Four Foods in the Mountains

After the new rain in the empty mountains, the mountains in the distance are still shrouded in clouds and mists, and the early spring buds have been bathed in the spring rain.

There is a fresh scent of grass in the yard at this time, and the wind blows, making people feel refreshed.

Cen Ning stood by the water tank in the yard watching a few small fish swimming slowly in the water, and Brother Zhu knocked on the yard door with a basket in hand.

"Why did you come here at this time?" Cen Ning turned around and saw it, and asked with a smile.

Brother Zhu waved his hands: "My sister-in-law and sister Xi are going to go to the mountain to pick flowers and come back to put on their faces. I don't like to do these things, so I come to play with you."

Seeing that Cen Ning was about to make tea for him, he said again: "Okay, don't move, I'll drink it myself when I'm thirsty."

Cen Ning was also not polite to him, and asked Brother Zhu to sit down at the stone table.

Brother Zhu has been married to the Wu family for a few years, and the quarrel with the Qian family has disappeared. The two of them have often walked around these years, and they are closer than before.

Brother Zhu pushed the basket in his hand to Cen Ning, blinked and said, "Look what good things I brought you."

"What is it?" Curious by him, Cen Ning lifted the cloth on the basket with a smile, "Ah, it smells so good!"

A thick bowl was placed in the basket, and several round cakes were placed in the bowl.

Brother Zhu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "It's stuffed with sauerkraut. You said yesterday that your stomach was so greasy. My mother-in-law said that my sister-in-law was also like that when she was pregnant. Just eat some sour stuffing. It's just in time for my family's New Year's Eve." Pickle the sauerkraut with mustard greens, and I will make sauerkraut pancakes for you to try."

The pickled sauerkraut is sour, crisp and tender, with the fried fluffy and soft pie crust, the juice of the pickled cabbage mixed with the oil juice of the pie crust, it is sour, fragrant and refreshing.

Cen Ning ate half of it in one go, and boasted with bright eyes: "It's delicious, not greasy at all."

Seeing that Cen Ning was eating deliciously, Brother Zhu cupped his face and laughed, "Eat more if you like it. I specially provided enough sauerkraut, and the pancakes were fried slowly over low heat. I know you will like it."

He also said: "It's a pity that it's too early now, and the spring bamboo shoots on the mountain haven't come out yet. Otherwise, I'll pickle a jar of bamboo shoots for you to eat. It's really sour and delicious. I'm sure you'll whet your appetite and eat more every meal." a bowl of rice. "

The two were sitting in the yard, eating cakes and talking and laughing. Brother Zhu reached out and touched Cen Ning's belly: "When my natal sister-in-law was pregnant with my nephew, her stomach was rumbling every day. Sometimes my nephew stretched his belly so high, It's a bit scary to look at, but you and Brother Chuanzi are good-looking dolls."

Cen Ning followed suit: "Yes, everyone said that, this child is very quiet, and he should be a well-behaved child when he is born."

In fact, Cen Ning himself doesn't think much of it, no matter if they are well-behaved or naughty, they are all his and Lu Yunchuan's children, he likes them no matter what, even if they are not well-behaved.

Brother Zhu stroked Cen Ning's belly, and was reluctant to let go for a while. Cen Ning saw it funny, and teased him: "I like it so much, you should hurry up and get pregnant yourself."

Brother Zhu has never been afraid of being shy towards Cen Ning, and he said openly: "I really think, there is no way I can't get pregnant all the time, otherwise our children will be born one after another, and we will grow up together in the future, and we can still have children." a companion."

Cen Ning also nodded when he heard this.

When you are a child, you can have a playmate to play up and down the mountains and rivers together. Even if you get dirty and come back like a clay figurine, it’s okay. People live forever. If you don’t take advantage of your childhood to have fun, you can When are you going to play?

Patting his stomach lightly, Cen Ning thought to himself, Dad can't wait for you to come out soon.

When the rain is clear and the people step into the dawn, the mountains are quiet and the birds are singing in spring. After a few thin rain and mist, the flowers all over the mountain will bloom.

Chunyun Yanliu, Yao Chunling brought Zhi Geer to the backyard of Lu's house to deliver wild vegetables.

Knowing that Cen Ning likes to eat green leafy vegetables these days, Yao Chunling took Brother Zhi to dig in the mountains early in the morning with a basket on his back. The wild vegetables they dug up were still stained with dew, and they were very fresh.

Brother Zhi was almost ten years old, and he was not the round-faced baby with little Jiujiu tied on his head when Cen Ning first married.

But his temper was still as obedient and clingy as when he was a child, he rolled up his sleeves and stuck to Cen Ning's side to peel a goose egg for him.

"Little mother, let's eat." Brother Zhi stretched out his tender arms and passed the boiled goose egg to Cen Ning's mouth.

"Okay, Brother Zhi will eat it too, this date is really sweet."

He took the goose egg and took a bite. The red date millet porridge and boiled goose egg for breakfast were made by Lu Yunchuan before he went out to work.

Aunt Cen Ning asked his elder brother to bring the goose eggs a few days ago. She said they were better than eggs. Lu Yunchuan cooked one for Cen Ning every morning. Fearing that Cen Ning would lose his appetite, he even put brown sugar in the millet porridge .

The red dates were stewed so soft that they melted in his mouth as soon as he squeezed his tongue. Cen Ning picked up the big dates and gave Brother Zhi a bowl.

The three of them sat together and ate breakfast, doing embroidery with a sewing basket in their hands.

Brother Zhi's embroidery is taught by two people, A Niang and Xiaomao, and the embroidered things are very dexterous. He sits on a small bench, holds a piece of rag, and earnestly embroiders the tiger's head on it, intending to give it to Xiaomao's belly. The doll in the house embroidered a tiger-head sachet to play with.

The three of them talked while doing embroidery work, and the whole morning passed in a blink of an eye.

When it was time to make lunch, Yao Chunling beckoned Aunt Wu to go back and do her own work, so she could cook a wild vegetable feast for Cen Ning.

She always acted swiftly and resolutely, and did not ask Cen Ning and Brother Zhi to help. She poured a bamboo basket of wild vegetables into the basin, chose what she should choose, washed what should be washed, neatly tidied it up and took it to the kitchen to start cooking.

Pour the wild vegetables into the pot, blanch them in water and cook them in cold water again. Cut the bracken into sections and stir-fry them with green onions and red grains. No other seasoning is added, just sprinkle some salt. What you eat is the fragrance of the bracken itself.

Add salt, sugar and vinegar to Zheergen and mix evenly, and add a little chili and soy sauce to enhance the taste. This thing tastes a bit strange, and it is delicious when eaten cold.

At this time, Qingming grass has just sprouted some tender shoots. Yao Chunling kneaded Qingming grass and glutinous rice flour into a green dough, and cut the pickles and bacon at home into fine pieces, and made a pot of pickled vegetables and bacon stuffing, pickled vegetables and bacon Wrapped in Qingming grass dough and steamed in a pan, the steamed grass dumplings are soft, glutinous and salty.

Chop the wild onion, smash a few eggs into it, put a few wild onion omelettes in the pot, the wild onion is the most fragrant, and it is really spring when you eat it with the green leek sauce. up.

With a table of green leafy vegetables, and feeling sorry for Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan's tiredness from work, Yao Chunling steamed a pot of dry rice, cut the bacon sausage into cubes, beat two eggs and put a small handful of green onion, and made a pot of oily fried rice.

Since she was pregnant, Cen Ning counted this meal as the most delicious. Lu Yunchuan didn't care about himself, and kept bringing him vegetables.

With fried bracken, grass dumplings and wild onion pancakes, Cen Ning even ate a bowl of fried rice that he always thought was greasy.

Yao Chunling looked at him with a bowl in her hand, she forgot to eat her own food, and said with a smile: "I love wild vegetables, so I go up the mountain every day and dig them for you. They are all over the mountains, and you are the only ones to eat them. If you eat too much meat." It’s easy to get angry, so it’s better to eat more vegetables to reduce the anger.”

Cen Ning bit the grass dumpling and nodded, his heart warmed up. He was pregnant, which made the people around him busy.