Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 19: Excellent Cooking Skills
Lijia Village is not big, but it is not small either, and its "communication ability" is still very strong. I told the aunt the Douyin account in the morning, and after we followed each other, now basically most of the villagers know about it.

Many people came to like the post, and some people who didn’t know how to write asked others to leave messages for them.

This is closely related to the good foundation Li Xiang had laid in the intelligence group before.

Of course, there were also gossips, such as Li Jintang's family. It was Li Jintang's wife who secretly said that if Li Xiang got Cai'er pregnant, it would be Li Jintang's wife.

This naturally reached Jiang Caier's parents, and the old couple was really angry. However, they were not targeting Li Xiang and Caier, but those who were gossiping.

Not to mention that Li Xiang and their daughter were like siblings, even if they were really together, they felt that it was not unacceptable.

Li Xiang is a good person, handsome, and also a college student. Although Li Xiang's family is a little poor, they are not snobbish.

In the future, they are marrying off their daughter, not selling her. As long as their daughter likes the man and he is truly good to her and has good character, then they can accept it.

Li Xiang and Jiang Caier went home. Along the way, they met many aunties and grandmas. They were both very sweet and greeted them warmly. Everyone cheered him on!
This touched Li Xiang deeply.

In the big city, I don't know anyone, I go to and from work every day, live in a very expensive single room, and work like a beast of burden. I don't know how I get through those days. It's better to go back to the village!

After returning home, Li Xiang asked Jiang Caier to do her homework at home first, while he went to the bamboo forest in the back mountain with the Gaomi knife.

If you say you want to make something delicious for Caier, then you must make something delicious. Something you can’t eat anywhere else, something you can’t buy even if you have money!
He came to the "Second Order Mutated Creature Golden Thunder Bamboo" that he had marked before, selected the outermost one, and immediately swung the high-density knife. With a "click", the bamboo as thick as a bowl broke.

Looking at the blade again, it is still sharp and bright, without any nicks or curling edges.

Li Xiang liked this knife more and more.

If it is made into other styles, it may be a controlled knife and cannot be taken out, but this is just a chopping knife, a farm tool!

The end of the world has not yet arrived, and no extraordinary particles have emerged yet. These golden thunder bamboos only have potential and will mutate in the future. Currently, they are still ordinary bamboos.

Moreover, as long as the roots of bamboo are still there, it can grow again.

Normally Li Xiang would be reluctant to chop it down, but now there are distinguished guests here.

System: "Congratulations to the host for felling a second-level golden thunder bamboo and receiving a surprise reward: three first-level exotic grass snow skirt white jade fungus."

Three flowers were too few, so Li Xiang made up his mind and cut down three more plants in a row, harvesting twelve first-level exotic grass Snow Skirt White Jade Fungus, which was enough to make a dish.

Don't cut it down any more. If you really cut it all down, you will lose a lot. Just wait for it to grow slowly.

This mutated spiritual herb distributed by the system might be directly distributed to the system warehouse from the future or another dimension. It is genuine and will be very beneficial to Jiang Caier's body if she eats it. It may also enhance her mental strength and intelligence. She will be able to get even better results in the college entrance examination the year after next.

As for the cut bamboo, it can be dragged back and thrown into the backyard and used to make many things.

Afterwards, Li Xiang drove to the town to buy vegetables and treat the guests to a meal. Two or three dishes would definitely not be enough, they would have to have at least seven or eight.

Halfway through the journey, we passed a temporary market which was located in a small woods on the side of the road. The people selling and buying vegetables were all farmers from the surrounding villages. Because the town and the county seat are relatively far away, such a place came into being.

It's not available every day, and if it rains heavily, there might be no one there.

Li Xiang was lucky today. He saw someone selling live fish, who said they had just caught them from the river last night. There were black carp and crucian carp, so Li Xiang bought a few.

He saw someone selling mutton, which was also freshly slaughtered, very fresh, and with a relatively light smell. Li Xiang bought a few pounds and also bought a piece of lamb ribs.

The Miao people actually have many taboos, such as not eating mutton, beef, pork, dog meat, chicken blood, chicken liver, chicken legs, etc., but Jiang Caier does not have any of these. After all, she is not a pure Miao girl, she has half Han blood, and she is a woman of the new era.

Her mother might have, but Jiang Caier doesn't care about that.

Apart from other things, the school she attended was mostly populated by Han Chinese, and the school cafeteria had relatively few dishes. If she really wanted to be picky, she would starve to death. Even if she didn't starve to death, she would still be malnourished.

If you can’t keep up the physical strength, your academic performance will definitely be affected.

Li Xiang bought a few more pieces of tofu. Seeing that they were almost done, he decided to go back home without going to town.

When he got home, it was almost time, so Li Xiang started cooking.

In the newly built semi-open kitchen in the backyard, the light is brighter and the environment is cleaner.

He learned to build the wood stove himself, and it worked fine for a few days, but he didn't know how long it would last. Anyway, even if it collapsed, he could just build another one.

Jiang Caier helped out on the side, while grandma helped add firewood.

Adding firewood is also a technical job that requires rich experience. There are certain rules for when to make the fire burn more vigorously and when to make it burn less vigorously.

When grandma lights the fire, Li Xiang never needs to remind her, the fire is always at a satisfactory level.

The first dish is braised squid.

The ingredients are wild and fresh. After processing, make a few cuts on the fish, wash it and set aside.

Pour a proper amount of rapeseed oil into the pan. When the oil is hot, put the fish into the pan and fry until both sides are golden brown. This step is to make the fish skin crispy and also to remove the fishy smell.

Then stir-fry the seasonings, leave some oil in the pan, add the chopped ginger and garlic slices, add the chopped onions, and stir-fry until fragrant.

Pour in an appropriate amount of water (the amount of water should cover the fish body), add cooking wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar and salt, and wait until the soup thickens before serving.

Li Xiang's cooking skills are very good. After being served on a plate, the food is very delicious and mouth-watering.

The second dish is crucian carp tofu soup. The soup is as white as milk, delicious and calcium-rich, suitable for all ages. One of the tricks is to use high heat. The stronger the fire, the whiter the soup. The firepower of the Li family's wood stove is naturally needless to say.

The third dish is boiled lamb. When it comes out of the pot, a handful of dried red peppers cut into small pieces are sprinkled on it, and then it is drizzled with hot oil fried with Sichuan and Sichuan peppercorns. It is simply delicious.

The fourth dish is the most difficult one: stewed pork ribs with the first-level exotic grass Snow Skirt White Jade Fungus.

Because of the use of first-level spiritual herbs, the aroma of this dish is very different from the other dishes. When Jiang Caier helped to serve the dishes, she couldn't help but take a deep breath of the aroma: "Brother Li Xiang, this dish smells so good, I'm drooling!"

Li Xiang smiled and said, "If it smells good, eat more. It's a way to show your support to Brother Li Xiang!"

"I didn't expect that you are good at cooking, brother. I remember that you didn't seem to be so capable before, haha."

Li Xiang explained: "I learned this by working outside and cooking for myself every day." After all, it is not easy to live in a big city, so you should save as much as you can. It will cost a lot of money to eat out every day.

Moreover, after the apocalypse, fewer people opened shops, and almost everyone did it themselves. In this precarious era, going out is full of dangers, and you still expect to order takeout?

(End of this chapter)