roccoschili Chapter 131: Too Much Food
Chapter 131: Too Much Food
No longer worrying about these minor issues, Hou Xiaoge started to fish for the meat.
After cooking for four or five hours, the braised meat that was put into the broth in the morning has been cooked, but there is not much broth left.
Hou Xiaoge poured the boiled broth into the marinade, then added some seasonings to season it again, and then put the cleaned offal back in and started braising.
The pork bones and chicken racks used to make the broth yesterday had already been boiled into a mushy mess, not to mention the pig skin, which had long been boiled away in the broth.
After taking out the pork and chicken bones, Hou Xiaoge shook his head. Even a dog would shake its head when seeing these bones. The meat had been cooked away long ago.
The good thing is that the pig tail I bought this morning was only boiled once, and the meat is still there. Now it is so soft and almost boneless, it is the most fragrant and glutinous time.
Hou Xiaoge didn't want to boil it anymore, so she took it out and asked her elder sister to peel it into meat. As for why Hou Xiaoge didn't peel it herself, it was because she thought it was too sticky!
Hou Xiaoge threw the shredded meat into the broth, and gave the remaining pig tail crispy bones directly to his younger brother and little cousin, the two youngest kids.
Especially my little cousin, who is almost four years old, but is as small as a two-year-old and often drools when she talks. This pig tail is very effective in preventing children from drooling.
As for Xiao Shuanniu, this little guy is now like a calf. He is very strong and can fight with seven or eight-year-old kids in the village without losing.
The reason, of course, was that Hou Xiaoge often prepared special meals for this little fellow. In addition to giving him some meat every few nights, he also never stopped supplying him with spiritual spring water.
Although he didn't drink the spiritual spring water like Hou Xiaoge, Hou Xiaoge often dripped a little into the kettle. After a few months, not only did it cleanse his bones and marrow, but the little guy's physical weakness since fleeing from famine has also been replenished.
Now his body looks no different from that of a five-year-old child in later generations. If there is any difference, it is probably that his clothes are torn and he looks like a beggar.
Xiao Shuanniu had a shorter pig's tail, and the little guy had good teeth now, so he could chew and eat up a small section of the pig's tail in just a few chews.
On the other side, my little cousin Lanlan was much quieter. She held the pig's tail tightly in both hands and nibbled on it, her big eyes narrowed as she ate.
Little girls are the cutest when they are between two and six years old. Unfortunately, the little girl just recovered from a serious illness last month, and now she has very little flesh on her face. Her thin cheeks make her big eyes stand out even more.
Seeing that the little girl was adorable, Hou Xiaoge took out his military water bottle from his waist, took some mountain spring water from the space and added a few drops of spiritual spring water, then gave it to the little girl to drink.
"Lanlan, come to your cousin and give you some sweet water." Hou Xiaoge sat in front of the stove and waved to the little girl.
"Hehe! Come on, have some sweet water." After a few months, the little girl and Hou Xiaoge became familiar with each other. She was not afraid of being a stranger and rushed into Hou Xiaoge's arms, holding the pig's tail.
However, when Hou Xiaoge held the little guy, goose bumps appeared on his arms, and he suddenly felt that the little guy was not cute anymore.
There were so many little animals on the little guy’s head that they all formed a white mass.
"Oh my god, there are too many lice. Not to mention a kid, an adult would become skinny after being sucked by them." Just like that, Hou Xiaoge used his mental power to scare away the lice and fleas from crawling onto his body, and forced himself to finish feeding the little guy water.
"Go play over there! Brother has to make you some delicious steamed buns." After feeding the little guy water, Hou Xiaoge quickly let the little guy go.
The little fellow didn't stay there either. He pouted, stuffed the pig's tail back into his mouth, ran happily to the kitchen door, and lay down again to peek into the kitchen.
Because they are cooking, hygiene is one aspect, and the ingredients used for braised meat must be kept confidential. The seasonings are all public, and there is a lot of food in it, so Hou Xiaoge usually does not allow anyone except the cooks to enter the public kitchen.
Even the pancakes are made in the cave where Wang Maimiao lives, and everyday meals are cooked by each family in their own cave.
Looking at the little heads lying around the kitchen door, Hou Xiaoge smiled and started cooking.
After scooping out some of the broth and then some of the stewed soup, Hou Xiaoge began to season the steamed buns.
I don’t care much about what I eat at home. After a big pot of soup is boiled, I just pour a bowl of chopped steamed buns and pig tail meat into the soup and start to boil over high heat.
After four or five minutes, wait for the steamed bun to be cooked through, and then use a pot of low-end broth to cook the steamed bun.
Let the elder sister scoop the steamed bun, and Hou Xiaoge took out a bowl of pickles bought yesterday, cut some scallions and minced garlic, added oil, chili peppers and vinegar water, and poured half a spoonful of hot oil with an oil spoon on it. Then a bowl of pickles for dinner was ready.
"Hey! Kid, you just had a few days of good life and you're already pouring oil on the pickles. Even the county magistrate is not as good as you at eating." Wang Maimiao looked at the greasy pickles that Hou Xiaoge brought out and looked distressed.
"Eat! You've earned money, but you can't even bear to eat it. What's the point of living?" Hou Xiaoge didn't want to argue, so he just put down the pickles and turned to leave.
"The meal is ready, but you don't want to eat it?"
"I'm not hungry after lunch, I'm going out for a walk."
Less than two minutes after he said this, Hou Xiaoge entered the space as soon as he walked out of the door.
After entering the space, Hou Xiaoge took a large bowl of rice and started to eat happily with four dishes and a soup.
Half a roast goose, a big pork elbow, two pounds of grilled lamb chops, a small pot of fried shredded potatoes, and the soup was tomato, egg and kelp soup.
After taking a few bites of rice, Hou Xiaoge picked up the big pork elbow. He didn't eat the meat because the skin was too fatty, so he threw it directly to the barking little black dog at his feet.
"You little black dog, you're enjoying a good life following me. You eat better than my family." Looking at the little black dog eating the pork elbow in big mouthfuls, Hou Xiaoge sighed and smiled.
"Wang Wang!"
I don’t know if the little black boy understood what Hou Xiaoge said, but he just buried his head in eating. Then he looked up and barked twice in response.
Having gotten nothing in return, Hou Xiaoge picked up the bowl which was bigger than his head and started to eat. After more than ten minutes, he had eaten up all the food for five or six people.
"belch!"
After dinner, Hou Xiaoge drank a glass of watermelon juice to rinse his mouth, then collapsed on the recliner with satisfaction.
"Master, the warehouse is almost full of grain! After a few more harvests, we will have to build a grain storage where you live." After cleaning up the dishes, Ling'er flew to the recliner and reported.
"Didn't we dismantle all those wooden, brick and tile cabinets? Why are they still not enough?" Hou Xiaoge said, and began to use his mental power to check the space warehouse.
At this time, in the one-acre space warehouse, except for the silver warehouse, fruit warehouse, grocery warehouse and medicinal material warehouse, the remaining three hundred square meters were already filled with grain, and some grain had already touched the highest point of the warehouse hall.
You know, the Space Hall is ten meters high! Now, in addition to the nearly thirty granaries, the scattered grain outside is almost filling up the Space Hall.
"Ling'er, have you given up? How much food do we have now?" Hou Xiaoge asked Ling'er after retracting his mental strength.
“Master, some time ago you asked me to plant more sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes in our fields are huge, with one acre producing 15,000 kilograms.
I have planted sixty acres of crops and have harvested five so far. The sixth crop will be ripe tomorrow.
There are now 200 tons of wheat, 100 tons of corn, 50 tons of rice, 50 tons of millet, 50 tons of sorghum, 2,200 tons of sweet potatoes, and 100 tons of other grains in the space." Ringling Ling'er said.
"More, less?"
Hou Xiaoge was shocked. There were nearly 3,000 tons of grain at once, which was simply outrageous.
He actually forgot, and just substituted the sweet potato yield of this era into the 1,000 kilograms per mu, thinking that the maximum yield was 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms. However, he forgot that in later generations, sweet potatoes could also yield 10,000 kilograms per mu, and there would be more space spiritual fields.
"Oh my god! There's so much grain. It's a worry." Looking at the remaining space in the warehouse, Hou Xiaoge estimated that it would be full after two or three harvests.
“So, after harvesting this crop, we can reduce the area and start raising pigs in large numbers.
I see that many livestock have given birth recently, so we should raise more fat pigs later so that the food can be digested faster. "Hou Xiaoge looked at the more than 40 fat pigs raised on the small grassland and said after thinking for a moment.
"Okay, Master!"
After Ling'er flew away, Hou Xiaoge looked at the food in the warehouse and smiled bitterly. Two months ago, he was fighting with mice for food, but two months later, he didn't expect that he would be worried about having too much food. Life is really unpredictable!