Chapter 56 Tangning's Cooking Skills
Du Bailiang waved his hand and said, "I don't care about this, but the fact that this hillside can really produce food?"
Tang Ning looked at an idiot, "Sir, what you said is really interesting! The wasteland is land, but the land on the hillside is not land? Why can wasteland be made of grain slopes? It is not that the slope cannot be watered and fertilized!"
Master Chen touched his beard and nodded repeatedly, "It makes sense! Sir, the official thinks Miss Tang's words are very reasonable!"
Du Bailiang rolled his eyes at him, "Just talk nonsense! Can this official know that there is any reason?"
"Yes, yes..." Mr. Chen didn't dare to say anything again.
Tang Ning was amused and said, "The little girl knew that adults were concerned about the people, but growing food on this hillside is not a big deal. In the northwest of our hometown, the land is barren and very desolate. Many families grow vegetables or beans on the nearby hillside, and they also get something from them!"
"Why don't you plant it on the flat ground?" Master Chen looked humbly asking for help.
Tang Ning curled his lips and explained: "Because the land is vast and sparsely populated! There are land everywhere, but there are not many people. Whether it is flat or slope, it is as barren. If you want to level the land, you have to work hard and material resources. There is no need to sow seeds in the places where you can plant, and the grain is sparse, so just collect it in a hurry."
Master Chen's mouth twitched when he heard this. He must have asked such a question of lack of standards because his mind was in water.
"It seems that the harvest of this slope still needs to be watched." Du Bailiang touched his chin and pondered, with an answer in his heart. He no longer continued to stare at the terraces and instead asked about soy sauce.
Tang Ning immediately took several bowls and opened the cellar in the straw shed, saying, "I have collected all the brewed soy sauce and marked them. There are heavy salts, and there are light salts, and there are light colors and heavy colors. You will know after you taste them."
Du Bailiang and Master Chen and others really tasted it one by one, starting with light salt, and only took a sip of Du Bailiang's eyes lit up, "This is good, this is fragrant but not salty, and the cooking must be delicious!"
Mr. Chen and others nodded in agreement.
Du Bailiang, who was heavy salt, carefully savored it for a moment before saying, "This is not bad. It is a little bit for poor people to make the meal taste good, which is a waste of time."
Tang Ning smiled and put a little of each soy sauce out, saying to Du Bailiang: "If the prefect is pleased with his face, he will eat rice in the village at noon. I will use these soy sauce to make a table of food for you."
"Okay!" Du Bailiang agreed readily without thinking.
When they came down from the top of the mountain, they looked at the terraces a few more times. Not to mention, Wang Hu and his group were really good at doing things. In just half a day, they had planted a side of the terraces. According to this progress, they could almost plant grain in all the terraces in one day.
Tang Ning was happy and immediately shouted to them, "I'll go back to cook, come and call you later, I can say something to eat."
"Everything is OK! Brothers are not picky about food!" Wang Hu also shouted.
"Okay! I understand!" Tang Ning walked into the village with a smile.
Du Bailiang and others followed her and actually envied their peaceful life.
Master Chen couldn't help but sigh: "If everyone could live such a life, there wouldn't be so many things."
Tang Ning walked ahead and said without looking back: "How is that possible! We have gone through thousands of hardships to be what we are today, others..."
Tang Ning didn't say anything more, but Du Bailiang and the others understood that they knew exactly what the Tang family had encountered.
The group returned to the house, and Tang Ning left them to rest in the hall and went to the backyard to work. He brought a whole basket of fish back yesterday, and now he still has a few, as well as some river shrimps and a small pot of tenacious eels.
These eels were just brought back yesterday. The mud smell was strong and they were not made into vegetables. They should be almost killed after being kept overnight.
In addition to these, there are also water celery picked by the river, which is tender and tender. It will definitely be delicious when stir-fried on a large plate.
In addition, kill a few chickens and ducks and steam them in a pot of rough steamed buns.
It is no longer bad for farmers to have such food.
In order to let Du Bailiang and the others taste the deliciousness of soy sauce, she steamed the fish and shrimps and braised the eels, made the eels with soy sauce and braised them with oil, celery water, put some green onions, ginger and garlic, add soy sauce, pour hot oil, and a basin of cold water celery and then it is out of the pot.
All the chickens and ducks are made into braised food, and then make a old duck soup and put some wild tiger tail wheels picked by Du Chunyue, which is called some fragrance.
Before the food was finished, the house was full of fragrance. The group had already been hungry after passing up the mountain and down the mountain. In order to maintain the last dignity, Du Bailiang walked out of the house with great tactfulness and started to wander around the village.
It has to be said that Fenggu Village has changed a lot after more than a year of construction. It was originally overgrown with weeds, with tall trees scattered and intersected, and snakes, insects, rats and ants everywhere. Now the trees in the sky are completely gone, and all the weeds have been processed. This large open space is either a house or arable land, a small path made of stones, and specially planted flowers and plants.
The surrounding mountains and forests have been treated with reduced density, especially the weeds. It is obvious that they have been cleaned up. The newly grown seedlings are all tender seeds, and there seems to be a lot of herbal seeds sprinkled. Du Bailiang only recognized some, but he did not dare to go deeper.
Master Chen laughed and said, "Sir, they are quite good at using it and do not waste any of it!"
Herbs were planted in the forest in front of the village, and wasteland was reclaimed. The slope of the back mountain facing the sun also became fields. Pigs, chickens and ducks were raised on the side of the shade. The mountain was even further fixed by Tang Ning to make soy sauce.
Du Bailiang was very satisfied, "It is also great that they can make their lives easier by themselves, because they are afraid that they will have to cause trouble for us if they are lazy!"
Since he has been on the post of Anhong County Magistrate, he has really been afraid.
Master Chen's mouth twitched, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
The group wandered around and returned to the house again. Tang Ning had already arranged the food. Obviously, she did not only make the weight of them, but also made a lot of them in the house next door.
As soon as Du Bailiang and the others sat down, Tang Ning went out to shout Tang Junsheng to have dinner with others.
In the room, Du Bailiang picked up a chopstick to steamed fish without hesitation. The taste suddenly made his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly greeted Master Chen, "You try it too!"
Mr. Chen and his wife started eating immediately. Not to mention that the steamed fish did not smell at all, but it also completely stimulated the umami flavor of the fish. What's even more rare is that the fish meat is extremely tender and smooth, completely different from the kind of steamed fish they had eaten.
Chapter completed!