Chapter 14 Game Fragrance
It is already dinner time, and the two of them have climbed such a long mountain road and consumed a lot of energy, so they are already hungry.
Cen Jiahua touched her croaking stomach and asked Chen Yang: "Ayang, it's twelve o'clock now, how can we solve our lunch?"
"Brother Jiahua, just put your heart back in your stomach. Follow me, you won't be hungry." Chen Yang walked in front and said without looking back: "Not only will you not let you go hungry, but you will also let you taste the delicious food you can't eat normally."
The tropical jungle looks mysterious and beautiful from afar, and is full of vitality everywhere, but there are many dangers. Mosquitoes, drought leeches, poisonous snakes and even miasma. If people who are not familiar with the jungle rashly break in, they will encounter great trouble.
The overly closed valley is exposed by the sunlight covered by towering trees and the unventilated year round, and the rotten dead branches and leaves will emit toxic gases, forming miasma and abnormal dangers.
The independent puddles in the valley are also because there is no fresh water source all year round, and many parasites and bacteria are breeding in it, and they are absolutely not drinkable. The safer water source is the flowing water, which is better if you live with fish. As the saying goes, "Water does not rot" is the reason.
Fortunately, Cen Jiahua has a small mountain lead like Chen Yang, but she just wanders around the jungle and doesn't encounter much trouble.
The two of them followed the same route back to the stream where they had just rested, and then flowed up the stream and came to a small pool.
The pool is about three or four meters wide, and is close to the mountain wall. On the wall, an extremely clear mountain spring rushed down and fell into the pool, splashing waves of white and flawless waves.
The pool was like a piece of light blue jade, and it was impossible to see its depth from above. Standing by the pool, Cen Jiahua only felt a cool air coming to her face, because the trace of fatigue brought by the road disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Chen Yang put down his backpack, then took out a marching pot from it like a magic trick and placed it on the ground.
"Brother Jiahua, you find some dead branches and leaves nearby, and then set fire to boil water. We are ready to have a picnic."
Chen Yang's words woke up Cen Jiahua, who was still intoxicated, and he blushed and he quickly searched nearby.
Chen Yang picked up the sickle and found two straight branches in the nearby bushes that were as thick as the big toe. Then he repaired the branches on the branches and cut them into two sticks that were as close as his eyebrows.
Take out a hanging net about 2 meters long and 1 meter wide from the bag I carried with me, and tie both ends of the hanging net to the stick. So a simple fishing net was made. With the fishing net, Chen Yang quickly caught several wild crucian carp the size of a palm in the pool.
At this time, Cen Jiahua, who was looking for firewood nearby, also came back. Not only did he hold a bunch of dead branches, but he also had several clusters of mushrooms and fungus.
When Chen Yang saw that these mushrooms and fungus were all edible, just paired with crucian carp to make soup.
Cen Jiahua was very happy to see that she finally helped. She suddenly became more motivated and took the initiative to take over the task of boring fish.
Since he was stimulated by Chen Yang's quick movements last time, Cen Jiahua has been shameless and brave. After a period of practice, his fish-killing movements have made great progress.
In this way, the two of them had a clear division of labor, one killed the fish, and the other cleaned up the partridges that were hunted and retrieved.
Chen Yang first found two stones by the stream, found a flat place, and built a simple stove. He filled the marching pot with water, and then lit the fire underneath and started burning.
After the water boiled, Chen Yang poured the boiling water on the partridges one by one, so as to facilitate the hair removal of the partridges. Chen Yang's hands and feet were very quick, and he removed all the partridges and cleaned them up in a while.
Chen Yang found a new place near the place where the water was just boiling, set up a marching pot, re-burned the fire, threw three crucian carp into it and started stewing fish soup. He washed the mushrooms and fungus, which were considered delicacies in the city, and threw them into the marching pot.
Chen Yang pulled off a large leaf from the wild banana tree next to the pool, wrapped two partridges with salt tightly, and then wrapped them with a large ball of sticky yellow mud dug from the bottom of the stream.
When the water was boiling just now, the ground had already been heated. Chen Yang used the prepared branches to dig a small hole on the hot ground. He put the mud wrapped around the partridge into the small hole, covered it with a thin layer of soil, and then created a bonfire on it.
It will take some time for the partridge and crucian carp soup to be well, so the rest of the time they will naturally not make it here and wait. So Chen Yang found two branches to put the remaining crucian carp into pieces, and started barbecuing with Cen Jiahua on the flames.
After a while, the crucian carp was roasted to turn golden, and the fish oil made a wonderful "sizzling" sound under the scorching flames. The tempting fragrance began to emanate in the wind, strongly stimulating the appetite of Chen Yang and Cen Jiahua.
Cen Jiahua went on an outing in college and learned barbecue, so her skills were pretty sloppy. Although the things she copied were not as good as Chen Yang's, they were not too bad.
When the grilled fish was cooked, Cen Jiahua didn't care about her image, but just blew a few bites and then bit her.
The taste of this wild crucian carp is much more delicious than the crucian carp that Cen Jiahua had eaten before. Beneath the browned fish skin is snow-white and tender fish meat. Because the dead branches burned underneath are all pine branches, the fish meat maintains the original flavor and has a slight rosy smell, which is really a rare delicacy.
Under the stimulation of the food, Cen Jiahua killed two grilled fish in a row, which was satisfying.
Just as Cen Jiahua and the others were eating grilled fish voraciously, the crucian carp soup stewed in the marching pot also began to make a gurgling sound. The strong fish fragrance, with the fragrance of mushrooms and fungus, began to float above the stream.
Scoop a bowl of fish soup and I saw that the milky white fish soup seemed to be like milk. The golden oil droplets on it were the oil boiled from the partridge's fat. The strong visual contrast made people feel very appetizing.
Cen Jiahua took a sip carefully and found that the fish soup seemed to be like smooth silk, and accidentally slid into her throat. The fish soup was not only full of the delicious original flavor of crucian carp, but also the fragrance of mountain delicacies. More importantly, these flavors were blended perfectly, without any astringency.
After tasting the delicious crucian carp and mushroom soup, it was today's turn to be the highlight of today, Chen Yang's carefully created beggar partridge.
The already hard mud ball was dug out from the ground where the bonfire had been extinguished. After a little cool down, Chen Yang instructed Cen Jiahua to carefully smash the mud with a wooden stick.
After the mud was peeled off, the banana leaves that had turned charred black inside were exposed. These banana leaves only lost their moisture but were not burned.
Cen Jiahua and the others completely ignored the smoke rising from the banana leaves and peeled off the tightly wrapped banana leaves with their hands, revealing the true face of the partridge wrapped inside.
The partridge's skin had been smoked by the bonfire and turned completely golden. The steaming partridge exuded an unparalleled fragrance the moment the banana leaves were peeled off.
Cen Jiahua tore off a wing with his hand and bit it with his mouth. Only then did he realize that the things he had eaten before were nothing.
Beneath the golden partridge skin is snow-white meat. These partridges, which are similar to chicken but do not have the fishy smell of chicken, are extremely tender and smooth, and almost melt in the mouth. In addition, the partridge meat is also soaked in the fragrance of banana leaves, forming a very special taste.
Just as the two were shopping, a series of low roars suddenly came from nearby!
Chapter completed!