Zhang Chi was in a daze holding the meat skewers in his hands when his sister's voice came from behind him.
"What are you doing with such a big skewer? By the way, how much does a meat skewer like this cost?" Zhang Juan asked.
Zhang Chi didn't open his mouth. Xiaoxiao, who was being supported by Zhang Chi, stopped: "Mom, Mom, I want to drink water."
After hearing what his nephew said, Zhang Chi casually took out a bottle of mineral water from the cabinet dedicated to mineral water in the refrigerator and gave it to his nephew.
As soon as the little guy saw the water, he immediately reached out to take it, but before he could catch it, his mother snatched it away.
Zhang Juan put the iced mineral water back into the refrigerator and said to her brother: "This water is too cold. How can I give it to a child who has just sweated from playing? Drinking iced water after exercise may bring life.
It’s dangerous, and you don’t have any knowledge at all?”
Zhang Chi said: "This water is not cold, and Melika has been drinking it."
Zhang Chi's refrigerator has a special place for storing water. The water is not too cold to say it is ice, it is slightly cold, but it is far from catching a cold.
Originally, Zhang Chi thought that drinking this water after exercise was not good. On the Internet, I also saw some people giving themselves away with a bottle of ice water after strenuous exercise.
But Melika drank like this every time after exercising, so he got used to it. Melika was professional about sports, while Zhang Chi just ran around with his legs swinging, and his sports knowledge was far behind others.
Still sitting.
"That's not okay!" Zhang Juan said: "Drinking something that is too cold is not good for your health. Just drink some tap water. Can you drink the water here directly?"
Zhang Chi nodded: "Yes, yes, but how much higher can this water be than bottled water?"
"It's better here, you can drink the tap water directly."
Zhang Chi couldn't help but laugh: "Sister, I purified this water myself and has nothing to do with the government. Moreover, the quality of the tap water here is really not very good. Don't listen to the nonsense of some big Vs in China. It's very rare.
There are places where you can drink water directly. You often encounter tap water that you can drink directly because all of them are equipped with water purifiers. Household water purifiers are standard equipment in houses here."
"Ah?!" Zhang Juan felt that this was, well, a bit unacceptable.
Zhang Chi shook his head, reached for the cup, took a glass of water and handed it to his nephew.
The little nephew took the cup and drank it all. He put the empty cup in his hand on the table and ran outside.
"Thank you, uncle?" Zhang Juan shouted to her son.
"Thank you uncle!"
The little guy shouted, but his little legs showed no intention of stopping. The last word "uncle" was heard and he had already jumped outside.
"This kid is crazy," Zhang Juan said, looking at her son's back.
"Children at this time are not crazy when it comes to playing. We were not the same when we were young. We were so happy that we forgot to eat dinner. Every time our mother came to see us, she would come back holding our ears," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Zhang Juan continued: "Yes, it was so good when we were there in the past, but the children now are really miserable. The conditions are better than when we were young, but the pressure is greater. When we were as old as him, we could still go into the river.
Fishing, what can they do? They are either watching TV or playing with their mobile phones. Even if they are playing in the community, they feel uncomfortable with a bunch of adults watching. Let alone playing in the water, the adults start talking when they get close to the water."
"You think too much."
Zhang Chi really knows something about this. Now when children play here, they have to be watched by adults. If someone else's child is injured, that would be a serious matter, so even if it is a group of children playing together
, the adults of each family also have to watch, either to prevent other people's children from hurting their own children, or because they are afraid that their own children will hurt others. Parents are really worried.
"It's too much trouble if you don't want to," Zhang Juan said.
After finishing speaking, Zhang Chi asked again: "What are you doing with such a big handful of skewers?"
"Let's bake it and eat it. The uncle asked us to bake it and play with it," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
After hearing this, Zhang Juan immediately said: "You are grilling it for fun. Such a big skewer weighs several kilograms of meat. You are grilling it for fun. If you eat it, you will eat something else. Put it back and don't grill it. It's so big outside."
If you can't finish a piece of meat, don't do anything else, put it back and eat it again tomorrow."
Hearing what his sister said, Zhang Chi thought for a moment and put the skewers back. The meat was very hungry. If he really ate it, there was really no room to put the western barbecue outside.
"By the way, do you have many horses at home?" Zhang Juan asked.
Zhang Chi said: "There are so many, what's wrong? This is a ranch, you ask me if there are many horses? Are you serious?"
"I want you to teach me how to ride a horse," Zhang Juan said.
Zhang Chi smiled and said: "That's not easy, I will teach you tomorrow morning."
"Okay, we agreed tomorrow morning, and I'll get up early then," Zhang Juan said.
Zhang Chi added: "I didn't expect you to rush to learn horse riding."
Zhang Juan said happily: "Isn't there a saying now that horse riding is a noble sport!"
"Don't talk nonsense. I guess the words you heard came from the racecourses of your siblings in China. What kind of aristocratic movement is this? It's just a lie made up by the racecourses to defraud you of your money. Noblesse? Then Hayara
Aren’t all the herdsmen on the mountain nobles?” Zhang Chi could no longer stop laughing.
Zhang Juan was a little unhappy: "Why do you like to argue so much now!"
As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed his brother's ears.
"Don't dare, don't dare!" Zhang Chi quickly dodged.
"She's so arrogant, like a girl." Zhang Juan smiled and reached out to reach for her brother's ear.
The siblings had a fuss for a while and then came outside.
At this moment, the sound of mahjong is still playing outside. Although it is getting late and the sun has set on the ridge to the west, the people playing mahjong are still enthusiastic.
Brother and sister Zhang Chi and Zhang Juan walked out of the house.
Zhang Juan looked at the sunset in the west and was instantly attracted by the scenery. She looked at the sunset with longing eyes and muttered: "It's so beautiful!"
"It's beautiful. I haven't seen such a beautiful sunset in a long time, right?" Zhang Chi asked.
Zhang Juan nodded: "Well, I really can't remember the last time I saw such a sunset. I think I saw it when I was in elementary school when I was playing with my friends. From high school to now, I see it every day.
Besides being busy, I was busy. When I was in school, I was busy taking college entrance exams. When I got to college, I was busy looking for a good job, waiting for a job, busy going to work, busy getting married, and busy with children. I really haven’t seen the sunset for a long time.”
"Then sit down and enjoy it, there's no charge." Zhang Chi held his sister's shoulders, pushed her down, and then sat next to her.
The two siblings just sat on the sofa on the terrace, admiring the sunset together. They sat in rows just like when their sister led Zhang Chi when they were children, sitting on the corner of Xiaoshiqiao at the entrance of their hometown, while eating the stolen food from their aunt.
Fruits on the tree at home while watching the sunset.
It's just that the childish face has been replaced by an adult look, and the innocence in the eyes has been baptized by life.
They watched the sunset until the lights on the terrace came on, and then the siblings came back to their senses.
"It's so beautiful, the sky here is so beautiful." Zhang Juan looked at the starry sky above her head.
Although the setting sun has already set, there is still an afterglow in the western sky. The sky in the west is obviously brighter, but these afterglows do not block the starlight.
After the sun goes down, the stars shine brightly, and the sky is like a light blue background, dotted with luminous gems, clusters, clusters, and streaks of stars, shining and shining, reflecting the colorful light.
A huge Milky Way stretches across the starry sky. The Cowherd and Vega stars that my grandfather taught me when he was a child were immediately recognized, as if they were hanging high on both sides of the Milky Way just like they were more than ten years ago.
The beauty of the starry sky here is truly indescribable. The sky is so pure that every star seems so close that you can reach out and reach it.
It's really a bit like Li Taibai's poem: The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands. You dare not speak loudly, for fear of frightening the people in the sky.
"I really envy you," Zhang Juan added, "being able to live in such a place and see such scenery every day."
Zhang Chi listened and replied: "You just came here. If you have lived here for a year and a half, you will get used to seeing this kind of scenery and get tired of it. Maybe you will think of the high-rise buildings and the night view of the city again."
"I miss the shining neon lights, the supermarkets that are within walking distance, and the restaurants that are just a few steps away. If you want to have a serious dinner here, it only takes 40 minutes to get to the restaurant from here."
Zhang Juan was a little surprised. She turned to look at her brother and asked with disbelief: "You will miss the city if you live here? You hold meat and chew it every day. What do you miss in the city?"
Zhang Chi replied: "Although it's not many times, I do miss the city. For example, if I don't want to cook, or if I want to eat something, I will think of the convenience of the city. Here, meat is enough, but even if
There is a time when you can have enough of delicacies from mountains and seas, let alone beef!”
Speaking of this, Zhang Chi thought of the guys from Lao Xu's construction team again, and started to laugh.
"What are you enjoying?"
Zhang Chi briefly explained the matter to his sister.
"You really spent a lot of money. The workers are tired of eating beef." Zhang Juan felt that her younger brother was too prodigal. The workers who were building houses were tired of eating beef. Who would believe this if you say this in China?
Zhang Juan doesn't know that her brother doesn't have much of anything but beef. The little beef that the workers eat is just drizzle to him! What's more, it's the cattle provided by his good neighbor Lao Liu.
"Meat is cheap. The meat here is cheaper than vegetables," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
When Zhang Chi talks about cheapness, he does not mean the unit price, but the price to fill the stomach. Eating fresh vegetables for a meal will definitely be more expensive than just eating meat. This is a fact, at least around here.
"So happy," Zhang Juan said with a smile.
"The cost of living is really low, so the pressure of life is not very high," Zhang Chi said with a nod.
It is indeed the case. The cost of living in the United States is quite low. Of course, not everyone in the United States lives a good life. There are also beggars and homeless people on the streets. But from the perspective of Americans who live in normal cities, the pressure of life is not that high.
Not big.
After speaking, Zhang Chi sniffed his nose gently.
Zhang Juan also took a sniff: "The aroma of barbecue came out."
"Yeah, but there's still some time before it's cooked. Now it's just the outer layer that's cooked," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Zhang Juan said: "Then when you wait for the inside to be edible, isn't the outside all burnt?"
"You'll know if it's overcooked or not when the time comes," Zhang Chi said.