My Courtyard Refuge

Barbecue

In a blink of an eye, it was the weekend again. In order to welcome the arrival of the eldest niece and nephew, and to provide extra meals for the children, Xu Dong planned to take advantage of the weekend to organize barbecues.

Early in the morning, he drove a big Benz to the Panjiayuan second-hand goods market. After all, he had been here several times, so he was familiar with the road.

“Boss Cha, are you there?”

This Boss Cha was the shop owner who sold Xu Dong’s pig’s head before, excluding the pig’s head, the two parties traded twice more.

“Yes, so it’s brother Xu, why did you come so early today?” Boss Cha asked curiously.

“Retire today, come here early to see if you have any meat here?”

Boss Zha apologized: “That’s really a coincidence, there’s not even a piece of meat today, so it’s a waste of your trip.”

“It’s okay, I’ll go look elsewhere.”

Xu Dong waved his hand and left.

In another store, he was lucky this time. He exchanged three boxes of yogurt and a pack of cigarettes for three catties of pork belly.

If I had known this, I should have stocked up on more pure milk. The price of yogurt is really not high, even less than one-third of the price of pure milk.

Xu Dong was very curious, is the nutritional gap between them really that big?

Next, he went shopping in the street stall area to see if he could catch a leak.

The street stall area is more lively than before, especially the chicken and duck sellers, there are a lot more, Xu Dong made a rough estimate, there are at least seven or eight.

This is not difficult to understand, after all, as long as there are enough huge profits, let alone chickens and ducks, crocodilesFish and meat can be whole out for you.

There are too many chickens and ducks on the market, so the price will inevitably drop a bit. Right now, the price of a normal chicken is about 2,500 yuan, which is the price of a Fuxing cigarette.

Xu Dong conveniently changed two small roosters, each weighing more than three catties, and prepared to use them as barbecue ingredients.

Grilled chicken wings, grilled chicken intestines, grilled chicken legs, grilled chicken gizzards, grilled chicken breast…

There are too many parts of a rooster that can be grilled.

After buying the meat, Xu Dong went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables. Although he had a vegetable garden at home, it was not as complete as the vegetable market.

In the end, he went to a big supermarket again and bought two herrings.

Strange to say, there is no one in the vegetable market that sells seafood, it seems that only a few large supermarkets in the urban area sell seafood.

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At 6:30 in the afternoon, Xu Dong saw that it was almost time, so he called his eldest niece over, and the two of them carried the barbecue pit to the yard together.

I bought a grill a long time ago, similar to the one in a barbecue shop, and it has been placed in the concierge since I bought it, and it has never been used.

Today is the first time to “open meat”.

“Lingling, I’m going to move the charcoal. You go to the kitchen and get some alcohol. Your grandma knows where the alcohol is.” Xu Dong ordered.

“I’ll go.”

After more than ten minutes, the charcoal was finally ignited, and the charcoal fire was burning very vigorously.

“It’s burning…” Several children gathered around and applauded.

“Ke Ke, look at Dian Dabao and the others, don’t let them touch the oven with their hands.” Xu Dong reminded in time.

“Father, I’m holding Dabao, he can’t make it through.”

As soon as the words were finished, Yang Lina came over with a large basket of vegetables, followed by Xu Ma, holding a large pot of marinated meat in her hand.

“Where is my dad, is he still off work?” Xu Dong asked while brushing the iron plate.

“Don’t worry about him, he said it will take half an hour to come back, and I don’t know what I’m busy with every day!” Xu Ma complained.

Yang Lina immediately persuaded: “Mom, the store is busy, and Dad can’t help it.”

“Okay, let’s not talk about him! Dongzi, can you roast meat? Don’t burn the meat, it’s too wasteful.” Mama Xu worried, after all, the price of meat is so expensive now.

“Don’t worry, don’t the barbecue restaurants all grill by themselves now, and I have never seen burnt ones.” Xu Dong said confidently.

“Roast the vegetables first, or the meat first?” Yang Lina asked.

“Let’s roast the pork belly first, the meat will be oily, and then the vegetables will be delicious.”

After speaking, Xu Dong picked up a palm-length slice of pork belly with tongs and placed it on the iron plate.

With a sound of “嗞”, a smell of meat immediately filled the air.

“Wow, it smells so good!”

Xu Dong roasted seven or eight slices of pork belly one after another. After roasting, he put them aside and roasted some vegetables.

“Father, are you ready?” Ke Ke asked impatiently.

“Don’t worry, it will be fine soon.” Xu Dong said with a smile.

While roasting the vegetables, Xu Dong asked his eldest niece to cut the pork belly into pieces with scissors for easy eating.

When the vegetables were cooked, Xu Dong picked up a lettuce leaf, put two pieces of roasted pork belly and some vegetables on it, and wrapped it up completely.

“See, wrap it in lettuce leaves so that you won’t get tired of eating it.”

“Father, I want to eat.” Lele was anxious again.

Xu Dong smiled, and stuffed the wrapped barbecue into the mouth of the little padded jacket.

“It’s hot, eat slowly.”

Xu’s mother also made a barbecue for the eldest grandson, and then asked everyone to do it by themselves.

“Well, it’s delicious!” Ma Xu said happily.

Ma Lingling’s movements were also very fast, and she wrapped one by herself in a few moments. Smelling the smell of meat, she couldn’t bear it any longer, and bit down sharply.

hiss……

The pork belly is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, fat but not greasy; the vegetables are tender and refreshing, soaked in fat.

The two are mixed together, so delicious that I want to cry.

Xu Dong continued to be in charge of the barbecue, and couldn’t spare any time. Yang Lina didn’t eat it herself, so she quickly made one for her husband.

After serving her husband, she fed some meat to each of the triplets, otherwise the three little ones would cry, and some would suffer.

Halfway through, Dad Xu finally came back.

“Grandpa, come and have barbecue, it’s so delicious.” Ma Lingling said as she swallowed the last bite of meat.

Father Xu looked at the juniors who were wolfing down, and felt very comforted, “Don’t worry about me, I’ll go to the kitchen to drink, you can continue to eat!”

Come back after drinking water.

Xu Dong grilled some chicken breasts for his father. Xu’s father is getting old and has a slight three-high problem. Big fish and big meat are no longer suitable for him.

“Dad, how does it taste?”

“It’s okay, but it’s a bit bland, didn’t you add salt?”

Mama Xu brought over a plate of meat sauce:

“Try some of this.”

Father Xu did as he did, and then nodded with satisfaction: “It really tastes much better.”

“Dad, why did you get off work so late today? Something happened in the shop?” Xu Dong asked.

“No.” Father Xu shook his head and said, “Temporarily discussed something with Ma Jun. ”

“What’s the matter, it took so long to discuss?”

“Well, it’s like this. The business in the store has been very good recently, and it has also made some money. Therefore, Ma Jun proposed to buy a car, as a facade, so that it will be more convenient when talking about business.” Dad Xu replied.

“Is it necessary? There are only seven or eight employees in your store.”

Mama Xu immediately interjected, “Son, you haven’t been to our store for a long time, there are almost twenty people there now.”

“Including me, there are twenty-eight people in total.” Dad Xu confirmed.

Xu Dong looked a little embarrassed, but was quickly replaced by doubts: “Twenty-eight people? Our store is only about 80 square meters in total. Can it fit?”

“It’s okay. There are eighteen people who are salesmen. They mainly run business outside and don’t usually work in the store.” Dad Xu explained.