When they arrived at the ranch, Liu Chao and Zhao Nan were fascinated by Ju An's house. It had dark red exterior walls nestled among several huge fir trees, snow-white windows, and a white frame on the first floor.
"Damn it, you boy did a good job in choosing a house." As soon as the car stopped, Liu Chao gave Ju An a blow.
He smiled proudly and said, "Let's put things in place first, and you can rest first. We are having a Chinese dinner tonight."
As soon as they jumped out of the car, Old Thomas and the three of them had already greeted him and said, "Welcome to Xishuihe Ranch."
Ju An introduced them one by one, "This is Thomas, Wynn and Nancy Nancy, and this is my friend, Steven and his wife Angela."
Several people shook hands with each other, and Wynn helped Ju An take all the luggage into the house.
Thomas and the others then left and went to work on their ranch. Before leaving, Ju An asked them to stop cooking and come over for dinner together.
I carried my luggage up to the second floor and placed my senior brother and the others in the room on the right hand side of the house. As soon as I opened the door and walked in, I found that Old Thomas and the others had already opened the window, and the bed sheets and everything had been changed.
Zhao Nan looked around: "This room is really nice, thank you, Ju An."
Ju An waved his hand and said, "You're welcome. Senior brother has never been polite to me. Just be satisfied."
"Yes! Yes! We can't show satisfaction, we want to give this kid room for improvement." Liu Chao nodded and said with a serious look. As soon as he finished speaking, he heard an oops, and it turned out that Zhao Nan touched his arm with his arm.
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"Senior brother is right. It's like your own home here. You can do whatever you want." Ju An looked at Liu Chao and touched his arm and said with a smile, "Then you clean up first. If there is anything missing, call me later."
After closing the door, Ju An went downstairs to prepare lunch, a simple Western-style lunch. He picked a few tomatoes in the greenhouse, and then made some cabbage, cucumbers and carrots.
Wash the vegetables and cut them into small cubes. Add salad dressing to accompany them. It’s super simple.
Then turn on the gas, put it on top of the pot, melt some butter, then take out three pieces of marinated beef from the refrigerator, put it in the pot and fry for a few minutes, then flip it over and fry for a few more minutes. When it looks like it's almost done, put it in
Put it on the plate, pour tomato sauce on it, cut a few slices of tomatoes, arrange them, and everything is done.
I walked upstairs and knocked on the door: "Brother, sister-in-law, dinner is ready."
By the time Liu Chao and Zhao Nan went downstairs, Ju'an red wine had been poured.
"Hey! Does Yue Miijian cook Western food in a decent way?" Liu Chao sat down and praised.
Ju An stared at Liu Chao in amazement: "Foreigners' food is too simple, just frying, roasting, deep-frying, and nothing else but reading. You can do it. It's not like our Chinese food. You can do it by reading. That's it."
It doesn’t take a while to master knife skills. Last time I ate spaghetti, I thought it was just cold noodles topped with tomato sauce, which was a bit difficult.”
Liu Chao looked at Ju An: "I asked you, boy, do you want to eat Chinese food? You are full of complaints. When I first came to study, I often ate instant noodles. A foreign girl thought I was afraid of spending money. She thought
I am frugal and simple. In fact, I think instant noodles taste better than Western food. Fortunately for my brother, I found a Chinese, but I wanted to find someone who didn’t like Chinese food. Within a year, I hung a ceiling fan myself."
Zhao Nan said: "Ju An, you didn't see how stupid your senior brother was back then. That girl was interested in him. He was hiding around like a spy all day long. I even did it for him at that time.
A few times as a shield".
Ju An became interested when he heard this: "You are still as powerful as before. It seems that only those who have received American education can appreciate your advantages. Could it be that hanging silk in China has become popular in the United States?"
"What is Diaosi?" Zhao Nan interrupted and asked.
"Ahem!" Liu Chao took a sip of red wine and almost drank it up his nostrils, "Don't mention these things, eat, eat."
Looking at Zhao Nan's curious expression: "Ask senior brother tonight."
After eating and tidying up a little, Ju An pulled Doucao and Xuehua out, put on their saddles, and asked Xuehua to carry three chairs, fish hooks and net bags. Neither his senior brother nor Zhao Nan knew how to ride a horse, so they had to
Let them drive a four-wheeled motorcycle. As soon as they prepared the horse, Zhao Nan took out Ai Feng and gave two of them to Doucao. He said he wanted to send them to his Twitter.
After digging a few earthworms under the big tree behind the house and putting them into a small jar, Ju An rode his horse and headed towards the pond with his senior brother and his wife.
When he arrived at the pond, as soon as he took off his chair, Liu Chao hurriedly pulled out a fishing rod from Xuehua's back and started preparing himself.
Zhao Nan was busy taking pictures everywhere, snapping pictures of the white-tailed deer drinking water by the pond, and then took a few more pictures of Liu Chao and Ju An before setting up a chair.
The busiest thing was Ju An. First, he took off the net bags, buckets, etc. from the horse's back. Then he took off the saddle from the horse's back and let the snowflakes and bean grass graze around.
After doing this, Ju An found that Liu Chao was already staring at the float intently, while Zhao Nan just set up the fishing rod and put it at his feet, still holding Ai Feng in his hand and looking around, not knowing what was in the fishhook.
No bait was put out.
A little far away from the two of them, Ju An put up his chair, sprinkled some oats into the pond, and sat down. Then he took out his fishing rod, took out a small piece of earthworm, put it on the fishhook, and gently
As soon as the fishing rod was swung, the hook fell into the nest.
After squatting for a while, I heard Liu Chao shout: "I have it."
Then he saw a half-foot-long crucian carp swimming out of the water and landing in front of Liu Chao. He took out the hook with a smile, picked it up and let Zhao Nan take a picture before putting it into the small bucket in front of him.
Ju An shook his head secretly. He didn't like the crucian carp because it had too many spines. Today he mainly wanted to catch a big herring. It would have fewer spines. There were three foreigners in the evening. They had to fillet the fish. Who had the time?
Debone the crucian carp for them.
After working for more than two hours, Liu Chao gained the most. He caught a total of four small crucian carp and a thorn, and the rest were some herring croakers that could not be caught by Ju An's eyes.
Zhao Nan, on the other hand, didn't have any. He just looked around, not thinking about fishing.
Ju An harvested a few large herrings, and both crucian carp and green croaker were thrown into the pond by Ju An. Seeing that it was getting late, Ju An was thinking about whether to go to the space to catch a big herring.
Hanging it on a hook is a disadvantage, otherwise you will only be able to eat a few thorns at night.
While he was thinking about it, he heard Liu Chao shouting as he wanted to fly: "Anzi, come here quickly, this big guy has so much strength."
Ju An quickly put down the rod and ran over. He held the fishing rod to test his strength and said, "Well, it's not small. It's so strong."
Liu Chao holds the fishing rod with one hand and controls the line reel with the other. When he feels the fish pulling down hard, he releases the line slightly. When he feels the force of the fishing rod is lighter, he retracts the line and slowly follows the fish.
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After a stalemate for about ten minutes, the fish came out of the water. Liu Chao said with a smile: "Good guy, they probably weigh about ten kilograms. That's enough big herring for the night."
After slowly spending a few minutes, I finally dragged the fish to the shore. It was indeed a big guy, with arms as long as it weighed more than ten pounds.
After removing the hook and holding the fish's gills, Zhao Nan took a souvenir photo, and the group packed up and headed back home.
Ju An and Zhao Nan worked together to cook, while Liu Chao rode around on his motorcycle.
Zhao Nan washed the rice and cooked the food first, while Ju An was responsible for killing the fish. As soon as he put the fish on the table, Ju An skillfully scaled the fish, opened the belly of the fish, and gently cut out the fish's contents with a knife.
, put the prepared fish on the faucet and rinsed it, then rinsed the fish maw and roe, threw the fish intestines and fish scales into the garbage bag, chopped the fish into four sections, and weighed it with salt and ginger.
Set it aside to soak in flavor.
Zhao Nan watched Ju An clean up the fish so quickly and praised him: "I didn't know you could do this."
"Now in China, it's not uncommon for men to know how to cook, but it's uncommon for women to know how to cook. If you can't cook, you won't even be able to get a girlfriend," Ju An said jokingly.
"Besides eating, Liu Chao can only make egg soup or something." Zhao Nan shrugged his shoulders. "And he has a very picky mouth. He eats what he likes and doesn't touch it if he doesn't like it. Especially mutton, which has a smell of mutton.
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"In a few months, the cattle and sheep here will be edible. Come and taste them. They are all free-range sheep." Ju An washed the vegetables while talking to Zhao Nan.
"That's good, I really like mutton," Zhao Nan replied.
Next, they started cooking over a fire. Zhao Nan cooked stir-fried beef tenderloin, braised eggplant, fish-flavored shredded pork, and spicy and sour potato shreds, and then mixed with cold cucumbers.
Ju An cooked boiled pork slices, scrambled eggs with shredded tomatoes, a piece of fish, and finally stewed pork ribs and gourd soup.
By the time Thomas and the others came back, all the other dishes except the fish and ribs soup simmering on the pot were ready.
As soon as Liu Chao entered the door, he said: "It smells so good. Wait for me to get the wine." He trotted all the way to get the wine.
Thomas said cheerfully: "It smells so delicious, I can't wait."
When the dishes were ready, Liu Chao poured a small glass of white wine for each of the four men, while the two ladies drank red wine.
Liu Chao picked up the wine glass and said, "Thank you for your hospitality, thank you." Then he took a sip of wine.
Old Thomas took a sip and said, "It's such a strong drink, almost like vodka."
When they were eating next, Ju An discovered that these three foreigners knew how to use chopsticks, and the spoons originally prepared for them were basically useless.
After asking, I found out that there are also Chinese restaurants in the city, and they would go there to eat Chinese food from time to time. No wonder people say that wherever there are people, there are Chinese restaurants. It can be considered as a contribution to the prosperity of chopstick culture.
Nancy took a few bites of the food and asked, "Why is there such a big difference in the taste between the Chinese restaurants in Lewistown and the food you cook? I often eat Chinese takeout from a friend's place, and I feel the difference is so big."
Zhao Nan explained: "The taste of Chinese restaurants now has been adjusted to be more in line with Western tastes. This is the taste of real Chinese food."
Wynn pointed at the tomatoes and scrambled eggs and asked, "How do you make this? I like it better. I can learn to make it myself in the future."
Ju An said: "First beat the eggs, then put some olive oil in the pot, stir-fry until almost done, then add the chopped tomatoes."
Wynn said, "It's really a bit complicated."
Ju An was stunned, and couldn't help but think of a German customer who had ordered scrambled eggs with tomatoes every time he came to China. Ju An asked him again curiously why, and the old man said seriously: This dish is made.
It sounds too complicated. How to make such a complicated dish so delicious. Chinese chefs are really good, which makes Ju An speechless.
The meal was a feast for both the guest and the host.
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