Mu Ling New Life 13
Let alone the cities, the more affluent villages don’t use wood-fired stoves for cooking. For a dish or something, it is more convenient to use a gas stove or an induction cooker. However, there is no gas stove or induction cooker here. There is only a very large iron pot. When you look into the pot, there is a small puddle of rusty water underneath. Both Wu Xuan and Zhao Songyuan said that they used this earthen stove when they were young, but they quickly said that they had never used it.
“I was a monkey back then, and my mother wouldn’t let me into the kitchen, for fear that I would spoil the things at home.” Wu Xuan said.
“I saw it at my grandma’s house. I guess my mother doesn’t know how to use it. She always puts a coal stove in the corridor to cook.” Zhao Songyuan also said: “There is no one who can cook this kind of pot. I guess I can only make stews.” Wu Xuan and Zhao Songyuan are like this, not to mention Jing Wenyi and Qi Yunchang,
Zhu Lanyu suddenly asked Zhao Songyuan who was in the same group as her: “Senior Zhao, can you make a fire?”
“Of course I can make a fire. When I was young, I went to my grandma’s house to celebrate the New Year. I always occupied the place outside the stove to keep warm, but several times the fire was too hot and the dishes were burnt.” Zhao Songyuan broke the news with a smile. All audiences love to watch.
“I should be able to cook.” Zhu Lanyu said, in order to keep her stomach full, she has learned how to cook. In the past, she would show off any activities organized by others, such as picnics outside.
“Sister Mu.” Qi Yunchang looked at Mu Ling with a guilty conscience. He had never even done lighting a fire before! It is said that cooking temperature is very important, will he end up messing things up?
“Okay. Let me do it!” Mu Ling waved her hand.
Seeing that everyone had discussed it, the program team said again: “Don’t worry, everyone, we won’t let everyone go hungry. There is enough rice.”
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You can be full by eating rice alone, but this is abuse, right? Although the village is simple and crude but lighters are used to ignite the fire. Mu Ling first used the lighter to ignite the flammable straw, then put in the branches, and then adjusted the size of the fire. After doing all this, time was given to Qi Yunchang, let’s start working! It is impossible to pick up and wash the iron pot on this kind of earthen stove. You can only add water to the pot and then scoop out the dirty water and throw it away. Dirty things that cannot be cleaned and stained with black are called pot ash by country people. People who are used to earthen stoves and iron pots are used to this situation and don’t care, but they are different. Although Mu Ling used to live in ancient times, as a former lady of the big family, she couldn’t stand this, so she naturally had to find a way to make the dishes clean. The locals tied a kind of tiny rattan into a bunch to clean the pot. Mu Ling used it to wash the pot repeatedly. Finally, she found a cotton pad and soaked it in boiling water to wipe the pot. After finally cleaned the pot the small fish is fried, the picked mushrooms and lobster are stewed into a pot of soup, and the three wild vegetables are either fried or cold… Four dishes and one soup are put together, even if you haven’t tasted it, it looks good. Mu Ling’s group not only found all the raw materials by themselves, but still with their cooking skills. There were many things to watch throughout the whole process. What about the other two groups…
Zhu Lanyu really knows how to cook, although she is not as good at washing pots as Mu Ling, and Zhao Songyuan’s fire is too low, he even burnt the eggs that the aunt gave to Zhao Songyuan… Jing Wenyi and Wu Xuan… They are very smart. They boil eggs and everything in white water, and then eat them with soy sauce.
“Senior, let me tell you, my mother told me a long time ago that she really doesn’t know how to cook. Instead of cooking a dark dish with a bunch of seasonings, it’s better to cook it with nothing, so that it won’t be inedible. .” Jing Wenyi said proudly.
“The boiled wild vegetables… you can try it first.” Wu Xuan said.
Wild vegetables basically have an astringent taste, just boiled and eaten directly…the bitter and rough taste is really “wonderful”. Jing Wenyi took a sip, and then pointed to the food cooked by Zhu Lanyu next to him: “Senior, ours looks better than theirs no matter what!”
The program team put three groups in three families to cook , but in the end they ate together and it was also for the three groups to compare. After Jing Wenyi boiled the hard-boiled eggs, he peeled off the shells and cut them in half. The wild vegetables were also neatly arranged. Not to mention the taste, the appearance alone was indeed better than Zhu Lanyu’s. As for the taste… Just by smelling the aroma, you can tell that Zhu Lanyu’s dishes are definitely better. The people in their two groups are still comparing each other then Mu Ling and Qi Yunchang are here. Only Mu Ling’s dishes can be regarded as truly delicious! The people in the other two groups couldn’t help salivating just looking at it! This reality show was filmed for seven days. During these seven days, their mobile phone signal was sporadic and there were no network signal at all, so that when they finally left the mountain and returned to the county, the six people who came to participate in the show felt as if they had passed over.
“Finally I can surf the Internet!” Qi Yunchang touched his mobile phone almost immediately: “I really didn’t expect that I could persist without surfing the Internet for so long.”
“Actually, it’s not bad to live a clean life like this,” Wu Xuan said.
“I’m really not used to it being too clean. I’ve been worrying for the past few days, whether someone will scold me when I can’t browse Weibo online.” Qi Yunchang said with a sad face.
“You think too much, I never think about it. What do you care about other people’s evaluation?” Mu Ling smiled.
If you live in other people’s evaluation, you will be too tired. Of course, she is very aware of other people’s evaluation. Evaluation is very important, so she doesn’t care about those scandals, but she also hopes that she can get the best evaluation. The camera recorded all of this, which can be used as a sideshow or edited into the program in the future. Mu Ling stayed in a place that was almost isolated from the world for a full seven days. What she missed the most was not the Internet or anything else, but Mu Qiu. After she came to this world, it was the first time she had been separated from Mu Qiu for so long, it was inevitable because she didn’t want Mu Qiu to appear in front of the audience and the conditions here were indeed too bad. Of course, it is impossible for her to let Mu Qiu and Mu’s parents to stay in the place that Xue Yilou already knows… Before Mu Ling came to participate in the reality show, she arranged for her parents and Mu Qiu to the island for a vacation.
Just when Mu Qiu was on vacation with Mu’s parents and Mu Ling was participating in a reality show, Xue Yilou was about to fly into a rage. He just found out that Mu Qiu was his daughter and wanted to question Mu Ling, but he couldn’t find anyone!
