In winter, the water temperature in wells is higher than the air temperature, and the water vapor overflowing from the well surface forms mist at the well mouth and in the air, which is actually very beautiful.

Especially below the wellhead, the water mist was fixed in strands on the water surface. Jiang Shuyi squatted down and gently moved it, and then felt the wind force and the mist dispersed.

"The water is warm." Jiang Shuyi turned her head and looked at Zhou Zhi with a smile.

"It's so beautiful." Zhou Zhi carried a basket and an insulated rice pail. He didn't know whether he was praising the view or the people: "Let's go, we'll be soaking squid in a while. This water is just right. It doesn't cost anything."

Arriving at Zhang Xinyi's house, Zhou Zhi went directly into the kitchen.

Now he is the only male in the family, and then there are Jiang Shuyi, Zhang Xinyi, and Zhang Ziwan. With three women in one drama, even if Jiang Shuyi and Zhang Xinyi both have quiet personalities, they can't stand the excitement.

He is too lazy to care about the girls. The key is that the girls are too lazy to care about him. Zhou Zhi is probably more familiar with Lao Zhang's kitchen than Xin Yi and Zi Yuan.

Chop the native chicken and stew it in a stew pot. Take out the magnolia slices and squid, change the water and let them float.

Take out a bag of dried mushrooms and boil water.

After the water for stewing the chicken is boiled, remove the foam and turn down the heat to a low heat. Pick up the magnolia slices and squid and put them in a big bucket. Carry them to the well in the camphor forest and float them on the water.

Nothing happened after that. Zhou Zhi took out a slingshot from his pocket and started playing with it.

The slingshot is made of oak knots brought from Fubao Forest Farm. The large one made by Lao Mu was scrapped by Zhou Zhi. He asked his cousin An Ran to make the bow body from aluminum alloy. Zhou Zhi changed the oak knots into a patch for the slingshot handle.

, after assembly and polishing, it looks very beautiful.

Flat rubber is hard to find because it looks good. Most of them are black leather. Only a few bicycle inner tubes are red leather, and the rubber tubes used for hospital infusions are yellow.

Zhou Zhi chose a relatively good-looking brick red rubber band cut from the inner liner of a bicycle. Such a slingshot is considered unique in Jiachuan today.

He took out a box of clay balls from his pocket and found a camphor tree as a target. After hitting the target, the clay balls would explode on the tree trunk, leaving a mud mark.

Every morning Zhou Zhi would practice this on the Hongshui River Bridge. On the sidewalk on the road side of the bridge, he would drive the pile heads on the stone bridge piles on the opposite side. He had become proficient in this skill.

Zhou Zhi believed that this could be considered a sport. When Fang Wenyu and Yan Xiao asked him to add sports to improve, he selected such a sport for himself.

Yan Xiao scolded him, saying that playing slingshot is not a sport. Zhou Zhi said that if you dare to say it is not, then I will choose fishing or go to practice more.

There is nothing wrong with this. Go is a sport. The superior of the national Go team is the National Sports Commission. Nie Weiping's title of Chess Saint was awarded by the National Sports Commission and the Chinese Go Association.

Fishing is not only a sport, but also a competitive sport. It was first officially launched in 1983 and was also managed by the National Sports Commission. Later it was changed to the Ministry of Agriculture. Later, the State Sports General Administration established the Social Sports Guidance Center.

It will be directly managed by the center.

So Zhou Zhi took advantage of this loophole, and Yan Xiao really couldn't do anything about him.

There are many birds chirping in the forest, including squirrels, wood thrushes, and turtle doves. Fortunately, Zhou Zhi has passed the age of being curious about hunting birds. He plays with the slingshot just to practice his hand-eye coordination, not to hunt, so the small animals have escaped disaster.

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After playing for a while, Zhou Zhi put away his things and returned to Zhang Xinyi's house with the beautiful magnolia slices and squid.

The laughter of several girls came from the bedroom. Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered something and immediately shouted something bad: "Xin Yi, don't show Shu Yi my photos!"

Looking around, sure enough, three girls were sitting side by side on the bed. Zhang Xinyi sat at the head of the bed. There was a stack of photo albums on the bedside table. Jiang Shuyi sat in the middle with a thick photo album on her lap. Zhang Ziyuan sat at the end of the bed.

My fingers are still dragging a corner of the big photo album

"It's too late, brother!" Seeing Zhou Zhi's head, Zhang Ziyuan raised her head and made faces at him.

"It's over..." Zhou Zhi lamented, and Jiang Shuyi raised her head to look at him secretly, her face flushed, but the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles.

Mrs. Zhao and Su Xiuqin were best friends. What they liked to do most at that time was to exchange photos of their children.

Therefore, Zhang Xinyi’s home has many photos of Zhou Zhi’s childhood. Similarly, Zhou Zhi’s home also has many photos of Xinyi and Aster.

But the problem is that the photos that Mrs. Zhao gave to Lao Zhou's family were all taken very well by the two sisters. They were usually the work of professionals in parks or photo studios;

As for the photos of her son that Su Xiuqin gave to her best friend, they were a bit unprincipled and not aesthetic.

Zhou Zhi once asked his mother, why did you spread those ugly naked photos of me when I was a child around?

As a result, my mother was very convincing. She thought her son was beautiful no matter how he looked at it, so they were all beautiful photos and none of them were ugly.

Sitting in the bathtub with my belly folds, my two short legs stretched out unbridled, I am so happy like a silly boy, you tell me you are beautiful?!

As soon as he saw Jiang Shuyi's expression, Zhou Zhi knew that the photo had definitely been viewed.

"Forget it, the worst one has been seen, you can do whatever you want..." Zhou Zhi could only lament and disappeared from the bedroom door.

"Giggle..." Several girls inside laughed so hard that they fell down on the bed.

The planned lunch included a piece of chicken soup and a crispy squid. Zhou Zhi opened the refrigerator and found a pot of meat and boiled white beans.

Mrs. Zhao loves to put a lot of thought into clothing design, but her cooking skills have remained almost unchanged for thousands of years.

Tuo Tuo meat can indeed match everything in the world.

In fact, if you don't do this for a long time, an occasional meal is quite good. Zhou Zhi thought that Ziyuan liked braised pork very much, and happened to have extra mushrooms, so he sighed, picked up the colander, took out the beans and meat, and separated them

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If the braised pork is to be delicious, it must be infused early. Zhou Zhi starts to light the fire, stir-fry the ingredients, add the meat, and add the fermented mushrooms. Finally, filter the water from the fermented mushrooms twice, add it to the pot as soup and bring to a boil.

Cover and simmer.

Then start steaming the rice, steam it a little more, Aster likes to mix the rice with the gravy.

Next is the preparation of various ingredients, pea tips, shredded radish, ginger slices, green onion segments, shiitake mushrooms...

The meat there is already soft and cooked, and it comes to a boil quickly. Then pour in the large white beans that were fished out from the broth before, mix well, turn down the heat and soak in the flavor.

The chicken soup is ready. Put the pot aside, boil water, add salt, add shredded radish, cook until soft and cooked, take it out, and add it to small bowls.

Finally, start making meatballs, blanch them in boiling water until they are set, take them out and put them in bowls, four in each bowl. Then add a spoonful of broth to each bowl, add water to the large pot, throw a piece of bacon into the water, and put two on top.

Layer the steaming racks, place four small bowls inside each, and steam them.

At this time, family members came back one after another. The first one to come back was Mrs. Zhao. She was the owner of her shop and she was very free.

"What are the elbows made of? It smells so good!" Mrs. Zhao could already smell it downstairs.

Seeing Sister Zhao come back, Zhou Zhi guessed that Xin Yi's father and Doctor Zhao were almost ready. Zhou Zhi opened the lid of the braised pork pot, turned on the high flame and began to collect the juice.

"Bacon, braised pork with mushrooms and white beans, local chicken soup, meatballs in soup, crispy squid!"
Chapter completed!