After the genius was abolished, he became my Taoist companion

147. Picking chestnuts

Early the next morning, Ye Huangui bounced off the bed again with a bang.Because the speed was too fast, he didn't see his feet clearly, and when he got out of bed, he stepped on Qiaoqiao.He didn't care about it, so he rushed to the bathroom of his house in a hurry.

Early in the morning, Xiao Ye Zi blushed and was washing her obscene pants.Why did he have a dream that he shouldn't have?And the dream is getting worse every time!

Fortunately, when he woke up, Lao Tan was still in a deep sleep. If Lao Tan saw him like this, he would not be able to explain why.Thinking of what happened in the dream, Ye Huangui's ears turned red again.

Ye Huangui twisted the water on his underwear heavily, and decided to go to Bailu Town to find the construction team in the afternoon.It's time to build a house!

He sleeps on the floor tonight, if not, he sleeps in a mule cart!In short, I can't sleep with Lao Tan again!

When he finished drying his underwear and returned to the bedroom, he saw Tan Duzhi picking up Qiaoqiao from the ground.Seeing Ye Huan come in, Tan Duzhi smiled and said, "Morning, it fell to the ground."

Ye Huanhui was still immersed in shame, he said absently: "Just drop it."

Tan Duzhi turned the puppet over, and saw a lump of black on the upturned buttocks: "Dirty."

Ye Huangui came back to his senses, he stepped forward to take Qiaoqiao and looked at it: "It should be because I stepped on it just now, it's okay, just take off the outer plush cover and wash it."

As he said that, Ye Huangui reached out and touched the back of his long, warped neck.It was only at this time that Tan Duzhi discovered that there was a two-foot-long slit behind the back of Qiaoqiao's neck.There are two rows of hidden buttons on both sides of the seam, which are covered by cloth strips.

Ye Huangui undid the hidden button on the seam, and the upturned outer skin was peeled off to reveal the white inner in just two strokes.The inside is filled with a kind of fluffy grass in water. The white fluffy grass is not warm, but it is fluffy and light.Qiaoqiao has been used for so many years, and the inside has been bulging.

Ye Huangui threw the white inner lining on the bed and said calmly while holding the shell: "The weather is fine today, after washing, put it outside to dry, and it will be dry in the evening."

Tan Duzhi smiled and said, "Let me do the washing, and you make breakfast."

Ye Huan was happy: "Hey? Old Tan, can you do laundry?"

Tan Duzhi didn't change his face: "There is always a first time for everything, it's okay, leave it to me." As he said that, he took the warped plush coat from Ye Huangui's hand.

Seeing Ye Huangui walk towards the kitchen without any suspicion, Tan Duzhi lowered his head to look at Qiaoqiao who had been shrunken in a relaxed manner. The puppet that got in the way finally fell into his hands!

Ye Huangui made tofu soup and pumpkin pie in the morning. The tofu soup was gurgling in the big pot, and the golden pumpkin pie was floating on the oil pan in the small pot.During this period of time, the pumpkins at home have produced many small pumpkins, and Ye Huangui is eating pumpkins in different ways.

Pumpkin pies are all basic operations. He can also make steamed pork ribs with pumpkin and salted egg yolk pumpkin.

Just when he was thinking about pancakes, he heard Tan Duzhi's apologetic voice: "Xiaoye... I'm sorry, I made a mistake."

Ye Huangui looked out of the window, and saw Tan Du standing under the grape arbor with a guilty face, holding the warped skin in his hand, at a loss: "I used too much force, and I washed it to pieces."

There was a huge gap in Qiaoqiao's neck, and the neck was about to fall off.Tan Duzhi was annoyed: "If I knew it earlier, I would just clean it up with the clean dust technique."

Ye Huangui reassured: "It's okay, you just want to experience the feeling of washing by hand! Besides, the warped coat has been used for many years, maybe it has weathered?"

Tan Duzhi said sincerely: "How about I sew it for you? Or where did you order it, and I'll make it for you again."

Ye Huangui waved his hand proudly: "It's all right! I have a spare skin."

After Ye Huangui fried the pumpkin pie, he brought Tan Duzhi to the cabinet in the bedroom.I saw him open the cabinet and rummaged through the innermost layer of the cabinet: "When I was making Qiaoqiao, I thought about what to do if Qiaoqiao's clothes were dirty or damaged. So I ordered three coats at that time, If it’s broken, just replace it with another one!”

As he said that, he pulled out another deflated and warped coat from the cabinet, Tan Duzhi's eyes were full of disappointment.He could only smile awkwardly as Ye Hugui stuffed the inside into the brand-new outer skin, and he was revived with blood, his fur was brighter, and his appearance was cuter.The little blush on his face was full of provocations to Tan Duzhi.

At this moment, Lao Tan felt that his biggest challenge in this family was not making treasures, but Qiaoqiao.

Ye Huangui put Qiaoqiao on the bed in satisfaction, and covered it with a quilt thoughtfully: "Okay! Let's go, let's have breakfast!"

The tofu soup was delicious and the pumpkin cake was sweet. This breakfast successfully soothed the depression of Ye Huangui and Tan Duzhi.

When they finished their breakfast and walked past the chicken coop with their baskets in hand, Wen Ruyu came out of his cave with frizzy hair: "Ah...where are you going?"

Ye Huangui pointed in the direction of Guidance Mountain: "Lao Tan and I are going to pick up chestnuts, Lao Wen, can you help kill the rabbit for a while?"

Wen Ruyu agreed, "Ang, how many will you kill?"

Ye Huangui said: "Let's kill three or four, and pick up the big fat ones. By the way, breakfast is in the pot. I'll eat pumpkin pie and tofu soup this morning."

As soon as Wen Ruyu heard that there was tofu soup, Wen Ruyu walked happily along the path to the kitchen: "Hey, tofu soup~ you can have tofu soup~"

Tan Duzhi looked at Wen Ruyu's swaying back thoughtfully.Ye Huangui asked in bewilderment: "Old Tan? What are you looking at?"

Tan Duzhi came back to his senses and smiled: "Maybe when we come back, he hasn't finished his breakfast yet."

Ye Huan was happy: "It doesn't matter, I have to find something for Lao Wen to do. Otherwise, he will have no sense of belonging."

This person must not be too idle. When he is idle, he tends to think too much, and when he thinks too much, accidents are easy to happen.Find something to do, pass the time, and increase the fun, why not do it?

Tan Duzhi still remembers the scene when he first went to Nanshan, when Ye Huangui carried him to pick bamboo shoots.At that time, Ye Huangui said with great anticipation that they could pick chestnuts together when the chestnuts were ripe.Half a year has passed, and Ye Huangui's expectation has come true.

Old Tan doesn't need him to carry it anymore, not only that, but Old Tan can also carry a basket on his back.The two were followed by four swaggering little animals. This scene was so similar to half a year ago!

The sun broke through the thin clouds and fell on the tall chestnut trees on the South Mountain, and the leaves of the chestnut trees were jagged and wrinkled with thin dew.On the dense leaves, green chestnut balls raised their heads proudly.

There is a layer of green thorns on the outside of the chestnut ball, and it is not easy to get stuck.Many chestnut balls have exploded to reveal the brown chestnuts inside, and some chestnut balls have fallen from the tree to the ground, throwing out the chestnuts inside.

This is also the place where ducks and ducks play. As long as the tender grass under the tree sprouts, ducks and ducks will bring their friends here to nibble on the tender grass.With their help, there is only a thick layer of fallen leaves under the chestnut tree, and there are no messy weeds.

There are three common chestnuts that Ye Huan returns home.A kind of chestnut is conical, only one can grow in a chestnut ball, and the chestnut is only as big as a thumb.The yield of this kind of chestnut is not high, but the taste is very good.He often uses this kind of chestnuts to make sugar-fried chestnuts.

A kind of chestnut is very big, and a chestnut ball is bigger than Ye Huangui's fist.After opening the chestnut ball, you will see two or three heavy chestnuts with irregular shapes growing inside. This kind of chestnut is very solid, and you can feel full after eating a few.He often uses this chestnut stew or sweet soup.

Another kind is wild chestnuts. The whole chestnut ball is only a circle larger than an apricot, and the chestnut inside is about the size of a fingernail.This kind of wild chestnut is boiled in water and thrown directly into the mouth when eating. After biting down, the chestnut shell bursts open, and the soft and glutinous chestnut kernel will flow out.As a snack is simply invincible!

Not only Ye Hugui loves to eat it, but even Zhaocai Jinbao Yaya likes to eat this kind. Apart from the trouble of picking it up, this kind of small hairy chestnut can be ranked No. 1 in Ye Hugui's heart.

The chestnut trees here in Nanshan became a forest, and Ye Hugui put the basket on the ground. He looked at the fallen chestnuts all over the ground: "Old Tan, I picked the ones on the ground, how about you pick the ones from the trees?"

Tan Duzhi responded, "Okay."

Ye Huangui said again: "Be careful when you pick them. Don't pick the chestnuts that are not open. That kind of chestnuts are not yet ripe."

Tan Duzhi looked at the crown of the tree with his spiritual sense, and saw that most of the chestnut balls had opened their mouths, and only a few of them hadn't been opened yet.When I probed with my consciousness, I saw that the chestnuts inside the open chestnut balls were tender white in color, and a little brown just appeared on some of them.

It turns out that there are no ripe chestnuts like this!I have learned a lot.

There were chestnuts all over the ground, one by one, Ye Hugui closed his eyes and swept away with his consciousness, his whole body overflowed with blue aura.The aura stretched forward close to the ground, and after a while, chestnuts or chestnut balls floated up from the fallen leaves and flew towards the storage bag with its mouth open.

But Tan Duzhi's speed was even faster, and the golden aura swung away, and the chestnut balls left the leaf surface and flew towards the storage bag together.

The two cooperated tacitly, and it didn't take long to collect a storage bag of chestnuts.The storage bag that Ye Huangui brought was the lowest storage bag issued by the Cyanwood Sect to Foundation Establishment monks, and a storage bag could hold up to five loads of grain.Ye Huangui brought back several of them, which were specially used to store his family's crops.

This year, you don't have to worry about having no place to put food anymore!

Ye Huangui looked at the chestnuts in the storage bag and the back basket: "Okay, let's collect this much first. Leave the rest to the small animals in the forest, and wait for them to eat first. If there are any extra, We'll collect it again."

Tan Duzhi wondered: "Will animals eat chestnuts?"

Ye Huangui smiled: "Yes, squirrels and wild boars will eat them, and there are also birds. Some birds like to eat worms in chestnuts."

Tan Duzhi was stunned: "There are worms in the chestnut?!" He didn't notice it!

Ye Huangui bent down and picked up a chestnut at random. He peeled off the chestnut's shell, and saw a round milky white worm stuck in the middle of the yellow chestnut flesh.Ye Huangui peeled the worm out of the chestnut, the worm was too fat to roll, it rolled a few times in Ye Huangui's palm before giving up struggling.

Tan Duzhi pinched the worm and looked at it, he was happy: "This is the roundest worm I have ever seen." It was too fat to walk normally, and it looked so cute.

Ye Huangui smiled and said: "This is the worm in the chestnut. Chickens eat these worms so cute. I will wait for the small animals in the forest to eat chestnuts first, and when they are almost eaten, I will take the wormy chestnuts back and feed them to the chickens." .”

Tan Duzhi was full of admiration: "It's amazing."

Since getting acquainted with Xiaoye, he has learned a lot of things that he never noticed before.All this is so strange and new to him, full of fun.

148. Kill the Rabbit

Ye Huangui threw away the worm-infested chestnuts, and he took out two chestnuts from the back basket and peeled them off.Under the hard skin of chestnuts, there is a film with fluff, which is not easy to deal with when it sticks to chestnuts.But who is Ye Huangui? All his previous aura was used to deal with delicious food, not to mention the mere chestnut film.

I saw him peel off the brown film in two or three strokes, leaving the yellow-white chestnut kernels.He casually stuffed this chestnut kernel into Tan Duzhi's mouth: "Try it? Fresh chestnut kernels are crunchy and sweet, very good."

There are many ingredients that can be eaten raw. Whenever it comes to summer and autumn, Ye Huangui has a lot more snacks.What tender lotus seeds, tender peanuts, tender water chestnuts, raw chestnuts... as long as he can get it, he wants to taste it.

The chestnut kernels are as crisp and tender as Ye Huangui said, although they are not very sweet, they have a strong chestnut fragrance.It's really good, Tan Duzhi said with a smile: "It's delicious."

Ye Huangui chuckled: "I'll make sugar-fried chestnuts for you when I go back!"

There is moisture in fresh chestnuts, so they need to be spread out in a cool, dry and ventilated place for a good taste.As soon as he returned to the yard, he poured the chestnut balls and kernels on the bluestone ground in the yard.After a while, the round chestnut balls covered half of the yard.The cyan chestnut ball looks like a little hedgehog, and there are brown and shiny chestnuts lying in it.

Before practicing cultivation, Ye Huangui especially hated shelling chestnuts.The chestnut shell looks okay, but the thorns on it are very hard, and it hurts when you pierce it.In those years without aura, when the chestnuts were ripe, he would either go to the tree to pick up the fallen chestnuts, or tie two wooden boards under his shoes.

Ye Huangui was able to pinch the chestnut out of the chestnut shell by stepping on it with his feet and clamping it with the tongs.In order to eat a mouthful of chestnuts, he had to be stabbed a lot.

Thinking back to the hardships of the past, and looking at the convenience now, Ye Xugui was filled with emotion.But no matter how much I feel, things still need to be done. I saw the blue aura flowing around the chestnut balls on the ground, and the chestnuts in the shell flew out of the shell.

Holding the pumpkin pie in Wen Ruyu's hand, he laughed and said, "What are you two doing? Why didn't you just remove the outer shell from the chestnut tree? You even made a special trip to bring it back, isn't it hard to think about it?"

Ye Huangui said: "Oh, these chestnut shells can be used as firewood after drying."

The thorns on the chestnut shells are too hard, and they cannot rot after falling on the ground for a long time.Ye Huangui would go to the woods every year to pick up chestnut shells to prevent his chickens and ducks from getting stuck under the trees.

Dried chestnut shells are good firewood, especially for stoves in winter.The burned ash is also a good fertilizer, poured in the fields or buried under the trees, the next year's crops and fruit trees will grow well.

Wen Ruyu shrugged: "All right."

He stuffed the last bite of pumpkin pie into his mouth, "I'm going to catch the rabbits. The fat ones..." Wen Ruyu's voice gradually died down, and he looked at Tan Duzhi with unfriendly eyes: "Look at me What are you doing? Kill rabbits with me!"

Ye Huan returned to his seriousness and said, "Old Tan doesn't kill rabbits."

Wen Ruyu was stunned: "Why doesn't he kill the rabbit? Doesn't he eat it after a while?! You can't treat one more than another!"

Ye Huangui added: "Old Tan is going to kill chickens." He has made the arrangements clearly, so no one can be lazy.

Killing rabbits is not difficult. Wen Ruyu used to catch a few plump hares to beat his teeth as a sacrifice when he was hungry when he was walking in the realm of comprehension.It's just that roasted rabbits always have an indescribable earthy smell, and Wen Ruyu doesn't like that smell.In the end, he would rather spend money to buy wine and eat meat in restaurants than do it himself.

He is still looking forward to it today, Ye Huangui's dishes are all delicious.I don't know what the taste of the rabbit he made is.

While thinking, Wen Ruyu lifted the mat on the rabbit's cage.And Tan Duzhi quietly stood behind him: "Are you okay?"

Wen Ruyu frowned, and turned his head to look Tan Duzhi up and down: "It's pretty good!"

There was worry in Tan Duzhi's eyes: "Old Wen, haste makes waste, don't worry."

Wen Ruyu grinned with a complicated smile: "I really don't want to be comforted by you. Don't worry, I know."

Tan Duzhi paused and said earnestly: "Don't push yourself too hard, if you need help, you can call me."

Wen Ruyu's eyes became more complicated: "Understood, why did you suddenly change your mind and care about me so much?"

Tan Duzhi said: "If something happens to you, Xu Gui will be worried."

Wen Ruyu was stunned: "Huh?"

Tan Duzhi said: "In his heart, you and I are his friends and family members. He doesn't care how advanced our cultivation is, or how much we can do anything outside, he only cares about whether we are healthy or happy."

Wen Ruyu was silent, and he pondered for a while before opening his mouth: "Tan Duzhi, you are really lucky to meet a Taoist companion like Xiao Yezi. Treat him well, if you do something wrong to him in the future, I will will look down on you."

Tan Duzhi turned his head to look at Ye Huangui, who was struggling with the chestnut ball, his brows and eyes were tender: "There won't be that day."

Wen Ruyu smiled and said, "Okay, let's get to work. Those who don't work don't get to eat!"

Speaking of Wen Ruyu holding a rabbit by its hind legs, the big rabbit struggled for a while, and then screamed loudly.

Wen Ruyu shook her hand: "Ouch!" The rabbit fell into the cage again, and the big rabbit hopped around a few times and found a corner and curled up into a ball.

Wen Ruyu was stunned for a moment and then called out: "Xiaoye, did you use the green wood cauldron to cook something to feed the rabbit! Your rabbit barked!"

Ye Huangui has already peeled the chestnut balls, and he is separating the chestnuts according to their varieties to dry.Hearing Wen Ruyu's cry, he was puzzled: "No, it's fine for the rabbit to eat grass, and there is no need to feed it. And... the rabbit can cry."

Wen Ruyu didn't believe it: "The rabbits I saw before never barked!"

Ye Huangui smiled: "Rabbits can bark, and they bark loudly when they are in danger." He had raised rabbits when he was a child, and the first time he heard a rabbit bark, he was also frightened.

Wen Ruyu patted her chest: "Scared me."

Tan Duzhi came out of the chicken coop, holding two big roosters with colorful feathers in his hands: "We always boast that we have advanced cultivation and a deeper understanding of the way of heaven than others. In fact, our knowledge is very shallow. We only know what we want to know."

Wen Ruyu was speechless: "Hey, you started arguing with me when I asked you to catch a chicken? Are you done catching? Come, help me catch a rabbit."

When Ye Huangui sorted the chestnuts, three kinds of chestnuts of different sizes and shapes appeared on the ground in the courtyard, and each chestnut was plump and smooth.Give them a little blowing and they'll be packed away in a storage bag later.

On the other side, Wen Ruyu and Tan Duzhi also slaughtered the rabbits and chickens, and four skinned rabbits and a large basket of chopped chickens were placed in the shroud beside the sink.

This time it was Ye Huangui's turn to be stunned: "So fast!!" He didn't even hear the screams of the chicken and the rabbit, and he didn't even see Tan Duzhi boiling water to scald the chicken feathers...the two speeds are too terrifying!

Ye Huangui knew that Wen Ruyu slaughtered animals quickly.It didn't take him a cup of tea to clean up a little fragrant pig last time, so it's no problem to deal with four rabbits.

It's just that he didn't expect Tan Duzhi to be so fast!

Tan Duzhi was very humble: "Fortunately, I have seen you kill chickens before, so I remember the general steps."

Ye Xugui looked at the bamboo basket, he admired Lao Tan so much.Where are the steps memorized?This is clearly blue out of blue!Look at the internal organs of the chicken, which are cleaned up and placed in a bowl. It is very clean at a glance.

Ye Hugui looked at the chicken offals that had been cleaned up, and then at Tan Duzhi who was facing the wind in Yushu.He regretted it a bit, why didn't he go to watch Lao Tan kill the chicken just now?It's hard to imagine how a beautiful woman like Tan Duzhi handles the mess.

But these chicken giblets are really good. You can make a pickled chili chicken giblet in a while, which is hot and sour. Those who love to drink must especially like it!

Wen Ruyu shook her fan: "I don't have the patience of Tan Duzhi to clean up the rabbit's internal organs. I'll throw those internal organs to your family to attract money."

Zhaocai can even swallow wild boars raw, as well as the internal organs of several rabbits.

Ye Huangui scratched his head: "Ah..." He was about to bathe Zhaocai again, and thinking of the scene of Zhaocai eating offal made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Wen Ruyu said: "However, I kept the rabbit blood."

As he spoke, he pointed to the stove, and there were two big bowls of bright red blood on the stove.One bowl is rabbit blood and the other bowl is chicken blood.

Since the two had eaten Xuewang last time, they remembered the deliciousness of blood.Wen Ruyu said: "Let's make Xuewang in a while! The Xuewang I made last time is delicious~ It will be better if it is more spicy!"

Ye Huangui put the two bowls of blood in the cupboard: "Not today, there are a lot of delicious food today. Shall we make it tomorrow?"

Speaking of which, Ye Huangui took out a large wooden basin, and he put the rabbit in the basin.Rabbit meat has a strong fishy smell, so he needs to marinate the rabbit first, and then roast it for a while before it can taste.

Every time he sees Ye Huangui pickle something, Tan Duzhi thinks he is amazing: "How do you remember so many seasonings?"

I saw chopped onions, ginger, and garlic on the table, and bottles and jars of various seasonings were placed on the table.Ye Huangui lifted the lid and smelled it, then scooped out the condiments and sprinkled them into the rabbit meat, such as cumin pepper powder, light soy sauce and white wine, there were more than a dozen kinds of them.

Ye Huangui explained with a smile: "Actually, I can't remember it, but I know what to put in it after cooking too much. If the taste is light, just put in fishy things. If you need a strong taste, then you can add anything To add a little."

Wen Ruyu put his hands in his hands, and he saw Ye Huangui rubbing and rubbing.The pink rabbit meat was marinated in the seasoning and quickly turned into a sauce color. The fishy smell of the rabbit meat was covered by the sauce. It smelled spicy and spicy. It must taste better when it is roasted.

Ye Huangui felt a little regretful: "It's a pity, I forgot to kill the rabbit last night. If it was marinated last night, the roast taste will be even better today."

Tan Duzhi pondered for a moment: "This is easy to handle."

Speaking of which, Tan Duzhi carved a formation around the wooden basin with aura: "This is a formation that allows time to pass quickly. When the aura in the formation is used up, the rabbit should be ready to be marinated."

Ye Huangui looked at the tub in shock: "This is fine!"

Wen Ruyu smiled and said: "Who do you think he is? He is Tan Duzhi. Although there is no distinction between five grains, but in the current cultivation world, there should not be many people who can surpass him .”

Ye Huangui gave a thumbs up in admiration: "Old Tan is so powerful!"