pasture leisure

Chapter 104 Hot Pot
Zhang Chi thought about it again, a sheep is herding a flock of sheep, and this little girl Melika will come here whenever she wants, isn't it just a matter of extra chopsticks?

Thinking about it this way, I comforted myself, and my heart really felt much better.

"BOSS?" Cannon opened his mouth again.

"Anyone else wants to come?" Zhang Chi's heart tightened again.

"Who's coming?" Cannon asked.

"I think you seem to say that someone is coming," Zhang Chi replied.

Cannon said: "No, I just want to ask if the cow's head and hoof should be kept?"

Zhang Chi wanted to say why he didn't keep it, but then he thought about what he would do, or if he had time to fiddle with these things. If he kept it, he might throw it to his uncle and aunt like last time. The couple had another good meal, and they had to bring themselves when they ate at the end.

After thinking about it this way, Zhang Chi said: "Forget it, just feed Daniel and Erhu directly."

"Okay, then I'll be busy." Cannon turned around and went back to work.

Zhang Chi looked back at Ergou and found that it was still licking the little black cat very intently, so he turned his head and followed Cannon outside.

Just as the beef was finished, Li Qiao and his wife arrived with their children.

Zhang Chi rode out to greet him.

"Hey! What a big movement."

Li Qiao drove the car to the side of the house, and when he got out of the car, he saw Cannon who was slaughtering sheep.

"There are a lot of people coming this time, and there are still cows to be slaughtered," Zhang Chi said.

"There are so many people?" Li Qiao was a little surprised.

Zhang Chi said with a smile: "Of course it is impossible for so many people to eat a cow. The rest can be eaten until Christmas. After Christmas, I have to prepare to go back to my hometown."

"Go back to China?" Li Qiao asked.

Well, Zhang Chi nodded: "This year I plan to go back to my hometown for the New Year."

After hearing this, Li Qiao said: "Hey, I also want to go back to my hometown for the New Year, but unfortunately the air tickets are too expensive at this time. When our family goes back, half a year's income will be spent on the road...".

At this time, Li Qin got out of the car: "Hey, I said, don't talk about yourself, take the child down."

Li Qiao turned her head immediately when she heard this, and carried her child out of the car.

"Dad, Dad, where's the little rabbit?"

After hearing this, Zhang Chi said to the little guy: "Uncle, there are no little rabbits here."

As soon as he said this, the little guy immediately turned his head and climbed into the car: "I'm not here without the little rabbit, I want to go home?"

Now Zhang Chi can't do it anymore, and I don't know how to deal with the little guy.

Seeing this, Li Qin smiled and said, "Uncle's house doesn't have little rabbits, but there are puppies, chickens, and ducks...".

After talking about four or five kinds of animals, the little guy stopped moving. He held the electric pedal with both hands, and kept climbing up with one leg. He turned his face to his mother Li Qin and asked, "Really?"

"Really, what did I lie to you, uncle's house really has these," Li Qin said.

With his mother's assurance, the little guy came down again.

When Li Qin saw it, he said to Zhang Chi: "If you have nothing to do, I will take the children to see the animals with Li Qiao, and I will help with the cooking. How busy are you?"

Zhang Chi said immediately after hearing this: "No, I can't keep you busy."

What he said was quite false. Wasn't he looking forward to his coming here because he was looking forward to his work?

Li Qin smiled and said, "It's all right."

Naturally, it was impossible for Zhang Chi to follow Li Qiao to take care of the children, so he showed Li Qiao the location of the cowshed, and asked Li Qiao to take the children there, while he stayed to work.

Li Qiao took the children to the cowshed for a short time, and then came back. When they came back, the little guys brought back a goose.

Li Qin, who was busy choosing vegetables in the house, saw the child coming back with the goose, so he said: "Why did you bring this thing here, and don't let them follow the mother goose."

"Children find it fun...".

"It's not fun." After finishing speaking, he turned to the child and said, "Go, return the goose to the mother goose. If the mother goose can't find the child, she should be in a hurry."

"Can you not pay it back?" The child was a little reluctant.

Li Qin said: "Then will you be anxious if you lose your mother? If no one else will return you to your mother...".

At this time, Zhang Chi just walked into the room, and he saw a little yellow goose in his hands, so he said in surprise, "Where did the little goose come from?"

"Your family's goose hatched, you don't even know that your own goose hatches goslings?" Li Qiao said with a smile.

Zhang Chi said: "Oh, this kind of thing is under Cannon's control, I usually don't worry about it."

Zhang Chi eats eggs when he has eggs, and eats chickens when he has chickens, but generally speaking, he will not kill chickens, because you have to do too much to kill chickens, how easy it is to go out and buy one when you have this time up.

Originally, I thought that there would be flocks of poultry at home, and I would kill one of them if I wanted to eat, and I would be able to eat the freshest one immediately.

This idea is correct.

But one of the biggest problems has been overlooked, that is, it takes a lot of time to kill a chicken and a goose, from preparing hot water to plucking the feathers, it is impossible to wash them without a sentence or two.

For one or two hours, no matter what you do, you have to spend it on a chicken and a goose.

"You..." Li Qiao shook his head.

"Go and put the goose back".

Zhang Chi smiled and said: "Don't put it back, uncle will find you a pet later, and take the little goose home. Uncle has everything here, but there is no shortage of little goose."

The little guy had listened to his mother's words and wanted to send the little goose back to the mother goose, but now he heard what Zhang Chi said, and immediately held it in his hand again.

Li Qin smiled wryly and said, "I have all these at home, but none of them lived beyond two weeks."

"Then the fate of this little goose is not good," Zhang Chi laughed.

After speaking, he turned and went into the house, searched, and found a hamster cage, which was used by Zhang Chi a long time ago. As for where the hamster went, this is a tragic story.

He came out with a small cage and put the goose in the child's hand into it, and Zhang Chi continued to work on his side.

There are two ways to eat Guan beef and mutton, one is thick slices, first use the ingredients to marinate slightly, so that the meat has a bottom flavor, then put it in the pot for a while.

Another one is that there is no bottom flavor, and it is directly cut into meat rolls and put into the pot.

Whether it is a thick slice or a thin slice, it has to go through a freezing process. Needless to say, cutting mutton rolls, everyone knows that fresh meat cannot be cut. Cutting thick slices also needs to go through this process, but one is frozen porcelain. , one is slightly frozen into a little shape on it.

At Zhang Chi’s hometown, the meat had to be kept in the refrigerator at this time, but here, there is no refrigerator at all, and the outdoor temperature is around minus ten degrees. What can’t be frozen outside?
The next thing for Zhang Chi was to take care of the internal organs. Li Qiao came to help at this time. The children had a lot of goslings, so Li Qiao freed up his hands to help Zhang Chi take care of the internal organs of cattle and sheep.

Once I was busy with work, it was time for lunch. I had a simple meal and continued to work in the afternoon.

When it was past three o'clock, Melika hurried over to wait for the hot pot.

But there is no hot pot at this time, so Zhang Chi naturally arranged the work to do it first.

When it was past five o'clock, everything was almost ready, and the three tables in the room were set up, and an electric stove was placed on each table.

At six o'clock, people came over one after another. Ten minutes later, all the families invited today had arrived, which made Zhang Chi's small room lively.

At this time, the children are probably the happiest. A dozen or so children are yelling and playing outside the house.

Sometimes Zhang Chi is really envious of these children, because even if there is nothing, these children can find fun in an open space.

Everyone arrived, and each family brought something according to the etiquette. For example, the Miller family brought a bottle of wine, the Garcia family brought their own pies, and the rest of the family also brought a bottle of wine. It is a dish made by each family.

When we got here, we chatted for a while, and when the hot pot was about to open, Zhang Chi invited everyone to sit around the table, and at the same time called back the children who were playing outside.

Plates of washed vegetables were taken out and put on the table, and a portion of meat was also taken out, and soon the three tables were filled to the brim.

When the dishes are served, you have to adjust the dipping sauce before rinsing.

It is the easiest for Zhang Chi to eat hot pot. A handful of shallots and a portion of sesame oil are enough, and nothing else is required. This is Zhang Chi's way of eating. Now you can't just prepare these things for a treat.

So Zhang Chi has prepared a dozen kinds of sesame paste, beef sauce, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, etc. In addition to these basic ones, there are five or six kinds of side dishes such as crushed peanuts and mustard mustard.

Zhang Chi talked about the seasoning here, and these foreigners took the initiative to play it.

This group of foreigners is really interesting. You have to taste each one, and you will get it into the bowl if you think it tastes good.There must be a queue in the small food area so slow.

Zhang Chi’s ingredients are simple, while Melika’s is even simpler. She just ordered a little sesame sauce, mixed with a little spring onion, and sat on the seat waiting to eat.

Waiting for a group of foreigners who had been busy in the food area for a long time to come back, Zhang Chi had already eaten two chopsticks.

There is nothing to say about shabu-shabu. It’s okay to eat raw vegetables. These foreigners almost always eat raw vegetables, so how long to shabu-shabu depends entirely on personal preference.

Naturally, the meat is no good. If you eat it when it is not cooked, then you still need to rinse the wool. Isn’t it good to hold the meat and chew it?

But this job is also simple, Zhang Chi said some points to pay attention to, such as what is considered cooked when the meat is in the pot, and what is considered old. After talking about it a few times, the big guy will know.

Zhang Chi originally thought that this group of people was just looking for a novelty for a while, but he really didn't expect that this hot pot meal would make them delicious.

It's so windy!
All the dishes prepared by Zhang Chi were eaten up, and more than [-] catties of meat were eaten, and they ate from seven o'clock to nine o'clock in the evening.

(End of this chapter)