Yao Xiaoqing and Hua walked towards the vegetable field. They entered the vegetable field and Hua pulled out a handful of wild garlic. Yao Xiaoqing picked a few red peppers.
The two of them left the vegetable field and returned to the mountain. As soon as they washed the taro, Ah Shui returned to the mountain carrying several big fish.
"Uncle Shui, when you kill the fish, remember to scrape off the black membrane inside the fish's belly."
Ah Shui nodded and said: "Xiao Qing, there are still a lot of river shrimps in the fish cage. I will get them back later."
"Get it back and add another dish at night." Yao Xiaoqing turned to Hua and said, "Hua, boil two cans of taro and I'll fillet it."
Hua smiled and nodded, picked up some taro, rinsed it, put it in a jar, added water and salt, and put it on the stove to boil.
Yao Xiaoqing began to think about it, there was no cooking wine, no coriander, no..., there were too many things that were not available, but fortunately there were pickled cabbage and chili, so it should be considered pickled fish.
My father and the others are back, and the tribe has dozens more people. Now I have time to go to the woods to look for ginger, pepper, cinnamon...
Yao Xiaoqing killed the two fishes that Ah Shui had killed, sliced off the flesh with a dagger, cut them diagonally into fillets, broke the fish bones and chopped the fish heads into short sections, put them in a soup basin and marinated them with salt.
Add salt to the fish fillet, rub it twice and wash it, then wash it with salt again, add egg white and kudzu root powder, mix well and set it aside.
Crack the peppers, dig out the pepper seeds and dry them in the dustpan. Wash your hands, take out the pickled cabbage from the jar, squeeze out the water and cut into short sections, add garlic slices and peppers, stir-fry with lard, and pour into an earthenware basin.
Add water, boil and add fish heads and bones.
After boiling, the fish fillets were put into the large pottery one by one. After a while, I could smell the fresh aroma of fish and the aroma of pickled cabbage. Looking at the white and tender fish fillets and golden pickled cabbage in the pot, I felt like
Mouthwatering.
Yao Xiaoqing took down the earthenware basin and set it aside, and sprinkled finely chopped garlic leaves into the earthenware basin. He shoveled some lard into the pot, stir-fried the remaining minced chili pepper and wild garlic for a few times, and poured it over the pickled cabbage.
On top of the fish.
Hua brought the pottery pot to the table, looked at the bright red peppers, green garlic leaves, golden pickled cabbage, and white tender fish, and said with a smile: "Xiao Qing, my mouth is watering just looking at it."
Yao Xiaoqing laughed, "This will make your mouth water. When I get all the ingredients, you may even have to swallow your tongue."
"When I smell the fragrance at the foot of the mountain, I can swallow it with my tongue." Mu Feng said at the gate of the courtyard.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at Mu Feng's wet look and knew that he had washed himself in the new house before coming up the mountain. She looked at him with a smile and said, "It's comfortable to take a bath in the new house! Where are my father and the others?"
Mu Feng nodded, "I originally wanted to take a bath by the river, but Uncle Dashi said that there is a bathroom built in the new house, and my father and the others are behind." Mu Feng paused, "They all disliked the fact that the woman who came home was too thin."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "I didn't pay attention. I'm not afraid of being thin. As long as I'm not sick, I'll put on weight."
After hearing this, Mu Feng laughed and said, "My father is just like what you said."
Hua asked from the side, "Mufeng, Muya and her mother-in-law stayed in the Great Witch Tribe?"
"Mu Ya, that woman is a poisonous snake, you don't know her..." Mu Feng couldn't hide his anger and recounted what happened in the forest.
Hua shouted in surprise: "It's terrible. Her mother-in-law is very kind to her! How could she do such a vicious thing? Then where is she now?"
Mufeng thought for a moment, "Muba asked, and she went to the Dawu Tribe with Chong, the son of the leader of the Dawu Tribe."
Yao Xiaoqing originally thought that Muya was a lazy and stupid girl, but she didn't expect that she was actually a piranha who was able to kill even her own mother. The great witch tribe that took her in had been unlucky for eight lifetimes.
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Hua brought the kudzu powder paste and taro to the table, and Yaohu and Muba took the dozen or so women to the mountain.
Seeing their restrained expressions, Hua took them to another stone table and sat down. He smiled and said to them, "You sit here and eat. You can scoop out the paste, taro and fish on the table and eat them yourself."
A bolder woman stood up and said, "Yes."
Yao Hu and the others were immediately attracted by the delicious, sour and spicy pickled fish, "Xiao Qing, the fish cooked like this is delicious. The spicy food inside was something I ate at the last barbecue."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "It smells like chili peppers. We have planted about ten of them in the vegetable field. There will be plenty of seeds next spring."
After Yaohu had eaten enough, Yao Xiaoqing followed him to his new house at the foot of the mountain. Yaohu pointed to the exchanged food in his basket, took out the knot, looked at it, and told her the amount of the exchange.
"There are millet, beans, and pinto beans in it. The millet that is exchanged for it has the most beans and the least pinto beans."
"Peanut beans," Yao Xiaoqing looked at the basket curiously, grabbed a handful and looked at it, and found that they were flower beans, "Father, it seems that the Dawu tribe has stored a lot of food. The millet and beans we planted are not yet ripe.
Well, they switched with us. When the sun is strong, dry them well and select the plump seeds to plant next year."
"The Dawu tribe must have stored a lot of food." Yao Hu was still a little angry when he thought about it. "Think about it, this time we used one wolf to exchange for one basket of food. In the past, one wolf could be exchanged for twenty tubes of beans.
! Next time the collection is exchanged, we will also receive a sheepskin from us."
Yao Xiaoqing felt that the managers of the Dawu tribe were quite economically minded and knew how to collect land fees.
Seeing Yaohu's angry look, she smiled and persuaded: "Our backpacks and straw sandals are so simple! Take one apart and see, and you can make it after a few tries. He is so good at calculations, and he has to change so many things.
Give us food, if you think so, it will make you feel more comfortable!"
"I was just thinking about what you said and learned how to dismantle it, so I gave it to them. You didn't see that the old man's face changed when he saw that I had put on a pair of straw sandals in a few seconds. Haha!" Yao!
Thinking of Uncle Huai's face, Hu laughed happily.
"Father, you see we have made a profit! When he realizes it, his intestines will be filled with regret."
Yao Xiaoqing found that after he came back from Qiushan, his frown relaxed a little. It seemed that the arrival of those tribesmen made him feel relieved.
Yao Hu looked at her gratefully and said solemnly: "Xiao Qing, I want to thank you. You don't know that the salt in the Wuxian tribe has increased again. If you didn't find the salt and kudzu powder, how could we afford to raise it?"
People of many ethnic groups.”
Yao Xiaoqing said angrily: "Father, I am your daughter. If you say that again, I will get angry."
Yao Hu nodded repeatedly, "Okay, father, I won't say anything anymore. Xiao Qing, there are more and more people in the tribe, how should we arrange them?"
Yao Xiaoqing calculated in his mind that after several expansions, in addition to two children, the Yaoshan tribe already had eighty-seven tribesmen.
Among them were twenty-two young women, five old ladies, twenty-two old uncles, except for the lame Ada, and thirty-seven warriors.