The winter breeze is blowing outside the window, and the hot pot inside the house is creaking, and eating a hot pot at this time of year must be the most enjoyable thing.

John Cliff and Andrew are also cheeky and don't leave, Wang Hao is embarrassed to ask them to go back to their respective homes to eat, anyway, the hot pot is lively when there are many people, and it is enough to prepare more dishes.

Su Jing and Leah served the prepared dishes one by one, all kinds of meat looked very fresh, thinly sliced beef and mutton, as well as boneless white and tender fish, fish balls, boneless phoenix feet, and hairy tripe.

And there are more types of green vegetables, such as potato chips, lotus root slices, tofu, cabbage, lettuce, enoki mushrooms, winter melon, etc., Wang Hao couldn't help but start drooling.

Su Jing made sesame sauce for the rest of the people, while Wang Hao was an oil dish with garlic paste and oyster sauce.

John's posture with chopsticks is quite awkward, even worse than that of a three-year-old, and Andrew is no exception, he can't even hold it, let alone hold something.

"You Chinese are too powerful, this chopstick is really difficult to use, can I use a fork?" Andrew couldn't help but say that he wouldn't use it at all.

Wang Hao said with a smile on the side: "Chopsticks must be used to eat hot pot, I have taught it several times, you think about it yourself, let's eat slowly first." ”

Andrew looked at Wang Hao and the others with a resentful expression, obviously they are also people, why Leah quickly got started, but he still seemed to have a disabled finger.

Eating hot pot is very simple, put things in the pot and take them out. With the prepared dipping sauce, you can eat it, so everyone quickly learns it.

When the wine is heated, the taste of the wine usually becomes sour, which affects the mouthfeel. However, when ingredients such as beef and onions are added, the sourness is slowly neutralized, and the mellow soup base has a winey flavor and makes the meat more tender and delicious.

Wine is usually drunk at a lower temperature than room temperature, but in a wine fondue, using wine as a soup base means heating the wine – alcohol will react chemically with acetic acid bacteria in the air, causing rancidity.

So, in addition to wine. Wine fondue should also be combined with other soups in the soup base, so as to dilute the strong sourness and increase the rich and full taste.

The aroma of the wine will slowly evaporate during heating. The wine in the soup base should be stronger. Su Jing uses the top cellar wines from the Golden Winery, which are high in sugar, fruity and low in acidity.

The estimated sale price of this wine is several thousand dollars, but now it is generally called the base of the hot pot soup like a few tens of dollars of wine.

If that's not a luxury. So what hot pot can compare to this?

The top wines of Château d'Le Geur are used as the base. The specialty beef of the Golden Ranch is shabu beef, which is not hot pot, but green dollars!

"It's delicious, it's a perfect match!" Su Jing picked up a slice of beef and began to dip it in the consommé again.

And Wang Hao also abandoned the spicy pot bottom of the red soup he always liked at this time, and the bottom of the clear soup grape beef bone pot next to it was obviously better, and Wang Hao, who had defected to the enemy and treasoned, was flushed when he ate.

"Slow down, leave me two more slices of beef!" Andrew finally mastered the use of chopsticks and began to catch up quickly, throwing the beef into the soup base for a few seconds before catching up.

Su Jing saw this. couldn't help but open his mouth to persuade: "Andrew, this beef is not cooked yet." Maybe you should be a little more patient. ”

Andrew sandwiched the beef in his bowl, dipped it in sesame sauce and stuffed it into his mouth, and then burned his face to distort, open his mouth and blow with his mouth open, but at this point, he still refused to spit out the beef, stubbornly resisted the high temperature of the hot mouth, and ate it.

"We don't eat fully cooked steaks, and it's okay to hot pot, it's more delicious." Andrew finally had time to speak, and after he finished speaking, he picked up the beer glass next to him and took a big sip.

While they were talking, Wang Hao quietly began to eat violently, and the hairy belly and phoenix claws all entered his stomach.

This kind of wine hot pot is sweet and sour, and there is no spicy cover, which also tests the quality and taste of the ingredients. Wine can remove the smell and oil, so pure lean meat is not good.

Fat and lean, the meat is firm, and the muscles are marbled to be suitable, and the beef raised in Golden Ranch is a high-quality ingredient to accompany the wine fondue.

Under the action of the bottom of the wine pot, their meat will be tender and tender, so in terms of knife work, the meat slices that go with the wine fondue should be cut larger and thicker than ordinary meat rolls, or cut into meat pieces, so that they can taste more chewy.

After solving these meats, Wang Hao did not waste time, he put the potatoes and lotus root slices in the empty red soup, and the vegetables were also very good.

A few people ate and drank, as if to dispel the cold outside, and the glowing firewood in the fireplace of the room provided the heat.

John ate a few chopsticks of the vegetables in the red soup, he was immediately spicy and his face was flushed, he was busy drinking beer, and then said loudly: "If I didn't know it was so spicy beforehand, I thought I was poisoned!" ”

"What is this, the hot pot in my hometown is much spicier than this." Wang Hao said nonchalantly, for a mountain city person, hot pot is food that goes deep into the bone marrow.

Several people are big stomachs, not only have they eliminated those beef, mutton, and fish, but even there are few vegetables left, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.

The strong smell of hot pot and wine in the room is mixed in, and the range hood and ventilation window continuously bring in fresh air from outside.

Wang Hao leaned on the sofa, he touched his stomach, and said with emotion: "I haven't eaten so much for a long time, and sure enough, winter is with hot pot." ”

"We made a mistake this time, and next time we must prepare enough beef." Su Jing's cheeks were slightly red because of the wine, and she covered herself with a shawl coat to avoid cold.

Andrew, on the other hand, was unsatisfied. He spent half of his time learning how to use chopsticks, although Wang Hao used chopsticks to help him pick up some food.

"I must learn how to make this hot pot, Su Jing and Leah. You should have a crash course in hot pot. John was talking serious nonsense, and he really liked it.

Under the cold wind, the air in the room escaped through the window, Wang Hao stood up, he said to John: "The winery looks very good, I am glad to have found you as a powerful assistant." ”

"That's my job, or I'm sorry for your salary." John said humorously.

Su Jing on the side seemed to think of something. She asked, "John, we're going to the Melbourne Equestrian Festival in two days, is there anything I need to pay attention to over there?" For example, does my hat need to be done immediately? ”

"Of course. On top of the equestrian carnival, men race horses and women wear hats. On the day, ladies are only allowed to enter the venue after wearing a nice hat, so an eye-catching hat is a must. ”

John Cliff pulled out his phone. He said to Su Jing: "If you haven't chosen your hat yet. Then I advise you to do it as soon as possible. Because the design of the hat is relatively fast, it is better not to bump the hat with others, which is not a good thing. ”

"No problem, I've already booked one with the hat master Kim, and I'll just go to Melbourne to pick it up when the time comes. I just think those hats are a little bit exaggerated, and they look like everything. ”

Su Jing stuck out her tongue, she suddenly glanced at Leah beside her, and then patted her head in annoyance: "God." I didn't have Leah in mind when I placed my order, so I'll go back to Kim right now and ask. Can you make one more? ”

As her personal bodyguard, Leah is also going to enter the equestrian carnival, so she must also be equipped with a suitable hat, Su Jing quickly got up and started to call Kim's studio.

Wang Hao looked at her panicked look, and couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm about to become a mother, but I'm still so impatient to do things." ”

John looked at Wang Hao's doting expression, and didn't know what he should say: "She is very cute, and this kind of character will definitely become good friends with children." ”

"Maybe, it should be a very happy thing to have children, we are ready." Wang Hao is not just joking, he may be a more traditional Chinese, thinking that a family with children is complete.

John Cliff sighed and quipped: "After the child is born, you will find that your sleep time is seriously insufficient, I lost 10kg in half a year, and I have to coax the child to sleep, change diapers, and make milk powder every night." ”

"But you're going to be relaxed now, will you pick her up from school later?"

"No, they have a school bus here, and a lot of kids from Hunter Valley go to school there."

Suddenly, Wang Hao patted his forehead, he forgot to bring a gift for John Cliff's daughter, this is a bad thing, it really can't be done, just wait a while to rummage through the space ring to see if there is anything suitable.

Andrew twisted his neck, and he said, "We now have a few more arrow targets and real tournament bows, can we have fun later?" You can also play frisbee, which is a more comfortable way to play. ”

Wang Hao's eyes lit up, he doesn't like to play with pistols anymore, it's really good to try a bow and arrow first, and then try to play flying saucers.

So he immediately stood up and urged: "Let's go, don't sit, hurry up and try the bow and arrow, I've only played a short version in the scenic area." ”

When I was a child, children in the countryside who had never made their own slingshots and bows and arrows, but the materials needed for bows and arrows were more complicated, and rubber bands could not be used as bowstrings completely, but Wang Hao could still remember the happy mood at the beginning, and now I still miss it.

Several people were also a little moved, and Su Jing also walked out quickly after hanging up the phone, "I'm also going to have fun, I'm nicknamed the archer!" ”

Leah just smiled and didn't speak.

Wang Hao took her hand and found that her hands were as white as jade, and then said, "Otherwise, let's have a try, I think my accuracy is also very good." ”

"Compare to whom, who is afraid of whom. The loser goes back and takes care of the little ones. Su Jing said confidently, as if he didn't take Wang Hao in his eyes at all.

Naked maroon vines, lined up in the winter wilderness, a clearing next to the grape trellis, three targets, 30 meters away from the arrow targets, three arrow platforms, on the table are placed with regular competition bows and aluminum alloy arrows.

John picked up one of the bows and arrows, and said with a smile: "These are the same models for the Olympic bow and arrow competition, you can try to pull them apart first." ”

"You're too underestimated." Wang Hao picked up the recurve bow on the table, which was the bow and arrow used by a 50-pound man.

Although he didn't know what the little parts were for, he still put on his finger sleeves and pulled the bowstring with his hand, only to hear a click, a reciprocal signal that the archer could let go of the arrow.

Su Jing was playing with another 30-pound women's bow and arrow with Leah with great interest, and after she tried to pull the bowstring, she said with great momentum: "Come on, let's duel!" ”

"Come on, 10 arrows, how about seeing who gets the most rings?" Wang Hao doesn't know too much high-end content, anyway, it depends on who shoots accurately.

"Okay!" Su Jing tied his hair up, and then made preparations.

Wang Hao hurriedly said to the people around him: "Everyone spread out, don't be injured by mistake!" ”

Su Jing, who was pulling the bowstring, immediately retorted: "You actually used off-the-field factors to interfere with me, you should be punished with one less arrow!" ”

"The penalty is in effect, and it is not allowed to interfere with other people's archery." John immediately brought a carbon arrow from Wang Hao's side to Su Jing's side, anyway, he was sure that Wang Hao wouldn't say anything.

Su Jing pulled the bowstring in high spirits, stared at the target dozens of meters away, and then released the bowstring, only to see that the bow and arrow quickly pierced into the grape field on the side, five or six meters away from the target.

"Mistakes, mistakes, I haven't practiced in a long time." Su Jing covered up her bizarre mistake, and she said, "It's a bit windy today, and I'm not used to it yet." ”

Wang Hao didn't say much, he smiled at Su Jing, picked up an arrow from the arrow platform, put it on the bow, and then pulled the bowstring with his hand, his upper body remained immovable, and after pulling the bowstring to his face, he used the movement of his waist and abdomen to calibrate.

The left arm is straight, the right arm is bent, and there is a kind of heroic spirit of bending the bow to shoot the eagle, Wang Hao saw that after the crosshair was aimed at the bull's-eye, he decisively let go!

The arrow rushed out like an angry dragon, and then plunged headlong into the target, hitting the red heart!

The applause of "pop papa" rang out, and John, Leah, and Andrew were all surprised by Wang Hao's shot.

They could naturally see that Wang Hao didn't know how to use the recurve bow at all, but he still hit the bull's-eye with his good archery talent, not to mention that today's wind was indeed a bit strong, and as soon as the arrow flew out, he began to draw arcs.

Su Jing pursed his mouth: "What's the big deal, let's come again." ”

As a result, she shot four arrows in a row, two of which flew and landed outside the target, and the other two arrows were slightly better, at least on top of the target.

It's a pity that one arrow is crumbling on the target in front of Wang Hao, and the other target is also crooked on the periphery of the arrow target.

Su Jing's old face flushed, she felt that her arm hurt a little from shooting arrows so fast just now, and her eyes rolled, so she handed the recurve bow to Leah: "Leah, you help me teach him a lesson, and see what he is proud of." (To be continued.) )

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