Chapter 595 The taste of childhood
"I'll do it, I'll do it. . The fastest update." Ji Jiaxin watched Zhang Jiahua dig out a few potatoes as big as fists, and immediately volunteered to grab the small steel hoe from Zhang Yaohua's hand.
When people in Meiziao enter the mountain, they usually have to bring a hatchet and a small steel hoe. With a hatchet in your hand, you can sew the mountain and open the way. If you have a hoe in your hand, you won’t miss it when you encounter something in the soil. For example, when you encounter a wild ginseng plant, you can’t pull it out with your hands. Zhang Jiaohua’s steel hoe is also called a small medicine hoe. The workmanship is very exquisite, and even if you don’t dig anything, it can make people itchy.
Zhang Yaohua smiled and handed the small steel hoe to Ji Jiaxin, "Be careful, don't hurt yourself."
"How could I be that stupid?" Ji Jiaxin smiled.
Zhang Yaohua smiled and didn't respond. He hadn't asked Ji Jiaxin to stop digging potatoes. However, with Ji Jiaxin's skills, this requirement seems to be too difficult.
Sure enough, as soon as Ji Jiaxin hoe down, Zhang Yaohua heard a crisp and dull sound. It was obvious that Ji Jiaxin dug the potatoes with a hoe. The potatoes were a little different from the potatoes outside, and the moisture content seemed to be much higher. The meat of the potatoes was like fruits, with a golden color, and smelled a faint fruit aroma. It made people feel the urge to eat them directly.
"Zhang Yaohua, you dug several of them just now, why didn't you dig one of them? Why did I dig it up in one go?" Ji Jiaxin asked in confusion.
"You didn't see that I was digging down with a hoe? I was digging the soil diagonally, and I would only actually put the hoe down after seeing the location of the potatoes. As for you, just hoe down, and the hoe will not bend. If there are potatoes underneath, they will naturally rot." Zhang Yaohua said with a smile.
"No wonder. I'll give you a lot of money to dig such a good potato for me." Ji Jiaxin handed the hoe back to Zhang Yaohua, looking at a big potato that was dug by her with regret.
Zhang Yaohua took the hoe and said, "It's okay, no one eats the potatoes here, and they also rot after renting them."
While talking, Zhang Yaohua dug a few potatoes out and did not continue. A few potatoes were enough to eat, and it would be a waste to dig them any more.
Zhang Yaohua looked around and found vegetables such as lettuce, green beans, beans, and a piece of pepper seedlings full of red peppers. There were no pests or diseases in this secret realm. These vegetables grew freely and were still in order. It was really unexpected.
Ji Jiaxin asked a very deep question for some reason: "Zhang Yaohua, why do you think people should be so tired to study and get promoted? In fact, isn't it enough for a person's life to eat and wear and warm? Why do adults be so tired? The last life has passed and they have never enjoyed any happiness. Look how wonderful it is. If the whole family is together, wouldn't it be the same happy?"
Is this a question that a 17 or 18-year-old boy needs to consider?
Zhang Jiaohua grabbed his head, and he was a little confused: "There are many measures of the value of human existence. Sometimes, people not only live for themselves. Everyone has different pursuits, so their definition of happiness is also different. Maybe we can truly understand these things when we grow up in the future."
"Maybe." Ji Jiaxin nodded.
"We'd better not consider such a deep question. Enjoy dinner." Zhang Yaohua said.
Zhang Qiaohua secretly took out a lot of equipment needed for a picnic. No one knew what equipment was contained in Zhang Qiaohua's bag, so Zhang Qiaohua took out a lot of equipment, and no one was surprised.
Ji Jiaxin asked in surprise: "Zhang Yaohua, have you brought all the cooking utensils in your kitchen?"
"That's not. This was prepared when I went to a picnic before, and this time it came in handy. Although I took a few more pieces of cookware, I didn't have to bring food. These things were all stainless steel and didn't weigh much." Zhang Yaohua spoke while placing his cookware.
Zhang Yuanbao and the mute had already cleaned the snake meat and cooked meat, and did not let Ji Jiaxin see the cleaning process, so as not to feel disgusted. Now seeing the bright red meat, it is not as disgusting as before. It turns out that bamboo rat meat and snake meat are actually more beautiful than the pork in the vegetable market.
Not long after, a strong fragrance spread out in the secret realm.
Zhang Qiaohua's craftsmanship is indeed amazing. Several ingredients that seem simple are prepared by Zhang Qiaohua's cooking to create a special and unstoppable taste.
In cities, although it is easier to obtain various ingredients and even collect various ingredients from all over the world in the city, the taste of the ingredients is no longer as good as the original charm. The bamboo rat meat and snake meat that Zhang Yaohuan exudes a strong primitive meat fragrance, and that fragrance can arouse people's simplest appetite. This is a fragrance that is difficult to enjoy in the steel jungle of modern cities.
Ji Jiaxin grew up in the city, so it is naturally difficult to eat this authentic wild game. Only by smelling this fragrance, she felt a strong sense of hunger.
"Is this really bamboo rat meat and snake meat? I thought rat meat and snake meat were both smelly, but I didn't expect it to be so fragrant." Ji Jiaxin couldn't help but grab a piece from the bowl with her hands and threw it into her mouth.
Not to mention Ji Jiaxin, even if Zhang Yuanbao and Mute live in Meiziao, as Meiziao becomes richer, many families no longer raise livestock and poultry by themselves, and eat all the pork and poultry they bought from the market. The taste is completely different from the taste when they were young.
"Mutous, I smelled a smell from my childhood. Have you smelled it?" Zhang Yuanbao greedily sucked the smell of meat that was emitting from the air.
The mute nodded violently: "Yes, when I was a child, I could always smell this fragrance when I ate meat. Now the meat I eat has no fragrance at all."
Zhang Yaohua smiled: "When you go back, ask the villagers not to raise good-bred pigs, nor to raise good-bred chickens and ducks. Just raise the old local pigs and local chickens and ducks. Otherwise, the local pigs and chickens and ducks will be extinct in the future, and they will never be able to eat the fragrance they were as a child."
"Yes, the current high-bred pigs grow faster and have more lean meat, but the taste is much worse than the previous local pigs. If you don't say it, I don't know what's going on. Now that I think about it, this is the case. Our life in Meiziao has improved, but not all the old things have to be discarded. Yes? We still have good things to keep." Zhang Yuanbao nodded.
Chapter completed!