Brother Zhao has never eaten such delicious chicken. In the past, he had beaten the chicken until all the feathers were plucked, dug out the internal organs, inserted a stick, set up a fire, and started roasting it. Every time, it was roasted perfectly. Burnt and bitter, the aroma of the chicken can be tasted except for the unburnt parts inside. There is no umami flavor of chicken at all in other parts. The large and burnt meat is cheap and black every time.
The roast chicken made by Liang Chuan has a faint earthy fragrance on the outside, and the meat inside is not burnt at all. The meat is not only firm but also extremely tender, and the fat is smooth but not greasy. It only needs a pinch of salt, and it is refreshing and tender in the mouth. It's delicious, paired with the sweet rice, which makes people want to eat. One mouthful after another, the mouth is filled with the aroma of meat, which is really a great enjoyment in the world.
Zhaodi took one bite of rice and one bite of meat. This was the most fragrant and heartwarming meal he had ever eaten in his life.
Yi Niang couldn't help but look at Liang Chuan with admiration. Was this a blessing in disguise? She had never heard that Liang Chuan, who had been with her for so many years, could do this.
Brother Zhao's face was covered with food. He looked as if he had never eaten chicken in his life. Liang Chuan was secretly shocked when he saw it. How long had he been hungry? He looked uglier compared to himself. While eating, he couldn't speak clearly and shouted: "Brother, you... this chicken... is too... eaten!"
Liang Chuan couldn't stand it anymore and scolded: "Eat slowly, don't be like a starving ghost reincarnated. Look at your potential, it's just a chicken, there will be more delicious food in the future."
Zhaodi was hungry and scared and was unmoved. However, when Liang Chuan said that there was something better to eat, his eyes glowed green like a hungry wolf and said: "Brother, I will go to the mountains to hunt game later. I used to It’s all in vain, this is what people eat!!!”
Zhaodi popped out several ahhhhhhhs in a row, causing Liang Chuan and Yi Niang to laugh. Yi Niang calmed down a little and scolded with a smile: "You are still laughing at me, don't think about your eating appearance last night, how embarrassed you are. Are you kidding me about recruiting a younger brother?"
Liang Chuan scratched the back of his head, is there any?
This meal was very long and delicious. It was also the first time for Liang Chuan to eat meat in this world. When he ate it, he tasted such fragrant game. It would be difficult for future generations to eat such natural and authentic taste. The aroma of the chicken, coupled with the coarse salt that is not highly purified, makes people have endless aftertaste.
After eating, Yi Niang was cleaning up and throwing bones and other things to Hei Bi. Liang Chuan and Zhao Di went to see the results of the charcoal stove.
Because several small holes in the charcoal stove were sealed, there was no oxygen inside so it could not continue to burn. Soon after the charcoal stove was sealed, the fire inside went out, and the temperature slowly dropped. If you touch the surface with your hands, Because in winter, heat is lost very quickly, and the temperature is basically gone, giving it a bit of a cold texture.
Liang Chuan looked at this earthen cone and had no idea!
Once you become a few people, your life will be guaranteed. If you fail, you will have to find another way to make a living! It should be almost done in one meal. Liang Chuan didn't know what was going on inside, so he took an iron rake and built it. He didn't build it too deep for fear of damaging the charcoal inside, and then gently peeled off the soil. , because the charcoal inside burns at a very high temperature, and the clay is hardened quite hard by the burning, making it a bit tough to grill.
However, with patience, all the mud was gradually cleared away and piled to the side. After cleaning up the soil outside, part of the charcoal inside was covered with a layer of dust, making it difficult to see how the charcoal was. Liang Chuan reached out and touched the charcoal, and then he carefully put his hand on the surface of the charcoal to touch it. After carefully confirming that it had completely cooled down, he asked Zhaodi to clean out the charcoal and put it aside!
"Recruiting brother, you have to slow down, these treasures are precious! You can't stand a little pressure, you know!"
"I know, don't worry. Once I'm full, my hands won't shake and I can control my strength!"
Zhaodi blew away the dust on the surface with his mouth, and made it look ashen. The ashes and soil on the charcoal were blown away, revealing the shiny black-gold charcoal. Although there was no lighting tool, the shiny black-gold texture of the charcoal was still clear under the moonlight!
Zhaodi shouted excitedly: "Look at the three of them, they are really burned into charcoal. They are so beautiful! They are different from the charcoal made by myself!"
These firewood were originally native forests that have grown for tens or hundreds of years. The wood itself is very dense. Even if it is burned into charcoal, the volume of the charcoal has not shrunk much! Each piece is huge and plump, neatly stacked together! Liang Chuan watched as Zhaodi was cleaning out the pieces of charcoal and stacking them neatly under the eaves at the back of the house. The nearly one hundred kilograms of wood that had just been put in was about thirty kilograms of wood that was burned! According to the current price on the market, these thirty kilograms of charcoal can be sold for a few hundred cents. Liang Chuan was filled with emotion. This charcoal-burning craft has produced a mountain of firewood that can be picked at will, and it is all money when burned. , you no longer have to worry about having nothing to eat or being useless, now you shouldn’t have to worry about having no way to survive!
Liang Chuan told Yi Niang the news, and Yi Niang ran over to see that the charcoal burned by Liang Chuan was indeed different from the charcoal burned in her stove. How long can the charcoal burn! "Third brother, how long can this piece of charcoal burn?" Yi Niang asked.
Liang Chuan himself didn't know: "Uh... I don't know about this. The first furnace of charcoal was just produced today. Let's test it tonight and see how it works!"
That night, Yi Niang brought some straw to Zhao Di and spread it next to Yantai. She searched around the house but could not find another quilt. It was still very cold at the foot of the mountain at night. Yi Niang was always worried that Zhao Di would get cold while sleeping at night. Brother Zhao kept saying it was okay, "This side is next to the stove, and the fire inside is always burning, so it is warm enough. I used to just find a place outside and sleep directly. How dare I expect to have a quilt!"
Liang Chuan said mysteriously: "Recruiting brother, the three of you have promised not to let you starve or freeze. Go and move the mud pot at the door to your own room, go!"
Recruiting his brother to bring a clay pot, Liang Chuan took a piece of red-hot firewood from the belly of the stove, put it in the basin, and then added the charcoal he burned on it. The fire gradually simmered the charcoal red, and a pot of charcoal came from The shiny black color at the beginning slowly turned into red and white, and the white flowers looked like silver. The surface of the charcoal became slightly distorted due to the refraction of temperature and light.
The temperature in the house is getting higher and higher as the charcoal fire gets stronger and stronger. The house itself is not big. Now staying in the house is like turning on the heater. Wear more clothes and even sweat!
Zhaodi giggled happily and said to Liang Chuan: "Third brother, I didn't expect that I still have such a life. I used to freeze to death at designated nights in the winter, but now I sleep with you and get this kind of treatment! This thing is average Only big households can use it, you know, this stuff isn’t cheap!”
Liang Chuan asked: "Is this thing expensive? Why can only big people use it?"
Brother Zhao replied: "It's expensive! One kilogram costs twenty yuan. Don't look at the mountains and trees here. There are wild boars and tigers in Hulu Mountain. If you go to the mountains to collect firewood and get bitten by a snake, it's like drinking water and eating." Ordinary! Besides, don’t we in Fengshan know how to cook this, so the price is not cheap! The charcoal we usually use for cooking is not as beautiful as ours, and the charcoal produced when burned is more smokey and smelly, so no one buys it. The government also does not allow private gathering of firewood. Burn charcoal!”
When Liang Chuan heard what his brother Zhao told him, his heart tightened and he asked, "The government doesn't let you cut firewood? Why? How can you cook?"
Zhaodi said: "The officials have an imperial order not to go up to the mountains to collect firewood casually. If we could collect firewood casually, the mountains would be gone. But we are different in Xinghua. We have many mountains and little land, and there is not enough land to grow food." There are many obstacles and animals on the mountain, so going up the mountain to collect firewood is sometimes a job with your head stuck in your crotch. Feeding people requires land and firewood, but sometimes the government encourages people to go into the mountain to collect more firewood to open up wasteland. It is really strange. !”
Liang Chuan understood the connection after thinking about it carefully. During the Northern Song Dynasty, nomads from the north often went south. What kind of checkpoints and natural barriers could protect Kaifeng Mansion? The government could only rely on the dense jungle of nature as a barrier to block the cavalry from the north. .
The situation is different in the south. Although the Song Dynasty experienced two major population migrations after the Yongjia Rebellion and the Anshi Rebellion, most of the population only moved from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin. The vast area south of the Yangtze River Basin was still undeveloped and primitive. State, the contradiction between man and land forces the people to compete with nature for land, and the control of forest resources is not so strict. Besides, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Even the county grand master is dozens of miles away from Fengshan in the countryside, and there are no satellites. Monitoring, the mountain is completely bald, and no one knows what’s going on!
In this era, there is no concept of environmental protection. Wouldn't it be a good idea to cut down trees and collect some firewood to solve people's livelihood?
If you sell this firewood without burning it, it only costs two or three cents per kilogram. Now, the charcoal you burn has doubled tenfold. Even ten kilograms of charcoal only produces about three or four kilograms of charcoal. The output is a little lower, but what's the point? As the saying goes, there is as much firewood on the mountain as rice, and no one is cutting it. I secretly cut some to make charcoal, and then plant it again and it’s all over!
The charcoal fire made the small shabby house where Zhaodi lived warmer and warmer. Zhaodi lay down on the thatch and fell asleep, with Heibi curled up next to him. He didn't scream or move around, and was very quiet. After a while, the purring sound of recruiting a younger brother came from the room.
Liang Chuan and Yi Niang also climbed onto the bed. Liang Chuan hugged Yi Niang and couldn't hold it in any longer and asked her: "Yi Niang, can I ask you a question..." Yi Niang replied softly: "What do you want to ask?"
Liang Chuan was really embarrassed to speak, but felt strange at the same time and couldn't hold it back: "Yiniang, how long have we been married?" As soon as Yiniang heard him ask this question, she knew what he was going to ask next, and she punched her fist hard. He touched Liang Chuan's chest and cursed angrily: "You're going to die! You don't know how long it will take to get married! Don't think I don't know what you want to ask! Don't blame me if you were in poor health before!"
Yi Niang did not expect that Liang Chuan would be a completely different person. In the past, he was also strong and powerful, but in that aspect he was always like a sleeping caterpillar. He was so soft that he could never be used. Therefore, Yi Niang has been a virgin for several years. body!
Liang Chuan actually turned around and asked her why she was still a virgin, which made her punch her fists in anger. In fact, Liang Chuan encountered an unexpected event this time, and he looked like a different person. Not to mention his personality, but in terms of body, from the moment he fell into a coma, his second brother Get up on time every morning and hold up the quilt! It happens every day, and yesterday it almost killed her. . .
Liang Chuan heard what Yi Niang said, and it turned out that his original master was in poor health. . The little beauty has suffered so many years of human sin in vain! But now that he is carrying a divine weapon and his body belongs to the original person, shouldn't this little brother also belong to the original owner? . it's wired. .
Liang Chuan said to Yi Niang: "Okay Yi Niang, I have no other intentions. Don't think about it. Go to bed early and get up at night to see when the charcoal fire will finish burning. Add some more to it, otherwise it will be difficult to recruit a younger brother. Frozen to death.”
Yi Niang's anger was still not gone, and she replied resentfully: "I know, you can go to sleep, and wait until I get up."
