Chapter 14 Eating Chicken in the Wild

That sentence may have been mentioned by my brothers. Zhao Xibao didn't think about it carefully, packed the package, and left home with the little peach.

originally wanted to go alone, but her father and mother couldn't rest assured, so they had to take a few servants and ride a carriage to Wuxu Mountain.

Zhao Xibao was burned by the hot eyes in the carriage, and said with a smile: "I said little peach, take a good look at the mountains and rivers outside, don't always stare at me." ”。

Little Peach was confident: "Before going out, the master, the lady, and the young master all told me to be optimistic about the young lady." ”

"I, first, I don't plan to run away from marriage, and second, I don't plan to commit suicide. is the master who went out to find the foggy void mountain, and by the way, there are some doubts that need to be answered. ”

She remembered that before leaving, Father Zhao had red eyes, secretly wiped his tears with a handkerchief, and always felt that Xibao would run away from marriage: "Bao'er, it's okay for you to go out for a walk, your dowry, your father and your mother have already prepared it for you." Come back whenever you want. Don't grieve yourself outside. ”

Zhao Xibao sighed: This trip is better to go early and return early, so as not to worry about my parents.

"Miss, Miss, look over there, what a beautiful lake."

She lifted the curtain and looked into the distance, and the ridge looked like a thin blue line, looping in the air. Mountains and mountains stretch across the light green clear and deep lakes in the cool, moist and fresh mist.

A folded green mountain, a screen, a bay of clear water, a piano.

There was a mist like green smoke on the lake, and only the gray shadow of the mountain could be faintly discerned when you looked at the mountains in the distance. A little melancholy, amplified by the early morning mist. Zhao Xibao has been weak since he was a child, and Zhao's father specially found a place with a hot spring for Zhao Xibao, and it was here that she met the bad old man and became his apprentice. In those years, there was that person who would accompany her every year, and now.

Zhao Xibao didn't let himself think about those heart-piercing things, "Parking, there is nothing that a meal can't cure." ”

Little Peach jumps happily, and her young lady is the best at foraging in the wild.

The literati of this dynasty have a bold personality, seem to be unrestrained, travel the mountains and rivers, and drink against each other. Her young lady likes to be lively, and often disguises herself as a man to mix in the suburbs of Beijing, and she doesn't like servants to follow, and her ability to forage for food in the wild is practiced like this.

Zhao Xibao looked around and found that there was a wild bamboo forest not far away. Nowadays, the bamboo shoots in May are plump. It's just a vegetarian diet, not Zhao Xibao's style. She divided the people into two groups, one group to collect firewood and dig the earthen stove, and the other group with good skills went to the mountains to look for game.

She asked her servants to choose a strong green bamboo. The green bamboo is divided into sections, and an opening with a length and width of about the length of the index finger is sawed in the bamboo section, and the sawn bamboo pieces cannot be thrown away, and they need to be returned to the position again before they can be barbecued.

Clean the inner wall of the green bamboo tube with water, rinse out the bamboo chips inside, and then wash and pack the rice you bring with you.

The rice should not be too full, and the bamboo tube should be placed flat, which should occupy about two-thirds of the space, and then water should be poured in. Gently shake the bamboo tube to make the gap between the rice larger.

At the opening of the bamboo tube, use the original sawn bamboo piece to return to the position, and cut a bamboo stick to nail it in the gap of the opening, so that the open bamboo piece can be fixed, not easy to fall off, after fixing, and then gently shake the bamboo tube.

After doing this, I looked back and saw that the people had dug up the small earthen stove.

In the process of burning the fire, if the fire is strong, the frequency of rotating the bamboo tube should be correspondingly higher, until the appearance of the bamboo tube is yellow and soft, indicating that it has been done very successfully.

When heated, the bottom of the bamboo remains damp. Finally, use the embers to simmer for a few minutes.

Transfer the burned bamboo tube to a clean coat spread on the ground, gently split the bamboo tube with a knife, and when it is almost at the node, lay the bamboo tube flat and slowly open it with a knife.

The subordinate with more strength directly pressed one end of the bamboo tube and slowly broke the other end with his hand.

Zhao Xibao looked at the people who couldn't do it, wasted a lot of bamboo rice, and said painfully: "When you split the bamboo tube, you can't split the bamboo in half like chopping firewood, so that the rice will fall out." ”

At the same time, another group of people returned, living up to her expectations, and brought back a small wild child for her. But now they have no cooking utensils and no seasonings, and they can't even find boiling water for their hair. The pheasant could only be slaughtered and hollowed out, stuffed with bamboo shoots, pasted with mud, and piled up some fallen branches and pine leaves and roasted. Wait until the mud is browned and fall to the ground. Unexpectedly, the chicken feathers fell off with the mud, and the fragrance of bamboo shoots and flower chickens overflowed.

"Miss, although this is different from before, it is also delicious." Little Peach said happily.

Zhao Xibao ate the last piece of chicken and said unsatisfied: "Before, we prepared spices and brought processed local chicken.

Then mix the ingredients, pour the green onion, ginger and garlic into the basin, rub it back and forth, "massage" the chicken for five to ten minutes, and marinate for about an hour after the massage.

Lotus leaf wrapped chicken, mud wrapped lotus leaf, generally wrapped in several layers. Wrap around the lotus leaf chicken like kneading dough. ”

"Miss, I remember, you have to dig a pit every time."

It is said to be digging a pit, but in fact, it is to find a suitable place and dig out two holes above and below, with a layer of soil in between. Pile up clods of earth in a large hole above, and a hole for burning fire below, and then add firewood to the fire until the clods above are burned red.

When the clods of earth have been burned red, the ashes in the hole are removed, and then the dirt chicken is put in, and finally all the clods are knocked down, and a thick layer of soil is covered with it.

Fortunately, there is a natural wild bamboo forest here, and there is food and drink.

Bamboo grows in the deep mountains and wilderness, the rain and dew of heaven and earth, bamboo juice in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" Li Shizhen listed it as Tianshui, has a miraculous effect, known as "divine water". Unfortunately, bamboo juice is the sap that flows out of the growing bamboo body at night. They can only drink bamboo leaf water now.

The curious little peach watched her young lady step on a few bamboos, fly up, and pick fresh bamboo leaves everywhere.

Little Peach muttered to herself: Do you want to eat bamboo leaves?

Zhao Xibao happened to hear this sentence and knocked her on the head.

"Stupid, bamboo leaves are a peaceful natural substance, the biggest effect is not to clear heat and detoxify and diuresis and reduce swelling, it can be boiled and drunk after drinking, it can play a role in treating unfavorable urination and sore throat, bamboo leaves boiled water can also treat high fever."

Some people asked curiously, "How?" If it works, it can save a lot of money. ”

Zhao Xibao said: "Don't, you should go to see Langzhong, or you still have to go." This recipe can only be assisted. Add water to fry the bamboo leaves of Liuqian, add an appropriate amount of honey to adjust after decoction of the medicinal juice, eat twice a day, and the high fever can be gradually reduced after three days. ”

Zhao Xibao thought about it again, and then said: "You can also treat intestinal fever and diarrhea, you can use 50 grams of fresh bamboo leaves to decoction water and take it, clean the fresh bamboo leaves before frying the water, you can add black sugar after frying, and then eat it once a day, for seven days, the symptoms of intestinal fever and diarrhea will disappear." ”

After speaking, he was a little thirsty, and when he picked up the bamboo tube to drink water, he looked at his greasy hands and looked disgusted, "Little Peach, let's go, let's go to the lake to wash our faces." ”

After washing, she stretched her waist and rejuvenated her muscles and bones. When the interest came, he took a walk around the lake to digest his food. The spring on the lake is like a picture, and the chaotic peaks are spread horizontally. The pine row mountain is thousands of green, and the breeze blows the intoxicating waves.

When she turned to go back, she was startled to find movement in the grass. If you look closely, there is a handsome young man lying in the grass. It's just that the little boy seems to be seriously injured, and the wounds on his body look scary.