Introduction.
There is a long-distance bus station just outside the city, where people often take a weekend hike in the mountains nearly 100 kilometers to the northwest. There were more people on foot, and reports of disappearances appeared from time to time in the gossip of the eighth page of the newspaper. About a year ago, when I walked 20 miles into the mountain pass, I could faintly smell the aroma of food, the sweet aroma of fresh fruit with powdered sugar and alcohol after the muscles and bones were weakened by slow cookingThere is a warm aroma of the dough mixed with cream and gradually expanding under the oven until the puff pastry bursts outThere are all kinds of meat in the pan "squeak" fried through the rich aroma;It's more of an indescribable fragrance that makes you curious and obsessed with it. It lingers in this lush mountain forever, and sometimes it is not even possible to say whether it really smells after a long time, or if it is just an illusion of people's Xi inertia. The taste seems to have become a mystery, a part of the mountain.
Chapter I. One evening afternoon, three young men came along the mountain road. A fashionably dressed girl, two boys, one tall and one short. Get out of town and get lost:
Before, the guy at the sheep soup shop kindly told them not to enter the mountain so late, not to mention the danger, and it was easier to be confused by the mountain and get lost. But they were so proud that they didn't even answer him, and hurried out onto the mountain. It seems that they came prepared, and the mountain was not a trip.
How could he live in a place where such birds don't!Yang Yu, a tall boy, walked in front with a hand-drawn map, groping his way as he walked, complaining.
yes, there's not even a serious way. Zheng Wu, a gorgeous girl, struggled to step on the rocks under her feet.
Of the three, only the short boy Xue Xiang remained silent and only cared about walking. He was not busy, he had a copy of the map, and in fact all three men received the same hand-drawn map, as well as a letter of invitation to come to the banquet two days later.
They knew the person who sent the invitation, so they all put down what they were doing and came to the appointment.
As night fell, the exhausted three men finally saw a small, brightly lit building in the thickest part of the forest, showing a strange enthusiasm in the dark and silent mountains. When they got closer, they saw Zhou Zheng, the owner of the small building, waiting to greet them at the gatehouse.
Looking at their tired appearance, Zhou Zheng squinted his eyes and smiled and said, "Please come in, please come in." ”
Entering the small building, Zheng Wu did not have the slightest restraint as a guest, as if she was in her own home, she took off her coat and threw it to Zhou Zheng, walked straight to the dining table and sat down comfortably, admiring her newly made diamond-encrusted crystal nails while posing as waiting to be served.
Xue Xiang followed Zhou Zheng very honestly, looking very Xi. However, in the short time he walked from the door to the dining table, his eyes kept looking at everything around him, and he looked like he was full of worries.
Zhou Zheng cleared his throat: "I'm really sorry to invite everyone from afar, but now I invite everyone to dinner." After that, he motioned for everyone to sit down, and he also Xi sitting on the chair closest to the kitchen.
Yang Yu looked at the exquisite dishes on the dining table, and said to Zhou Zheng half-jokingly: "You can't let me down at this dinner, if I feel sorry for walking such a long mountain road, you have to be careful." ”
Zhou Zheng looked at the guests seated and said with a smile: "The dinner will start soon, and I believe that everyone here will be satisfied." ”
Chapter 2: The first appetizer is amaranth salad. The white, thick amaranth root was thinly sliced, lightly seasoned and placed on a plate in front of everyone. As their teeth feel crisp and crisp, their taste buds experience the fragrance of amaranth and a wonderful taste that seems to be non-plant.
Zheng Wu nodded: "Ah, it's delicious!."I haven't eaten amaranth this fresh, have you cooked it in chicken broth?”
Zhou Zheng smiled and shook his head: "My eldest lady, how can the taste be so crisp after cooking." This amaranth is half lost :
It was just pulled out of the vegetable garden behind the building an hour ago. And how can the chicken soup be so delicious. ”
Yang Yu picked up a piece of amaranth and looked at it: "Isn't it that the seeds are different - a new variety after research and development?"”
It's just ordinary seeds. But there's something special about the fertilizer I use. ”
What is it?Xue Xiang immediately asked.
Zhou Zheng looked at him deeply, and said with a smile of waiting: "Every chef has his own secrets. All you should do is enjoy the current delicacy. ”
Xue Xiang glanced at the window behind Zhou Zheng - There was a vegetable garden outside. He finished his plate without saying a word
Then let's get on with the main course. Yang Yu pushed away the noodles and the last slice of amaranth. The empty plate in front of us: "A few slices of amaranth are not enough for us to stuff our teeth, we have walked so far, our stomachs are already hungry" The main course came immediately. But you can't do without wine. "Xi, I'll go get the wine first. Zhou Zheng got up and went downstairs to the underground cellar to bring up a glass bottle with a round belly and a thin neck, and the crystal clear wine was soaked in a green pear.
Zheng Wu looked at the pear in the bottle curiously: "Wow!."With such a narrow bottleneck, how can the pear be complete
What about when the pear blossoms are gone, and the ground that has not yet taken shape grows?When the fruit is young, it is covered with a wine bottle and continues to grow, so that the pears will slowly grow in the belly of the wine bottle, and when they are ripe, they will cut off the branches and inject them with white wine, and they can be made into pear wine. Zhou Zheng pointed to his body.
Lost: Outside the window: "You may not have noticed when you come, there is a pear tree planted next to the vegetable patch, and it is full of fruits, and it is covered with glass bottles, which is really beautiful." It's better at night than during the day, and the lights in the building make every glass bottle sparkle like a lantern, and it's beautiful. ”
I want to check it out now. Zheng Wu's eyes were shining, and she stood up with interest. She loves beautiful things, and in this world, she thinks the most beautiful thing is money, because it brings all other beautiful things.
I want to see it too!Xue Xiang also got up immediately, and with excitement, he said to Yang Yu, who was a little disapproving: "Let's go and have a look, we have been hungry for a long time, and we are not short of time." ”
Zhou Zheng led the three of them to the plantation behind the building, and as he passed the amaranth field, Xue Xiang slowed down, and he noticed that there were a few small white things left in the pit where the amaranth was pulled. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Xue Xiang quickly squatted down and picked up one and put it in his pocket, he touched it, this thing was hard and thin.
Everyone walked under the pear tree and saw that everyone else was looking up to admire the "pear lantern", Xue Xiang took out the white thing that he didn't know what it was after touching it for a long time, and quickly looked at it with the reflection of the glass bottle
He felt his scalp tingle, and the white thing seemed to be a white finger bone!
Xue Xiang suddenly thought of what the villagers had said about the disappearance of tourists before entering the mountain in the afternoon, and he still had the umami taste of amaranth in his mouth, but a chill ...... popped up on his back
Okay, let's go back. I think you're hungry enough. Zhou Zheng glanced at it with a smile.
Chapter III. Back to the table.
Zhou Zheng walked out of the kitchen with a pot in his hand, and the three of them were curious to see a few round and pointed things protruding from the lid of the pot. When Zhou Zheng put the pot on the table, they saw that it was a few snake heads with bright teeth.
Under the watchful eyes of the three of them, Zhou Zheng pulled up a snake's head, and a long bone with no skin and flesh left the pot with the snake's head, and a round hole appeared in the lid of the pot, and a thick fragrance gushed out. After he deboned his head one by one, the fragrance that spread was already mouth-watering for the guests, especially Yang Yu, whose throat moved up and down, almost reaching out from his throat to grab the delicious food.
Zhou Zheng lifted the lid of the pot, and the surging fragrance completely overwhelmed everyone. With a smile on his face, he distributed the snake meat from the pot to the plates in front of everyone, the fragrant meat so soft that it melted in his mouth, and every trace of fiber was soaked with secret spices.
Great!How can you cook this meat so deliciously?!Yang Yu praised, looking at the lid of the pot that had been drilled with several round holes on it, and couldn't help asking.
Zhou Zheng said with a smile: "Put the live snake into a pot with spices and broth, then cover the pot tightly, and make a fire at the bottom of the pot." As the temperature in the pot gets hotter and hotter, the dying snakes will move violently and desperately to find an exit, and when they drill out of a round hole the diameter of their head, they will naturally get stuck. The snake's body writhed sharply in the hot pot, fully stirring dozens of spices into the flavor, and in the sealed state, the fragrance was 100% retained in the pot. During the countdown to death, the head of the snake exposed outside the pot will gradually open its mouth, and the one-of-a-kind snake soup is almost complete. ”
Zheng Wu looked at the snakes with admiration and only had their heads and long bones left, drank the pear wine that accompanied the meal, smiled beautifully at Zhou Zheng, and praised: "Great!."This snake meal is sure to sell for a lot of money!”
Xue Xiang glanced at her uneasily and said, "Isn't this a bit cruel?”
Zheng Wu drank the pear wine in the crystal cup in one gulp, disdainfully responding to Xue Xiang's words.
Yang Yu immediately came over and interjected: "This kind of abuse is also an art, do you understand it!."”
Xue Xiang looked at the way they both clapped their hands in praise of Zhou Zheng, and the chill on his back turned into a sticky cold sweat.
I'm going to go to the bathroom first. Zheng Wu, who had drunk a lot of pear wine, got up and said to Zhou Zhengjiao: "Listen!."I'll have to wait until I get back to serve another dish. ”
Of course, my eldest lady. Zhou Zheng agreed with a smile and pointed her in the direction of the guest room with a bathroom on the first floor. Zheng Wu stood in front of the sink in the bathroom, washing her hands and looking at her youthful and charming face in the mirror, and smiled with satisfaction, she had always been confident in her face. And not only the face is excellent, but his figure is not inferior, especially a pair of **, beautiful lines, well-proportioned muscles, can always firmly attract the attention of boys......
While facing the mirror and admiring herself, Zheng Wu suddenly felt something on her left calf crawl up numbly, looked down, and almost screamed - a wriggling grasshopper was crawling up with a bow, and its writhing head seemed to be choosing which one with the most abundant blood vessels.
Zheng Wu slapped his calf fiercely, shook the locust down, and then trampled it to death!
How can there be such disgusting stuff in the bathroom?!She looked around the room of ten square meters with her heart pounding, and everything seemed normal, except for the shower curtain, which seemed to move slightly in the night breeze, but the window was closed and there was not a single crack.
Not only does the shower curtain uncomfortably move slightly, but it also unusually opens in its entirety when no one is showering.
Zheng Wu felt that something was wrong, but curiosity still prevailed. She slowly approached the shower curtain, stretched out her hand, and slammed it open—a bathtub full of thousands of wriggling and writhing locusts appeared in front of her without cover, and the butterflies on the shower curtain were also dense and strange...... to be shocking
Chapter IV. Zheng Wu tried her best to stay calm and returned to the table to sit down, Yang Yu glanced at her a little impatiently: "Why have you been going for so long, I don't know that we are all waiting for you?"”
Zheng Wu saw that the third course in a large casserole had been placed on the table**. Zhou Zheng removed the lid of the pot, and inside was a whole pig half-soaked in thick soup. He picked up a knife and started on it, cutting it off piece by piece, the skin of the flesh was soft and elastic, the fat was tender and half-dissolved, and the lean flesh was soft and rotten.
Zhou Zheng is like a slice of roast duck, so that each piece has meat and fat, and then distributed it to the guests' plates.
Yang Yu gently picked it up with chopsticks, the meat trembled on the tip of the chopsticks, and he knew that the kung fu of the pot had arrived at home at a glance. After swallowing a piece of meat that was almost slippery in his mouth, he asked, "This little pig must have been boiling for a long time, right?"”
What's that, it takes longer to prepare this dish. Zhou Zheng smiled and glanced at Zheng Wu, who was not moving: "Miss, why don't you taste it?"”
I, I'm allergic to meat during this time. Zheng Wu pushed the plate in front of her a little away and replied as if she couldn't touch the meat.
Xue Xiang said coldly: "I see that when you ate that snake soup just now, your appetite was very good!.""
This, in fact, ......Zheng Wu glanced at the mouthy Xue Xiang with disgust: "Actually, I am allergic to pig blood." ”
Yang Yu said coldly: "I've never heard you say that you are allergic to pig blood before. "
Zheng Wu was very uncomfortable by the two banquet companions, and suddenly felt that his heart was beating at an indescribably fast speed.
You can enjoy this dish with complete confidence. Because I guarantee that there is not a drop of blood in this little pig's body. I studied it for a long time and found out that there is such a thing as blood, which is either extremely abundant or not at all, and meat is only good when cooked. Zhou Zheng looked at Zheng Wu with a smile, his eyes flashing: "These two extreme states are a bit like the situation of the two of us, aren't they, eldest lady?"”
Don't know what you're talking about......Zheng Wu was numb at the sight of Zhou Zheng, and an extremely uncomfortable smile appeared on his face.
But!Xue Xiang couldn't help but ask, "Even if you soak the meat in water for a long time, you won't completely drain the blood." ”
Zhou Zheng nodded: "Yes, of course it is impossible with ordinary methods. So I used a few little things to help. Not only did it suck the blood out of the piglet's body, but it also made it die almost bitterly. ”
What little things?Xue Xiang couldn't help but ask with a twinkle in his eyes.
Again, every chef has his own secrets. Zhou Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at him fixedly.
Xue Xiang saw that there was no smile in Zhou Zheng's eyes, and that gaze seemed to have been in his heart, and he couldn't help but think that he had just heard something similar not long ago, and subconsciously pressed Bai Sensen's phalanges that were still in his pocket, and his face suddenly stiffened, and he wanted to say something but had no strength to speak.
Yang Yu rejoiced with interest: "Did you also euthanize this little pig?"Dude, I'd like to ask how many of those little things are needed to euthanize people”
Zhou Zheng raised his head and thought about it, then looked around at the three of them with a smile and said, "I think, then you probably need a full bathtub." ”
Zheng Wu immediately had goosebumps all over his body. She looked at the thoughtful Xue Xiang and the interested Yang Yu, and her throat tightened.
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