sbdcsierra Chapter 135 Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms
Chapter 135 Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms
Brothers: "… What are you carrying? We brothers are not incapable of carrying things. Why are you carrying a bag of mushrooms? Are we useless people who only care about eating?"
The three men were very unconvinced. They turned around and gave her a fierce look, then strode forward with the sack on their shoulders, proving that they didn't care about the sack of wild mushrooms at all.
Zhou Guo: “…” If you don’t need it, then don’t use it. Why are you so anxious?
Several people went out, and Zhou Guo was the last one. He was carrying a basket and just happened to see if there were any mushrooms along the way. More people came in one after another, and when they saw the sacks on their shoulders, they stopped in surprise.
"Zhou Gu, are these sacks filled with the pine mushrooms you picked?"
Zhou Gu nodded.
"There are so many in there? Oh, if we had known, we would have come in early. It's almost dark now, and we have only picked up a basket outside. You guys are really something. Why didn't you call us when there were so many in there? This is not good. Good things should be picked up by everyone together."
It is said openly or secretly that they eat alone and don't know how to share.
"Come on, Zhou Mi, come, open it and let us see if it's wild mushrooms." A woman came up and tried to pull the bag off Zhou Mi's shoulder.
Zhou Mi's face changed and he took a step to the side to avoid it.
The woman didn't expect him to hide. Her face changed and she looked a little embarrassed. She said with a wry smile, "Why are you hiding, kid? I'm not a tiger and I don't want yours. I just want to take a look. You're too stingy. You're not as generous as your brother Huozi at all."
"Hey, auntie, you are still here? Uncle Fugui and the others went in a long time ago." Zhou Guo came up from behind with a basket, holding a stick in his hand and pointing backwards.
When the woman heard this, she left Zhou Mi behind and ran forward with the people around her. If she didn't go any further, the things would have been picked up by others.
"Third brother, are you okay?" Zhou Guo walked forward with a basket and found that Zhou Mi's face looked a little strange.
Zhou Mai also looked at him.
Zhou Mi lowered his eyes and shook his head.
"Okay, let's go, it's time to go back and eat." Zhou Gu urged from behind, carrying a sack.
A few people walked out again, and met some people coming in from the outside. They were all carrying baskets, and the baskets were more or less filled with a few wild mushrooms.
Zhou Guo looked over suddenly and found some of them he didn't recognize. He was very interested, but he didn't know whether those fungi were delicious or not.
She just stopped to ask a question, and Zhou Gu urged her from behind, "Guoguo, don't stop, hurry up, let's go back to eat, we're having chicken stewed with wild mushrooms tonight."
Chicken stewed with mushrooms.
Zhou Guo raised his foot and walked out.
The camp was empty, and several men took off the sacks from their shoulders.
Li and Zhou Xing stared at the three bulging big sacks in amazement. Zhou Guo put down the full basket of wild mushrooms he was carrying and placed it next to the three sacks.
"This, this, this, it's all in here?" The two couldn't believe it. How long had they been in there?
"There are so many in there?" Li couldn't help but look towards the forest. If there were so many, she would go in and pick some up. If she picked up a lot, she could dry them later and sell them in winter when there were no vegetables, which would also be an income.
Zhou Xing couldn't help but look longing.
"Hey, my uncle and master are back too." Zhou Gu said happily. Now that everyone is here, they can start eating.
Several people looked over.
Zhou Dacang and the old man were both armed. They put their things down and placed them next to the three large sacks.
Zhou Guo looked carefully and saw two chickens, two rabbits, and a mouse that looked neither like a mouse nor a pig.
"What is this?" the Zhou brothers asked at the same time; none of them had ever seen this thing.
"Badger." The old man said concisely. As long as it's edible, it's fine.
Several people nodded.
Li looked at the food on the ground and smiled. Three sacks of pine mushrooms and so many prey were enough for several meals. It was a good harvest.
Zhou Xing has already started preparing the dishes and chopsticks.
Everyone rushed to help. Zhou Guo washed her hands and sat aside to wait. When she came back, she smelled a fragrance. The fresh aroma of pine mushrooms and pheasant meat mixed together and kept coming into her nose.
She had been hungry for a long time. Her stomach had already started to feel empty when she was in the woods with her uncle. Now she had been working for half a day and was so hungry that she had no strength left.
A man sat down on the left. She looked over and saw it was her uncle. “Gugugugu~~”
A familiar voice sounded, and she looked at his stomach. This man also hadn't eaten anything, and he hadn't had a good meal in the past few days. He must be even hungrier than her.
The old man sat on her right, staring at the pot, snorting from time to time.
I cooked dry rice tonight, filling up the entire earthenware pot.
Zhou Xing opened the lid of the iron pot, and immediately a puff of hot steam came out. The aroma was so fragrant that several people couldn't help swallowing their saliva. This was really a real dish.
Zhou Guo picked up a wild mushroom from the bowl, squinted his eyes and put it into his mouth. The mushroom was plump, tender and delicious, with a strong mushroom aroma. It was so delicious that he almost screamed!
What have you eaten in the past month?
"It's so delicious. I feel like the pine mushrooms here are better than the ones in our village." Zhou Gu smiled foolishly while eating.
Everyone nodded frantically, but no one spoke. Everyone was busy picking up food and eating.
Li smiled and said, "Eat slowly, eat slowly. There is more. If it tastes good, we will continue to make it tomorrow. Anyway, there is chicken and mushrooms."
Everyone nodded again.
The pot was bubbling on the fire. After cooking for so long, the pine mushrooms had already absorbed the pheasant's juice. The pheasant meat was a bit dry, and this wild mushroom was actually more popular than the pheasant meat.
Zhou Guo held the bowl and ate six bowls of rice, drank three bowls of soup, ate two pieces of meat and a lot of pine mushrooms.
She touched her stomach and found that she could still eat another bowl of rice. However, there was no rice left for tonight, so her mother cooked the clay pot.
The rice was finished. The whole big pot, including the soup and vegetables, was eaten up completely. Zhou Dacang wiped the bottom of the pot with the rice. He put lard in it, which made it very fragrant. He even licked the bowl, making it shiny.
With bulging bellies, everyone sat contentedly on the grass, watching the stars in the sky pop up one by one. From time to time, human voices could be heard from the edge of the woods, and other people also came out of the mountains one after another.
As long as you go into the mountains, you will get something more or less. Everyone comes back happily with pine mushrooms. Those who stay at home have already cooked the rice and are just waiting to put the vegetables into the pot.
Smoke began to rise from other houses in the camp, and the tempting aroma of wild mushrooms filled the air. Everyone's face was filled with smiles as they smelled the aroma, full of anticipation that the food would be better tonight.
Zhou Guo fell asleep while smelling the fragrance.
The next day, she was woken up. When she opened her eyes, it was already dawn and there was a lot of noise around her.
She rubbed her eyes and sat up, squinting to look around, and found that everyone was dressed, holding torches, carrying baskets and bags, and traveling by themselves. It looked like they were going into the mountains again!