Chapter 542
The Third Piece of Gold
Chapter 542 The Third Piece of Gold
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day came in the blink of an eye.
Before daybreak, everyone except Wang An got up.
It can be seen that everyone's desire for gold is quite strong. If it were not inconvenient to work at night, these people would most likely get up in the middle of the night.
For breakfast, they had rice, and the vegetables were the pickled cabbage brought by Youzila and Mu Xueli.
As for pickled cabbage lumps, many people may not know what they are.
This thing is actually dried pickles made from mustard greens.
Mustard greens are also called spicy vegetables because they have a spicy taste. As for making pickled cabbage dumplings, it is also a very simple matter.
Wash the fresh mustard greens, then put them into a jar and soak them in salt water. This is the first step in pickling mustard greens.
It takes about two months for this thing to be basically pickled. The mustard greens at this time are called mustard pickles, also known as white pickles.
If you put it in a pickle jar, it will become the famous red pickles.
However, the soybean paste used to pickle red pickles is not very delicious.
After the mustard greens are pickled, put them directly into the pot and simmer them, which is actually boiling.
However, if you add some seasonings when stewing mustard pickles, the pickled cabbage will taste better.
For example, pork skin, large bones, soybean paste, peppercorns and aniseed.
When the mustard greens are boiled until they are mushy and a hole can be seen when pierced with chopsticks, you can take them out and hang them to dry.
When the mustard pickles are dried, they become finished pickled cabbage lumps.
Some people may ask, can't we just dry it without blanching it?
The answer is yes, but finished pickled cabbage lumps like this, although edible, have a foul smell.
The smell is very similar to that of stinky tofu, and if you insist on saying it smells like shit, that's fine.
Anyway, this smell is a pure stench, absolutely without any impurities.
The most amazing thing about pickled cabbage is that it has no shelf life. As long as it doesn't get wet and doesn't get infested with bugs, you can still eat it even after ten or twenty years.
Eat the oily rice with pickled cabbage. Although this meal looks simple, to be honest, it is simply a delicacy!
The more you eat it, the more delicious it becomes.
So after the whole pot of rice was eaten up by everyone and the two foxes, everyone still felt a little unsatisfied.
The reason why it is said "and two foxes" is because when everyone was eating, the fox with a broken tail came again with his wife.
In order to stop Wu Dong and others from beating them to death, Mu Xueli used his talent as a storyteller to tell everyone what happened yesterday about the two foxes.
I have to say that Mu Xueli is always a little exaggerated when telling stories.
There is nothing wrong with exaggeration, because if the story is not exaggerated, the listeners will lose all desire and will not even want to listen.
Therefore, this led to Mu Xueli being confused by Wu Dong and others.
However, when the six people wanted to confirm with Wang An and his two companions, they only nodded in approval.
This really surprised Wu Dong and the other six people. The main reason was that the mythological story that had been circulated among the people actually happened right before their eyes. How could they not be surprised?
At this point, the six people also acknowledged the existence of the two foxes.
Especially Zhang Shuya and Sun Nian, they actually won the recognition of the female fox. This guy stroked the female fox a lot.
I have to admit that even when a fox is shedding its hair, its hair is still very nice to touch, soft and supple, and it feels so good to touch.
After Wang An poured half a bowl of bibimbap for each fox, he ignored them. After breakfast, when everyone was about to leave, Wang An found that the fox with a broken tail did not leave after eating, but squatted there and quietly looked at Wang An and others.
When Wang An and others walked towards the carnation field, the broken-tailed fox still did not return to its den, but followed them like a dog.
Seeing this scene, even Feng Chengmin couldn't help but speak:
"What does this fox want to do? Why is it relying on us?"
Mu Xueli smiled and replied:
"Maybe it ate our food and wanted to help us with the work."
As soon as Mu Xueli finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.
Although Mu Xueli's words were just a joke, no one expected that this joke would become a golden word.
Everyone was the same as they were yesterday. Except for Wang An, the other nine people went to dig carnations in the field.
Wang An dragged the shovel, found a place where the river was a little narrower, and jumped to the other side.
Whether it is looking for nuggets of gold or finding mineral veins, it is not an easy task, so you must not stop.
At first, the fox with a broken tail did not follow Wang An, but stopped in front of the crowd.
In fact, for humans, animals are something they will only care about or pay attention to when they are interested, but normally they may not even look at them.
So it was the same for everyone else. They stopped to watch the fox, talked about it for a few words, and then went about their own business. No one was interested in staring at a fox.
Besides, whether foxes are "great fairies" is just a topic of conversation when people are bored. After all, no one has ever seen one with their own eyes.
When everyone finished digging their first pit and began to happily pick out the golden rice, the broken-tailed fox observed for a while and then quietly slipped away.
Although some people saw the fox running away, they did not take it seriously. After all, it was not a big deal.
But the fox did not run away back to its den, but went to find Wang An.
After Wang An ran to the other side of the river, his run was not in vain. After more than an hour, he dug out a piece of gold nugget from the crack of the rocks on the shore.
This is also the third piece of gold that Wang An has picked up since he went into the mountains to pan for gold.
This piece of gold nugget is only the size of an egg and doesn’t look like anything special, so its value is definitely much lower than the previous two pieces.
But as long as it is nugget gold, it must be more valuable than the same weight of pure gold, so Wang An is still very happy.
Just as Wang An was looking at the nugget of gold with great delight on his face, the fox with a broken tail appeared in front of Wang An.
You know, when people get a new treasure, they want to show it off to others, mainly to vent their inner joy.
When there is no one around, even if I see an ant, I want to show off to it.
So, Wang An took the gold nugget and showed it off to the fox with a broken tail.
While showing off, he said to the Broken-Tailed Fox:
"Look, this is the famous gold nugget, hahaha."
(End of this chapter)