Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

Wang Qing'er asked Mu Qin to light a stove and use a hunchback pot to boil salted duck eggs on it.

Chop the chili peppers, ginger, garlic, and pickled cabbage. Put lard in a pot, stir-fry the chili peppers, ginger, and garlic until fragrant, add the pickled cabbage and stir-fry, then add boiling water to make a sour soup.

Just then, there was a commotion in the courtyard. Mu Qin glanced outside and said, "Sister-in-law, it's my brother and the others who are back."

Wang Qing'er lifted the lid of the pot, and a sour and spicy aroma wafted out.

She put the fish head and bones into the pot and simmered them for a while, and finally added the marinated fish fillets.

Once cooked, remove from the pot and place in two large bowls. Add minced garlic and Sichuan peppercorns, then pour hot oil over them.

Garnish with chopped green onions and wild celery, and the whole kitchen will be filled with aroma.

Mu Xiao smelled the aroma from the yard, sniffed, and headed towards the kitchen, hearing the sound before seeing the person.

"Sister-in-law, what delicious food have you cooked this time? It smells so good!"

"Second brother, sister-in-law made fish today, pickled cabbage fish, it smells so good!" Mu Qin said, standing at the kitchen door.

"Sister-in-law, are those fish in this basin?"

Mu Xiao walked in and looked at the white fish slices in the basin, somewhat unable to believe that they were fish.

"Yes, it's fish fillets cooked with pickled cabbage," Wang Qing'er replied while stir-frying water spinach.

"This broth looks so beautiful, so golden! And the fish is sliced ​​so thinly, yet it's not overcooked. Sister-in-law's cooking skills are amazing." Mu Xiao's eyes widened in amazement.

"Second brother, move away a bit, don't drool in there." Mu Qin reminded her second brother with some concern as he kept swallowing.

"You little brat, how dare you tease your second brother!"

Mu Xiao scolded Mu Qin with doting affection. Mu Qin wasn't afraid of him and stuck her tongue out at him.

"Sister-in-law, we found a lot of good things today," Mu Xiao said to his sister-in-law as if showing off treasures.

"Yes, Grandma said you found another bamboo forest." Wang Qing'er thought Mu Xiao was referring to that bamboo forest.

"Yes, there's not only a bamboo grove, but also a sugarcane field. It's not as much as last time, but we managed to cut it all down in one morning."

"There's still a large patch of soapberry trees. Do you want more, sister-in-law? If so, we'll go pick them after dinner. It'll probably take several more days to pick them all."

"Yes, yes, yes! The more of these the better. Please pick them up for me whenever you come across them again," Wang Qing'er said excitedly.

"Then we'll go pick them for you this afternoon."

"Where did you see it? Was it on the mountain near your home?"

"It's the area where you found the wood ear and silver ear fungus last time; it's the mountain near my home."

"Did you find any wood ear mushrooms or silver ear mushrooms today?"

"We picked a basketful of wood ear mushrooms, but only five or six silver ear mushrooms. However, Dad and my older brother raided two beehives and got quite a bit of honey."

"Did they disturb the beehive? Were any of them stung?"

"My older brother got stung a few times, but he gets stung every year, so he's used to it."

"Your older brother got stung? Where is he?"

"He probably went back to his room to change his clothes; his clothes got a tear from a tree branch."

"The food is ready. You can take it out first. I'll go check on your older brother."

"it is good."

Wang Qing'er walked out of the kitchen and headed towards her courtyard. When she returned to her room and didn't see the person she was worried about, she walked back to the back and called out, "Brother Mu Nan, Brother Mu Nan, where are you?" Her voice was full of anxiety and worry.

"Qing'er, I'm here." The voice came from the small wooden house.

Wang Qing'er pushed open the door and saw Mu Nan half-naked wiping her body. "You were stung by a bee? Where was it stung? Let me see."

At this moment, she didn't care about anything else and went into the wooden house to look for wounds on Mu Nan's body.

"Qing'er, I'm fine. The bee wasn't poisonous, and the swelling has gone down!"

"Where is it? Let me see?"

"Here, and here, look, everything's fine now, it doesn't hurt at all."

"Does it really not hurt?" Wang Qing'er was relieved to see that there were only a few small red spots on his face.

She had seen people whose faces swelled up like pig heads after being stung by bees before, and this probably depends on the individual's constitution.

"Yes, it doesn't hurt. We already applied herbal medicine in the mountains." The man nodded seriously.

"Then hurry up and get ready, let's go out for dinner." After saying that, he left the house and returned to the front yard.

The duck eggs had already been boiled and were soaked in cold water. She took them out, dried them, and cut them in half with a knife. Golden oil flowed out, and the yolks were also golden yellow. Just by looking at the color, you could tell that it was a success.

All ten duck eggs were oily, with golden yolks that looked beautiful arranged on a plate.

She placed it on the dining table, and everyone was stunned. It was Zhou who spoke up and asked, "Qing'er, is this the salted duck egg that you asked your mother to pickle?"

"Hmm, you guys should try it. It's a bit salty, so you should eat it with rice."

Wang Cuiying exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the salted duck eggs, "My goodness! Are these really the duck eggs I pickled? They look so good!"

Mu Qin also said, "Sister-in-law, it looks so good, it must taste delicious."

"You two should try some, each of you take one, it goes very well with rice." As she spoke, she took one, scooped half into Mu Yao's bowl, and gave the other half to Zi Yuan. "You two are still young, you can't eat too much of this salted duck egg, just eat it in small bites with your rice."

Mu Yao took a bite with her rice and said with a smile, "Mom, this egg is delicious! It's just a bit salty, like pickled vegetables."

"Even if it's delicious, you can't eat too much. Yao'er, eat more fish." Wang Qing'er said as she picked up a few pieces of fish and put them into an empty bowl, carefully removing the bones, and then put them into Mu Yao's bowl, saying softly, "Try the fish that your mother made." Mu Yao obediently ate a piece, "Mmm, delicious, sour! Mother, Yao'er wants to eat more fish."

"Okay, Mom will pick out the fish bones for you again, but you still need to eat slowly. If there are any bones, spit them out, okay?" Although Wang Qing'er had removed the fish bones, she was still worried that some might not have been removed completely. However, when Xin Yao'er got a fish bone stuck in her throat, she patiently reminded her.

"I know, you can't eat the thorns!" Mu Yao said in her childish voice.

No one at the table touched their chopsticks, all watching the mother and daughter. The children swallowed hard, staring at the food on the table. Mu Xiao couldn't help but ask, "Can we eat now?"

Wang Qing'er then noticed that no one had touched their chopsticks, and they were all looking at her and Mu Yao. "Grandma, Father, Mother, Aunt, please eat! Why aren't you eating?"

"Eat, eat, eat. After you finish eating, you still have to go to work." Old Man Mu first picked up half a salted duck egg and took a bite, then picked up a piece of fish and ate it.

"Hmm! Qing'er, this fish is sour and spicy, with no fishy smell at all. It's really good. If I didn't have to work this afternoon, I would like to drink some of it. This salted duck egg is also very special. It's good to eat with porridge in the morning. I didn't expect that duck eggs could be pickled."