With the experience of noon, Li Xiaohan played very steadily at dinner.

Cook the rice over low heat, and steam the meat on the rice.

The fried pork belly is cut into thin slices, not much, one piece per person, mixed with sauce, and then steamed on the rice until the skin of the meat is soft and rotten, and the layer of fat meat is rotten as soon as you sip it, and the lean meat is chewed more and more fragrant, not firewood at all.

This pure meat, needless to say, conquered everyone with its fat and tenderness alone.

As for the rice that is steamed together, the aroma of steamed pork emitted by the high temperature is tightly locked in the rice by the lid.

Xiaohan's sister/Xiaohan's niece/owner's daughter...... The cooking was still quite delicious.

This was the consensus of everyone that night.

If Li Xiaohan knew what everyone thought, he would probably wave his hand: It's not my credit, it's all the flesh's credit.

After a busy day, Li Xiaohan almost felt that he had finished a big exam. It was getting dark, and the people who came to help dispersed, leaving only the three members of the Li family to pack up their things.

But, "Dad, what do you do?" ”

Li Xiaohan's voice was full of fluctuation, disbelief, and uncertainty......

Li Xiandong was startled by his daughter's sudden voice, and the wood-splitting knife was crooked and fell straight to the ground.

"Scared me." Li Xiandong picked up the woodcutter and said, "I see that your firewood is almost burned out in the afternoon, so I will chop a little for you to use tomorrow while it is not dark." What's wrong? ”

Li Xiaohan felt his heart beating like a drum, his hands trembled slightly, he squatted down calmly, picked up the branch that was split by Li Xiandong, grabbed the bark and pulled it hard.

Sure enough, the broken bark was connected with a layer of fine and soft filaments like a net, like the silk spit out by a spring silkworm.

Li Xiaohan swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and tried to say in a normal voice, "Dad, why haven't I seen this kind of firewood burned in our family before." ”

"Oh, it's called a fake silkworm tree, and you see that the silk pulled from the bark of this tree doesn't look like silk. However, this silk cannot be woven into cloth, so it is called a false silkworm. This tree is useless, but it is easy to burn. ”

Li Xiandong kept chopping firewood and explained to Li Xiaohan, "If you smell it carefully, this tree still has a special aroma." Some families like to smoke bacon with this wood in winter. ”

"Daddy, why has our family never smoked bacon with this kind of tree." Smoking bacon every year is a big deal, Li Xiaohan searched the depths of his memory and found that there was never an impression of such a tree.

"Oh, your step-grandmother didn't like the scent, so we smoked bacon with pine trees, and we didn't have any of them in our woodlands."

Li Xiaohan was anxious, "Dad, how did you get the firewood this time?" ”

How can you not plant it in your own home, you must have it!

"I have to ask your mother about this, this is the firewood that your mother dragged back in the afternoon."

Wang skewered the fresh mushrooms she picked up today, although she didn't find Sanqi today, but she touched a few bushes of fresh mushrooms, which was good as a dish.

Hearing the conversation between the two fathers and daughters, Wang turned around and said, "Next to the commons in the clan, I went to a new place today, and there is quite a lot of wood in that woodland. ”

When Li Xiandong heard this, he frowned and thought for a while, "Think about it, that piece of land seems to have belonged to Landlord Zhang's family before." It is said that when she fled, Mrs. Zhang climbed this fake silkworm tree to avoid the bandits. Later, when we settled down, Mrs. Zhang planted this kind of tree with us. The custom of smoking bacon with fake silkworm trees was also brought up by Mrs. Zhang. It's a pity that the son of the landlord Zhang was not angry and sold a large number of family properties. The last time the family was separated, I heard the patriarch mention that there were more and more people in the clan, and more forest land should be added. ”

Li Xiaohan was overjoyed, and took a deep breath at the bark, this is really a good smell, "Dad, where is this kind of tree?" Let's move a little bit to our woodland and plant it, I like this aroma, and we also use this smoked bacon in winter. ”

Li Xiandong suddenly fell silent, his stepmother Chen didn't like this aroma, but he remembered in a trance that his mother liked this kind of tree to smoke bacon.

His father's woodland used to be planted with some trees, but then there were no more.

Not even the woodland of the three brothers.

Out of a psychology of not knowing what, maybe it was belated rebellion and rebellion, Li Xiandong clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's transplant a little, and use this smoked bacon when the time comes." However, when our family finishes building the house, we don't have time now. ”

Yes, my house is not available right now.

Li Xiaohan was stunned, his brows furrowed.

The population of his own family is too small, and he still has to build a house, and he can't do anything to rob others.

Li Xiaohan paused, took another miscellaneous tree and chopped it for her father, "Dad, you chop this." ”

Which firewood is not chopping, Li Xiandong has no opinion.

"Mother, I like this...... This fake silkworm tree, the next time you see it, pay attention, and when Dad is free, let's cut it again. ”

"Okay." Wang is dedicated to her husband and daughter, and when she sees that her daughter likes it, her husband agrees, but it is just a different kind of tree-smoked bacon, and the opinions of her husband and daughter are his opinions.

As the night deepened, the Li family of three cleaned up, and Li Xiaohan followed the Wang family back to the old house.

"Mother, isn't that new woodland far away?"

"It's not far, and if it's far, I won't go there to collect firewood."

"That mother, I'll go with you tomorrow morning to have a look."

"What are you going to see? Can't there be no one at home to cook? ”

Li Xiaohan paused and said, "I think your fresh mushrooms today are very good, so let's just pick a little together, it's also a meal." ”

"Okay, then you can go out with me early in the morning, but you have to come back to cook."

"Hey."

Early the next morning, after eating simple multigrain cakes in the morning, Li Xiaohan's mother and daughter went out. Not to mention ordinary multigrain cakes, but with enough oil and fresh mushrooms brought back by the Wang family yesterday, they are three points better than ordinary multigrain cakes.

Walking all the way up the mountain, sure enough, I soon arrived at the woodland that Wang said yesterday.

Landlord Zhang's son really does not run a family, in the woodland of ordinary people's families, neatly planted pine trees, camphor trees, persimmon trees that can hit fruits, pear trees, etc., only this piece of landlord Zhang's house, weeds and trees are overgrown, vigorous growth and entanglement, the road is difficult to walk.

But there are also benefits, Landlord Zhang's son does not run a family, and there are many wild things in this woodland, after a while, Li Xiaohan picked up a few bushes of fresh mushrooms, picked wild fungus, and even touched a nest of wild eggs, although there are only 3, but it can also be used as a meal.

The two went up the mountain together, but in some places where wild grasses were abundant, the Wang family did not let Li Xiaohan in, so as not to hurt his face with branches and grass leaves.

"Mother, I saw a bush of fresh mushrooms over there, I went over to pick them."

"Hey, be careful, don't go far." Wang said.

After a while, Wang saw Li Xiaohan come back, and saw a piece of fake silkworm bark in Li Xiaohan's back basket, which was square and neat, thinking that Li Xiaohan was just curious, and just asked casually: "Why did you only cut a piece of bark, it's not good to burn." It is necessary to burn the kind of withered branches, and the bacon needs branches and leaves. ”

"Hey, mother, I know, I'm just curious."

The two mothers and daughters said casually, and the matter was over.

On the same day, everyone who built a house in Li Xiandong's house ate fresh mushroom oil residue stewed rice at noon, fresh mushrooms mixed with oil residue and stir-fried, and then added rice and water, and the stewed rice was fresh, fragrant and full.

The wild eggs and fresh mushroom soup eaten at night, the tender yellow eggs, the green shepherd's cabbage, and the floating fresh mushroom slices are different from the thick fragrance of the meal at noon, and the soup at night is fragrant and refreshing, and everyone is full of praise.

"Xiaohan's niece's stove work is really good, like a younger brother and sister." Li Guiqian praised while eating.

In fact, Li Xiaohan's cooking skills are more prosperous than Wang's, because Li Xiaohan is more willing to put oil and sugar, and Wang's is not as open as Li Xiaohan's after all.

Li Xiandong's tanned face showed a mouthful of white teeth with a smile, "Brother Guiqian, don't talk about her like that." She's too small to deserve. ”

"If there is anything you can't deserve, you can do it with good craftsmanship."

The central figure of the topic, Li Xiaohan didn't care about Li Xiandong's topic, she looked at the house that their family had just built, looked at her father who couldn't hold back anything when she was praised by others, and then looked at the fake silkworm bark placed in the corner.

Forget it, let's wait until the house is built.