Culinary Specialization through Farming

Snake, just wagging its tail.

Cheng Cong, who came in behind, was startled when he heard Chen Yan's words, "What? There's a snake!"

It's just that his expression was not as frightened as Chen Yan's, but excited, his eyes were wide open, and if he looked carefully, he could still see the joy in his eyes.

"Come behind me." Seeing how scared he was, Li Maoshan believed it.So he stretched out his hand to hold Chen Yan's trembling hand, and let him stand behind him.

Picking up a pair of tongs from the corner, Li Maoshan slowly walked towards the firewood pile.Chen Yan tugged at his sleeve in fear, Li Maoshan turned around and gave him a comforting smile.

"Brother Dashan, let me do it." Cheng Cong took a round basket from nowhere, held it in both hands, and shouted with excitement on his face, "I'm good at catching snakes. "

As soon as Chen Yan heard this, he immediately hid away and made room for Cheng Cong.

"I'll take off the firewood on top, Cheng Cong, you go and point it down. If you see it swimming out, do it." Li Maoshan walked in front, turned around and explained to Cheng Cong.

"Understood." Cheng Cong nodded, "If it dares to swim out, I will let it come out forever." He threw the round basket in his hand, and said confidently.

"You have to catch it. If it runs away, you will be in trouble." Seeing the two smiling confidently, Chen Yan said with some concern.

Cheng Cong waved his hand: "Don't worry, don't worry, I will keep the current food and drink for you."

"I don't want to eat it." Chen Yan muttered in a low voice, and saw Li Maoshan remove the firewood one by one, gradually revealing the cracks underneath.

In the pile of firewood, the snake probably felt threatened and swam around in a panic.

"Yo, it doesn't look too small."

Cheng Cong was even happier when he saw it.

"Don't be too happy, kid. If the snake escapes, I'll only ask you."

Li Maoshan saw Chen Yan staring nervously at the pile of firewood, so he had to remind Cheng Cong to be more serious.

The woodpile was moved away, leaving only one layer hiding the snake's figure.Li Maoshan gestured to Cheng Cong, poked the tongs in, and the frightened Snake slipped out from the gap in the firewood.

With quick eyes and hands, Cheng Cong jumped at the snake the moment it appeared, and directly covered it with a round basket.

"Look, I'll just say it's very simple." Cheng Cong pressed the round basket, allowing the snake to struggle and collide under the basket, "This is not small, it looks like it weighs several catties, and it can cook a hearty snake." Eat the meat feast."

Seeing that the snake was caught, Chen Yan secretly heaved a sigh of relief, but when he heard that Cheng Cong still wanted to eat snake meat, he frowned again.

"You are not afraid that this snake is poisonous."

"No, I just saw it. It's a common water snake. It's not poisonous. It just crawled here?" Cheng Cong explained, but he was a little puzzled, "Brother Dashan, why don't you check and check, this old house Is there a loophole somewhere, otherwise how could a snake get out of a good one."

Li Maoshan came over with a small pan, put the snake into it with tongs, and covered it.

"Take this snake back." He handed the basket to Cheng Cong, who accepted it without any hesitation.

"Then I'll take it back, make a meal of snake meat, and then I'll send some over to you." He was a little greedy. He hadn't eaten fresh snake meat this winter, and he didn't expect to have delicious food delivered to his door in spring.

"No." Chen Yan immediately refused when he heard the words, wrinkled his white and tender face, and said with disgust: "Go and eat by yourself, we don't want to eat snake meat."

"You little brother who doesn't know how to enjoy, snake meat is a good thing, and the taste is really beyond comparison with ordinary food." Cheng Cong saw that he didn't like snake meat, so he deliberately seduced him, but praised the snake vigorously How delicious the meat is.

What he said made Chen Yan very depressed and refused to pay attention to him.

Li Maoshan checked the kitchen and found a small hole in a corner of the wall.He thought that the snake probably got into the kitchen through this small hole, and this scene happened today.

Now that the loophole was found, Li Maoshan naturally had to plug the hole.Fortunately, the loophole was not that big, so he found an object to plug it.

"I blocked the hole, so you don't have to be afraid of encountering snakes." Li Maoshan pulled Chen Yan out of the kitchen, and moved a stool for him to sit on.Seeing him peeking at the pannier in Cheng Cong's hand from time to time, Li Maoshan had no choice but to comfort him again and again: "If you're still worried, don't go into the kitchen."

The other party's caring words warmed Chen Yan's still-shocked heart. He grabbed Li Maoshan's hand, calmed down, and then said again: "It's okay, the snake has been caught, so naturally I won't be afraid. Besides, I still have to make bamboo shoots for you."

"Brother Yan, by the way, let's make this snake too."

Cheng Cong came over and said that he didn't think it was a big deal. He was glared at by Li Maoshan, and he sat back embarrassingly, muttering incessantly: "Brother Dashan, you are too tight!" Bar."

Li Maoshan ignored him, but looked at Chen Yan.There was still a trace of pretending to be strong on the young man's face, which made him feel a little pity, so he softly comforted him: "If you are still afraid, don't force yourself."

Chen Yan just didn't slow down a bit. Hearing what Li Maoshan said, he felt that he was a little soft.

A big man is just afraid of snakes, if he dare not step into the kitchen because of a caught snake, then he is really not worthy of being a man.

He remembered that when he was a child, a little girl in the country dared to catch snakes with her bare hands. Could it be that he was not as good as a ten-year-old girl at his age.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Yan felt that snakes weren't that scary anymore.

"It's okay, I agreed to make bamboo shoots for you, how can I break my promise." He showed a gentle smile to Li Maoshan, "Sit down for a while, I will make it soon."

As he spoke, he stood up and was about to go to the kitchen. Li Maoshan stood up and said, "I'll go with you. You cook, and I'll help you light the fire."

Chen Yan looked at him, nodded with a chuckle, "Okay, then let's work together."

"Oh, you two really make me feel nauseous."

Hearing what the two said, Cheng Cong immediately felt goose bumps.He rubbed his arms, and teased with envy, "You two, stop dawdling, I'm still waiting to eat the dishes cooked by Brother Yan."

"I didn't intend to invite you to eat together." Chen Yan poured cold water on Cheng Cong, ignoring his funny appearance of pretending to be injured, and dragged Li Maoshan into the kitchen.

The bamboo shoots in the basket had drained a lot of water at the moment, Chen Yan picked up the basket and fiddled with the bamboo shoots, then turned to Li Maoshan and said: "There are not many ingredients that can be used for cooking in the kitchen, brother Shan, what do you think?" Have you eaten?"

Li Maoshan just sat down behind the stove, and when he heard him ask this, he poked his head out and shook, "I can eat anything, you can do whatever you want."

This sort of casual answer made Chen Yan a little dissatisfied, and he muttered: "Then I will do it casually."

The stove burns for a lifetime, and the pot is gradually heated up.Chen Yan picked up the oil pot and was about to pour oil, when Cheng Cong shouted outside, "Brother Dashan, your mother is here."

Chen Yan's hand paused, and the hand holding the oil pot stopped in mid-air.Li Maoshan stood up from behind the stove, "I'll go and see what's going on."

Seeing him go out, Chen Yan looked at the hot pot and the small bamboo shoots beside him with some hesitation.

Soon there was a quarrel outside, which made it impossible for Chen Yan to continue cooking quietly.

He put down the oil pot in his hand and sighed.

"Also let no one cook a good meal."

23. Chapter 23

Cheng Cong was sitting bored in the main room playing with the snake locked in the basket, when he heard the courtyard door being pushed open, accompanied by a rather familiar voice.

He stood up and went to the door to take a look. When he saw someone coming, he was extremely surprised, and then hurriedly ran out of the kitchen and yelled.

Mrs. Li led Li Maojiang to open the courtyard door and looked around.There was nothing worthy of his attention in the simple yard, but the things drying on the floor made him quite sniffy.

When he married Old Li Tou, he lived directly in the blue tile house.He has always looked down on this old house, and rarely comes to the old house.

The original old house was filled with a lot of sundries because of long-term occupancy, and the scattered sundries made the already simple and dilapidated old house look very dilapidated.Li Shi has hated such a house since she first married.

Coming here at this time is also full of anger.

Li Maojiang followed behind his mother, and saw a little rabbit on the ground gnawing on the pile of shells on the ground.He was happy to see it, and knelt down to tease the rabbit.

The little rabbit with long ears shook its head, took a bamboo shoot shell in its mouth, and ran away bouncing without shaking Li Maojiang.

He wanted to chase the rabbit, but was scolded by Li Shi, so he could only follow Li into the house embarrassingly.

"Ah Li, why are you free today? Come and find Brother Dashan."

After Cheng Cong called Li Maoshan, he returned to the stool and sat down.Seeing Mrs. Li striding over the threshold arrogantly and giving him a sideways glance, although he didn't like this in his heart, Cheng Cong still called out obediently for Uncle Li's sake.

There is not much furniture in the main room, a table with four stools, not even a tea table.There is a bow hanging on the wall. This bow is familiar to Mr. Li, and it is commonly used by Li Maoshan for hunting.

Mrs. Li glanced at the pannier at Cheng Cong's feet. The covered pannier on the ground was probably brought from home.

Li Maojiang took a stool for his mother to sit on, while he himself sat quietly on the other side.

"Dashan, there are guests here, how can you not accompany me?"

As soon as Li Maoshan came out of the kitchen, he heard Li Shi say this to him, he glanced at Cheng Cong indifferently, Cheng Cong turned his back to Li Shi and winked at him, expressing his dissatisfaction.

"What is Eminem coming to see me for?"

When Li Maoshan was talking, he noticed Li Maojiang's dodging eyes, and he snorted in his heart.Li Maojiang still remembered being slapped by his elder brother, so naturally he didn't have a good look at Li Maoshan, and turned his head just because he didn't want to look at him.

"Why, can't you come and have a look if you have nothing to do?" Mrs. Li asked back, "This room belongs to the old Li's family after all. I'm still qualified to come in."

"Of course I can come in." Chen Yan came out after Li Maoshan, and when he saw Li's arrogant face, he was filled with displeasure, "It's just that it depends on whether you are popular or not."

Cheng Cong sat aside without saying a word. He couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard Chen Yan's words, and looked at the four people in front of him with a look on his face.

On the other hand, Li Maojiang snorted twice when he saw Chen Yan's jealous face, but no one paid any attention to him.

Mrs. Li looked Chen Yan up and down, and saw that the material of his clothes was better than what she was wearing, she immediately thought of something, and said mockingly: "You are worthy of talking to me even before you have entered my Li family's door. "

"Oh, that's really embarrassing." With a smile on the corner of Chen Yan's mouth, he sat down on the stool brought by Li Maoshan, "I heard the dog barking, and I couldn't help but teach the dog. You know, there is nothing in our house. It can be eaten, this dog is naturally unwelcome when it comes."

Hearing these insinuating words, Li Shi's face suddenly changed.

"Keep your mouth clean." Before Li Shi could speak, Li Maojiang jumped up after hearing this, and pointed at Chen Yan and was about to curse.

However, Li Maoshan glanced over coldly and immediately silenced him.

Chen Yan didn't care about his words at all, instead pouted his mouth and said to Li Maoshan: "Brother Shan, is my mouth clean?"

Li Maoshan looked at him with a smile in his eyes, raised his hand and stroked his head and said softly: "Naturally it is clean."

"Em." Li Maojiang tugged at Li Shi's sleeve angrily.

Mrs. Li patted the back of his hand, although he was blocked by someone, he remained calm.

"Dashan, your husband has a sharp mouth, but this person can't see good or bad just by looking at the surface. Don't be so fascinated by a fake pretty face, forgetting about yourself. A child's identity is good."

Mrs. Li reprimanded her with an attitude, but got Li Maoshan's indifferent attitude.

Li Maoshan knew that there might be no good things for the two of them to come over. Facing the verbal exchanges, he just replied: "Don't bother me to take care of my son, brother Yan is very good."

Chen Yan, who was praised very well, was smiling at this moment, with a sweet heart, and looked at Li Maoshan with tenderness on his face.

"My good, only Brother Shan needs to know."

Li Maojiang saw the tenderness and tenderness of the two, and said in disgust: "Disgusting."

The voice is not too loud, just enough for everyone to hear clearly.

Chen Yan's complexion changed, and he returned to normal in an instant.He looked at the young man in front of him who seemed to have a deep prejudice against him, and said with a smile: "Brother Jiang, right? You are young and don't understand the relationship between husband and wife. As a brother, I naturally can't educate you too much. But you It seems a bit too uneducated to interrupt like this. If this is fine in your own home, if you don’t know how to restrain your temper in front of outsiders in the future, you will easily fall into the shoes of others. "

The tone is cold, and the speed of speech is unhurried.After the sentence was finished, Li Maojiang was obviously very angry, especially when he saw Cheng Cong covering his mouth and snickering, it made him blush with anger.

Li Shi, who was also in a bad complexion, looked at Chen Yan's eyes with resentment at this moment, and said in a cold voice with a sullen face: "The ability to play tricks is still restrained, no matter how sharp one's mouth is, it can't be a meal. Eat. If this person is useless, I'm afraid it would be a waste of food to keep him."

"Ah Mu's words are over." Li Maoshan has not said a word, and now he heard Li Shi's words, he also said with a bad face, "Brother Yan is my son's husband, how can my family waste food?" Eminem must not say such things in the future, so as not to be vitriolic."

If Chen Yan's words made Li Shi feel angry, then Li Maoshan's merciless and aggressive words made Li Shi angry.

"Li Maoshan, is this the way you talk to your elders?" Mrs. Li looked at the calm Li Maoshan with furious eyebrows. The man in front of her has always been respectful to her since she was a child. Words.If it weren't for this brother who was sold cheaply, Mrs. Li would never have imagined that the mouth of the elder Li's eldest son would be so sharp.

"Some people don't like to hear my brother Shan's straightforward words." Chen Yan saw that this person's face was extremely ugly when he was swallowed by Shan brother's words, so he was naturally happy, "It's not suitable for elders to treat you like that when you become angry from embarrassment. I'm a junior. You, you'd better go home to calm down, so as not to lose your composure in a while, wouldn't it be a joke for others to see you."

Chen Yan pointedly looked at Cheng Cong, who was watching the excitement, and Cheng Cong saw that he had suddenly become the focus of everyone's attention, so he immediately changed his demeanor, pretending to look around without knowing anything.

Li Shi endured the rage in her heart and ignored Chen Yan's provocative words.Thinking of the reason why he came here today, he stared at Li Maoshan, and reprimanded him: "Dashan, you are not married yet, even though you have moved to live in the old house, you are still the eldest son of the old Li family, so the things in the family are naturally still up to you." It's up to you to work. These days, since you just got a husband, your father will naturally not ask you anything, but Eminem still wants to remind you that you must never stop the work in this field."

"Hehe." Chen Yan immediately understood what he said, and sneered twice, but was stopped by Li Maoshan just as he was about to speak.

"My son naturally knows what E'Mu said." Li Maoshan said still calmly, "After my son arranges the family affairs properly, he will naturally go to the fields to do work."

"You remember best." Li Shi was afraid that he would not work, but he did not expect him to agree.Seeing that his goal was achieved, he didn't want to face these little ones, lest he would make himself even more angry.

Standing up, Mrs. Li said to Li Maojiang who was still angry: "Brother Jiang, let's go back." After saying that, Li Maojiang didn't catch up and left.

Li Maojiang glared at Chen Yan, and before leaving, he looked at the basket at Cheng Cong's feet.

He paid attention to it for a long time, and there seemed to be something moving in the basket.The curiosity in his heart was still not suppressed before leaving, he hesitated and walked in front of Cheng Cong, and called out: "Brother Cong."

Seeing him staring at his backpack, Cheng Cong showed a kind smile on his face, "Brother Jiang, are you curious about my backpack? Come, let me show you, there are good things inside."

Li Maojiang looked at the pannier handed to him happily, and opened the lid curiously, but he didn't want a snake's head to rush out of it, which made him scream out in shock: "Ah!"

Seeing that he was frightened, Cheng Cong immediately closed the lid to prevent the snake from escaping.

And Li Maojiang was obviously terribly frightened, sobbing and glaring at Cheng Cong, he ran away sadly.

"You kid is too bad." Seeing his behavior like this, although Chen Yan was relieved, he couldn't help but criticize Cheng Cong a few words.

"Didn't I just look at him curiously?" Cheng Cong said with an innocent face, "I'm timid, no wonder I am."

24. Chapter 24

Cheng Cong wanted to stay and eat, but under Li Maoshan's disgusted eyes, he began to help chop firewood and fetch water graciously.

Chen Yan naturally instructed him to do this and that quickly, but the young man who was nimble had no complaints, and kept asking Chen Yan what he did for food.

Seeing that the two were busy, Li Maoshan threw a few large pieces of firewood into the hole of the stove after lighting the fire. After controlling the fire properly, he stood up and walked out.

Grabbing Cheng Cong who was carrying firewood to the kitchen, Li Maoshan said, "You don't have anything to do here, go and bring those things here."

"Ah?" Cheng Cong blinked, holding the few pieces of firewood he had just chopped, "Now?"

Li Maoshan nodded, turned around and saw Chen Yan standing in front of the stove, concentrating on stir-frying, and continued to say to Cheng Cong: "Go now, I just have time, and I will eat later after moving the things."

Cheng Cong thought for a while and agreed, "Okay, I'll put these firewood away." He said and hurriedly piled the firewood behind the stove.

"Brother Yan, let's go get something. Watch the fire for a while. If the fire is not strong enough, throw two pieces of firewood into it." Li Maoshan walked up to Chen Yan again, and stroked his somewhat messy hair , "We'll go and come back soon."

Chen Yan was still stir-frying with a spatula in his hand. Hearing the sound, he turned his head to look at him, "Ah, where are you going?" , It's just that I don't know what to do.

At this moment, when he heard that the two of them were going to leave for a while, he didn't know whether he was relieved or more nervous, Chen Yan stared at Li Maoshan and forgot to move on.

Li Maoshan helped him stir-fry a few times with his hand holding the spatula, "It's very close, let's go to Cheng Cong's house to pick up some reserved furniture. You concentrate on doing it, don't fry it, I will come back later to try your handicrafts .”

He really enjoys the feeling of having someone he loves cook for him, waiting for him to go home after work.Leaning over and kissing Chen Yan's brow affectionately, he encouraged with a smile, "Don't worry, at least your cooking must be better than mine."

"Okay, then you guys go and come back quickly." Chen Yan happily replied, if the job won't work for a while, he can secretly go back to work while no one else is around.

Cheng Cong's house was not far away, the two left the old house and arrived in a short while.

Cheng Cong's father is a well-known carpenter in a nearby village. He does a lot of work and earns a lot of money.The Cheng family's house can be regarded as a rare good house except for the village chief's house.

Different from the fence walls of ordinary people, Cheng's house was built with a high and solid wall made of stone and soil.At this moment, the courtyard door was closed, showing that there was no one in the house.

Cheng Cong quickly took out the key to open the door.

"My father is not at home, everything is in the utility room."

Cheng Cong opened the door and led Li Maoshan to the utility room.

This utility room is the place where his father used to work on weekdays, and it is full of craftsmen of different sizes, large and small.There were some tables, chairs and benches in one corner of the room. Li Maoshan looked up and frowned.

"Brother Dashan, these are all second-hand, not new." Cheng Cong saw him with a downcast face, and immediately explained, "My father took it back. The family in the town has only used it for a long time, and replaced it with a new one." The furniture gave all these things to my father. Isn't it just what you want, and my father got them all back."

Hearing this, Li Maoshan looked at the furniture in front of him, and if he looked carefully, he could indeed see the traces left after use.

"That's fine, I want all of these. Thank you, Uncle Cheng, for me, I can only remember the money first." These things are still very new, and Li Maoshan is embarrassed to buy these furniture at the originally negotiated price.

"You're making too much sense." Cheng Cong was a little unhappy when he heard his words, "My father said that he won't charge money, and he got it back for nothing. If he asks you for money again, wouldn't it seem like Be stingy."

"Then I can't take advantage of you for nothing." The money must be given, and Li Maoshan also knows that Cheng Cong is sometimes unreasonable when he is stubborn.At this moment, he insisted that he didn't want money, even if he forced the money into his hands, it would be useless.

"Listen to me, no matter how much it is." Li Maoshan pushed the wooden cart from the yard and parked outside the utility room, "Move all the things up, let's go back to eat first, and I will give you the money later."

"Hmph, I won't take it." Cheng Cong muttered, and helped him move some pieces of furniture onto the wooden cart.

Before leaving, Cheng Cong thought of something and hurried into the house.

Li Maoshan felt helpless when he saw him rushing in and coming out with a lot of things after a while.

"What do you do with so many ingredients?"

Cheng Cong was holding a wooden bucket with two fish in one hand, and a handful of vegetables and a piece of pork in the other.He put the things on the wooden cart, and said with a smile: "Take it back and let Brother Yan cook. My father is not here, so I can only eat at your house at noon, it's not good to eat for nothing. Bring some things over there, let Brother Yan make more. It would be even better if you can have some wine to drink."

"At such a young age, you still want to imitate your father and eat wine."

Uncle Cheng loves to drink, but he is very tight-lipped. Cheng Cong has been greedy for a long time but his father doesn't allow him.So he always wanted to have a drink secretly when he got the chance.

"That little old man didn't know where he hid the wine, I just couldn't find any." Cheng Cong complained, "I just saw you had wine there."

Li Maoshan pulled the wooden cart out of the courtyard, and Cheng Cong asked while closing the door.

"The eyes are sharp." Li Maoshan nodded, "Weiping brought it, I haven't tasted it yet."

"This is not right, let's try it later." Cheng Cong was amused when he heard it, "Brother Weiping delivered the wine in time. But they came to look for you yesterday, and they didn't call me. It's so embarrassing."

Li Maoshan glanced at him indifferently, and said, "You don't want to go out on a rainy day."

"Then if they come to call me, I will go out anyway." Cheng Cong was blocked by him, but he still insisted.If it rains, it will get wet, so he is not afraid.

Li Maoshan saw what he said in his mouth, his eyebrows twisted into a Sichuan character, he was quite funny.

When the two returned to the old house, the smell of food came from the kitchen.

Cheng Cong took a deep breath and felt surprised: "My brother is really good at this, and the smell is not worse than those restaurants in the town."

Li Maoshan was a little surprised when he smelled it.

The two swiftly replaced all the old tables, chairs and benches in the main room. Cheng Cong sat at the table and began to look forward to the food being served.

Li Maoshan had no choice but to go to the kitchen with the ingredients he brought.

At this moment, Chen Yan was having a headache looking at the scrambled eggs with bamboo shoots on the stove.The golden scrambled eggs are accompanied by small bamboo shoots, and the hot air and aroma are very mouth-watering. However, he just tried a bite, and Chen Yan, who was already low in self-confidence, slumped his shoulders.

Li Maoshan put the things on the table, seeing Chen Yan's unhappy expression, he wondered, "What's wrong?"

"Ah! You're back." Chen Yan was startled when he heard the voice. Seeing him looking at his finished product, he said with some embarrassment: "I ruined this dish, so I can't eat it."

"It's not very good." Li Maoshan was puzzled, "What's wrong? I'll try." He picked up the chopsticks beside him and took a bite.

Chen Yan stared at him, and said nervously, "I put too much salt, it's salty."

Seeing his disappointment, Li Maoshan raised his hand, pulled him into his arms, and said with a smile, "It's delicious, not salty at all."

"Nonsense, it's obviously salty." Chen Yan glanced at him and said dissatisfiedly, "You don't need to comfort me, I know my own level." It was already a surprise that he could follow the recipe to make dishes that are both delicious and delicious. up.

"Really, this taste is good for dinner." Li Maoshan pinched his cheek, "If you don't believe me, you can ask Cheng Cong later, that kid has it in his mouth. If he also says it's delicious, you should believe me. "

"Then I'll bring it to him to taste." Chen Yan broke away from his embrace as he spoke, wanting to serve scrambled eggs with bamboo shoots.

Li Maoshan picked it up before him, "I'll take it, you cook other dishes." Pointing to the ingredients on the table, "Cheng Cong specially brought it for you to cook for him."

Chen Yan glanced at the alive and kicking fish, and said with a bitter face, "I'm not very good at killing fish."

"It's okay, I'll kill you for you later, you cook other dishes first." After finishing speaking, Li Maoshan didn't give him a chance to refuse, and went out of the kitchen with the dishes.

Chen Yan could only look at the ingredients on the table and think about what dishes he could make.

The best pork belly, with a lot of small bamboo shoots left, is naturally a fried pork with small bamboo shoots.

This time, Chen Yan learned his lesson and restrained himself when adding salt. He felt that he was comparable to a first-class chef when he put the salt out of the pot. Seeing the dishes with all the flavors and flavors, it was not like the achievements of a beginner.

Ha ha!

"tasty."

Li Maoshan returned to the kitchen, took another bite of fried pork with bamboo shoots, and praised him without hesitation.

After getting the compliment, Chen Yan smiled happily, "Then let's make another fish dish. Brother Shan, do you like steamed or braised?"

"Steam it, it's simple and delicious."

Li Maoshan grabbed the fish from the wooden bucket, took a kitchen knife and directly scaled and dissected the belly. The technique was so skillful that Chen Yan was taken aback for a while.

When Chen Yan came back to his senses, the fish had been cleaned up.

"Brother Shan, can you cook fish?"

No wonder he was puzzled, Chen Yan looked at Li Maoshan's very natural flower cutting knife on the fish's back, and the angle and interval of each knife were very precise.Even though he had practiced in the space, Chen Yan asked himself that he still couldn't make a uniform flower knife.

The chef's knife skills cannot be achieved overnight, it requires long-term practice and practice.

Practice makes perfect is easy to say, but it can stump a large number of people in practice.

After cutting one side, Li Maoshan changed the other side, and said: "No, Ah Shui also doesn't like to kill fish. I usually help him kill it. If you kill a lot, you will naturally become proficient."

"Oh."

When all the dishes were finished and served, Cheng Cong was already impatient.

Stir-fried meat with small bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with small bamboo shoots, steamed sea bass, served with a simple plate of fried vegetables.

Cheng Cong was drooling watching, boasting while eating: "Brother Yan, you are amazing, these dishes are really delicious. Brother Dashan, let's have a drink."

Being praised by others, Chen Yan was naturally very satisfied.Seeing that he wanted to drink, Chen Yan got up to get it, but was stopped by Li Maoshan.

Li Maoshan gave Cheng Cong a scrambled egg with a chopstick, and gave him a wink while talking: "Eat your scrambled eggs, what wine do you want to drink?"

"Okay, let's drink next time." Cheng Cong had no choice but to stop drinking.

After a meal, Chen Yan rushed to wash the dishes, so Li Maoshan had to let him.Seeing Chen Yan go to the kitchen, Cheng Cong quickly pulled Li Maoshan and said, "Brother Dashan, we agreed."

Li Maoshan picked up the sake and handed it to him, "Go back quickly."

"Okay, drive him away after using him, you are heartless."

Cheng Cong said with a hurt face, and ran away with his back basket before Li Maoshan punched him.

After he ran out of the door, he couldn't help sticking out his tongue, "I'm so salty, this brother really doesn't take salt seriously."

25. Chapter 25

Because of some of the ingredients that Cheng Cong brought over, excluding what was eaten at noon, there were still a lot left in the evening.

There was still half of the perch left at noon, and Chen Yan was reluctant to kill the other one, so he changed the water and continued to raise it.

There are still two green vegetables left, which are a little bit awkward.Breaking off the leaves one by one, washing them with well water and draining them, Chen Yan thought it would be good to fry minced meat.Although the quantity is not large, one dish is enough for two people to have a meal.

He hadn't decided what to do with the remaining bamboo shoots, but seeing a few potatoes in the small basket made his eyes light up.

It's the easiest to make a soup. You don't need a recipe at all, just put the bamboo shoots and potatoes into the pot and cook. Chen Yan even put an egg in it.It's a pity that some mustard is missing, and he is still a little disappointed.

With these remaining ingredients, Chen Yan made a dinner.

When Cheng Cong came over with a small wine jar in his arms, he happened to see Li Maoshan gathering bamboo shoot shells drying at the door.

There are not many bamboo shoot shells, so Li Maoshan gathered them and put them in a basket. The bamboo shoot shells that have only been dried for half a day need to be dried for a few more days before they can be used as firewood.He moved the basket under the shed, and when he looked up, he saw Cheng Cong was teasing his little rabbit with one hand.

"Why are you here again?"

Rescuing the struggling rabbit from him, Li Maoshan said with a little disgust, and let Cheng Cong follow behind him into the main room unhappily.

He put the rabbit on the ground, and the little thing jumped away happily.

"Brother Dashan, you can't eat such a small rabbit. It's such a trouble." Cheng Cong saw that the rabbit was skinny and had little meat, and he was quite disgusted. It's big and fleshy, this little thing is not enough to fit between the teeth."

"If he sends a meaty one, I'm afraid you will let him go." Li Maoshan replied while cleaning the main room.

Cheng Cong was said to be careful, he chuckled, and handed the small wine jar to him as if offering a treasure, "Hey, I've brought you something good."

Li Maoshan looked at the small wine jar he handed to him, raised his eyes in doubt, and asked, "Why are you giving me wine?"

"This is no ordinary wine." Cheng Cong approached with a mysterious smile, and said in a low voice, "This is snake whip wine. Didn't I take a snake back with me? My father gave me this. He said he asked me to bring it to you. Hee hee, the little old man is quite interesting this time, and he gave such a good thing."

He put the wine jar on the table, patted the jar lightly, and raised his eyebrows at Li Maoshan: "Brother Dashan, don't disappoint my father."

"Do you think I need to use this thing?" Li Maoshan looked at Cheng Cong leisurely, and swept the broom in his hand to Cheng Cong's feet.

"Your father should leave this thing to you."

Cheng Cong hurriedly jumped to avoid it, puzzled: "What do you leave it for me? I don't have a husband, so I don't need it at all." He was greedy for alcohol, but Cheng Cong still consciously Nonstick.

Li Maoshan continued: "It will be too late when you have a husband."

"What's too late?"

As soon as Chen Yan finished cooking, he heard this sentence. Seeing Li Maoshan talking to Cheng Cong in the main room, he was stunned, "Why are you here again? I didn't do your job. If you want to eat, you have to return it." You go home."

It's not that Chen Yan is stingy with food, but that he dislikes Cheng Cong, a big light bulb.He still hopes that the two of them can enjoy the dinner quietly, especially at the warm and peaceful moment at night, when there are too many people, it would be too disturbing.

"Brother Yan, you are so ruthless in what you say." Cheng Cong said weeping after being rejected by the two of them one after another.

"Oh, I really have no relationship with you." Chen Yan responded blankly, walked closer and saw the wine jar on the table, and asked again: "Did you bring this? What kind of wine?"

Li Maoshan pressed his hand that was curiously about to reach for the wine jar, and said seriously: "Medicinal wine is not suitable for you."

"Brother Yan, this is a great tonic." Cheng Cong said with a big smile, "Snake whip wine is not good, you have to take care of it."