Leisurely reborn

The New Year's Eve dinner, the whole village celebrates.

The market of shiitake mushrooms has been reduced, and the stones in the hearts of the villagers have fallen to the ground. Using the shiitake mushrooms planted in the slack winter can bring you considerable income. This is simply the best thing for farmers.

On weekdays, everyone saves money on food and clothing. In today's general environment, even if it is Chinese New Year, not everyone can eat and drink to their heart's content.Many people have a meal of dumplings on New Year's Eve, which is enough.

And tonight, there are a lot of dishes, and most importantly, there is also a lot of meat. Although it is not enough for everyone to eat with an open belly, it is definitely enjoyable.

Originally, Chen Youran didn't intend to participate in the dinner party, but Zhou Yanzhi came, he didn't want to stay at home alone with Zhou Yanzhi, so he simply went to the lively venue to help.

At the venue where the banquet is about to be held, many villagers have set up temporary earthen stoves piled up with adobe bricks. The cauldron with a diameter of more than one meter was borrowed by the village party secretary.

There is a family in the neighboring village that specializes in red and white banquets. There are two such large pots in the family, and they are all borrowed today.

In a large pot, common spices such as cinnamon, star anise, and peppercorns are placed, and then the whole chicken, large pieces of pork, and bones are all thrown into it and boiled over high heat.

In another big pot, the hot oil is boiling. The woman who is best at frying fried dough sticks in the village is frying fried dough sticks. She didn’t add washing powder and alum like later generations, which gave the fried dough sticks a hollow and crispy effect.

In addition, there are several smaller pots for cooking, steaming fish and so on.

Children are running around, women are yelling and cursing, which brat stole food again, which stupid girl knocked over the vegetable basket...

Chen Youran came here because she was going to cook Maoxuewang and Flavored Duck for everyone.

Maoxuewang is a Sichuan dish, and it won't be a surprise that it will come into the eyes of the people all over the country because of Sichuan cuisine restaurants blooming all over the country.However, these days, the traffic is inconvenient and the information is not clear. In Shilihe Village, no one has had the good fortune to eat this dish.

As for the delicious duck, it’s very simple. The locals here rarely eat duck. Generally, ducks and geese are raised for sale. When the eggs are sold out, they sell old ducks and geese.The locals don't know how to cook duck. The roast duck in city B, the salted duck in city N, the boiled duck in old duck soup in province G, etc., are not found here in Shilihe Village.

Everyone doesn't like to eat ducks. At most, they are too greedy. They don't want to throw away dead ducks, so they cook them at home and eat them.Live ducks are generally sold.Of course, there are very few people who raise ducks, and most of them raise more chickens.

In fact, the duck and goose are both delicious.Goose, there are really very few in the village, and the only ones are usually used for housekeeping and nursing homes, so they can only eat ducks.These ducks belong to the Chen family.They are all raised on the mountain and in the natural pond, absolutely natural and pollution-free.

Originally, Chen Youran thought that Zhou Yanzhi must not like such a noisy occasion, but who knew that he really followed.

Moreover, the most leisurely and helpless thing is that for a person like Zhou Yanzhi, as long as he wants to blend in with the crowd, he can best blend in with all kinds of people in the shortest possible time.

For example, at this moment, my uncle Chen Guoqiang has already started confiding in Zhou Yanzhi, and the village party secretary has also started talking...

Chen Youran sighed, he had to admit that he was actually somewhat jealous of Zhou Yanzhi, and this jealousy existed in the previous life.

Zhou Yanzhi is a natural luminous body, with an extraordinary family background, outstanding talent, and outstanding personal charm, he easily possesses everything that others can't match in their lifetime...

Shaking his head and laughing.

The sky had begun to darken, and winter nights always come early.Without snow, tonight's reunion dinner can be enjoyed tonight. Even if it is cold and windy, people's enthusiasm will not diminish in the slightest.

The chicken, pork, and a little bit of beef in the big pot have been simmered for two or three hours, and the smell has gone in, and the meat is crispy.Just take it out and cut it into pieces.

Chen Youran has to do something here, Maoxuewang and Tasty Duck are going on at the same time.

In a pot, boil the water first, blanch the lettuce, soybean sprouts, beef louver, sliced ​​and boneless eel and duck blood, and set aside.Pour in the sliced ​​duck meat and blanch it to remove the blood foam.

In another pot, pour oil, add onion, ginger, and garlic to sauté until fragrant, then scoop out a spoonful of homemade bean paste and a small piece of butter, sauté until fragrant, then put in the soy sauce and sugar that the farmer made from soybeans, and scoop half a bowl just now Boil the broth of meat and bones, pour.Then add the various ingredients that have just been blanched and stew.

At the same time, the duck meat used to make the flavored duck is also blanched. Take it out, wash the pot, do not put oil, fry the blanched duck meat dry on low heat, and stir fry slowly, so that the duck meat cannot be mushy. Also fry the water in the duck meat.

Busy but not chaotic is the portrayal of Chen Youran at this time.

Zhou Yanzhi didn't know when he came over, so he stood by and watched.

Chen Youran smiled at him, "Do you want to try?"

The corner of Zhou Yanzhi's mouth twitched, he paused, and came over, "How?"

"Just keep stirring like this, every piece must be turned over, so it doesn't get mushy." Chen Youran handed the shovel in his hand to Zhou Yanzhi.

Zhou Yanzhi's movements were very unfamiliar, but the advantage was that his arms were strong and his speed was fast, so he didn't stick to the pan or get mushy.

Chen Youran filled the stewed hairy blood in the ten large bowls that had been set up.Wash the pot, fry the peppers in oil, pour hot chili oil on each bowl of Maoxuewang, sprinkle with coriander, and it's done.Ten tables, not one bowl on the table.

Zhou Yanzhi is still frying duck.

There is too much duck meat. If you start stir frying, you don't feel too tired, but after a long time, your arms will get tired.

If it's just a family eating one dish, Chen Youran feels no pressure, but these ten dishes are fried at the same time, the pot is big enough, and it really takes a certain amount of strength.

Chen Youran was not in a hurry, and stood on the side watching with interest Zhou Yanzhi's frying of duck meat from unfamiliarity to proficiency.

In the midst of soot, among a group of villagers dressed in the most primitive and old fashioned clothes, Zhou Yanzhi stood upright with a spatula in his hand, and his every move was unrestrained...

Chen Youran was convinced.Frying a dish can also give off a noble temperament, which really makes people not even jealous.

When the duck comes out of oil, it means that the frying is almost done. Add pepper, star anise, shredded ginger, and dried chili, then pour in a pot of distiller's grains, stir fry, add salt and soy sauce.After stirring evenly, add water to cover the duck meat, and start to simmer over low heat.

Stew for half an hour, and the water is almost dry, then add red pepper and garlic, and take it out of the pot.

Although the ingredients were all put by Chen Youran, the stir-fry was done by Zhou Yanzhi.

"Taste a bite." Chen Youran raised her eyebrows to signal, "It must be delicious when I fried it myself."

Zhou Yanzhi smiled, holding the spatula in one hand and carrying the plate in the other, and motioned to Chen Youran, "I'm sorry."

This person means that he has no hands, let him feed?

The corner of Chen Youran's mouth twitched, the chopsticks were put on the table by the industrious child, his hands were also clean, he casually squeezed a piece of duck wing, and handed it to Zhou Yanzhi's lips.

Zhou Yanzhi unceremoniously swallowed Chen Youran's fingers together...

Chen Youran was taken aback by the warm and soft touch on his hand, and then withdrew his hand.

The warmth disappeared, and the hands were a little wet, and the wind blew, and it was cool.

Originally, Chen Youran didn't think there was anything wrong with it, as a man, it's fine to be careless, what to care about so much.

But for some reason, Chen Youran felt a little irritable, the feeling in his hand was very strange, and it kept lingering in his heart, obviously there was nothing in his hand, but the feeling just now was still stubbornly playing back in his mind over and over again...

Zhou Yanzhi didn't seem to notice anything, he finished eating slowly, nodded, "It's delicious."

Chen Youran curled her lips, too lazy to say anything.

During the enthusiastic dinner, the villagers exchanged cups, the village party secretary and Chen Guoqiang all came to toast Zhou Yanzhi, and Zhou Yanzhi never refused.

Although the wine I drink is homemade rice wine, the alcohol content is not too high, and I can't stand drinking like this!

Chen Youran looked at Zhou Yanzhi frequently, he really didn't understand what Zhou Yanzhi was thinking.

Here, with a group of villagers who have no sense of etiquette, are dressed in rags, and come here to talk dirty, the cold northwest wind is blowing, watching the Spring Festival Gala with barely audible sound on the 19-inch black and white TV, eating in the open air Dishes that were almost cold just after they were served, and drinking cheap rice wine...

Is this person really the pride of heaven?

Chen Youran felt that something was very wrong.

In the previous life, no matter whether Zhou Yanzhi despised or looked down on him, Chen Youran had always stubbornly believed that the two were rivals, and indeed they had fought against each other many times in the mall.

Chen Youran thought that she knew Zhou Yanzhi very well.

But now it seems that what he thought he understood was actually just what Zhou Yanzhi showed for everyone to see.Just like now, he doesn't know Zhou Yanzhi in front of him at all.

I remember once, at a high-end reception, he and Zhou Yanzhi met on a narrow road.

Out of demeanor, and out of a desire to overwhelm his rival, he raised his glass to Zhou Yanzhi.

But what did Zhou Yanzhi say at that time?

I do not drink.