After replying to his sister-in-law, Zhang Chi was ready not to mess with her anymore, and he picked up the bucket of fish and walked toward the kitchen.
"Aren't you going to ask what gift I gave you?"
Jennifer asked Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi turned around and asked with a strange expression: "Isn't this gift for your sister? What does it have to do with me?"
Jennifer was stunned by Zhang Chi's question.
Taking advantage of this time, Zhang Chi walked into the kitchen, took out the snakehead fish from the bucket, threw it directly into the basin, added a little water, and walked out of the kitchen.
"I didn't get carp, I got a black fish. How about this? How about we eat fat fish when we are in China?" Zhang Chi asked his wife.
Melika said: "It's up to you, but don't make it too spicy. Jennifer will have dinner at home at noon."
Zhang Chi nodded. How could he not know about this? It's nothing. When he came to the door at this hour, he just had to write a line on his face: I want to have lunch at your house today!
Zhang Chi was about to turn around and prepare to cook when he heard Melika say: "You really don't want to know what gift Jennifer gave you?"
Zhang Chi shook his head. He really didn't want to know. In his opinion, it was just a few things from a woman's house, whether it was a bag or jewelry. At most, Jennifer had some money and the things she gave were more expensive.
What do you think is so good about this thing?
"Go and see for yourself," Melica said, pointing to the door.
Zhang Chi was curious and took a look at the door. He found that there was nothing at the door, so he smiled and asked jokingly: "Is the thing I gave you invisible? Who can't? Jennifer gave me the invisible baby in Calabash Baby? Hahaha."
Melika laughed along and pointed her finger at the door: "Go to the east corner of the corridor and take a look."
Zhang Chi came out of the house with a confused face after hearing this, and walked along the corridor to the east corner. Here is a small octagonal corridor with a railing and chairs. According to Melika, this place is where best friends stay for a few afternoons.
I used it when we had afternoon tea together.
Zhang Chi didn't understand, who is she going to have afternoon tea with? Who is going to have tea with you if she has nothing to do? Who will do the work on the ranch?
Generally speaking, the principle of farming and ranching is: women should be used as men, and men should be used as livestock.
Arriving under the gallery, Zhang Chi didn't pay attention at first, because there were small round tables here. Zhang Chi felt that these tables were really good for playing mahjong.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Zhang Chi noticed a cage placed against the wall of the corridor.
After seeing clearly what was in the cage, Zhang Chi scratched his head a little.
There is a monkey in the cage.
Generally speaking, everyone knows about macaques. The most famous ones are the group of harmful monkeys in Mount Emei. They are macaques.
The most beautiful thing is the golden monkey, which is not only beautiful but also has a good personality. Every time the golden monkey appears in the crowd, the monkeys in Emei Mountain will suffer from cyber violence.
This is a joke made by netizens.
The monkey in the cage now looks like a macaque, with similar body fur and facial features, but one face with very, very distinct eyebrows.
A white eyebrow grows on the monkey's body, and it is also a sword eyebrow. It looks a bit like the "fair-faced and beautiful" Ruhua in Zhou Xingxing's Variety Star.
Seeing the monkey, Zhang Chi blurted out: "I didn't expect you to be so damn pretty. I really can't stand you!"
The monkey didn't pay attention to Zhang Chi. It was holding the cage bars with its hands, then bared its teeth at Zhang Chi and made a threatening hissing sound.
“Quite a character!”
Zhang Chi said something with a smile and left from the cage.
Back in the house, Zhang Chi said to Melika: "What is this thing doing? It's useless at all."
Melika spread her hands towards Jennifer: "I said so, so you should take it back. Thank you for your kindness. I have received your kindness. When it is my birthday, I will consider it as a gift from you."
Jennifer said: "How can this work? I didn't bring back the gifts I gave out."
Zhang Chi said to himself at this moment: "I don't even want to look at what you gave me. You gave us a monkey. You said that a normal monkey would be fine. You came back with a white eyebrow surgery, and look like this."
It seems that he is seventy or eighty years old. Why, you have no place to bury him at home. Seeing that my place is big, you sent him here to care for him in his old age?
"If you don't want it, then let it go, but there are no monkeys in the mountains here, and it has no ability to survive in the wild. If you let it go, it will have no choice but to die," Jennifer said.
After hearing this, Melika smiled and said: "Are you playing the emotional card with me? Do you think I will care about its life or death?"
Jennifer was not worried at all. When she heard her sister's words, she shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands, making a relaxed gesture: "Then just throw it away."
Melika was really angry and said to Jennifer: "Don't keep it like you did when you were a child, keeping it fresh for a few days, and then either sell it or give it away...".
Melika knows her cousin very well. She gets jealous when she sees other people playing with anything. After getting jealous, she will buy her back. She has bought all kinds of dogs before, as well as goats, sheep, alpacas, and even a dog.
elephant.
Every time when the enthusiasm is over, these things are no longer needed. If you can throw away some things, just throw them away. If you can't throw away the things, or if they are sold, then let's do that.
Merika didn't even have to guess. The monkey she sent was what her cousin didn't want. If she liked something, could she give it to herself?
Melika never dared to do anything in her dreams. Not only would she not give her the things she liked, but if she liked her own things, she would also snatch them away. Growing up, the two sisters had never been at odds over such things.
"I really want to raise one, but this monkey can scratch people." Jennifer was a little helpless: "Didn't you say that Zhang Chi is very good at raising animals, so I thought about sending it here and letting you raise it."
Better".
This sounds nice, but in fact, adults know how to understand it.
For example, Zhang Chi's understanding is: I don't want to keep this monkey because it bites and scratches people, and it would be a pity to throw it away, so I might as well throw it to you two.
"Why don't you give me a tiger? I've wanted to raise a tiger for a long time."
Zhang Chi yelled at Jennifer after hearing this.
Jennifer laughed after hearing this, clapped her hands and said: "I also want to raise a tiger cub, but when I went to the photo shoot last time, there were no tiger cubs. There are tigers, but they are a bit big and sub-adult. I
I don’t like it, it’s scary to look at.”
"..."
Zhang Chi had no other choice. He was being sarcastic. He didn't expect that this little girl could go along with this matter.
So Zhang Chi decided to stay away from this little girl, who was even more annoying than Melika before. Sure enough, they are sisters, and there are some things in their genes that cannot be changed.
Zhang Chi turned around and went into the kitchen to start cooking, leaving Melika and Jennifer to continue chatting in the living room.
Alone in the kitchen, Zhang Chi relaxed and hummed while cooking. He did not ask Jennifer what she wanted to eat or if she had any taboos.
His idea here is that if you like to eat, you can eat it. If you don’t like it, just go out and spend money to eat it. You can eat whatever you want, and eat whatever you want.
But under my own roof, everything is decided by me, Lao Zhang.
The rice was cooked, the fish ingredients were prepared, such as a three-piece set of green onion, ginger and garlic to remove the fishy smell, and I took out the bean sprouts from the refrigerator.
This thing was not issued by Zhang Chi's family, but by my uncle's family. It has been almost two days since he got it back here. It has been kept in the refrigerator. When I took it out, it looked quite good. It was almost the same as what I put it in.
, it was still the same when I took it out.
There are also fat intestines in the refrigerator. This thing is bought from a Chinese supermarket. The pig is also a domestic black pig, so regardless of this set of intestines, the price here is directly on par with the price of authentic Wagyu beef in small restaurants in the city.
Zhang Chi took care of it himself, but if someone else took care of it, he didn't feel at ease eating it.
The fatty intestines have been braised so that the surface is already sauce-colored, and all the fat and oil in the intestines have been cleaned.
Some people eat fat intestines and like to eat fatty foods, but Zhang Chi doesn't like it very much because he thinks it's too oily, and Merika doesn't like it either, because Merika has always been in fitness and is very wary of these things.
First, I fried two cents of green vegetables, all of which are vegetarian, such as Shangu green vegetables and thousands of leeks. They are both quick dishes and do not take much time.
Next is today’s main dish, Zhang Chi’s version of fat intestine fish.
Add the ingredients to the pot and stir-fry until fragrant. Add the sauce. Stir-fry until fragrant. Add water. Cover the pot and start cooking.
While the water was boiling, Zhang Chi began to kill the fish.
After killing the fish, he started to fillet the fish. The fish head, tail and fish bones were put together. In order to make it more delicious, Zhang Chi cut the fish head into two halves with a knife and chopped the large spine in the middle of the fish body into several small pieces.
The fish fillets are good and stacked together. Use starch and water to hang a thin layer of lake on the fish fillets. One is to lock in the water, and the other is to make the fish more smooth and tender.
Wait for the water in the pot to boil, first take out the cooked base vegetables, that is, bean sprouts, and a few other side vegetables, and put them into a large soup basin.
First put the fish head and fish bones in the pot and cook them. When the fish heads and fish bones are ready, take them out and place them on top of the base dish.
Finally, add the fish fillets. This is the most challenging time for your skills. If you catch them too early, the fish will have no flavor. If you catch them too late, the fish will be old. It will be fishy without flavor. When it is old, it will taste like chewed bacon.
Only when it is neither old nor raw can the fish fillets be smooth and tender.
As soon as the fish fillets were put into the pot, Zhang Chi turned to the living room and shouted: "Get ready, it's time to eat."
Hearing Zhang Chi say that it was time to eat, Melika immediately stood up and without paying much attention to her cousin, she walked into the kitchen and started to help.
In fact, there is nothing to be busy with, just serving rice or taking the dishes to the table outside, which are all small things.
"You still have to do this by yourself? Why don't you hire a servant...".
Of course Jennifer knew why Zhang Chi's family didn't hire a servant, but she still couldn't help but bring it up, if for no other reason than that the two people working in the kitchen now made her look a bit dazzling!
Although Jennifer's Chinese is good, she has never lived in China. Her spoken words are all written things. If she had stayed in China, Jennifer would definitely say this at this moment: Show affection and die quickly!
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