Xiaomi shook her head, "I’m not a three-year-old child, tattling about everything. Zhang An is at most annoying, just ignore him."
This matter was just ntioned to Wei Ziang a couple of tis.
Because of the swordsmanship, they communicated more often. Every evening when Wei Ziang returned, as long as Xiaomi hadn’t overslept her nap, they would take a walk around the courtyard.
At this ti, they would usually use the excuse of taking a walk or looking for pigweed to share so swordsmanship experiences.
Zhang An’s matter was inadvertently brought up during this ti.
Wei Ziang smiled slightly, didn’t say much, just held Xiaomi’s hand and led her ho.
"I haven’t been going to school the past few days, haven’t you been talking about wanting to go up the mountain? I can go with you."
"Really? That’s great, Little Grass also invited , saying she’ll take up the mountain this afternoon to find a kind of wild herb. She said it’s fragrant and can be brewed into a drink, cooling and relieving sumr heat."
Xiaomi was so happy she almost jumped up.
If her brother was with them, they could venture a little further.
After all, Little Grass is a girl, and if she took Little Grass alone, she’d worry about potential dangers they might face.
If her brother went too, the two of them could look after Little Grass together, and they could naturally have more fun!
"No problem, we’ll tell Auntie to make a bit more for lunch. We’ll take so rice balls and water, co back a bit late in the afternoon, and if we get hungry, we’ll have sothing to eat."
Wei Ziang arranged everything neatly, and Xiaomi just nodded in agreent.
After returning ho, when the second mother hadn’t co back yet and knowing Xiaomi didn’t sleep well last night and was feeling sleepy, she let her catch up on sleep while she went to the kitchen to prepare today’s lunch.
Usually, at noon, Uncles and Uncle Qixu would eat with other workers over there, and after eating, they would co back to rest a bit.
But he had already gone to the pig pen earlier to say hi to Uncle, so he knew he was back.
Today, only he returned ho. Yu Ge, Ze Ge, and Xiao Wei were still at school; Uncle would definitely co back for lunch and ask what’s going on, so he also had to prepare Uncle’s lunch.
With so many people at ho, almost all would cook, even Jiang Wei could whip up a couple of simple dishes, yet Wei Ziang was a bit more skilled than Jiang Wei.
With plenty of ti, Wei Ziang soaked the sorghum rice, intending to cook it later with the polished rice.
Although the family had no shortage of polished rice, often, they preferred to mix in so coarse grains.
There were so dried wood ears soaking on the stove and a piece of cured at prepared. The cured at needed to be scalded, washed, and cooked before it could be stir-fried, and just as the wood ear was not ready, he started with the cured at.
The cured at was hung in a cool, ventilated area, with a piece cut each ti for eating, not handled in advance, or else in two or three days it would completely spoil.
To avoid a fire, scalding cured at must be done outdoors.
The piece of cured at was just palm-sized, with the skin facing up on the ground, so firewood was brought over and lit on top of the at skin, and then twigs were added on top.
These operations were very familiar to Wei Ziang.
Such a piece of cured at could last for two als, and if his guess was right, it was probably prepared for the evening.
Usually, they were at school for lunch, and Auntie kept it simple at noon, reserving the at for the evening when everyone ca ho.
However, with Uncle coming ho for lunch today and needing to work in the afternoon, he decided to make so at dishes on his own initiative.
Of course, mainly because neither Uncle nor Auntie would mind the extra food, which is why he was so bold.
The at skin began sizzling, giving off an enticing aroma, so tempting that one could almost grab it and take a bite.
Ensuring all parts of the skin were properly scalded, Wei Ziang used tongs to take the cured at and set it aside, extinguished the fire, then took the cured at back to the kitchen.
He pulled out so ash from the stove and placed the cured at on it, then took a knife.
By now the cured at was no longer as hot, and he could directly use the small knife to scrape off the burnt layer on the at skin, revealing a fragrant and soft brown-yellow skin underneath.
Wood ash can absorb grease, and this cured at, after being marinated, was also smoked, so a layer of smoke dust covered it.
If simply washed, it would be troubleso, but with wood ash, by using a small knife to scrape off the dirty parts, only wood ash remained during the final wash, making it particularly easy to clean.
Once the cured at was tidied up, it appeared as a translucent brown color, looking especially good, but the preparation wasn’t done. It still needed to be cooked again to beco fully edible and fragrant!
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