The aroma of roasted lamb spread far away, attracting several neighbors and children. Comrade Xu could not keep up with the speed of roasting lamb in a small clay oven.
He could only grill a dozen skewers at a time. He held the bamboo skewers for skewering the mutton with both hands, suspended them above the fire, and kept turning them over. When it was time to sprinkle the seasonings, all the bamboo skewers could only be placed in one hand.
In one hand, use the other hand to grab the seasoning powder.
In the process of grilling these meat skewers, he also summed up some experience.
Like I realized before that mutton has a strong mutton smell, as well as the marinating problem of mutton.
He felt that when pickling, the salt should not be put in all at once, but only half at most. This half of the salt should be enough to add flavor to the lamb.
He planned to sprinkle the other half of the salt directly on the surface of the meat skewers during the next experiment.
He believes that adding salt twice in this way can make the grilled meat skewers more delicious and juicy. The key is juiciness!
The principle is not complicated, it is very simple: when the mutton is pickled, the more salt you add, the more juice will flow out of the mutton.
If there is too much juice loss, the grilled meat skewers will naturally appear tighter and less juicy and tender.
But if you don't add any salt at all when marinating, the meat will probably not have any salty taste after the skewers are grilled.
And salt... is the king of all flavors. The so-called salty and tasteless, bland and tasteless, if there is no salty taste in the meat skewers, then the taste of the meat skewers will not be much better.
More than a pound of mutton, not roasted.
Not long after, the bridge was gone, and all the mutton prepared by Comrade Xu had been roasted.
"No more? Alas! It's gone now..."
"It would be nice if there were more, I haven't had enough yet!"
"Mom, I want another sheep..."
"Xiaodao, can you give me two more strings in your hand? Look, my daughter is going to cry..."
…
Comrade Xu was surrounded by sounds of regret and the noise of children.
As for his mutton, he only had the last six or seven skewers of freshly roasted lamb left in his hand.
He was easy to talk to. He stood up and distributed several skewers of mutton in his hand with a smile, leaving only the last skewer.
"I won't give you the last bunch. I kept it for myself. After working for a long time, I just tried one bunch!"
He gave the last few skewers of mutton to the children. The children's emotions have been calmed down. These little things are no longer noisy. Others are naturally easy to talk to. Although they all still have more to say, no one has the nerve to let Comrade Xu take it.
Give them the last string too.
Everyone talked, laughed, said thanks, and left with the children in twos and threes.
Soon, only Xu Tongdao's family was left next to the small clay stove, and Xu Tonglin, who was last and was about to go home.
"Linzi! Wait a minute!"
Xu Tongdao called Xu Tonglin to stop.
"Huh? Is there anything else Xiaodao?" Xu Tonglin stopped and turned around to ask doubtfully.
Ge Xiaozhu, Xu Tonglu, and Ge Yuzhu also looked at Xu Tongdao curiously.
Tongdao Xu smiled and said to his mother and others: "Please help me pack these things. Lin Zi and I have something to do and will be back soon!"
"Oh, okay! Then go ahead!" Although Ge Xiaozhu was puzzled, he still nodded in agreement.
Ge Yuzhu also smiled and said: "Brother, go ahead! We will take care of it here."
Xu Tonglu said nothing, but already bent down to pick up the bamboo sticks on the ground.
Xu Tongdao held the last skewer of mutton, waved to Xu Tonglin, walked into the main room, and walked towards the main door. As he walked, he whispered to Xu Tonglin: "Let's go to see Changsheng. I have something to discuss with you two!"
"You have something to discuss with us? With me and Changsheng? What is it? Why don't you tell me first!"
Xu Tonglin's curiosity was aroused.
"Don't worry! Let's go find Changsheng first, so that I don't have to say the same thing twice."
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Xu Changsheng's home is at the western end of the village, and his house is built on a hillside.
When Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin found the door of Xu Changsheng's house, they were both slightly out of breath.
There are only a few houses in this area, either Xu Changsheng's house or the houses of Xu Changsheng's two uncles and two cousins.
As soon as Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin arrived here, they immediately saw Xu Changsheng washing clothes in a large bathtub under the dim light outside the kitchen door.
In the window of the main room next to him, the lights were still on, and the colors of the lights were colorful and constantly changing.
Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin are both familiar with this kind of changing colored lights. Apparently there is a TV playing in the room, and the color light of the TV screen is reflected on the window glass, which is this kind of light and shadow effect.
Moreover, the sound of TV commercials was also heard in the house.
Also coming out were the sounds of men, women, boys, and girls playing and laughing.
Seeing this scene, Xu Tonglin didn't feel much at all, while Xu Tongdao smiled helplessly and shook his head speechlessly.
Xu Changsheng's status in the family was indeed as low as he remembered.
The whole family was watching TV in the house, laughing and laughing. Xu Changsheng, who had been on duty for an unknown number of days, was allowed to go home and rest by the captain today... On the first night after he came back, he was rewarded with a large basin of change of clothes.
He washes.
It's almost like men are silently crying and women are crying.
Is this the treatment you get from a stepmother?
"Hey! Changsheng, where are you doing the laundry at night? Are you so diligent?"
Xu Tonglin strode over, and he even joked with Xu Changsheng.
Tongdao Xu was speechless.
Xu Changsheng looked up when he heard the sound. He squatted under the light at the kitchen door and saw that Comrade Xu and the others were in darkness. For a moment, he couldn't see who the two people were.
But he heard Xu Tonglin's voice and said with a smile: "I am not diligent for a day or two, you know it?"
Only when Xu Tonglin and Xu Tongdao came closer to him did he recognize Xu Tongdao.
"Huh? Xiaodao? Why are you here too? Oh, I remembered it. You asked your Yuzhu to call me to find you. I still have clothes to wash! I was about to finish washing and go find you. By the way,
What do you want from me? Just talk to me!"
As he spoke, he stood up with a smile and wiped the water stains on his hands on the apron around his waist.
"Xiaodao said he had something to discuss with you and me, so he called me all together."
Xu Tonglin habitually answered quickly.
Comrade Xu smiled and handed the skewer of roasted mutton he brought to Xu Changsheng, "Eat it! Try it! I just roasted it. I called you over because I wanted you to try it, but it's a pity that you didn't go.
But there are too many people going, so there are only a few left, so eat quickly!"
Xu Changsheng reached out to take it in confusion, "What? Did you roast rat meat? Is it so delicious?"
In the past two years, some families in their village had more food, so they installed electric cats. As long as mice touched the wires of the electric cats, they would die.
Rats in the country are fat, and the electrocuted rats are not poisonous, so some greedy people will roast the electrocuted rats, or braise them, or even stew them.
Obviously, Xu Changsheng thought that what Xu Tongdao handed him was a roasted mouse.
It also proves that this child has never eaten roasted lamb before, otherwise he should have smelled the aroma of roasted lamb kebabs.