Chapter 52: Up The Mountain Again
Chapter 52: Up The Mountain Again (2)
She took a fishing net from her interspace and cast it . She caught five or six fish the first time .
She quickly took a large, wooden bucket from her interspace and filled it with water . She put all the fish in, then cast the net again . Then she scattered some bait into the pool to entice the fish . This bait was her special concoction!
It would definitely work .
She also scattered some over where the water was deeper . Sure enough, she soon saw fishes of various sizes swimming over in increasing numbers .
Gu Qingyao was delighted . She happily caught them and in a while, she had over a hundred good-sized fish . She released the smaller ones .
Gu Qingyao stopped after she had filled three large buckets of fish . She quickly put the wooden buckets back into her living interspace and put her net away . It was now about eleven o’clock, and it was time to make lunch .
She had packed the rice in bamboo tubes earlier . Mo Beihan had seen them already, but the rice was cold by now, so she decided to make fried rice .
Gu Qingyao had not prepared the dishes in advance . She meant to cook them on the spot .
This time, Mo Beihan had come better prepared, and had even brought along a small iron pot . In these times, iron pots were extremely rare . Most people used ceramic pots .
The Gu family only had two iron pots because her eldest uncle and second uncle were in the military and were well connected .
She started by cooking fish soup . She caught and cleaned a few small fish, added some mushrooms and wild herbs, then placed them in a ceramic jar to cook .
Then she washed a small piece of meat and some peppers .
She julienned the meat and peppers . The peppers were rather spicy, and the meat would be especially tasty and appetizing after being fried with them .
She heated the iron pot, then added some oil . Then she added onion, ginger and garlic and fried them until they were fragrant . Lastly, she added the meat strips and stir-fried them before adding the peppers . When it was cooked, she added a small spoonful of bean paste . It would be ready in a bit!
It was very fragrant and spicy, and would go perfectly with rice .
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Gu Qingyao did not cook too much, just a small plateful, enough for the two of them .
She placed it by the side, then washed the pot, added oil again and made egg fried rice . She added vegetables and green onions .
She had just finished when Mo Beihan returned with a load of game . But he seemed rather unhappy .
“What’s the matter?”
“There were no wild boars!”
Gu Qingyao: “…”
“Ha… . ” Gu Qingyao laughed . She thought something had happened to him!
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“Do you think wild boars are like cabbages? You will encounter them every time? These animals are rare . How can you possibly find them everywhere?”
As Gu Qingyao spoke, she helped him to unload the game .
Many of the animals were caught in the traps they had set the last time they were here . There was quite a lot of game – two water deer, three roe deer, thirteen wild rabbits and nine pheasants!
“You’ve caught so many things, and yet you think it’s too little . How are others going to get by?”
In these times, so much meat was a rare sight .
Mo Beihan took a wild pear from his pocket . “For you!”
Gu Qingyao’s eyes lit up . “A pear?”
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Mo Beihan smiled . “I happened to see a pear tree . There were only a few left, so I picked them all . Here they are . ”
As he spoke, he took a dozen or so from his pocket .
These were wild mountain pears . They were green and fairly small . Their core was rather large, but… they were wild!
Oh, the memories of her youth!
Gu Qingyao laughed and quickly washed one . She used her teeth to strip off the skin, then crunched into it .
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