Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

No salt was added when cooking, and seasoning was started when it was taken out of the pot.

Add salt to the crab porridge and sugar to the pumpkin porridge. Zhao Yeqing tasted the saltiness with a small spoon and then brought the pot to the table if he felt it was suitable.

The previously stir-fried pickled bracken and smoked wild boar meat are still slightly warm, perfect for eating with hot porridge.

The freshly cooked porridge was too hot and it was a bit uncomfortable to eat in this weather. Zhao Yeqing took a few ice cubes from the freezer and threw them in.

Stir until the ice cubes melt, turn on the electric fan, scoop up a spoonful of porridge with a big spoon, lift it up and then pour it down, repeating this to let the temperature of the hot porridge drop down.

Mu Xi washed his hands and came over, took the spoon and filled the porridge for both of them.

Zhao Yeqing took out the Chinese toon sauce he made in spring in the kitchen, scooped out half a bowl, and then closed the lid.

Salty at first and then sweet, the crab porridge tastes delicious. Eat a few spoonfuls of it with nothing at first, and feel the unique deliciousness of the stream crab melting between your lips and teeth. When paired with the spicy toon sauce, the flavor becomes completely different.

The unique aroma of toon is mixed with the sweetness of stream crab. This can be regarded as a simplified version of delicacies from mountains and seas.

After being marinated for a long time, the bracken has become tough and crispy. The slight sourness just neutralizes the overly strong smoky flavor of the wild boar meat. The addition of millet has a spicy and light spicy taste, which is very good with rice.

Zhao Yeqing drank two bowls of crab porridge and managed to control himself, leaving some room for something sweet.

There is less sugar in the pumpkin porridge. Most of the sweetness comes from the sweetness of the pumpkin itself. If you leave it aside for a long time, the flat porridge will almost be cold.

The slightly cool sweet porridge in your mouth removes all the complex aromas that were left in your mouth just now, leaving only the faintest scent of pumpkin.

Dinner ended with a bowl of sweet porridge.

Mu Xi put away the dishes and chopsticks, but Zhao Yeqing was already so full that he didn't want to move anymore.

After Mu Xi washed the dishes, he took a piece of kitchen firewood and opened the lid of the stainless steel basin in the corner.

In the pot is the hive that was brought back before. It is covered to prevent wasps from hatching inside, and it is opened with wooden sticks to prevent wasps from flying out and being attacked and injured.

Fortunately, there were still bee pupae inside and no hatched wasps.

Zhao Yeqing was rubbing his belly on the bench, feeling a little bored. He raised his voice and shouted to the kitchen, "Mu Xi, what are you doing?"

Mu Xi knew this person's temper very well. He took out the stainless steel basin and placed it on the table in front of her. "It won't be boring if you peel this off."

The honeycomb is made up of hexagons, covered with a white film. When gently torn open, there are white and tender bee pupae inside.

This job is very suitable for her. She is the kind of person who has no time on her hands. She used to stay at home and watch dramas. After one winter, she would have five or six scarves, three or four pairs of slippers, and one or two sweaters at home.

Zhao Yeqing first tore off the film on the hive one by one, then turned the hive upside down and watched the bee pupae inside fall off. If they couldn't fall off, she patted the back of the hive a few times with her hands. She was careful not to pat too hard, otherwise the hive would be damaged. The dregs will stick to the moist bee pupae, and you have to pick them off one by one with your hands.

There are also some bee pupae that cannot come out of the hive, so you can use your hands to pull them out of the hive.

The bee pupa was very delicate, and she was very careful when pulling it. It was almost as soft as tofu.

There are roughly three levels of bee pupae. The first level is a white, fat larvae that is round. The second level is a larva that has almost grown into the shape of a bee, but is still white and relatively slender.

The final third level is almost an adult bee, with wings and internal organs growing out, and various parts of the body turning black and no longer so soft. This kind of bee needs to be fried and crispy to taste delicious.

The first and second grades can be eaten any way, they are slightly sweet, and grandma likes to use them to make soup.

Zhao Yeqing personally prefers the second level, which is more tender than the third level but does not taste as bug-like as the first level.

Three large plates of honeycomb were poured out and a small pot of bee pupae was obtained. Zhao Yeqing sorted them out and put them in the freezer to keep them for a long time without deteriorating the taste.

Mu Xi was making tables in the courtyard. In order to facilitate transportation, the wood had all been turned into wooden boards and battens in the forest. Now he was just doing the splicing work. He almost didn't use nails, and all the tables were made of mortise and tenon structures.

Zhao Yeqing saw that the load-bearing columns she needed had been arranged and put aside. Grooves were cut on the tops of the columns, and the bottoms were sharpened to facilitate insertion into the soil. If the area was not large enough to have grooves, they were nailed with two small wooden strips. V-shaped support.

Now that the sun had almost set, Zhao Yeqing went to water the vegetable garden again.

Seeing that Mu Xi still had some final steps to complete, she returned to the kitchen, cleaned the pumpkin seeds, and put them on a dustpan next to the dried peaches to dry. When other pumpkins in the garden matured and there were more pumpkin seeds, they would fry them together. , also considered a small snack.

Mu Xi assembled the table and moved it to the living room to make sure the table legs were even and not skewed before moving it into the kitchen.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't wait to put the cutting board, knife holder and vegetable basket on the table. The cooking table connected to the cabinet was too narrow. There were so many things piled on it that there was almost no place to put bowls.

Mu Xi relit the stove.

"What else are you cooking?"

"Cook beeswax. The beeswax can be used to lure bees later."

Zhao Yeqing didn't realize it, so he walked to the kitchen door and watched him do it.

There was nothing I could do, the kitchen was too hot with the fire on.

Pour water into the pot and heat it up. Mu Xi squeezes out the honey from the honeycomb and pours in all the beeswax with impurities remaining, then closes the lid and cooks.

It didn't take long for the beeswax to melt into the water, and the pot of water turned black and yellow.

Increase the heat and continue to cook until a lot of the water has evaporated. Turn off the heat and let it sit for a while. At this time, a thick layer of beeswax will appear on the surface, and all impurities will settle below.

Putting the liquid beeswax on it into a large bowl, Zhao Yeqing took two popsicles from the freezer and handed one to Mu Xi, but he didn't want it.

He just looked at her with a somewhat complicated look.

He didn't quite understand why someone who was rubbing his belly and saying he was going to die an hour ago could now start eating again.

Zhao Yeqing finished eating the popsicles without forgetting the pot of peach water.

Mu Xi did not refuse, and Zhao Yeqing found that this person seemed to like sweets more.

I discovered it last time when I was eating sweet potatoes. He ate a lot of them. He didn't think it was strange at the time because this man's figure looked normal when he didn't take off his clothes.

After having the honor to see her today, I felt that it was such a contrast. The way Zhao Yeqing looked at Mu Xi now was even more complicated than the way he looked at her just now.

Mu Xi raised his eyebrows slightly, and the smile at the corner of his mouth was breathless, "You think your brother is good-looking?"

Zhao Yeqing concluded that Mu Xi now is a shameless muscular man who also loves sweets.

There was a huge disparity in strength. Zhao Yeqing was still worried about being pinched on the back of his neck in the afternoon, so he smiled perfunctorily, "Yeah, yeah, it looks good."