Chapter 797
Han Qingsong, “…” Instead of saying that he didn’t know how to do it, he nodded and agreed, “Leave it there, I’ll take a look.”
Sanwang was very excited and wanted to cook it right away.
Lin Lan saw the children surrounding the snake, so she urged them to wash up and go to bed. In fact, that was because she didn’t want Han Qingsong scaring them off when he peeled the skin off the snake.
Erwang was trying to look for a recipe, but he didn’t find out how to cook snake meat, so he headed to bed with some lingering regret.
Han Qingsong studied the corpse briefly before neatly finishing his task.
After washing, cleaning and chopping it, Han Qingsong sprinkled the meat with some salt. Then, he pickled it with pepper, onion, ginger and so on.
He asked Lin Lan about the time, put the snake and seasonings in a casserole before he threw in a handful of red dates and poured some water into the pot. Then, he went to the wall of the yard to build a simple stove— he first used some soft grass to light the fire before throwing in corn cobs and other hard grass into it. He also buried a few pieces of charcoal in the mix before finally putting the casserole on the brick stove and boiled it on high heat. When the grass was burned, the fire started to burn the charcoal. The ventilation here wasn’t able to completely diminish the smell of the charcoal fire, but it wasn’t too big of a blaze anyways, so there was no problem.
Lin Lan was reading on the kang, but when she heard him busying himself, she couldn’t help but come down to take a look, “Third Brother, why are you stewing it?”
Han Qingsong, “This thing is disgusting, so I would rather help you do it.”
Lin Lan actually disliked earthworms, centipedes and other mollusks, having some form of inexplicable fear towards them. Hearing that he was so considerate, she happily hooked herself onto his neck and kissed him, “Third Brother is great.”