Enjoy the world

Hua Zhen walked out of Old Yang's yard, looking a little haggard. Master Ke was standing at the door of his yard and asked with a smile: "Are you scolded again?"

Hua Zhenxing: "No, I just received Mr. Yang's education and am digesting it."

Ke Fuzi still smiled and said: "It's worth the scolding. If you haven't found the paper crane in two days, you probably deserve a beating. You really need to digest it well."

Hua Zhenxing: "Master, what are you doing? Are you waiting for me?"

Master Ke: "Yes, I want to ask you to help me pick some bamboo shoots."

Do you still need help from Huazhenxing for such a trivial matter as pulling spring bamboo shoots? But Hua Zhenxing didn't say anything, and replied happily: "How much do you want to pull out, and what do you want to use it for?"

Master Ke: "One plate is enough. You try to choose as good as you can."

Hua Zhenxing: "It rained a little yesterday, and there are new ones today. If you want to eat bamboo shoots, it's best to pull them out before the sun comes up."

Ke Fuzi: "It doesn't matter. You can pick the bamboo shoots at noon. Try to pick fresh and tender ones. When cooking, soak them in cold water for an hour."

Hua Zhenxing smiled: "I know all this. What do you always want to cook?"

Ke Fuzi: "I definitely need your help. There is a dish called 'Yuli Volley Festival' in Zhiwei Restaurant in Wucheng, Dongguo. Do you know how to cook it?"

This husband almost never goes to the kitchen himself. Today, if he suddenly wanted to eat a dish, he must have cooked it for him. He blinked: "I have read this recipe and I have an impression. I can try it. When do you want to eat it?"

Master Ke: "Just tonight."

Hua Zhenxing: "The time is a bit tight at that time, so I will make a simplified version."

Ke Mengchao: "Okay, I know your craftsmanship."

The climate in Yangyuan Valley actually means that there are bamboo shoots all year round, but the number varies depending on the species of bamboo. If we were in the south of the Eastern Kingdom, there would be the most bamboo shoots around the time of the Waking of Insects, and the time when the bamboo shoots are most abundant here happens to be at the beginning of the heavy rainy season, which is now in season.

Hua Zhenxing turned around and walked into Ke Fuzi's yard to pull bamboo shoots. The yard is an acre and a half, and the house is built in a bamboo forest. The bamboo in this area is about the thickness of a wine glass.

Different bamboo shoots have different requirements. For example, winter bamboo shoots are usually dug into the thickness of a teacup and pried with a hoe. For this kind of spring bamboo shoots, you need to hold the roots directly and pull them out with skill and strength. The bamboo shoots that are about elbow high are just right in terms of freshness and tenderness.

Not many bamboos are needed for a dish, but Hua Zhenxing is still very careful. He first scans the entire bamboo forest in the courtyard with his spiritual consciousness, distinguishes the physical properties, and selects the most suitable one. He did not focus on pulling out the bamboo shoots in one place, but tried to pull out some of the bamboo shoots that grew side by side in the densely packed bamboo forest. This would have the effect of thinning the forest and would not affect the growth of the bamboo forest.

Master Ke looked at it with his hands behind his back and nodded with satisfaction.

Hua Zhenxing pulled out a bunch of bamboo shoots and tied them with a thin bamboo silk. He also grabbed a pair of bamboo chickens and picked out a dozen bamboo eggs. He stuffed the bamboo picking site into his pocket and walked out of the bamboo forest carrying the things with both hands. .

Ke Mengchao: "You picked a lot of bamboo shoots, not enough for one dish."

Hua Zhenxing: "I plan to make three copies."

Ke Mengchao: "No wonder you want to catch a pair of bamboo chickens. These eggs can also be used for other dishes."

Hua Zhenxing: "Yes, frying tree buds...but where did the bamboo chicken come from here?"

There is no toon in Yangyuan Valley, but there are at least a dozen kinds of tree buds that can be eaten with scrambled eggs like toon, each with its own characteristics. There were no bamboo chickens in Yangyuan Valley before, but we caught two in the bamboo forest just now, and there are many more nearby.

Ke Mengchao asked with a smile: "You finally discovered it?"

Hua Zhenxing: "There are wild pheasants here, but there are no bamboo chickens. I was surprised just now."

Ke Mengchao: "How did you recognize him?"

Hua Zhenxing: "Although I have never seen a living creature, I have seen photos and videos. Lao Yang said that bamboo chicken tastes good, so I checked, but unfortunately there is not one in the Fesuo Port area. It is not a species from the Black Wilderness Continent. ."

Ke Mengchao: "It was really Lao Yang's idea. He and Lao Mo deduced that this place is suitable for wild bamboo pheasants and will not affect the ecology."

Hua Zhenxing: "When did it happen?"

Ke Mengchao: "Last time after you broke through the five realms and left, when Lao Mo and I built the research institute and the Ministry of Education, Lao Yang lured thousands of bamboo chickens here."

Hua Zhenxing: "That was before the first training class started!"

Ke Mengchao: "Yes, as the Lord of the Cave, you just discovered it! Did you only pay attention to Lao Yang's paper crane just now?"

Hua Zhenxing secretly felt ashamed, lowered his head and said, "I'll cook first."

Yuli Lingkong Festival is a very labor-intensive dish, even if it is a simplified version, you need to prepare it now if you want to eat it at night.

Peel the bamboo shoots and soak them in water for an hour while making chicken soup. Knead some chicken with a little fat and salt into mince, cut open one side of the soaked bamboo shoots, stuff the minced meat into the cavity in the bamboo shoot section and then close it. Hua Zhenxing originally wanted to use pork filling, but unfortunately they don't have it here. Instead, they use dough mixed with chestnut flour as minced meat.

Arrange the bamboo shoots on a plate, pour a layer of bamboo chicken soup on the plate to cover the bamboo shoots, and then steam them in a basket. The steaming time can be slightly longer.

Hua Zhenxing did not follow the original recipe and gave it some free rein, which saves time and trouble. If he followed the original recipe, he would have started cooking it last night, and there was still a shortage of many ingredients here, so he had to adapt to local conditions. (Note: The original recipe for the Yuli Volley Festival is in my other book "Shenyou", so the number of words will not be used here.)

You don’t have to watch all the time during the cooking process. The bamboo shoots are soaked in water, and the chicken soup still needs to be boiled. Hua Zhen walked out of the kitchen to rest for a while and chatted with Ke Fuzi.

Ke Mengchao asked casually: "Xiaohua, I suddenly want to eat this dish today. Do you think it takes too much effort?"

Hua Zhenxing: "I don't think so. It's just that the person who came up with this dish put a lot of effort into making it."

Ke Mengchao: "Is it worth it?"

Hua Zhenxing grinned: "Of course it's worth it. You told me when you were a child, what it means to never tire of food."

Ke Mengchao said angrily and amusedly: "There is something wrong with what I said, not when I was a child, but when you were a child!"

There is a saying in the Eastern Kingdom that "food is the most important thing for the people." This saying has many meanings. The so-called food does not simply refer to food, but also refers to what is needed to ensure survival and reproduction. Therefore, Huazhenxing's first step in transforming Fesoport was The first step must be to build agricultural reclamation areas.

But do people live in this world just for food and clothing? What's the difference between that and animals? After having enough food and clothing, do you have to eat cassava batter every day? Even if there is meat, is it just boiled in plain water and dipped in salt? So what’s the point of Locke opening so many Youpo noodle restaurants?

The so-called "cosmetic food" is not only a literal meaning, it refers to a kind of cultivation, not to indulge in lust and waste, and to pursue a higher spiritual realm and more achievements.

Neither Old Man Yang nor Master Ke are actually spendthrift people. They have both talked about "frugality" with Hua Zhenxing since they were young, although the angles are different, not to mention the diligent and thrifty people like Mo Shangtong.

Yang Tehong has always advocated thrift and kindness, but when he was young, he asked Hua Zhenxing to read recipes as comic books and let Xiaohua learn to cook all kinds of delicious food. How to explain this? One time, Master Ke saw Xiaohua flipping through the recipes and asked him this question.

Hua Zhenxing was only five or six years old at that time. He could only repeat what Old Man Yang told him. This is called respecting heaven and cherishing things.

Food is the most important thing for the people. It can be seen that food is hard to come by. Shouldn’t we make it more delicious? We need to treat these foods with more respect, otherwise we are going against God!

He made Master Ke amused, and Master Ke asked him again, do you know that the so-called civilization not only has height, but also thickness? This is completely a modern discourse system, and the old man does not always speak ancient prose.

The so-called height of civilization is easy to understand, but the thickness is difficult to explain to such a young child. Ke Fuzi came here to chat and told Hua Zhenxing that one of the important frames of reference was the recipe he was reading at the time.

How to look at the accumulation of a civilization? A lot of it is hidden in secular life. At a given height of civilization, the thickness of its accumulation, such as the degree of prosperity, is also different, and many aspects are reflected in how people live.

In the period of civilization and ignorance, what can be eaten and how to eat it is even the secret of a tribe's survival and development, which is equivalent to the advanced core technology of modern society.

How many materials can be found or cultivated in nature and what kind of food can be made is one of the very important factors. This problem is not necessarily related to the superficial wealth and poverty. For example, pickled cabbage is only a food for common people. It is funny that a country with weak morals has learned it and regarded it as a tradition, and regarded it as a national treasure. But it also reflects this truth.

A piece of radish, a piece of cabbage, and a few cucumbers can be made in various ways. This is not only a taste of food, but also represents the aspirations and spirit in life. It does not belong to one person, but is reflected in the inheritance of civilization. .

Besides, the dish I made today is very characteristic of Huazhenxing. It is not expensive. The bamboo shoots and bamboo chicken are all used to their best advantage. I try to respect them more and enjoy them more.

If it is just a casual fooling around, it is unpalatable, wasteful, wasteful, and vulgar, then it is definitely not the frugality of Yang Tehong, let alone the frugality of Ke Mengchao.

There is a difference between this and extravagance. The difference is that one does not indulge in material desires and forget the spirit. Jokes like "Why not eat minced meat" do not understand people's livelihood, and this spirit lies precisely in the happiness of people's livelihood.

This spirit can also be reflected in the processing and selection of ingredients, such as the internal organs of various animals and various leftovers, commonly known as sewage in Dongguo. In many parts of the world, they are not processed well, and many of them are wasted and it is useless not to eat them. Know how to eat.

In Dongguo, you can make all kinds of delicious food, as well as the characteristics of different cuisines. For example, there is Shancheng hotpot, which was originally a snack for dock and river workers and laborers to keep out the cold, remove dampness, and appetizer. Now it has become a popular style and is shared by hundreds of millions of people.

Does this really take a lot of effort? That's not necessarily true. In fact, it takes the efforts of predecessors, which requires observation and practice of everything. Are these just for food and clothing? Do they just reflect material desires? Of course not!

The so-called "eating never tires of essence" basically means this. If you say more, Xiaohua at that time will not be able to understand it.

Sitting in the room chatting today, Ke Mengchao actually brought up this topic again. Hua Zhenxing has grown up a lot and understands more principles. He sighed like an adult: "You can never tire of food, but you also need to improve your skills! In this regard, you and Mr. Yang have the same views."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Hua Zhenxing felt a little regretful, because he also knew Master Ke very well. As long as the views of Old Man Yang and Uncle Mo were discussed, Master Ke could not help but quarrel with each other. As expected, the old man shook his head and said : "It's specious, but you still haven't gotten the essence. The difference between me and Lao Yang is actually huge!"