Confiscated and exiled, the down-and-out general became the queen

Chapter 143 Discovering Yams

Xiao Lengyue heard someone calling her, turned around, and saw a woman from the village running towards her in a hurry.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

The woman came to Xiao Lengyue and panted, "We, we found a field of wild vines over there. We want Madam Song to help us see if we can eat it."

After hearing this, Xiao Lengyue stopped what he was doing, nodded, and followed the woman away.

When we arrived at the place she mentioned, we saw that it was a yam field.

Old Madam Song and the others saw Xiao Lengyue coming and asked, "Can I eat this?"

Xiao Lengyue nodded, "You can eat it, but this food grows very deep, and you have to be careful when digging it out. Some people will be allergic if they touch the juice it secretes."

Hearing this, everyone was slightly stunned and asked in confusion: "What is allergy?"

Xiao Lengyue coughed lightly, "It just makes your skin itchy when it gets on it."

Xiao Lengyue was afraid that they would continue asking questions, so he took a hoe and began to teach them how to dig yam.

Everyone watched as Xiao Lengyue dug out a yam in a short while, their eyes filled with shock.

"Wow, is this the yam that Mrs. Song mentioned?"

“So this is what it looks like?”

Xiao Lengyue took the yam and told everyone what they needed to pay attention to, and also broke some of the yam.

After wiping it on his own hand and seeing no reaction, he looked at Sister-in-law Song, "Sister-in-law, can you lend me your hand?"

Mrs. Song nodded and handed her hand to Xiao Lengyue.

Xiao Lengyue smeared yam juice on Mrs. Song's hands. After a while, she saw that her hands had started to turn red.

Mrs. Song felt a little itchy, so she scratched it, and then she found that wherever her fingers touched, they gradually turned red.

After seeing this, Xiao Lengyue asked someone to fetch a basin of water and asked Sister Song to put her hand in the water. She was shocked and said, "It doesn't itch anymore."

Xiao Lengyue nodded, "Yes, if you accidentally touch it and it itches, just soak it in water for a while and it will be fine in a while."

When everyone heard this, they nodded and started digging.

After Song Ye and his friends found a place to live, they found some dry branches, made a fire and started to deal with the mule.

Looking at so much meat, Old Chen looked at Song Ye and frowned, "How should we deal with so much meat?"

Song Ye looked at the meat that everyone was cutting up and said, "How about pickling it?"

"But we don't have enough salt."

This is what Xiao Lengyue heard when she came over. She asked in confusion, "What is not enough?"

When Old Chen saw Xiao Lengyue coming, he said, "We can't finish the mule meat all at once, but if we want to pickle it, we don't have enough salt."

An idea flashed through Xiao Lengyue's mind, but she had never eaten mule meat, so she asked, "Is this mule meat tender or old?"

Old Chen didn't know what Xiao Lengyue meant, but he still said honestly: "This is not an old mule, so the meat should not be old."

When Xiao Lengyue heard this, she said, "Then let's make it into jerky. This way it will be much more convenient to eat later."

When Song Ye heard this, he frowned and asked, "Is this very troublesome?"

Xiao Lengyue shook her head: "It's not a big deal. Just cut the mule meat into small strips and fry until dry."

After Xiao Lengyue finished speaking, she saw that Song Ye didn't understand, so she looked at Old Chen and said, "Find a few women with good cooking skills, and I will teach them."

After hearing this, Old Chen hurried to find the woman. After Xiao Lengyue saw that everyone was present, she asked them to cut the meat into pieces of similar sizes.

During this time, she took out the necessary seasonings from the space. After everything was prepared, she asked Song Ye to help her start a big fire.

Put water in a big pot and put the cut meat in to blanch it. After all the blood foam is cooked out, take it out and let it stand aside, waiting for the water to drain.

Then I continued to blanch the meat in another pot. After all the excess meat had been blanched, I washed the pot clean.

Then, he took out the rapeseed oil from the space, poured it into half of the pot, and started frying it over low heat.

After frying, drain the excess oil, add the chili peppers, and after the chili peppers are fried until fragrant, pour in the dried meat and start frying.

Then pour various seasonings on it, and soon the aroma of the jerky spreads.

When Song Tianrui and the others smelled the smell, they all ran over, surrounded the big pot, and swallowed their saliva.

When Xiao Lengyue saw this, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. She scooped out a bowl with a spoon and handed it to them.

"Let Auntie taste it and see if it tastes good."

When Song Tianrui heard this, he was surprised and said, "Aunt, can we really eat it?"

Xiao Lengyue nodded, "Eat."

So, Song Tianrui took the bowl from Xiao Lengyue, gave one to each of his friends around him, and then started to taste it.

The children smelled the fragrance of the dried meat in their hands, and saliva was secreted from the corners of their mouths. They looked at each other, and only started to eat after they were sure that everyone had some.

Then, they all looked at Xiao Lengyue in shock, with surprise in their eyes.

Song Tianrui: "Aunt, this is delicious."

"It's delicious. I never thought meat could be so delicious."

Seeing that they were eating happily, Xiao Lengyue raised the corner of her mouth. At this moment, a piece of dried meat appeared at the corner of her mouth.

She raised her eyes and met Song Ye's smiling gaze.

"Yue'er, you try it too."

Xiao Lengyue took the jerky from his hand, tasted it, and nodded, "Not bad, stir-fry it for a while longer and it'll be ready to serve."

When Song Ye heard this, he nodded and continued to stir-fry.

Everyone smelled the scent and couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

"This meat jerky made by General Song and his men smells delicious."

“Yeah, it looks delicious too.”

"But, isn't it a waste of oil for them to fry it like this?"

Elder Chen listened to the discussions of the people around him and said unhappily, "It's enough to have something to eat, why are you complaining about it?

What, you don’t want to eat for a while?”

When everyone heard that Mr. Chen's tone was not very good, they quickly turned around and went about their own business.

When Leng Shaobin saw Old Chen's expression, the corners of his mouth curled up and he shook his head helplessly. This man has been like this for so many years, but his temperament hasn't changed at all.

After Song Ye and Xiao Lengyue finished frying the dried meat, the woman came back with the yam.

Xiao Lengyue looked at the pile of bones and decided to make some pork ribs soup, since there happened to be yam as well.

So she asked someone to peel the yam, and she fried the ribs in water and then stewed them again.

When it’s almost cooked, add the yam.

The villagers' mouths were stretched to their ears when they smelled the pork rib soup.

"Mom, it smells so good."