Ever since Su Qingluan showed her talent that time and her family discovered that she had a "talent for cooking", Ms. Yang was gradually willing to let her help in the kitchen.
Although the knife skills cannot be fully revealed at once, Su Qingluan still thought of many other ways that would not arouse suspicion to improve the originally not rich diet.
For example, grind dried mushrooms and other spices into powder and sprinkle them with salt as seasonings on dishes to enhance the flavor;
For example, wash the leftover wild fruits picked on the mountains and roadsides and put them in aged vinegar and soy sauce, which makes the vinegar and soy sauce have a fruity aroma and subtle sweet and sour taste, making the soy sauce and aged vinegar softer and richer in taste;
For example, it is suggested that when Yang is mixing vegetables, he should abandon the original mixing method of turning in one direction, and instead pick and mix from bottom to top. The resulting mixed vegetables will be more crispy and delicious...
These small kitchen skills are all Su Qingluan is already familiar with, and they are not very profound. It's just that because of the current era, these are not common - at least for Yang, this is the first time he has heard it.
Of course, when Su Qingluan proposed these techniques, he did not go straight to the point and put on the airs of a "chef". Instead, he acted like a primary school student from a certain thousand-year-old god of death, pretending to be stupid, beating around the bush, and even deliberately provided a few disguised words. The idea of overturning the car did not surprise Yang too much. He only lamented that "children have many weird ideas."
Gradually, the Su family discovered that no matter how ordinary ingredients they were, in Su Qingluan's hands, they could transform into magic and become delicious. So no matter what food you eat, you have to ask her what makes it delicious.
As Su Qingluan's physical strength gradually recovered, she began to take her younger siblings to dig wild vegetables in the back mountains, feed chickens and ducks, and do some simple sweeping at home while her parents were working in the fields.
She was cleaning up the chicken shed that day when she vaguely heard Su Xueyan's cry. She quickly ran to the front yard and found blood on the little girl's pouty lips.
"Why is it hurt?" Su Qingluan was heartbroken, and quickly blew gently towards the damaged part of the little girl's lip: "It hurts!"
Then he asked Su Xuanhe who was following him: "Aren't you playing together? Did she fall?"
Su Xuanhe stood next to the little girl and rolled his eyes, a little helpless: "It's not that she is greedy, she ate too much 'sour hook'. Mother said, you have to hook her mouth after eating too much." broken."
As he spoke, he flipped his wrist, and a small handful of orange wild berries was placed in Su Qingluan's hand.
Su Qingluan picked up one. She had never seen this kind of wild fruit. Carefully bite into it, and it turns out to be sour, sweet and refreshing. The taste is very similar to the combination of passion fruit and pineapple that I have eaten in modern times.
However, this fruit is round and plump in shape, and does not have any sharp thorns or prickly fuzz like a peach. How could it scratch your mouth?
When Su Xuanhe heard Sister A's question, he scratched his head and said, "I don't know either. It's just that if you eat less of this fruit, it's better. If you eat more, your mouth will tingle and hurt. If you eat more, it will bleed."
pain? bleed?
Su Qingluan narrowed her eyes: Could it be... what she thought?
"How much fruit is this?" Su Qingluan lowered his head and looked at the two little beans.
"Throughout the summer and autumn, they were everywhere on the hill behind. I picked these yesterday," Su Xuanhe said.
Su Qingluan rolled her eyes and looked at the sky. It was just noon now, and it would still be some time before Yang came back to prepare for feeding.
She bent down and wiped away the tears of the third sister who was still losing her golden beans. She held one person's hand and said with a smile, "Sister, I will take you to find delicious food. Let's add dinner tonight!"
When the little girl heard that there was delicious food, she immediately forgot to cry and kept asking, "Where are we going?" "What should we eat?" and so on.
This was the first time Su Xuanhe was held by Su Qingluan like this. He felt that his sister's palms were different from the rough touch of his parents. They seemed so soft, but equally warm.
The little boy muttered awkwardly, "I'm a man now, I can go on my own!" He pulled his hand away, but his face turned red quietly.
"Oh, you are a kid." Su Qingluan tugged on Su Xuanhe's hair bun, turned around and locked the firewood gate of the yard, and took her younger siblings to the river.
Su Qingluan walked slowly along the river, and finally found a river where the water flow was relatively fast but the river was relatively narrow. He broke off a branch and explored the bottom of the river bed - well, there was sand, gravel and silt, so that's it. Easy to handle.
"Xueyan, Xuanhe!" Su Qingluan found a branch of moderate thickness and held it in his hand, "Let's play a game~ There will be prizes if you win~"
When Su Xueyan heard about playing games, she immediately smiled and clapped her hands: "Play games! Play games!"
Although Su Xuanhe said nothing, his eyes lit up and he looked over.
"Did you see this branch in my hand?" She raised the stick-like branch in her hand, "Within the time I specified, you must bring back as many such branches as possible - they can only be thicker. It can’t be thinner—if it can exceed thirty, you will win.”
As she spoke, Su Qingluan drew a circle on the open space by the river, roughly divided it into eight equal parts, and inserted a small branch vertically into the center of the circle: "Look, the shadow is here now." She pointed He pointed at the scale where the shadow was and said, "When the shadow moves here, the game ends - so don't run too far."
As she said that, she defined a range of activities for the two little buns, which were all within her sight.
"let's start!"
Following Su Qingluan's order, Su Xuanhe took his sister and ran away happily.
"Slow down! Don't fall!" Su Qingluan shouted at the top of her neck and began to weave straw ropes from the long weeds near the river bank.
She first broke the thin grass leaves from the middle along the veins, gently rubbed them until they were soft, and then tied them into thin straw ropes. She carefully turned the three grass ropes into one thread like a braid, and then tied the three The "twist braid" was braided into one, and it was pulled with all the strength without breaking.
"Well, this kind of grass has good toughness and can be used." She nodded with satisfaction.
While Su Qingluan was sitting by the river braiding straw ropes, the two little ones took back the branches one after another.
Su Qingluan picked and picked: "This one won't work, it's too thin, and these two are too short... Find them according to the appearance of these ones - cutting corners is not a win~"
Children are always serious and energetic. Seeing Su Qingluan being so "choosy", Su Xueyan and Su Xuanhe were not angry, but took a "sample" and ran away.
Su Qingluan used braided straw ropes to fix the upper, middle and lower ends of the branches, and tied the branches one by one into a row of "fences". By the time the younger siblings came back panting for the last time, the "fence" in Su Qingluan's hand was already more than three meters long.
Su Qingluan visually checked that it was enough, so he dragged the "fence" into the river and arranged it into a "human" shape against the flow of water, with the opening facing the direction of the flow of water.
Since the bottom of the river is full of silt and gravel, Su Qingluan can easily press the branches into the mud and fix them to prevent the "fence" from being washed away by the current.
But to be on the safe side, she moved a few larger rocks and blocked them behind the fence.
"Sister, what are you doing?"
Su Xueyan asked curiously.
"I guess it's about catching fish!" Su Xuanhe said with certainty. Then he frowned and said, "This fish smells fishy and has many bones. What can you eat after catching it?"
Su Qingluan smiled mysteriously: "That's because we didn't get the point." And now, she knew a perfect way to turn this earthy fish meat into a supreme delicacy.
