Chapter 425: Barbecue in the Wild
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Li Qingyun brought fruits, beer, liquor, vegetable skewers, meat skewers, and a full set of barbecue equipment, and asked Zheng Xinyan to drive a pickup truck and wait directly on the other side of the river, while he accompanied his wife and walked slowly across the river with gold and copper coins.
Today the sun is out, there are surprisingly many tourists, and the villagers on both sides of the road have set up small stalls, cigarettes, melon seeds, fruits and dried vegetables...... Whether it's a farmhouse specialty or a drink that is wholesaled from outside, it's all on display. The business is very good, and looking at the happy appearance of the villagers who set up the stalls, you know that there is no less money.
Mayor Wu came very early today, with Deputy Secretary Xu Zhenggang and his wife, when Li Qingyun saw them, they seemed to have just come out of Qingheju, they should go to apologize, and seeing the appearance of my sister standing at the door to see off the guests, we should have reached a preliminary understanding.
"Qingyun, what about taking a walk with my wife? I brought Lao Xu and Comrade Lao Zhang over to apologize, seeing that their attitude is quite sincere, Sister Qinghe has forgiven them. However, the punishment of Lao Zhang in the organization has not changed, and he was dismissed on the spot and thought about it at home. Kindergarten director Sun Li has been expelled, the new head is in the characteristics, you have to have the right candidate, you may wish to recommend one, our town government will give priority. ”
Mayor Wu was afraid that Li Qingyun would not understand, so he specially explained. Xu Zhenggang had red eyes, nodded and smiled very lowly, I don't know if it was an eye disease or what, he looked tearful, how awkward it was. His wife, Deputy Director Zhang, has two slap marks on her face, which she probably smoked when she apologized.
Killing people is not enough, the other party has done this, and Mayor Wu has interceded, Li Qingyun doesn't want to pursue anything.
"Okay. I know. Why, didn't you go to see Secretary Lin?" Now that he met, Li Qingyun stopped and said a few more words, but he still didn't pay attention to Xu Zhenggang and his wife.
Mayor Wu said: "I called just now to ask, and Secretary Lin said that he crossed the river and took a walk next to the construction site of the bridge. We were about to go over to find Secretary Lin. Just now I seemed to see your pickup truck crossing the river, and I thought you drove it. ”
"It was opened by my friend Lao Zheng, who was going to go to the west of the river for a barbecue, and asked him to go over first to occupy a place. Let's go, cross the river together, if you are free, call Secretary Lin to come over for barbecue together, right?" Li Qingyun invited with a smile.
"I have no opinion, but it depends on how Secretary Lin arranges. Mayor Wu said and followed, but his eyes glanced at Xu Zhenggang's wife.
This woman is dead-eyed. I didn't understand the meaning, but I followed suit. However, Xu Zhenggang, who has been paying attention to Mayor Wu's demeanor, understood, grabbed his wife and asked her not to go with her, just find a place to play, and go home, but she didn't follow the eyes.
The woman was so angry that she pouted, but she didn't dare to provoke Xu Zhenggang at this time. Muttered something and twisted his ass. Turned around and walked away.
The few people walking in front of them, no one seemed to notice that there was one person missing, talking and laughing all the way, walking across the pontoon bridge, to the other side of the river. The grass on the riverbank seems to have been trampled out of shape by tourists. A little muddy path, smooth and bright, with grass and leaves mixed together, is not slippery.
The small business on the east bank of the river was occupied by the people of Lijiazhai, and at most there were relatives from the next village who could squeeze in one or two. On the west bank of the river, it is more complicated, there are people from Chenjiagou, there are also people from Xiaotangzhuang, and there are merchants from the market town who come to set up stalls.
"Sugar gourd, sweet and crispy sugar gourd is cheaper, a big piece, a small five cents!"
"Fried cold noodles, authentic craftsmanship, ancestral secret recipes, to ward off hunger and relieve the heat, not delicious and no money!"
"Rock sugar pear, sweet and ruthless, let's try it......"
It's called anything, it's just like a fair, it's a bit noisy, but there is enough space for tourists to pass freely, and those who drive over will not be too congested, drive slower, and you can pass guò smoothly.
The price of snacks here is similar to that in the market, and much cheaper than the price in the outside city, so tourists from other places are happy to pay for it. For example, grain gourds, in big cities outside, a string of sugar gourds costs three, four, or even five. Here, only five cents or one piece is needed.
Hawthorn is everywhere, there are a few in the forest of any house, and when it comes to the ripe season in autumn, if you want more, you can go into the mountains to pick, all of them are free, store some, and it is enough for a year. When you make it, as long as you roll some boiled syrup, it becomes a sugar gourd, in the eyes of the locals, the cost price of this thing is very low, and it is more profitable to collect five cents from others.
Therefore, some particular stall owners, after rolling on the syrup, will sprinkle some sesame seeds or melon seeds, and some mixed with a few cloves of oranges, so that the finished product is more beautiful and attracts the attention of customers.
Lin Weiguo, secretary of the county party committee, took the driver and happened to walk around from the bridge repair site, and Mayor Wu and his party greeted him and said a few words of gossip, as if they had an inspection task. Li Qingyun didn't want to participate either, so he only said that he would barbecue near the ditch in front of them, so that they would finish their work and go over there to find themselves.
Barbecue, the more people, the more lively, but the premise is that the wife likes it, after all, today's barbecue is specially prepared for the wife, and other people stand aside. However, when he arrived at the barbecue site, Yang Yunu suddenly felt that it was too quiet, the road that tourists must pass through was several hundred meters, the surrounding grass and vines were dense, the wild flowers were tiled like a carpet, wild bees were bursting, butterflies were fluttering, and humans were sitting on the wild flowers and fiddling with the barbecue grill, which was a bit of a sense of destroying nature.
"Brother Zheng, why did you choose this location? If it is placed on the side of the road, maybe we can also sell meat skewers! Selling while eating and playing, how fun it should be, let's change places before the fire rises." "Yang Yunu thinks it's too quiet here, and there are too few people, so it's boring.
"There's a vegetable in the grass, and I don't want to do both at the same time. We are all cultivators, what kind of fun, just live comfortably, besides, we are not short of money, what kind of meat skewers do we sell? Brother Li, do you say?" Zheng Xinyan couldn't stand Yang Yunu's dissatisfied gaze, and immediately pulled the rescuers and found a helper.
"That's it, we don't lack money, just roast and play by ourselves......"
Before Li Qingyun finished speaking, he heard Yang Yunu shaking his arm and begging: "Husband, people are not hungry, they just want to roast and play, and they don't really want to eat." ”
"Well, it's up to you. Li Qingyun wrapped himself in. Since his wife likes it, he suddenly waved his hand and shouted, "Lao Zheng, change the position, let's set up a stall to sell barbecue." ”
Zheng Xinyan had a bitter face. Clip the smokeless charcoal back to the barbecue grill and move it straight to the side of the road. It's far from the river bank, and if you turn around again, you'll reach the trailhead, and there aren't many stalls, but it's still a must-see for tourists.
Li Qingyun moved skewers and other sundries, Yang Yunu took a small stool from the back of the pickup truck, and the three of them worked together to complete the relocation in a few minutes. At this time, the fire on the oven is already fully burning, and when the spring breeze passes, a small flame will emerge from the black charcoal.
Yang Yunu was in a hurry, divided more than ten skewers of mutton, and put it on the shelf to roast, but at this time there was a flame, and after a few roasts, there was a burnt smell. There is a black paste on the edges of the meat cut, and the whole piece of meat changes color. Very ugly.
"Oh, the fire is too big, why is it baked all of a sudden?" Yang Yunu pursed his mouth depressedly.
"You are too anxious, charcoal is not an open flame, but at this time, it has just ignited, and it is just at the tuyere. Scrape a little flame, and be caught up by your skewer of meat, it's no wonder if it's not mushy. Li Qingyun said, picked up a small fan, and fanned the flames of a few pieces of charcoal a few times. After the initial fire was discharged, the black layer on the surface disappeared, became red, and there was no slight flame, and the temperature began to stabilize.
Li Qingyun gave his wife more than ten meat skewers and asked her to practice, and he took the grilled meat skewers, cut off the burnt edges with scissors, brushed with a layer of oil, and roasted them slowly on the fire, turning them often, and after a while, there was a strong meat aroma that replaced the original burnt taste.
Seeing that there are eight or nine medium cooks, start to sprinkle salt, and finally sprinkle cumin powder and chili powder, because it is marinated meat, sprinkle these three, the taste is enough. After sprinkling the powder, Li Qingyun found that there was already a group of tourists in front of the stall, asking the price curiously one by one.
"Boss, your barbecue smells so good, what kind of ingredients do you put in it?
"I like to eat kebabs, why don't you just grill meat, but don't roast vegetables? But is your mutton real? Now the fake mutton is all mutton fat brushed with duck meat, which ordinary people can't eat, but the price is several times worse!"
Li Qingyun really doesn't know how to answer this question, the beef, mutton and vegetables used today are all produced in a small space, and the taste is naturally good, but the price is also sky-high, because every once in a while, the small space needs to absorb a lot of jade, jade and other spiritual objects to maintain the growth of animals and plants in the space. How much is a large piece of jade worth? How much is a large bag of jade worth? Even with a calculator in front of him, Li Qingyun can't calculate it clearly.
The last time he participated in the Myanmar public auction, there was still the last piece of jade in the basement of the villa, and Li Qingyun had already begun to think about where to get a large amount of jade or jadeite at this time. Although he has more than 100 million deposits, he always feels that it is far from enough.
"Wife, how much do you think this meat skewer sells for?" Li Qingyun couldn't help it, and asked the wife who caused this incident.
"Ten yuan, all ten yuan, I'm having fun today, let's sell it at the lowest price, just mean it." Yang Yunu knew that these materials were not simple, thinking that ordinary meat skewers were so big that they could be sold for four or five pieces, and it was indeed very cheap to sell ten pieces by himself.
However, the tourists did not think so, and when they heard the price, their faces suddenly changed, and they said angrily: "You are robbing! Ten yuan a string? We have not seen any expensive ones in the big cities." If this tourist area is still developing, some people will want to rip off customers! Complain, I must complain, no one will take care of the complaint, I will post it on the Internet!"
As these tourists spoke, they also raised their cameras, put a few photos at the stalls, and even thought of the title, which was called the blackest kebab couple in the tourist area of Qinglong Town.
Li Qingyun is too lazy to take care of them, how can he love it, since the launch of the farmhouse tourism project, he has not appeared on the Internet, what the most low-key farmer, the blackest farmer, the owner of the mysterious Hai Dongqing...... However, Li Qingyun stayed in the mountain village all day and did not go out, which did not affect his life.
"A bunch of eyeless waste, let me give way, if it's too expensive, get out of the way and eat junk food! Boss, I want all the grilled meat skewers, as much as you want!" In the noisy crowd, a handsome young man, in his twenties, dressed in ordinary clothes with an unusual temperament. His mouth was extremely damaged, and he didn't care about the angry eyes of others, holding a handful of brand-new red banknotes in his hand, and respectfully handed it to Li Qingyun. (My novel "Farmer Xiantian" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!) (To be continued......)