Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 397 Visiting the Village
"I'm talking about Wenyi, your old man, don't talk nonsense, let us rush here from the provincial capital. I think this mountain village is no different from other rural areas. I don't need to look at it to know that it is dirty inside, cow dung and sheep on the side of the road. There are piles of dung, and if you are not careful, you will step on your feet..." A middle-aged man with a fat head and a brain started to complain as soon as he got out of the car.

"I said I won't let you follow, but you want to come, who do you blame? I didn't have much hope this time. It's just that the old man urged me so hard, so I came here." The door on the other side opened, and a man wearing glasses got out. man.His name is Ge Wenyi, and he runs a fish restaurant in the provincial capital.At the beginning, I complained that the man was Fatty Cao, who was his friend.

In the past few years, restaurants and restaurants have bloomed everywhere, and business is getting worse and worse. Ge Wenyi is considering transformation recently, but he can't find a way out.The old man didn't know where he heard that the fish in Liujiagou was of good quality, especially the eel was very delicious, so he kept pushing him to come and investigate.

Being talked about so many times, Ge Wenyi had to bring a few people to have a look.

But he didn't put much hope in it, he just thought it was a trip to the countryside, and he could go back after dinner.

After several people drove into the village, they found that the environment in the village was not as they had guessed before.The road is all padded with sand and is quite smooth.The houses in the village are not big tile-roofed houses as imagined, but all small western-style buildings, which look quite grand. What makes them even more curious is that there are garbage bins at intervals along the road.

Fatty Cao stopped the car immediately when he saw the signboard of the farmhouse.

When Er Mazi saw a guest over there, he also greeted him with a smile on his face.

It is said that the farmhouse food here is good, and they are also willing to taste it.As soon as I sat down in the private room, I ordered some home-cooked dishes.

When the dishes were served, several people became picky again.

To say that this dish is not as good as that of our own restaurant in terms of knife skills and heat, the only advantage is freshness.They were already hungry after driving for half a day, and now they feel that the taste is not bad.

Farm food is like this, it tastes better than greenhouse vegetables, and they don't find it surprising.

When the fried crispy eel was served, several people all stared wide-eyed.

In this kind of weather, everyone doesn't want to eat greasy things, so they order fried crispy eel just to see what's good about it.

Looking at the thick and fat eel on the plate, everyone was sure that it was fed with feed.I don't know who the old man listened to, how could this be delicious.

"Come, come, Lao Cao, you are a gourmet, taste how it tastes first, we are all tired of eating eels!" Ge Wenyi pushed the plate to Fatty Cao, and then looked at him expectantly.From the appearance alone, he really didn't see how rare this fried eel was.At most, it is a little bigger, probably because of fattening.

Fatty Cao didn't have so many taboos, he stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a large piece and put it in the bowl.

Bite lightly in the mouth, the skin is crispy and fragrant, and the meat is smooth and delicious... After chewing, he couldn't help being surprised, is this eel meat?Why this smell.

People often say that he eats the world with his big mouth, and it can be seen from Fatty Cao's body shape that he is a foodie.This person has traveled far and wide, and has eaten all kinds of rare dishes in Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Huaiyang, but this simple farm dish made him taste different.

I took another piece of eel meat and chewed it...well, not bad...another piece...

A few people stared straight at it, it seems that this product is delicious.Ge Wenyi took the lead and couldn't help asking, "Old Cao, how does it taste?"

"Hmm...um..." Fatty Cao nodded while eating nonsense, and didn't even bother to talk to him.

The rest of the people began to try chopsticks, the bones were crispy and the meat was fragrant, and the eel meat melted as soon as it was chewed.

"It's delicious, it's definitely not from feed."

"Yes, it should be wild eel."

"Didn't they just say they were domesticated?"

A few people commented while eating, and after a moment of stupefaction, Fatty Cao had already slid most of the plate into his own bowl.There was only one piece left on the plate, but Ge Wenyi caught it.

"Wenyi, didn't you say that you are tired of eating meat?" Fatty Cao joked.

"Hehe, this one is different. Why don't we order another meat dish?" Ge Wenyi no longer had the initial restraint, and felt a faint anticipation in his heart.

"Boss, serve us your crockpot stewed chicken..." Fatty Cao shouted, pointing at the menu on the wall.

"Okay, do you want the first one or the second one?" Er Mazi asked in response.

"Is there a difference between the two?" Fatty Cao discovered that there were two earthen pot stewed chickens in the price list, one of which was more than ten yuan more expensive.

"Hehe, of course there is a difference. The first one is the Chai Chicken that we feed with our own food. The second one is from Liu Junhao's family, as is the rice field eel just now. His Chai Chicken is of the highest quality, so the price is also high." Er Mazi explained.

If you are not convinced, the chickens are hatched from the same eggs, but Liu Junhao’s Chai chickens grow up and kill, and the meat tastes more creamy and fragrant. People in the village say that the Chai chickens in his family often eat fish.

It's strange to say that most people's chickens rarely catch fish, but Liu Junhao's may be caused by the environment.Those little hens are more powerful than each other. They usually patrol the ditch. When they see fish in the water, they immediately pierce their wings and stretch their heads to peck them fiercely, just like ducks.

"Oh, then you can bring us an expensive one." Hearing what he said, the three of them became very interested, wanting to see the difference between chickens that were all fed with grain.

Bloodletting, plucking, disembowelling... Er Mazi's series of chicken killing processes went smoothly.In less than 10 minutes, the chicken pieces were in the pot.

First use low heat to remove the smell of blood, and then stir-fry with high heat, pick up the chicken pieces and throw them into the earthen pot, add cumin, pepper, jujube, wolfberry and other ingredients.Crock pot stewed chicken is mainly stewed, soaking the ingredients into the meat.

After stewing for more than ten minutes, pour half a spoonful of small ground sesame oil, the fragrance is pervasive, and the color is bright, which makes people appetite.

When it was brought to the table, everyone stretched their necks and looked at the crock pot with expectant expressions on their faces.

"Come here, try it, it's still the same sentence, I don't want money if it doesn't taste good." Er Mazi is quite confident in his craftsmanship.So what, the material is good, how to make it is delicious.

The chicken soup is bright, with a thin layer of oil floating on it, with half a chicken leg in the middle, golden in color and shining brightly.In addition, there are bright red jujubes and wolfberries floating next to it, deep red pepper cubes, white and tender scallions, and clear coriander.The whole dish is indescribably tempting...

Fatty Cao first took a piece and put it in his mouth to taste, then gave a thumbs up.As soon as you bite along the chicken skin, the elastic chicken turns into a creamy texture in your mouth. The kind of spicy after chewing makes people take a deep breath but can't stop.

The one named Xie Dongqiang scooped up the chicken soup with a spoon, put it in a bowl, and tasted it carefully.He is a cook, so he naturally knows that the key to this dish is the soup, as long as the soup is good, the taste can't be wrong.

The soup is rich in flavor, the meat is tender and smooth, and it melts in the mouth with a light bite, and it is smooth but not greasy, leaving a lingering fragrance in the mouth.The taste is not comparable to the frozen artificial broiler in the restaurant!
After only two bites, Xie Dongqiang knew that he couldn't make it, mainly because he didn't have the ingredients.

After several people ate, they applauded.Chopsticks and spoons waved at the earthen pot, completely ignoring Er Mazi's existence.

Fatty Cao was even more outrageous, regardless of his appearance, he stretched his head and opened his mouth against the edge of the bowl, like a turtle sucking water, and drank most of the soup in the bowl with a chugging sound.When he raised his head, his mouth was full of chicken fat, and at the end he smacked his mouth and praised: "It is indeed authentic chicken, and this chicken soup alone gives people a thumbs up."
Seeing that they were convinced, Er Mazi backed out of the private room with a smile, thinking to himself: "Xiaohao's Chai Chicken is paired with my cooking skills. After eating it, I haven't said anything bad about it."

Of course, it was rare for him to be generous when he was proud. He went into the kitchen and put a few steamed buns in a sieve and served them up.

"Boss, don't we want steamed buns?" Xie Dongqiang asked suspiciously.

"This is for you to taste for free." The steamed buns are steamed in their own pots, mixed with the natural fragrance and aroma of wheat straw, and it is just right to eat with chicken soup.

Everyone at the table no longer cared about their image, they rolled up their sleeves and kept holding on to their chopsticks, and Ge Wenyi purposely loosened the belt a few times.

The five of them drank up the chicken soup in the crock pot in a short while, and Fatty Cao couldn't stop hiccupping when it was time to pay the bill.

"I said Master, where does the Liu Junhao you mentioned live, take us to see." At this moment, Ge Wenyi finally made up his mind.

"Why are you looking for him? Do you want him to provide rice field eels for your restaurant?" Er Mazi said with a smile, "It's useless if you look for it..."

"Why, it's not okay to pay a high price?" Ge Wenyi asked suspiciously.This kind of rice field eel and firewood chicken can be used as signature dishes in their own restaurants.He has already thought about buying a piece of leather. When he goes back, he will replace the plate with an imitation blue and white porcelain. Even if the service is better, someone will eat it for a few hundred yuan.

He has already made plans to monopolize, and will take over all the rice field eels from Liu Junhao's family later.

"Hehe, you think you are the only ones who have discernment, and the guests who come here to play are fools, and they can't see the business opportunities?" Er Mazi scolded.

When these few people first came, they couldn't do it well. When they entered the restaurant, they picked a lot of problems from the environment to the service, and he didn't like it long ago.If it wasn't for the tourists, he would have reprimanded him a long time ago, so now he has the opportunity to say a few words.

"I'll tell you, people come to him to cooperate with him from time to time, but they never agreed. No matter how high the price is, it's useless. If you want to eat rice field eels, you have to come to Liujiagou obediently..." Er Mazi said smugly It's not a lie, there are countless people who came to the door with banknotes to cooperate with Liu Junhao, and he rejected them all.

"Why is that?" Everyone thought it was weird, they can make more money but not make more money, this is not a fool!
"The main reason is production. This person is lazy and only raises eels in the yard. The production has not been increasing, so the supply is in short supply."

After hearing Er Mazi's words, several people were a little bit reconciled and insisted on going.

"Xiaohao's house is easy to find. Follow this road all the way out of the village. The first house in Dongtou is. His house is very conspicuous. There are groups of green villages in front of the door, and there is a big locust tree." Nanqiang didn't give up, so Er Mazi followed them.When you see the owner, you will know that you have not lied.

What a country family!The stream on the side of the road is gurgling, and a wooden bridge spans the ditch, with morning glories wrapped in branches and leaves. It looks simple and natural, as if in a painting.There are groups of green farms, wild ducks, and cormorants by the ditch, and in front of the door is...a monkey!This guy was tinkering with the roots of the tree with a short bamboo pole, and he didn't know what he was looking for.

It is not uncommon to see monkeys in the mountains, but it is obviously domesticated from its appearance.

Seeing the people coming, Wukong immediately jumped forward and stretched out his paws to beg for food, seeing that they didn't mean to give.The guy squeaked a few times and slipped away again.

When the mountain wind blew, several people were slightly drunk, forgot the purpose of coming for a moment, and stood by the ditch involuntarily to look at the surrounding environment.

After crossing the small bridge, the two fire heads made them even more shocked from ear to ear.Of course, the densely packed bird's nests in the woods also made them feel like they were in a bird's paradise.

"Quack..." Suddenly there were several screams of cormorants under the bridge.

Following Qing Zhuang, the water ducks all yelled, especially the leading Qing Zhuang crazily dived into the water.

Liu Junhao is peeling sunflower seeds for his wife at the moment. The sunflower leaves in the courtyard are still green, and there is no sign of withering at all. It may last for a while, and the flower tray should not be picked at this moment.

But the daughter-in-law suddenly wanted to eat it, so Liu Junhao had to break off half of it.The sunflower seeds are plump and have a moist fragrance when eaten.

At this moment, it happened that no one was disturbing in the yard, so he peeled the grains one by one and put them on the plate, and when they were almost together, Zhang Qian stretched out his hand and ate them.

In fact, the sunflower seeds at this time are the most delicious. They are rich in water, crisp and tender, and they are smooth and delicious in the mouth.After drying in the autumn and then eating, the melon seeds are already dry and the taste is much worse.

The couple just sat under the neem tree, very satisfied and comfortable.They did see the group of people outside the courtyard, but they didn't come in. Liu Junhao only thought he was here to see the fire, so he didn't go up to say hello.

Hearing the birds chirping outside, Zhang Qian became alarmed and pushed her husband quickly, "Go and see what's going on?"

Seeing Qing Zhuang screaming eagerly, Liu Junhao didn't dare to delay, threw half of the flower plate in his hand, and ran out after him.

I saw all kinds of water birds flapping their wings and pecking at the shore, and the few Qingzhuang in my house took the lead.The area under the bridge was turbid, and a black shadow could clearly be seen swimming under the bridge.

It must be that otters are poaching waterfowl again. Seeing this situation, Liu Junhao has already thought of the reason.

To say that those Qingzhuangs are of the silly and bold type, although they are more than one meter tall, they are also opponents of otters in the water.When I was catching otters, I was almost dragged into the middle of the river. At that time, Chitu helped.

Fearing that Qingzhuang would suffer, Liu Junhao didn't bother to greet the few people on the opposite side, so he hurried over to drive them away.

The few Qingzhuang were not reconciled after being driven away, but lingered not far away and screamed, looking like they wanted to rush up at any time.

Liu Junhao yelled, and Baoyu poked his head out from under the bridge with a fat cormorant in his mouth.Seeing the way the cormorants keep kicking, it is obvious that they are not dead yet.

"Bring the cormorants over and see if there is any rescue." Zhang Qian also walked to the bridge at this time, and hurriedly called out.

In fact, without her calling, Baoyu saw the master and immediately sent the prey to the shore.Several other otters also came out of the hole, screaming excitedly around them.

(End of this chapter)