Sisters in the Deep Forest Valley: Many Fun Things

Chapter 136 Beggar Chicken

Selling Ganoderma lucidum is a matter for later, no rush. Right now, the most important thing is to make delicious beggar's chicken!

"Of course we have to eat! Let's hurry and run back!" Lin Lanshan grabbed her sister's hand and ran towards home.

Lin Chunyi was dragged along and forced to run, shouting as she ran, "Stop! Stop! Stop!"

Lin Lanshan suddenly stopped, turned to look at her, and asked, "What's wrong? Hurry up and go back to make beggar's chicken!"

After she regained her balance, she continued, "You're so jumpy. If I weren't physically strong, I would have dislocated my arm sooner or later."

"What's the rush? Go check if the chestnuts are ripe. Adding chestnuts to beggar's chicken makes it taste even better."

"Then let's go to the outer perimeter, quick, run, run!" Lin Lanshan felt she was getting closer and closer to the beggar's chicken, and she was extremely excited.

The two changed direction and continued running...

They ventured into a grove of trees where the leaves were already turning yellow and found the two chestnut trees.

Lin Chunyi looked up and saw that the green, spiky balls were hanging all over the tree, bending the branches under their weight.

"We haven't said much yet, so let's pick a little bit first, just enough for two meals of beggar's chicken."

"We'll collect the rest in a few days. You stand back a bit, I'm going to climb up and hit them." She broke off a thick branch and nimbly climbed the tree.

Once she climbed the tree, she saw some hidden, already split open, spiky fruits. She hit them hard with a branch, and with a "thud," the fruits fell to the ground.

After only a few blows, Lin Chunyi stood on the tree and called down, "Lanshan, how many chestnuts have you gotten? Is that enough?"

"That's enough, that's enough. The pheasant's belly is already full. Be careful, come down now." After her sister threw the branch to the ground, Lin Lanshan returned to the chestnut tree and kicked the spiky ball into a pile.

Lin Chunyi leaped down from the tree, squatted down, and tapped the chestnuts with the back of her knife. "So many! Perfect. We'll just roast the extras. I really miss the roasted chestnuts from last winter!"

The two sisters took out the chestnuts from the spiky ball, which weighed about three pounds, put them into their spatial storage, and then headed back towards the valley.

They cleaned the pheasants by the stream in the valley before returning home.

In the kitchen.

Lin Chunyi used various seasonings such as scallions, ginger, soy sauce, and wine to start massaging the pheasant.

Meanwhile, Lin Lanshan chopped the other four pheasants into pieces, washed them, and then blanched them.

Next, pour the chicken into the pot, add boiling water, a handful of astragalus and red dates, and start simmering the chicken soup.

Lin Chunyi, who had just finished massaging the two pheasants, only had time to see half a pot of meat before the pot lid covered it up.

She couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your method is so easy! You stewed all four chickens in one pot."

Look at your iron pot! It's half full of meat. Am I supposed to drink the soup or eat the meat?

"Hehe, that's easy! You drink half the soup, and I'll eat half the meat. Isn't that a perfect distribution?"

After Lin Lanshan finished speaking with a grin, she found a large bowl and started mixing the dipping sauce again. "I'm going to make a dipping sauce that's delicious for dipping shoe soles!"

"Fine, then you can dip your shoes in the soles and I'll dip mine in meat. Tsk, what a hobby, liking to eat shoe soles~" This argumentative person who can't think outside the box isn't a good older sister who likes to tease others!

Wild chestnuts are only the size of a thumbnail, and they look like small cones, so they are also called cone chestnuts.

This type of chestnut can be easily cracked open by simply tapping it with a knife; then you can peel it open and eat it.

After taking her revenge, Lin Chunyi hummed a song in a cheerful mood and began to pat the chestnuts with the belly of her knife, trying to make them open.

"..." Her sister never holds grudges, because if she does, she settles the score on the spot!

She quietly prepared the dipping sauce for the shoe soles—or rather, the delicious dipping sauce for chicken.

Put salt, minced garlic, sesame seeds, chili powder, and chopped green onions into a large bowl, then pour hot oil over it.

Next, add soy sauce and vinegar, and finally add a spoonful of rich chicken broth and stir. The dipping sauce is now ready.

Lin Chunyi was peeling chestnuts when she heard two sizzling sounds as hot oil was poured into the condiment bowl, and then she smelled a rich aroma of garlic and chili peppers released by the hot oil.

She took a deep sniff. "Hmm, it does smell really good. Is the dipping sauce ready? Then hurry up and peel some chestnuts. I need to pick some pumpkin leaves to wash."

Lin Lanshan subconsciously asked, "Why are you picking pumpkin leaves?" Then she put a bowl of spicy and oily dipping sauce into her space and went over to peel chestnuts.

“We don’t have any lotus leaves, but the pumpkin leaves are the perfect size, so let’s use these instead,” Lin Chunyi replied as she walked out of the kitchen.

She had peeled almost half of the chestnuts when she remembered that beggar's chicken should be wrapped in lotus leaves.

There were no lotus leaves in the mountains, so after thinking it over, she decided to use pumpkin leaves! Although they didn't have the pleasant fragrance of lotus leaves, they still had the fresh scent of leaves.

Lin Chunyi picked a bunch of clean pumpkin leaves from the outer courtyard. "Finished peeling? Perfect. Stuff the chestnuts into the pheasant's belly. Then wrap it in leaves, tie it with string, and we can go coat it in mud and start roasting."

"Then let's hurry up. If the beggar's chicken is cooked, we can still manage to have dinner before dark."

The two tossed the packaged pheasant into their spatial storage, grabbed some chili powder, and headed out to the location where they were setting up the grill.

Practice makes perfect, and Lin Chunyi put dry branches into the stove and lit a full fire.

The stove was lit first, and the two of them dug up a pile of yellow soil, added water, mixed it into a thin mud, and then wrapped it around two pumpkin leaves to make the paste.

"We just played in the mud a few days ago, and we're playing in it again today. Sis, do you think if we keep digging in the dirt like this, won't we eventually dry up all the soil in the valley...?"

As Lin Lanshan spoke, she slapped mud onto the pumpkin leaves with her palm, completely covering the green leaves.

"That only shows that you have a pretty clear understanding of yourself. You know you eat a lot, and you're already worried about whether there's enough soil in the valley," Lin Chunyi replied casually.

Then, looking at her hands, covered in mud, holding a large mud bag, she said with satisfaction:

"Alright, haven't I been feeding you enough every day? Why are you thinking so much?"

The preparations for the beggar's chicken are all done; now it just needs to be roasted. Give me what you're holding, and go check if the oven is ready.

The white smoke coming out of the oven ears became less and lighter, indicating that the firewood inside was almost burned out.

Lin Lanshan moved the stone away from the stove opening and looked closer. The firewood had turned into red sparks and white ash.

She used a stick to sweep the ashes to the edge, then took the mud bags from her sister and placed them one by one at the stove opening, pushing them in with the stick.

"Oops! I think I poked through the pumpkin leaf and hit the flesh inside."

Lin Chunyi leaned closer to look, "Let me see."

really,

A hole was poked into the mud mound by a stick, and the torn green pumpkin leaf could already be seen.