"Uncle Zhang, Aunt Wang, hello." Ai Li had met Zhang Xia's parents and shouted sweetly after entering.
"Ellie, hello...hahaha."
Ellie came over to break up the depression at home.
Mother Chen was about to make dinner. She searched in the refrigerator and found only beef: "Are there any vegetables grown in the vegetable fields over there at the racecourse?"
"Yes, there are all kinds of vegetables."
"I'm going to pick some vegetables and come back."
"Well... let's go." Chen Mo said, "By the way, call Chen Xiao to go out for a walk."
"Um."
Chen Mo went upstairs and knocked on Chen Xiao's door: "Open the door quickly, Ellie is here."
After a few seconds, Chen Xiao opened the door, looking listless and weak.
"Come on, come with us to pick vegetables."
"Um."
"Can't you live without Zhou Ziyu?"
"Life changes, divorce, I'm so miserable, and you still blame me."
Chen Mo gently tapped his sister's head: "Mama's baby boy can't be saved... Do you know that Zhou Ziyu and his family have returned to China?"
"Well... I just called Zhou Ziyu. Forget it, I don't want to spend the rest of my life with my mother's boy, it's too tiring." Chen Xiao took a long breath and scratched his messy hair: "Let's go out to pick vegetables.
"
Before Zhou Ziyu and the others boarded the plane, Chen Xiao called Zhou Ziyu and asked him to come back... Everyone sat together quietly and asked if they had any questions...
Zhou Ziyu said that his mother was going back to China...
Ward Fake?
Chen Xiao's heart felt so cold at that time.
"Xiao Xiao." Ellie shouted with a smile, suddenly ran out of the gate, went back to the car and took out a bag: "This is for you."
Chen Xiao put the Chanel bag away with a smile: "Thank you, sister-in-law."
"You're welcome, hehe..."
Ellie's silly laugh is so contagious.
Chen Xiao's chest was so congested that it felt like a big stone was pressing down on her. When Ellie smiled like this... tears burst out of Chen Xiao's eyes and she didn't know why.
"Uh...Xiaoxiao, what's wrong with you."
"No, it's nothing. I'm happy... Big brother, it's great that you love him."
Chen Chen looked on from the side: "Sister-in-law, do you have a gift from me?"
"Yes." Ai Li went back to the car and took a women's bag and a men's wallet: "I didn't see Zhang Xia. I want to give it to you when I see Zhang Xia later."
"Zhang Xia may be sleeping in the room, so I took care of it for her." Just as she was talking, Zhang Xia walked out with the child in her arms.
"Sister-in-law Aili." Zhang Xia said with a smile, "You bought me a gift."
"Well, a bag." Ai Li approached Zhang Xia and said, "What a cute baby, what's his name?"
"Chen Yuan."
"Haha, she is looking at me and laughing..."
"Let's go out to pick vegetables." Chen Mo went to the kitchen and brought out a bucket, preparing to go to the upper reaches of the creek valley to catch some green snails.
Ai Li was holding the child, very happy. When she heard that she was about to leave, she returned the child to Zhang Xia: "We went out to pick vegetables and will be back later."
"I am coming too."
The child is left to the four adults at home, and they all like to take care of the child...
Above the small valley, upstream of the reservoir, a farm planting area has been opened up. Some fruits and vegetables are grown, and they are all sold cheaply to the town of St. Beni...
"Would you like to eat screws?" Chen Mo asked when they arrived at the farm.
"Can it be eaten?"
"What's there to eat?" Chen Mo drove the car directly into the valley.
"What are screws?" Ai Li sat in the back, between Chen Xiao and Zhang Xia, and asked.
"Screws are snails and river snails," Chen Xiao said.
"River snail." Chen Mo said.
The stream snails in the upper reaches of the valley are overflowing, and you can pick up a lot of them by squatting by the stream.
Chen Mo took off his shoes and went to the middle of the stream to pick them up. He specifically selected the slightly larger stream snails lying on the cobblestones.
The larger ones of these stream snails are slightly larger than your thumb. The shape of the snail is a little longer...The shell is cyan, slightly white. It's a very nice color...
The water quality here is very good and has been tested a long time ago. The water here can be used as drinking water after simple filtration. The snails in the stream upstream are definitely edible.
Chen Xiao also took off his shoes and entered the water, choosing a medium-sized stream snail. He didn’t want the ones that were too big, and he didn’t want the ones that were too small...
Ai Li and Zhang Xia squatted by the stream...
"I know this kind of snail, called mountain snail. I have raised it before, in a fish tank. Mo, Xiaoxiao, what are you doing with these snails? Use them for fishing?" Ellie had a bad feeling.
"eat."
"Why should we eat them? Mountain stream snails are very rare now. They are so cute...can we put them back and raise them?" Ellie doesn't think they are so cute. But eating snails...how to eat them?
Chinese people are really scary, they eat everything.
Ellie, who can't even eat French snails, loses her appetite just by looking at the shape...
"Just because you don't eat it doesn't mean others won't eat it. It's very delicious..." Chen Mo said.
Ellie pouted and threw a handful of stream snails into the bucket.
"Sister-in-law Aili, Chen Mo is the best at making snails. In the summer when we were young, when we were still living in the countryside, Chen Mo would go to the fields to catch snails after school every day, and fry a big plate when he came back..." Chen Xiao said.
Ellie still couldn't imagine how to eat these snails.
After a while, I picked up a small half bucket. I picked up the bucket on the water cart and went to the farm to pick some vegetables, green peppers and red peppers with two thorns...
When I get home, my parents cook.
Chen Mo and his brother and sister were cleaning up stream snails in the backyard. They first used pliers to cut off the tail of the stream snails...
Ellie squatted nearby and watched, it was too troublesome.
Cut off the tip of the screw and wash it once with clean water.
Add salt again and continue cleaning.
If you add salt, if there are bugs in the snails in the stream, they will be too salty and they will not be able to withstand it. If you do not add salt to clean them, people will be unable to withstand the bugs in the snails...
Ellie said nothing, puffing her cheeks from time to time.
Chen Chen peeked at Ellie from time to time and laughed softly: "Brother, my sister-in-law looks so cute."
She has a loli face, a loli body, and a baby voice with a Bayan accent that I don’t know where she picked up...it’s really a headache.
Chen Xiao stuck out his tongue and thought that Ai Li was just a standard white girl, silly and sweet. Is she really the genius girl that my brother said?
"Be respectful to your sister-in-law." Chen Mo raised his hand and hit Chen Chen on the head.
Chen Chen suppressed a smile. He didn't expect that his eldest brother, a man who looked so upright and mature, would actually be a lolita... so evil.
After cleaning it six or seven times, I finally cleaned the snails, and then prepared the spicy ingredients.
Ginger, garlic, cinnamon, star anise, peppercorns, bay leaves, chili pepper...
I should have asked for some more perilla, but unfortunately I didn't have it, so I had to use coriander instead.
After cleaning, take the snails to the kitchen and boil water to remove the fishy smell.
The second step is to pour oil into the pot, add garlic, shredded ginger, dried chilies, peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, bay leaves, kaempferol... add bean paste, stir-fry the red oil, add stream snails...
Add salt, cooking wine, fry for two or three minutes, add water, a little sugar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oil... bring to a boil over high heat.
The pungent fragrance has already wafted out.
Crush two more kaempferols to make kaempferol powder, Sichuan peppercorns, stir in soybean flour... to collect the juice.
Add chives when it comes out of the pan, and some coriander after it comes out of the pan.
Spicy Xishui snails, Chen Mo made four large plates.
Fragrant, spicy and delicious...
Ai Li used a toothpick to pick out the snail meat, and she was even more skillful than Chen Mo.
"Sister-in-law Ellie, have another drink." Chen Xiao picked up the can of beer and clinked the drinks with Ellie.
"Well, well, eat, eat, eat...it tastes good." The spicy food made Ai Li sweat on the tip of her nose. She breathed in while eating, and clinked the beer with Chen Xiao.