pasture leisure

Chapter 38 Picked up a furnace
In the afternoon Zhang Chi has nothing to do, and now the cows don’t need him to graze them, let alone feed them. The pasture is full of grass that reaches the knees, and the cows don’t even have to bow their heads. Even if they lie on the grass, they can eat as much as they want.

After taking a short rest after eating, Zhang Chi started to kill the fish, preparing the meal for Cannon in the evening.

After all, there are only two dishes in the meal, one is grilled fish, and the other Zhang Chi prepared a pot of offal. The offal is naturally bought in Chinese supermarkets, and ordinary supermarkets for foreigners do not have these things.

Beef offal is all semi-finished products, it only needs to be soaked in water and washed a little bit, and they have already helped to deal with it when they are sold.

The main job is to grill fish.

Zhang Chi took out the biggest fish from the water tank, knocked the guy unconscious with the back of his knife, and then opened his intestines to take out the internal organs of the fish.

While she was busy, Aunt Lu came over.

"Xiao Zhang, do you want me to help?" Aunt Lu asked enthusiastically.

Zhang Chi waved his hands again and again: "No, no, I don't need to trouble you with this little work. You just finished your work, so take a good rest."

"I'm used to being busy, there's nothing I can't rest for," Aunt Lu said, and she sat beside her with a small bench, and began to help Zhang Chi peel the garlic.

Zhang Chi said a few words, seeing that the old lady insisted on helping, he had to let her go.

Zhang Chi is not considered a veteran in killing fish, but he is not a novice either, and he handles it neatly.

"Have you worked as a cook before?" Aunt Lu knew that the young man surnamed Zhang must have spent some time in the kitchen before, otherwise he would not have such a skillful method of killing fish.

Zhang Chi replied with a smile: "My uncle runs a restaurant. I used to help out in his restaurant. I have learned a little fur in the past ten years."

"You are not fur," Aunt Lu praised.

After cleaning the fish, the next step is to open the back. If such a big fish does not open the back, the thick meat on the back will not be tasty, and it will take a lot of time to cook. The meat on the outside is dry, and the meat inside may not cooked, so this process is indispensable.

Open the back of the fish, turn the fish over, and cut off some fish bones, so that the whole fish can be unfolded, so that the original round body of the fish can be unfolded into one surface.

It is also easy to taste with a flower knife on the outside.

After finishing all this, wipe off the water on the fish as much as possible, and let it blow for a while with a small mountain breeze to let the remaining water on the fish disappear. Zhang Chi then 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 stuff either, the uncle researched this seasoning himself, it’s mainly spicy taste, if it’s for ordinary Americans, he’s not going to take it out, but it doesn’t matter if it’s for Cannon, isn’t it? Discriminate against him or something, but Cannon not only eats spicy food, but also loves it.

Mix the ingredients with soy sauce and water to form a paste. Zhang Chi took the dried fish off the tree branch, spread a layer of paste on the inside and outside, and kneaded it with his hands. It took three to five minutes to ensure that every piece of exposed fish was wiped off by the material, and then the fish was hung on the tree branch again, and the wind and material produced the most wonderful collision in the natural environment.

"Wait, let me take my notes."

After finishing speaking, Aunt Lu took the pen, sat back on the small stool and began to ask Zhang Chi how to match it.

"This is chili powder, don't use too much. I choose the red pepper from the two lakes in China. It tastes good. This is Sichuan pepper. It depends on my personal taste. This is fennel, so use less... ...".

Zhang Chi told Aunt Lu carefully about the ingredients and weight.

The old lady remembers carefully.

Zhang Chi stood by and looked at it, and found that the handwriting written by the old lady was really great. If the in-laws hadn't seen this handwriting, Zhang Chi would have thought who wrote the handwriting.

"Aunt Lu, your handwriting is so beautiful, it's just like the printed one," Zhang Chi boasted.

Aunt Lu smiled and said: "I'm used to writing. I used to be a teacher, but I didn't do it later. When we were studying, the requirements for publishing books were very strict...".

The old lady explained to Zhang Chi with a smile while writing.

Zhang Chi looked at the old lady carefully memorizing the ingredients in the notebook, and asked for no reason: "Aunt Lu, do you and Uncle Chen regret coming here?"

Aunt Lu was stunned for a moment, then smiled at Zhang Chi: "There are many things that I can't explain clearly, and I can't talk about no regrets. To be honest, many people are probably relieved that I am not with you, Uncle Chen. I think you, Uncle Chen, are a trouble, and I wish we would not be in the way of their eyes sooner, we are getting older, not young people, and although we don’t have the domestic conditions to live here, it’s pretty good, enough to live on.”

Zhang Chi was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect to get a different answer from Aunt Lu. From Lao Xu's mouth, the old couple had lost a lot, but Aunt Lu said it very plainly.

Zhang Chi didn't look like he was panicking either.

"At my age, it doesn't make much sense for you to say that life needs to be diverse. I know that many people think that Lao Chen and I have a bad life. What will happen if we stay in China.

But in fact, we quite like our current life. Although we say that we don’t make much money, and don’t have so many things to do, Lao Chen is a quick-tempered person who can’t rub the sand in his eyes. In the past, we reported this one today and the other tomorrow. I have offended him many times, so please persuade him, he really can't look down on those bad guys.

When you are young, you don’t know how bad those people are, they are so bad that you can’t imagine...Leave, poorer but have peace of mind.”

"Oh!"

Zhang Chi pretended to be confused.

But he seems to have heard this somewhere, oh, in China, a secretary named What A said, some people you can't imagine how bad they can be.

"Life is pretty good now, Lao Chen has work to do every day, and I cook for everyone, I have something to do every day, everyone talks and laughs together, there is nothing bad between people, life is very good Like when we were young, we were not so thoughtful and kind, and this is the real life," Aunt Lu said flatly.

The old and the young just talked about the idle time while preparing dinner.

After peeling the garlic, washing the shallots, 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 my uncle calling.

As soon as Zhang Chi picked it up, he heard his uncle say, "Da Chi, do you want a big barbecue stove here?"

Zhang Chi was stunned when he asked this question: "Uncle, don't worry about my affairs. What are you doing buying me a barbecue stove? I don't want it."

Zhang Chi thought that his uncle was buying home appliances for him again, so he quickly refused.

Zhang Youliang said: "No, I see someone threw one away. Do you want it? If you want it, I will transport it back for you. When you have time, come and get it. If you don't want it, then I will not transport it."

"They threw it away?"

Zhang Chi was overjoyed: Isn't this because someone gave me a pillow when I was drowsy? I just thought about eating grilled fish at night, but now my uncle picks up a stove for me. What kind of godly luck is this.

In big cities, some people may recycle these things, and then they will give you a little money, and then they will take away the old appliances and so on.

But here is different, there is not 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 not give money, you have to give them money to deal with these industrial waste.

The prices dealt with according to the value of things are also different, ranging from a few yuan to dozens or even hundreds.

Therefore, if there is something that the family does not want, it is usually placed on the roadside at the door.

Some will put a FOR FREE! sign on it, indicating that you don’t want it anymore, and you can take it away if you need it.

Of course, there is another way, that is, the second-hand goods exchange meeting between neighbors, that is, everyone takes out the things they don’t use at home and puts labels on them. Generally, it is not too expensive, ranging from a few dollars to tens of dollars. ,see something.

If everyone has something they like, I want it for yours, and you want it for mine.

However, things like neighborhood replacement are generally small things, and there are very few big things like home appliances.

Seeing the photos sent by the uncle, and comparing the photos with the uncle next to him, Zhang Chi finally understood why the family had to throw it away, because it was a bit big, and it was useless for ordinary families, it took up too much space .

The barbecue ovens used by ordinary families are at best grilled battle ax steaks or something, and roast a leg of lamb in the sky. A leg of lamb in an ordinary family is enough for the whole family. If there is more, it is meaningless.

This oven is not ordinary big, good guy is more than two meters long, one meter two three wide, enough to roast a whole lamb.

It seems that it has been used a lot, and the whole oven looks a bit dirty. The black and black spots on the grill are all oil stars, and the top cover is also yellow, which looks a bit disgusting.

But if you ask so much for something that doesn’t cost money, it’s a bit too much. If you have this requirement, you can solve all your problems by buying a new one.

"Yes, yes!"

If you really pay for this thing, you can get a lot of money. You can't buy such a thing without hundreds or thousands of dollars.

"Okay, I'll ship it back, and come and get it when you have time." Zhang Youliang immediately prepared to help carry it home when he heard his nephew said he wanted it.

"Uncle, how did you see this thing?" Zhang Chi asked.

Zhang Youliang said: "I saw it on the way to deliver the food. As soon as I came down here to look at the stove, someone also wanted this stove. I said I saw it first... In the end they had no choice but to stand by the side. ".

As he said that, Zhang Youliang proudly turned the camera to the side. There were two old Mos standing beside him. They were moving some other small appliances to their pickup truck. It seemed that there were quite a lot of things thrown away.

I have to say that Zhang Youliang's luck today is really good. If you come early and don't see it, you will be snatched away by others if you come late.

"Did the rich family come out and throw away all these things?" Zhang Chi laughed.

"Don't worry about it, anyway, they threw it away, I'll get it back for you," Zhang Youliang said.

"What can you do alone, wait a minute, I'll go there right away," Zhang Chi said.

Zhang Youliang said: "No, no, I have a friend nearby who came to help me with the matter, and I will pick it up at the restaurant later. That's fine, I'll hang up first."

When the uncle hung up the phone, Zhang Chi told Aunt Lu, asking her to watch for him, and go get the stove by himself.

After getting into the pickup truck, Zhang Chi hummed a little song and rushed to his uncle's restaurant.

(End of this chapter)