Chapter 104: Yogurt Master's Rat
"I pinned down that giant rat!"
"I pressed it too!"
"Mr. Yogurt is so powerful, he killed the big rat with one bite!"
"I bit it, too."
"I can kill one with just one claw!"
A group of cubs excitedly surrounded Li Mu, showing off their achievements.
Li Mu listened patiently.
He already knew what happened in advance from Xiaomei, who saw the whole process from high in the air.
"Everyone is so awesome."
Li Mu rubbed the cubs' heads one by one and looked at the side of the mouse——
A little leopard cat was sitting there upright.
While the cubs were chirping and showing off, she sat quietly, stealing a glance at Li Mu from time to time. When she saw Li Mu looking at her, she quickly lowered her head and licked her paws, pretending to be casual, but she couldn't hide the pride on her face.
Li Mu smiled. Seeing Suo Yang happy, he was also happy.
"Perfect, it looks better this way." Brother Nan took a small wooden stick and arranged the three rows of mice in the same direction, with even the distance between each mouse being almost the same.
"I'm not selling rats, why are you being so particular?"
"Food should be well presented in terms of color, aroma and taste. This is called plating, don't you understand? If you arrange it in a way that makes it pleasing to the eye, the yogurt will taste better when you eat it later."
"How can this be possible?"
Li Mu felt that this was just the excuse Brother Nan gave her for her obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Suddenly, the kitten moved.
It turned out that the little wolf accidentally kicked a mouse and kicked it crookedly.
The kitten walked up to it, stretched out its paw, and gently moved it twice to straighten it out.
"Look, look!" Brother Nan pointed at Yogurt, "Yogurt thinks so too."
Li Mu remained silent.
"What do you think this rat ate to grow so big?" Brother Nan stared at the rat king on the ground curiously, "Normal rats don't grow this big, do they?"
"Normally, this species of mouse doesn't grow this big, but occasionally there are genetic mutations that break through physiological limits," Li Mu said. "For example, a mouse the size of a hare appeared in Yibin before."
"Oh."
Brother Nan took out his cell phone and took pictures of the rats on the ground.
"Li Mu, I'm back." The voice came over while the eagle was still in the air.
Xiao Shuai flew into the yard, loosened his claws, and threw a salmon weighing five or six pounds into the yard.
"I'll catch them faster than you." Xiao Shuai walked over with his legs crossed, "So many rats!"
"Yes, Yogurt and the kids caught it." Li Mu noticed that Xiao Shuai's feathers didn't look wet, and couldn't help asking, "Where did you get this fish?"
"Yes." Xiao Shuai kept looking at the mouse.
"need?"
"I flew to the big lake and happened to see a big bird catching a fish, so I asked it for the fish so I wouldn't have to go into the water to catch it." Xiao Shuai came close to Xiao Mei and helped her comb its feathers.
"I'll give it to you if you want it?"
"It can't beat me."
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Li Mu felt sorry for the big bird that had worked so hard to catch fish but whose efforts were in vain for two seconds.
He began to understand why the golden eagle was called the overlord of the sky.
The sun sets and the sky is filled with dusk.
Li Mu first cut the beef and went to the second floor to feed Tiger Mom, and then prepared dinner.
The salmon was cut into several plates of thin fillets, and the beef was cut and eaten in the hot pot.
The little golden eagle and the wolf cub were squatting beside the table eating mice, while the tiger cubs and their brother were drinking milk from basins, eyeing the mice as they drank, looking very greedy.
After eating a few slices of boiled meat on the table, Yogurt jumped off the table to eat the mouse, and generously shared the mouse with Xiaoshuai, Xiaomei and the mother wolf.
She was very happy to see that everyone liked to eat rats. The only regret was that Li Mu and Lan Ge didn’t eat them.
Brother Nan took out Moutai again. Maybe she felt embarrassed about getting drunk last time, so she didn't use a straw this time, but drank it in small cups.
The night is gentle, and the mountain breeze makes the leaves rustle, adding a bit of tranquility and comfort to the yard.
Brother Nan was already leaning back in his chair, rubbing his stomach and staring blankly. "Master Yogurt, aren't you going to eat anymore?" Li Mu looked at the mice on the ground, "There are still many of them."
"There are so many~"
"There are 15 more."
"15~"
"How about I teach Master Yogurt how to count?"
"what is that?"
"Once Master Yogurt learns to count, he will know how many mice he has caught."
"Master Yogurt knows it now."
"How many mice did Master Yogurt catch today?"
“So many!”
"A lot is just how much?"
“That’s a lot!”
"That's it."
"Yes, Master Yogurt is very smart!"
Li Mu smiled and stopped talking, then turned to look at the mouse on the ground.
Yogurt and his cubs caught a total of 30 mice. They ate half of them tonight, and there was still the other half left, which the cat couldn’t bear to eat because it was the big rat king.
"I'll bury them and eat them tomorrow." The kitten walked to the mouse, picked up one and was about to walk out.
"It will go bad if you bury it."
"No." The kitten put the mouse down, "That's how Master Yogurt used to eat."
"The temperature is too high now." Li Mu thought for a moment, "I have a solution."
"any solution?"
"Make these rats into jerky."
"Rat~"
"Just like the dried fish that Brother Nan bought for you, it can be stored longer after being made into dried rats. Master Yogurt can eat it whenever he wants."
"That's right!"
The kitten has big, bright eyes. The dried fish that Brother Nan bought for her are delicious. Now she has dried fish for breakfast.
"Then I'll make dried rat for Master Yogurt."
"Okay!"
Li Mu made a circle with stones in the yard, started a fire, took a small iron pot, filled it with water and placed it on the fire.
"Nimu, do you want to cook the mouse?" The kitten squatted beside the fire and watched curiously.
"No, steam it with water to remove the hair."
Li Mu placed a bamboo rack in the small iron pot, placed the mouse on the rack, and covered it with a lid.
After steaming for a few minutes, take the mouse to a basket and carry it to the faucet.
"The mouse has no fur!" The kitten looked in shock at the mouse that had turned white after losing its fur.
"The dried rat made in this way will taste better."
"Well"
The other cubs all came over to see.
After removing the internal organs and rinsing it, Li Mu carried the rat back to the fire, poured out the water in the pot, put some rice in it, placed the cleaned rat on a bamboo rack, and covered the pot.
"Is this okay?"
"Well, smoking for ten minutes or so will be enough." Li Mu turned the fire to a low flame.
This is the method used by the Hakka people in Ninghua. Usually, they would put bran in an iron pot for smoking. But Li Mu didn't have bran, so he used rice instead. He thought that rats smoked with rice would definitely taste better than those smoked with bran.
Fifteen minutes later.
Li Mu opened the lid of the pot, and all the rats had turned brown, and the air was filled with the aroma of rat meat.
"smell good!"
The kittens gathered around the pot sniffed.
(End of this chapter)
