Feeling that time was running out, Xu Yi got up and walked towards the bathroom, closed the door and closed his eyes directly.

The watermelons and melons in the space were all in the middle of last night, and it has been so long, so I think the watermelons that came out of the earliest should have been ripe, so I took advantage of this time to pick them off and put them in the freezer, waiting for the barbecue for a while to take them out.

Thinking like this, Xu Yi entered the space and went straight to the watermelons and melons.

It has been more than 20 days in the space since planting, and the range of several melon seedlings is obviously larger, and the melon is small and not so conspicuous, but a few watermelons can be seen between the leaves, revealing large and small watermelons.

Xu Yi walked to the side of a melon, followed the melon vine to find the root of the melon seedling, bent down and gently touched the earliest melon on the melon seedling with his hand.

The melon's guati had turned a little yellow, and the melon, which was smaller than a fist, fell into his hand, leaving only a hemispherical shape three points smaller than a small fingernail on the tail of the melon, a very smooth pit.

The melon is ripe, and the melon is completely ripe.

Xu Yi bent down to pick it up and gently pinched it with his hand, the melon in his hand was soft and glutinous, exuding a very pleasant and faint sweet fragrance.

No need to taste it, you can't go wrong with the taste of this melon!

Xu Yi carefully picked off the ripe melons on several muskmelons.

These melons are too soft, Xu Yi carefully controlled the strength, for fear that he would accidentally break them.

It was also clear to me that this variety was being eliminated, not only was it too small, but the ripe melon was too soft. Although this is certainly an advantage, it is not a good thing for melon farmers. A cart of melons didn't wait to reach the city, and they all had to be turned into a cart of melon puree.

A few muskmelons were quickly checked by Xu Yi, and there were eight or nine more small muskmelons in the bag in Xu Yi's hand. Sending half a bag of melons back to the edge of the stove, Xu Yi took a knife and walked to the edge of a watermelon seedling.

When the melon is ripe, it will fall off the melon, but the word melon will not fall on the watermelon at all, even if the product is ripe and rotten, the melon will definitely not fall off the watermelon.

The largest watermelon on this seedling is almost the size of a football, and the swarthy melon body is covered with a layer of pale hoarfrost.

However, the saying that the melon is ripe and falls is that the melon is still successful. If it is for watermelons or cucumbers, it is absolutely not true, even if these two goods are ripe and rotten in the ground, it is impossible to fall off the stem.

Xu Yi turned the watermelon with his hand and looked at the white place where the melon skin was against the ground.

The white skin the size of a duck's egg is no longer milky white, but has a faint yellow color.

Xu Yi nodded, this melon should be ripe, Xu Yi reached out to hold the watermelon and gently patted it on the watermelon with his other hand.

To Xu Yi's surprise, this watermelon just made the "pop" sound of raw melon and eggs, which was completely different from what he expected. However, what made him feel strange was that. The other hand holding the watermelon obviously felt a tremor, so is this melon ripe or not?

Xu Yi was a little confused, so he simply took the knife directly to cut off the melon vine, and put the watermelon on the cutting board with the knife and cut it directly.

Just listen to a crisp "click". As the knife cuts to the bottom, the watermelon is all turned to the sides, revealing a ruddy color inside. A melon pulp like sandy soil.

The red and bright melon pulp is inlaid with black and shiny melon seeds the size of a small fingernail, like black pearls.

A faint melon fragrance came to the nose. The melon is ripe.

Xu Yi wondered, since this melon is ripe. So why is it different?

After looking at it, Xu Yi suddenly realized that the skin of this melon is too thick, and the transmission sound is not quite the same as that of ordinary thin-skinned watermelons, and there is no way to judge whether it is raw or ripe based on this sound.

Digging out a small piece of watermelon pulp and putting it in his mouth, Xu Yi only felt that the watermelon was cold and palatable, sweet and juicy, and the melon pulp melted away with his tongue, which was stronger than any watermelon he had ever eaten!

Xu Yi nodded with satisfaction, found the plastic wrap and covered the broken watermelon, and then went to find it on other melon seedlings.

However, this watermelon is not as high-yield as a melon, and only four ripe watermelons were found on a few watermelons, Xu Yi put them in the refrigerator with all those melons, and hurried out of the space.

Seeing that the time was almost up, the fat man greeted, and several people worked together, and soon the meat skewers were skewered.

Xu Yi bent down and took out the electric grill from the cupboard, and the fat man took it and removed the steel frame on one side and directly replaced the baking tray, so that the steel frame on one side was used to grill skewers, and the baking tray on the other side could be directly made for teppanyaki.

Everyone started to take the things to the stone table outside, and Xu Yi raised his head and squinted at the sun.

It was almost half past six in the evening, and the sun was already hanging on the roof of the building to the west, and even the sky was glowing with a faint layer of crimson.

When the sun dimmed, the temperature naturally dropped a lot, and the river breeze blowing from the southwest blew away the heat emitted from the floor slab with a hint of coolness, which was very suitable.

Xu Yi plugged the electric grill into the socket above the stone table legs, and several people sat around the stone table, ready to start baking.

After turning on the switch to preheat for a while, the fat man put a layer of meat skewers on top of the steel frame, and then brushed some oil into the baking tray, and when the oil was hot, he directly picked up some pork slices and spread them on the baking tray.

Liu Liping felt strange and asked the fat man, "Why don't you fry the steak first?"

The fat man took a brush to brush the oil on the meat skewers, and then explained with a smile: "Isn't there no butter, this roast pork slices can just bake out some lard, after all, our steak has too much lean meat, and the meat is not tender enough, and this has to be fried until it is fully cooked, and if the fat is too little, it will be the same as firewood." This lard is not as good as butter, but it tastes better than blended oil. In fact, not only that, many vegetables are also fried in meat oil to make them more delicious, but from a nutritional point of view, eating too much saturated fat is harmful to health. ”

Liu Liping nodded, and her mouth responded: "Oh." ”

Seeing that it couldn't help much, Xu Yi got up and walked to Hu Yifei on the edge of the terrace and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Hu Yifei pointed to the street below. "I'll take a casual look, there are so many people here and there, but it's lively enough. ”

Xu Yi nodded, there were fewer people on the road than at noon, but it was still quite lively.

In contrast, the square is a little deserted because the park gate has been closed, and even the people at the subway exit downstairs are more and less.

Stretching out his hand to stab Xu Yi, Hu Yifei said: "If you also serve dinner here, this passenger flow should be able to sustain it." ”

Xu Yi smiled and said: "It seems that there will be a lot of time, but I think most people must go home to eat at this point, or they will choose to eat the main meal, and the dumpling restaurant is not easy to say." Anyway, in the beginning, I wasn't going to cook dinner. After all, opening a store is too much energy, and there is no reliable person. If I only run Chinese food, if I go home in the future, I will be able to rush back in the afternoon and come back in the morning, and if dinner is also served, I am afraid that I will not have to do anything else this night except to hurry. ”

Hu Yifei nodded. "That's true, but how many people can you get from the house to help?"

Xu Yi thought about it, but still shook his head and said: "I think it's better to forget at this stage, the people in the village are too familiar but it's not easy to manage, it's not appropriate to say deep and shallow, I tend to recruit some completely unfamiliar people." ”

Hu Yifei also nodded: "Then it can really only be like this." ”

Xu Yi pointed to the road, and then said: "Besides, it's about to be summer, so there is such a flow of people, if it's cold, how many people are still willing to come to this place, it's really going to be the coldest season, and it is estimated that there are no people on the riverside at this point." ”

"That's right. ”

The two of them chatted without a match, and they heard the fat man calling a few people over there to eat, and the first batch of barbecue was already cooked!

The fat man picked up a can of beer and said, "Let's wish the third child a prosperous business first!"

"Okay, Wishing you prosperity!" Hu Yifei and Yan Peimin also said as they brought up their beers.

"Thank you, Gou Fugui, don't forget each other, we will always be good brothers!"

"Cheers!"

Several people took a sip of beer from their glasses, even Liu Liping, who usually doesn't drink, didn't go to get a drink, but also took beer to drink.

"It's cool to drink cold beer in this weather!" said the fat man, stretching out his chopsticks to grab the barbecue to eat.

Hu Yifei also put a piece of barbecue meat in his mouth, and after swallowing it, he gave a thumbs up to the fat man. "Fatty, your barbecue skills are good, and the barbecue taste is much stronger than that of the barbecue restaurant next to our school. ”

The fat man said modestly: "This has to be said to be the third child's seasoning, I can't bake this taste at home." ”

Xu Yi said with a smile: "The role of the seasoning is not so exaggerated, this seasoning is heavier, in fact, we are still the right time and place, and the people are all occupied, even if we eat bran vegetables, the taste will not be bad! Not to mention that we still have a chef like the fat man, can this be worse." ”

Liu Liping remembered that Yu Hangsheng seemed to be about to come out of the civil service grades, so she picked up the beer and said with a smile: "The fat man's results should also come out next Friday, or let's wish the fat man a frustrated officialdom in love?"

The fat man pursed his lips and protested with a cup: "Stop, what is the frustration of love and the pride of officialdom!" This thing simply forgot that he was simply shaving his head at this time, and his unrequited love can also be said to be love, and he is just an unrequited love at best.

Liu Liping didn't raise the bar with him, and changed her words: "Then I wish you a good luck in the officialdom of love, it's all right." ”

"Well, it must be!" said the fat man, grinning, holding his beer. (To be continued......)