bookrandom Chapter 969: Lazy Ways
Chapter 969: Lazy Ways
Either they just grab a bite on the road and eat whatever is available, or they eat in a restaurant or at a street stall.
The old man picked up a piece of fish with his chopsticks, couldn't help but hum, and picked up another piece with his chopsticks.
Zhou Guo scooped a bowl of chicken soup first, "Today's soup is delicious, the fire is just right, and it is slowly simmered in a clay pot."
She spent a lot of time preparing this pot of soup.
Erpang and his friends ate without even raising their heads.
Especially during the hottest days of summer, I just ate a quick bite at noon and worked non-stop for the whole afternoon, almost collapsing from exhaustion.
I'm very hungry, so I eat whatever I can get my hands on, eating it in big mouthfuls, enjoying the delicious taste.
Xiaoshu kept picking food for him.
The old man couldn't help but said, "If you're hungry, just buy something to eat. It's not far from home. Why are you starving?"
Dashu had a lot of stuff in his mouth and couldn't open his mouth, so he could only shake his head.
Zhou Guo said, "Let's call a few people tomorrow. We can't finish all the ducks in two days if we rely on ourselves. If the ducks are left out for too long, the ones at the back will still be alive and kicking, but the ones at the front will probably have gone bad."
The old man disagreed. "It's winter now. Although it's not like the north, the weather here is not warm either. How could it go bad after just two days? We have to clean up the food ourselves. If we rely on others to clean up the food, it won't taste the same."
He always felt that all delicious food had to go through a process of sedimentation before it could taste the right way.
Zhou Guo sighed, "Master, there are still more than seventy ducks!"
"What's wrong with more than 70? There are so many of us. We can remove more than 50 tomorrow, and we will have dealt with them all the day after tomorrow. Anyway, you have nothing to do here, and no one is posting for you. Can you stay here without finding something to do?"
Zhou Guo didn't say anything. Just pull it out by yourself. It's their own fault.
The next day, before Zhou Guo finished his set of punches, the old man got up and knocked on the door of Erpang and the others. "Get up, have dinner and pluck your hair."
Breakfast is simple, plain noodles.
After dinner, several people started to work. Zhou Guo lit a fire and the old man boiled a large pot of hot water.
The hair is easy to pull out after being permed. Just put it on the fire several times, burn and wipe it, and the fine hair can basically be dealt with.
This way it will be much faster.
After the old man finished boiling the water and came out to take a look, he couldn't help but ask, "Can this be cleaned?"
Zhou Guo said, "It's almost there. Just do it a few more times. How much effort would it take to pluck out every hair? Anyway, we don't expect to make a fortune from these ducks. We can sell them if we can't eat them cheaply. If we buy them cheaply, they won't say anything even if they eat a mouthful of hair."
"That makes sense." The old man muttered, turned around and went into the house to get a knife, and helped chop off the parts to be braised. He also processed the duck blood, duck intestines, and duck gizzards and put them aside. They were all good things.
If several people work together, they can handle several ducks in a quarter of an hour.
Dashu looked at Zhou Guo who was sitting by the fire concentrating on roasting duck feathers, and couldn't help but say to Xiaoshu and Erpang: "The master is really amazing. He can think of a solution. If we do it ourselves, it will really take several days."
Xiaoshu nodded.
Er Pang said: "Master is just trying to be lazy. Do you dare to think of such a lazy method?"
Dashu shook his head. He didn't dare to do that. He could only kill the duck and pluck its feathers honestly.
Er Pang said, "I said you are honest. If you really work so honestly for a whole day without thinking of any solution, if everyone works like you, when will you be able to finish the tasks assigned by the master every year?"
The Great Heat is silent.
Xiaoshu couldn't help but retort, "Didn't you spend the whole afternoon plucking hair last night, and you didn't come up with a solution."
Er Pang said, "I didn't think of it last night, but I might remember it today."
Several people retorted and pulled out hair at the same time.
Zhou Guo took a sip of tea from time to time and threw a few broad beans into his mouth without interrupting the roast duck.
Several people worked until noon. After lunch, they worked for another hour and finally all the ducks were processed.
The feet are the feet and the body is the body, and there is also a basin of duck blood. Zhou Guo plans to make a duck blood vermicelli soup, and boil the remaining duck blood in a pot to eat.
Once all these things are dealt with, the kitchen will belong to Zhou Guo.
The old man wanted to go dig winter bamboo shoots, but Zhou Guo wouldn't let him and insisted on going with him.
The old man sighed and urged Erpang and the others to go into the kitchen to help. "What are you all doing here? She's so grown up, but she doesn't have any sense at all. Are you really going to let her do it alone?"
Several people were about to go into the kitchen, but after hearing this, they went in quickly.
Zhou Guo really didn't want to waste her time on this duck. Not to mention eating it, she had even had enough of looking at it.
Except for the ingredients, everything else was given to Erpang and his friends.
When there are a lot of people, it will take half an hour for these things to be fermented, and the rest can just be soaked. Leave a little charcoal fire in the stove to ensure that the soup does not get cold.
Zhou Guo clapped his hands, went out and said to the old man: "Master, let's go and dig bamboo shoots."
The old man lazily glanced at the sky. "It will be dark in less than an hour. What are we going to do? I'm afraid I'll run into a ghost wall in the bamboo forest in the dark. If I come back, the city gates will be closed. Will I have to sleep outdoors again?"
"That's right. This isn't a village. There's a city gate." Zhou Guo suddenly realized, "Then let's go tomorrow. We can roast the duck tonight and dig bamboo shoots for the whole day tomorrow."
She prepared the sauce, and Erpang and his friends started making roast duck.
She started to cook dinner.
The weather is cold now. Even if there is a charcoal fire in the house but no kang, the freshly cooked food will still be cold by the time you eat it.
Without a copper pot, she made a hodgepodge, using chicken broth as the base.
Beef, mutton, and pork were cut into thin slices, and there was a big basket of duck blood, duck intestines, cabbage, lettuce, radish, coriander, and other fresh vegetables.
Put the pot on the stove, add charcoal into the stove from time to time, and then throw the vegetables in.
There is no sesame paste here, but the seasoning is added to the pot and it tastes good.
After a busy day, they finally have some free time to enjoy a hot pot, which makes them feel that all the hard work is worth it.
I felt extremely satisfied while eating the meat.
Zhou Guo threw some vegetables in and said, "Let's go dig bamboo shoots tomorrow. They'll be delicious if we dig them out and throw them in. They'll be fresh and crispy."
The old man nodded, "When will the remaining duck be roasted?"
Zhou Guo said, "Let's roast them while selling them. If we roast one batch before going to bed tonight, we will have about 40 ducks. We probably won't be able to sell them all tomorrow, so if we roast them all tomorrow, we will be able to roast them all."
The meal was very enjoyable, and the old man said, "It's good even without sesame paste."
Erpang and the others nodded, even the soup was delicious.
Zhou Guo said: "I used old hens to cook the soup, so of course it's good."
The next day, Erpang took Xiaoshu to the street to sell roast duck, Dashu made roast duck at home, and Zhou Guo took the old man out of the city on horseback.
Came to the bamboo forest that I passed by that day.
When the two arrived, it was just dawn and there was no one on the road.
Zhou Guo pointed to the bamboo forests on both sides of the road and said, "Master, you go up there and I'll go down there."