Chapter 84 The Egret and Pheasant of the Summer Solstice
Chapter 84 Egrets and Pheasants at Summer Solstice [Please collect and recommend]
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In the early morning, the rooster crows, and a few magpies on the tree chirp to announce that happy events are coming. Li Feng, who got up early, throws rice to feed the chickens, causing a group of hens to coo. Today is the summer solstice, and from now on, summer really begins.
There is an old saying, "But the summer solstice is not hot." In fact, it has been very hot these days. The summer solstice was considered a relatively important festival in the past. Nowadays, the custom of "winter solstice dumplings and summer solstice noodles" in Lijiagang, the day to eat cold noodles here during the summer solstice, and the weather after the summer solstice
It will get hotter and hotter. In addition to cold noodles, the custom in Lijiagang is "when the summer solstice comes, kill the chicken with a knife". Every summer solstice, every family will kill a big rooster, eat a meal, and make up for it. Li Feng is here
His mission is to catch a rooster.
Li Feng's family raises more than 20 chickens, and there are only three roosters. All of them have long tails, brightly colored fur, and are plump. Li Feng holds a fishing net in his hand, and while throwing rice, he is thinking about which one to get.
A rooster is almost the same. As for which one Li Feng chooses, it mainly depends on the chicken legs. This person likes to eat chicken thighs the most. I like chicken wings in the song "Xingye" the most, but he changed it to chicken thighs the most.
"Okay, it's you." Li Feng's net bag flew over quickly, and a rooster with strong legs was caught in the solid net bag. "Hey, be good, little chicken, I will be quick, it won't hurt." Li Feng said
He held a kitchen knife in one hand and a rooster in the other. He plucked the hair from the rooster's neck. Li Feng felt that he was a little cruel. Such a beautiful chicken was going to die under his knife. How could Brother Chicken give birth to a good child in his next life?
Li Feng is not a fool to kill chickens. He is a first-class expert in killing chickens and bleeding them. Of course, this is the experience accumulated after many failures. I remember the first time I killed a chicken, my little hands were shaking so much. With one cut, the chicken seemed fine.
, spread his wings and flew across the yard, making the whole yard covered in blood, which was even more horrifying than that murder scene. Now, Li Feng is very clever, looking at the half bowl of bright red chicken blood at his feet. Li Feng is quite proud, as for Mengmeng
Li Feng had already plucked out the chicken feathers he wanted from Ling Dang. The few feathers were really beautiful and were really good materials for making shuttlecocks.
Red and yellow chicken feathers with a little gold edge, each one is more than ten centimeters long, shorter on the neck. When used together, the shuttlecock made is not only beautiful, but also good for kicking.
s material.
Boil hot water in a small pot to make it easier to pluck the chicken feathers. Li Feng is no stranger to handling roosters. After a while, the big hairless rooster was white, tender and tender in the basin. This local rooster weighed four to five pounds and was considered a fighting chicken among roosters.
, especially looking at the scars on the red rooster's comb, which shows that this chicken once dominated this glorious era.
Breakfast is quite light, one boiled egg per person, half a boiled duck egg per person, and a piece of steamed bun for each person. No oil, only water. This is a custom in the summer solstice and is very difficult to make. Boil the water and make peace.
Noodles, steamed buns are spread out on boiling water. At least Li Feng can't make such meaty steamed buns. Mung bean porridge to clear away heat, cold toon leaves, cucumber strips, preserved egg tofu, stuffed beans, all are cold dishes. Summer solstice is not served.
Hot, most of the food eaten in the morning were cold dishes, and everyone felt very comfortable eating them.
The weather is hot and stuffy, and everything that is light is the most delicious. After breakfast, her mother took Mengmeng and Lingdang to the river to collect medicinal materials and make sachets. The baby under ten years old wears sachets. Zhang Lan has not done this for several years.
He looked very excited. They all looked at the girl curiously, and followed closely one by one, looking curious. As for what was in the sachet, Li Feng knew a little bit about it, but it was just a few medicinal materials that could be seen everywhere.
The sachets were made by Zhang Lan some time ago, and she made a few more by the way as a few girls liked them. The sachets are made of green, red, yellow, white, and black silk threads. The colors are gorgeous and they look quite beautiful.
It's just that now that there are no matching clothes, it doesn't look very good. As long as the little baby hangs around the neck, it's quite good.
Sachets are hung for children to prevent poisonous insects from invading. They have the function of warding off poisons and evil spirits, and have become a symbol of life-saving and auspiciousness. In the past, there were no fans or air conditioners, and the heat in summer made people prone to heat stroke, especially small children with weak body resistance.
, are most likely to suffer from heatstroke, so this sachet represents good luck and avoids all evil.
At noon, Li Feng looked at Mengmeng and Lingdang showing off the sachets on their chests in front of him, and shook his head, especially Mengmeng who seemed to be holding the sachets to show others. She was so proud that her little tail was raised to the sky.
For lunch, the staple food is cold noodles. This time the cold noodles are different from the past. They are made by Zhang Lan himself. The noodles are large and wide. Li Feng has prepared the ingredients early. The cold vermicelli he bought is accompanied by shredded cucumber, shredded potatoes, shredded kelp, shredded radish, five
Planting silk represents non-toxicity. If you eat five silks, you will be immune to the five poisons in summer.
Of course, the most important thing is the braised local chicken. It is a big plate with purple sauce. It makes me drool when I look at it, especially the two chicken legs, which expose a chicken bone. The muscles burst the chicken skin, revealing the fresh and tender chicken. Li Feng drools when I look at it. It’s a pity.
, in the blink of an eye, a chicken drumstick went into someone else's bowl.
Watching Zhang Lan pick one up for Bell, Xiao Qing picked one up for Mengmeng, and the two little kids grabbed big mouthfuls with their little hands and gnawed. "It's really delicious, better than KFC." Mengmeng's mouth was filled with oil.
, which made Li Feng next to him envious. He could only pick up a chicken wing and scream in his heart, I love wings the most.
The cold noodles are good, wider and more chewy. With five shredded noodles, bitter vegetables, seasonings, and most importantly, aged vinegar, it is really delicious. Li Feng ate two large bowls in a row, then he put down his hands and drank with Mengmeng and
Everyone at Lingdang ate a big bowl. After lunch, Li Feng thought about taking a break. Over the past few days, he gradually got used to it. After eating, Li Feng took a break.
Who knows, after a while, there was a cute surprise outside. When Li Feng went out, he saw an old hen in the yard jumping out of the chicken coop with more than a dozen chicks that had just hatched. The fluffy chicken
The baby was so cute. Li Feng just now remembered that the egret eggs he had put in some time ago. The egrets hatched in about the same time as the chicks, and they must have broken out of their shells.
Li Feng looked behind the hen and saw no egret. This thing was different from the chicken. Li Feng was a little depressed. Could it be that he was a bad guy? It was impossible.
With such bad luck, Li Feng was stunned. He walked a few steps quickly and came to the chicken coop. He took a look and saw that there were not only light blue egret eggs but also several wild eggs in the chicken coop. What was going on?
?Li Feng picked it up and looked at it. There were already cracks in the wild egg, and it seemed that it would come out soon.
As for the egret eggs, Li Feng couldn't figure it out, so he brought a basin, filled it with some warm water, and put two egret eggs in it.
"Hey, uncle, what is this? Why is it moving?" Li Feng's strange movements could not escape the cuteness of Mengmeng who was teasing the chickens next to him. As for the old hens who were eyeing him covetously, Mengmeng didn't want to take pictures, but in the little guy's hands
Holding a big cattail leaf fan.
Li Feng looked at the egret eggs spinning in circles in the water and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the little egret inside had taken shape, but it just hadn't come out yet. He had no choice but to move it to another hen's nest. This time
The egret eggs were put in quite smoothly. As for the few little pheasants, they all came out in less than two hours. The pheasants were smaller than the domestic chickens, but the old hen didn't notice anything. Li Feng put the little pheasants next to the hens.
Above, some little guys look a little weak, but they are not slow in running.
When eating chicken at noon, Li Feng was still thinking about raising more roosters. Next time, he would kill two and four big chicken legs, so he would have his share. In the afternoon, this man looked at the chickens running all over the yard, grinning happily, especially
A few small pheasants are really cute the more they look at them, and they will be a bowl of delicious food in a few months.
As for Mengmeng and Lingdang, who originally clamored to break the cicada shells, they were very obedient to catch bugs and feed the chickens. Li Feng finally had a peaceful afternoon. It seemed that these chickens came out at the right time. As for the egret, he could only
Let nature take its course, but it looks like it won't be for a few days.
Unexpectedly, in the evening, when Li Feng was feeding the hens, he heard a few cries in the chicken coop. When he opened the hen, he saw two little egrets with a few scattered feathers and long beaks. What do you think?
There is no graceful posture like flying in the sky. Li Feng took out the two little ones and looked them up and down. He felt that there was only one word: ugly.
The egret has hatched, so you can't put it in the hen's nest. You can only check to see if the hen recognizes the hen that came out of the nest. Who knows, the hen pecked to death, but Li Feng's quick reaction, these two
Silly birds, maybe they are dead. I cleaned up the bamboo cage, put the two silly birds in, and waited for the bell to come. I thought of giving them to the little girl. I didn’t say that I liked the cattle egret that time. This egret is also considered a heron.
.Who knows, it almost scared the little girl to tears, and even Mengmeng looked at Li Feng and glared fiercely. This thing is really ugly, Li Feng thought it was better to forget it, otherwise it might hurt the two girls Lingdang.
Scared for good or bad.
In the evening, a few girls heard about the chicks hatching. They looked at the two egrets in the bamboo cage and said it was impossible. They were too ugly. Li Feng repeatedly assured that these were egrets, but Lin Ying didn't seem to believe it.
He shook his head and said that their bird watching station is not responsible for adopting domestic birds and animals.
Li Feng really didn't understand. How could these two stupid birds become domesticated without raising them for a day? He had no choice but to raise them. He got some small fish and shrimps to see. The two birds were not stupid enough to go hungry. They looked like they could eat.
.Li Feng was relieved, it would be fine if he could not die, but it was too ugly, and looked more depressing than a vulture.
In the evening, Li Feng made several sales promotions in Taolin, but several old people shook their heads when they saw the ugly appearance of the egrets, as if they were featherless chickens. Some old people even suspected that Li Feng had made a mistake. Here and there were egrets, maybe vultures or something.
, or a crow, I have never seen such an ugly bird.
In desperation, Li Feng could only raise these two things by himself. Fortunately, he was not picky about eating these two things, and they were full of small fish and shrimps. Mengmeng and Lingdang looked interesting, and they stuffed some fish and shrimps from time to time, at least they would not starve to death, and Li Feng was not too
To cope with this, get some small fish and shrimps every day. The two little birds have good vitality.
