freenovelworld Chapter 412 Snail
Chapter 412 Snail
"Really?" Everyone was surprised. "Can it spit things out?"
The other women were also looking forward to the dishes of snails. "There's only a few ounces of meat in this thing. It smells rotten and has a hint of sand. We've eaten it before, but who would eat it unless they're really hungry?"
"I still remember that year when we couldn't afford to eat at home, so I ran a long way to the river and fished for a lot of meat. I picked out the meat one by one. I still remember the smell very clearly. I felt like my whole body stank from mouth to nose! I even had diarrhea after eating it. Fortunately, I didn't die!"
Everyone is still scared. Is it really okay to eat something that causes diarrhea?
But looking at the big pot of fried bean sprouts on the table, I became unsure again. I didn’t know how to make something delicious.
After each family took their food back, the Zhou family also started to eat.
The workers looked at the yellow, fluffy, and tender fried bean sprouts while holding their bowls and said with a smile, "These are bean sprouts. They look good and smell good. I'll have a big chopstick."
Others were not willing to be outdone. They might hesitate if they had never eaten a dish at home, but at the Zhou family, let alone Zhou Guo's cooking skills, even the bottles and jars on the stove were amazing. Even if you didn't believe in her cooking skills, you had to believe in these expensive seasonings. How could they be so expensive if they didn't taste good?
Seeing that everyone had started eating, the Zhou family members started eating too. They had been eating together with everyone for the past few days, and there was no one to be served. They could just take more after they were done eating. There was enough food anyway, and these people didn't treat them as outsiders at all, so they didn't wait any longer.
It tastes better when eaten together, and we can eat more. We squat together and chat and laugh while we finish the meal.
Each person gets a steamed bun and half a bowl of vegetables. After finishing the steamed bun, you can take more.
Zhou Guo picked up the bowl and ate a few bean sprouts first. They were fresh, crisp and tender. Because pine mushroom powder was added, the taste was even fresher and much better than ordinary wild vegetables.
The old man sat aside and nodded after taking a bite, "Well, it's not worse than what I had before, it's even better."
Zhou Guo asked: "Master, where have you eaten this dish before?"
The old man took another bite and said vaguely, "How can I remember it? It was probably in the capital. I haven't seen it anywhere else. If you hadn't done it, I would have forgotten it. Hey, where did you hear it from?"
Yeah, everybody looked over here.
Zhou Guo said calmly, "Where do I need to hear this from? Just have a pair of eyes that can discover it. Beans can sprout. When they grow this high, they are the most tender. If they grow any taller, they will become old. Cut them off and stir-fry them. Isn't it the same as those vegetable seedlings in the garden, such as radish seedlings and cabbage seedlings? It's the same principle."
Makes sense!
Everyone nodded, but why didn’t they have such a pair of eyes?
"Damn, the bean sprouts taste so good when fried. I'll ask my wife to try it when I get home. This girl from the Zhou family really knows how to eat. She can think of something like this!"
The stir-fried bean sprouts were very well received.
This dish quickly spread throughout the village, and everyone went back to talk about how delicious the bean sprouts they had eaten at noon were.
The women in each household couldn't sit still and came to the door before dark. They wanted to see how the beans sprouted, as it seemed that they were not planted in the ground.
Zhou Guo left a small piece uncut, and when people came, he brought the thing out to show them.
"It's possible for it to sprout so high without any soil? It's amazing, and it's still doing so well!!"
"Hey, what do you think? If we plant them like this, without planting them in the ground, will they grow and produce beans? If they can grow like this, then what kind of land do we need? We can have as much land as we want."
Zhou Guo looked up at the person and saw that it was a woman in her forties. Although her clothes were patched, they were clean and her hair was neatly combed.
This was a well-known household in the village. There were six children in the family. Her mother-in-law and father-in-law were both gone, and her brothers had also divided up the property. Because she was not liked by her mother-in-law, she got the least when the family property was divided up. With so many people in the family, she was only given six acres of land, and it was said that she was only given a bag of grain, and nothing else.
That's how it was. The couple slowly made their lives better. Now they live better than the eldest and second eldest sons' family who got a bargain. They have more land and raise many chickens. The children in the family are all hardworking and their life is getting better and better.
He is indeed a hardworking person and loves to use his brain, otherwise he would not have raised all his children so well, and the eldest and second child are both married.
Others disagreed, "That's definitely not possible. We've never seen anything grow without soil. Even though these buds have grown so big, they will die in a few days. Without soil, they are without roots. How can something survive without roots?"
Everyone else nodded, that is, if they can survive without soil and things, then why do they buy land?
Those wealthy families no longer want the land.
The woman said, "I'll go back and try."
Zhou Guo admired her very much for thinking of soilless cultivation so early. Unfortunately, she didn't know how to prepare the nutrient solution needed for the crops, nor did she have the conditions.
Moreover, she felt that food must follow the laws of nature, grow honestly from the ground, bloom and bear fruit in season, be harvested at the right time, wither, and be planted again the next year.
After everyone learned how to grow bean sprouts, they went back. Even if they didn't have anything else, beans were still available. There were plenty of them. Even if they didn't have any, they could just go to other places to exchange them. They were very cheap anyway.
Zhou Guo didn't sleep well that night.
The next morning, the children came early and asked her to wash the snails, but she didn't react.
A group of people, both big and small, took a small piece of loofah and washed and scrubbed the small snails in their hands until all the moss and mud on them were washed clean.
The children were particularly serious about brushing, and one of them would take a long time to brush.
Zhou Guo took a pair of scissors, picked up the snails they had washed one by one, and cut off the butts with a snap.
Because the project was so big, only two people went to the market today, and the rest of them helped wash the snails.
It is quite troublesome to wash this thing. The key is that it is very small and some gaps cannot be reached. There are also many of them. After washing for a long time, it seems that there are even more snails in the basin!
Some impatient children couldn't stand it and couldn't help asking, "Sister Guoguo, can I go play for a while?"
Zhou Guo said, "No, you see we are all working hard, no one is lazy, and this good thing will only taste better if you work hard to make it. If you don't believe me, try it later. When you wash the snail meat and eat it, you will definitely think it is delicious. You can even eat two more steamed buns!"
When the other children, who were eager to try, heard that it was so delicious, they sat back and washed the dishes happily. Since it was so delicious, it was only right for them to wash it.