Chapter 21 Old Hen Stewed Snake
The thick smoke from the straw was constantly blown into the field mouse cave by Cai Hongming. After a while, thick smoke came out of the cracked dry and hard soil on the ridges.
Cai Zhengxian, who was on the other side, looked at it, quickly dug some soil from the field and pasted the smoke leaking area.
He and Cai Hongming are experts in catching voles and are very skilled in dealing with these accidents.
When smoke stopped coming from the ridge of the field, the thick smoke in the field mouse cave was poured into the hole behind by the fan that Cai Hongming fanned into. In just a moment, a little smoke came out of the hole behind. As time went by, the smoke became stronger and stronger. The field mouse inside couldn't hold it back and drilled out of the hole, and just drilled into the bag covering the hole.
When Cai Hongsheng saw something happening, he picked up the baseball bat and beat it. After hitting it a few times, he saw that the bag was not moving, so he picked up the bag and opened it.
"ah..."
There was a snake in the bag, which seemed to be fainted by smoke, but he woke up again under his rude movements. Seeing him open the bag, he was friendly and sticking out his tongue to say hello to him.
Cai Hongsheng screamed in fear and threw the bag out. The snake was able to escape and swim quickly to the side.
The snake is a non-venomous flower snake, extremely fat, at least the length of the pole (longer than the shoulder pole, about two meters long, and it is also a thing to carry things). I don’t know how it ran into the field mouse cave.
When Cai Hongming saw the fat grass and flower snake running out of the bag, he immediately picked up the hoe next to him and chased him. Cai Zhengxian had nothing in his hand. When he saw the baseball bat thrown by Cai Hongsheng next to him, he picked it up and ran towards the grass and flower snake. Although the grass and flower snake speed was fast, it was faster than Cai Hongming and Cai Zhengxian who were shining with their eyes when they saw the fat grass and flower snake.
Cai Hongming first caught up, picked up the hoe and hit the snake's head. He missed it and then hit it again.
Cai Zhengxian caught up, raised the baseball bat and greeted the snake. The grass flower snake was hit and turned over there in pain. Cai Hongming used a hoe to hit the snake's head, which immediately flattened and suddenly became scattered. He deliberately did not smash his body, because after he smacked his body, the snake's flesh would be bruised after peeling off the skin, which tasted bad. However, his friend had already beaten it, so it was hard to say anything.
Cai Hongming grabbed the dead grass flower snake and weighed it. It was at least five or six kilograms.
"I haven't eaten snake meat for a long time, so I'll make some improvements to the food at night." Cai Zhengxian said, looking at the fat grass flower snake.
"I haven't eaten it for a long time. I'll go back and catch an old hen to stew the soup." Cai Hongming smiled.
"Brother, there are hens at home, and they don't lay eggs all day long. My mother has wanted to kill them for a long time. Today is just the right day." Cai Hongsheng also came over and said.
Cai Hongming looked at it and slapped it over, "It's good to eat you, but he saw the snake and slipped faster than who."
"Aren't I afraid it will bite me?" Cai Hongsheng said in a slight manner.
"It's not poisonous, what are you afraid of?"
Cai Hongming had nothing to say to this younger brother. No one could compare to him when eating, and he was unable to do anything reliable. When he was pregnant in his mother's belly and was only after the holiday in the village, his mother had already predicted that this must be a greedy ghost, otherwise he would not have finished eating before he came out. Thinking about it now, his mother was simply a prophetic emperor.
After teaching Cai Hongsheng a lesson, Cai Hongming asked him to go home to get a knife and a basin for things, while he and Cai Zhengxian continued to look for field mice in the field.
It was almost noon, and they had harvested a total of more than a dozen field mice.
There were enough voles to eat, so Cai Hongming stopped looking for them and killed the voles and snakes he caught by the ditch and peeled them from the skin.
Some people like to eat snake skin and field skin, which feels chewy, and this habit is not advisable. After all, these things grow between the mountains and fields, and go to dangerous and weird places, and they will inevitably get dirty and grow bugs, so it is better to peel them off.
Finally, the two peeled a pot of white meat and turned it home, which harmed Cai Hongsheng's old hen, who had worked hard for nearly three years, to stew grass, flower, snakes.
There is a name for the old hen stewed snakes called Dragon and Phoenix. There are two ways to make this dish, and the taste and appearance are different.
The first one is very simple. Just put the snake, old hen and shredded ginger into a clay pot and stew it. After stewing, just adjust the flavor. There is no need to add anything, because old hens and snakes themselves are very nourishing.
The second type is a bit complicated. First, cut the snake meat into pieces and marinate it with yellow wine and ginger slices, then heat the pan and add oil to the ginger, burst out the ginger oil, then add the old hen and snake meat to stir-fry until it is dried, then put some ginseng slices and cover it with a lid and stew it. The old hen snake soup cooked in this way is yellow and white, with yellow and yellow, which is both rich in chicken soup and delicious in snake soup. It can be said that "bear gets both in fish and palm". Oh, wrong, it is "both fish and bear paw".
Cai Hongming used the second method, because it was possible to extract all the nutrients from the old hens and snakes.
After dealing with the snake and the old hen, Cai Hongming attacked the field mouse meat in the basin.
He sliced half of the rat meat, then put on the scallion, mushroom slices, red dates, ginger slices, salt, soy sauce, etc., then put them in wet powder and thicken them in the steamer. This steamed field mouse dish is the most original, fragrant and tender, and very delicious. Next, he heated the pan and added sugar, boiled out the syrup and put the rat meat and stir-fry it, and then added soy sauce and other spices to stew it together. When the cooked until halfway, he put the cooked cone chestnut meat in and then cooked. When there was only a little soup at the end, this braised field mouse meat was successful.
The braised field mouse meat is bright in color and delicious in taste. It has the sweetness of local squids in Fujian Province, and the concentrated essence of the field mouse itself, which is very rare.
At noon, the old hen stewed snake soup and two dish of field mouse meat suddenly became the focus of everyone's pursuit. Cai Lang, who had only one bowl of rice, ate an extra bowl of rice at noon. Cai Hongsheng, who hadn't eaten this delicious food for a long time, was even more fat. After eating, he was still unsatisfied and picked up Cai Hongming to catch field mouse.
Cai Hongming didn't listen to him, so he just laughed.
Two days later, his uncle summoned him to go fishing. He took Hongsheng to call his friend Zhengxian and went straight to the port where the yacht was parked.
When I arrived on the yacht, I saw seven or eight people on it, most of them middle-aged men in their forties and fifties, and two young girls, talking to his cousin Qiaohong next to me. When Lu Qitian saw them coming, he introduced them to the people on the boat and went to drive the boat.
"Qiaohong, why are you here?" Cai Hongsheng approached the girls and asked Lu Qiaohong without saying anything.
"Why can't my yacht come?" Lu Qiaohong gave him an angrily blank look.
Among the many cousins, she disliked the one in front of her the most. She had poor grades when she was in school and often teased herself. Once, she burned a newly bought squid scarf that her mother had for her, which made her so angry that she was half angry. However, she called her to complain to her second uncle, and it was said that her second uncle beat him up.
Chapter completed!