Su Xueyan looked at the bamboo basket behind Su Qingluan, and for a moment, she had a mischievous idea. She jumped hard and grabbed the frame of the basket on her back with both hands.
Originally, the little girl was only over three years old and weighed only a dozen kilograms at this age. For a girl like Su Qingluan who is already thirteen or fourteen years old, although the weight of an additional child is a bit difficult, it is not. Can't carry it at all.
But Su Qingluan didn't know what her sister was doing, and was about to slide the backpack from behind her shoulders.
Su Xueyan jumped like this and completely pulled the backpack off Su Qingluan's back.
The little girl didn't jump too high, so she didn't fall. It's just that the things that were originally in the backpack were torn down by her with a crash, and the bag fell all over her face and body.
In fact, there are no particularly heavy ingredients in the backpack. Even if Su Xueyan falls all over her head and body, it will not cause any actual harm to a three or four-year-old little girl. But Su Qingluan obviously forgot one thing——
“啊啊啊——！！”属于小孩子尖锐高亢的叫喊声从背后刺来，让苏青鸾浑身的汗毛都倒竖了起来。
Almost subconsciously, Su Qingluan turned around quickly: "What happened to Xue Yan? Was he injured?"
"There's a snake!" The little girl was so frightened that she dropped the golden beans one by one. "There's a snake! It bites!"
Su Qingluan then remembered that he had caught two snakes in the woods just now and planned to add them to dinner in the evening. At this time, the "extra meal" meal was hanging motionless on Su Xueyan's clothes.
However, the frightened little girl had no extra energy to pay attention to the life and death of the snake, and was so frightened that she cried loudly.
Su Qingluan quickly grabbed the two snakes aside, held her sister in her arms and coaxed: "Don't cry, don't cry. Look, the snakes are dead and won't bite anyone."
At this time, the rest of the family heard the crying and ran over to see what was going on. Even Sun Guixiang, who was opposite, looked over with her arms crossed and her belly protected.
Su Qingluan had to explain everything one by one, and promised to make the snake meat more delicious tonight.
"You've been in the mountains all day today, why don't you take a break?" Yang heard that Su Qingluan was going to make dinner, and touched her hair distressedly.
Su Qingluan shook her head: "I promised Xueyan today that I will make the snake meat more delicious and let her eat a few more pieces so that she can avenge the fright she just received."
As he said that, he lowered his head and glanced at the already dirty skirt on his body, and said regretfully: "If I had known that I would spend all day walking in the mountains and forests, I wouldn't have worn this dress." Auntie finally made the skirt , she couldn't bear to wear it, and she dressed in such a mess just to meet a rich slave.
Su Qing felt that he was at a huge loss and decided to mention it in the asking price of the jam.
Yang laughed when she heard this: "Isn't this clothes just for wearing? If it gets dirty or torn, I can just make it for you. What's the big deal?"
When Su Qingluan heard what A Niang said, she shook her head slightly: "It's just that... I feel it's not worth it..."
"What's not worth it?" Yang looked at her eldest daughter's apologetic expression with a smile, "Aren't you going to meet someone important today? In that case, what's not worth it?"
Su Qingluan thought for a while and realized that was correct. Although no one in the Xie family is of any importance to him, as the "father of Party A" who provides funds, they are quite important.
However, Su Qingluan thought about how Yang was lighting the lamp, wasting oil, and sewing the clothes carefully, stitch by stitch, and couldn't help but touch the scratched and rough hem: "I will dress more carefully next time. .”
"Okay, stop thinking about it," Mrs. Yang pushed Su Qingluan to her room, "Aren't you going to make some food for those two little greedy cats later today? Is there anything I can do to help? ?”
When Su Qingluan heard this, she turned around and grinned: "Of course..." Make a fire.
After changing into light clothes, Su Qingluan came to the kitchen. Ms. Yang has already raised the fires on both stoves, but one of the fires has not yet fully burned. She is squatting next to the bellows, slowly pulling the bellows with appropriate force, so as to allow air to enter the stove and make the fire burn more intensely. It thrives and will not be extinguished due to excessive wind.
On the other stove, an earthen pot without boiling water has been placed, which will be used to cook porridge later.
Su Qingluan turned around to look for the previous backpack and the small shoulder basket that had been put aside just now. After looking around the kitchen, she found a basket in a corner of the terrace, and the basket was leaning against the wall in that corner. The miscellaneous things scattered on the floor have been carefully packed up and put back into the backpack.
Su Qingluan rummaged through the inside of the cabinet where the tableware was placed, and found two fine-mouthed coarse porcelain bottles that had accumulated dust. Judging from the amount of dust and the thin cobwebs on the mouth of the bottle, I guess it hasn't been used for a while.
He turned around and asked Yang, and sure enough, the two narrow-mouth bottles were originally the vinegar and soy sauce bottles at home.
However, there is something wrong with the shape of these two bottles. They are loose. Although there is no problem when filling these liquid condiments, they will be scattered everywhere when they are poured out.
Seasonings are so expensive. Even the common vinegar and soy sauce will be wasted every time it is used. It is difficult for anyone not to feel distressed. So these two "wasted" bottles just sat idle.
When Su Qingluan heard Yang's words, she knew that these two bottles would probably not be used for any purpose for a while, so she turned around and wiped them carefully, filled them with water, trimmed the wilted wild flowers that she had picked before, and made them. Flower arrangements were placed on the table in the main room and on the window sill of the kitchen.
A bottle of light yellow and a bottle of light purple wild flowers have a fluffy golden edge against the backdrop of the afternoon light.
Yang heard the movement here, looked up and was happy: "Hey, these flowers are quite beautiful, but they are not very energetic."
Su Qingluan smiled and said: "I have been picking it for a while. I am short of water. I will be relieved soon."
While talking, she put all the wild fruits in the basket into a bowl.
The fruits here include mountain cherries, and there are three or four kinds of them, all of which are common wild fruit types in the mountains and forests of Huaxi Village.
Su Qingluan picked fruits that were still a few days away from being ripe and falling off the branches.
If such fruit is cooked, it will smell like rotten fruit. But if eaten raw, it is very sweet and delicious.
In this era, there were no pesticides or air pollution. Wild fruits collected from the mountains could be eaten by simply wiping away the floating dust.
Su Qingluan brought the fruit to Yang, but was fed a mouthful of sweet, sour and juicy wild fruit.
Mrs. Yang saw her eldest daughter looking at her blankly, a little funny, but also a little distressed: "Don't always look after us, you have to eat some too!" After saying that, he grabbed another handful and fed it to Su Qingluan.
Su Qingluan chewed vaguely: "I ate. I ate a lot. I ate it on the way." After saying that, he ran away as if running away, fearing that his mother would force-feed him again.
Seeing Su Qingluan's look, Yang smiled again, but stopped feeding her. Instead, she went out and said loudly: "Er Zhuang, Sanya, the boss! Da Ya picked the fruit, it's so sweet!" Happy eating!”
Su Qingluan listened to the commotion in the yard, turned around and picked up the two snakes, washed away the blood, cut them into small pieces with a flower knife on the surface. Then cut the old ginger and green onions into green onions and ginger pieces, pat them into pieces with the back of a knife, put them into clean water and rub them vigorously to get the flavor, and then make a bowl of green onion and ginger water, and soak the snake meat in it.
Both of these snakes are large adult snakes. Visually, the shorter one is about the same height as an adult, and the longer one is almost two meters tall. Although they are both relatively thin, due to their considerable length, Su Qingluan would probably weigh about ten kilograms if these two snakes were taken down.
So after the two snakes were processed, there was actually a pot of snake meat segments.
After soaking the snake meat in onion and ginger water to remove the smell, Su Qingluan turned around and started to make the batter with eggs, flour and other seasonings.
Su Qingluan prepared two portions of batter. One portion used more ingredients, especially cornel, pepper, and chopped bay leaves, which are used to remove fishy smell and improve freshness. This portion of batter is used to mix the snake meat segments.
The other one doesn't have that many spices, and the salt isn't as strong. It's used for frying mushrooms and wild vegetables.
However, considering the different thicknesses of mushrooms and wild vegetable leaves, Su Qingluan made the batter for the wild vegetable leaves a little thinner, so that when he fried the wild vegetable leaves later, he would only have a lump of noodles.
At this time, Mrs. Yang had finished dividing the wild fruits and returned to the kitchen. Su Qingluan was busy making batter and said loudly: "Mom, can you help me blanch the mushrooms and wild vegetables separately and squeeze out the water?" ?”
"I'm your mother, I can't help you." Yang smiled and nodded the back of Su Qingluan's head, then turned to collect the vegetable leaves and mushrooms.
After all, Mrs. Yang is also the housewife who has been around the stove. Su Qingluan does not need to say more about what needs to be paid attention to when blanching, and Su Qingluan can also focus more energy on today's highlight - the snake. On top of the meat.
Su Qingluan plans to make the snake meat segments into two types - soft fried and dry fried.
The soft-fried snake meat segments are coated in batter, while the dry-fried ones have a crispier texture and are not coated in batter and are fried directly in the oil pan.
Taking into account the tolerance of his younger brother and younger sister for spicy food, and the fact that one of them is losing teeth and the other has teeth that are not all that long at all, Su Qingluan only added a little cornel powder when frying the snake meat. It has the effect of improving freshness and removing fishy smell.
The dry-fried snake meat has a more charred and crispy texture. Only salt and pepper are used to create a base flavor before frying. After frying the snake meat until crispy, it is sprinkled with barbecue seasonings. Add cumin powder and cornel powder.
Of course, Su Qingluan did not increase the amount of cornel powder to a "lethal amount" according to her own taste. After all, her parents still had to eat it, right?
While Su Qingluan was frying the snake meat segments for the first time, Yang had already blanched all the wild vegetables and mushrooms and squeezed out the water.
Su Qingluan evenly hung the batter on the mushroom leaves and slid them into the oil pan one by one. In an instant, a slightly golden spray of oil foam rolled up in the pot.
