After arriving at the uncle's restaurant, he parked his car and Zhang Chi entered the restaurant.
"Uncle, aunt".
After shouting twice but no one answered, Zhang Chi amplified his voice.
"It's in the backyard."
This time the aunt's voice came out.
Zhang Chi opened the small door at the back and found that his uncle and aunt were cleaning the barbecue stove they had just moved back in the backyard. The greasy and dirty barbecue stove he saw in the photo had now changed drastically.
The oil stains on the stainless steel furnace body have been completely cleaned away, revealing its original brightness.
"Uncle, aunt, I can just go back and wash myself. Why do you want to wash it for me?"
When Zhang Chi saw it, he immediately picked up the rag next to him and started washing it with his hands.
"How do you wash it over there? It's all full of oil stains, and you don't have the things we use here. Besides, your uncle and I just happened to have nothing to do, so we can lend a hand to help," the aunt said with a smile.
Zhang Chi said: "Then wait for me to come. You and your uncle will guide you, and I will do it."
There is indeed no cleaning agent for cleaning oil stains in Zhang Chi, because this thing is commonly used by other people, that is, Zhang Youliang and his wife use it when they open a restaurant. Because the oil fumes are heavy for a while, they need to clean the kitchen, so this kind of
Professional decontamination cleaning agents are common items.
A restaurant must be clean and hygienic. Zhang Youliang's kitchen is always kept clean and tidy, making it comfortable for guests to see and inspect.
If a restaurant is dirty and messy, it won't be able to survive here, let alone become as famous as it is now.
"It's all little things. After cleaning it like this, it suddenly looks much better."
Zhang Youliang looked at the large barbecue stove in front of him that was about to return to its original appearance and said with satisfaction.
"It's much better, like new," Zhang Chi said.
This is no exaggeration at all. After the grease on the stove was washed away, the stainless steel stove body was as bright as new, even shining in the sun.
The material of the stove is quite strong. The body of the stove is completely made of food-grade stainless steel, and the rest of the materials are also quite strong. If the oil stains hadn’t covered up the original appearance, or the original owner didn’t want to take the trouble to clean it, it would have been damaged.
It won't be Zhang Youliang's turn to pick it back up.
"How is the construction of your house?" Zhang Youliang was concerned about his nephew's ranch.
Zhang Chi put the towel in his hand into the water, then unscrewed the water and started wiping the stove leg in front of him.
"Everything is going smoothly. Once the pipelines are laid and the sewage tanks are buried, they can be capped," Zhang Chi said.
"Is it almost finished?" the aunt asked.
Zhang Youliang said: "Where we are now, it will take at least two weeks."
Zhang Chi laughed and said: "Uncle, I am not building a big house, just a small bungalow. It will take less than two weeks, and it will be finished in another week."
"Oh, that's pretty fast." Zhang Youliang was a little surprised.
"The construction team works about ten hours a day, and the progress is of course fast. Once the cowshed and storage warehouse are ready, it will be even faster if all the manpower is concentrated on the house," Zhang Chi said.
The cattle shed and fodder warehouse are almost completed now.
These two places are not serious houses. They are just steel frames with wooden boards all around. It is not like houses that are insulated or not. Just seal the wooden boards to provide a place to protect them from wind and rain.
, the cowshed is for cows, not for people.
As for the storage warehouse, it's even simpler. As long as it doesn't leak and rainwater can't get in when it rains, then it's completely OK. You don't have to worry about whether it can block the wind or not. There aren't that many requirements for hay.
"By the way, when will you tell your parents about this?" said the aunt.
Zhang Chi said: "Wait until it is completed and tell them then."
"It just so happens that after the summer vacation, the whole family will come over to play. The last time I came here was five or six years ago," said the aunt.
Zhang Chi said: "I don't have much money this year. Let's wait until next year. I will sell the cattle next year and let them come and live there for a while."
For a family to come, not to mention the round-trip air tickets cost a lot of money. In addition, Zhang Chi’s family has a large population. His grandparents are still alive. Plus his parents, there are four people. If he adds his sister and brother-in-law, then
There are seven people. The round-trip air tickets for seven people are not something Zhang Chi can afford now.
The last time the aunt said she came, it was just her parents who came over. Since Zhang Chi wanted his family to come over, it couldn't be his parents. Taking advantage of the fact that both grandma and grandma are in good health, the whole family was here.
Play here for a month or two.
Then it will be arranged for next summer vacation.
"That's right, it's not easy to come here now." My mother-in-law thought for a moment and felt that she would have to kill more than 100,000 people this time. With her nephew's current financial level, he couldn't afford it.
It's hard for the two sons to say that they'll just let it go, because it's against common sense. It's one thing for them to take care of their nephew, but now that the nephew's ranch has become a place where they want to take their family over to play, what's the point of them paying for air tickets?
The uncle and nephew were chatting while washing the barbecue stove.
While we were chatting about this topic, it turned to Zhang Wu again. There was nothing we could do about it. Zhang Wen was living a prosperous life now. Zhang Chi, his nephew, was considered to have a family and a career. Zhang Wu alone was now in his thirties.
I'm still hanging around in society.
"You ask your brother Xiaowu, where are you now and what are you doing? Don't do anything illegal," asked my mother-in-law.
Zhang Chi said: "I really didn't ask much. The last time I talked to him, he just said that he and a few people are now trying to make songs, which means collecting other people's songs and then selling them. I don't know the specific situation."
Zhang Chi really has no interest in the industry that Brother Xiaowu is engaged in, making music? What era is it now? The music industry is no longer a particularly profitable industry in the last century. Of course, it cannot be said that it is not profitable, but there are too many songs now.
, it’s not an exaggeration to say that a good song that can be remembered is one out of ten.
Zhang Chi thought it was unreliable to resell songs.
However, Zhang Chi is not worried about what happens to Brother Xiao Wu. His ability to make money may not be great, but his ability to socialize is indeed better than Zhang Chi or even Brother Zhang Wen.
There's no way around it, this guy is so capable, and he's also a social nerd. He can chat with anyone. In the words of Brother Zhang Wen, even if he meets a dog on the street, he can have a warm chat with it.
Without such eloquence, he would not have had countless girlfriends since he was a child. If someone like Zhang Chi were thrown into the society without the blessing of a gourd, he would probably be a bachelor for the rest of his life.
"This kid doesn't know what to do." The mother-in-law didn't know what to say about her second son.
The older generation believes that the most important thing for a person is to be down-to-earth and hard-working. These two things have nothing to do with Zhang Wu. Not only is he not down-to-earth and hard-working, he is also indolent.
"Leave him alone, he will come back naturally after spending all the money." Zhang Youliang is also worried about his son, but as a father, he generally does not show this kind of emotion.
When Zhang Chi came, the uncle and his wife had already cleaned more than half of the stove. Most of the oil stains had been removed. What was left was just some corners, or the bottom of the legs and so on.
Yes, these areas are easy to deal with because they are very smooth. Once the cleaning agent is applied, let it sit for a while and then rub it with a steel wool ball, the oil stains will come off.
The entire stove is now as good as new. Not only the stove body and the grill net, but also the original appearance after being taken out of the large basin filled with cleaning fluid.
After cleaning, Zhang Youliang flushed the entire stove again and again with a water pipe until no foam from the cleaning agent could be seen.
"Let me do it. I can do this small job. You and your mother-in-law can take a rest while you rest."
Zhang Chi saw that his uncle had taken a dry towel to wipe it with, so he immediately reached out to grab it, squatted down and started to rub the towel in circles on the stove to wipe the water on the surface of the stove.
"Oh, I forgot. You can take some of the fly killing powder you bought last time back later. This stuff is great at catching flies," said the aunt.
Those who work in restaurants will encounter these problems. My uncle is very demanding in this regard. He will never allow a customer to come to the restaurant and see a fly landing on his food after sitting down, so things like fly powder are
A must-have item for restaurants, especially now that the temperatures are rising.
Let's put it this way, the areas around Folsom are either pastures or farms. If you say there are no mosquitoes or flies here, that's nonsense.
During the hottest time of the year, these things can be quite annoying.
Over the years, Zhang Youliang has used countless pest-killing tools, and finally found the right one.
It is not only used by Zhang Youliang's restaurant, but also used by nearby restaurants and farmers and ranchers. It can be regarded as being planted by Zhang Youliang.
"That's no need, my pasture is fine now," Zhang Chi said.
Zhang Chi didn't really want to use it because the fly-killing powder smelled really bad and smelled really bad.
The American brand of fly killing powder is fragrant, at least it doesn't have a big smell, but it's not very useful. Flies like smelly things. If you give them a fragrant powder and want them to come over, isn't that nonsense?
This domestically produced stuff is pretty cool. Really, just get a cardboard box, pour it inside, open the door, and leave it there for a day. As long as there are flies nearby, they won’t be able to get in. Once it gets on it, the flies will start to scream in a while.
Yes, very useful.
"When you find something bad, the flies will be flying all over the sky." The lady said with a smile: "Take it back and find a foam box to put it in. Don't get too close to the house because the smell will be strong. Stay away and you won't be able to smell it.
, but flies can smell it.”
"Okay, I'll get it when I get back." Zhang Chi could only nod in agreement.
After the barbecue stove was ready, Zhang Chi and his uncle put the stove into the compartment of the car together and used ropes to pull it several times to prevent the stove from moving around while driving.
At this time, the aunt brought a plastic bag and put it on the rear bucket. She also gave Zhang Chi a foam box. Needless to say, it was something poisonous for flies.
Finally, he gave Zhang Chi a box of fruit wood charcoal. Anyway, what Zhang Chi thought of, unexpectedly, the couple helped their nephew think of it.
After everything was done, the uncle and the aunt had to stay in Zhangchi to eat again.
"I'm going to invite guests today. I really can't eat at home. When my house is decorated in two days, I'll invite you two to my ranch," Zhang Chi said.
The couple thought so, and watched Zhang Chi's car leave until it was out of sight, then returned to the restaurant and got busy.