newbobooks Chapter 255 On the surface
Chapter 255 On the surface
Afterwards, everyone returned to the tribe.
Sang Tian happily carried the vegetables she had picked and cooked several dishes.
The green sprouts that had just emerged in early spring were incredibly fresh and tender. Sang Tian hadn't seen any fresh vegetables all winter, so this time he had to satisfy his craving.
First, make scrambled eggs with leeks.
Wash the chives and cut them into small pieces. Then, beat the eggs in a bowl and add salt, pepper, five-spice powder, and shredded ginger. Adding shredded ginger to the egg mixture can remove any fishy smell.
Heat the pan with cold oil, pour in the egg liquid, stir quickly with a bamboo spatula, fry until the eggs are formed, and set aside.
Add an appropriate amount of cooking oil to the pot, add the leek segments, and stir-fry evenly. Leeks are easy to cook, so the stir-frying time should not be too long to avoid affecting the taste.
Add the scrambled eggs and continue to stir-fry until the chives and eggs are fully mixed. Then add appropriate amount of salt to taste, stir-fry evenly and serve.
A dish of fried leek eggs with rich leek aroma and refreshing taste is ready.
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Then I made a dish of stir-fried shiitake mushrooms with spinach. The shiitake mushrooms, freshly picked from the forest, were plump and paired with the juicy spinach, making them a delightful dish.
Pour an appropriate amount of water into a pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the spinach and blanch for 1 minute. Remove and drain. Don't blanch the spinach too long, as this will affect its texture and nutritional value. It tastes better when it's crispy.
Heat a wok with cold oil, add minced garlic and sauté until fragrant. Add sliced shiitake mushrooms and stir-fry until softened. Keep stirring while frying the mushrooms to prevent them from burning.
Then add spinach and continue to stir-fry evenly. Add salt, five-spice powder, pepper and chili powder to season. Stir-fry evenly and serve.
Not only is it delicious, but stir-fried shiitake mushrooms with spinach has a refreshing taste. It is also rich in nutrients such as protein, vitamins, minerals, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, moisturizing the intestines and promoting bowel movements, and lowering blood pressure.
Eating can help you stay healthy.
In addition, Sang Tian also wants to make a dish of stir-fried bracken and meat.
Stir-fried bracken with meat is also delicious and nutritious. It also has health benefits such as clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs.
Place the shredded pork in a bowl, add appropriate amounts of salt, shredded ginger, and yam powder, mix well, and marinate for about 15 minutes. The addition of yam powder will make the pork more tender and smooth.
Heat the pan with cold oil, add the marinated shredded pork and stir-fry until it changes color, then set aside.
Leave some oil in the pan, add garlic, ginger, onion and dried chili powder and stir-fry until fragrant.
Then add the blanched bracken. This will remove the astringency. Stir-fry the bracken evenly, add appropriate amounts of salt, five-spice powder, pepper, Sichuan pepper powder, and chili powder and continue to stir-fry evenly.
Then add the fried shredded pork and stir-fry evenly. Finally, sprinkle a handful of garlic sprouts, stir-fry evenly and serve.
The aroma of bracken mixed with pork is simply amazing.
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This is not enough, she also wants to make a dish of Chinese toon fish.
Put a large amount of yam powder into a bowl, add appropriate amount of water, and stir into a uniform batter. The consistency of the batter should be moderate. Too thick or too thin will affect the taste.
Then beat the eggs into the batter, add appropriate amount of salt and pepper and mix well.
Then put the toon sprouts into the batter and coat them evenly.
Heat the pan with cold oil. When the oil is about 60% hot, add the batter-coated toon sprouts and deep-fry over medium-low heat until golden brown. The oil should not be too hot to prevent them from getting burnt.
Take out the fried toon sprouts, drain the oil, sprinkle a layer of five-spice powder and chili powder evenly, and toss evenly.
You can start eating!
It is fragrant and crispy, and has the unique aroma of toon, it is so delicious!
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Then make a dish of alfalfa minced meat.
Add salt, shredded ginger, and yam powder to the ground pork, mix well, and marinate in a little oil for about 15 minutes. The oil helps lock in moisture and makes the pork more tender and smooth.
Heat oil in a pan and sauté onions, ginger, and garlic until fragrant. Add the marinated minced pork and stir-fry until it changes color.
Add the chopped alfalfa and continue stir-frying until the alfalfa is softened. Stir-fry the alfalfa quickly to avoid affecting the taste and nutrition.
Add appropriate amount of salt, five-spice powder, pepper and chili powder to season, stir-fry evenly and serve.
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This is finally the last dish.
Bamboo shoot and fish soup.
Put the thinly sliced fish into a bowl, add shredded ginger, salt, pepper and five-spice powder, mix well and marinate for 15 minutes.
Heat a wok with cold oil and add sliced ginger, chopped green onion, and minced garlic. Stir-fry until fragrant. Add water, bring to a boil over high heat, add sliced bamboo shoots, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Cook the bamboo shoots first before adding the fish fillets to prevent them from becoming overcooked. Add the marinated fish fillets one by one into the pot and cook for 3 minutes, until the fish fillets change color.
Add salt, pepper and chicken bouillon to taste and mix well.
Finally, sprinkle some chopped green onions.
An extremely delicious soup is ready.
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A table full of juicy and green dishes was placed on the table.
This is the temptation unique to spring!
The two tiger cubs were so hooked that they kept drooling around the table.
But Sang Tian didn't say anything, so they waited very obediently.
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In the huge horse training farm, Cang was training the horses they had just caught from the small grassland.
There were also many people at the horse training farm, some learning to ride, some learning to train. But it was time for dinner, and everyone was getting hungry and restless. I packed up and started cooking.
Cang dismounted, touched the horse's head, took off his gloves and prepared to grill some meat.
Cang turned around and saw Sang standing behind him, dressed in peacock blue feathers, with her long, soft hair slightly curled and draped over her shoulders. A pair of eyes filled with Wang Quan looked at him brightly.
Sang Tian has been here for a while.
Cang's tall and straight figure sat on a tall horse, his powerful arms wielding the reins, adjusting his posture and state with the horse's movements. His wolf-tail hairstyle fluttered in the wind, and the sexual tension reached its peak at this moment.
Like a tall and noble king.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss~~".
He is indeed the man I like, he is really handsome.
Cang came over and asked, "What's wrong, Sang?"
Sang Tian finally came back to her senses: "I'm here to call you home for dinner."
go home?
Cang likes this adjective very much.
I was really hungry and was just about to go back and make do with a meal when Sang had already prepared a large table of food for me.
He smiled knowingly, wrapped Sang Tian's soft hand with a large, hot palm, and returned to the cave shoulder to shoulder.
Cang washed his hands. The table was filled with lush green vegetables, which looked refreshing and fragrant. Sang Tian filled their glasses with hawthorn wine and grapefruit wine.
Then he sat down and started eating.
The two tiger cubs were already drooling and had their heads buried in their food bowls, unable to lift them up.
These fresh vegetables that have just grown in spring are so tender! They are full of fragrance and crisp.
Cang usually ate very few vegetables, so this was a fresh meal. Furthermore, Sang's cooking skills were truly exceptional, and both were deeply impressed by the taste, devouring it mouthful after mouthful.
The two of them had only eaten one-third of the food when they saw the two tiger cubs had licked the bowl clean and were looking at them eagerly.
Sang Tian knew what they meant as soon as she saw their eyes...
"Grandma, more rice!"
But it was true that vegetables weren't very filling after all. It was normal for the two tiger cubs to be hungry. Sang Tian could only put a clay pot on the stove and cook fish for the two tigers.
Cang looked at them and smiled, saying, "Ping'an and Xile have grown a lot, so it's normal for them to eat more."
Sang Tian usually stayed with the two of them, so she didn't notice it unless she had a comparison. But when she thought about it carefully, they had indeed grown a lot.
Although the two tiger cubs were only half a year old and still in their infancy, it was not quite appropriate to call them cubs given their size.
A modern six-month-old tiger weighs about 50-60 kilograms, but it is a saber-toothed tiger after all, and its size is larger than that of a modern tiger.
Furthermore, although Sang Tian had the hunting team carefully train the two tigers, they were ultimately not as robust as saber-toothed tigers that foraged for food in the wilderness, and their energy consumption was much greater. Furthermore, Sang Tian's diet was excellent, with plenty of fish and meat almost daily, cooked to perfection. Throughout the snowy season, the two tigers ate and slept, and grew even larger.
Now I'm afraid both tigers weigh 90-100 kilograms.
Although it is still small, it has grown a lot and is now more and more majestic like a saber-toothed tiger.
Their appetites were growing, and Sang Tian now had to cook in a large pottery bowl every day. If that wasn't enough, she would have to give the two tigers extra food.
Alas, being able to eat is a blessing.
At worst, we can start hunting and increase the training volume for the two tigers to make up for it.
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These few days passed.
Many tribesmen who lived in caves also began to build mud houses, and those who had free time also helped them build them.
People like Yong, Guo, Ye and Mu also started building mud houses.
Sang Tian had mentioned the bamboo house to them, but they planned to marry Duo, Ming, and Jie on their wedding day and wanted to welcome the newlyweds into the new house before then. As for Ye, He was pregnant, and her confinement period coincided with the end of the rainy season, the height of autumn, when it was both humid and hot. It would naturally be more comfortable for He and the child to live there.
Sang Tian was also genuinely happy for them. She had seen them walking together with her own eyes, and she hoped that they could always walk side by side.
Sang Tian had no such thoughts this year. For her, forming a partnership was the same as getting married. It was a sacred and solemn matter, not something to be taken lightly.
Even though Sang Tian had decided on Cang in her heart, she and Cang would only be together for a few months, so it was indeed too early now.
Besides, now wasn't the time; Sang Tian had more important things to do. The Tianlang had fewer than 500 members, but their power was already the greatest among the tribes, large and small. While they inspired envy, respect, and fear, they also drew the apprehension and targeting of other tribes. What if several tribes united?
Sang Tian now feels that he lacks weapons, that is, iron.
Her dagger and sword cannot be easily produced, which is totally inconsistent with the productivity and logic of this era.
Sang Tian didn't explain the origins of these weapons to the members of the Tianlang tribe. Few of the Shanhu and Changspear tribesmen possessed daggers and long swords. Sang Tian bestowed them upon those who had made significant contributions. They were tactful enough not to ask.
The giant bone that Guyu now has was given to her by her mother for protection when she came from the big city.
But how could she possibly carry so many weapons? If she wanted to equip every member of the tribe with weapons, she had to make them herself.
It all depends on whether Sang Tian is lucky enough to find iron ore in this ancient forest.
Only in this way can you legitimately have a weapon on your side.
The destructive power of bamboo arrows was indeed not very good, so Tianlang could only coat them with poison. But if it were an iron arrow, it would be a different story.
Moreover, iron can also be used to make farm tools. Farm tools made from animal bones can also be used, but they are definitely not as good as those made from iron. Sang Tian started to farm in ancient times.
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Now is not the time to start a family.
It's not that Cang doesn't want to be with Sang Tian, but he understands Sang Tian. She has lofty ambitions and things she wants to do. Respect her and help her...
Therefore, the two of them tacitly did not mention this matter.
Sang Tian was obsessed with the bamboo house. After all, Mr. Tao had planted the seed of seclusion in every Chinese. Sang Tian's diary now was set amidst lush green mountains and rivers, and adding a bamboo house would make it even more meaningful.
If I build a mud house now, I'll have to spend time building a bamboo house when summer comes. It's too troublesome.
What's more, Sang Tian had no plan to build a mud house. She liked cleanliness and didn't like the walls of mud houses very much.
The bamboo house is clean, smooth, and easy to clean. Plus, the subtle bamboo fragrance is soothing and calming.
When the weather is warm, I live in a bamboo house, and when it is cold, I live in a cave. It must be said that the stone cave is indeed very warm.
Cang also expressed that he wanted to build a bamboo house like Sang Tian mentioned before summer.
So the two of them helped them build mud houses.
He was pregnant, so she cooked for several people.