"Then I'll take some time to knock off some of it."
Zhang Chi responded casually.
Zhang Youliang said: "Go and find me a pair of pruners, and I will trim them for you. Also, find me a ladder that is high enough."
Zhang Chi said: "No need, I will do it by myself when I have time. You should rest for a while. How about you and my aunt go petting the dog together?"
The family has everything the uncle wants, but Zhang Chi is afraid that if his uncle falls, a fall would be serious at such an old age, and he will not be able to explain it to Brother Da Wen and Brother Xiao Wu.
However, Zhang Youliang became interested and said with a straight face: "Hurry up, just go if you are told. What are you talking about?"
After hearing this, Zhang Chi only got the tool store, carried a ladder and brought a pair of pruners.
These simple tools are generally available in nearby homes, so Zhang Chi's family is naturally indispensable. They are not what Zhang Chi is planning to prune branches and leaves, but are tools commonly used by ordinary households. Regardless of whether Zhang Chi uses them or not,
He bought them all and hung them on the wall like the old Americans.
This is the so-called work that is not very good, but the attitude must be perfect!
Putting the ladder up, Zhang Chi watched his uncle climb up the ladder while he held on to the ladder carefully.
Zhang Youliang climbed up the ladder and was about to trim the branches when he suddenly saw his nephew looking up at him, feeling a little unhappy.
"What are you doing, watching me work and being a supervisor?" Zhang Youliang scolded his nephew.
Zhang Chi said with a smile: "How dare I? Am I holding the ladder for you?"
"Should you hold it up? This ladder is strong, and I saw it when I was holding it up. The ground is not soft either. Okay, you go about your business. I'm not even 70 or 80 years old yet, so I don't need you to help me hold up the ladder here."
"Zhang Youliang said.
Zhang Chi looked at his uncle, thought for a moment and let go of the ladder. He stayed there for a while and then was kicked away by his uncle.
When I came to the aunt's side, the old lady was rolling ink with one hand and freed up the other hand to pick up the vegetables she had just brought.
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"what are you doing?"
Melika, who was helping next to her, saw her husband coming, so she asked.
Zhang Chi ignored his wife and told his wife that his uncle wanted to prune his branches.
"It's okay, just let him go. He often does this job when he is at home. He knows what he is doing and you don't need to worry about it," Gu Ying said with a smile.
Zhang Chi nodded, a little worried. He went over to look at it a few times during his busy schedule and found that the uncle was really impressive.
The uncle had no problem, so Zhang Chi started to marinate the lamb, mixing some ingredients and preparing to marinate the lamb for a while.
Just as he was about to take action, Li Qiao's family came over, and the couple came over with their children. Zhang Chi immediately put down what he was doing and went outside to welcome the family.
Li Qiao stopped the car, opened the door, took his child out of the car, and put him on the ground.
"Come down and play by yourself." Li Qiao stretched out his hand and patted the child's back.
Li Qin said hello to Zhang Chi, then walked towards the house with his little one, and soon he was talking and laughing with Melika and Gu Ying.
Li Qiao looked at the older child and chatted with Zhang Chi for a few words.
"What are you going to do with the sheep?"
Li Qiao saw the sheep placed on the eucalyptus and asked.
Zhang Chi said: "We are going to roast it. In addition to the sheep, there is also beef. We use the local roasting method for the beef. The meat will be juicy and tender. We will also treat the sheep in the same way."
Li Qiao thought for a moment and said, "Don't roast it. Roast beef and lamb. If you eat too much, you'll get angry. I think it's better to cook the lamb. When Lao Xu comes, let him make white water lamb for us."
"I don't know when Lao Xu will come," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
After hearing this, Li Qiao took out his cell phone and called Lao Xu.
"Hey, where are you going?"
As soon as the phone call came through, Li Qiao said something.
Lao Xu didn't know what he said. After Li Qiao agreed twice, he hung up the phone and said to Zhang Chi: "People will be here soon. Let's put a layer of fine salt on the sheep first."
After hearing this, Zhang Chi and Li Qiao put on disposable gloves, wiped the whole sheep with fine salt, and then put it outside waiting for Lao Xu to come.
Lao Xu didn't come first, Lu Guangming arrived.
"Brother Dachi, congratulations to you and your sister-in-law on the completion of the palace!"
As soon as he got off the car, Lu Guangming congratulated Zhang Chi and took out the gift he had brought.
"You came just as you said you would, why did you bring something with you?"
The gift was not too valuable, but it was what he wanted at this time. Lu Guangming also followed the American custom and brought Zhang Chi a bottle of wine.
Only then did Li Qiao remember that he had brought something with him, so when he got to the car, he took out a wrapped box and handed it to Zhang Chi.
"WTF?"
Zhang Chi picked it up and found that it was quite heavy.
Li Qiao said: "When I went out a few days ago, I saw a nice thing in an antique shop on the roadside. I just happened to borrow flowers and offer them to you."
Zhang Chi took it apart and took a look, and found that it was actually a bronze vessel. It was full of Chinese style and looked a bit like an old object. However, there were many preserved cultural relics here, and he hoped that it could show what it looked like at that time, so this object was polished until it was shiny.
"It can't be a real guy, right?"
Zhang Chi felt it was heavy when he took it. The copper was very solid, not like cement poured into the copper skin. I have to say that some of the counterfeiters nowadays are not professional and even the texture is fake.
Li Qiao smiled and said: "You think so, if this thing is real, it will be enough for the country to support you for a lifetime. It is fake, but the imitation is good. I heard that it was certified before, that is, professional imitation."
Yes, it's almost the same as the real thing. People who are not professionals can't tell it.
Besides, it is now popular in the cultural relics circle to switch exports to domestic sales. You can make fakes at home and make up stories to deceive people. Twenty years ago, you could buy real ones in American thrift stores. Who doesn’t know the value of Chinese cultural relics now, foreigners?
As long as I have some at home, I won’t take them for appraisal, so don’t hear such stories in the future.”
Li Qiao instantly broke Zhang Chi's fantasy.
Zhang Chi didn't really think that this thing was real. He didn't dare to ask for it. It wasn't illegal or anything, but it was too expensive. How could he return the favor?
Money and debts are easy to bear, but favors are hard to repay.
Lu Guangming didn't feel that his gifts were cheap. Everyone knew that giving these things was just for the occasion. If you give them too expensive, it would be unsightly, because when you are in trouble, others will have to give you things of equal value.
, coming and going like this is not exciting enough.
"Guangming, how is the renovation of the restaurant? How long will it take for it to be repaired? I don't have anywhere to eat at noon now. It's the one who eats all the burgers all day long. It almost makes hairs crawl on my mouth."
Li Qiao asked Lu Guangming.
Lu Guangming replied: "Come on, there will be another ten days or so. Then we will also cook serious Chinese food."
Lu Guangming is really a diligent young man. Originally, Zhang Youliang and his wife were busy enough just running a restaurant. When he came here, he opened a small Chinese restaurant.
It's not the kind where you sit down at the table, pick up the menu and order whatever you want. It has a few dishes every day, and nothing else except these few dishes. It's a bit like the little flies in China.
The restaurant serves several dishes every day, while supplies last.
"That's great!"
When Li Qiao heard this, he thought this was great. What he worried about most when he came here was eating. It was okay to eat Western food intermittently, but eating it all the time was really intolerable to the Chinese stomach.
While the three of them were chatting, Lao Xu drove over in a car.
"Hey, everyone is here, I'm a little late," Lao Xu got out of the car and said to a few people with a smile.
Li Qiao said: "I'm waiting for you to cook the mutton in white water. Please hurry up and stop wasting your time. What's the time? Didn't I tell you to come earlier?"
Lao Xu laughed after hearing this and said: "There is no way, I have to have time. I spent a long time with the customer over there. That customer really had a good idea. I told him that this was not possible because it would cause water leakage. Who knows what else he would do?
unwilling".
"This is too..." Lu Guangming continued.
Lao Xu said with a smile: "There is no way, you will always meet such customers when doing business, but if you live in a house, you have to rely on other people's ideas. But this time it really doesn't work. If you do it according to the
He did what he did, they take a bath upstairs and have a shower downstairs."
After saying that, Lao Xu rolled up his sleeves and asked, "Where are the sheep?"
Li Qiao stretched out his hand and pointed, and Lao Xu found the sheep lying on the table.
This table was made by Lao Xu. It was originally for the convenience of the project. Now that the project is almost finished, Zhang Chi uses the table as an outdoor utility table.
Not to mention, having such a thing is really convenient. At least when slaughtering sheep and dividing cattle, you don't need your own big table, you can just do it directly under here.
"Find a knife and I'll cut the mutton into pieces. Zhang Chi, don't be idle. Go and light a fire quickly. Don't use gas or electricity. Push out that big firewood pot of yours and cook it.
White water mutton is delicious, and it would be even better if cherry wood could be used to make charcoal..." Lao Xu said to the big guys while reaching out to touch the mutton.
Li Qiao was listening happily: "You are too pretentious. Just mutton is fine. You even have to choose charcoal, but you are no longer a human being. Zhang Chi is moving in and inviting us to dinner. It's not that someone from the old Zhang family wants to ascend the throne! Look!
Make you look fashionable."
Lao Xu laughed loudly after hearing this: "My fault, my fault!"
Zhang Chi went into the house and took out a bone-cutting knife and handed it into Lao Xu's hand. Lao Xu turned around with the knife and began to separate the sheep.
Zhang Chi looked at Lao Xu's technique and asked a little strangely: "Your hands are not bad, why haven't I seen you show them off before?"
"I thought you only liked roasted mutton, so I cooperated with you?" Lao Xu said with a smile.
Zhang Chi doesn't believe this nonsense. It's just that old boy like Lao Xu is lazy. How can Baishui Lamb be smeared with ingredients on the lamb, then put it on the grill, and use a small motor to spin it for an hour or two?
There is no need for him to watch the fire, Zhang Chi does all this work.