Zhang Chi didn't have much work to do in the afternoon, and he didn't need to feed the cows now. The pasture was full of grass up to the crooks of their legs. The cows didn't even have to lower their heads. Even if they were lying on the grass, they could eat as much as they wanted.
After taking a short rest after the meal, Zhang Chi began to kill fish and prepare the meal for Cannon in the evening.
In the final analysis, the meal consisted of two dishes, one was grilled fish, and the other Zhang Chi prepared a beef offal pot. Naturally, the beef offal was bought in Chinese supermarkets, and these items are not available in foreign supermarkets.
Beef offal and other items are semi-finished products. They only need to be soaked in water and washed a little. People have already helped with the processing when selling them.
The main job is grilling fish.
Zhang Chi took out the largest fish from the water tank, knocked it unconscious with the back of his knife, then opened its intestines and took out the internal organs from the fish's belly.
While I was busy, Aunt Lu came over.
"Xiao Zhang, do you want my help?" Aunt Lu asked enthusiastically.
Zhang Chi waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, I don't need to trouble you to do this small job of mine. You just finished your work, take a good rest."
"I'm used to being busy, so there's nothing I can't do without a break." Aunt Lu said, carrying a small bench and sitting next to her, and began to help Zhang Chi peel the garlic.
Zhang Chi said a few words and saw that the old lady insisted on helping, so he had to let her go.
When it comes to killing fish, Zhang Chi is not an expert, but he is not a novice either, and he handles it neatly.
"Have you ever been a cook before?" Aunt Lu knew when she saw the young man named Zhang that he must have spent some time in the kitchen before, otherwise he would not be so skilled at killing fish.
Zhang Chi smiled and replied: "My uncle owns a restaurant. I used to help in his restaurant, and I have learned a lot over the past ten years."
"You are not fur," Aunt Lu praised.
After trimming the fish, the next step is to open the back. If you don’t open the back of such a big fish, the thick meat on the back will not be flavorful, and it is also troublesome to cook. The meat on the outside will be dry, and the meat on the inside may not be there.
Cooked, so this step is indispensable.
Open the back of the fish, then turn the fish over and cut off some fish bones, so that the whole fish can be unfolded and the originally round fish body can be unfolded into a flat surface.
Add a flower knife to the outside to make it easier to absorb the flavor.
After finishing all this, wipe as much water as possible from the fish and let the mountain breeze blow for a while to let the remaining water on the fish disappear. Then Zhang Chi prepared the marinade.
Aunt Lu was very interested in this process. When she saw Zhang Chi's seasoning, she asked.
Zhang Chi didn't hide this thing. The uncle researched this flavor himself. It's mainly spicy. If he were to invite ordinary Americans, he wouldn't be prepared to bring it out. But it doesn't matter if he invites Cannon.
Discriminating against him or something, but Cannon not only eats spicy food, but also loves spicy food.
Mix the ingredients with light and dark soy sauce and water to form a paste. Zhang Chi took the dried fish off the branch, smeared a layer of the paste on the inside and outside, and kneaded it with his hands.
After waiting for three to five minutes, making sure that every piece of exposed fish meat was covered with the material, the fish was hung on the branch of the tree again, where the wind and the material created the most wonderful collision in the natural environment.
"Wait, let me take notes."
After Aunt Lu finished speaking, she took the pen, sat back on the small stool and began to ask Zhang Chi how to mix the ingredients.
"This is chili powder, don't use too much. I chose red peppers from the two lakes in China, which have a good taste. This is Sichuan peppercorns. This is based on personal taste. This is fennel, use less...
…”.
Zhang Chi carefully explained the ingredients and quantities to Aunt Lu.
The old lady must remember carefully.
Zhang Chi stood aside and took a look, and found that the old lady's calligraphy was really great. If his in-laws hadn't seen this calligraphy, Zhang Chi would have thought that someone had written the calligraphy post.
"Aunt Lu, your handwriting is so beautiful, it's just like the printed word," Zhang Chi praised.
Aunt Lu smiled and said: "I'm used to writing. I used to be a teacher, but then I stopped. When we were studying, we had very strict requirements for printing and writing...".
The old lady explained to Zhang Chi with a smile while writing.
Zhang Chi looked at the old lady carefully recording the ingredients in her notebook, and asked for no reason: "Aunt Lu, do you regret coming here to be with Uncle Chen?"
Aunt Lu was stunned for a moment, then smiled at Zhang Chi and said: "There are many things that I can't explain clearly, and I can't say that I have no regrets. To be honest, you and I, Uncle Chen, are not here. Many people are probably relieved in their hearts.
They think you, Uncle Chen, are a nuisance, and wish we could get out of their sight as soon as possible. We are old and not young anymore. Although our life here is not as good as at home, it is still pretty good and we can live well enough."
Zhang Chi was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect to get a different answer from Aunt Lu. From Lao Xu's words, the old couple had suffered a big loss, but Aunt Lu's words were very plain.
Zhang Chi didn't look like he was panicking.
"At my age, it doesn't make much sense for you to say that life should be diverse. I know many people think that Lao Chen and I are not living a good life. What would have happened if we had stayed in China.
But in fact we quite like our current life. Although we don’t make much money and don’t have that many things to do, Lao Chen is impatient and can’t get rid of the dirt in his eyes. In the past, he would report this today and that tomorrow. The boss and colleagues almost
If you offend him many times, try to persuade him. He really can't stand those bad people.
When you are young, you don’t know how bad those people are, how bad they can’t be imagined... I left, poorer but at peace in my heart.”
"oh!"
Zhang Chi pretended to be confused and understood.
But he seemed to have heard this somewhere. Well, back in China, a secretary named A once said that you can’t imagine how bad some people can be.
"Life is pretty good now. Lao Chen has something to do every day. I cook a meal for everyone. There is something to do every day. We all talk and laugh together. There is nothing bad to do between people. Life is pretty good.
"Like in the past when we were young, no one was so fussy, and we were kind and gentle, so we lived a real life," Aunt Lu said calmly.
The old man and the young man chatted with each other while preparing dinner.
After peeling the garlic, washing the onions, and preparing all the side dishes, Zhang Chi's phone rang as soon as Aunt Lu left.
I took it out and saw that it was from my uncle.
As soon as Zhang Chi answered the call, he heard his uncle say: "Dachi, do you want a big barbecue stove here?"
Zhang Chi was stunned when he asked this question: "Uncle, don't worry about my affairs. Why are you buying me a barbecue stove? I don't want it."
Zhang Chi thought that his uncle was buying appliances and property for him again, so he quickly refused.
Zhang Youliang said: "No, I saw someone threw one away. Do you want it? If you want it, I will help you transport it back. When you have time, come and get it. If you don't want it, then I am out of luck."
"Someone threw it away?"
Zhang Chi was overjoyed: Someone gave him a pillow because he was dozing off. He just wanted to eat grilled fish at night, and now his uncle picked up a stove for him. What kind of magical luck is this.
In big cities, there may be people who will recycle these things. They will pay you a little money at that time, and then they will take away the old appliances and so on.
But it's different here, there isn't such a big demand, so generally if no one wants this kind of thing, it has to be handed over to the garbage company for disposal.
These companies will not give you a penny. Not only do you not pay them, you also have to pay them to dispose of this industrial waste.
The price varies depending on the value of the item, ranging from a few yuan to dozens or even hundreds.
Therefore, when families here have something they don’t want, they usually leave it on the roadside at the door.
Some will put a sign like FOR FREE! on it to indicate that you don’t want it anymore and you can just take it away if you need it.
Of course, there is another way, and that is a neighborhood second-hand exchange meeting. That is, everyone takes out the unused items at home and labels them. It is generally not expensive, ranging from a few dollars to dozens of dollars.
,see something.
If everyone has something they like, I want this in your house, and you want this in my house. You can also put things away.
However, things like neighborhood replacements are usually small things, and there are rarely big things like home appliances.
After seeing the photo sent by his uncle and comparing it with the uncle next to him, Zhang Chi finally understood why the family wanted to throw it away. It was because it was a bit big. It was of no use to ordinary families and it took up too much space.
.
Most of the barbecue grills used by ordinary families can only grill Tomahawk steaks or something like that. If they roast a leg of lamb, the whole family will be full with just one leg of lamb. Any more will be meaningless.
This oven is not an ordinary one. It is more than two meters long and one meter two and three meters wide. It is enough to roast a whole lamb.
It seems that it has been used a lot, and the entire oven looks a bit dirty. The black dots on the grill grid are all oil stars, and the top cover is also yellow, which looks a bit disgusting.
However, it is a bit excessive for you to ask so much for something that costs nothing. With such requirements, all the problems you have to pay for new ones will be solved.
"Yes, yes!"
If you really spend money to buy this thing, you will get a lot of money. You can't buy such a thing without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars.
"Okay, I'll transport it back. Come and get it when you have time." When Zhang Youliang heard that his nephew wanted this thing, he immediately prepared to help him transport it home.
"Uncle, how did you see this thing?" Zhang Chi asked.
Zhang Youliang said: "I saw it on the way to deliver food. As soon as I came down to look at the stove, someone wanted this stove too. I said I saw it first... In the end, they had no choice but to stand there stupidly.
”.
As he spoke, Zhang Youliang tilted the camera to the side proudly. Standing next to him were two old men. They were carrying some other small appliances to their pickup trucks. It seemed that this family had thrown away a lot of things.
I have to say that Zhang Youliang was very lucky today. If he had come earlier he would not have seen it, but if he had come later he would have been snatched away by others.
"Are rich people coming out and throwing away all these things?" Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"Don't worry about it. Anyway, I'll get it back for you if it's thrown away," Zhang Youliang said.
"How can you do it alone? Wait a minute, I'll be there right away," Zhang Chi said.
Zhang Youliang said: "No, no, I have a friend nearby who is here to help. I will pick it up at the restaurant later. Okay, I'll hang up first."
After the uncle hung up the phone, Zhang Chi told Aunt Lu and asked her to look at it for him while he went to get the stove.
After getting into the pickup truck, Zhang Chi hummed a little tune and rushed to his uncle's restaurant.