidity and air currents in the atmosphere at different altitudes.
The R&D department of Huanxiang Industry needs these data, and has set up many sampling points to collect them regularly. Hua Zhenxing is helping them to improve it, and at the same time recording the accurate date of the survey.
It is difficult to predict the climate change of the river basin, and three prerequisites are also required for supercomputing simulation: computing power, algorithm model and raw data. For Hua Zhenxing himself, recording these can also grasp the changes that have taken place in this area in time in his Yuanshen heart image.
From here, he had to go west, first to the valley where the reservoir was to be built, and then to continue westward through the valley, over several hills, to the place that Mr. Wind had circled on the map, about eighty kilometers in a straight line.
It doesn't sound like it's far away, Hua Zhenxing will make a comprehensive tour of the Beisuo River basin that is planned to be built, and reach places that have never been set foot before, as if continuing to open up the infinite unknowns in this world.
After seeing off Dr. Law, on the way back to Port Africa, Hua Zhenxing experienced this feeling. At that time, he had a longing that Old Man Yang or Uncle Mo had taken him on his journey since he was a child, and now he could explore on his own.
But after returning to the port of Africa, a series of things happened, and I forgot about this idea, and only now did I regain my feelings. Walking in your own world, the distance is a world that has never been opened but will be reached.
Not a few kilometers west from the coastline, Hua Zhenxing stopped, because the "Chunrong Dan Refining Task" suddenly reacted.