slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 79
Cang Hai was squatting on the ground smoking a cigarette, listening to the folks chatting about the daily life, what new things happened in which village, and which two people in the village got into a fight because of something, anyway, it was all these short things in the daily life , I don’t know why these young and old people are so concerned about such news.

It goes without saying that Li Liren's craftsmanship is very good. Last year, several sheep in Canghai's family were peeled by Li Liren.Cang Hai squatted here for about ten minutes, and Li Liren peeled off the whole sheep, and hung the whole sheepskin on an old withered tree in front of the earthen platform of his house.

The old tree has been dead for many years, and now even with water, it cannot be saved. Last year, there was no movement, and this year, there is no sprout. It seems that the nephew attended the funeral—it cannot be saved (uncle).

"Make a jacket from sheepskin?" Cang Hai opened his mouth and asked, looking at the sheepskin hanging on the dead tree.

Hu Shijie said with a smile: "Now it takes a lot of effort to sell directly to leather merchants when they go to town. Not many people wear sheepskin jackets now."

Cang Hai thought about it for a while and thought it was the same, now it is rare to see the sheepskin jackets that were common in the past, let alone the market towns, and even the villages have few people wearing them.

It is also a good thing not to wear it, because the skills of the countrymen in kneading leather are not very good, no matter how hard they try, few people can rub off the smell of sheepskin. Usually, there will always be a smell when worn on the body. In addition, the water source was tight before, and I didn't take a bath once a month, and then I put on a sheepskin jacket, and the smell on my body can be imagined.

After a while, Liu Aifen had already taken a big wooden bucket and put it under the sheep. Li Liren poked and pulled the sheep's belly with a sharp knife, and cut the sheep's belly open. bucket.

"Haiwazi, you only want meat?" Li Liren raised his head and asked Cang Hai.

Cang Hai replied: "Well, it's all about meat. I have guests at my house tonight, and I'm going to eat it in a hot pot."

"Shabu pot?"

Li Liren said: "It's not enough to shabu-shabu the mutton. I'll take a plate of mutton blood back later, put it in the pot and add some sauce, it will taste delicious."

"Wait for me to order some sheep lungs for you."

"I'll send you some intestines when I'm done."

Hearing what the villagers said, Cang Hai thanked repeatedly: "No need, no need, as long as there is meat, the guests here are carnivorous animals, and they don't eat internal organs."

"What guest?"

"Wen Yiyi of Westside Tree Planting Company, Boss Wen, is that foreigner," Cang Hai said.

Everyone nodded and said, "It turned out to be him."

A foreigner ran here to plant trees, not to mention the people in the town, and even the county town didn't know about it. This matter is too explosive for people in a small county town. A small county town is not a big city. There are not many foreign faces here, so Wen Yiyi's reputation now is much higher than that of Cang Hai, the big boss behind the scenes.

"Are you guys free tonight, come to my house to accompany a guest?" Cang Hai asked immediately when he saw that everyone had collected so many things.

"Aren't you being polite to us?" Hu Shijie asked.

"Why am I being polite to you guys?" Cang Hai laughed.

Hu Shijie was very interested in Wen Yiyi, so he opened his mouth and said, "Then can I go?"

"All come, all come!" Cang Hai opened his mouth and said immediately when he saw it.

Just like that, the elders in the village acted as companions for Cang Hai.

Seeing that there were four or five more people, Cang Hai had no choice but to turn back and make more side dishes that were originally prepared, so as not to be enough to eat when he could.

After Cang Hai washed the dishes, Li Liren came with the freshly prepared mutton.

"Haiwazi, what do you think of this meat?" Li Lixu held the meat in his hand and showed it to Cang Hai.

When Cang Hai saw the mutton, he immediately gave a thumbs up: "It's so beautiful."

The freshly killed mutton has an attractive pink color, and from time to time you can see some oily flowers hanging between the muscles. Yes, most of them are fed with grass, with a moderate amount of grains. Although it is not as good as Cang Hai’s grass-fed mutton last year, it is now in supermarkets in big cities. If you want to buy this kind of mutton, you have to meet a big one. It's luck.

"What are you talking about?" Li Liren didn't just come here to eat with his mouth open, he was also going to cook mutton.

"Let's make half of the lamb chops, and slice the lamb legs. You have good craftsmanship. Thin it as much as possible, and it will be cooked quickly." Cang Hai put forward his request.

Li Liren nodded, took the mutton to the operating table in the kitchen, swiped the bone chopping knife wheel and began to divide the meat.

The meat that was not used today was handed over to Cang Hai, and Li Liren continued to divide the lamb chops and deboned them.The lamb chops are cut into three or four centimeters in length, and they are all beautiful sub-chops, that is, the ribs in the middle, surrounded by a circle of meat. Make shabu-shabu base soup.

"Ping'an, why are you crazy, hurry up and start a fire, such a big baby has no eyesight at all." Li Liren saw Ping'an squatting outside playing with the dog orangutan, and immediately carried the boy to the fire.

"okay!"

As soon as Ping An heard the pat, he ran to the back of the clay stove and started to light the fire to cook the pot.

Li Liren is a master cook of mutton, and Cang Hai can only be a student. As a chef who used to do weddings and funerals for others, Li Liren's cooking standards are not top-notch, but they are absolutely popular. Almost a housekeeping skill.

Besides, which family here will hire a cook who can't even cook mutton banquets when they are in red and white affairs.

The mutton bones were put into the pot, boiled to remove the foam, fished out, rinsed in cold water, washed and served with the ingredients, put back into the pot and simmered slowly, and started a new pot to complete the lamb chops and cut the lamb.

Cang Hai's knife was sharp, and Li Licheng's work was good, the cut of the mutton was as thin as a piece of paper.

"Grandfather Li, your skills are really amazing," Cang Hai praised,
But Li Liren said: "Your knife is so powerful, where did you buy it for how much?"

Li Liren originally thought that he would also get such a good set of knives, but when he heard Cang's price, he immediately stopped thinking about it. He was reluctant to spend such a large sum of money to buy a set of kitchen knives.

"Come on! Sheep intestines"

At this time, with a shout, Li Licheng appeared at the door, holding a small basin in his hand, which contained half of the washed and cut sheep intestines.

"Where to put it?"

Li Liren pointed to the operating table next to him: "Just put it on, wait for them to bring the things over and stew together."

Not long after Li Licheng arrived, other people came one after another with their belongings, and the last ones were Cang Hai's third uncle and third aunt.

Li Liren and Cang Hai were busy in the kitchen, while the rest squatted on the platform in front of Cang Hai's house and continued chatting and waiting for the banquet to start.

"People are coming!"

"Haiwazi, that Boss Wen is here."

When Cang Hai, who was busy in the kitchen, heard this, he stretched his head out and took a look outside. As expected, he found a small figure walking towards the village in the distance. It seemed that the figure was riding an animal.

Li Liren saw it too, so he said to Cang Hai: "Haiwazi, go and receive the guests, we're almost done here."

"Okay, the pot is right next to you, you can figure it out when the time comes," Cang Hai said.

Saying that, he wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen towards the entrance of the village.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he happened to meet Wen Yiyi head-on.

"How do you ride a mule?"

As soon as he saw Wen Yiyi, Cang Hai asked with a smile.

The tall and burly Wen Yiyi was riding a short mule, a little taller than a donkey, and his two legs almost touched the ground. In addition, he was dressed up now, with a foreign face matching that of an old country farmer. The clothes look very funny.

Wen Yiyi didn't take it seriously, and leaned down from the mule: "This place is suitable for mules. The two horses I bought have been tossed out in just a year, and I have no choice but to sell them. By the way, you The conditions in the place are good, not as miserable as you said, but much better than ours.”

"Last year, the rain was good, and some grass grew," Cang Hai said casually.

After taking the reins from Wen Yiyi's hand, Cang Hai directly tied the mule to a nearby tree.

"Get some fodder," Wen Yiyi said immediately when he saw Cang Jiang's posture.

"You don't want to go tonight. If you don't, you go up. I'll tie the mule to the barn in the village." Cang Hai nodded at Jianwen, then untied the rein and led the mule to the barn in the village. direction to go.

When they got to the barn and tied up the mule, and returned to their home, Wen Yiyi was already squatting on the ground like Hu Shijie and the others, and seemed to be chatting very warmly.

"You don't need to introduce it?" Cang Hai smiled.

"No need to introduce, we all know Boss Wen," Li Licheng said with a smile.

Cang Hai squatted beside Wen Yiyi, and after listening to it for a while, he understood that Wen Yiyi was talking about getting rich with everyone, no matter whether it was correct or not, anyway, Wen Yiyi was talking in a logical way, which could confuse people. Cang Hai, who listened to it, felt as if he had met some kind of lecturer who was promoting the sales.

"Let's eat!"

Following Li Licheng's shout, the people who had been squatting on the ground got busy one after another. Those who set up tables set up tables and looked for benches, those who didn't have enough benches went home and got their own benches. come over.

The table is a big one, with a hole in the middle where pots can be placed. This table does not belong to Cang Hai’s family, but to Li Liren’s. The basin, with a shelf for setting fire underneath, is completely a country version of a big hot pot with pride.

The big pot is full of meat, the haggis is paired with big lamb bones, a milky white soup is boiled, and there is a layer of red pepper oil floating on the top of the soup, which immediately smells like meat. overflow.

A few bottles of wine were placed on the table, and each person had two bowls in front of them. The big bowl was for eating meat, and the small bowl was reserved for drinking. The four wine bottles in each small bowl were filled and then emptied.

As the host, Cang Hai has to say a few words at the beginning of the banquet. Seeing everyone looking at him, Cang Hai stood up with a bowl in his hand.

"What do you want to say? Forget it, everyone, pick up the wine in the bowl, eat and drink!"

After speaking, Cang Hai smiled and took a sip of his wine, which was the end of his opening remarks.

(End of this chapter)