Culinary Specialization through Farming

Can cook, come to the kitchen and teach me. "

19. Chapter 19

"I can't cook, I'm just a little better than you. You are just a waste of food."

Hearing what he said, Ye Weiping couldn't laugh or cry and was dragged to the kitchen by him.

Maybe some people are not good at a certain thing by nature, so they can't learn it no matter what.

It's not the first time for Li Maoshan to cook. They have been victims, and they have tasted strange food that can be called poison-drug many times.Although it is not as unpalatable as the first time, it is definitely not something that people can eat with peace of mind.

Not to mention the strange taste, the appearance of the food alone makes people wonder what kind of extermination he has done with these foods.

"You need to learn if you can't do it. I'm not here to ask you for advice."

Li Maoshan was not discouraged after repeated battles and defeats, but he was banned from the kitchen by his family, and he has not been able to cook a dish that can be eaten until today.

"Ask me, don't you want to make dinner for your husband?" Seeing him asking him seriously, Ye Weiping still shed tears of sympathy for Chen Yan, "You are not afraid that the food you cook will ruin his stomach .”

Li Maoshan paused, and looked at Ye Weiping with a slightly tangled look, "Then I won't let him starve..."

There is a jargon in the culinary world called three-point spoon work and seven-point knife work.

Chen Yan once followed behind Li Maoshan and heard many chefs utter this sentence. He also saw Li Maoshan practicing knife skills day and night, and only then did he develop his superb cooking skills.

One of the culinary knife techniques is called coir raincoat knife technique, the most common of which is cutting cucumbers.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the bamboo hut, looking at the bamboo table in front of him with dozens of cucumbers of similar size and shape, he could only feel the anger surging upwards in his heart.

"Cut what kind of cucumber, I really want to cut you."

When he was still very troubled by his abnormal body, this impersonal person even pulled him into the space, under the pretense of learning how to cook and practice knife skills.

[You can't cut it. 】

The sound of the system is still as cold as before.

"You are so annoying." Chen Yan was full of anger, but he couldn't vent it on the system. Angrily, he picked up the kitchen knife on the table, picked a cucumber, and cut it into three pieces.

[The knife technique is unqualified, try again. 】

Chen Yan's right hand holding the kitchen knife tightened, holding his breath to calm himself down.

"Tell me first why the body you gave me won't be hard." Because he couldn't see the system, he picked a whole cucumber and asked it as if it were a system.

The system looked at the cucumber held in Chen Yan's hand, and was about to answer, when he saw him cut the cucumber in half with a kitchen knife.

【…】

Although it has no body, it still feels the strong emotion in Chen Yan's heart that wants to cut himself in half.This feeling is not good, and the system rarely and willfully refuses to answer this question.

But Chen Yan didn't get a reply, so he picked another cucumber, "If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, I'll cut all the cucumbers in half for you today."

What kind of coir raincoat and cucumber is he practicing? He doesn't know how demanding this difficulty is for a handicapped person.Chen Yan felt aggrieved in his heart, and he raised the knife to cut cucumbers more smoothly, but they were all cut in half.

【If you don't practice well, stay here and practice for a while before going out. 】

Seeing his look of bitterness and hatred, the system left a sentence with a little helplessness, and did not respond again.

The kitchen knife that Chen Yan raised high stopped in mid-air because of its words, and there was a sudden silence in the air, which made him anxiously asked anxiously: "Hey, what do you mean? What do you mean before you go out after practice? You let me out, I'm going out now! Hey, come out for me..."

"Dashan, you said this lump of pitch-black thing is called scrambled eggs?"

Jiang Hongxing watched in disbelief that the pheasant eggs he brought had turned into a lump of inexplicable food, while Ye Weiping also couldn't believe that they were scrambled eggs made under his guidance.

Jiang Bing poked the dark scrambled eggs with his fingers. His fingers were stained with a little bit of crumbs, and he wanted to put them in his mouth, but Li Maoshan grabbed him and stopped his impulsive behavior of wanting to taste them.

"You shouldn't be able to eat it." Li Maoshan looked at his result with a little embarrassment. If he didn't say anything about this dish, no one would know what it was.

Jiang Hongxing hugged his son very shamelessly, and moved away from this strangely shaped thing, "If this can be eaten, Weiping will have to rescue us."

"You should fall." Ye Weiping couldn't bear to hurt Li Maoshan's self-confidence again, "As far as your skills are concerned, I'd better advise you to let Brother Shui do it and send it to you. Don't say brother, I don't like you. It’s really for the sake of your body.”

After eating this, I reckoned that I would have to go to the doctor for a while, not to mention the trouble, but it was enough to make them worry for a while.

Although Li Maoshan was a little disappointed, he poured the scrambled eggs as he said, washed the dishes and returned to the table, and said to the two of them: "Since we want to live separately, we have to do it ourselves. Let Ah Shui Come to deliver food, not to mention the trouble, I'm afraid E-Mu will have another reason to make trouble."

"That's true." Ye Weiping agreed after thinking about it, "But you are not good at cooking, and Brother Yan doesn't seem to be able to cook. If you are asked to do it in the future, I'm afraid it will be really easy to cause accidents."

"Then let brother Yan learn how to cook." Jiang Hongxing didn't think too much about it, as soon as he heard that Chen Yan couldn't cook, he said bluntly.

"Look at Dashan's heartache, he is willing to let brother Yan learn how to cook."

When Jiang Hongxing heard this, he glared at Li Maoshan in dissatisfaction, "Dashan, I didn't say you, this husband should learn to cook. Not only can he cook, he must also be able to sew clothes and take care of housework. If you feel sorry for him, From now on, you will have to take care of yourself.”

"He once said that he can cook, but I don't want him to be contaminated with oily smoke." Li Maoshan said this, and Ye Weiping and Jiang Hongxing gave two big eyes.

"Isn't it a good thing that he can cook? You don't want to part with this or that. Then he is afraid of the pain and doesn't want to have a baby. Maybe you gave birth to him too." Ye Weiping said angrily.

"I can't do it for you." Upon hearing about the baby, Li Maoshan answered in a good-tempered manner, "If he is afraid of pain, I can just have a baby."

Chen Yan didn't know that they were talking about the topic of having a baby. At this moment, he was facing a table of cut cucumbers with a headache.

"You should make a sound."

Although he was more concerned about why he couldn't get hard, the main problem now was to leave this space first.

Every time he was brought in without warning, Chen Yan found that he could not leave by his own will.Therefore, when the system started to play dead, Chen Yan could only hold back the dissatisfaction in his heart and "coax" the system.

"Okay, okay, isn't it just cutting cucumbers? I can't do it in practice." It's been a long time since the system responds, Chen Yan's patience is about to run out, but he still has to be patient, "But you can't let me use these. Let's practice with the cucumber."

The cucumbers on the table are very fresh, and the slices that have been cut for a long time have remained tender.

Xu Shi was left hanging for a long time, and the system saw that he felt regretful. After Chen Yan's words fell, the cucumbers on the bamboo table disappeared in an instant, but some complete new cucumbers replaced them.

His own thing doesn't work well, but he wants to cut cucumbers here.Looking at the table full of cucumbers, Chen Yan felt that the picture was too beautiful and dared not look at it.

The coir raincoat knife method pays attention to knife skills, and the most foolish way to cut cucumbers requires two chopsticks to prevent cutting cucumbers with one knife.

Just as Chen Yan was about to speak, the system spontaneously gave him two chopsticks.Faced with such a considerate system, Chen Yan had no choice but to practice cutting cucumbers honestly.

The key point of coir raincoat cucumber is that a whole cucumber can be stretched several times after cutting to keep the cucumber unbroken, and the thickness of each cut should be uniform.

Chen Yan knew how to do it but didn't know how to do it. Not to mention that one piece was thick and the other was thin, it was often not enough to make a few cuts. A cucumber had already been cut to the end.After cutting a table of cucumbers, he still couldn't cut out a finished product that he was satisfied with.

……

The rain outside the house did not know when it stopped, and it was getting late. After Ye Weiping and Jiang Hongxing left, Li Maoshan went back to the sleeping room, quietly looking at Chen Yan's sleeping face.

"Brother Yan, wake up." After calling out a few times, Li Maoshan found that Chen Yan was in a deep sleep.Seeing that he couldn't wake him up, he sat by the bed and accompanied him quietly.

When Chen Yan opened his eyes, he found that his hand was being held by someone.

Looking sideways, I saw Li Maoshan leaning aside with his eyes closed, with a gentle smile on his handsome face.As soon as he opened his eyes and saw him by his side, Chen Yan felt his heart soften, and the remaining depression in his heart seemed to be blown away by someone, and he relaxed a lot.

He has been cutting cucumbers for an unknown amount of time, and he still has the feeling of cutting melons with a kitchen knife in his right hand.Stretched his right hand, but did not dare to stretch his body, for fear of waking up the sleeping Li Maoshan.

Turning sideways to look at him quietly, Chen Yan was afraid that he would not be able to sleep well if he leaned on him like this.Just when he was struggling to wake up Li Maoshan, the sleeping man opened his eyes, and happened to meet Chen Yan's slightly frowning troubled look.

"Are you hungry?" Li Maoshan sat up straight and asked softly.

"I'm not hungry." Chen Yan shook his head, moved a little seat inside the bed, "If you're tired, come up and lie down and sleep."

Li Maoshan didn't lie down, but said: "It's getting late, if you're not hungry, get up and have dinner before resting."

"Oh." Chen Yan climbed up with his hand, his body was a little stiff after lying down for a long time, and asked while moving his body: "What's for dinner?"

20. Chapter 20

Li Maoshan didn't have the ability to cook a hearty dinner, so he could only reheat the burrito brought by Ye Weiping, and then put a bowl of egg drop soup with the mountain eggs sent by Jiang Hongxing.

Burrito with egg drop soup, this is the best meal he can prepare for Chen Yan.Although simple, it was the first homemade dinner after the two moved to the old house.

Chen Yan looked at the soup full of egg drops in the bowl, while Li Maoshan's bowl was as clear as water and without egg drops.

Putting their bowls together, Chen Yan scooped some egg drops from his own soup and gave them to him, "Don't always look after me, if you want to eat, eat together."

Seeing the soup bowl being pushed back in front of him, Li Maoshan paused for a moment with his hand holding the spoon, and finally took a spoonful from the soup bowl and tasted it, "Eat it, although the taste is not very good."

The barely edible egg soup at least made Li Maoshan feel that he was not useless.

Chen Yan took a bite of the burrito, the stuffing inside was common vegetables, the taste couldn't compare with the ones he used to eat, but it wasn't bad either, it just lacked a bit of meat flavor.

With egg soup, the two settled the dinner.

When Li Maoshan went to wash the dishes, Chen Yan saw the wild eggs in the basket, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Brother Shan, I'll make you breakfast tomorrow morning."

Li Maoshan looked at him sideways and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Chen Yan weighed a wild egg in the basket, then said with a smile, "I can fry poached eggs."

Seeing the smile on his face, Li Maoshan swallowed back the words that he wanted to stop, and also smiled back at him, "Well, I will let you do it tomorrow morning."

After washing the dishes, he dried his hands and went to find a wooden basin, "Take a bath later?"

Chen Yan tugged at his sleeve and turned his head: "Okay." Seeing him preparing bath water for himself, Chen Yan opened his mouth and ran back to the sleeping room.

There was nothing to do at night, the two of them took a shower early and went to bed.Chen Yan nestled in Li Maoshan's arms, and the two chatted one after another.

Seeing that he was drowsy, Li Maoshan had no choice but to stop talking and said instead: "Sleep if you are sleepy."

Chen Yan rubbed his head against his arms, and said in a daze, "Brother Shan, you are going to the mountain tomorrow, can you take me with you?"

"It just rained today, and tomorrow the mountain will be muddy. I'm afraid you won't be used to walking on mountain roads." Li Maoshan wanted him to stay at home quietly, but he didn't want to restrain him.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid." Chen Yan turned around, and the two looked at each other face to face, "You can't always leave me alone at home and rely on you to support me. In fact, I also know a lot of things, and I will meet them when I go up the mountain. I have some problems in my mind, and you don't need to worry so much."

Seeing him looking at him expectantly, Li Maoshan had no choice but to agree, "Then we will go to Nanshan tomorrow. It has just rained, so there should be more mushrooms, and we can pick some to cook."

He originally planned to go hunting in Xishan with Jiang Hongxing, but if he brought Chen Yan with him, it would be inconvenient to go to Xishan.

As soon as he heard the mushrooms, Chen Yan began to search for which mushrooms are suitable for cooking. Shiitake mushrooms are delicious, mushrooms can be used for soup, and fungus can nourish blood...

The next day, when Chen Yan woke up, he was the only one on the bed.

After rubbing his still somewhat confused head, he got up from the bed and put on his clothes.He still doesn't know how to take care of this long hair, so he can only let it hang loose and leave the room.

He was very unaccustomed to waking up early in the morning and not seeing anyone.Na Cheng figured out the house, but still did not see Li Maoshan, now Chen Yan was a little flustered.

Just as he was about to go out to find someone, the courtyard door happened to be opened.

Li Maoshan saw his flustered face with his long hair loose, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Brother Shan, where did you go early in the morning?" Chen Yan immediately felt relieved when he saw the person.Li Maoshan held a pottery pot in his hand, Chen Yan looked it over and smelled a smell, "What is this?"

Li Maoshan carried the pot to the table in the main room, patted the pot, and said, "This is pickled vegetables." These pickled foods are unavoidable in rural areas, and pickled vegetables are a must-have for every household, and they are simple and convenient to serve with meals.

Opening the seal of the clay pot, Chen Yan leaned closer and smelled it, "It tastes pretty good." There is no sour smell, but it smells very mellow, which shows that the people who pickled it have good craftsmanship.

"I'll get you some for breakfast."

Seeing that he liked it, Li Maoshan went to get a bowl and grabbed a handful of pickles.

"Have you eaten yet?" Chen Yan wanted to help but Li Maoshan rushed him to wait at the table, a little dissatisfied, "Didn't you agree that I'll make breakfast?"

"Not yet, I'm ready to eat together." Li Maoshan said while busy, bringing breakfast to the table, "Eat earlier, we will go to Nanshan earlier."

Thinking of going up the mountain, Chen Yan didn't worry about breakfast.

After the two of them finished eating, Li Maoshan found a basket and a sickle.

Chen Yan was sitting on a stool in the yard, teasing the little rabbit with a vegetable leaf in his hand.Seeing that Li Maoshan was ready, he immediately dropped the vegetable leaf and let the little rabbit run away quickly with the vegetable leaf in its mouth.

Nanshan is located in the south, go out from the old house, bypass the trail behind, climb up the stairs along the road, and soon enter the range of Nanshan.The mountain is not high, and there are no fewer trees in the mountain than in the west mountain.It's just that there are many birds and wild animals in Xishan, while there are more vegetation in Nanshan.

Li Maoshan planned to pick some mushrooms, and took Chen Yan directly to the mountain he often visited.

In the spring forest, the trees sprout and the grass is everywhere.Especially after it just rained yesterday, the moist plants began to absorb the nutrients from the earth, and sprouted new young leaves.

Chen Yan was held by Li Maoshan's hand, and he walked behind step by step.

"Brother Shan, do you come here often?"

He was not familiar with the road under his feet, but Chen Yan could tell that Li Maoshan was not slow in walking, as if he was very familiar with this place.

"Occasionally, I will bring Ah Shui over to pick some mushrooms on the mountain when I am free." Li Maoshan turned his head to remind him to be careful of the thorn tents, and looked around while walking, "There are more thorn tents in this area, and we will be there soon after passing the front."

The overgrown weeds at the feet sometimes caught the hem of his clothes, and Chen Yan had to walk carefully with his head down.The two didn't walk fast, and Chen Yan saw a bamboo forest in front of him from afar.

There were no bamboo shoots nearby, but a lot of small ones. Chen Yan immediately grabbed Li Maoshan and said, "Brother Shan, wait a minute."

Li Maoshan looked in the direction he pointed, and saw only small plants, so he asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong with these thin bamboo teeth?"

"What thin bamboo teeth? These are small bamboo shoots, but they are delicious." Chen Yan let go of his hand, walked over to pull out a bamboo shoot, and peeled off the bamboo shoot shell, revealing the white and tender flesh inside, "Look, they are fresh."

"It's too small, we won't eat it."

Looking at the delicate bamboo teeth, Li Maoshan didn't understand why he was so happy.

"Why don't you eat it?" Chen Yan wondered, "The bamboo shoots are only this size, if they are bigger, they will be old and not tasty. This size is when they are the most delicious."

Seeing him like this, Li Maoshan had no choice but to explain: "I eat winter bamboo shoots and spring bamboo shoots, but this thin bamboo tooth is too thin, and I don't know how to cook it, so no one eats it."

"Sigh." Chen Yan sighed, "You guys are really reckless. This is a natural good thing, and it can be used to make all kinds of food. Stir-fried pork with small bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with small bamboo shoots, soup with small bamboo shoots, and what you take in the morning The pickled vegetables that come here can also be cooked with the bamboo shoots.”

Chen Yan likes to eat this since he was a child, but it is true that no one picks it in many places.Every year when he was hungry, he could only ask someone to buy some fresh dried bamboo shoots.

Hearing the food he mentioned, Li Maoshan didn't know what it tasted like.

"You can do it?"

Chen Yan was swallowed, he could not cook, but he could eat.

"Let's pull some back, and I'll make it for you, and you will definitely find it delicious." Chen Yan said with a smile, he has a cheat, find a recipe and follow it, and he can make all kinds of food in minutes Small bamboo shoots as a side dish.

Seeing what he said, Li Maoshan naturally couldn't refuse, pointing to the back basket and said: "If you want to pull out the bamboo teeth, then we have nothing to pick mushrooms."

"Compared to mushrooms, the bamboo shoots are more delicious." Chen Yan didn't care at all, and pulled Li Maoshan to the small bamboo shoots, "Brother Shan, I'll teach you how to pull them out."

The two of them plucked along the small bamboo shoots.

The space in the back basket was limited, and after the two of them unplugged it for a while, the whole back basket was filled.This feeling of joy of returning home with a full load made Chen Yan very excited. He didn't care to wipe the thin sweat from his forehead. He took a look at the back pan, "It's full, but it's a pity that there are so many left unplucked."

Li Maoshan wiped his sweat with his hand, and took off the weeds that stuck to the hem of his clothes at some point, "These should be enough."

Chen Yan shook his head, "This amount is enough for two meals." It looked like a lot, and after peeling off the shell, there was only a little bit of bamboo shoot meat left.

"Then let's go back and pull it out again." Seeing that he seemed to want to eat bamboo teeth, Li Maoshan had no choice but to suggest.Fortunately, Nanshan is not far from the old house, so it doesn't take much time to come and go.

It’s just that he didn’t expect to meet this small bamboo shoot when he came out. Chen Yan could only nod his head and said, “Then let’s go back and pull out more later. We can also make small dried bamboo shoots. Small dried bamboo shoots are easy to store. In the future, you can eat as much as you want, and you won’t be afraid that there will be no bamboo shoots after the season.”

The more he thought about it, the more he got greedy, Chen Yan was only focused on making small dried bamboo shoots for a while, and didn't pay attention to his feet.Accidentally tripped, and immediately fell to the ground.

"hiss!"

His butt was pricked by a twig on the ground, and he grinned from the pain.

Just as he was about to get up, he heard Li Maoshan exclaim: "Chen Yan, don't move."

21. Chapter 21

This exclamation made Chen Yan feel his scalp go numb.

The body that sat on the ground stretched straight instantly, his hands were still on the ground, and some thorny twigs were resting on his hands, which felt a little painful.

A gust of wind blew by Lin Feng, bringing up a strand of hair from his temples.Chen Yan raised his head and looked at Li Maoshan who had a strange expression at the moment, he opened his mouth tremblingly and asked for help: "Don't scare me."

Such a voice suddenly came from the mountains and forests, inexplicably reminding him of the most common molluscs that may roam among the bushes and bushes.He hates worms with many feet, and squishy animals without feet.

Suddenly there was a strange touch on the back of his hand, and Chen Yan turned his head to look, his eyes widened.

The little thing with four legs slowly crawled over the back of his hand, stuck out its little tongue, looked around, and under Chen Yan's panicked stare, slowly crawled into the grass beside him.

Li Maoshan looked a little ugly when he saw him frightened, so he could only pull him up from the ground, suppressed a smile and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, it's just a four-legged snake."

"What do you mean it's just a four-legged snake." Chen Yan shook the hand that was crawled by the four-legged snake, with a face full of tears, "It's a snake after all. You might as well not call me just now, I If you get up early, you won't be fooled by a four-legged snake."

"If I didn't call you, that little thing would have crawled onto you along your hands." Li Maoshan lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped the back of his hands for him, "It's non-toxic, don't worry about it."

Chen Yan wrinkled his pretty face, and looked at his hand with disdain.Even after being wiped, there is always a tactile feeling left on the back of the hand.

The lingering sense of strangeness made him unable to bear the urging: "Let's go back and stay any longer. I'm afraid that the poisonous snake will crawl out later, and it will be troublesome."

Li Maoshan saw his evasive and funny appearance, smiled and picked up the backpack, "Okay, let's go back."

The way down the mountain was smoother than uphill, and I went down Nanshan in a short while.

Chen Yan saw a stream ahead, so he hurried over to wash his hands.The clear stream water could see the sand and stones at the bottom of the stream. Chen Yan squatted on the bank, looking at the figure reflected in the stream water. The little shrimp swam past, disrupting his gaze.

Li Maoshan put the basket aside, walked over and squatted beside Chen Yan.After washing his hands, he scooped up some water and brought it to his mouth.When Chen Yan saw that he wanted to drink water, he stopped him and said, "Dirty, why don't you just drink it."

The stream looked clean, but Chen Yan was afraid that he would get sick if he drank it.

"It's okay, we drink it often, and it won't hurt our stomachs." After drinking some stream water again, Li Maoshan leaned over to feed him after drinking.

Chen Yan took a sip from his hand in doubt, the stream water was sweet and delicious, he smacked his lips twice, and he grinned at Li Maoshan: "Believe me, if you get a bad stomach, you will be beaten." Said Then he squeezed his fist and punched him.

This was not the polluted world he remembered.

Chen Yan thought about it with emotion in his heart, and then stood up in relief, "Go home, let's peel the bamboo shoots." He rushed over to pick up the backpack, but was almost crushed by the heavy backpack.

"Be careful, it's a bit heavy, let me carry it."

Li Maoshan took the basket, and under Chen Yan's unwilling gaze, he easily carried a basket of young bamboo shoots on his back, and led him to the house.

"Brother Shan, that person at the door..."

Before he got home, Chen Yan saw a man sitting on a stool at the gate of the courtyard from a distance, holding something in his hand, and kept throwing it up, and the man opened his mouth to catch it.

Li Maoshan looked over, then said with a smile: "It's that kid Cheng Cong, I guess he's eating peanuts again."

"Oh." Chen Yan nodded when he heard the words, and when he got closer, Cheng Cong was indeed holding a handful of peanuts in his hand.

When Cheng Cong saw the two of them, he stuffed the peanuts in his hand into his mouth, chewed them a few times, and then greeted them.

Li Maoshan, who was just looking at him with a slurred speech, knocked on his head impatiently, and said with a smile: "Eat as soon as you eat, and talk after eating. Get out of the way, don't block me from opening the door."

Cheng Cong was busy swallowing the peanuts in his mouth, and then picked up the stool to make room for him, "Brother Dashan, I've been waiting for you for a long time." As he spoke, his eyes went straight to Li Maoshan's back basket Looking inside, "Where did you go? How did you get back a bunch of thin bamboo teeth, this thing is not edible."

The thing that was taken out from the back basket turned out to be thin bamboo teeth, Cheng Cong immediately threw it back in disgust, his hands were stained with some short fluff, he wiped it on the hem of the clothes directly.

"That's because you don't know how to make it. This food is delicious." Seeing his disgusted face, Chen Yan had no choice but to justify Xiaosun's name.

"How can this food be delicious?" Cheng Cong said with a look of disbelief, "If it is delicious, it has to be winter bamboo shoots, and the dumplings are delicious. You want to eat bamboo teeth, it must be possible."

As soon as the courtyard door opened, Li Maoshan didn't care what he was muttering behind, and pulled Chen Yan into the house.

"Brother Dashan, don't you guys have nothing to eat?"

He let the stool in his hand be placed in the yard, and Cheng Cong followed closely into the house, and glanced at the main room. Although the main room was not big and looked a bit shabby, he still praised: "This small room is well organized. , looks like a homely atmosphere.”

Li Maoshan and Chen Yan sorted out the bamboo shoots in the basket on their own, while Cheng Cong looked here and there and touched them. Seeing that there was no response, he leaned over again.

"What are you planning to do? You really want to eat bamboo teeth."

The small bamboo shoots in the back basket were poured out and covered the table, and a few small bugs fell out of it, and Li Maoshan pinned them to death one by one.

With some disgust, Chen Yan took a small bamboo shoot and swept away the bugs.

"If you want to help, just stay, and if you don't help, don't make noise." Seeing him sitting blankly by the side, Chen Yan gave him some young bamboo shoots, and asked, "Will you peel them?"

Cheng Cong shook the little bamboo shoot a few times, shook his head and said, "I know how to peel bamboo shoots. How do you peel the bamboo shoots? It's the same as peeling bamboo shoots?" He tried peeling the shell and found that the shells of the bamboo shoots are comparable to bamboo shoots. More shells came, and I was suddenly unhappy.

Li Maoshan also tried to peel one, but found it really troublesome.Seeing the sly smile on Chen Yan's face, he knew in his heart that their stripping method was not correct.

"How to peel?" Li Maoshan had no choice but to ask for advice.

"Wait." Chen Yan said with a smile, and went to find a pair of scissors, "You guys have a good look at it." He picked up a small bamboo shoot, and cut it diagonally at the tip of the bamboo shoot.

Putting down the scissors, Chen Yan clasped the tip of the bamboo shoot with his thumb and forefinger, and turned the bamboo shoot with his other hand. In an instant, the shell of the bamboo shoot was peeled off one side.The shell on one side is gone, and the remaining shell is peeled off in two or three strokes.

A small bamboo shoot that has been shelled reveals white and tender bamboo shoots.

Chen Yan shook the bamboo shoots at the two of them, and proudly said under the surprised eyes of the two: "It's easy."

Cheng Cong stared dumbfounded at the sudden change of the slender bamboo tooth, opened his mouth, and finally boasted with his thumb up: "This is too powerful."

Looking at the thin bamboo teeth in his hand that had been peeled for a long time before the shell was removed, Cheng Cong grabbed the scissors and came over, "Then what? How to get around?"

Chen Yan demonstrated to him again, and Cheng Cong was amazed.

"It's amazing. This method is simple and neat." He tried to peel one according to the method taught by Chen Yan, and looked at the thin bamboo tooth that had been easily peeled off in his hand, and was immediately happy.

Li Maoshan saw that he was very happy to be stripped, so he didn't fight with him, but only stripped with Chen Yan leisurely.

There were not many small bamboo shoots on the table, and with the concerted efforts of the three of them, half of them were peeled off in a short while.At this time, Li Maoshan noticed that Chen Yan shook his hands from time to time, and sometimes rubbed his hands behind his back a few times.

Somewhat puzzled by his actions, Li Maoshan grabbed Chen Yan's hand, and when he saw it, his expression suddenly changed.

The index finger was red and swollen, Li Maoshan said with a downcast face, "Don't peel it off."

Chen Yan was grabbed by the hand, and seeing his expression was not looking good, he had to explain: "I'm fine, that's how you peel the bamboo shoots. You see, although the finger is a little red, it will disappear naturally after a while, and it's not a problem."

There were only a few small bamboo shoots on the table, and he didn't peel many.This finger will look so red and swollen, it can only be blamed for the body being too delicate.This is not to say that hard work can make him like this, Chen Yan only felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

"No." Li Maoshan refused in a strong tone, "Don't peel it, if you hurt your fingers, it will be troublesome." He took the pair of scissors on the table and stuffed them into Chen Yan's hands, "You cut the bamboo with sharp teeth, so Don't hurt your hands."

Chen Yan looked helplessly at the scissors stuffed into his hand, while Li Maoshan took over Xiaosun, so he had no choice but to accept the other party's kindness.

"This little boy's family is delicate and delicate. Look at my brother's hands. Just peel off one by one." Cheng Cong saw that Chen Yan could only cut off the tip of his teeth, so he peeled off a few bamboo shoots pretendingly, shaking the bamboo shoots as if showing off. meat, and then he was hit on the head by Li Maoshan.

"Peel it off well, you're the only one who talks too much, it's not too big or small."

Li Maoshan glared at him, and kept moving his hands, peeling the shells of the few bamboo shoots one by one to save the meat.A pile of shells and a pile of meat are stacked in two piles, and all the small bamboo shoots are quickly peeled off.

"Too little, not enough for brother to play."

Once the stripping was finished, Cheng Cong stood up and stretched.

"I'll pull some more next time and ask you to peel them." Chen Yan looked at him angrily, turned his head and saw that Li Maoshan wanted to throw away the shells of the bamboo shoots, and immediately stopped him: "Brother Shan, don't throw them away. Dry them in the sun, the bamboo shoots The shell can be used as firewood."

"Then I'll take it to the yard to dry." Seeing what he said, Li Maoshan naturally replied trustingly, and then took the bamboo shoot shells to the yard and spread them on the ground to dry.

"Brother Yan, your little brain is very good. This shell can be used as firewood. Why didn't we think of it before?" Cheng Cong followed behind Chen Yan, seeing that he wanted to dig a well, he directly took it Passed the bucket to help fill a bucket of water.

"It's not that my brain is good, it's that you don't know how to use waste." Chen Yan asked him to pour well water into a wooden basin, and he replied while washing the young bamboo shoots.

"Waste utilization..." Cheng Cong chewed on these four words, then looked at Chen Yan curiously, and asked, "Then how do you plan to turn these thin bamboo teeth into something delicious?"

Chen Yan glanced at him, and said mysteriously, "I won't tell you."

After all, he didn't care about Cheng Cong staring at him curiously, and directly cleaned the bamboo shoots and took them to the kitchen.

"Brother Dashan, I said that your husband is still a little naughty. I can't get enough of my appetite." Cheng Cong didn't chase after Chen Yan, but moved to Li Maoshan's side, and teased him with a smile.

"Then you go back, I'll make something delicious later, I'll eat it." Seeing him like this, Li Maoshan said with disgust.

"Come on, I've worked so hard for a long time, so I have to try something new." Cheng Cong hurriedly chased Li Maoshan into the house, and shouted: "Oh, I almost forgot just now, I still have some news to share with you." What do you say..."

"what news?"

"that is……"

As soon as Cheng Cong opened his mouth, Chen Yan's voice came from the kitchen: "Brother Shan, come quickly."

22. Chapter 22

Chen Yan carried the cleaned bamboo shoots into the kitchen.

The kitchen is not big, and it is even narrower in this shabby old house. There are some seasonings piled up on the low table next to the stove. There are not many types, only a few commonly used seasonings.

Chen Yan put the wooden basin on the low table, and took another basket to drain the wet young bamboo shoots.He turned around and went to the back of the stove to start a fire, but saw a black shadow flashing past and submerging into the pile of firewood behind the stove.

With a pause in his footsteps, Chen Yan stared blankly at the few piles of firewood, and vaguely heard an unknown voice.The top piece of firewood suddenly rolled down from above, causing Chen Yan to jump back violently in fright.

"Brother Shan, come quickly!"

The pointed tail protruded from the pile of firewood and flicked slightly, revealing the suspicious identity of the black figure.

A creepy feeling came over Chen Yan's heart, he stood still without moving, his legs and feet began to tremble subconsciously.

"Brother Shan! Brother Shan, come quickly!"

The screams sounded a bit broken, Chen Yan really wanted to turn around and run, but he was afraid that the thing would disappear if he didn't pay attention.If so, he would not dare to live in this house.

Li Maoshan was listening to Cheng Cong chattering about the news, when he suddenly heard Chen Yan yelling so loudly, he couldn't care less, pushed away the person standing in front of him, and ran to the kitchen in a hurry.

Cheng Cong opened his mouth and looked at the main room where no one was running away, so he had no choice but to swallow the words he hadn't spoken yet.

"what happened?"

Li Maoshan ran into the kitchen and saw Chen Yan standing still, with a terrified expression on his face, those eyes that should have been bright were helpless at the moment, but when they looked at him, they were full of hope.

When Chen Yan saw him coming in, he waved his hands and pointed to the pile of firewood behind the stove excitedly, "Brother Shan, there are snakes there!"

Li Maoshan looked at the firewood piled up, but did not see any snakes.

"Really." Seeing his doubts, Chen Yan immediately put on a bitter face, and at the same time raised his voice and said, "It retracted its tail. I saw some