Yang Rui single-mindedly tinkered with his mutton. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are very few pastoral areas in Hedong, and there is no one near Xibao Town, this pot of mutton, or when the Xibao Meat Factory sent a car to purchase New Year's Day benefits, Yang Rui heard about the lamb that came back from Ning * Xiala, and through his uncle, Fang picked a good sheep weighing 30 pounds in the name of the WestJet factory.

Compared with the local captive sheep in Hedong, the free-range sheep that drink the water of the Yellow River and eat licorice are extraordinarily delicious.

This is because the free-range area is larger, the sheep are isolated, the chance of contracting disease is smaller, less medicine can be used, and some sheep with less disease resistance but meat quality are raised. In contrast, captive sheep activity space is small, the environment is not as clean as the pastoral area, in order to resist disease, first of all, to choose a strong disease resistance breed, and strengthen the use of drugs.

It is the difference in breed and breeding method that makes the delicacy of mutton differentiate between the north and the south.

Northerners have a long history of eating mutton, and there are many people who like mutton. Because of the lack of pastoral land in the south, some people have never even eaten mutton, and not only that, but many southerners buy mutton for various reasons, but they give the impression that they are so angry that they hide their noses and run away when they see it, and it is difficult to understand that some people like mutton.

In fact, good lamb is not fatty, just like good river fresh food will not be fishy, and good seafood will not stink.

Of course, because the sheep raised in the pastoral area do not bathe all year round, and there is no condition to bathe, when they are alive, they must inevitably smell, but after the sheep are slaughtered, they may not have a smell.

In addition, the sex of the sheep also determines the quality of the meat.

Ewes are not tasty, because their meat is soft and tough, and ewes that have given birth many times are more like female pork, chewing but not rotten, and eating tasteless.

The ram is also not delicious, full of smell, the meat is hard and tough, the ram as a breeding sheep is more like a breeding pig, the taste is the same as chewing wax, and the smell is abnormal.

The only delicious mutton is the eunuch sheep, also known as the chakra lamb.

Lambs are castrated, that is, castrated, and raised.

In pastoral areas, newborn ewes are used for continued breeding, and in flocks of hundreds or even thousands, there will only be one ram as a breeding sheep, and the rest of the rams will be all lambs.

In the south, it is difficult to emulate this farming method. The scope of captivity is limited, and the number of ewes cannot be increased indefinitely, so most of the ewes have to be raised and sold, castration of lambs is a technical job, castration is not clean, it is meaningless, castration is too much will kill the sheep.

On the grassland, even if not every herdsman is good at castration, there are always a few good craftsmen in the countryside. In non-traditional farming areas, there are not many people who can do this, and the taste is naturally uneven. The People's Liberation Army Animal Husbandry University should open a special course to teach veterinarians how to castrate military horses, so as not to make too many military horses die on the operating table due to technical problems.

Yang Rui, as a graduate student majoring in biology, pays a little attention, is a professional foodie, not to mention the choice of mutton, he has also done a flavor analysis of mutton, as far as foreign conclusions are concerned, 4-methylcaprylic acid, 4-methylnonanoic acid and 4-ethylcaprylic acid are the main providers of mutton taste, and the research on dehydration done on this basis also feeds some experts and professors.

Yang Rui's ginger slices, chili peppers and garlic used to marinate meat all have the effect of detonation, plus the mutton with excellent variety, gender, age, feeding conditions and location, only two minutes of stir-frying, more than 1,000 kinds of alkanes, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, lactones and heterocyclic compounds began to gather in the air, attracting a cross-current.

"Go to the firewood room and get some charcoal, and press the fire. Yang Rui saw that all the mutton was ripe for two or three years, so he stopped and ordered Zhang Boming.

"Why do you want me to do it? Do your own thing, do it yourself. Zhang Boming was unhappy.

Yang Rui snorted twice and said, "You stay in my dormitory in vain, and you still want to stop working? ”

Zhang Boming didn't want to wait there for food in vain, and said, "I'm not used to this." ”

"Forget it, I'll go. Jing Yulan got up.

"You're a guest, he's uninvited, and if you don't let him do something, he's embarrassed to stay. Yang Rui didn't drive Zhang Boming away, because he was worried that Jing Yulan would leave in order to avoid rumors, but it was natural to support Zhang Boming.

Zhang Boming asked Jing Yulan to move coal, and complained a few words and went to the firewood room.

After coming back, Yang Rui asked him to press the coal sent on the fire, replaced it with an aluminum pot, and waved his hand to let it dodge.

Zhang Boming snorted and said, "Pretend, see what you can do?"

"There's a kind of you don't eat. Yang Rui didn't save him any face.

Jing Yulan smiled slightly and twisted her head. With such a fragrant taste, even she couldn't help it, Zhang Boming estimated that she would be entangled between having a kind and having meat to eat for a while.

Yang Rui slowly washed and cut the potatoes in the bag and spread them in the aluminum pot, while the mutton was placed on the potatoes piece by piece, without directly touching the bottom of the pot.

Jing Yulan washed her hands and helped him, and said with a smile: "You do it quite well, and you often cook by yourself?"

"In the past six months, I have got something good, so I tried to make it, so as not to waste it to the master, who has been making a big pot of rice for more than ten years, and I almost forgot how to make it for a small stir-fry. While chatting, Yang Rui finished arranging the pot, pressed it with a lid, rolled a towel around it, and said, "This dish is called mutton quilt." When it is stuffy, the meat is tender but not greasy, the potatoes are wrapped in mutton fat, but the outside is crispy and tender inside, it is very delicious, the only thing to pay attention to is the mutton, the material is the most important. ”

Jing Yulan smiled embarrassedly, helped Yang Rui pour water in the basin, asked him to wash his hands, and asked curiously: "The dinner prepared in school today, there are really no lamb ribs?"

"Most of them are kept, and I'll bring them back. "Lamb chops are similar to pork chops in that they are meat with only one flat rib, and the bone in the middle is not only not difficult to eat, but also easy to hold. At the same time, the meat quality of the short ribs is also the most delicious, which can maintain the toughness of the meat without being too tough to bite. In addition, lamb ribs are also fat and thin, neither too greasy nor too chai, and are the best ingredients for dishes such as stew.

Jing Yulan felt that Yang Rui was able to rob the school to entertain the visiting group, and it was powerful enough, so she chuckled: "You're not afraid of what people say?"

Yang Rui shook his head and said: "The meat I bought, eat it myself, give it to the school, if the person who accepts the gift still feels unhappy, it will be wrong." ”

"It seems reasonable. ”

"I'm right. ”

"This sheep costs a lot of money, right? How can you afford it?" Jing Yulan had wanted to ask this question for a long time, so she said it when she had nothing to do.

In the 80s, people's wages were about the same, 100 yuan a month salary was a senior cadre, apprentices 24 yuan could not starve to death, the price of materials in the market is also standard, whether the price rises or not is the state has the final say, such as the price of tobacco and alcohol, which is controlled by the State Council, so when everyone talks about income and expenditure, it is very natural, and they will never hide it.

Yang Rui gradually got used to this atmosphere, covered his hands with a teacup, and said: "I have published some articles in newspapers and magazines, and I have a manuscript fee, and in addition, my paper was favored by the British, so I built the WestJet factory on this basis, and through the WestJet factory, I can get meat from the Westburg Meat Factory without bills." ”

Buying meat without bills is a backdoor behavior, and everyone says condemnation in public, and praises people for their ability behind their backs.

Zhang Boming felt that Yang Rui was showing off, pursed his lips, and said, "You buy so much meat at once, don't be poor in two days, and you don't know how to save some money to keep?"

Jing Yulan also said with concern: "Yes, why did you buy so much meat at one time, what were you going to do?"

"I was going to eat for two or three days. Yang Rui waved his hand, indicating that it was okay, and said: "I often have students here to eat, I get a little more, who will come when there is no oil and water in their stomachs, and they can still eat people poor?"

"No matter how you can't eat poor, you can't eat meat like this, and how much money you have is not enough. Jing Yulan said angrily: "My monthly salary is 58 yuan, and I eat in the school cafeteria, and I don't have much left at the end of the month. Forget it, we won't eat at your place, let's go to the cafeteria, you can save a little, don't buy so much meat in the future. ”

Jing Yulan said that she was about to go out.

Yang Rui hurriedly grabbed her and said with a wry smile: "How can you talk about leaving as you go, like a child, what I say is enough." ”

"You're a child. Jing Yulan is 26 years old, she feels older than Yang Rui, and she is still his tutor, and when he says this, she immediately blushes.

Although Zhang Boming was greedy, he instinctively didn't want Jing Yulan to stay in Yang Rui's dormitory, and said: "Don't slap your swollen face and become fat, I have also collected the manuscript fee, a few cents and a few yuan, no matter how much you get, can you get dozens of yuan?"

"You're publishing poetry, right?" Yang Rui said.

Zhang Boming seemed to be scratched on the itch, and a smile appeared on his face: "Why is it not poetry, modern poetry, there are long and short, and the one I received the most money was published in Pingjiang Daily, a full 6 yuan." ”

"Yes, I've published the most in Science Illustrated. Yang Rui opened the drawer of the desk, flipped through it, took out a palm-sized manuscript fee notice, and said, "It's not as neat as yours, a total of two thousand and thirty-seven yuan." ”

His income must have a legal explanation, otherwise he will be looking for death in the 80s, so Yang Rui put the manuscript fee notice in the drawer.

Zhang Boming felt bad when he heard the Science Illustrated, but when he heard the two thousand and thirty-seven yuan, he still smiled and said: "You are the magazine that you opened from your family......?

Syllable!

Yang Rui threw out another passbook and said, "Can this thing be changed?"

Zhang Boming didn't want to see it, but he was moved by a strong mood and silently opened it.

The passbook is handwritten, the words are small and thin, but it is very clear, a single transaction of more than 100 yuan, a single income of more than 200 yuan, one by one, and finally a deposit of 2037 yuan......

Zhang Boming inexplicably felt like the world was collapsing.

A minute ago, what he saw in his eyes was Jing Yulan, and what he smelled in his nose was the smell of meat, and the whole person was as dizzy as if he was in a fairy tale......

It's a pity that this fairy tale world turned out to be not his.

Zhang Boming's confident appearance is not as good as Yang Rui; Zhang Boming's confident academic qualifications are about to be surpassed by Yang Rui; Zhang Boming's confident family background is also crushed by Yang Rui's 2,000 yuan manuscript fee.

It's as if Gao Fushuai met Pan Donkey Deng Xiaoxian, and there is a gap between the two in terms of grade.

"I ...... I went back. Zhang Boming couldn't stay in the room, and stood at the door and waited for a while, hoping that Jing Yulan could open her mouth to save herself, or go with her.

Ten seconds later, Zhang Boming did not get the desired result, and pushed the door out depressedly, constantly thinking about the trick of counterattacking in his heart.

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