books44 Chapter 192 Picnic Party, Time to Eat (2)
Chapter 192 Picnic Party, Time to Eat (2)
Is dinner served?
Lin Lanshan had to be the first to react; she got up and took a big step forward to help.
Next, the little ones on the blanket also quickly got up.
His eyes were fixed intently, darting around.
pacing back and forth,
It has claws that scratch it.
It was making happy noises...
They all expressed their high expectations.
Six crispy roasted fish, a tender roasted chicken, ten skewers of fragrant roasted wild boar, and also cloyingly sweet roasted sweet potatoes and soft, powdery roasted potatoes...
Except for the whole roasted suckling pig, which wasn't cooked yet, they placed everything else into bamboo baskets that had been prepared in advance.
"It's still very hot. Let's cut some off with a knife to eat first. I'm starving." Lin Lanshan spread out a bamboo knife and a pair of chopsticks, staring at the steaming meat as she spoke.
"You're being so rational today." You didn't just grab a handful and put it in your mouth.
After Lin Chunyi finished speaking, she used a knife and chopsticks to cut the four unmarinated fish into several parts, avoiding the fish bones in the middle. "Little kitty, these are your fish, be careful they're hot."
Lin Lanshan took the wild boar meat from the tree branch and then gave the squirrels a handful of pine nuts, raw chestnuts, and millet.
Taozi and Tuanyuan Ankang ate a vegetable salad that they had carefully prepared.
It contained cabbage leaves, corn kernels, soaked soybeans, tomatoes, cucumbers, rice, roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes, and a peach that Lin Lanshan reluctantly gave up.
The two portions, "Reunion" and "Peace and Health," contained extra pieces of raw fish.
Lunch was ready for everyone.
The two sisters each took out a bowl, raised their chopsticks, and simultaneously reached for the meat in the basket, flashing each other a perfect, toothy grin.
"Let's start eating."
The fire gradually dwindled, and the firewood, burning itself out, crackled and popped repeatedly.
They grilled the half-cooked wild boar and the second batch of wild boar meat skewers until they sizzled.
Lin Chunyi and Lin Lanshan took turns piling meat into their mouths with their chopsticks, sipping large mouthfuls before drinking a cup of tea to cool off the spiciness. They had sprinkled plenty of chili salt on it today, making the grilled meat a bright red color.
After finishing the grilled fish, the two lynxes, without even taking a break, happily began to enjoy the spoils of their day's battle: a baby wild boar.
Their two long, fluffy tails swayed gently, indicating their excellent mood.
The little squirrels were busy munching on fresh chestnuts, their cheeks puffing out one side and the other the other.
The outdoor lunch was a great success, with everyone enjoying themselves.
Having eaten until she was about 70% full, Lin Lanshan slowed down her eating and munching. She leaned on the low table with her left hand, looked around at everyone, and said contentedly:
"Sis, you know what? No wonder so many people like to get together with their relatives and friends from time to time to eat, drink, and have fun."
"When there are many people around, the meal is even more enjoyable. I used to only eat two bowls of meat, but today I ate three bowls and still felt like I could eat some more."
She held a large bowl, so big her hand couldn't hold its bottom, and added a big clump of rice into it. Eating meat for so long had become a bit greasy; some rice would be nice…
Lin Chunyi let out a burp and said, "Then let's come out and eat like this every now and then. It's really fun to have a bunch of little animals gathered around and eating together."
"Then next time, hehe~ can we invite that mother tiger and her cub over too?" Lin Lanshan, at the age when she was young and fearless, had a deep obsession with playing with tigers.
Riding tigers, running and leaping through the forests with them, and hunting together. At mealtimes, snuggling up with them to eat meat, slurping it down. Ideally, after lunch, we could even take a nap together!
Young people who know about her experiences must be incredibly envious, right?
For her, this was absolutely the pinnacle of her youth... "Hahahaha!" She seemed to see the admiring and envious looks from all her peers.
Lin Chunyi was so startled by her sister's sudden laughter that her hand holding the chopsticks trembled, and the meat fell onto the table.
According to their old three-second rule, if you pick it up within three seconds, you can still eat it. She quickly picked it up, put it in her mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it, letting the meat think it hadn't fallen at all.
"Inviting them is actually possible, but if we invite the tiger, it will be difficult to invite the other little ones. Even Peach and Reunion and Peace can't be brought along."
Lin Chunyi actually wanted to pet a tiger too. She remembered how the one-eyed tigress had brought them things.
I think there's a real chance this will work out!
The two tacitly decided to find an opportunity to try it out. They even began to fantasize about the scene, and their smiles became increasingly twisted...
After the meal, the "guests" immediately lay down and fell asleep, showing little manners. There was nothing the two sisters could do. They had no choice but to take their machetes to the stream to deal with the remaining wild boars and digest their food.
On average, each of the four wild boars weighed about 150 jin (75 catties).
Lin Lanshan skillfully cut open the flesh and cleaned out the internal organs. "Sister, there's a lot of wild boar meat this time. Should we smoke it all into cured meat?"
Cured pork is delicious when stir-fried with garlic sprouts or green peppers, but she wouldn't be able to eat it every day.
Even setting aside the possibility of getting tired of it, eating too much preserved meat isn't healthy. (Unless you have limited options!)
Lin Chunyi paused, her hand still plucked out the internal organs, and looked at the pile of wild boar meat on the ground again and again. Suddenly, many memories surfaced in her mind.
She was silent for a while before saying, "Let's make sausages, it's been so long since we've had any." Having eaten cured meats for so long, how could we have forgotten about sausages...?
Back in my hometown, my grandparents and maternal grandparents would buy a whole pig every year to slaughter and make cured pork ribs, cured pig's trotters, sausages, and so on.
Then a large portion was mailed to my parents and their families, who live thousands of kilometers away.
The sausages my grandparents make are on the spicier side, with more lean meat than fat. When we want to eat them, we just need to wash a section, slice it thinly, and then put it on top of rice to steam together.
The oil from the preserved meat and chili sauce all seeped into the rice, and that oily rice in the middle was the reason why my younger sister always insisted on getting more rice.
The sausages my maternal grandparents made were spiced and had a perfect ratio of lean to fat, making them ideal for stir-frying.
No need to add oil to the pan. Sauté the thickly sliced sausages until they release their savory, cured fat. Then add garlic cloves and green peppers and stir-fry briefly. No need to add salt; the flavor will be just right.
Lin Lanshan was also stunned when she heard the word "sausage".
It seems like she hasn't thought about her past life for a long time.
But the words her grandparents and maternal grandparents said on the phone one after the other last time seemed so clear in her mind, as if they were right next to her ears.
"My dear grandson, we slaughtered a big, fat pig this year! We sent you your favorite sausages, enjoy them slowly. Give us a call when you're done, we have plenty more at home..."
Lin Lanshan shook off those memories and silently slashed the belly of the second wild boar with the machete in her hand.
Despite her exceptional skill with a short knife, she accidentally made a slightly off-target cut.
She stared at the skewed mark for what seemed like an eternity before finally snapping out of her daze and replying with a single word: "Okay."